The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-07-27
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Vote To Put the King-Richardson Music
System In Two Schools.

The regular monthly meeting of the
school committee was held last evening at
43o O'Clock, all members present and the
mayor in the chair.
The reading of the records was dispensed
with.
Miss Annie M. Frost, with an average
of So, and Miss Mabel M. Rumery with
an average of IS, received first class GER
tificates as teachers.
These were elected members of the
Training class: Misses Edna Mills. Clara
A. Armstrong, Edith Pancoast, Mildred
McClintock. Mary Callan, Mabel M.
Rumery, Iva Norton, Maria Hansen,
Alice Grosstuck and Mary Maggie.
The request of Mr.. Fl. G. Fletcher
with recommendation of Miss Hawkes. his
teacher-to be admitted to the High school
was referred to committee on examina-
ton for the High school.
The matter of the attendance of Mr..
Bonds children at Carroll street school
was referred to the supervisors of the
Carroll and Bracket street schools with
power.
The resignation of Miss Katherine G.
Connolly was accepted.
Principal Milliken of the Evening
school suggested, through Mr.. MCGOWAN,
that these teachers should be elected for
the coming winter: G. o. Caswell, T. J.
Gately, Jr., Lizzie f. Morse and Miss
Wiggin. They were elected by the board
and the same salaries voted them as last
season.
DIR. Vose said he had matter of un-
finished business from the last meeting
that he wished to bring before the board.
Two years ago some of the school COM
mittee was dissatisfied with the normal
in school of music, in use in the schools, and
some of thesschools the natural system was
tried most successfully. AT the last meet
ing of the present board of school COM
mittee four out of seven of the wards
through their committee men expressed
themselves as in favor of the natural
naural school of music be used in the
fourth, or lowest class in the grammar
schools and the three lower classes in the
primary schools.
: Mr.. MCGOWAN said that before DR.. Vose's
motion could be considered it would be
necessary to vote to take the matter from
the table where it was eft at the / last
He therefore said he would offer
such motion SO as to bring the motion
of DR.. Vose before the board
The motion of Mr.. MCGOWAN prevailed,
and then DR.. Vose's motion was con-
sidered.
Mr.. Whitehouse had examined the
different schools of music and liked the
natural school best.
Mr.. Hall had given much attention to
the three systems, or schools, the natural,
normal and King Richardson, some one
Of which is used in public schools every
where, and he was best pleased with the
natural.
Mayor Randall said that he did not
claim to be a musical man, or to know
great deal about music. But there was
one thing he wished to call attention to.
1t had come to his ears that he had been
reported as saying that he would vote for
a certain school, and he appealed to
several of the members to state whether
anything he had ever said to them gave
such an impression.
DR.. Vose said that he most distinctly
remembered Mayor Randall's saying to
him: 81 am with you" when speaking of
this music system question.
The Mayor insisted that he had never
used words of that nature because if he
had he would probably remember it i
better than any one else.
DIR. Vose was quite certain that the
Mayor had used those words, but he was
willing to admit that he might have mis-
understood the Mayor.
The Mayor was just as confident that he
had never said anything that could give
such an impression. He asked Messrs.
Brownson and Hall if he had ever given
any idea to them as to how he should vote
on the question, and they both admitted
he had been very non-committal. Then
he asked DR.. Warren if he had received
any such idea as DR.. Vose had.
DIR. Warren said he must say that he
had SO understood the Mayor and when
his side counted noses" they had counted
him on their side, so that when he voted
as he did at the last meeting they were
surprised.
DR.. Vose's motion was put to vote and
lost by tie the vote standing as follows:
Hall MCGOWAN, Peabody and the Mayor,
no; Brownson, Warren, Vose, Whitehouse,
yes.
DR.. Warren then said he had motion
he would like to offer. He moved that
the King Richardson school be introduced
into one grammer and one primary
school.
This motion was discussed at some
length but finally it was given an unani-
nous passage, and as DIR. Warren didn' t
wish the jackson school to be one of those
in which the new system should be tried,
and several of the committee could not
see why any exceptions should be made,
and as it was customary to leave such
selection to the committee on music if