The Portland daily press., 1899-03-23

people were overestimsting the necessity
of ha wing a man TO devote all Of his time
to these schools. Mr.. Brownson thought
that II MIR. Lord put in five hours o day
visiting schools he ought TO give the
Deering schools considerable amount
of his personal attention.
DIR. Foster said that IL Mr.. Lord had
failed to get around as often to the Port
land schools in the past as some people
thought he should, what would IL be In
the future when he bad twice as much
work to do? Mr.. Heseltine said that
some Of the gentlemen had brought up
the question Of economy in this matter.
1t seemed strange to hear such remarks
from those who only a week ago were
DESTROYS of getting new superintendent
of schools from out of the city and pay
ing him salary Of $500.
Ar. MoGownn asked DR.. Foster what
he thought the standing of the Deering
schools was. compared with the Portland
schools. DIR Foster replied that he
thought the Deering schools stood well.
. Mr.. Mc6owan said IL seemed to him
that II the Deering schools stood well
compared with the Portland sohoo s now,
having received only half of the m OF
MIR. Robbins for the past year thsy GER
tsinly would be as we'll off receiving half
of the time of MIR. Lord. He continued
by saying that he had been led to believe
that the annexation of Deering to Port
land would mean reduction In the ex.
pense of running all of the city depart
ments. ECONOMY in government was one
of the great arguments for annexation.
The street, police and fire departments
were getting along with out any assist
anc, being added to look after Deering
and he thought the schools could get
along also.
MIR. Heseltine remarked that the fire
department had Its district chief in Deer
ing and the police department was to
have ian extra !. deputy imsrshal to look
after that section of the city.
MIR. Hall said that this movement to
retain Mr. Robbins in supervision Of the
schools did not seem unanimous among
Deering people. He had been visited by
at least two gentlemen from Deering who
were opposed to Mr.. Robbins being re-
tanned.
DIR. Foster-"I K now who those gentle
men were. they do not want MIR. Roo
bins to be made principal Of the Deering
grammar and Eprimary schools because
they want to get back at me. One OF
those gentlemen who visited Mr.. Hall
received only twenty votes at Republi-
In nj which ghnWg
how popular he is in Deering. DIR. Fos-
ter said that IL the question OF Mr.. Rob.
bins being retained was left to the vote
of the citizens of Deering he would re-
ceive the election almost unanimously.
1t was a harsh thing to say per haps, but
the people of wards eight and nine came
TO this committee almost demanding that
MIR. Robbins should be elected for this
year. DIR. Foster then made motion
that Mr.. +. f. G. Robbins bs elected
principal of the primary and grammar
schools of wards eight and nine at a SAL
airy of $1,000 year. Mr.. Heseltins sec.
onded the motion.
vote on this question
Mayor Robinson put the question to
vote and the result was as follows:
Yes-Ihe Mayor, Messrs. Foster and
Heseltine.
No-Mossrs. Hall, MCGOWAN, Brown
son, Hutchinson, Whitehouse and Pea
body.
The motion was declared lost
DIR. Foster then brought up the ques-
ton of allowing the Alumni association
of tho Deering high school to use the As
sembIy hall in that building for their
coming reunion, for an entertainment,
sociable and perhaps some dancing.
He wanted to know just who had the au-
thority to let them have the hall.
1t was voted to refer this matter to Dr.
Foster and MIR. Heseltine with power.
Mr. Hall then brought up the question
of the Assembly hall in the Portland
high school being used for dancing. He
said that no one of the school committee
had been asked to allow this hall to be
used for any such purposes as the princi-
pal of the high school had always settled
tie matter heretofore. Some people In
Portland objected to this hall being used
for dancing. Mr.. Hall said that these
people claimed that the proposition to
hold prayer meetings in the Assembly
hall would doubtedly meet with much
opposition among thu citizens, and he
believed that dancing in this ball would
also be considered inappropriate. MIR.
Hall said that at future meeting of the
board he would place this matter before
the board and would request from them
an expression of opinion in regard to it.
CYPRESS TEMPLE ENTERTAINED.
After the regular meeting OF Cypress
Temple, L. Il. F., last evening, the men,
bers enjoyed an entertainment consisting