White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1911-10-15
JOHN v. MACKAY
TRAINS At FOUR


WHO WILL CONTINUE FAITH
ER'S BATTLE AGAINST BIG
RIVAL CORPORATION.
John w. Mackay, four years old,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence H. Mac
kay, has a future planned out for
him that should make him, even as
a young man, n of the notable
figures in the field of large CONNER
cial achievement to which the major
part of the Mackay fortune is devot-
ed. He is to be trained to take up
the work which first aroused the
business enthusiasm and fighting
spirit of his grandfather, and which
has been ably carried on by his faith
err in the management and direction
OF the affairs of the Postal Tele-
graph Cable company.
In the current issue of the Postal
Telegraph, the monthly publication
and official organ of the company, a
portrait of Master Mackay appears on
the cover page and beneath it this
caption:
JOHN w. MACKAY
a years DID,
The boy who is expected to
be a man and to fight the West
ern Union on land and sea in
the coming days.
Master Mackay has been dedicated,
but with the heritage of the spirit of
his f%orebearers the younger Mackay
will undoubtedly welcome the task
set for him the more because it is a
fighting job and a big one.
From its inception the Postal Tele-
graph Cable company has had to
fight every inch of its way into
widespread and almost universal
commercial reach and into favor of
the public against a large and well
established concern hal disputed
ever a field for rivalry, and when
driven from that position resorted to
every means in its power to obstruct
or check the growth of a competitive
concern.
Although the fight has been
actively waged for twenty-seven
years, with both companies reaching
out and strengthening themselves at
every opportunity to hold or gain an
advantage, the Postal company finds
itself right now facing perhaps the
hardest battle of it's career, and
with no promise that its rival will
not find new methods of opposition
of even greater possibilities in the
future.
1t is therefore a forecast of COM
mercial strife on the part of Mr..
Mackay when he declares his son is
expected to fight the Western Union
in the coming days, and it may be
left to the son to win the commercial
mastery of the rival company.
The big task lived up to by his
father of gaining advantages and
holding intact the individuality of
his concern, which furnishes the only
rivalry in telegraphic communica-
ton in the United States, will prove
a great inspiration to the son.
The latest move in the telegraphic
war which concerns Master Mackay's
future, but which he is still too
young to appreciate, is the combina-
ton of the American Telephone &
Telegraph company (the Bell sys-
tenn with the Western Union Tele-
graph company by the purchase of a
controlling interest of the stock in
the latter company, and the leasing
of the cable lines of the Anglo-Am-
erican and Direct companies, both
British corporations, by the West
ern Union.
In this move the Postal company
sees a step toward a telephone. tele-
graph and cable monopoly, but has
declared that it will continue to
furnish opposition and oppose mon
opoly as contrary to the law, and this
is the policy to which Master Mac
kay will be pledged when he has
been educated in the business and
given a controlling hand.