The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-04-24
THE CLEMSON COLLEGE.
Work for the Clemson College Taking De-
finite Shape.
Greenville Ne,us, 18th.

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Greenuille Ne,os, 18th.
The Board of Trustees of the Clemson
Agricultural College met at Pendleton,
Thursday. The meeting was the first
held since the announcement of the de.
cision of the Supreme Court sustaining
the Clemson will and WAS called for the
purpose of preparing for beginning the
actual work of establishing the college.
All Of the thirteen members of the Board
we're present except Col. B. W. Edwards
and J. E.. Bradley, both of whom we're
detained at home on account OF sickness
The meeting was described as the most
earnest, t,enthusiastic and harmonious that
the Board has ever held, and great
volume of business was transacted.
The trustees met at ten o'clock Thurs.
day morning in the Masonic Hall, at
Pendleton, Colonel r. W. Simpson, pres.
ident of the board, being in the chair.
The selection of plans for the college
buildings was taken under consideration,
but a decision was not finally reached,
and the matter was left open until the
next meeting. The executive commit.
tee reported the plans they had selected
and two architects, Mr.. Bruce, of Bruce
& Morgan, of Atlanta, and E. B. Rut-
ledge, of this city, appeared before the
Board and submitted plans for the build.
ings. The selection of an architect was
postponed to the next meeting.
The Executive committee was instruct
ed to advertise for bids to be opened in
thirty days for making 100000 brick,
with the privilege of increasing the num-
ber, if desired, and>for the saving of the
lumber to be used in the buildings, the
material for the brick and the timber to
be obtained on the college property.
In the meantime the committee will
ascertain what the cost would be of the
necessary brick making and saving
plants for making the brick and getting
out the lumber. The cost OF this work
by contract and under the committees
own supervision will be compared and the
cheaper method adopted.
It was decided to begin work first on
the buildings for the experiment station
and the laboratory. The experiment
station will be begun at as early q date
as possible and work will be pushed on it
with q view to having it completed,
equipped and ready for operations by
October next. It is thought probable
that it will be impossible to have the
college itself in working order before the
fall Of 1891.
The President was instructed to make
requisition on the superintendent of
the penitentiary for convicts to be used
in making ready the grounds and other
preparatory work. The act of the Legis.
iatnre establishing the college grants the
trustees the use of not more than fifty
conyicts, but it is likely that only about
twenty-five will be called for now. They
Mill be placed under competent over.
seer and will be employed in cutting wood
to burn brick, grading roads, leyelliDg the
grounds for the buildings, excavating
and other heavy work that may be re-
quired.
A committee was appointed to collect
information and report to the board such
facts as they can gather to guide the
trustees in the selection of a president Of
the college and director and other off.
GERS of the Experiment Station.
The committee on curriculum was con.
tinued, the board not being prepared at
this stage to decide finally upon mat
ter. so far.reaching and important. By
laws for the government of the college
we're submitted and taken under consid-
Grafton to be adopted at the next meet.
ing.
An Invitation extended to the board to
have lecturer on industrial education
added to the faculty of the State Normal
Institute, to be held in this city this sum-
mer, was accepted and a lecturer Of rep.
utation and ability will be employed for
the purpose by the board.
DR.. P. II. e. Sloan, Of Pendleton, was
elected secretary and treasurer of the
board of trustees.
The board went in body to Fort Hill
yesterday morning and personally in
spected the site of the new State institu
tion. For several members of the board
it was the first visit to the historic spot,
and they were nothing less than charm.
ed with the felicity Of the location and
the beauty and picturesqueness of the
surroundings. After the visit to Fort
Hill, Trustees Orr, Donaldson and Har-
den returned to this city, while the rest
of the party went back to Pendleton
where they continued the meeting.
One of the trustees who was seen by a
reporter for The Daily Ne,cs, said that
he had never taken part in more earn-
est and harmonious meeting. The dis.
cussions were frequent and interesting,
and there were diversities of opinions in
minor points, but every part of the. pro-
ceedings was conducted in the best tenn
per and without the slightest friction.
One thing was conspicuous in all that
was said and done, and that was fixed
determination on the part of every trus.
tee present to have the Clemson College
strictly and purely an agricultural and
mechanical college-an out and out in
dustrial school.
The next meeting of the board of trus.
tee will be held at Pendleton the goth of
May.
RALEIGH, N. G., April 14.-Sheriff
Pulley, of Pearson County, has never had
a more thrilling and doubtless unique ex.
perience than that of Friday night last.
A large party of completely masked men
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