The Portland daily press., 1897-12-24
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Mr.. Sso.6 Wilson, of Deering, said that
he believed that the arrangement Of ward
lines as embodied in the Board Of Trace
resolution met his ideas best. He thought
Deering should have at least three repre-
sentatives in the Portland city govern
ment. The wards Of Deering, though
now not largely populated, would in
few years hecome as large as the Port
land wards. Mr.. Wilson was not in IA
vor Of annexing the islands to East Deer
ing, and he thought the people Of East
Deering would be opposed to such an an
nexatIon.
Mr. Newall said that Deering's valua-
ton as compared to Portlands was
about one ninth, and behring's polls
compared with Portland's is about one
sixth. He asked Mr.. Wilson how he
could argue with these facts in mind that
Deering should have three wards.
Mr.. Wilson said that behring's growth
in the next few years would require
another arrangement of ward lines if two
wards were only provided now. He said
that there We're some people in Deering
who believed that two wards would be
enough. The sentiment in Deering is
strongly in favor of the three ward divis-
ion
| MIR. Wilson said he did not think Deer
ing would be as favorable to annexation
If the two ward division was carried into
effect, although he didn't believe it would
destroy the hopes of Deering annexation
If such condition were attached.
Mr.. 0. M. Lord, spperinte ndent of
schools, was called. He said that Port
land High Scohol mad 664 seats, the regis
tered number of pupils in attendance this
year being $50. The average daily atten-
dance is 555 The number of pupils is lar
ger this year than last year. The Port.
land High School will be able to care for
| the needs of the city for the next is years
at least. Mr. Lord Thought in case of an
neXation it would be advisable to main
| tain High School in Deering as a
branch of the Portland High School, and
1t should be maintained at the same
grade. Mr., Lord thought this plan
would be entirely feasible, and the ex-
pense of branch school in Deering
would not be very much more.
PORTLAND has six grammar schools, with
small school at Peaks. Deering has
two grammar schools. Portland has en-
rolled IN the grammar schools 1858 pupils,
average daily number belonging to the
schools, 1929, average attendance 14e4.
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Overseers of the Poor of Portland, said
Portland could care for behring's poor
with Its own without much additional
cost. About four per cent Of Portland 8
inhabitants receive help from the city,
about 1000 in all. Deering of course has
a much smaller number behring's ex-
pense in caring for its poor is proportion
ately about the same as Portland's.
Portland's poorhouse must soon be
changed because the land on which it is
located is very saleable. Portland would
ultimately utilize the Deering poor farm
Tor both cities, and the sale of the land
where the present POOR farm is located
would pay for the erection of buildings
on the Deering poor farm. 1t costs Port
| land about $4,000 year to support the
poor. .-
This ended the testimony at the morn
! ing session, and the commission adjourned
until $50 O'Clock.
The commissioners devoted the after
noon to discussion and arranging the
facts obtained in local manner. At
half past four O'Clock the commissioners
adjourned until Monday morning.