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#1 Huguette and Andrée, the daughters of multimillionaire W. A. Clark, were immigrants to America in 1910. They had sailed from Cherbourg, France, in first-class cabins on the White Star liner Teutonic. They were being educated by private tutors and governesses, with lessons in three languages: English, Spanish, and French.
#2 The house was completed in 1911, and was called the most expensive and beautiful private residence in America. It was a fairy-tale castle come to life, with secret entrances, mysterious sources of music, and treasures collected from all over the world.
#3 W. A. supervised every detail of the house, from the furniture to the car rotunda. He also bought the stone-dressing plant, marble factory, and woodwork factory. The plans were modified to include an automobile room after Ransom Olds began selling his Curved Dash Oldsmobile in 1901.
#4 The Clark house was very expensive to build, and it cost more than two years' profits from the United Verde copper mine in Arizona. W. A. was able to get the courts to lower his property tax bill by valuing the home at only $3. 5 million.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	23 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669358688
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights on Bill Dedman & Paul Clark Newell Jr.'s Empty Mansions
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Huguette and Andrée, the daughters of multimillionaire W. A. Clark, were immigrants to America in 1910. They had sailed from Cherbourg, France, in first-class cabins on the White Star liner Teutonic. They were being educated by private tutors and governesses, with lessons in three languages: English, Spanish, and French.

#2

The house was completed in 1911, and was called the most expensive and beautiful private residence in America. It was a fairy-tale castle come to life, with secret entrances, mysterious sources of music, and treasures collected from all over the world.

#3

W. A. supervised every detail of the house, from the furniture to the car rotunda. He also bought the stone-dressing plant, marble factory, and woodwork factory. The plans were modified to include an automobile room after Ransom Olds began selling his Curved Dash Oldsmobile in 1901.

#4

The Clark house was very expensive to build, and it cost more than two years' profits from the United Verde copper mine in Arizona. W. A. was able to get the courts to lower his property tax bill by valuing the home at only $3. 5 million.

#5

The main dining room, twenty-five feet by forty-nine feet, was the same size as a family apartment in New York City. The Salon Doré, or golden room, was on the fifth floor, and was used for formal occasions.

#6

The family of four had seventeen servants in residence, including a houseman, a waitress, two butlers, three cooks, and ten maids. The library was their favorite spot, with a fireplace from a sixteenth-century castle in Normandy.

#7

The library also held copies of letters of Marie Antoinette, a history of French illustration, and the fables. The works of Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian and his more famous predecessor Jean de La Fontaine.

#8

The Clark mansion was a perfect embodiment of W. A. Clark’s lifelong striving for opulence and recognition, his defiance of criticism, and his self-indulgence.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In 1914, the Fifth Avenue parade saw the appearance of a slightly built man in a black frock coat and silk top hat. He was accompanied by three discreet touches of male vanity: a gold watch chain hanging from his dapper white waistcoat, a polka-dotted silk cravat held tightly to his high collar by a pearl stickpin, and his thirty-six-year-old wife.

#2

W. A. Clark, businessman, was legendary for his success on Wall Street. He was also a politician, who was ridiculed for paying bribes and being a crass mixture of ostentatious vanity and Washington plutocracy.

#3

W. A. Clark was born in 1839 in a log cabin in Pennsylvania. His father, John, was of Scotch-Irish heritage, and his mother, Mary Andrews Clark, was descended from Huguenots, French Protestants who emigrated from France to Scotland to escape religious persecution.

#4

The Clarks were not in that log cabin for long. With money Will’s father made from harvesting trees, they moved into a larger wood-frame farmhouse on the property. Will was about grown up, or at least thought he was, in 1856.

#5

W. A. was not the first person to go searching for gold in the American West. In 1848, gold was discovered in California, which sparked the 1849 gold rush. went west to Atchison, Kansas, in 1862, and drove a six-yoke bull team of oxen across the Great Plains to Manitou Springs, near present-day Colorado Springs.

#6

W. A. Clark was a dynamo of alert intelligence. In 1863, he left Colorado with two friends to go prospecting in Montana. They were heading for a corner of Idaho Territory, where they would get rich if anyone would.

#7

The young men got into a keg of old rye whiskey and began feeling lively. They called out for any Indians who might be listening to join them. Yet these brave young men were missing the real fight. The Battle of Gettysburg was ending in W. A. ’s native Pennsylvania that day.

#8

W. A. was no genius at prospecting. He had no luck finding gold in Bannack, and his fortunes soon reversed when he brought home a fine pair of elk antlers and sold them for ten dollars to Cy Skinner, who kept a saloon.

#9

W. A. Clark, the man who became known as the Midas who got rich in the mines, actually made his first killing in eggs. He had spent the winter of 1863–64 working for a hotel owner, cutting firewood at two dollars a day plus meals. When he returned to Bannack, he sold the eggs to miners for use in a brandy and eggnog concoction called a Tom and Jerry.

#10

W. A. ’s first contact with the Vigilantes was in Montana, where he met a man who had gotten into a gunfight with robbers, including one suspect named Dutch John. The Vigilantes had executed Dutch John, and W. knew several of the leaders.

#11

The early Montana Vigilante trials were conducted by W. A. and his friends, who felt that the morality of the trials was clear. They felt that the Masons, among other early members of the Vigilantes, had made the uncivilized Montana Territory safe so that honest men could earn a living.

#12

W. A. ’s striving and a good head for figures began to pay off as he bought and sold in dizzying fashion whatever a miner might need. He traded tobacco at ten dollars a pound for boots at sixteen dollars a pair, earning from the miners such insulting monikers as Tobacco Billy.

#13

In 1867, W. A. found he could make a bigger profit by transporting the mail from the Columbia River to Walla Walla, Washington Territory. He organized a system of ponies, riders, boats, and way stations that provided mail delivery three times a week.

#14

W. A. ’s adventures did not stop there. On January 30, 1868, he stepped into a situation that nearly cost him his life. He was crossing the frozen river Deer Lodge near McCarthy’s ferry, and his horse fell into the water. He was saved by two men who had heard his cries for help.

#15

W. A. had no intention of hauling the mail through Indian country for the rest of his life. In the fall of 1868, he subcontracted out the mail delivery business and took a trip east. He boarded a mackinaw flat-bottomed boat at Fort Benton on the Missouri River. He told friends he was going to bring back a wife.
Insights from Chapter 3

#1

W. A. had married his childhood friend Katherine in 1869. They had set off to see her in Iowa, but when they arrived in Montana, they found that most of Helena had been destroyed by a fire. They set up housekeeping in a friend’s spare bedroom.

#2

W. A. was now a successful businessman, and he and his wife had seven children. He had become a family man, and his wealth began to afford him social status. He was assigned the rank of major during the Nez Percé War of 1877, but saw no fighting.

#3

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