New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-19

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What was the financial settlement"
WIS next asked.
Won will have 10 excuse me. rephed
tho LAWYER. L would like 20 answer
YOUR questions. but YOU know this Is
private case and not public one
For 'dr5. Macksy John u. Stanohhe''
issued statement from his apartments
in the Hotel Vanderbilt. In II he said
Tn December last Mrs. Macksy
sailed FOR Europe and took up her resi-
eence i'm an apartment in Paris, when
she had held under lease for a consld-
cradle period Of time. She brought SUIT
IN the Tribunal Of the Seine against
Mr.. Mackay for a divorce on the ground
OF desertion. He voluntarily appeared
in the action and interposed a counter
claim alleging desertion on the part OF
the plaintiff. No other charge was In
VOWED.
THE court. as is the practice in
France. enGeaVored TO bring aoou;
reconciliation Being unable TO accom-
plish such d result. a divorce was
granted on or about February II 10
each Of the parties. The custody OF
the children was awarded 10 Mr..
Mackav with the right to Mrs. Mackay
10 see them at all reasonable times.
Dr. J, seph 4. Blake, whose marital
troubles have been linked with those OF
the Mackays, was inaccessible to re-
porters last night. At his home NO.
los East Goth street. Tribune re-
porter was told he was dining out ana
had left word that no reporter oe IN
formed as to his whereabouts.
This was in line with his position
since the troubles Of the two families
became matters Of public discussion
the nearest approach 10 a statement
from him coming at the time he gave
I'D the chair Of surgery in the Collegc
Of PHYSICIANS and Surgeons. Then le
denied that his resignation was due to
anything more than desire TO deVo'e
his time to private practice.
Il have been carrying the burdens of
the place for twenty-five years he
then said. and think it about time Tor
Younger shoulders to take up the load.
Or. Blake and the Mackays.
AS a matter Of fact. it was in con-
nection with his work at The College OF
PHYSICIANS and Surgeons and the
Presbyterian Hospital that DR.. Blake
became well acquainted with Mr.. and
Mrs. Mackay.
II was he who conceived the idea OF
a union Of great city hospital and the
medical school on the lines OF the great
medical centres Of Europe. and Tor
years labored to put the idea into eX-
ecution. After Roosevelt Hospital had
rejected the proposal he succeeded IN
getting the trustees Of the Presbyte-
rian Hospital TO agree TO IT, In the
work Of raising the big endowment nee
essary 10 swing the amalgamation MIS-
Mackay took prominent part and the
home Of the Mackays was often the
meeting place Of those interested in the
scherle.
Mrs. Blake. who lives with her
younger son, at No. 81 East 10Th street
would not discuss the Mackay case last
night
Il must beg to be excused from MAX
ing any comment on the matter. as ]
have nothing at all TO say was the
message she sent down TO all callers.
Although there had been gossip for
months of domestic trouble between the
Mackays. nothing definite was mentioned
until September. 1918. New York society
then received ono its severest iOlts II
became known that Mrs. Catherine
Ketcham Blake, wife Of Dir. Joseph A.
Blake. was suing Mrs. Mackay for al
10000 FOR depr.ving her Of the doctors
affections.
The secret had been we'll kept. No pa
psrs had been filed. though the suit had
been pending for more than six months
and there must have been threats of t
before that. This knowledge at once eX
planned a mystery that had been puzzle
10 society and the cause of much gossip.
Mrs Mackay's voluntary surrender OF her
dover rights in the 100000 estate at
Roslyn. Long Island, which was a we'd
ding present TO her from her father-in-
law John W. Mackay
This curious act on Mrs Mackays part
was the first inkling the public got that
there was trouble IN the family. II TOOK
place in February. 1918. The existence Of
trouble was denied and the transfer Of
the estate 10 Mr. Mackay and William w
Cook. his attorney, as trustees for the
six-year-old son, John William Mackay.
was explained as a mere Legal arrange
ment TO enable the property 10 be sold
should a sale he thought desirable. The
real object was 10 prevent the estate be
ing involved by Mrs. Blako's claim
against Mrs. Mackay for 100000
In June the rumors Of trouble became
insistcnt Mr.. Msckay left suddenly for
Europe taking his three children. Mrs
Mackay leased a home in Portland Me.
after a long conference with her coun-
sci. Henry W. Taft. and went into Sc
.luson there. DR.. Blake, about this
lime, Unexpectedly resigned his professor
,hip at the College of Physicians and
Surgeons Columbia University. This res
gnation automatically removed him from
he head Of the surgical STAFF Of the
7rosby terrain Hospital. The surgeon then
lald be was going 10 devote himself to
private practice, and his connection with
he Macksy troubles did not come out.
II was not until Mrs. Blake filed her
complaints that all which IS yet known
vas publicly disclosed. In addition 10 her