The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-10-18
Story Entails Wild, Nature
Dreams of Cleveland
Millionaire.

WHEELING. Oct. 1s-In a few
minutes, the fall term Of federal
court in wheeling was made the
most important in years, by the fol-
lowing declaration OF Judge Aston
G. Dayton. who is sitting on the
bench: Gentlemen, the most per-
picking, unsatisfactory and Difficult:
case have had to pass
opinion on since have been
on the bench. is the case
OF Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Nc
Bride VS.. Emma Jones kirkpatrick,
which is one of the most unusual, ]
might say, most unbusiness like
cases have ever heard of, one
which is replete with surprises and
enough romantic incidents to make
an exceptionally good book"
This unusual case with such a
conglomeration Of unbusinesslike
policies, and two death bed scenes,
entails several stories of the efforts
of a Cleveland millionaire to obtain
possession of some West Virginia
lands, wealthy in natural beauty
and his lavish expenditure in devel-
oping it into a summer resort.
It's Location.
/ Down in Preston county, near
Aurora, where the scene of the case
( is laid, residents call it ''McBride's
F.ollies.' Judge Dayton disagrees
with them, expressing his opinion
4 that it is far better for man to
spend his money, even lavishly, in
developing West Virginia lands for
the benefit and pleasure of himself,
his family and others than it Is
to horde it.
Down near Aurora a man named
Wright, about 1898, started 20
erect a mountain summer resort
away from any railroads and among
/ the beautiful hills for which West
Virginia is famous. There came
/ there during the summer man
named Mcbride, a wholesale dry
goods man of Cleveland. Impressed
by the natural beauty OF the scenery
and the healthy climate, he leased
four acres of land adjoining the
:. Wright farm of twenty-five acres
and erected a summer cottage there
on, which he named "Gaymont."
Wright named his farm Brook
side
Didn't Get Along.
Mcbride and Wright did not get
along very well and Mcbride did
not go out to his summer home with
the same degree of pleasure with
which he would have done had he
and Wright been on good terms.
An lEnglishman named Kirkpat-
rick foated in and. likewise int
pressed by the healthy scenery, de-
cided to rest awhile. In the mean
time he saw the condition existing
between Wright and Mcbride and
arranged an interview with Nc
Bride.
Negotiations resulted in Kirk
patrick purchasing Brookside. os-
tensibly for himself, but in truth for
Mcbride, and conveyed to Mcbride
the property, with the understanding
that he was to develop, control and
manage 1t.
1t is the inslstence of Mrs. Nc
Bride, the plaintiff, that Kirkpat-
rick, the lessee, was to develop the
property under lMobrloe direction
from year to year, while Mrs. Kirk
patrick AYERS that her husband had
a twenty-five year lease.
kirkpatrick died in 1899 at the
Walton hotel in Philadelphia. DR.,
Morris, the attending physician
says that Mcbride came to the hotel
and discussed plans with Kirkpat-
rick for developing the property.
DR.. Morris says Mcbride alleged
Kirkpatrick had put him in tho
hole. kirkpatrick, in his dying
. hour, enjoined on his wife an obi
CATION to take charge OF the property
and not go back to England, because
he said he had promised Mcbride
to develop the property and tha'