The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1896-02-28
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS.
Gathered by Our Correspondents
The Havre de Grace school House.

Gathered by Our Correspondents
HAvRE DE GRACE, Feb. 25.-This commun,
| ity is considerably agitated over the project
of a new public school building. The public
school authorities here never owned school
building in this district, being content to rent
detached buildings and rooms over stores and
warehouses for the accommodation OF the
public schools, making heterogeneous and
widely scattered system of school rooms in
convent, inadequate and unsanitary. The
necessities of the City Government make it
imperitive that one of the buildings belong
ing to the City and now part of which is oc-
cupied by the school should be devoted eX-
clusively to municipal purposes This re-
duces the already oYercrowded accommoda-
tions for the public schools. The board of
County Commissioners is confronted with the
problem of providing adequate room for the
school, a problem which they cannot evade
and vet one which they seem to find difficult
in solving. To assist them in their dilemma
the Mayor and City Council of Havre de
Grace, came forward some weeks ago and
proposed that if the Commissioners would
raise the needed sum $4,000, and pay the
interest on 1t for ten years that then the
Council would take up the matter and pay
the interest and pay of the principal by APP
propriating annually one half the proceeds
of the hotel licenses. The reason this pay
ment could not begin sooner, being that the
proceeds of the license are already apprOpria-
ted by the payment of bonded debt incurred
by the City, in including large manufactur-
ing plant TO locate in the county. In reply
to this proposition the Commissioners for
getting that it was made in spirit of gener-
osity and that the City is under no obligation
to build or assist in building school house
made counter proposition that the City sur
render to them all the proceeds of the hotel
license, upon which condition they will build
a school house. Mr.. p. l.. Hopper, the Re
preventative of the Mayor and Council waited
on the Commissioners yesterday to learn II
they accepted or rejected the Councils pro-
position and was considerably taken aback by
the counter proposition of the Commissioners.
When he told them that it could not be con-
sidered under any circumstances, they pro-
posed to appropriate the sum of six thousand
dollars if the Mayor and City Council would
raise the other fourteen thousand dollars.
Mr. Hopper informed them that Of the two
propositions this was the fairer, but that it
would have to be considerably amended be
fore it would be accepted. Next Friday has
been set for a joint meeting of the Commits
sioners and the Council to discuss the mat
ter. The impression prevails here that if the
Commissioners proposition is accepted as
basis that the amount should be reversed and
that they supply the fourteen thousand dollars.
Miss Carrie Gorrell, who has been spending
few weeks with Mrs. Hollis Courtney. re
turned to her home in Baltimore, on Tuesday
last.
The Kodak Comedy Company gave most
delightful performance in the City Hall, on
Monday evening, the attendance was small,
but all who attended pronounced it the best
ever given in the City.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Pritchett. of this City
were called to st. Michaels this week on ac-
count Of the death of Mrs Pritchett's mother.
The section hands on the division between
this City and Baltimore were reduced to half
time this week in order to make the expenses
of the month of February as low as possible.
Mr.. John j. Heay, who is in employed as
Telegraph Operator at Staunton, Del, visited
his home in this City on Sunday.
Mr. William II. Barnes, has begun the cree.
ton of a very fine building on Adams street in
the Northern section of the City.
Mrs. Robert Seneca, accompanied by Misses
Helen Green and Selma hamburger, went
over to Annapolis on Friday last aud spent
the day with Hon. Robert Seneca, member of
the House of Delegates.
Mrs. Joseph L. McNey, who has been con
fined to her hoEle several Weelfs, by illness,iS,
we are glad to say at this writing convelescing.
Mr. Eben n. Baldwin. formerly of this
county but now of Delaware, delivered an
eloquent address to the members of Bayview
Council j. o. L. A. NJ, at the flag raising
over their hall in Cecil county on Friday.
Prof Charles T. Wright. will give an elo-
cutionary entertainment for the benefit of
the high school on Saturday next, Feb. 20.
BLIFKINs