The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 21, 1902, Page 1

VOLUME XCII-NO. 51. SAN FRANCISCO, MONDAY, JULY 21, 1902. et PRICE FIVE CENTS. MACKAY, LAST OF BONANZA KINGS, IS CALLED BY DEATH IN LONDON DEADLY FURY OF TORNADO Eleven Persons Per- ish During Storm in Baltimore. Pleasure Craft in the|| Harbor Are Sunk by Gale. Hundreds of Houses Are Unroofed and Trees Uprooted. BALTIMORE, J t! , several igns and wreck. n the residence por ent its violence, ned nine wer falling tr RROLL, 21 years. MICK, 13 years. TLER, 28 yea EATE IN VARIED FORM. D e first three vi n a rowboat on ized, toward den gust of wind threw the boom of the the cabin ROWBOAT IS OVERTURNED. men, was out in mship Chatham, e fell on a tent in which hipers were caught beneath it. The others were not Mary n Sou the stone corn ice d man steamer or, picked had been y men fr off Wolf foot of the ation 200,000 fee gas « s injured hipping in the harbor s Los: a serious nature er bureau repo ature of a whirl- > wind blew at s that more in the Jasted but fifteen min s known it was confined to Baltimore and suburbs. A fierce tor-| racterized by a wind storm of under, vivid | | upon | | is afternoon, ing from the southwest. Eleven per- s part of the city , being confined front and in the g & ® g 8 % 3 n this lidt were river with three the storm broke homas Carroll, with four other young from were rescued by the a colored | ting was being held and several | | nto two pleces nen and women | William Cornish was | on, fell to the| Famous Miner Suc- cumbs After Iliness. ONDON, July 20.—John W. o'clock this evening at his res- idence, 6 Carlton House Ter- race. He was in his seventy- second year. Mackay's death was unexpected, for, although he had been il since Tuesday last, his physicians held out hope until vesterday that he would recover. The news of his death will be a great shock to his numerous friends, for Mac- kay as a rule enjoyed robust health. Less than a week ago he was actively en- et in diameter was | 828¢d in directing the great interests with which he was connected. The immediate | cause of death, according to the medical report, heart faflure. There were, | however, symptoms of pneumonia. The | lett 1ung was badly congested. | When the end came Mrs. siackay was | at the bedside, and with her were her | mother, Mrs. Hungerford, and her sister, | Countess Telfner. Mrs. Mackay’s daugh- | ter, Princess Galatro Colonna, who was | summoned from Paris, arrived about an ¢ | hour after Mackay had breathed his last. | G. @. Ward, vice president and general manager of the Commercial Cable Com- pany, was also in the house when the end | came. Mackay was taken ill on Tuesday last, | He bad been in the offices of the Commer- cial Cable Company with Ward, and the | two gentlethen went out to lunch. Mac- | kay, who had been complaining that he | aia not feel well, was seized with a chill. Ward put him in a cab, brought him back to Carlton House Terrace, and Mackay went to bed. The physicians who were Mackay died at half past 6 o th x4 | FAMOUS CALIFORNIA BONANZA KING WHOSE DEATH OCCURRED YES- TERDAY IN LONDON, HIS WIFE, AND MRS. MACKAY'S DAUGHTER, THE PRINCESS COLONNA. SON AND DAUGHTER-IN-LAW Passing of the Prominent Pioneer Rei/ives Rare Stories of the Comstock. called in did not consider his condition as very serious. A denial w: issued of a report which was current in the city that he was dangerously ill. The patient's condition seemed to improve a little on Wédnesday and Thursday, although his ‘heart from the first gave the physicians cause for concern. On Friday there was a slight turn for the worse, but even then a fatal termination was not anticipated. Mackay’s condition became still more alarming yesterday. His heart continued 10 grow weaker in its action. Despite the endeavors of his physicians, who ad- ministered oxygen, he passed a very bad night. Yesterday morning Sir Richard Douglass Powell, Dr. Jones and Dr. Orr were summoned and held a consultation. Everything possible was done for the sufferer, but despite all thelr efforts consciousness, ‘in which condition he re- mained throughout the day until the end came peacefully. arrangements funeral have yet been made. Mrs. Mackay is prostrated by her loss and the detalls will be attended to by Ward. Mackay, who sailed on the. Campanta, cannot arrive in London before Friday night at the very earliest. e e T Ae |\ FAMOUS LIFE OF A MAKER OF MILLIONS N the passing of John William Maec- kay, the last of the “Big Four,” the world of finance has lost one of its most notable leaders. Mackay grew weaker and lapsed into un- Lae wide arena Heart Prostration Announced as the Caus + J 3 e of the Notable American’s Demise. o+ in which the great commercial nations play their games of chance and loss and profit is lacking by one on the list of its combatants for business supremacy. California has lost greatly, too, for the | death of Mackay means nothing less than the disappearance of one of the earliest, most successful and best distinguished of her pioneers. Wherever in the wide world | the name of Nevada’s Comstock had been | heard, there also was the name of John Mackay linked with it. And it was a small and mightly insignificant place that had not at least a trifle of knowledge | of that famous mining camp. Mackay was a Dublin man, with some of the Irish and a bit of the Scotch blood | in him. He was born in the Irish capital | November 2, 1831. He was only 10 years | old when his parents decided that their condition might be improved by emigra- tion to the United States. Their first | place of residence in this country was New York City. The family prospered in a small degree for a couple of years, when the elder Mackay-died and his wife was left with the burden of supporting herself and her children. (MACKAY STARTS OUT. The family finances were soon in a bad way and the enterprising and courageous John determined to strike out and do some work for the maintenance of his mother and the security of the household. Little John had an ordinary school edu- cation and had already displayed posses- o sion of the commercial instinct and a wonderful supply of energy. So it came about that John W. Mackay was apprenticed to a shipbuilder, Willlam | H. Webb of New York, whose work con- sisted chiefly in fitting out vessels for voyages around the Horn. It was a short time afterward when reached the Eastern cities, and young Mackay was immediately up and astir for adventures new and golden pastures. In 1851 he arrived in this city, having come from New York with James C. Flood and William O’'Brien in a party of twen- ty-five. For several years he worked with pick and shovel in the California diggings. He did what few of his companions were able to do in holding himself aloof from the allurements of the wild mining camp life. He had come westward with a purpose to study and master the mining business, and every effort he exerted was directed always to that end. THE INDUSTRIOUS MINER. The clinking glasses and the ribald songs had no attraction for this young, industrious Easterner. Recklessness and improvidence were not to his liking. He | saved money, and there never was a time after he had been a year in the gold | fields when he was not able to back any enterprise which promised well. He was Continued on Page Two. . - —~ STRANER S SINK - BY T06 Premius Cut in - Twain on the | e, ‘Hundred and Fifty- | Five Passengers | Perish. Sl S LA zcollision of the Vessels | Occurs Shortly After Midnight. | HAMBURG, July 21.== | The steamship Premius with 185 passengers on board was cut in two and |sunk by the tug Hansel on the Elbe at 12:30 0’clock this morning. Only about ‘ thirtyonboard weresaved. MONTANA MAN’S AIRSHIP IS BUILT ON NEW LINES Inventor Benbow Declares He Can | “Sail All Around” Santos- “ Dumont. WASHINGTON, July 20.—T. C. Benbow, the young Montana inventor, has just completed for filing in the Patent Office |a model of an airship with which he | says he can “sail all around Santos-Du- | mont.” He hopes ‘to capture the St. | Louis Exposition prize. He will finish the | work on his machine in Frankfort, N. | Y., and early in the fall will give an ex~ hibition in New York. Benbow's airship consists of a car sus- pended from a longitudinal bar by cables, to which are attached two gas bags, | connected with the car by independent bridges. By this means if one bag be- | comes useless it can be deflated and drop- | ped out of place, while by the same ac- | tion the other is shifted into a central | position and at once becomes a means | of buoyaney. | The car of the new machine is the most | original part, and attracts the greatest | attention. It is equipped with four propeller wheels arranged in pairs and opposite each other at sides of the ecar, | instead of at the stern, and operating along the outer sides. These wheels are operated by a motor on the car. The blades of the propeller, which rum - to points, after the manner of birds’ wings, are so arranged that the driver canm, by proper regulating gear, set these col- lapsible wings to open and close at cer- | tain points in the revolution of the wheel, thus reducing the resistance to the min- mum. | | BELGIAN QUEEN SAYS SHE IS DYING OF LONELINESS | | «I Have Only My Dogs to Amuse " Me,” Is Marie Henristte's Plaint. | BRUSSELS, July %.—La Reforme pub- | ishes an extraordinary alleged interview | with the Queen of The Belgians (Maris Henriette) in which she is quoted as say- |irg that the papers have made her out to news of the gold discovery in California | pe gying too quickly; then she bitterly lamented her utter loneliness. According to La Reforme, Queen Marie Henrietta said: “I am thoroughly soured. I, who lin times past was so gay, am iil from | loneliness. 1 have only my dogs to amuse me and am already forgotten.” BULGARIANS | MEET TURKS IN A BATTLE LONDON, July 21. —The | Constantinople correspondent | of the Daily Telegraph reports that an engagement has taken place at Stromitza, European Turkey, between a force of 300 Bulgarian troops and a body of Turkish regulars. Twenty-five Turks, the cor- respondent says, were killed. i | DR ST