The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-01-23

The Special Committee of the School Board
appoint ed recently to consider the matter of
school ac e0mna0dations in the western part of
the city, h 1--WE made their report, which was
published in the daily papers of the 10th inst
The report is an exhaustive and well written
one, and we a.e glad to notice it is so generally
sustained by the citizel,s
The City Cou ucil are to bold special meet
ing this Tuesday, evening a. which this mat
ter will be considered
Messrs. M. A. Blanchard, Seth q. Gordon
and Lewis B. Smith have been appointed
committee to preseiat to the City Co, ncil the
wishes Of the School Board in relation to land
as they believe in the necessity for) the cree
ton of a new school house substantially ON tue
plan in dictated in the report and if possible, to
secure their immediate cooperation with
view to its occupancy another winter
TIE report in substance alludes to the general
compliant of the bad ventilation and poor heat
ing arrangements in the school houses of the
western end of the city; their over crowded
condition; their inadaptation of recitation
roens; the large cost of keeping so many old
and imperfect school buildings in repair; the
serious injury of the present unsatisfactory
condition of the western schools OF the CITY,
and the need of as thorough system OF grada-
of the schools in the North school house and
the need of a similar one at the West end with
grammar and primaries under one head, en-
bracing the Park and Bracket grammar
schools the No. 5, 6, 7, and primaries and
perhaps No. and 4, abandoning to sale such
vacated property as the city might deem ad-
visable.
The gross cost will not be large-ouly about
$4,000. The present property can be sold tol
some SAC, 600, leaving the net cost to the city
about 1000. By raising this money by loans
son some five or ten years, and creating SINK
ing fund for the final payment, paying the
yearly int rest as usual, the taxes need not be
perceptibly increased and the city will be great
ly benefited
1t is well established fact, that the more
compact the school system the more efficient II
is and more effectnally is it brought under the
supervision of the educational department. O
the city.
Again, it costs less to run one good sizet
school house, in wood, coal, janitor and repairs
than half a dozen small or medium sized ones
On economical grounds we are glad to see thl
new movement.
The plan proposed is to erect three-stor
brick school house on the Bracket street schoc
house lot, similar in arrangement to the Mort
school, but not nearly as large.
We think the North school most exceileI
edifice and its schools superior, but we nope III
the city win not build another building SO lare
as that and we are glad to notice that the re-
concentrations of the school committee are II
medium sized and well arranged edlnce.
We hope that there will be the most IaVori
BILE and liberal action tonight in the matter o
the pant of the City Council, and then Portlan
with its High, North and newly arrange
schools VIII be placed upon most promisln
basis, and shortly prove that this, as frequentl
asserted lis a city unsurpassed for its educatlon'
advantages aud the superiority of its scholar