The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-22
MACkAY REAL ESTATE.
That in San Francisco Was
Decided to His Wife and Son.

San Francisco, July 22.-James L.
Flood and Attorney G. w. McInerny
have filed for record. deeds signed by
the late John w. Mackay for all the
real estate which the latter owned in
this city at the time of his death. They
are drawn in favor of his wife, Marie
Louise H. Mackay and his son, Clar-
ence H Mackay, who will share alike in
all respects and in the three parcels of
real estate transferred, the conditions in
the two is love and affection and in
the third "A nominal sum is named.
Two were drawn in New York city
on December 21 1900, before G. H. Cory,
commissioner of deeds for California.
They give to Mrs. Mackay and her only
son the Grand Opera House in this city
and the valuable property on Market
street One was drawn in San Fran
cisco, March, 1902, during Mackays last
visit here. and dispoSes of undivided
one-haf interests in the Nevada block.
at Pine and Montgomery streets Mack
entrusting them to Flood, his old time
friend, is thought to be because he
wanted to make easier and less expen-
sive to his heirs the administration of
his estate.
AS CLARK KNEW HIM.
Butte, Mont, July 22.-United States
Senator w. A Clark enjoyed a per-
sonal acquaintance with John w.
Mackay and when interviewed, spoke of
his death as follows:
1--WE were warm personal friends,
said the senator, land although we had
no business relations together we fire.
quently met in New York.
"Mr. Mackay was a genial, whole
souled, broad gauged typical Irishman.
He was liberal to fault. l consider
his death a national calamity His am
bition in life was to encircle the earth
with his telegraphic and cable lines and
there was little doubt that he would
have accomplished his purpose had he
lived. His latest enterprise was to lay
the Pacific cable to the Philippines. He
accomplished great results With his Pos
tai Telegraph company and pushed his
lines across the country against the
powerful influence of the Western I'm
ion company
Mr. Mackay visited Montana in 1858.
and he told nae he rode from Virginia
City to Helena on horseback, looking
over the country. I believe he then re-
turned to Nevada He had some copper
in Idaho and helped to build a railroad
branch in the Lost River country He
built the finest mausoleun in Green
wood cemetery, Long Island, that was
ever constructed for the remains of his
son, who was killed some years ago in
an accident while riding horseback. The
remains of the late Marcus Daily are
now in that mausoleum-
I: KNEW HIM 40 YEARS.
Salt Lake, Utah. July 22-P. H. Ian
friendship of John w Mackay for
nearly a life time He said today:
Il knew him for 40 years. 1 knew
him when he was a miner and he stood
then with every man as a peer. What
he said, his fellow men knew to BE-
true. 1t has been the same since, ir
4 California, New York-everywhere.
i never saw a trait in him that did not
| go to make the perfect man. He ne,
every man on the broad plane of man.
! hood. He was rich, but the poor saw
| nothing of his wealth in meeting him
| he looned so far above it His greatest
| traits were his transformations gene
rosity and charity and his wonderful
i Americanism- Considering the latter
| it seems an irony of fate that he should
| have died in a foreign land. His cIari-
ties I know amounted to more than q
quarter of a million dollars a year, and
so modestly were they given that no one
excepting possibly his private secretary
| knows the beneficiaries
Tn the enterprises which bore his name
| was uppermost and SO certain that il
protected the lowliest of his associates
be it stockholder in the Postal Telegraph
or employe in his mines. He scorned
pettiness and meanness and mis- scofn
when iDpel1ed WAS the loftiest in the
world, but always he stood by his
friends until the guilt of something
petty interviewed
Mr.. Mackay had a tremendous pride
in mis- own good name and strove te
keep it above reproach- At the time Of
| against the advice OF astute financiers
he sent to London to float loan OF
several million dollars for the Postal
Telegraph. The loan was open to re-
| main for twenty-four hours and was