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Show MUTUAL DIVORCE FOR MACKAY6 S FOLLOWS WRECK OF TWO HOMES J$ Jfi j MRS. BLAKE IS SUING HUSBAND Mr. and Mrs. Mackay i 1 1 '" - - ; r. - - . . , : ....4lj-r.:-, Paris Court Grants the Mackays Unique Decree; He Keeps Children. By International News Service. I3V YORK, Fob. IS. Mr. and Mrs. " Clarence II. Mackay were grant- ed a mutual divorce in Paris on 1 February 13. In French law a mutual divorce means that each principal Interposes a counterclaim and that the claims arc Identical. According Ac-cording to John B. Stanchlield, attorney for Mrs. Mackay, and Frederic B. Cou-dort, Cou-dort, Mr. Mackay's lawyer, both charged desertion. By mutual agreement thc three children, Kathorinc, Ellen and John W., arc given Into the care of their father. fa-ther. Mr. Stanchlield tonight issued tho following fol-lowing statement: In December last Mrs. Mackay sailed for Europe and took up her residence res-idence In an apartment In Paris which she held under lease for a considerable consider-able period of time. Sho brought suit ln the tribunal of the Seine against Mr. Mackay for a divorce on the ground of desertion. He voluntarily appeared ln the action and Interposed a counterclaim alleging desertion on tho part of thc plaintiff. No other charge was Involved. Thc court, as 13 the practice In France, endeavored to bring about a reconciliation. Being Be-ing unable to accomplish such a result re-sult a divorce was granted on or about February 11 to each of the par-tics. par-tics. The custody of tho children was awarded to Mr. Mackay, with the right to Mrs. Mackay to see them at all reasonable times. JOHN B. STANCL1F1 ELD. "Everything was settled amicably," Mr, Stanchlield said to a reportor after Issuing tho statement. "Mrs. Mackay sailed auiolly from New York shortly bo-foro bo-foro Christmas. Mr. Mackay followed her on January 8. Alimony Not Revealed. "I do not know whothor there was any financial settlement nor whether there was any alimony asked or granted." Mr. Mackay returned to this country on February 1 and was found tonight at his town house, No. 1 East Sixty-second street, but referred all reporters to his attorney, at-torney, Frederic It, Coudort, who made a statement similar to Stanchlleld's. The divorce of tho Mackays Is In Itsnlf not an unexpected event, although the proceedings wore clothed with secrecy In Paris that evidently could not be assured here. Dodged Publicity. On October 30 announcement was made that Uterhurt & Graham, attorneys for Mr. Mackay, served Mrs. Mackay notice of his contemplated action while Mrs. Muckay was at the Plaza hotel here. Mr. Graham prepared to fllo the papers with the clerk of Nassau county at Mlneola, but because of the discovery of Uiut fact did not do so. It was because of the glare of publicity that was heating upon both Mr. and Mrs. Mackay In this country that they went to Paris. According to Mr. Coudort, whoso Paris offlco conducted Mr. Mackay's suit (here, his client has had a ruldiuico In Franco for two years. Mr. Mackay Ikis maintained xi home there for a much longer long-er period of time. Tho "mutual divorce" law, Mr. Condert declared, "Is as old as Napoleon." Tho marital llfo of the Mackays has been studded with t;ensatlons. The greatest great-est of these Was tho fUlt filed against Mrs, Mackay by Kathorlno ICntcham P.lako for the alleged alienation of the affections af-fections of thc lattcr's husband, Dr. Joseph Jo-seph A. Blake. Mrs. Blake asked 51,000.000 damages. Tho papers containing most serious charges wore served upon Mrs. Mackay last February. In June Mr. Mackay, taking tak-ing the three children with him. fled to Europe. Arthur C. Train as counsel for Mrs. Mackay received summons. In addition ad-dition to Mr. Tia Mrs. Mackay retained Henry U Tafl, brother of the former president, to defend hir. Arrayed against this pair of valiant legal wurrlors was (Continued cn Pago Two.) " KIS1 BITTEfiLY SCORES PBESHT (Continued, from Pago One.) Taft, tho president, ot! tho United States and the Democratic national convention, all thought wo had a perfect per-fect right to permit our own ships engaged en-gaged in our doniostic- eominorco to go through free ot tolls if we saw fit to do so. But England claims that this must not bo dono without her consent, though her ships cannot engage in our domestic commerce and she hug not directly di-rectly or indirectly invested a dollar in tho construction o the canal. " Concluding, after frequent interruptions, interrup-tions, tho Kansas senator' declared that the ''fight to save tho country from tho grip of tho transcontinental railroads rail-roads cannot be hiddeu bohind our relations re-lations to foreign countries or the skirts of tho president of tho United States." . Senator Owen ol! Oklahoma was the first to rise to the president's defense, lie assorted that the conscience of no Democrat was bound by the Baltimore platform on the tolls quostion because 'it did not represent the sober judgment judg-ment of the party on that point.' " Senator Chamberlain of Orceou, who voiced tho first formal opposition to the prcsidout within the party ranks, said: "It is a matter of history that the railwaj's of this country, particularly the transcontinental railways, prevented prevent-ed the construction of the Panama a ual . for years, and when tho question of granting coastwise vessols treedom from tolls was under discussion hero in the senate, those of us who know the lobbyists of the railway companies could look up in any of the gallerieB and recognize the faces of Mr. Schwerin and other men who wero lobbying for the railway companies here and opposing oppos-ing this part of the Panama canal act. Having tailed to defeat the building of the caual, they now invade the field of diplomacy. "Whero are wo going to stop? xre we going to listen to an insistence which may be made hereafter by some foreign power against railway-owned ships passing through the canal"? That violates the treaty as much as tho free tolls provision. Arc we going to dismantle dis-mantle our forts? Are we going to ay that out naval vessels must pay tho tolls? Some nation mar say that they violate tho treaty with, as much force as Great Britain now protests to us." Senator McCumber, Republican, re- plied briefly in tho president declaring he did not join tri Bristow in charging that th( was the tool of the trane'i railroads. i Senator Shively, acting cl tho foreign relations commit the discussion with the decla there were two sides to tH which congress would sqttla the president needed no defi "The president's position: "is well understood by tl and tho difficulties of the sjl likewise understood by the |
