The Portland daily press., 1872-01-30
School Committee.

city, submitted the following report "hich wa
accepted:
The special committee appointed ON the 15tl
inst, charged with the duty of presenting t
the City Council the views of this Board in re
lation to increased and improved accommoda
tons for schools in the western section of tn
city, have attended to the same and beg leav
to submit the following report:
your committee were appointed, they firstcallet
upon His Honor Mayor Kingsbury, furnishing
him with an attested copy of the report ant
order under which we were acting, who, after
full and explicit explanation on our part of the
object and plan of the Board of School Com
mittee, as contemplated and suggested in said
report, took marked and lively interest in the
subject, and in favor of the views entertained
by the School Committee relating thereto, as
also in immediate action for their realization.
We also had an interview with the Committee
of the City Council on Public Buildings, OF
which the Mayor is chairman, and made them
| acquainted with the necessities of the matter
under consideration and of the proposed plan
for relief. AT this interview the Mayor sug-
gested the calling of a special meeting of the
City Council for the purpose of affording us an
| opportunity to present the subject to their con-
| sideration under favorable auspices, to which
the Committee on Pnblic Buildings heartily as
| sented and the Mayor accordingly called such
meeting, which was held on Tuesday evening
| last, at which your committee were present and
invited to present to the City Government, in
convention of both Boards, the subject matter
| committed to them, as understood by the School
| Committee. We did so, and, after the read
| ing of the report and order before referred to
| by the City Clerk, your committee had a most
attentive and respectful hearing of more than
| an hours duration, hattering themselves that
| such good impression had been made that fa-
vorable action might reasonably be anticipated
at an early day. We were however, soon
doomed to change of opinion, and the public.
| particularly that portion more Immediately in
terested, to a most grievOus disappointment
from those to whom it had intrusted that most
sacred of duties, the providing for the educa-
ton of the young
After the Convention had dissolved orders
were introduced in the Board of Mayor and AL
dermen looking to the carrying out of the plans
suggested by the Board of School Committee.
but which they were not quite ready to vote, de-
string further investigation; and after voting
down a motion for indefinite postponement-6
to referred the whole subject to the Joint
Standing Committees of the City Government
on Public Buildings and Public instruction, to
report upon at an early day.
This action was then sent down to the Board
of Common Council, by whom concurrent ac-
ton was anticipated, no one surprising for a
moment that to such action there could be any
objection But on presentation of the matter
in that Board it became then at once apparent
that the whole subject had been prejudged-
that the hearing was mere farce-that the
citizens, acting through proper representatives,
consideration of an important subject, carefully
and respectfully presented. Motion to indeff-
nitely postpone was Immediately made and,
with little discussion, passed. Thus should
this action remain unreyersed, the matter must
rest for the present; end it cannot till the i'm
provements imperatively demanded are OBJ
tanned. This Board, however, can do no more
now than to commit the subject to the people.
with an earnest appeal that each one make it
his own, and to take such action in the prem
Uses to render another such failure to procure
timely and needed school accommodations sim
ply impossible.
Your committee do not feel that this report
should close without acknowledging the special
obligations they are under to His Honor the
Mayor for kindness and cooperation i'm bring
ing the subject with which they were charged
before the City Council under the most favora-
BILE circumstances. Nor should the public for
get that he was heartily in favor of immediate
action to remedy the evils complained Of And
also to the considerate action of the Board of
Aldermen do we wish to call special attention.
Respectfully submitted, 80
GEO. w. TRUE, 'ss ! 'q41iss laoE-
M. A. BLANCHARD, Special
% 5. Z. GORDON, Committee
sssF q LEWIS B. SMITH, j
The following orders were passed:
. Ordered, That the Executive Committee be
and they are hereby directed to procure, if pos
sible, permission of the city to occupy the Ward
room situated in the lower story Of Bracket
street school house for school purposes, and, if
such permission can be obtained, to place there
in Immediately primary seats and desks sufic-
lent for the accommodation of fifty children;
and, |sJtt Ia : -
Be 1t further Ordered, That, for the purpose
OF relieving the crowded condition of Primary
School No. z, the subcommittee on that school
be and they are hereby authorized to employ an
additional teacher in said school as soon as the
Executive Committee shall have furnished as
indicated, the Ward room above referred to-
The remainder of the session was occupied in
revising the rules and regulations of the Board,
ABBIE HELEN L1BBY.-When the young.
the promising and the beautiful are re-
not always easy for afflicted parents or
friends to bow in calm submission to
the DEGREES of Divine Providence; but when
such, like the subject of this notice, are taken,
and are themselves soothed and sustained by an
abiding trust, and can lie down calmly upon the
great consolation to surviving friends. And if
any power is equal to sustain the dying or the
living friends of the dying, through such
scene, it is a faith in the declarations and prom
ises of Jesus. The deceased, daughter of
Mr.. Washington Libby, was possessed of a
singularly sweet and even disposition, and free
from so many of the more usual failings of
youthful character. And when warned by an
insidious disease that time must be very short
with her on earth, she was not dismayed, but
though life looked bright before her, she cheer
fully took the hand Of Jesus, as it were, and
descended into the dark valley. Fortunate will
it be for all, if they could meet their providen-
tial fate as hopefully as she did. Beautiful
she lay in death! how much more so will she
appear among the ransomed and blest in
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