St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-20

I bonanza owners when stocks broke and
| they were reported to be making DEAL
But to-day Flood and Mackay have few
| enemies, and people generally would
| have preferred to see them keep
! their money, especially as the
general opinion is that Flood
| had no idea himself of making deal
| in wheat. Mackay has always been
| popular. Even in the worst days of the
| Mackay, and gave him credit for being
the practical miner to whom they owed
| the discovery of Consolidated. Virginia
and California. Mackay, when the
| mines were fairly established, became
somewhat of bon vivant, man about
I town. Mrs. Mackay set up in Europe,
| and has conquered apparently the best
| European society. All who knew her
| there, all Americans who have
| met her, speak universal chorus
of praise of her, and many
poor Californians have known her
! kindness to their practical benefit,
| kindness which has not often been pub
| lished.
Mackay and Fair were the two
who worked the Consolidated Vir-
ginia mine to success. Mackay was
the miner; the man who managed
miner, too. They built the Nevada
! block and started the Nevada bank. 1t
was and is an elegant banking Office
An old story tells how Mackay came
| down from the ComStock when the place
was finished, and walked into the Office
| He looked around and took in the ele-
gance, and said:
"Too much - quarterback about
| this"
| Sharon was then the great rival of the
bonanza firm, and they were giants
| fighting all the time on the stock market.
| 1t was alleged to be the quarrel between
them that brought the Bank of Califor-
mia down over eleven years ago. Flood
wanted to raise some money, and he
went to Sharon. Sharon was not will
ing, and they got to high words about it,
you'd better go back to your whisky
selling" said Sharon,
'If ever sell whisky again." said
! Flood, ''I'll sell it over the counter of
the Bank of California"
When the Nevada bank was going the
Bank of California wanted gold. The
| Bank of Nevada had locked up in its
vaults some S7,O00,O00, which Flood
would not allow to go out; and the Bank
of California closed its doors until the
directors put up S1,0O0,000 apiece and
saved it. 1t was not as noble sacrifice
been liable for more if they had let the
bank go, and they made it pay hand
somely, for the natural sympathy of
the old Californians made them
stand by the well-known institution.
Eleven years afterward, on the same
l day, the wheat deal shook the
Bank of Nevada and it reeled. A curl
Gus thing is the whirligig of time. Not
long before the crisis Fair had been
weeded out of the Bank of Nevada. He
was very sore. Speaking to a reporter
| he told the story of how Flood had de-
ceived him, and how they had put up
| the job.
sit was Machiavellian scheme" said
| the learned reporter.
"Well," said Fair, II don't know that
it was any more Mackayeyellian than
Floodivellian."
Mackay and Fair had not spoken for a
long time. 1t was quarrel arising from
some domestic trouble of Fairs. 1t was
consequently a double triumph for
Fair when they came to him to stand
| by the bank and save it. He did,
and entered into it as entire comptroller
/ of the concern. The Nevada banks
! last statement contains no sign what
ever of the losses ON wheat and every
thing seems to be unimpaired. But
what the difference has been to Mackay
and Flood they alone know.
Sharon is dead. His spirit would have
! gloated over that crash, in which his old
! enemy was so nearly ruined. But if his
! spirit still exists and can look down on
its erstwhile habitation, it must have
| been too busy with its own affairs to
/ trouble even about the Nevada bank.
For the supreme court has just
given its decision on the Sharon
divorce case, and it leaves moth
ing to be done except to decide how
much money and property is to go to
Sarah Althea Hill Sharon, declared by