Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-02-26

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The village Of Rutland wants streets II hasuoW
only country roads, and generally poor ones at that
Gravel Is hauled On right and left, part Of haul
ed on the season while the rest is len To make
the streets hi cher than the Sidewalks aud so Djure
property, aud this goes without end. The story
Is a familiar Que, and the operation costs as much
year after year as need be paid for work Of the right
kind, aud yet the ways never good, and from the
accumlating Of the gravel constantly growing
business men in the place is that the village ought to
get stone crusher and begin macadamizing, making
a little good road each year--RmidHd Herald.
For gravel" in the above read dirt. dust
or mud, and every word of the paragraph
applies to Brattleboro with equal force. We
never shall have even dec snt slrs cts or road
beds in Brattleboro until the present system
or lack of system is abandoned, and the prin-
cple Of making a itte good rodd each year
is adopted. Judge Barrett, in the Herald,
bears testimony to the excellence of macad.
amized roads, and says that on the street in
that village where he lives crushed stone was
placed at one end in 1882. That end of the
street has ever since been solid and smooth
while the other end. where the stone was not
used Is muddy, slushy, dusty and especially
uncomfortable for wheeled vehicles by turns
THE PROPOSED SOLDIERS MONUMENT.
Among other questions upon which the
town will be called upon to act next Tuesday
is that of voting money for the erection of a
soldiers monument 1t is understood that
the sum which will be asked for is $1,000 As
is we'll known, the local Womans Relief
Corps have taken the initiative in this move
ment aud have already raised $1,000 toward
the sum required. It has been ascertained
that suitable aud every way satisfactory
monument can be procured at total outlay
of 5000. Various designs have been pre-
scented to tbs corps committee, one of which
is by Architect q. A. Hines Of this place
The plan most favored is Ia have a shaft of
Dummerston granite - or II feet in height
and well proportioned, on which will be
inscribed the names of all the soldiers whom
Brattleboro sent 10 the war, surmount.
ed by the figure of a soldier in bronze
some seven feet in height That Brat.
tleboro ought to erect a monument to her
soldiers is a point which needs no ArRu
ment Other towns of less wealth and pre-.
tensions, aud less indebted to their soldiers
are ahead of us in this matter, and the pres.
ent seems to be favorable time to act We
take II that the only objection which will
arise in the minds of any Of our voters in re-
lation to this proposition is Ms to the manner
of raising the money-whether il ought not
to be raised by subscription. II the latter
method were practicable there would be a
chance for argument here but while $1,000
is small SUN to pay out of the town treas.
ury-amounting to but 4 cents on dollar
of the grand list would be a large and
well-nigh impossible amount to raise by sub
scription. Pans and further details concern.
ing the proposed monument will be furnished
at the town meeting
AN INTERESTING QUESTION OF LAW.
An interesting question growing out of
the will of Gen. j. W. Phelps would have
come before the supreme court at its late term
in this county, had it not been settled by the
parties interested. The General drew his own
will which contains the following paragraph
Il bequeath all my property, wherever be.
ing or lying, to my wife, Anna b. Phelps, to
be administered by her for the benefit of her
self and children and at her death il is to
go TO the issue between us if any survive.
Or II none should then survive, then it is to
go in equal shares to my nephews aud nieoes,
children Of Stella, Eunice and Anna r. Phelps
or to their heirs, with the following ooudi.
tions, to wit Dat of the income from this
property my beloved niece, Mrs. Sarah j
Davis, is to receive $3.50 annually for i've