The evening world., 1908-02-19
LUDLOW,
WEEPING, LEAVES
HOME FOREVER
His Wife Now in Possession
of Ancestral Estate at
.Oakdale, L. l.
HAD DOMESTIC TROUBLE
Signed Over Property When
He Married and Lost All Claim
Going to Mexico.
HAD DOMESTIC TROUBLE
tspeciai to The Evening World,

SAYvILLE, L. l., Feb. 1s.-Rear-Ad-
Miral Ludlow. U. S. N. retired, de-
parted forever from his ancestral home
at Oakdale to-day. leaving in posses
sion his wife, Mrs. Ludlow. to whom he
transferred the property during their
honeymoon several years ago. They had
separated almost a year ago. and the
efforts of friends and relatives TO bring
the couple together again were in vain
In giving up the splendid estate on
which he was born and whore many
generations of LudlJws had lived since
Colonial days, the aged Admiral was
shaken with emotion. After his law
yers and his wife's attorneys had con-
cluded the arrangements by which he
is forced to relinqw'sh all claim to the
Ludlow family manSr. he went to the
historic ST. Johns Churchyard on the
estate and wept at the tomb Of his
parents.
Wife Would Not Meet Him.
The tears were still streaming from
tly carriage and drove to the station.
He had bade all the old servants on the
estate good-by and many of them wept
with him. AS he turned away from
them he said:
You will never see me here again"
Admiral Ludlow did not depart from
Oakdale until his wife arrived at the
Sayville station with her son, Deputy
Police Commissioner Bugher, of New
York City. and her lawyer. She had
come to take possession of the estate.
but refused to meet or even speak to
her husband. Her lawyer went to the
old manor where he met the Admiral $
lawyer, an attorney of Sayville. When
the Admira! was seen driving to the
station Mrs Ludlow and her son got
low estates.
Mrs. Ludlow. it is said, will keep
nothing In the old Ludlow home, but
will have the house refurnished through
out. The old pictures and family heir
looms will be turned over to the Ad-
miral. Then she and her son. Mr.. Bug
her, will reside at the place
Admiral Ludlow recently recovered
from a long siege of illness. For several
weeks his life was despaired of, but
during all this time Mrs. Ludlow did
not visit him. He was nursed through
his illness by his old housekeeper. Mrs
Ludlow was living with her sister, the
wife of Admiral Dewey, in Washington.
To-day was her first visit to Oakdale
for months. When married to Admiral
Ludlow she was the widow of the father
of Deputy Commissioner Bugher. She is
a sister of John r. Mclean.
Before leaving Sayville Admiral Lud-
low said that he would 20 to Mexico to
visit his brother.
Nicoll Ludlow was ranking captain
at the top of his grade, commanding
the monitor Terror during the Spanish
American war. After Lieut.. Hobson
sank the Merrimac in Santiago Harbor
in an effort to bottle up Cervera's fleet
and was made prisoner. Capt Ludlow
sailed from Key West and went in and
got him. after an exchange of prisoners
had been arranged,
Following the war. Ludlow command
cd the battleship Massachusetts,. He
Was in command of that warship when
she grounded on Diamond Reef in this
har,,or. lie was reprlmanded for neg
lieence as a consequence of the acct
dent.
Admiral Ludlow was married in 1896
and during that year he became in
yolved in controversy with the Navy
Department that resulted in President
Cleveland refusing to approve the rec
concentrations of the Navy Board that
hn be promoted At the time Ludlow
was in charge of the Naval War Col
lege.
Separation Kept Secret.
After President Cleveland went out
OF Office he was promoted and In 1899
h. retired with the rank of rear-ad-
m!ral and went with his wife to live on
the old homestead at Oakdale. The Mt
most secrecy has been maintained CON
cerning the differences between the Ad-
mral and his wife, and it was not
until the recent Illness that even his
intimate friends knsw there had been
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