The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-09-30

"A Great School Meeting-A Victory for the
New Site, and the New School House-C
W. Bradley's Speech.
East Haven, Sept. 29.-One of the
largest and most interesting of the
series of school meetings of the Union
school district, was held at the town
hall last Thursday evening.
The spacious assembly room in the
second story was filled to overlooking
The women electors were out in large
numbers. The voting was accomplished
by each voter depositing a written bal
lot on a table at the rostrum. The
proposition to change the site selected
for the new school house, namely, the
Hemingway Kirkham property, to some
other less desirable locality was de-
feated by nine majority.
S. wv. f. Andrews was the principle
speaker, and ably advocated the reten-
ton of the new site and the building
of the new school house. G. w. Brad
ley, a prominent citizen, was called to
order by the chairman for using or at
tempting to use the following language
in debate:
At the time the great magma charta-
the first written guarantee of English
liberty-was promulgated, the populace
assembled by thousands to ratify and
confirm its provisions. The lords of
parliament hearing of this endeavored
to disperse than by riding amongst the
citizens crying out, make way for the
lords" Make way for the lordsr' but
the vast assembly answered the cry,
Make way for the people," Make
way for the peopler'
AT this time there is a great hue and
cry in the Union school district, town
of East Haven, about making way for
the taxpayers.
There is, however, another numerous
Glars of citizens that have a special in
terest in everything that relates to
education, and they are the people
= Taxpayers should at all times be re-
spected; they have equal and certain
rights with all classes of citizens, and
taxes should not be imposed or laid
in a reckless manner. While this is
true there is an additional fact, namely,
a true and q false economy. The Union
school district, the largest municipal
organizatio in the town of East Ha-
ven, is the primary owner of every foot
of ground in it's limits, and this can be
taken for public purposes by paying "a
just and reasonable compensation
The site that has been selected has
no equal for excellence, and it's tempo
rary ownership is a matter not of pri-
| mary, but of secondary Importance.
The New HAVEN board of education,
acting as arbitrator, were wise in final
| ly selecting this locality, and munificent
in rendering their services gratuitously
| An honest, painstaking and intelligent
| ommittee-Andrews, Tuttle and Payne
will bring this matter to a successful
| and satisfactory conclusion.
The present midnight alarm is sense
| less, unreasonable and very foolish There
is at this very hour at the town treas
urer's office on Thompson avenue sur
| plus Of $4,000, with more of no mans
| land bordering on Long Island sound
| for sale. This school district has near
| ly $4,000 in sight, or central property
which, with the Thompson legacy will
| bring the amount when placed on
| the market The New Haven Water
company, which has monopolized Lake
| Saltonstall, will pay in taxes one-tenth
of the entire cost of the site and the
school house. The grand list will be
| augmented every year by new homes
on the Quimby property and elsewhere.
| Let us work with zeal and shoulder to
| shoulder in this important enterprise,
not only for our own children and those
| who will soon inherit these possessions,
but for our successors who may take
these places fifty years from now, and
those who may be induced on account OF
superior educational facilities, to make
their homes in the future Brooklyn OF
New Haven.