The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1894-01-27

am only one of many. There are four
of us, all of us Miclleys," he added,
"or rather all of us Macs, and l own
up, gentlemen, with pride and pleas
ure, to being one of them" In his
remarks on this occasion McKane al
luded to Messrs. McCarty, McGarren,
McKane and Mclaughlin, four men
who control the politics and the poll
ticians of their respective districts, as
all the voters and officials in their re-
spec tive districts will confess.
Like many another man, he rislsed
very little in improving his district
originally. He waited, like Gould and
Vanderbilt, till other men came along
and rendered his district valuable.
But no sooner had some enterpr.sing
capitalist in 1874 run q railroad from
Brooklyn to Coney Island, and no
sooner had the public showed its liking
for the railroad, than McKane sprang
into the arena, and from that moment
on he has had his finger in every Concy
Island pie. McKane has interests and
property to-day along Gravesend Bay,
Sheepshcad Bay, Coney Island Creek
even in Norton's point. AS for the
Bowery on West Brighton, why, he lis"
the Bowery. Every concert hall, every
museum, every merry -go-round, every
rattle, every chance, every swing, every
''razzle-dazzle, every chance ball,
every pavilion, could be truthfully
interest in the Iron Pier, in the Iron
steamboats,, in the Camera, in the OBJ
servatorv, in the Elephant, in the Sea
Beach Palace, in the l. road there, in
the electric light plant, in the car
riages and stages, in the electric road
in everything.
But it is not merely, nor perhaps
even chiefly, from his pecuniary in
terest in the place, rs 1t is from his
own peculiar individuality, that Nc
Kane owes his power, which, like the
Car of all the Russias, Is supreme.
McKane is really an extraordinary
man, one of the very few who arc cut
out in molds of their own, not made, as
it were, by the thousands. AS per
sample Dickens would have rcveled in
studying and writing up McKane, had
many sided, and each side Astrongly
marked. Though rich man he is
very independent in his manner and in
his dealing toward merely rich men,
men who have money, and nothing
else.
Last summer Standard oil magnate
called on him on business. He kept
the Standard oil magnate waiting,
whereupon the rich man reminded him
that he represented the Standard Oil
company. ''Well, SIR" said, McKanc.
still more haughtily and pointedly, ~
represent John Y. McKane." On this
occasion it was his cue not TO accede to
the proposition of the Standard oil
man. But shortly after he changed
his mind, and thought it to his in
terest to conclude deal. He there
fore sent for the Standard oil magnate
and not only did not keep him waiting
but was so quick and eager that the
Standard oil man was, perhaps for the
first time in his life, taken by storm.
In his dealing with tho poor, as with
the rich, McKane's disposition is really
generous A widow, named White,
who had little stand for the sale Of
fancy goods at West Brighton, fell
sick, and of course lost her trade. And
she would have probably been sent to
New York to the hospital had not Me-
Kane hired woman to take her place
and sell her goods at the stand, and
also sent her check for si25 to pay
for nursing and medical attendance.
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