The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-11-02


one dollar Is given due credit with it in
an individual bank book provided by the
bank and stands in the same relation to
the bank as an adultssdepositor except that
he is the ward of the school ana is favored
with an interest of three per cent when
ever his deposit reaches three dollars. He
is q personal self-responsible bank deposit
! tor under the guardianship of the school
authorities. The money can be with
drawn on q check signed by himself and
| the school principal. The deposits are
all voluntary but the scholars are advised
to save money for higher needs. Many
| pennies that would be spent to moral and
| physical detriment are stored up for bet :
ter uses. Sweets, gum and cigarettes are
in less frequent demand. In severa
towns where school savings banks have
been introduced the little shops near the
schoolhouses that formerly ran brisk
trade IN cigarettes, gum and candy, COM
plain the savings system has ruined their
business and some of them have actually
been closed.
This simple and popular teaching which
inculcates providence, individual owner
shipsand self-responsibility which dis
tributes the wealth and ability to collect
it among the whole people, conduces to
equalization, harmony, self-reliance, hon
esty, sobriety, good habits and nobler
man and womanhood. The knowledge
given the children of the value of small
accumulations has been already reflected
in many heretofore imp evident homes.
One-fourth of the school savings banks in
the United States are in Pennsylvania
where the system is in more than one
hundred schools and going into others.
Miss Mary Moore of New York read a
report on unfermented wine at sacra-
mentS. $3.50
The memorial service for the dead took
place at the usual evangelical hour. Mrs.
Katherine Lente Stevenson of Massachu
setts, national corresponding secretary.
was the last of the number of speakers
who paid tribute to the dead her remarks
being beautiful eulogium of Gen. Neal
| Dow. Miss Willard added few words
| to the memoriam and told Of receiving
| from Gen. Dow as last gift medal
presented to Linn in New York in 1852 in
that city. The convention then adj
| iourned to meet at the church of Our
Father, where the Temple report was dis
cussed.
A mass meeting was held at Music hall
this afternoon.
From 2 O'Clock this afternoon until
7.30 the delegates to the national
behind closed doors at the church of Our
| Father and discussed with warmth the
report of Mrs. Carse on the Chicago
| Temple.
Miss johnson, financial secretary of
the Temple presented her report Of which
/ the following is an abstract: as
4 Balance on hand November I, 1896, $23,
Amounts received in gifts Novemb Der 4,
1896 to October 1S, 1897, std $40. &c. Inter-
est 1928 SO; note $500; total $3S, 464.45; vari-
Gus expenditures 50, 703. 38. ss ~
| Mrs. Katherine Lente Stevenson sof
1 Massachusetts, reported that the Income
| 80 To,, al 1fna5H
would be $175, 900 ayyear. Its annual ex+
pense, including interest would be $125, L
600. About one-fourth of the building
had been unrented last year and about
one third this year.
Mrs. Carse was then called upon to an
swer hundreds of questions relevant and
irrelevant, regarding the finances of the
temple most of which were covered in her
report.
Mrs. Susan S. Fessenden of Massachu-
fsetts moved to refer the entire temple
matter to committee of seven to report
to the general officers. This was defeated,
/ as was also a motion to refer to the ex-
lecutive committee.
A motion to adopt the report of Mrs.
Carse was piled three deep with amend
ments.
One after another the complex amend
ments q that had piled up were cleared
away and the vote came on the original
ried by an easy majority. ri
Miss Willard suggested Miss COrnelia
Dow, daughter of Gen. Neal Dow, as Gus
todian of the trust fund, and the oonven-
ton approved.
Then came resolution offered by Mrs.
Marion Durham of Iowa, pledging sup
port in the work of raising the money.
After passing through series of amend
ments and Qualifications, 1t was adopted
as follows:
"That in view of the pledge of support
of our leader and from the fact that Mrs
Carse has $125, 900 pledged, with promises
of $500, 600, we pledge our support and
cooperation to secure $500, 900, to be Civ
en- Miss Dow as custodian to hold until
she shall have enough money to retire the
bonds.'' M
During the session Mrs Carse reported
for the Woman's Temperance Publishing
association, and Mrs. Margaret 1nglehAIt
of Illinois presented the report of the Ma
tional Temperance Hospital, bothS Of
which were adopted.
The evening session was opened by the
singing of an, original song by Ella
Gilbert Ives of Massachusetts. Mf
/ 1t was scientific temperance night and
the exercises consisted mainly Of reoita-
lions and songs by children and addresses
on text books