The Republican journal., 1904-05-19
White S History of Belfast.
.,euFD IN BELFAST IN 1897 BY
f. FELLOWES.
Continued


.sn fostered by the town from
" ,nnlug with that solicitude so
for that interest throughout
r.,tald. Fourteen district schools
5-tained each portion of the
md II the village a number of
-.nfion schools are constantly
HE number of children between
Years of age, which by the law
State are made the objects of
uou in 1876 was 1883, as appears
.aNn record. The number act
..booled may be estimated to ex-
[rs thousand. And during the
~ months one hundred at least
,.e under four years of age enjoy
l,leee of public instruction.
,abbath schools have been kept,
inner for some years past; and
t15r Happy success which SO SEN
. @.ltities the friends of religion
rse last year, a society called
infant school Society,"" was es-
Jed The following extracts from
.o1.tjtutiou will discover the OBJ
- ulr institution.
Inject Of this society shall be
-3ajsh aud constantly maintain
.rtage, a school on the monitor
.-..a. If instruction, for children,
.v between the ages of and
lit shall be one of the duties
,.1siv and one not to be over
furnish instruction gratis, to
Hyu whose parents are unable
-uuon; and to see that they
Gives Of the privilege thus
... ..tm." 1T shall not be neces-
Hnr 10 become member to
.4HpWuiary aid to the society,""
.rlv with a zeal suited to the
.H Tine principles disclosed in
.Uton, Immediately put in
.. we school they had designed.
....n-G an able instructor, and
- If one hundred pupils were
.-t collected and the success
lo surpasses the expecta-
warmest friends. The
tnv Infant School School
a- David Whittier, Chair
W um Poor, Clerk; Daniel
..s-uer and Collector; Philip
a.el Osgood, Thomas Mar
NHu y. Drew, William
sanding Committee
..... l-arS since, the munihcence
.H03l inhabitants, caused an
81. b. erected suitable for pub
r. They were incorporated
.t " rust, and eighteen square
band III the county of Wash
. -.alteI TO them as an enduW-
I.t tmstees The statute board
ST. embraced George Timer, S.
tle5- Alfred johnson, Phineas
. Iuban ?. Field. Thomas
--4 lanes Nesmith, Nathan
Iaa Wilson. Jonathan Wilson,
.rs Hubbard, Oliver Mann, Will
Mason. Mighill Blood, and Caleb
.,t mol met all the encourage
-.gl could have desired; but the
n VAS been useful and prom
pe realty so.
present preceptor, with the APP
.r vt the trustees, has adopted
The monitorial system of in
sol The number of pupils at
-.' is upwards of eighty. The
Was not located entirely to
atI~t4ctlon. To some it seemed
nom The village. The opening
1 -Iaets las in a great measure
81! Ills objection, and the future
i-ss 9I HE institution will I'M
l reward the efforts of its
...r s.. for natural causes, con-
..or aealthy than some other
So opinion of Belfast here
--rea; and any opinion upon
Jet valuable, only SO far as
"4M pom facts which time
"N-ops \ young settlement
Character established, in this
Hrnst has grown TO that i'm
W,Hh may make the point
a' ilry; and it should not
. "er,ooked The climate is
sm4''oL Cold and heat, rain
."" very unequally distributed
r-aWs H-ltude; the average tenn
gt rtMosphere i'll one place is
.Fe or The degree of heat or
ip'Her place on the same paral-
.t'prae0 ermont, and Kings
p.Ht aua4a, experience a great
'4e oi heat and cold than is
." ii belfast. At the falls of st.
tte Mississippi river, the
cold are both less in a degree
..t 1r- at Belfast; yet all these
'l- nearly in one line of latitude.
I.l so warm or so cold, either, at
As report makes it in towns on
N'iHeJec river, nearly in the same
1880 len degrees of Fahrenheit,
" zero Is seldom known at Belfast,
ghty-slx above, is the very ex-
II sumner heat. If it have
% 'o ninety accidental circum-
'> probably operated. The great
-ti vs. Usually before noon; about
AL hght breeze in summer
a.f '"mtS mp on the bay from the
ana tbe heat is allayed.
. -''.eI places where the mercury is
''t 80 one hundred, the heat of the
t'"S not reach its maximum usual
'+lt. thiee ol four of the clock in
.t[hoon- There is less sun at
-''. man oh the high lands twenty
Westward, and fog and mist is
a -,'e4neHt But the fog comes
O- TIE hdy and Ga rra,+ boaoe