The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-05-12
ASSERTS THOMPSON TRUSTEES.
Continued from Page g.

hose towns for carrying out both the
irect and indirect purposes for which |
he trust was created. The defendant
avs that this expenditure by your pc
itioners of the income intrusted to
heir care is an abuse of the discretion
slready vested in them by this court
md that that discretion ought not to be
further enlarged and extended in ac-
,ordance with the second paragraph in
he prayer of the petition herein fled.
As stated in the petition herein filed,
his court has said by the decree of
March 10, 1901:
(b)If the whole of said income is
not needed in any year for the re-
lief of the classes of persons above
named in either town in the proper
lions aforesaid, said trustees shall
apply such surplus to kindred char
liable purposes in each of said
towns in the same proportions, as
necessity may require, or elsewhere;
and such kindred charitable pur-
poses as may include 90 the
care and education of the children
of the classes above named, includ-
ing kindergarten or other schools,
and, if there shall be room in such
schools, children of other poor per-
sons in said towns shall be admit
ed or assisted. -
In accordance with this part of said
decree the trustees have expended GER
tain sums for kindergarten instruction
in Brattleboro, but there are children Of
the classes of the above named in said
town who are very much in need of
educational assistance beyond the kim
dergarten age who should receive such
assistance before the income of the
trust fund is expended elsewhere -
than in said Brattleboro and Rhinebeck.
This defendant is informed and be-
lieves that there are women of the
classes named residing in Brattleboro
entitled to aid from the income of this
trust fund, who are receiving from the
trustees and their agents only small
portion of their necessary support, leav-
ing the balance of their support to be
supplied by the town of Brattleboro,
notwithstanding there is sufficient in
come from this trust to supply all the
needs of those locally entitled to the
same, if II were expended by the truS-
tees for that purpose instead of its be-
ing expended elsewhere for other
than "kindred charitable purposes. -
This defendant believes, and therefore
ayers, that when a woman is entitled
| to the benefits of this trust that she is
entitled to have her needs fully and
reasonably met. and not be obliged to
| be placed in the class of the paupel
poor of the town Of Brattleboro
| The petitioners i'll the memorandum
filed herein say ''they believe that it j:
possibly to demoralize the spirit of {
community just as the spirit of an in
dividual can be demoralized by giving
much aid in an unwise manner Tha'
it is the belief of the trustees that thu
existence of this fund has had, to
| certain degree, an unfortunate effec
upon both these towns, and especial,
upon Brattleboro, not because the peopl
are indisposed 70 do their duty, but be
cause they have been persuaded that be
cause of this fund, such duty has cease
to exist This defendant denies tina
the community spirit of Brattlebor
has been, in any way, demoralized b
, the existence of this fund or that it ha
had. in any manner or degree. an III
fortunate effect upon the town, or tina
there is any danger of the communit
| SHii4L OF any VI
fortunate effect whatever being pre-
duced upon said town by reason of III
fund The danger, if any, appears /
be an unfortunate effect produced upo
the trustees by granting them too broa
discretion in dispensing other people
money; and this defendant SAYS that.
he exercise of the almost unlimite
discretion given to the trustees, it h,
had the unfortunate effect that one
he trustees, Richards NJ Bradle
whose pareSeular duty il has been to di
1ense the fund.- has become largely Of
If sympathy with the purposes of Il
trust as expressed by the testator al
as defined by the DEGREES of this eoul
and further extension of this discr
ionary authority viii greatly impa
he benefits intended 10 be derived |
the creation of this trust.
Wherefore, from all of the foregoil
reasons, with others that may be ma
o appear, this defendant SAYS that {
'rayer of the petition ought not to
granted; and it asks that a Master m;
&c appointed with authority to go
8rattleboro and Rhinebeck and take t
violence of the parties and their W
lesses with authority to examine t
looks and accounts of the trustees a
make full report to your Honoral
Court.
TOWN OF BRATTLEBORO,