Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-02
NO GROUND FOR CRITICISM.
Everything Possible Done 10 Hest
School Houses in Village District.
Ho,. c E. Nash Tell Why il Was Deemed
Best 10 Suspend the School. Monday.

sent to capt. G. T.. Nash. the efficient
chairman Of the directors OF the Village
district to ascertain if any lust reason
existed for them.
Captain Nash was found At his home on
Chestnut street. Ills attention being
called 10 the complaints because the
buildings were not sufficiently warm.
monday morning and the schools in the
Village district were suspended, ne said:
This is no surprise to me. There are
always those who viii lind fault with the
management OF everything OF It public
nature. There was not sutliticn; heat in
the school buildings. Monday. to make 1t
safe t" keep school during the afternoon.
At the William H. Smith school. corner
al Bridge and State streets, the tempera-
ture could not be maintained to a sufii-
ciont degree. The fact that ii WAS not
sufficiently warm. Monday morning may
be accounted for in the fact that we have
had Il long term Of Unprecedented cold
weather. | doubt if the Smith school
building was any colder than many Of
the dwellings, in the city or any public
hail in the city AT that hour of the morn
ing-that is the hour when schooi
Sh"uiu b'SIn.
do YOU bank your fires over sunday.
or allow them to go out"
Ne'h'r. 1t is customary to keep the
HfNS &"ihS--hot 10 drive them as III case
81 IN" SVh""l Bong IN s"SSion-hut 10
keep them alive"
some talk mas been made I" the effect
'"'' your 1"hltorS do not get the hr"S
9'"'t'u Suhici'htiN carry IN the morning.
'h''' H. III titil" [" neat the puiidlhGS wei
"'ioic 'h' assembling OF Tn" SrhoiarS.
IL Is also stated that former janiinr
MI i'""hS' think WAS IN the habit of
S''''h1 UP ABOUT midnight ana starting
ms hteS' thus having the rooms warm
at t"c USUAL houF 81 the coming III OF
'"e S'h"'dtS- 1t is Sald mat inns - NOT
no" "oie'
We nave a better system thau That
II belongs 20 our janitors to keep things
III "r'ef' Ihc cantor of tn" smith school
gets around at . O'Clock in the morning
ana &'tS ms hfeS under way nave no
""un' ne Hd thls. Monday morning.
IL Is suggested that the matter Of "N-
nthse mas hceh the reason FOR the late
TINS practice IS hahitual
'Ihe matter OF expense does not enter
mt" the care OF the school rooms at all
non II came school hour Monday
morning We found that ii WAS INSULT
''thhE warm Tor some at IN" schools.
IN som" pl the schools IN" temperature
WAS sull'lent' hut this storm WAS APP
pfo|chlhg an" 1t was thought best. ul-
d'E 'dt circumstances, t" SHSprnN school
Il the Smith building. In tn" Webster
school. on 'uShnoc Heights The intense
cold had a like effect and in spite Of all
the lanltor could do, the proper degree If
temperature could not be maintained ana
so school was suspended. The Laurel liza
school was ON" where the temperature
could b" kept ut the proper degree bur.
III view OF the approaching storm. L was
decided t" suspend the school IN the
afternoon. IN" cold penetrated the
Grove street SchoolhouSe and the larG"
3hd excellent heating apparatus thc1e
was insufficient Ia maintain the proper
G"&re" OF temperature. and school was
suspended IN the afternoon. In the new
sch"Alh"uS"-or what you may be pleased
49, an Inv ->'A'-ti - llF'l h''itil'r 'il-
painiuS WAS capable of Keeping ire
rooms at comfortable temperature. bet
~" intense cold induced the directors L"
as" suspend there IN the afternoon
Mount II thcfc Nt~ pubic hnlidi'lS IN
W." fltE, or Il puhIl' nan, that was Kept
1t 4 higher temperature that day than
was maintained III tn" Schooi buildings.
IN an our schools tn" heating apparatus
- supposed to keep the rooms at tom
pVraturc ii from Is TO - degrees in zero
weather. 1t - n"t extraordinary ihdi.
"h"h the mercury dcSo"ndS - degrees
below th2t POINT. there may be some ditii-
rdltN III MAINTAINING the desired lemi1efa-
ture. No one should single OUT one We
nave IN inns d1Strlct TOUR 11hltofS III
me smith School. MI Nero Is IN the lani-
TOR; IN the Laurel nm building th're IS
MI Baker Weston; Harlow nan is al the
NepSi"f ach""! ana II. t. iHack at the
NASh school; ana the reports that come
to Us SHOW mat thcy are all equally
prompt ana industrious III their efforts
to nave thcif Schooi rooms in readiness
for their scholars. IN" tact that large