The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1902-07-22
Remains VIII Not be Moved
Until His Son Arrives
DID NOT KNOW HIS WEALTH
Friend of the Dead Financler Says Mr..
Mackay Could Not Tell Within
$2o,ooo,ooo of What He
Was Worth.

London. July 21.-The body of John w.
Mackay Of San Francisco, who died yes
ter6ay, will be taken to New York for
burial In GreenwooS cemetery, Brooklyn,
though the date for the funeral and the
arrangements for the removal of the body
will not be decided until Mr.. Mackay' s
son, claranee, who SAILED from New York
last Saturday, reaches London.
Mrs. Mackay is prosirated with grief.
Both the morning and afternoon papers
print long obituary notices of Mr.. Mac
kay.
An infoi NAL meeting of Americans So
journing In London, held at the Carlton
Hotel this evening, adopted resolutions
expressing regret at the death Of John
w. Mackay and rendering sympathy to
Mrs Mackay and the other members of
the family. Among those present were
Gen. Joseph Wheeler of Alabama; For
mer Governor Frank Brown OF Mary
land; jefferson M Levy, former member
of Congress from New York, and George
t. Wilson, vice president of the Equitable
Life Assurance Society of the United
States.
The Rome correspondent of the Asso-
ciated Press, referring to the death of
Mr.. Macleay. says deep impression has
been caused here by the sudden decease
of one who was related by marriage to so
many leading Italian families.
Did Not Know His Wealth.
San Francisco. July 21.-Richard Day,
a close personal friend and former con-
fidential secretary Of the late John w.
Mackay, in an interview last night said:
II don't suppose Mr.. Mackay himself
knew within $2O0OO.OOO of what he was
worth. His business was in such order
and his arrangem 1ts were so carefully
made that everything will go on as if
he were still alive. He was president of
the Mackay- Bennett Cable Company;
president of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany, and president of The prospective
Pacific Cable Company; vice president of
the new $7,000000 sugar refinery at Yon-
kers, N. Y, of which Gus Spreckles is
president director of the Canadian Pa
cific Railroad director of the Southern
Pacific and director of the new proposed
railway from Havana to Santiago in
Cuba. He was one of the largest own
ers of the White Knob Copper Company
Pacific road built a ninety mile branch.
He was interested with Charles d.
Lane, in the Wild Goose Mining Com
pany, at Nome He was heavily inter-
ested in the Sprague Elevator and Elec-
trical Works of New York.
His San Francisco Property.
I'm San Francisco, Mr.. Mackay own
cd half the Nevada block, the Grand
opera house ard the big lot at the south
cast corr er of Market and Fourth streets.
He owned togt ther with Flood. the Buri-
buri raro h of about 1859 acres in San
Mateof county; the Coleman tract of
about 1000 acres in end adjacent to the
city of San Rafael end 5000 acres of tim
ber land in Mendocino county. He own
ed several thousand acres of woodland
in Nevada between Reno and Truckee.
'1n New York city, he owned the Pos
tai Telegraph building a, 16-stcry struc-
ture and he was the largest owner of
the Commercial Cable Companys build
ing a History structure. and the prop
trty adjacent to 1t
lie owned tLe Territorial Enterprise a
newspaper at Virginia. Nevada.
Mrs Mackay owns the palaual house
in which he died at London.
Mr. Mackay was member of the
Pacific Union Club of San Francisco and
of the Merchants Exchange. He was
staunch Republican, but before the Civil
war he was Democrat. Again and again
he refused tt be senator from Nevada
ard eschewed office. In religion he was
Roman Catholic and two of his warm
est friends were the late Bishop Mon
tegue, VINO had jurisdiction over north
ern Calsfornia's mining regions and a
large part of Nevada and Archbishop
Eiordan.
A Charity Worker.
fo,. a lone ina xyir Ilx,
supported the Catholic orphan asylum
and its 1870 children at Virginia, New. In
New York he maintained five or six free
beds in hospitals in memory of his son,
Willie who died half a dozen years ago
at the age of 26. Mr.. Mackay was always
doing good quietly and giving money.
A large number of regular pensioners
will miss him.
'Mr. Mackey came to America from
ireland as an infant with his father, who
was afterward naturalzed. But along in
1867 James A. Fair, who was Mackay's
partner and also born in Ireland, could
not remember whether or not the elder
Fair was naturalized, SO to make sure
Fair and Mackay were naturalized at
Virginia City, New, by their friend San
dy'' Baldwin, who was United States dis
trict Judge. | think Mr.. Mackay was
originally a carpenter, for when he came
authority on mine timbering.'
Was a peer of Men.
Salt Lake, Utah, July a.-P. II. Lam
nan OF this city has treasured the friend
shin OF j. w. Mackay for nearly life
tin g. He said today:
"I~knew him for forty years l knew
him when he was q miner, and he stood
then with every man as peer. What
he said his fellow men knew to be true
1t has been the same since in California
New Yorl1-everywhere. | never saw
trait in him that did not go to make the
perfect man. He met every man on the
broad plane of manhood He was rich,
but the poor saw nothing of mis- wealth in
meeting him He looked so far above 1t.
His g-eatest traits we're his unostenta-
tious generosity and his wonderful Amer
icanism. Considering the latter it seems
an irony of Fate that he sfhould have died
in a foreign land. His charities. know,
amounted TO more than quarter of
million dollars q year, and so medestly
were they given that no one, excepting
ros sibly his private secretary, knew the
benefieiaries
I'm the enterprise which bore his name
at the head. his sense Of personal honor