The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-04-24
TRUSTEES METHODS
SOMEWHAT NARROW"
Iodps Says This Claim Has Some
Foundation.
PROMPT AND GENEROUS HAND
,ssr,d Be Used in Distribution Of the
Thompson Fmd-No Basis OF Fact
10 the story THAT Income WIN Be
u,sd Throughout New England.

U.....r.Hss giving wholly erroneous
immersion U, the outcome OF the Ihonp'
..l Litigation up 10 date were sent
..Y Boston Friday and Appeared IA
.s..r, Throughout, New England,
n. ....it,hrs asserted that judge John
I.gYu.uud vi the Massachusetts, su,
,.m. .nau had suggested that the IN
~. nm the iund might be available
-..r..ln.ssts. needle women aud shop
utrr New England, and conveyed
+. |r.u.-..uu that the trustees intended
.t. m with tins suggestion. The DIES,
.t.l.s mfhcr iniimated that the claims
r.. Ial society OF scamstpsses, nee,
Is aamyt aud shop girls had not been
|,a.,lHlaied,
| n. ,Ii /. needed To prove the un,rulh
,H... l.-rTIiuus u reading OF the
,..r..t. lam Of findings handed down by
I'll. llmmpud after the hearing of
an b i ~ follows:
IA fNr hearing before me | became
.r.faI that the criticism that the trls-
~, .i hccn administering the trust
|nrau d somewhat narrow basis had some
i1nlaiinu. The trust fund is large and
H.. Iu,aur should be distributed with a
ra.auahly prompt and generous hand
|amprs tie persons intended 10y the tesl
|i3iar also became satisfied that the
|tn.f,c. have honestly done what they
|cptpNtd To be- their duty, and their mis-.
|iakp,. ii any there have been, were mis-.
|tabe, OF Judgment. Ia framing rules IN
,J,,urr j, l. difficult and unwise to go
much into detail. Much must be lett
FL tbe discretion and good sense OF the
tm.tee,. / doubt whether there is any
na,i al ans further or more explicit dl-
reftlons 10 the trustees concerning their
du,ie. aud the method OF performing
ibfm than those contained in their prior
decree but upon the whole, after con
Saerng the statements OF the petitioners
and those OF the answer filed by the as.
s5aliiou of scamstresses, | have thought
il might be well to add little by way
of explanation 10 the former decree, which
have done.
Th, memorandum was far from pleas
ling 10 the Thompson trustees and their
council and the hearing OF last Friday
Wa on the request OF the trustees who
asked that the reference to the admins
tra,ion of the fund be stricken out. Judge
Hammond said. however. that at the pre-
yons hearing he had gained the impress,
sion that the fund was being administered
on too narrow a basis and that the i'm
preston still remained. He did say that
he was willing TO have incorporated in
the decree a clause stating that the trus-
tees were solely responsible for the admin
istration found, and \. +. Schwenk, coun.
sci for the local beneficiaries, made no
objection since such a fact is laid down
by the law.
The decree which will be filed with the
Judges memorandum will be drawn by
the counsel for the opposing sides and
signed by Judge Hammond if it is salts |
factory. Mr. Williams, counsel for the
trustees, has submitted to Mr.. Schwenk |
copy OF what the trustees would like |
in the way of decree, but the draft Is |
not satisfactory to Mr. Schwenk who has |
returned it with a decree embodying his |
ideas Ii counsel for the opposing sides
are not able to agree upon tentative de- |
cree to be submitted to the judge another |
hearing will he necessary.
The discussion which has arisen over
the Suggestion that the income OF the
fund is available throughout New Eng
land is nothing new, although the CON
ditions under which such distribution
would become possible make any such
move on the part of the trustees extreme
II remote. The decree of 1901 covers the
point as follows:
IF the whole of said income is not
needed in any year for the relief OF the
classes of persons above named in either
town in the propositions aforesaid, said
trustees shall apply such surplus to kin,
drel charitable purposes in each of said
towns in the same proportions or else
where