Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-03-19

passed.
OTHER BUSINESS
Alderman Norris moved that n commit
tee of two be appointed by the mayor to
make contract for support of poor. as
II. 5. Jones contract soon expires. The
mayor appointed as such committee Alder
men Norris and Brown.
Alderman Campbell moved that the
finance committee be empowered to nego-
tiate for temporary loan OF 5000, or as
much thereof as may be necessary, at in
terest not t" exceed per cent.
Chairman kuoSlton of the school COM
mittee presented a resolution from the
committee informing the board Of the
appointment Of Hoyt \. Moore As super
intendent Of schools, and asking nat the
salary of superintendent be increased to
5000
Aid Campbell's motion That the salary
be increased to 5000 was carried.
FOR y NEW HIGH SCHOOL
Supt. Of schools L. W. Lord presented
the resolutions adopted by the school
committee (Which appear elsewhere in
this issue Ill the report OF the school com
mittee meeting asking the board to
make an appropriation for high
| school.
In presenting the resolutions Mr.. Lord
stated that there is now in the high
school about 10 pupils, while by utilizing
every square inch Of space the school
would only accommodate nincty-nine.
making it necessary for many of the
! Ia 70
there would be not less than 40 pupils,in
the school.
Beside being too small. the building lis
poorly ventilated, and was a menace to
the health OF pupils. Mr.. Lord said he
could name dozen pupils who have been
compelled to leave school because OF the
unhealt hful condition OF the building.
Aid. Campbell said that one Of the
members OF the school committee had
told him that If the city would appropri-
| ate 5000, the committee could raise g, 900
by private subscription. II the commit
tee could give a guarantee OF this, he, for
one, would be in favor of making The APP
preparation.
Martin NJ. Moore, the newly Eelected
member OF the school committee. said he
thought the business men of the city were
anxious to have a new high school build
ing, and he thought there was no ques-
| ton that if the board of aldermen showed
that it favored the new building the peo-
pie would contribute literally to school
fund.
| Chairman knowlton OF the school
| board said in substance: II feel | would
be reereant to my duty il did not do two
things. The first is to express the thanks
OF the school committee to the board of
aldermen for their liberality in the appro-
priation for schools and in increasing he
salary of superintendent; and second, to
call the attention of the board to the
difference IN education of eight or ten
years ago and now. Educat ion has been
advancing all through Maine, and when
you say Maine it means New England.
"In Ellsworth, where but four years ago
We had less han ninety high school pupils,
We now have 125; where we had none
from outside of the city we now have a
dozen or fifteen. This shows an increase
in desire for education.
II have heard to-day that a man
IN this city has said that the
poor should only be educated to serve.
Can it be possible that there is a man III
this city who thinks that the benefits of
education should not be given to alto
he children of poor parents as well as OF
rich?
Education means increase of wealth,
and ignorance increase of paupersm.
To night you have voted an appropria-
tion OF 1000 for the care of the poor of
the city. DO you know of an educated
person who is drawing the city poor
money? w hat you do to-day to improve
the school, you do to decrease pauperism
and increase wealth.
II not iced in The AMERICAN list of
over thirty towns that suffered from the
recent freshet. Ellswort suffered moth
ing. | ask you, gentlemen, as a monu
ment to the Almighty for passing over
Ellsworth, to appropriate toward a high
school building the money you might
have been compelled to spend to repair
damage wrought by the flood. Let it be
a feast Of the passover"
II. f. Maddocks of the school board al
so spoke, urging action by the aldermen.
Aid. Higgins expressed himself rs OPP
posed to the building of Il school house
at present, on account OF increased taxes.
He had spoken to several tax payers III his
ward, and had failed to lind man Who
was in favor of new high school build
| ing al present.
Mr.. Maddocks, of the school committee,
as final plea, asked the board if it could
not make more liberal appropriation, to
start ii high school building fund with an
appropr iatiou OF $1,000 or $1,000, to be
added to next year.
The petition OF the school committee
was tabled