The Scranton chronicle. (Scranton, Miss.) 1897-19??, 1902-07-26

san Francisco. July 2i Richard
Dey, close personal fricnd and for.
mer confidential secretary sof the late
John ". Maekny, says in an inter
Yicw;
Il don't suppose MIR. Mackay him.
self knew within 100000. 600 III what
he was worth. hut his husf1sas was
IN such order aud his arrangements
were 30 carefully made that every
thing will go on just "a though he
were Htiil aliyr.
Som. Of MS Inter.-t.,
lie was president of the Maekay'
Bennett Cable Co; president OF tho
Postal Telegraph Co; and prcaiden'
of the Prospective Pacific CONNER.
eial Cable Co, fice-presidcnt of the
new 100000 sugar refinery at Yon'
kcrs. y. J.. Of which Gus Spreafllae Is
president. director ~ be laAnf
Pacific railway; direelet The
ern Pacific, and dire tor 81 tn
proposed railroad from Havana 70
Santiago, in Cuba lie wna one Of the
largest owners of the White Mob Cop.
per CO., of Mackay. Idaho, 10 whiehs
the Union Pacific built a p0.mile
branch. lie wns interested with
Charles ID. Lane In the Wild Goose
Mining Co, at Nome. lie WIS heasf-
~ Interested In the SpraRue elevator
and electrical works of New York.
M. san Francisco Holdings.
"In san Francisco MIR. Maekay
owned half the Nevada block, the
Grand opera house an1 the big lot az
the southeast corner Of Fourth and
Market streets. lie owned, together
with Flood, the Bnri Burr ranah OF
about 900 acres, in San Nateo eoun-
~. the Coleman tract Of about i,5od
acres in and adjacent TO the city of
San Rafael, and 5000 acres of timber.
land in Mendocino county. He owned
several thousand acres of woodland
In Nevada between Heno and True
kee In New York city he owned the
Postal Telegraph building. i6--story
structure, and he waH the larksst
owner Of the Commercial Cable Co.'S
building, a 2i-atory structure, and the
property adjacent 20 IL. lie owned
the Territorial Enterprise, a news
paper Of Virginia, New. Mr.. Macks
owned the palatial house in which ;
died In London.
Mr.. Mackny Personally.
Mr.. Mackay was member of u
Pacific Union club. of San Francisc
and of the Merchants exchange. u
was a sfaneh republican, but befoI
the civil war he was a democra
Time and again he refused To be SCI
ator from Nevada and eschewrd q
fee. In religion he wna Catholi
and two Of his warmest friends WEI
the late Bishop Montague. who hs
jurisdiction over norfhren Califo
MAS mining regions and large pa.
of Nevada, and Archbishop Riordan.
Many VIII Miss Him.
Mr.. Maekay for long while Writ
ally supported the Catholic orphs
asylum and it's 130 children al Vi
ginia, Nev. In New York he mai
tanned five or six free beds In hosI
tails in memory of his son, Willie, wi
died half dozen years ago, at u
age Of 20. Mr.. Mackay was alwas
doing good quietly ana giving none
A large number of regular pensionsi
will miss him.
A Native Of Ireland.
"Mr. Mackay came to America froi
ireland, as an infant, with his fan
er. who was afterward naturaiizes
But along in 1867 James @. Fair, VIII
was Nr. Mackay's partner, and also
born in Ireland, couldn't remember
whether or not the elder Fair was
nattmalized. 80 10 make sure Fair and
Maekay were naturalized together IN
Virginia, New, by their friend. Sandy
w Baldwin, who was United States
district judge. / think Mr.. Mackay
was originally carpenter, for when
be came on the Comstock he was con
sidered an authority on mine timber
ing"