Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-12-21
y, W. MACKEY'S MILLIONS.
The Bonanza Kings Family Struggles
Through Life in Paris,

|
| Through Life in Paris.
New York World. ,
II wouldn't mind giving you some
things that are worth reading if you
wouldn't take so devilish much pains to
make fool OF me-" observed Col Tom
| Ochiltree as he toyed with piece Of
glassware that lay on the Metropolitan
bar. "Why can't you newspaper folks
get up passing acquaintance with the
truth?"
Proceed, colonel" said the subdued
man of the World. "You are now talk
ing with the reporter who has charge Of
the truth department for the greatest
daily in New York"
| "Wen, give it l,1are this time" said
the paci6ed chevalier of Texas, "be-
cause there are ladies in the case. While
was abroad it was my pleasure
! to pass q Luxurious Two
weeks at the summer chateau of Mrs.
John W. Mackey, and | want to correct
some popular views of Mr.. Mackey and
| let the Worlds readers understand the
superb and lovable qualities OF his wife.
S me iliDts fancy that because John
Mackey became suddenly rich he has q
great deal of the shodly in his instincts.
| It's absurd. I say frankly that there
isn't Hohenzellern Or q Hapsburg or
! any other scion Of long blooded descent
who displays more genuine taste and re-
! fnement than the Bonanza King. His
taste for music is critical and amounts to
passion, and no one could take more
profound interest in q work Of art.
Think he Just sits down and lets his dol
lars roll in, ell? Not at all. His mind
! is actively at work all the time on bust
| ness enterprises where he can employ his
wealth, and all who have had relations
| With him testify to his keen foresight.
| Oh, I don't know how many millions he
has Don't suppose he knows himself.
| He owns five~eights Of the mine, and
| those who own the balance-FlOod,
O'Brien and Fair-stopped counting
| their piles long ago.
"Does Mr.. Mackey spend much time
| in Parish"
'No, very little. But you can All
| nounce that he has honse to stop at
| when he is there. His Paris residence
| is opposite the Arc de Triomphe, and is
| one Of the most splendid ones in the
! CAV capital. 1t is furnished in regal
style and filed with the rarest works Of
art, statuary, pictures, bric-a- brac artj-
! Giles of yertu. etc. The best examples Of
Meissonier, Corot, Cabanel, Troyon,
NIiIlet and others of the great modern
artists are there. Both Meissonier and
| Cabanel are frequent guests at the house,
| and Meissonier had portrait Of Mrs.
Mackey at the last Salon. Now let me
give a picture Of Mrs. Mackey's home
life.
Her summer residence is the Chat
teau de Villebon, a quaint old pile OF the
| Fourteenth century, situated near Pal.
| asien, about twenty miles from Parls,
| and surrounded with immense park es-
| tates. Every comfort that money could
| suggest is found there. Mrs. Mickey is
! and withal a decided beauty. She
| speaks f1uently three languages besides
| her own. It IS hardly worth while to
more than mention her charities: which
are liberal and modestly bestowed.
! Struggling artists, especially from Amer
| lea, lind in her devoted and quiet
friend Her right hand never knows
what her left hand does There are
| three children, two boys and young
| lady, who is really III quite delicate
! health. see some Of the scribblers
| from Paris have been marrying Miss.
Mackev of to Some half dozen counts
over there. IT'S all hus1bug. She has
had numerous suitors who would like to
/ trade off title for some cold American
cash, but Miss A!ackey having her moth
er's good sense, mas kept her head level
| and her heart safe. Society VIII never
have to credit her with any nonsense ut
ALL
THE children are all bright and intel
ligent, and in this connection | must
give an incident that ought to make their
mother rank high among the household
of America. The other visitors at the
chateau this summer we're Mrs. Hunge-
ford the mother; and the Countess
Te}tener, the sister Of Mrs. Mackey
and Jolly time we had of it till the
boys were taken down with the
measles. That ended Mrs. 1ackey.
She dropped everything and played
FlorenccN Nightingale in the most devoted
manner night and day until the young
gentlemen were out of the woods. 1t
may be an old foggv notion, but it struck
me that some ladies with half Mrs Mac
keys ducats would have bought a nurse
for the occasion instead OF allowing lit
tie thing like measles to interrupt their
social programme.
"A!together that household at Vi,lebon
was the most charming and hon1elike
ever saw. Mrs. Mackey is a devout
Catholic, and keeps her purse string
opeu for the church. When they GOT up
a benefit for the sufferers by the Ischia
disaster she was asked to buy some tick
cts. Her reply was quiet check for
5000 francs. She gives away fortune
every year."
Chow does Minister Morton liye?'
His Paris residence" replied the
Colonel, sis located On the Place DIES
Etats Unis (named in honor of our
country, and is a very grand establish
ment, de entertains quite royalty; not
even Lord Lyons or the Duke 'Fernan-
Nunez, the Spanish. Envoy. ontdoing
him in the splendor Of his balls and din
ners. The chateau OF the Duchess Blu.
Jaucon, near Noisy, was occupied by
him during the summer, and he did the
honors there to many of his American
friends, as we'll as ON the famous journey
to the inauguration ofthe LAFAYETTE stat,
ue, where half dozen of us accompan
led him on the whole tour.
Mr.. Lowell, too, is holding up his
end in London. He is not a man of
wealth and makes no far-reaching social
pretensions, but, for all that, he is
prime favorite in the hest English socie-
ty, aud his modest and coy little din
Ders arc all the rage. In fact, his pres
ence at the tables of the haut ton is al
most fought for,''