The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-02-03
ALL TO A NIECE
is SINGLE REQUEST
OF GLIDER WILL
Redding Assessor Refuses to
Sign Tax Abstract and ~
Tells Why.

| Gorham refused to affix his signature
| to the abstract. It had already been
! signed by Assessors Pinkney and Burr
and when they heard that Mr.. Cor
| hams refusal to sign was based on
the claim that the list figures had
! been changed after being agreed upon
| and entered they were naturally in
dignant, considering that the alleged
! charge of tenpering with the returns
was a serious one. The sky cleared,
| however, when Mr.. Gorham explained
/ that he made no such accusation, but
| that his refusal to sign was based on
| the conviction that his colIea CUES had
| placed some of the valuations too
| high. He was absent from one or
two of the boards sessions and hence
| failed to concur in some of the VaIu-
alton findings of the majority, al
| though there was open to him the
| opportunity of examining them and
making his protest at the time. Only
| a, few applicants appeared before the
board of relief at their first session on
Tuesday. Miss Isabelle Mcdonald
| protested against her assessment of
about $1,000, which was an increase
of about $4,000 over last year, all of
it on land. Of the increase about
$500 came from the 10 per cent. PEN
/ atty for failing to file a list within
the time limit. John G. Read object
ed to a raise of $500 on his land, and
y
petitioner. Mrs. J. w. Stimson also
supposed that she had a grievance
and was relieved to learn that her
assessm ent was lower than last years.
The board will hold their second ses-
sion next Monday.
The will of Jeanette L. Glider,
fled for probate in New York last
week, bequeathes the life use of her
entire estate, which consists mostly
of stocks and bonds, to her niece,
Catherine Jeanette Cho1me1ey-Jones
Pearson. Upon the death of the 1ega-
tee the principal is to go to her chill
dren. The executors are Joseph P
Glider, a brother, and Rodnan de Ray
Glider and Richard G. Cholmeley-
Jones, nephews. No statement to in
dictate the value of the, estate accom-
panied the filing of the will. Red
ding friends of the testatrfx are in
c1ined to place the amount in the
neighborhood of $4,000. For
writer whose books did not include
a best seller and none of whose plays
achieved a box office triumph, Miss
Glider earned a large amount with
her pen as she was a. prolific producer
with a wide range of work and her
output found a ready market. At the
same time she is known to have suf-
fered heavy losses from her invest
ments, so that she may have left less
property than is supposed. Accord
ing to her own statements she lost
about $50. 900 from the heavy shrink
age in Ama1gamated Copper which
followed the Notation of that security
and subsequently,, during the 1907
panic period, her stock losses were
about $4,000. She also said that be-
fore the latter reve Sc came she was
worth about $4,000.
Attorney Howard w Taylor, coun-
sci for the American Surety Co, said
yesterday in answer to inquiries by
the writer that there would probably
be no out of court settlement in the
Duncan bankruptcy case and posi-
lively none until after John w. Banks
had decided whether the assignment
was or was not nul1ity. Judge
Banks will not pass upon this issue as
referee in bankruptcy but as special
master of the United States court. Mr..
Taylor is confident that Judge Banks
decision will uphold the Surety Co.'S
contention that the assignment, to be
of any legal effect, should have been
made by Conservation Michael Con
merry. Contrary to Hle general inn
preston Duncan has not been dis
charged from the Connecticut hos
pitaI as cured, but is merely out on
leave of absence. It is claimed on his,
behalf, however, that his making of
the assignment was done in a lucid
interval and therefore legal This
contention is also disputed by Mr..
TAYLOR, who claims that the disability
imposed by the appointment of az con-
servator can, in such an instance as
this, be removed only by Duncan's re-
lease through court order, of the
guardianship. The hearing before
Judge Banks to settle this vital pre-
lininary question will be held within
few days If the bankruptcy case is
thrown out of court it cannot be re-
newed through action by the conser-
vator or the minor creditors because
four months from the filing of the
Surety Co.'S attachment will have
elapsed, leaving that attachment as
the first and only legal lien. The local
creditors can also place alta hments,
but the expense Of an effort to secure
a share of the assets in this way would
naturally be a deterrent consideration.
THE company said Mr.. Taylor, has
been fair and considerate from the
start. In the first place they paid
the full amount of the towns claim
arising from the tax shortage without
trying to take advantage Of techni-
ca1ities. We did not accept the offer
to pay in full all the other creditors
in return for having the property I'M
der attachment conveyed to use, but
we did submit a proposal that we
would pay the court and other costs
so far incurred provided the other
side joined in a plan to terminate the
conservatorship terminated and a
trustee appointed who should sell the
property and make a pro rata division
Of the proceeds among all the credit
ors. My letter containing this offer
did not reach Mr.. Connery until the
evening of the day on which the
papers in the bankruptcy petition had
been forwarded to the court at Hart
ford. Consequently nothing came of
our proposition, but it showed that we
wished to secure no advantage over
the other creditors
The Center section OF. Fire Co. No.
was happily surprised last week by
a gift of $50 from George Banks of
Phflade1phia towards the purchase of
their new chemical engine. The en-
CINE has been ordered and its arrival
is daily expected. With this $50 con-