Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-12
A$2O,OOO SOHOOLHOUSE
win be Built on the Canal Street OF.

Result of the special school Meeting
tuesday Night---Rcport Of the Pro-
ccedings.
The special school meeting held at The
High school room on Tuesday evening re-
suited i'm a vote to sell the Reed street
property. the formal election of DIR. Draper
and of Col Fuller as members of the build
ing committee, a vote to increase the APP
preparation for the new Canal street build
ING from $4,000 to $4,000, and the pas
sage of a resolution giving the committee
authority to raise the additional funds.
This is the substance of the business done.
The meeting was not largely attended,
there being. probably. little upward of
100 voters present. In the absence OF
Hon. b. y. Harris, the moderator, :. W.
Kimhall, the clerk, called the meeting to
order. and Judge j. VI. Tyler was elected
moderator pro temporc. After the read
ing OF the warrant DR.. Iloton explained
the purpose of the first article, which was
i'm regard to the sale of the Reed street
property. This property, he said, was I'M
desirable for school purposes and would
not DE needed by the district after the new
Canal street building was finished. Sew
eral applications had been received by the
committee for its purchase Formerly
authority for the sale of any real estate OF
the district could only be given by a major
ity vote of all the voters Of the district, but
a special law was passed by the last legis-
lature giving the district authority to dis
pose of such property by majority OF
voters present at any legal meeting. Mr..
Kirwan then moved the sale of the Reed
street house and land. His motion was
carried unanimously and DIR. Holton was
appointed the agent of the district to make
the sale and conveyance.
Under the second article, for the cleo
ton of two additional members of the build
ing committee, DIR. Holton explained that
at the annual meeting authority had been
given the moderator to appoint two addi-
tiOnal members to act with the prudential
committee as a building committee for the
erection of the new Canal street house.
The legal question had been raised whether
it was competent to appoint these members,
and whether they should not be regularly
elected by the district. In order to do
away with any question on this point DR..
Draper and Col. Fuller were unanimously
elected members of the building committee
by direct vote of the meeting.
Under the third article DR.. HoltOn eX-
planned, in substance, that several different
plans for the proposed new building had
been considered, and that while a hOuS
could be built for $4,000, the amount APP
propriated, building which the commit
tee considered suitable for the present and
prospective wants of the district could not be
built, finished, and furnished, for less than
1000. The committee did not feel on
the one hand like going on with the cree
ton of an incomplete and unsatisfactory
building, or like exceeding their appropria-
ton on the other. \ plan, submitted 10y
Mckim, Mead d White of New York
which the committee were agreed in con
sidering desirable, was passed about fol
inspection by the audience. Remarks
favorable to the increase of the appro.
prlation were male by several gentlemen
and Commander Brown introduced a reso
olution authorizing such increase. Wher
this came to vote Mr.. Lewis Putnam sat
he thought the proposed new building to,
expensive for the part of the village fOl
which it was intended. There was on that
side of the brook no building which at al
compared with it in style or expense, eX
cept the residence of Col. /. X. Fuller. who
was entirely able to own such house.
building costing $40, 800 was as good a,
that part of the district could afford t,
pay for.
Cashier O. \. Marshall, answering Mr.
Putnam's remarks, said he thought tha
part of the village was just the part which
was entitled to a handsome school building
and the voters of the other parts of tn,
district We're not only willing but anXiou,
to help pay for such a building. On being
put to viva voce vote Commander Brown,
resolution was declared carried Mr.. Put
nam, however, doubted the vote and called
for ballot. This being taken the result
stood yeas A, nays IL. and the resolution
was carried 1t was in the following
terms:
ResOired, That the district increase the appro
pration for the Canal street schuolhouse iron
Slb50O to S2O0Ib; said sum Of S2OOOO to provid,
Tor the completion OF the building and its fur
nishlngs ready for occupancy.
Under article fourth G.. A. Hines intro
duced this resolution which was unan
imously carried:
Resolved, That the committee are hereby EN-
powered 10 raise the sum of $500 in addition {,
the sum already voted, upon the same terms a!
voted in the resolution at the annual meeting
The meeting then adjourned.