Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-02-28
I understand that Tabor is crazy to get back

I understand that Tabor is crazy to get back
to the Senate.
Unostentatious Bonanza Mackay.
Speaking of mining kings, the greatest Of
them has been spending the past week at
Washington. He has lived quietly at
Chamberlain's and has not tried to pose as a
social figure, nor as one Of the little great
men who hang about Congress and the
White House. This man is John w.
Mackay, who now at the age of 81, is as
active physically and intellectually as when
q boy of II in 1852 he sailed around Cape
Horn to try his fortune in California. He
had remarkable series of ups and downs,
and he had made several fortunes and lost
them before he was 80 years old. About
this time, in connection with Fair, Flood
and O'Brien, he struck the Big Bonanza,
and since then he has been one OF the great
millionaires of the world.
There are few mines in the world which
paid so large an amount in so short time
as the Bonanza mines. In four years the
Consolidated Virginia, in which Mr. Mackay
was one of the partners, payed 81 dividends,
aggregating more than $42 900, and the
California, another of his mines, paid at this
same time more than $31, 900, 900. Some
time ago Mackay said to a friend that he
took $3.50, 900, 900
Out Of a Single Hole
in Virginia City, and no one but himself
knows Just how much he has made out of
mining. He has invested his money and he
has kept his millions moving. One of the
greatest cable companies of the world is
largely due to his pluck, brains and busi-
ness tact, and the story Of his investments
and his enterprises would fill columns He
iS ofH fin Nf lint
ings and thoroughly simple and unostenta-
tious in all his ways.
Speaking Of Mackay, reminds me of .
new story heard of Tom Ochiltree not long
ago. Ochiltree has been tor years con-
nected with Mackay as one of his agents,
and at the time the following incident oc-
CURED he was in London trying to place
some bonds of railroad which Mackay had
in Texas. Judge Normile, of the United
States District Court of St. Louis, tells
me the story. Normile and Ochiltree
crossed the ocean together, and when the
ship arrived at Queenstown, they tele-
graphed to the four or five principal hotels
in London asking them to reserve rooms for
them and to answer ut Liverpool. At
Liverpool they found that every one of
these hotels was full It was the last Of
May, the time when London Is most
crowded, and they found when they ar
rived in London that accommodations could
be gotten nowhere.
Tom Ochiltree's Great Blun
They went to the Langham, but found
every room taken, and they were in de-
spair. Going into the wine room they sat
down, had a brandy and soda and discussed
the situation. Both were terribly blue, and
for time said nothing. cat last" said
Judge Normile, 'I was surprised to see
Ochiltree jump to his feet. His complex
ion became redder than his hair, his swag-
ger was overpowering, and he cooked that
left eye of his as he looked at me, and in a
vindictive and excited tone said:
"'Normile, why don't you get us room?
Blank it, why don't you get Us room :?
Why don't you tell them who I am? Go
and say that Tom Ochiltree is here and they
will give US room?
ST looked at Toms red face and I
thought he was crazy. He sat down and
ordered another brandy and soda. While
we were drinking this concluded there
might be something in his scheme. He had
letters from President Arthur and thought
could impose on the ignorance of the
clerk. At the close of the glass went out
to the Office, and, waiting until there was
no. one at the little door in the grating,
stepped up and, begging the pardon of the
manager, asked him if could have word
with him. He replied: Certainly and
asked me to come in. went in and, put
ting an indignant look on my face. I said:
A Picture of = National Hero.
"tSir, have lust passed through the
wine-room Of your hotel. You pretend to
be an American hotel and have the patronage
of Americans. But I saw in that room
sight that surprised me. I saw there one of
the greatest of Americas military heroes
one of the bravest and noblest of our great
generals, sitting alone and neglected with
out his supper, and he told me he had been
refused room in your hotel refer to Gen
eral Ochiltree' -.
" General Ochiltree7' said the man.
General Ochiltree? never heard of any
General Ochiltree.
"'what, never heard of General Ochil-
tree?' said L Have you never heard of
General Tom Ochiltree? The close friend
of President Arthur? He i is one of our
most noted social figures, and he is one of
the greatest Generals we have ever had.
Never heard of General Ochiltree? Why,
man, have you never read what your poet
laureate, Mr.. Tennyson, says about him in
that poem in which he speaks of our great
men? You must remember the lines
Grant and Lee,
Great Ochiltree,
Mighty Ministers of Mars.
"eYes, yes,' said the man, T remember it.
Where is he? don't see how it could have
but I'll tell you how we will fix it.
There is young married couple from the
country who have Just gone up into one of
our best rooms. I can tell them that the
room was given to them by mistake, and I
can let you have it. Take me in and intro
duce me to the General, and will make it
pleasant for him.
"WeI," concluded Normile, 'tthey bum
died the bride and groom out of that room
and put Ochiltree in it, and got Ochiltree
to let me have place on cot as a friend
of his We received the best of treatment
during our stay, and the Langham Hotel
man shows Toms autograph among those Of
his most distinguished guests"
FRANK G. CARPENTER
ELKCTR1CITY IN RELIGION.