Correspondence

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 66, 15 September 1893, Page 2

Correspondence

THE RECENT MEETING AT BIBxMINGHAM. TO TIIK X I) ITO It OF TIIK STAH. Sib, — Can you tell me by whose authority or permissiou the sclioolliousc wns used for the public meeting, lieid in Bir« mingbam on the Oth ? Tin- chairman ol the school committee wns not interviewed with regard lo the subject. Lj it right that anyone cau muke u.se— and filthy use in this caie it was— of our public buildings without the consent of those who may have charge ot the said buildings? What class of peopie attended the meeting I know not, but this I can say : That the behavior of some disgraced the whole. Slates were trampled under font, "*VV ****** were :*<rr-» l>L>l<^d on tlt€ desks (I presume for tin- children to study next morning), the floor was used as a general spittoon, and the whole place recked with tobneco smoke to such an extent that some of the first to enter the room on the following Thursday morning were turned quite sick with the smell. Are such things us these to be allowed in this niuch-puftVd-up town of Birmingham ? I say, No ! Lot those who will hare public meetings for their own amusement put their hands in their pockets and enrich the Public Hall Com mittee to the tune of five shillings. lie the J. P. -ship, "How i* it. that our most popular men did not head the list ?" Was it that a certain two or three packed tho meeting with those they had invited, and who promised to ro and vote for them ? It looks much like it. While tliose who would scorn to do such a thing bad to stand aside. By all means let us hare another meeting of respectable citizens who have minds of their own, aud who use them, to see if we rannot find two or three men of common sense, who are re spected in the district, and have some little experience of things in general, to take any public ollice we may have lo bestow. I am, &c, Rksident. Birmingham, September il, IS'J3.