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Show DONT WANT I WARD HALL. I This the Decision Reached at Citizens1 I Meeting Tuesday Night. H DEFEATED BY VOTE OF 31 TO 20. I BBH Some Thought Price to High, Others Wanted Small Buildings '' H About City. "c K J H ft bbI The meeting In tho district school B houbc last Tuesday niglit to decide 'the I BJ question of tho purchasing of the Ward JBh hall for school purposes was well at- BB tended, much better than school meet ,Bfl logs generally arc. A lively interest BBJ was taken in tho proceedings, which Hfl were begun by the calling ot tho meet- Bfl ing to order by Mr. It. J. Ilryant of the BB board of school trustees, and tho, an- ilH uounceincnt of tho business of the meeting, which he said was the cou- Hi sldcring of the proposition of tlio Ee- t eleslastical authorities to sell tho Ward " H halt to the school district for the sum Bl of ten thousand dollars. Bfl llou. John l'arry moved that the- 'Bl proposition be not accepted, a motion which was duly seconded, nnd thu gen- Bl tlemun took thu iloor in support of bin motion. Mr. l'arry said that thu ta- ; payers were already overburdened; that -wH the building was nut suitable; that the policy of oue large, central school wan not in the best Interests of the taxpay- B ers, as such a building would be more . 'f Bl expensive and less convenient than two or three- smaller buildings would bu lu , Bl separate localities in the city, .where ', the sniallcr children wuuld not have so , . H far to go in bad weather. Mr. Parry Bl was followed by others in a similar , .strain. An amendment was allured, Bl 1 but it was declared to bo out ot . order f 'Bfl linwivi toUowed jytanoUicj:jttiJii'?nil!ci -. aBJ Ithnt wc ilo nol'buy the Ward, hull -for nH I ten thousand dollars, which wus m 'Moived-iolrttnnfirHMCLLdyJJu !VB; As the people wormeil lothosuTTjecjBJPN . "'AmIBB an opportunity to speak was hard to 'WiwJ get, and sometimes two or three men '"""H were on their feet at a time calling for Bl recognition. Tho amendment wim B ably supported by Mr. Wm. Palmer and f others, who favored the purchuse of tho tH building at somu lower price, and who contended that more room for bchool '1 purposes was ludlspcnslble, and that ""H the purchase of the hall was the lies'. Bl and cheapest way to obtain it. That Bl thu building would make a good huliool building with a little alteration; that, n H tax of oue per cent for three years Hi would pay for It, and thut no part of -Bl that tax need bo paid the present year; BJ also that If the building was no bought BJ tho trustees would be under tho neces- ;jfl slty ofvbnlldlng an addition to the pre- i ;H ent school building und that the meana thus spent would be wasted, as when fM the new building that it is admitted H must ba built soou Is put up, no ground Bl In the neighborhood cn be obtained B upon which to put it and therefore n BJ new school site will havo to be gotten BJ at a distance from the prebent building. BJ This makes It Impracticable to use the ,B present building under the ceutrallzH- fl tion Idea. i A vote upon the amendment was fvBl called and the amendment was carried. J' A motion to adjourn was put and lust. BJ A motion to offer 88,000 for the build- "BJ Ing was put and lost, as was a in 'tion m to adjourn. A motion not to purchase B at any price was made, pending the BJ consideration of which a motion wun :BJ again made to adjourn, which was put H and lost. BJ The vote on the motion to not pur- BJ chase at any price was put and carried H by n vote of III to 30, and meeting ad- ,H journed. ; HJ |