The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1865-12-02
New Public School-House Eighth
District Baltimore County.

We copy the following letter from the Balti-
more american. II will show the interest man
Tested in the cause of Public School Education
in some sections of the county. We sincerely
hope this instance of lberaity and public spirit
will find many limitations throughout the county:
had the pleasure to assist November oath,
in exercises of such interest and significance con-
nected with our new public school system that
they are worthy of special notice. II was the
dedication of neat and thoroughly furnished
school building, erected aud equipped according
to plans suggested by the State Board of Educa-
ton The house stands at the intersection Of
the overshot and new roads, four and ahalf miles
from Towsontown. The lot contains one acre,
is enclosed by substantial pailing fence, is or
namented with beds for flowers, and carefully
constructed gravel walks leading from the en-
trance gates to the school door. The outbuild-
ings are convenient and durable. Trees, ever
green and deciduous, have been planted 80 as
to make this rural temple of knowledge and ils
surroundings attractive to the pupils, and an OBJ
ject of interest TO all good citizens who love the
young and wish to have them educated in sound
learning and trained in the Ways Of virtue.
The interior of the building is adorned by out
line and other maps +; the desks are Of the new
pattern, with folding seats, comfortable and con-
venient. The wall on three sides is divided into
twenty four compartments covered with liquid
stating, thus providing ample blackboard and
surface for twenty four pupils to be Simultaneous
ly engaged at their exercises. Each blackboard
has its SPONGE chalk and pointer. The desks,
black-boards and cloak pins are all numbered,
SO that each pupil has the seat, &C., correspond
ing to his place on the register. II would be
difficult to provide more complete or more
neatly arranged building or school lot.
Tho NJ f.afu f,O1p M NTH thin an
terprise is that it has been accomplished BY pri-
vate liAerality, energized by that public spirit
which recognizes the good public school az real
blessing to a neighborhood. The lot was dona-
ted by Mr.. VIM. Price |; the funds for building
the house and improving the premises were adj
vanced by DR.. Ridgely, Mr.. Price and Mr.. Chas.
Bosley, assisted by few of their neighbors.
The entire cost is near ST., 700, including lot The
whole property has been passed over by deed to
the Board of School Commissioners for the sum of
$3.50, payable in November, 1867
In addition to this liberal payment, the pa
irons guarantee to their teacher u salary of $3.50
for the snace of ten months, that is, they will
make Apsthe amount in case the school is not
large enough to secure it from the public funds.
The exercises on Friday were attended by the
President of the County Board, the District Com
missioner and number Of the patrons. the pu-
pills were examined in their various studes Civ
ing evidence ofheing carefully Instructed. Their
reading was remarkably good, and, ALSO analysis
of mental arithmetic questions.
Al the close had the privilege 70 thank the
friends Of public schools for what they have done
o advance the cause OF sound practical educa-
ton and for the noble example they have given
to our citizens. Their enterprise may be cOnsid-
cred an humble one but in my estimation it is of
greater value and signifitancy than the appro-
priaiion, by will, of larger sums of money for
:.sylums to protect and provide for the wretched
sufferers whom ignorance and vice have caused
to increase in our land. n
l.. VAN BoKKELEN,
State Superintendent,