The Portland daily press., 1895-09-30

tinue to send cniiuiou W bhe mouel
schools until the close of the present
school wear, i'll June, 1886, and that the
district at it's March meeting vote upon
the onestion of whether it would continue
- d;eso,ve its relations with the Normal
school trustees
s"rhe above is taken from memoranda
made after the meeting OF September
Goth. have no means OF knowing What
soma of the members understood by this
,,ronosition There can be no question
INIT that they voted to leave the whole
m after relating to the model school as it
now stands until the close Of this shcool
year. and that if any action is taken by
the district, it is to be taken at the Maroh
meeting.
nThese two points are perfectly clear in
my mind, and I tried to make them clear
to those present. At the time they all
seemed to understand the proposition as
have stated it above.
1T certainly hope that no one will at
tempt to prevent SO simple and equitanle
a settlement of this matter
Respectfully,
"W. w. STETSON. "
Mr.. Fl B. Jonhson, one of the gentle
men who signed the report, stated that
he signed it under a misapprehension,
and that the commendation was not in
accorda ance with the agreement made at
the conference with the Normal school
authorities as he understood it,
Mr.. Hinkley in his remarks referred to
the meeting upon the village schools and
said that ne could not say what action
the Normal school trustees would take
should the grammar grades be with
drawn. This led one of those present to
say that-.Mr Hinkley had threatened the
the pupils in the model schools would
turned outfit the district adopted the
port of it's committee. Mr.. Hinkl,
denied that he had made any such state
ment. He had simply said that he coult
not say what the board Of trustees woulo
do
George B. Emery, ESQ, explained tn at
the acceptance of the report would not
entirely separate the village schools and
the model schools, but would only repeal
the vote of 1891, by which the grammar
grades were made a part of the Normal
school system.
Messrs H. R. Millett, G. n. Hayes and
S. g. Bolton spoke in favor OF the
adoption of the report which was moved
by Mr.. Hayes A motion to divide the
motion of Mr.. Hayes SO as to take one
vote on the acceptance of the report, and
another on the adoption of the commit-
tees recommendation was carried 2S to
23 When it came to voting on the
acceptance Of the report, there was con-
siderable confusion, so that Mr.. Hinkley
and the secretary found it impossible to
make an accurate count Mr.. Hinhley
stated that it was disgrace to any COM
munity for men who had no right to do
so to VOTE AS many of those present did
not find seats ana the vote was taken by
rising, this added another element to the
confusion. Finally Messrs. H. r. Millett
and II s;.sSis Sian sre appointed
tellers and the vote was taken by the ad-
herents OF each side passing between
them. The motion to accept the report
was carried "a to IS, and so was the
motion to adopt the recommendation OF
the committee. This went through by a
vote of S6 to 28 and the meeting. immedi-
ately adjourned. Its effect will be to re-
move the grammar grades from the model
schools at the end of the school year.
meeting of the Normal school trustees
will now be held to see what action they
will take.