Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1902-07-22


not be decided upon until the arrival
in London of his son, Clarence Mackay
who sailed from New York Oh Satur
day last, Mrs. Mackay is Frustrated
with grief.
Richard Dey. a close personal friend
and former confidential secretary of
Mr.. Mackay. in an interview says:
Il don't suppose Mr.. Mackay himself
knew within $2O,000,000 of what he
was worth. His business was in such
order and his arrangements were 50
carefully made that everything will 60
on Just as though he were still alive
He was president of the MHckay-Hen-
nett Cable company. president of the
Postal Telegraph company and preSi-
dent of the prospective Pacific Com
mercial Cable company vice president
OF the new seven million dollar sugar
refinery at lonkcrS, y. T., of which
Gus Sprrckrls is president: director of
the Canadian Pacific railway, director
of he Southern Pacific and director Of
the new proposed railroad from lla
wanna to Santiago, in Cul'a. He WAS
one q. the largest OW,'rs of The White
\oh Copper company of Markay. Ia I.
IL, w;S interested with Charles -,
Lame in the WilA Goose Mining com
pHny at Nome. He was heavily inter
,st,M in the Spragur Elevator and
Electrical works of New York.
His Holdings In Frisco.
"ln San Francisco Mr. Mackay own
ed 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 Cole
man tract of about 1900 acres in and
adjacent to the city of San Rafael ana
5 5000 acres of timber land in MendocnO
county. He owned several thousand
acres of woodland in Nevada between
| 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 CONNER
cial Cable company's building TWEEN
| ty-one story structure, and the prop
erty adjacent to it. He owned the
Territorial Enterprise, a newspaper at
Virginia, New
"Mr. Mackay was a member of tn"
Pacific Union club of San Francisco
and of the Merchants Exchange. He
was a stanch Republican, but before
the civil war he WAS Democrat.
Again and again he refused to be sen
ntor from Nevada and eschewed office.
In religion he was Roman Catholic
and two of his warmcst friends We're
the late Bishop Montague, who had
jurisdiction over northern California S
mining regions and Il large part of
Nevada, and Archbishop Riordan. MI
Mackay for Il long time virtually sup
ported the Catholic orphan asylum and
It's 100 children at Virginia, New In
New York he maintained five or six
of the free beds in hospitals In mem
ory of his son Willie, who died half n
dozen years ago ut the age of twenty
six. Mr.. Mackay always was doing
good Quietly and giving money. A
large number Of regular pensioners
will miss him.
"Mr. Mnckay came to America from
Ireland as an infant with his father
who was afterward naturalized. But
along In 1867 James q. Fair, who was
Mr. Mackay's partner and also born
In Ireland. could not remember whcth-
err or not the elder Fair was natu
ralzed; SO. to make sure. Fair and
Mackay were naturalizcd together at
Virginia. New, by their friend, Sandy
w. Baldwin, who was United States
district Judge