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VOLUME I.' NUMBER 25.
TRUE TO FRIEND
Remarkable Romance of Kitty Doyle, Which
Neither Matrimony Nor Death Could End
—Husband Makes No Complaint
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THE LATE MRS. WALTER B. BAR-
MR. WEIL, THE BENEFICIARY OF RINGER.
KITTY DOYLE’S WILL. (Katherine Doyle.)
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| EXTRACT FROM THE WILL, j
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I"Wlth the understanding, how- |
ever, that during the lifetime of |
my friend, Edwin C. Well, my I
mother Is to maintain said prop- ?
1 erty as a home for my said friend, 4
t Edwin C. Well, and subject entire- ?
I ly to hie orders and directions as f
’ to the management thereof, In ?
4 order that he may have the full f
1 enjoyment and benefit thereof as ;
long as he may live.”
NEW YORK.—Behind a will filed
In the Surrogate’s office the
other day lies tbe story of a
life of romance which did not
even die with death. The will
was made by Katherine Lee Doyle
Barringer, wife for five months of
Walter M. Barringer, a rich member
of the Chicago Stock Exchange.
She left nothing to her husband out
of her SIOO,OOO estate, not that they
[were not the best of frMnds. But she
did leave to her sweetheart of other
days her home. It is a beautiful place
at Deal Beach, N. J, and Mr. Well is
to have it for his own as long as he
lives in memory of the happy days
when they loved each other but could
not marry.
It is a story of love spoiled by a will
of long ago.
Some years ago young Mr. Weil in
herited an estate which is today esti
mated in the hundred thousands.
There was a string to the money. He
could not marry out of his faith, and
he was a Hebrew. Miss Doyle was a
Protestant. They met It was love at
first sight And then the provisions
of the other will—Mr. Weil could mar
ry a girl of the same birth as himself.
Their Sacrifice for Love.
“Very well,” he said to Miss Doyle,
"if I can’t marry you I won’t marry
anybody."
She told him her love, too, and
more.
•TH give it all up for you.” said Mr.
Weil.
"And I won’t let you,” answered
Miss Doyle, “much as I love you."
Poor Mr. Well fairly wept as he
confronted the beautiful girl who was
ohi' IMldh
giving her love that he might keep his
estate. And few could have blamed
him. There were few fairer girls in
New York ten years ago than “Kitty”
—Miss Doyle. She was tall, raven
haired, with a complexion of ivory
.nd rose, a lissome figure and the poise
of a princess. Many a New York
swain had succumbed to her charms
only to be turned down.
For ten years young Mr. Weil kept
up bls suit, but it was all to no pur
pose—Miss Doyle absolutely refused
to marry him and force him the loss
of his estate. They were together con
stantly, and their friends, not knowing
the provisions of the will, predicted
that they would soon be married. But
Katherine Doyle’s love was too great
for that —she declined to marry a man
only to disinherit him.
Few Knew the Secret.
Things went along for several years.
Young Weil showered gifts upon the
girl he knew would never be his bride.
Many of their mutual friends wondered
why there never was the announce
ment of an engagement—only a few
in the secret actually knew the real
reason why.
"It can never be,” answered the girl
to all questions, “but more than this I
can’t say."
Still there was no sign of any loss
of the love that each bore the other.
Mr. WeH carried Miss Doyle's photo
graph in a gold locket and a chain
just as a man would wear a watch.
They were always together—out on an
automobile jaunt, at the theater, in
the restaurants, at the beaches—ev
erywhere.
Now, Miss Doyle’s family are well to
do. Her sister, Mrs. Julia H. Flaacke,
lives in a handsome Colonial house at
No. 141 Harrison avenue, Jersey City.
Her mother, Mrs. Lucille C. Gorman,
has a home at No. 3 West Eighty-third
street. New York City. And Miss
Doyle had a fortune of her own—in
fact, she had received something like
SIOO,OOO from Mr. Well in jewels and
real estate alone.
So things ran along.
Miss Doyle a Wealthy Woman.
By judicious investments Miss Doyle
increased her estate until it came to
be worth more and more. Some say
IRWINTON, WILKINSON COUNTY, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1912.
toaay tnat it may realize as mucu as
$400,000, but a more conservative reck
oning will make it nearer SIOO,OOO. No
estimate of the amount of its value or
the value of the real estate has been
filed with the will.
Then came a sudden change. Miss
Doyle met Walter M. Barringer, a
I wealthy member of the Chicago Stock
Exchange, who makes his headquar
ters most of the time in New York and
at the Holland House. Barringer, a
good-looking, well-dressed man under
forty, promptly fell in love with the
fetching New York girl, and it wasn't
long before he proposed marriage to
her.
“There’s Mr. Weil,” answered the
girl.
Mr. Barringer knew all about the old
days and the love of the two for each
other, and he knew, too, that they !
could never marry. He would listen
to none of Miss Doyle’s arguments,
and finally she succumbed. Last No
vember they were quietly married. Mr.
Weil sent his congratulations as soon
as he heard of the wedding—he had
seen Miss Doyle the day before and
she hadn’t said a word to him about
it
Honeymoon Ended by Death.
There was a brief honeymoon and a
long trip to Chicago, where the couple
were ideally happy. It was a bad win
ter, and young Mrs. Barringer felt the
Chicago cold keenly. She went to her
home at Deal Beach in the hope of
recuperating. It availed little. Soon
she failed so suddenly that her hus
band was sent for, and he arrived in
time to be with her when she passed
away with pneumonia on April 23 last.
After the funeral the bride’s will
was found. It gave her home as at
No. 3 West Eighty-third street, and
recited that there were kept her
clothes, paintings, furniture and jew
els. She left SI,OOO each to her two
uncles, Donald Swain and Chapin
Swain; SSOO to her cousin, Earl Swain,
and SIOO to Delia Dlffily, her maid.
Then came the provision leaving to
her mother, Mrs. Gorman, the Deal
Beach property, with the exception
that it was to be Mr. Weil’s during
his lifetime. Everything else was left
to Mrs. Barringer’s mother, who was
named as executrix. It was the will
that revealed the earlier romance in
the dead woman's life.
Mr. Barringer Satisfied.
“I don't think there was anything
peculiar about my wife's will,” said
Mr. Barringer. "I knew nothing of its
provisions beforehand. I suppose she
thought that as I was comfortably off
and did not need her money she had
better leave it to some one who did.
“We had only been married about
five months when she died. There had
never been any quarrel between us.
We loved each other devotedly and
were sweethearts to the last.”
Mr.-Weil Ilves at No. 644 Madison
avenue, New York, and makes his bus
iness headquarters with the stock
brokerage firm of H. Content & Co.,
No. 751 Fifth avenue. He said that he
had been friends of the family for
years and that there was nothing
strange in that the use of the Deal
Beach home had been willed to him.
More than that he did not care to be
quoted.
“Kate was a splendid girl,” declared
Mrs. Althea Geddes, one of the wit
nesses to the will, who lives with Mrs.
Gorman. “Her taking off was all so
sad, and just when she seemed so
happily married.”
And now it takes the formal legal
wording of the will to recall the ro
mance of other days.
HARD WORK OF AUTHORSHIP
Years of Patient Preparation Required
to Produce a Book That
Will Endure.
Those who have never carried a
book through the press can form no
1 Idea of the amount of toll it involves.
Livingstone, the African explorer, de
clared that he would rather cross the
African continent agein than under
take to write another book.
For the statistics of the negro popu
lation of South America alone Owen
is said to have examined more than
150 volumes.
It is said one of Longfellow’s po
ems that it was wrrltten in four weeks,
but that he spent six months in re
vising and condensing it.
Bulwer declared that he had rewrit
ten some of his briefest productions
as many as eight or nine times before
their publication. One of Tennyson’s
poems was rewritten 50 times.
Gibbons spent 20 years on his “De
cline and Fall of the Roman Empire:’’
Adam Clark, 26 years on bis “Com
mentary,” and Carlyle 15 years on his
“Frederick the Great”
A great deal of time is consumed in
reading before some books are pre
pared. George Eliot read 1,000 books
before she wrote “Daniel Deronda,” Al
ison read 2,000 before he completed
his history.
Says Uncle Eben. z
“It’s so easy to find fault,” said
Uncle Eben, “data man who is sure
enough smart ought to be ashamed to
waste his energies dat way.”—Wash
ington Star. |
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