Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1886-05-14
THE PROPOSED SOLDIERS. HOME.
Meeting of the Board of Trustees in this
City Last Night

thy ishst N1ght.
meeting of the trustees of the pro-
posed Vermont Soldiers Home was held
at the Van Ness House Tuesday night at
which the following members of the board
were present: Gen. VIM. Wells of Bur
lington, chairman Maj. c. c. Knsman of
Rutland, secretary Gen. p. p. Pitkin of
Montpelier, treasurer; eXGov. Redfield
Proctor of Rutland, Maj. A. b. Valentine
of Bennington, Col. Franklin Fairbanks
and Gen. II. X. Ide of st. Johnsbury,
Frank Kenfield of Morristown, Warren
Gibbs of ST. Adams, Mai. j. G. Stearns of
bradford, Mai. Josiah Grout of Derby
Hon. Hugh Henry of Chester, Col. j. j.
Estey of Brattleboro The report of the
secretary showed that there were about IS
soldiers in the State who needed a home
Proposals were received as follows /.
From citizens of Norwich, to give the
brick building, formerly the main build
ing of Norwich University, for soldiers
home; from Hon. John b. Mead. tender
ing the normal school building in Ran
dolph, provided the trustees would take
up mortgage of $500 on the same /; from
the town of st. Johnsbury, a gift of 5000
provided the home be located in that
town; from the Woman's Relief Corps g.
A. X. of st. Johnsbury, offering to fur.
nish "A room in the home from the Wind
sor Post G.. A. r., offer to furnish II
room; from the &. A. r. Post, Newport
gift of $500 provided the home be located
in that town.
Major Valentine expressed the opinion
that if the trustees should apply for it, the
Hunt place in Bennington of POO acres,
with buildings, designed by the late Hon
| L. w. Park for Il home for aged and desti
tute women, and which was turned over
to the trustees of the Park Home by Mr.
Parks heirs, would be transferred to the
trustees of the Soldiers Home, and he
thought it would be worth as much to
them for their purpose, as gift of $751; 600
or S2O, 1000, He then moved that commit
tee of three be appointed by the chair to
visit the various sites offered to the trus-
tees and report at the next meeting. The
chairman appointed as such committee
ex-Gov. Proctor, Mai Grout and Col
Wells was made chairman of the commit
tee. Col Franklin Fairbanks offered the
following resolution.
ResOlUed-1hat in view of the reports which
have been made from the various towns of
the State in regard to tn" need of Soldiers
Home we deem it wise to proceed at once, or
as soon as may be, to estah ish home under
the provisions of the law.
The resolution was unanimously adop-
ted. Warren Gibbs introduced the follow
ing resolution.
Resolrcd,-That the president and secretary
are hereby authorized to call upon the treaSur-
e. of the state for the appropriation of So
M0 to tie used in establishing Il Soldiers
Home.
The resolution was adopted unanimous
ly the vote being taken by ayes and nays.
Gen. II. *. lde then introduced the fol
lowing resolution:
ReS0rod, That the treasurer he instructed
when h. shall come into the custody o any
funds of the Soldiers Home to invest the
same IN his discretion, subject to call, where it
shall be drawing interest.
The resolution was adopted, after which
Col. Estey moved that finance and au-
diting committees be elected, and Mai
Valentine, Col. Fairbanks, Col. Estey and
Maj. Grout were elected as finance com
mittee and Maj. Stearns, Hon. Hugh
Henry and Frank Kentield were elected
auditing committee. 1t was voted that
he next meeting be held at Montpelier at
the call of the president.