Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-10-11
PLANS FOR HOSPITAL.
Thompson Estate Trustees Hold
Deed Of Hall Property.

Transfer of The Hemlocks Finally
Made This Week After Protracted
Neutrality-suspicious. Unfounded Re-
ports.
Laurence Minot and Richards NJ. Brad
ley of Boston, trustees of the Thomas
Thompson estate, during the past week
have come into possession of the deeds of
the Hall property known as The Hem
locks opposite the residence of Mrs. ,.
x. Fuller, and plans will be carried FOR
ward with all possible haste to make the
proposed Thomas Thompson hospital In
Brattleboro reality. This property,
which consists of about Is acres of land,
two houses a large barn and quantity
Of furniture, was sold early last spring,
as stated at the time, to q Brattleboro
man for about $4,000. The mans name
was not made public, but IL is now known
that he was Thomas J. Heaphy, the
Brooks House porter. The trustees of the
Thompson estate secured an option on
the property and closed a contract for II
before their option expired. paying Mr..
Heaphy a fair bonus. The sale was made
through F. ]. Baileys agency.
At that time the property was owned
by Countess de Jotemps of Paris, for
merly Miss Edna Hall of Bratteboro, and
| her sister. Mrs. Robert NJ. Burnett OF
Southboro, Mass. Deeds were made out
| and sent to the countess for her sigma
! ture but the news soon came that the
countess had applied for a divorce from
her husband and that she would be UNI
! able to give a clear title to the property
| without the signature unless she waited
| until after the court had granted her
| decree, and OF course the only thing to
! do was to wait for the decree. The de-
| cree was granted June 20, but according
| to the French laws the count had two
! months in which to file an appeal The
time limit expired in September, and as
the count did not appeal the countess.
who was spending her vacation in Ge-
| neva Switzerland. Immediately affixed
| her signature to the deeds and sent them
to Mrs. Burnett. who received them about
| the middle Of last week
The deeds were signed by Mr.. and Mrs.
| Burnett and sent to Brattleboro, arrlv-
ing here Saturday. Up TO that time the
deeds were made out to Mr.. Heaphy, but
| on Monday of this week they were re-
| decided to the trustees of the Thompson
| estate. Articles of Incorporation will now
be drawn up by the Incorporating COM
mittee L. F. Adams. E. L. Waterman
and DR.. II. d. Holton.
The purchase of the Hall property was
| made on the recommendation of COM
| mittee appointed by the trustees to select
a suitable site for a hospital This COM
! mittee consisted OF DR.. S. f. Lawton. DR..
! A. l. Miller DR.. Henry Tucker. DR.. James
| Conland, and r. +. Gordon Several sites
| were suggested to the committee. incud-
ing plot in the rear of the Home for the
Aged and Disabled. a plot on d. s. Pratts
| farm on Western Avenue. and others,
| but the Hall place seemed to be the most
| logical site.
| An erroneous impression concerning the
situation in regard TO the hospital was
given in the Brattleboro letter in the
Springfield Republican Sunday. when 1t
was stated that sit is reported" that
some defect in the title to the Hall place
is responsible for the delay in the estab-
| lishment OF the hospital and that unfa-
vorable comment is heard because of the
report that fully a years interest on
the great trust fund was required to sat
isfy attorneys fees. which had impress
ed the trustees with the necessity of a
more deliberate and careful stewardship"
As to the counsel's fees, II should be
said that the local attorneys who man
aged the case have not received cent for
their labors. although one of them de-
voted over half years time exclusive
| ly to this case, and he also expended
several hundred dollars of his own money
for which he has not been reimbursed.
All of the bills presented for counsels'
fees. for court expenses. and everything
connected with the estate did not amount
to one half Of the accumulation during
! litigation, and the first years income
under the decree is absolutely free for
use. The sum available today is more
than ample for all the expenses of es-
tablishng the hospital. There is abso-
lutely no defect in the title to THE Hem
locks" property The article in the
Springfield Republican Sunday was
almost wholly an aggrega ton of errors.
and gave a wrong impression and one
which was particularly unjust to the
attorneys who have worked for the best
interests of the Brattleboro community.
There are some discomfitures in
travelling by modern methods. Four
Brattleboro youths iourneved to Hins-
dale one night recently in a two-seat.
ed automobile, which got out of order
at the monument on the return trip.
They were fearful of a jollving if they
left the machine and walked home
and therefore spent two or three hours
of toll pushing the big useless" car.
riage into this village, arriving here
about o'clock in the morning. Per
: maps their eXperiSRce was preferable
to that Of the young man who was
returning on a bicycle from a call at
house on the Putney road one night
this week, when he collided with the
odoriferous specimen known to sci
entists as memphis mephitica. The
bicycle needs disinfection now.
Mrs. Sarah Carpenter Sprague, So
J whose critical illness from pneu
monia in Boston was announced last
I week, died there Thursday. She was
the wife of Fred Sprague, and the
eldest daughter of the late George
: Carpenter of Orange, Mass. Besides
, her husband she leaves three sisters
Mrs. Joseph Spencer and Mrs. Walter
J Damon of Orange, and Mrs. George
: H. Bond of Brattleboro, and two
brothers, r. r. Carpenter of Orange
= and George Carpenter of Boston
J Mrs. Bond went to Boston the day
, that her sister died. The funeral was
? held in Orange Monday at the home
of the sister, Mrs. Spencer. Col
Bond, Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Root and
Mrs. c, G. Maynard went to Orange
: Monday to attend the funeral, meeting
Mrs. Bond there.