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To be brief, I will state that the Journal of last week seems to think the citizens of Frost burg signally fail ed to show their appreciation of the services rendered by Hon. Ashley M. (iould in the matter of the new Normal School, and is much disappointed with what it characterizes as the mismanagement which lost him the ‘‘reception the town owed him.”The town ‘‘owed1’ Mr. (iould its good will, just as it would extend that return to other prominent men in public life, no doubt. Hut how far it should have carried its discrimination in his favor depends upou the extent and scope of the service rendered. The people of this community are not so well informed in the matter, perhaps, as the Journal, but they are not aware that Mr. Gould interested himself to any extent whatever in behalf of the measure after it had passed from his jurisdiction as chairman of the committee of Ways and Means.The new school had many friends who labored incessantly in its behalf. They did all they knew how, and stopped at no honorable effort, and for that they deserve the thanks of the community.Hut when all their efforts had failed — when they were even beaten at every point and had virtually given i up the battle someone came to the I Allegany delegates— Leake, Rowe and | Campbell, with a practical scheme that j turned defeat into victory and located the new Normal School at Frostburg.Who was that man ? It was Capt. T F. McCardell, who lived for seven years at Hoffman mine, and is now a resident of Annapolis. Messrs, Leake and Rowe will both tell you that he suggested the amendment to the appropriation bill that secured the school ; that he put it in proper form and instructed them when and how to proceed in offering it.The whole scheme, I repeat, was dead when Capt. McCardell breathed new life into it with an amendment that was his conception alone.Now. then, lot the people of Frostburg give the credit for the (iual | triumph in this matter to the proper person. Let them honor the man who j really procured for them the location ; of the new Normal School.Hut for his practical knowledge and j sympathetic effort Frostburg would never have secured the location of this institution, and the people ?ue beginning t«» know it.If Frostburg owed a reception to j Mr. Gould, who gave up and abandoned the scheme when lie thought it \ hopelessly lost, what do they owe Capt. McCardell who showed their representatives how to wrest victory from the very jaws of defeat /James E. Katioan. *
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Frostburg Mining Journal
Frostburg, Maryland, US
Sat, Nov 12, 1898
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