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225 ' Mr. Glynn asked if Mr. Ryder thought that the pros- pective tenant would be willing to come before the Board and give more detailed information as to just what she wanted the place for, and Mr. Ryder said he had no doubt but that the woman would be willing to do this. He said that the woman came from Vermont, and was stayin` with her brother, who lives in Lexington. The Chairman asked Mr. Ryder under which section of the Zoning Law he thought the Board could act, and Mr. Ryder said that he thought the Board could act under Section 6B, under R1 Districts. Mr. Neil McIntosh stated that he would like to know more of the type of patients and the kind of a hospital it would become. He would lil,e to see the fine old house put to some use. Before he owned the property it was owned by a Mr. Fairbanks, who raised gladioli there, and the place was used for business from 1917 through 1925. In 1926 McIntosh sold the property to Miss Minnie Garvin, who ran a boarding house there. Then the 'Johawk Club took the property, and ran a business. He said that for the last twenty years it had been unfit for a home. The house has twenty -;'our rooms, and unless one had large means and could keep several servants, he could not live there. He ' thought that any decent use that would not be detrimental should be allowed. If the property vias going to be used in a proper way, he was in favor of granting the petition. Mr. Robert Boleyn of Shade Street stated that he had tried to find out how far a convalescent home could go, and found that it could be used for mental cases, d.t.'s, or anything of that type. He said that he purchased his home in 1927, and after he bought his property PrlcIntosh offered the Cary Farm to him. He purchased his home on the strength of the Zoning Laws, and said that Ryder knew that the place was in a residential district when he bought the place. He stated that he was utterly opposed to the granting of the permit. Mr. Glynn asked Mr. Boleyn if he was opposed to it under any conditions, or if he would still oppose it if it was properly operated. Mr. Boleyn said that he prob- ably would not be opposed to it in that case, but that he was prejudiced on account of past experience. Mr. 'dilliam P. Knecht of 68 Shade Street said that he acquired his property last April and checked up on the Zoning Laws before he purchased. He said that he moved tc Lexington because he wanted a home for his three children, and living that close to an institution of that kind was ' not conducive to good living. He said that this type of an institution_ could be changed into a psychopathic home. He said_ that he sympathized with 1111r. Ryder, but did not