The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-03-27
kttlebOrO Local
TER RECEIVED BY
LOCAL SEAMSTRESS
be Trustees Said No TO tho Ap'
|asion Of q Woman Who Ask.
ed for Aid from rhomp.
son Fund.

lives in BnllleboN an elderly
who lor tho past NJ yeais has TAX
rwing as means oi getting money
>, in meeting her family expenses,
years she has been widow and
oi that time her health has been
jn fact she Is now confined 10 her
Recently the woman gave la her
pn her small house on the under
b. that he should provide her with
Ae for the rest Of her days. She
little money which she has saved
eet her funeral expenses but the
% is triyial-handly sufficient TO
the sad purpose Tor which Il has
kept.
Mort time ago this woman applied
II Ia the trustees OF the fund ere
BY Thomas Thompson for the re'
>nd support OF poor seamstWsses,
women aud shop girls who may
Temporary need from want OF en-
ent, sickness or misfortune" The
ID she asked for was small; SIS or
ould have sufiiced. Her son Is in
health and able 10 earn only enough
ket the actual expenses of an eco
)ally managed household. just at
ID he is out OF employment. An
employed by the trustees visited
woman and invested her case IN
y detail, then reported 10 the trus,
\ few days later the woman re-
from the agent letter enclosing
III 10 her request written by X. Nj.
In, one of the trustees. The agents
4 closed as follows: Il will call on
gain when | am in Brattleboro fun.
lou write that you wish TO drop. the
matter) and will probably have
|more questions to ask you then that
3pt occur to me last Tuesday. Hop
bur cough is better | am, etc" Mr..
ey's reply to the application for aid
follows:
Miss Stedman:-
)annot see any evidence from what
have sent me that Mrs. - is
6g woman; that is, woman who
been supporting herself by sewing.
blk she is probably the kind of wo-
/ the fund was intended TO aid, but
the court decides that we need, or
not, use our income for the EN-.
OF every new factory employing
Aers, whether they come from Brat
10 or from the ends of the earth,
oppose we shall have TO 60 slowly |
such cases.
art from this question, it is one of
cases where it is difficult for the |
ees to know the right thing TO do,
hat the parties have little prop |
but not much, and that property |
,ssibly not particularly available. Ii
have little available property, they
lot want to use il all up, and not |
/ where they are at afterward.
,hink the first thing to do is to get |
xact understanding with them as to
affairs. We cannot help people UNI
we get the whole truth and moth |
but the truth, and when these peo-
who, | do not doubt, are good, hon
the necessity OF our |
ing all about these circumstances, !
, there is no doubt that they will
you their confidence.
the second place, whether she has
other property or not, Mrs.
'ntly has little property in her
!. If we help her occasionally dur
the rest of her life, that is practl,,
giving money to her son, who will
inherit what property there is, free
clear. | understand that her son Is
strong, nor does he earn
y large amount. / do not blame her
to leave something to him;
e same time, he is not beneficiary,
not our duty to give him any par
ar aid, and his circumstances may
re so that he will not need it.
have an arrangement by which we |
help people who have certain |
mt of property which is not avail
in cash, such as house, etc, max
his aid a charge upon their estate.
rs. should care to do this, we
d probably be able to help her in
various exigencies that may come up
Ig the next few years, leaving the
Jon of dealing with her sons. at
for the future to determine. l have
papers covering this, which L will
you, and you can see Mrs. -
it when next you go to Brattle-
E main difficulty of the matter at
mt is that Mrs. - does not APP
to be a sewing woman, and until
legal position is determined, l fear
annot do very much. / hope, how
that you will see Mrs. Strong again
find out her circumstances and what
wants to do. If we get their conf
, it will be much more easy to help
if the chance arises.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) r. M. Bradley.