Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1900-10-20
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Quite wrathy wrangle was evoked
at Tuesday evenings meeting of the
school board over the proposition to
rHSciud an order passed last August
Installing the American system or
music teaching in the public schools.
The motion 10 rrScinl was made by
Mr.. Anderson, who called the taking
Of SlO.0oo out of the treasury to put II
in the treasury of n publishing house
II job" which had something TO do
with the organization of the board last
year President Gallyan took the
floor and with much warmth chnrAc.
lcrizcd the accusation rs cowardly.
Il appeared before the committee on
supplies" said President Gallivan. "as
| have appeared before other commit
tees. and while listening To Il discus
son of the question of drawing was
asked Ia remain and give my inter-
probation of the order to place the
American system Of music In the
schools. | gave 1t. That WAS the cX.
tent of my attempting to dragoon the
committee into buying $4,000 or $4,000
worth of books" The discussion,
turc. was taken part in by Dr Calder.
wood. McsSrS. MrDcnough, Kenny and
Mrs. Keller, the latter championiTS
the American system. The board rc.
scindch the order giving preference to
the American system and adopted Mr..
M!hcrSons order.
Effective measures have been taken
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willing downtown relief station or
branch of that institution. to he To-
,ared in Iiaymnrkel square. on the
site of the old Boston X Maine railway
station. Work on the building Is to bo
commenced ut once. 1t VIII be com
plctCd in about niue months. On the
first floor will he the general waiting
room. administration offices and phar.
macy. In the rear, avoiding all pub.
licity. will be five dressing rooms for
surgical cases. rranSrcrrncc from the
| ambulance to these rooms will hr made
in the interior of the building. a mcZ.
canine floor in the rear of til" building
will Gc devoted TO the ambulance dr,v.
rrs' d0rmitGrcs ana Il Sab.r loft
The second floor will contain two spr-
cial operating rooms. Il sttrilizing room
and three ward rooms. ThCs? will he
| used for cases neccSsitating Il serious
| operation. and for people seriously in.
| jured. All others will be removed i'm
medintrly after treatment to the city
or some other hospital. The roof will
afford opportunities for the treatment
| of SunStrOEc.
At Thursdays meeting of the com
mon council. Councilman Linchan
| called the attention Of that body to
whit he characterized as Il slur east
uDun it hy cXMnyor Quincy in IN ad.
dress delivered before the Twentieth
| Century club. rhc remark he took
| exception to was: ~ believe on the
whole in state control. The MaSSa-
| chusctts legislature may he pretty bad,
| hut it has never sunk as low as the
Ecston aldermen and conncil." Tho
| cornclmuu said he saw around him
young men who were bankers, law
yrrS and doctors: business men who
had been successful in their business.
honest. decent public servants, and
he denied the eX-mayOr the right to cast
| such reflection on the common council
Of Boston. Immediately on Mr.. Iinehan
taking his seat Mr.. ArmiSicld Of ward
| II arose. and. in the most solemn man
nar. moved that the council adjourn
and the council so waited.
WHO has not heard of HoSton's blind,
deaf and dumb, intellectual wonder
Helen Krllar? Very few. should
fancy. The zenith of her ambition is
reached. She is Il Radcliffe girl.
What tremendous obstacles are those
which this child has overcome in pre-
pairing herself to pass the Harvard eX.
nmiiations which admit II girl to the
privileges Of the girls college at Cam
bridge, intellectually Helen Kcllar is
even now but Is years old. For she was
I before she was taught anything at
all, before oven the slightest ray Of
mental light was permitted to prne-
trntc to her Stiiicd brain. She has
wonderful memory and the philologi-
cal kind of mind. She learned to
speak English by placing her fingers
upon the lips of her instructor. Her
grasp of English and her aptness in
the matter of literary nllusons is moth
ing short of wonderful. She studies
Will, raised letter books.
The people of RosllMalc nave a
grievance. They want J-cent trans
fcrs and they are putting up good
fight for them with the Boston Elc.
vated road. Mayor Hart spoke the
other evening at an influentinlly at.
tended gathering of citizens in knights
of Honor hail. Roslindalr, and said
that attempts should ba made with
the various railroad officials to remedy
the trouble. ana failing in that to go
to the legislature. 1t was reported at
the meeting that in an interview Gen.
Bancroft said: As to any transfer ar
rangemcnt between the elevated sys.
tenn and the local ROADS which would
give this section J-c"nt fares to BoS.
ton thc elevated would insist upon the
right given by its charter TO receive q
5-cent fare for every passenger car
ried over its rails
The milk war continues and the
facts and figures published daily show
that there is much mare in the bust
ness than is dreamt Of in the philoso.
phy of the consumer. The farmers
are. wretchedly paid for the commod'
ity. The average price received ly
Them is not over three cents per quart
and the average price paid by the con.
sumpr is seven cents. Four cents. 13i
per cent. more than the farmers re-
cnive, is divided. between transpora,
ton companies and mddlemrn. Til >
sum Is too large.
1t will be welcome news to many CT
my readers to learn of an announce
ment made at the Massachusetts His.
torical Society. which has Just met af'
trr the summer vacation. 1t Is that
arrangements have been made by
which the cabinet will be open to the
puhlic on every Wednesday afternoon
from, TO ). The cabinet keeper. II.
l.. Jcnks. mentioned the receipt OF
several recent gifts.
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