The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1883-02-14
Something Of Millionaire Mackay.

Mr.. Mackay, MS most Americans are
WARE, is Scotchman by birth, his
native town being Airdrie, Lanarkshire.
had known his family all my life, and
asst spring had many long talks with his
brother, Robert Mackay, who Is q men,
Der Of q large engineering firm in his
native town, and is regarded rs one OF
the greatest practical mechanics living.
But Mr.. Mackay is n very unseliish and
modest man, otherwise he might have
been rs rich to-day as his brother.
Though he has experimental and
Invented all his life, he has never sought
TO reap the just rewards of his talents.
He is content with discovering new
methods of applying force and to let
other people reap the benefit And the
United States are not little indebted to
his inventive genius. He it was, in con-
junction with Mr.. Gray, who first con-
structed locomotive for ascending steep
grades; and il was from plans furnished
by him and explanations given to Ameri-
can mechanics who visited him in Scot
land, that the locomotives were built
which first crossed the Rocky Mountains.
But he is one of those men, as | have
said, who set no store by such achieve
ments as these; he speaks of this new
invention as il it was very small mat
ter. Between him and his brother,
though remarkably like each other III
personal appearance, there is no COM
munity Of feeling, or even of friendship,
far less kinship. The only talent that
his brother possessed, to hear him speak
of him, was stinginess and the power to
close his hand on every penny which
crossed it. OF intellectual points he had
none worth mentioning, and when young
was incapable of cultivating the few he
had been endowed with. But it is sew
cral years since millionaire Mackay broke
of correspondence with his father and
mother and family. OF the many times
he has visited England during the past
ten years, he has never visited his family
or his native town. Two years ago
nevertheless, he sent his secretary dow
from London to Airdrie to inquire afte
his mother and relatives. This gentle
man put up Mt the Royal Hotel i'll grea
state, and after he had abused everybod,
about the hotel for the mcanness Of tn,
accommodation they could offer, he sen
for his employers brother, the person
have spoken of above. His surpris'
may be readily imagined when he wa
informed by Mr.. Mackay that if hi
brother could not condescend to come t.
Airdrie in person to see his friends, h
would receive no information from hin;
furthermore, Mr.. Secretary was special.
instructed to inform his master tina
since he had forgotten his family s.
long, the latter had now no better mes
sage to convey to him than this, to-wi
that, for all they cared, he could 80 to
climate where the temperature WI
always above ninety in the shade, {
words to that effect. But | think NJ
Mackay judges his rich brother harshl
Though man of plain speech, and g
tirely innocent of all usags of gramm
in communicating his thoughts oral
| he seems to possess plenty of goo
) hard, practical sense, and, considcril
q how rich he is, he is certainly not prou
but what he lacks Ill this latter respo
his wife makes up. No Queen that ey
1 lived could be prouder or more impe
t ous than she. London Corresponds
4 Of Bu6dlo courier.