The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1872-04-26
BIDDEFORD AND SACO
MATTERS.

SAco CITY AFFAIRs.-At an adjourned meet
ing OF the City Government of Saco, Apr
Ath; in Board of Aldermen, the following or
ders passed:
Ordered:-That the City Treasurer be ant
hereby is authorized to borrow for and upon the
credit of School District No. l, the sum of 49,
ooO Tor the purpose of paying bills already ac
crued on the new Spring street school house
and continuing work on the same, said loan to
be negotiated upon such terms as may be pre-
scribed by the Committee on Finance.
Ordered:-That the Committee of the City
Council on Public Instruction, together with
the School Agents, be and are hereby CONSTITUTE
ed Committee to superintend the expenditure
of money authorized to be raised by the City
Treasurer, or which shall be raised by taxation
for completing and furnishing the new school
honse on Spring street, and for filling and fenc-
ing the lot on which said house is located; said
Committee shall have power to examine and
allow accounts, and to draw orders on the City
Treasurer for an amount not exceeding So, 500,
and the City Treasurer is hereby authorized
and directed to pay to said Committee from
time to time as needed for said purposes. the
said sum of $500, from funds belonging to
said District.
Ordered:-That the City Clerk be authorized
to complete the naming of streets by causing
suitable sign boards to be erected where neces-
cary, also to complete the numbering of the
buildings
The Common Council passed all the above in
concurrence.
The Committee on Streets recommended that
Edward LaGarde be paid $500 in full for his
interest in the crossing ON Factory Island and
in materials composing the same. Adopted.
The petitions of David Tuxbury and others,
for reservoir to be built this season near the
residence of Samuel Storer, on the Portland
road, so called, was referred to the Committee
on Fire Department
The petition of Obediah Durgin and others,
that the name of the street from the corner of
Water and Elm streets to the P. S. & P. rail-
road, commonly called the Boom road, River
road, Water street, &C., be changed to Lincoln
street, and that two or more street signs be
erected with the above name was referred to
Committee ON Streets in concurrence.
The Committee on Public Property, to whom
was referred the request of Elliot Sweetsir to
ported that is was not expedient to rent the
same. Accepted in concurrence.
Alpheus Libby, Nahum Getchell and Cyrus
Means were drawn as Travers jurors to serve
at the Supreme Judicial Court to be holden at
Alfred on the third Tuesday of May next
Adjourned until Monday evening April 49,
KENNEBUNKPoRT LAUNcHINGs = Messrs.
Hamilton & Emery have launched from their
yard this month the following schooners:
April 1Sth.-A schooner of AZ tons old meas
urement, owned by Capt. Albert Goldthwait,
lothian Davis and others of Biddeford, and is
named Fanny Reed"
ArrI "A sol &c Il
urement, named "Maud Gertrude owned by
VIM. Hussey, (the mattel and Henry Goldth-
wait of Biddefoad, and Alonzo and Everett
Goldthwait of Cincinnati, Ohio
April Nth.-Schooner "Annabella" of 80
old measurement, owned by Capt. Jacob Yer
rill and John Curtis of Biddeford.
This new building firm have launched in one
week the above named superior vessels, all in
tended for the market fishing business from
Biddeford Pool, and are of slightly different
models and very sharp with clean runs are
built with every element of strength both in
wood and fastening, the timbers, ceiling,
beams, plank and deck frame being of the best
country white oak, and there is look of COM
pleteness and finish about the decks, sails and
rigging, indicating correct taste in all the
other mechanical matters.
ELEGANT SCHOOL BUILDING.-The citizens
of Saco will have reason to be proud of their
school building now in process of erection, and
nearly completed, on Spring street, as it will
be fine edifce. 1t is built of brick, with
granite trimmings, two stories in height, and
surmounted by cupola of quite elaborate con-
struction. The building contains four rooms,
well lighted and ventilated which will be warm
ed by two furnaces placed in the BASEMENT
The rooms are to be finished in ash and will be
furnished with patent desks and chairs. The
grounds are to be graded and fenced, and we
think the building may be safely considered
"model school house." 1t was at first intended
for the use of the intermediate and Grammar
Schools, but it is now thought that it will be
used for the Grammar and High Schools. The
estimated cost of the building is S25, 1000. The
masonry work was done by E. r. Bradbury of
Saco, and the wood work by Mr.. Chas. Sands.