The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-22
If Government Soundings Be Secured
Manila VIII Be Connected with
San Francisco in a Year.
MACKAY A MAN OF AFFAIRS
HIS MANY MILLIONS INVESTED IN
NUMEROUS CONCERNS.
Probably Didn't Know Himself with
in S2O,OOO,OO What He Was Worth
BODY to He Brought Home.

NEW YORK, July H.-The last cable
gram from Mr.. Mackay. who died in Lon
don yesterday, was one in regard to the
proposed Pacific cable, an enterprise which
had been his dream for twenty years This
cabegram was transmitted from London to
New York only a few minutes before he
was stricken. 1t was addressed to Mr..
Cook one Of his associates in the cable
explaining the progress of the project and
giving assurance of its completion by July
of next year if the United States govern
ment would furnish the survey made by
the Nero. Mr.. Cook, when asked to-day
as to whether Mr.. Mackay's death would
delay the completion of the Pacific cable.
said that while Mr.. Mackay's death was
a serious loss. yet the work would go on
without interruption and the cable would
be completed by July l, 1903. unless the
government soundings were withheld from
the company.
Richard Day, a close personal friend and
former confidential secretary of the late
John w. Mackay. in an interview at San
Francisco last night, said: Il don't sup
pose Mr. Mackay himself knew within
$40, ,OO0, 900 of what he was worth. His busi-
ness was in such order and his arrange
ments were so carefully made that every
thing will go on just as though he were
still alive. He was president of the
Mackay- Bennett Company president of the
Postal Telegraph Company, and president
of the prospective Pacific Commercial
Gable Company vice president of the new
5000 600 sugar refinery at Yonkers, n. Y,
of which Gus Spreckels is president drec-
tor of the Canadian Pacific Railway, drec-
tor of the Southern Pacific and director of
the new proposed railroad from Havana
TO Santiago in Cuba. He was one of the
largest owners of the White Knob Copper
Company. of Mackay. Idaho, to which the
Union Pacific built ninety mile branch.
He was interested with Charles d. Lane
in the Wild Goose Mining Company, at
Nome. He was heavily interested in the
Sprague elevator and electric works of
new York.
''In San Francisco Mr.. Mackay owned
half the Nevada Block, the Grand Opera
House and the big lot at the southeast
corner of Market and Fourth streets He
owned. together with Flood, the Buriburi
ranch OF about 1000 acres in San Mateo
county the Coleman tract of about 1000
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 wood land in Nevada. be-
tween Reno and Truckee In New York
city he owned the Postal Telegraph build
ing a sixteen story structure and he was
the largest owner OF the Commercial Cable
COmpany's building, a twenty-one story
structure, and the property adjacent to it.
He owned the Territorial Enterprise.
newspaper at Virginia, New. Mrs Mackay
owns the palatial house in which he died
in London.
MIR. Mackay a member of the Pa
cihc Union Club of San Francisco. and of
the Merchants Exchange He was a
staunch Republican. but before the civil
war he was Democrat. Again and again
he refused 10 be senator from Nevada and
eschewed office. In religion he was a
Roman Catholic. and two of his warmest
friends were the late Bishop Montague
who had jurisdiction over northern Cali
fornias mining regions and a large part
of Nevada. and Archbishop Riordon. Mr.
Mackay for long time virtually suppor-
ted the Catholic Orphan Asylum and its
13O children at Virginia, New. In New York
he maintained FIVE OF six Of the free beds
in hospitals in memory of his son Willie,
who died at the age OF tWenty-six Mr.
Mackay was always doing good quietly
and giving money. a large number OF reg
ular pensioners will miss him."