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Show ON A TELEGRAPH-CABLE THRONE IfcttfrtZ't t ;i trvrl CLAREN.K III'Ni ; r.P.K" KI MVKVS h' a. I of the Postal Telegraph company and other enterprises enter-prises worth In all about as much as the Gerry fortune, is not exactly an heir to n multl-mll-llonaire throne Blzice be is already enthroned; n..r Is he as little known if. th general publi. as William ! Rockefeller or young Gerry or "Jack ' Morgan Mor-gan Hut ns the virtual bead of all the Mai kay enter- iTise. Clarence Mackay is almost an unknown quantity In the public mind. It was said when his father died three years ago. that, though he wasn't yet ready for the Job. In time Clareifc'e WOUld take the helm Since that time h'- h is taken it, nnd Is now holding It with a firm hand, but the newspaper reading public remembers him chiefly perhaps only as ih. rather lively and pleasure-loving heir apparent of his father's bonanza fortune. 1 larence Rlackay's determination if. be the actual head of the Postal Ti legraph and other enterprises established by his father, and not to leave them to the management r others, after the fashion of Alfred Vanderbllt; is said to he due. in some measure at least, to the energy and success with which George Gould, son of the Western Union s first real chief, attacked the management of the Gould enterprises after Jay Gould's death. Young Mack-ay Mack-ay began to pave the way for actual control in lv7 about a year alter his marriage to Miss Katberlne Duer I mwn to that time John W Mackay, apparently, had looked upon his son as little more than boy, and little had ever passed between the two about his business future fu-ture ir. this occasion, John W being In New York, 1 la 1 tnci v.. in to him at his Office In the Postal Trle-graph Trle-graph building The old. r man saw that something of real or fancied Importance was on the younger mans miii. I "Well, son." said John VY. Linking up as the youngster approached, "what's the matter today?' "Nothing's the matter, Governor, but I want to have a litti. talk with you As long as you live you'll be the Chief, '".I I 11 be my father's son A.II right; that suits me But, when you get tired, I'll need t get Into harness ami Id like to know something about it beforehand. 1 wanl a ob, now Whatever kind of work you select for me Ml take, and I'll attend to It the bast I know how." Naturally, this pleased the old man, and he said he'd sec about It Soon afterward Clarence was made a di rector and one of the vice-presidents of the Commercial Cable company His office carried with It the doing of certain things ever) day, and th- young man did them as falthfull and picked up practical knowledge 'f the husl-11. husl-11. ss iii the doing of them as rapidly as he would had his Job been a mere .-I. rkshU) He didn't work very many hours a day. nor did he do much small detail work personally, per-sonally, but he was promptly at his desk every morning When In New York, and when away kept constantly In touch with his own work. Little by little he gained wide knowledge of the general gen-eral business so that h. was probably competent to havo taken charge of everything had occasion required when Ms I'ath.-r died, in IW There v. as no oceaslon. how ever. and Clarence was modestly content to remain in the background and let some one else be the head and front for a time Since then he has assumed the reins and from the big telegraph and cable building on Rroadway, Opposite the City Hail, comes word that he wields the Si epter with all the steadiness of a veteran, though ROW only 30. Not everybody may remember that till he was 20 Clarence Mackay expected to play the role of an American millionaire's younger son. and that his earlier education was plann.d to fit him for that agreeable career His Older brother. John YY. Mackay, Jr. the apple of his fathers eye, was eventually to be the chief, and his training was ordered accordingly. But In 1895, John NY., Jr. was killed by being thrown from a horse 111 Prance, where he was riding In a rat 1 near his country place at Manage and today he r.-sts in the famous Mackay mausoleum in Gn f-nwood cemetery. YMie his father Uyed, Clorahce Mackaj devoted much of his time to sport, racing, polo and racquets b'-ing his favorite amusements Though he is only ii' f. . t six in height, he Is strong and athletic, and one year he held thi racquets championship of the 1 nlted States, while he is B f.i-t and fearless rider on the p., in Meld Clarence afackays marriage to Catherine Duer was one of the most talked-of society events of the season some seven cars ago. Soon after their union they established themselves on Long island as members of the o..iony of Millionaires, who have pre-empted the island as their very own, buying a large estate and building thereon a more gorgeous mansion than anv of the r n -Id- in ei there. The estate as a whole is rarely beautiful, and many thousands hae hpn Uvlibeij Harbor Hill, and It is locat-l r.f-ar Bi who is an unusually personable wri civ. -ties of the colony. The r?aarU lali m nl which she gave last SeptesJ and grounds were thrown opn to al willing to pay V e cuts for a.ifiii.ioa.i In r long lime, either he the hujin formers who attended and teurttS at tin- booths, or Mrs Ma. levy s fries The cross re. l.t r.f the sale- given to a local charity but the r.t c! paid for I v Mra. Mae'knv 3 A her Ml more than the hospital received "l.i re Mackay Is net a bit ,:ia ance The latter was tall and had Is ful nose; C!arcc has a thick, tM had a square forehead; (.'larence hall differed greatly 111 th. !r py.-s, Johal than his s..n s 1 larenc- M;ukay TH" tutors In a college near Paris nr. J tl in England. He is still Interested u stable. |