The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-03-14
Mr.. 0. N. Lord Reelected Superin-
tendent Of School.
Committees for the Year
Were Chosen.
Only Two of the Female Members
of the Board We're Present.

The school board met yestErAAy AFTER
noon for organization. There were u
members present and only one abss ntee.
Ms. Coolidge was reported by Dr. Foster
% be unable to attend the mseting. Mrs.
Brown aud MIRA Bsglry. the other two
women ON the board were present. DIR.
Buchanan Of Ward and John y. A.
Merrill OF Ward 4 were tine other new
mem bers present. MIR. True. the rsgis-
trar OF deeds, was sent for, and Mr.. Hut
Crimson and MIR. Merrill, who had not
qualified were duly sworn In as members
OF the board.
The board having been cailsd to order.
MIR. McGowan presented the name OF Mr..
o. III. Lord for superintendent OF schools,
In doing this, Mr.. McGowan esid that
great progress had been made In the
schools during the past year and that In
recognizing the Dssfing schools Mr..
Lord had done an immense amount Of
valuable work and bad contributed
largely towards bringing about the re-
suits In hat section Of the city.
MIR. Beseltire seconded the nomination
Of MIR. Lord, say ing that all the teachers
In the Deeriug district with whom he
had talked had expressed desire that
Mr.. Lord should be reelected as superin-
tendent OF schools.
DIR. Foster then addresse ed the board aud
said that probably all of the members of
the school board had been interviewed
in regard to Mr.. Lord 8 reelection. Some
charges had been made against Mr.. Lord,
and DR.. Foster said he believed 1t Was
the duty Of the board to postpone the cleo
tion Of a superintendent OF schools until
the board had an opportunity OF looking
into the matter little more. He said
tion manifested to Mr.. Lords reelection
and he believed some recognition should
be made OF IL.
Mr.. Hutchinson sail that charges OF
serious nature had teen brought to his
attention In the past few days. DIR. Fos-
ter's motion to postpone the election
means that MIR. Lord either will be re-
elected at the April meeting or that he
will NOS be. II these charges which have
been made against Mr.. Lord are true then
no would not be reelected anyway. II
they are fA'se then 1t would be unjust to
him to postpone the election. MI. Hut
Crimson said he did not believe post
ponement of the election was justifiable
from any standpoint.
Mr.. Merrill said that as new member
Of the beard he wanted some informR-
tor. Was this statement that charges
had been made against Mr.. Lord merely
made for the purpose of throwing him
out of the position. or was there some
other reason for itf MIR. Merrill said that
the thing he wanted to be informed about
was Whether Mr.. Lord was regarded by
the board as a competent man from an
educational standpoint or not.
Mr.. MoGowan said that he would ask
mir. BrowDson, the Oldest member OF the
school board in point of service on 1t to
reply to this question.
Mr.. Brownson said that he did not care
to discuss the matter. Charges against
Mr.. Lord had bsen made by one man.
They had not been substanti4ted and he
did not believe they could be. DIring
the past year Mr.. Lords work had been
more efficient than ever before.
Mr.. Heseltine said that one of the 'seri-
GUS charges made against Mr.. Lord was
that he had walked up to the door OF a
school house smoking cigar.
Some one asked Mr.. Heseltine II this
was true.
Mr.. Heseltins-"Yes. 1t was true. be-
cause was with him at the time and
was smoking . cigar. too. II he is
guilty 40 am /, and a. far as am oon-
cernsd don't see anything particularly
bad about that"
A ballot on DIR. Fosters motion Co post
pone the election was then taken. thu
votes being written. There were eight
votes against postponemsnt aud four for
il DIR. Fosters motion was not carried.
Mr.. Heseltine then made a motion that
II there was no objection mir. Brownson,
who was acting as secretary OF the
board, be instructed to cast the ballot Of
the board for o. n. Lord as superintend-
emit OF schools. There was NO objection to
this being done and MIR. Lord was de-
clared to be duly elsoted and his salary
was fixed at 81. $50 per annum, the same
as 1t was last year.
Mr.. Lord was then notified Of his cleo
tion and came into the room and ad :.
dressed the board as folio VS.:
"Mr. Mayor, Ladies' and Gsntlsmsn-I
thank you for my reelection. realize
a vary vear the growing foznansthfIiev