Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-08-14
NOT ALL HARMONY.
New Directors Elected at Street
Railroad Meeting.
Thirty-Six Stockholders Present, Rep.
resenting 416 Shares-Printed Bal.
lots Showed Action Was Planned in
Almanac

lots Showed Action Was Planned in
Advance.
The affairs of the Bratteboro Street
Railroad company will be in new hands the
coming year. the old board of directors
having been turned down at the annual
meeting of the stockholders in lower
Grange hall Monday evening. The
meeting was called to order by Presi-
dent II. T. Bond soon after 40 o'clock.
There were present SO stockholders,
nearly all of whom carried proxies in
their pockets. Secretary \. r.. Thurber
read the report for the past year which
was accepted and adopted. Carl Ilollen-
der, treasurer, read his report which
had been printed and was i'm the hands
| of the stockholders. one item read;
Bills payable. $3,5>926." NJ. \. Coolidge
asked what some of the larger bills were
and Mr.. Hollender read them OF one
was for state taxes previous to the past
| year, amounting TO about @i5. Another
| was Waterman Il Martins bill of $50
John Sargent wanted to know what the
/ last bill was for and President Bond
/ said it was for legal services. Mr.. Bond
said the directors were given to under
! stand that there would be no charge for
/ that service. as much of it was given
when Judge Waterman was president
/ but that afterwards the bill was sent in
/ and had not been paid.
AZ this point u. Cowlos raised the
/ question as To- whether AN arrangement
: could have been made with the Brattle-
/ borO overall company whereby the com
! pauy would have remained I'm the rail-
/ roads factory ar CentrrVilie. Mr.. Bond
said the road had furnished room. power
/ aud heat for Sj6l. The directors thought
/ they were not getting a new dollar for
/ an old one at that rate ana raised the
/ rent to $500. The company objected TO
the raise and then the question of putting
. ON an addition to the factory was
brought up The directors had no money
TO put into new buildings, but a propo-
sition was made that the overall COM
pany put up a building 81 by 80 feet or
about that and three stories high. which
would rent for Sl5on and the railroad
would allow them certain reductions
which would make their rent 5000 net
/ The overall company. he said, made no
further proposition and the matter was
LEFT that way.
President Bona announced that II there
was no other business to transact the
election of officers would be prOcecie,
with and asked those holding proNie,
60 show them 50 that they might b'
properly accredited. :. :. Hunt present
ed certificate of six shares which hat
been turned over to- him 10y the origina
owner The officers thought 1t would moi
he legal to allow him to vote the si,
shares as they had not been tr1nsforre.
on the books of the road and had moi
been signed by the officers OF the road
II WAS easy Ia see that under tke sur
face everything was not harmonious
Mr.. Hunt said he should insist on hi'
right to vote the six shares The officer
said he would not be allowed to do $,
unless the stockholders themselves tool
the responsibility. Several participated
in the discussion. and opinion was ahou
evenly divided. Mr. Bond said he wante,
the stockholders TO vote on the question
II was moved that the six shares b'
considered a legal proxy and ii was 50
voted and Mr. Hunt was allowed To Vot
them.
w. =. Goddard moved that the fiv'
directors be elected by one ballot. and /
was 50 ordered. u. Cowles then nomi
mated the following named men to con
stitute board Of directors: Charles q
Robbins Frank L. Hunt. Marcus \
Coolidge. Herbert j. Clark and Carlos X
Jones. Printed ballots were passe'
around, and while that was being dom
the discussion of various matters Wa
kept up i'm an unpleas SAINT tone. SOM
one said they understood Mr. Thurhe
was getting 5000 a year as secretary 10
doing work which Mr.. Jones used to de
for nothing. Mr. Thurber said Mr. Jone
did not do 1t for nothing but did it whel
he should have been working on the road
Finally the vote was taken and Prcsi
dent Bond announced the result. In
new board was elected, the vote 70
2 them representing 231 shares, while tn
vote for the old board represented l.
shares John Calvin was elected audi
tor. after which the meeting was ad
: journed. Mr.. Coolidge. one of the nev
} directors was one of the builders of tn
road He is interested with f.. c. Crosb
+ in several other electric roads. MI
, Jones. the fifth director. has been super
, intendent of the road several years.
The old board of directors was II. +
Bond, \. +. Thurber, w. f.. Banks, Can
. Hollender and H. S. Sherwin.