Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-02-10

the commissioners authority to thin
them out the money derived from the
pelts to go to benefit the fish and game
| OF the State.
The committee voted ought to pass
on the following:
To. prohibit ice fishing in Peasc
pond. Franklin county; for a change
i'll the law in fishing in Great and
Cold brooks in Lowell: that the use IF
launches for duck hunting in Lower
EeZar pond be prohibited; to close
West Carry pond to ice fishing; to
regulate fishing i'm Baskchegan lake
| Petitioners for an act for the pro-
| lection of duck in Lower KeZar pond
were given leave to withdraw, and re-
| ttrred 10 the fish and game as also
were the petitions regarding Mt. Blue
and South ponds. in Franklin and
Knox counties respectively
| There was an interesting hearing
yesterday afternoon. on the resolve i'll
favor of the Maine Industrial school
and Workshop for the Blind before the
committee on appropriations and finaH-
| cinal affairs. in Representatives hall.
The resolve calls for an appropriation
OF 10000 for 1905. for building a work
shop at Portland; $4,000 for 1905 for
general equipment purposes; $500 for
1906 20 build a dormitory, and there al
ter annually $500
Representative Knapp of South Port
land. who conducted the hearing on
tn" part of those favoring the passage
OF the resolve, introduced Charles f. y.
Campbell. superintendent of the expert
ment station trade training for the
blind at Cambridge, Mass Mr.. Camp
hcll rell a letter from Miss Helen KEEL
Ter Of Wrenthlam. Mass. addressed to
w. y. Ryan, secretary OF the Maine AS
soci"tion for the Blind. In the course
OF the letter which is a strong endorse
! nisnt of the movement the writer saws:
''rhe blind 90 not ask for your charity
or for your pity. They do not ask you
to accept inferior work at their hands.
| They ask you to train them in order
that they may become producers in
stead of burdens upon the community.
Every state in the Union should hay.
| at least two schools for the blind one
for the young that is Il purely educa-
tional school. tie other Il work-School,
with 8 Workshop which shall train them
| III some useful occupation. The work
| which you are asking those practical
men of Maine to assist you in is prIc-
| teal and feasible. Other states ar,
making a start. Michigan has gone
! further than her sisters in the induStri-
al training Of her blind citizens. Dur
| ing the past two years she has cStab-
| iishtd work school and an employ
rlent bureau for the adult blind. Wis
consin too, has opened an industr rial
| Scnool and made slight beginning.
Maine still has Il chance to lead the
| nation. Maine is the starting point Of
| many great ideas and many great ca
reers Shall the work for the adult
blind not move in a mighty wave from
| Maine to California and give now
| meaning to ,he phrase and a new dis
| tinCtion to the State"
Mr.. Campbell quoted the following
| extract from Il letter received from
! Asher G. Kinds. clerk Of the House Of
| Representatives in Washington:
| Il believe that If each legislator No..
TO devote five minutes to figuring ~,
| low he would continue his fight cnr /,
| living should sight be taken from him
| there will be some conversions to your
| side
MIR. Campbell made an eloquent ap-
peal for the resolve saying that il
was a movement To- aid the blind in
| earning their own living. He said In"
| 1000 blind people in Massachusetts.
many through the training SchouIS
| have become sefsuppOrting. There are
probably 1860 blind persons in Maine,
of whom more than one-third would b.,
able to support themselves provided
they had industrial training if the
workshop asked for shall be started
w. III. Lynch. president of the Maine
Association for the Blind. who next ap-
pr;tred. said that this movement was ~
promote the general interests Of the
blind in Maine ana that they were not
asking for q bone but a training school
where they might be able to support
themselves instead of being burden to
their friends.
Zenas Thompson of Portland. and NJ.
f.. Tracy Of fremont. and George A.
Dow, alderman from Portland, mad.
strong arguments in favor of the cause.
II vas brought out i'm the course Of
the hearing that ii would probably cost
about $4,000 to build and equip all i'll
stitute Of the kind asked for.
a. :. Bangs of Augusta. made IL
strong plea in favor Of the resolve.
He said that while Maine Is generally
known as n conservative State she has
always been willing to aid those in d.
tr"SS.
Representative Knapp Of South Port
land read letters endorsing the move
menl from Senators Frye and Hale.
Representatives Allen and Littlcfcld
ard many other prominent men of The
State. Also resolutions in favor OF inc
resolve passed by several OF the State
Changers and other organizations.
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