Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-12-19
THE LATE DENNIS McCAN-
THY.

fulness, a journalist who mas eeeh
leading and notable man In his
profession during the past thirty
years.
Mccarthy was of Irish parentage;
born in Australia, and coming to
California with nothing, and with
but an Indifferent school education
he obtained employment upon the
Alta Californian as a paper folder.
At that time he had no well de-
fined ideas Of what his calling
should be, but his securing employ
ment in printing Office as he did,
shaped his future destiny. He
soon learned the printers trade,
took to writing, and rose by steady
advances to be the managing editor
of the San Francisco Chronicle.
Here he found his true sphere, and
infused his strong personality into
the paper until it became the lead
ing journal of the Coast. He knew
every nook and corner Of the town,
commanded his forces like gen.
eral. and looked upon the city and
State as the field upon which he
must daily meet the rivals OF the
paper, and fight to the finish. The
writer had the honor in those days,
of being attached to his staff, and
all who eyer worked under him can
call to mind his skill at planning,
his matchless executive powers,
and his superb generalship, COM
bined with vigilance that never
slumbered.
During these times of hard and
almost constant work he found time
to study necessarily, and anything
which he ever read seemed stamped
upon his mind forever.
Men who knew that he left school
when eleven years of age, wondered
how he had subsequently found
time to store his mind with SO much
general knowledge. There was
scarcely any subject of which he
was not conversant. 1t was COM
mon saying that when Mccarthy
and the Encyclopedia disagreed 1t
was safer to trust Mccarthy.
His. knowledge of the standard
authors was something marvellous,
butt not SO much so when his great
powers Of memory were considered
Heeknew Shakespeare as a school
boy knows his first reader and
could quote from any portion at a
moments notice.
His English was of the purest
and strongest quality. He e1-
pressed his ideas in terse, crisp
Anglo Saxon, never allowing an I'M
necessary word to creep IN. EV-
erything that came from his pen
was the boiled down, concentrated
extract of his ideas. His humor
was something that no one ever sue
cessfully initiated and Of that style
which the careful reader best APP
preciated.
He had a strong love for justice,
and was ready to accord Its full
measure to his bitterest foe Twice
in his life he made lucky turns IN
stock operations, and was IN po-
session Of a fortune which might
have made him independent for
life. but money was of no value to
him if it was not assisting his
friends, and his private purse was
open to all who desired to avali
themselves of its resources Even
men who had betrayed his conf
dence and injured him, received
these bounties, and the writer has
known several instances where
having beaten his enemies after a
most uncompromising warfare, ne
has sought them out and relieved
their wants financially. There are
today, many men upon this Coast
who fastened to D. K. Mccarthy
friendship with hooks OF steel I'M
der these very circumstances.
In later years, bodily ailments
rendered him irritable in DISPOSE
ton and some Of his friends pc
came estranged, but these estrange-
meuts were not lasting, and those
who grasped his outstretched mana
Of reconciliation found the man as
warm hearted and true as ever
He was open, manly and honor
able in all his dealings among men i,
His death removes from the neio
loco lobnr