Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-17
MACKAY AND FAIR.
Cause of Their Disagreement ana
Rupture.

The San Francisco correspondent OF
the Stockton Mail gives the following
account of the row between Mackay and
Fair:
A rumor is current here that Senator
James G.. Fair intends starting bank in
the building on Montgomery street which
he recently purchased from the Real
Estate Association He does not propose
entering into the banking business be-
cause he is enamoured Of it, but his idea
is to get even with his late partners,
Messrs Flood and Mackay, for having
metaphorically kicked him out of the
Nevada bank. He thinks that by start
ing q rival concern he can seriously in
jure their business. He is full of bitter
ness against his former partners
because he thinks they over-reached
him, a thing which hurts his pride, for
he has an idea that there are few, if any,
so sharp as himself. 1t may interest your
readers to hear how the bonanza kings
managed to get rid of their unpleasant
partner. The relations between Fair and
Mackay have for years been much
strained, their mutual ill will growing
greater year by year until Mackay con-
Guided that he would no longer be asso-
ciated in business with man he disliked
and despised. 1t is said that the first
GOODNESS between the two partners was
caused by Fair calling on Mackay for his
good Offices to get him out of sundry
scrapes, which the Senator, as he is wont,
managed to get himself into Mackay
responded, as he always does when APP
pealed to.
MACKAY's GENEROSITY.
The strongest trait in Mr. Mackay's ma
ture is generosity. He is modern Timon
of Athens in that respect, and of course
he responded to Mr.. Fairs appeal with
promptness and energy, and not only res
cued Fair from several unpleasant pre-
dicaments, into which his passions and
folly had led him, but when Mrs. Fair
very foolishly depending on the reports
made by her husband of the prospects in
the Sierra Nevada mine, purchased a
large quantity of stock of that corporation
and made loss of all the money she
had, and about $l7 200 more than she
had, Mackay came to her rescue. Fair
was away, and had he been here, it is
very doubtful whether he would have
helped her out of her difficulties, Judging
rom his subsequent behavior toward her.
Mr. Mackay loaned her the money and
t was charged to her on the books of the
bank in Virginia City, pending Fairs re-
urn from Washington. When he did re-
urn he paid Mackay the amount; but it
vas like gall and NORWOOD to his soul.
The idea of the money, which he loved
'etter than his wife, his children, or him !
ELF, which he would not have bartered
or an assurance of everlasting happiness
the next world, going to pay losses on
tocks .
FAIRS TREATMENT OF HIS WEE.
The idea OF his paying losses on stocks
nder any circumstances made him fair
gnash his teeth in impotent rage, and :
e vented his spleen by speaking of Mrs.
air in the most scandalous manner
neering at the idea Of a man paving $17.- l
DO for any woman for mere friendship.
speaking OF Mackay he could not find
Inguage to vent his feelings. There was
othing he could say vile enough to ex- E
ress his malice. This was not alone
ecause Mr.. Mackay had loaned Mrs 4
ar the money, which he had to paw I
ick, put he was smarting under the load "
Obligations Mackay had heaped
BON him. There is class of men
no cannot bear to think that they owe
attitude to others, men whose hatred 49,
easiest earned by doing them favors. =
I'd Fair is one of them. He hated A.
ackay because he owed him a deep
bt OF gratitude. Fairs strongest char
terlstic is his vanity. He is inordi-
tely vain. He imagines that he is
lite masher, and that no woman can
'lst his beauty of person and suavity of tn
amer. He does not believe so great
ner as himself exists on the face of the
rth. He believes that as a statesman nll
has no superior, and few equals, and No
INKS that Cleveland will see before long Ey
W necessary it is for him to enter the a pra
esldent's Cabinet. He considers him
!, shining light in the drawing rooms i
the fashionables. In fact he is insane oGi
h vanity. '''''''' 4