The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-12-01
PREPARATIoNe AT oLEMsoN.


PREPARATIONS AT CLEMSON.
Sixty Thousand Dollars WIN be Needed
to Complete the Buildings. s
COLUMBIA, s. c., Nov. 10.--!The re-
port OF the Board of Trustees OF Glenn
son College will be one of much inter
est. Last evening Governor Tillman
and Secretary Of State Tindal returned
from the college, where they attended
the final meeting OF the board, and Sc.
cured all the data for tho report.
From Governor Tillman much Of this
data was obtained, and is given below.
AS to the condition Of the work, the
chemical laboratory Is finished and part
ly equipped; The mechanical ball is done,
as are three brick houses for professors
residences, seven wooden frame. res
depces, n Groom frame cottage and
six Broom frame cottages. The eXper-
mental station house and barn is FIN
ished, and the cow barn is ready and
fitted with silos and machinery. 1t con-
tains accommodations for 100 animals.
The dormitory is completed, contain
ing 166 sleeping rooms 14X17 feet in
size; a dining hall 200x42 feet, aud other
rooms. These rooms are yet to be plas-
tered, and this will be donG in.the next
fortnight. The main building is ready
for the roof, and work has begun on txo
more professors BRICK residences.
The amount left oyer from last year
was a25 1913. lncludidg this the re-
ceipts from all sources were. during the
year from No. I 1890, to Nov. 1, 1891,
$109,834,6 81. The amount expended
during the year was s106,12T.26, leav-
ing a balance of 5 3,767.40.
In addition to the expenditures men
toned above, $11,224 was expended
during the year in performing the duties
of the old department of agriculture,
which devolyed upon the trustees when
the department was abolished. This
was spent for guano and fertilizer analy-
SEES, veterinary attention, and other mat
ters.
Gov. Tillman says the board made
careful estimates for the future, and an
amount between $65, 900 and $4,000
will yet be required to complete the
work. They expect to put up twelve
proiessors' houses, and so far only the
lew mentioned above have been COM
pleted. Temporarily, therefore. the
few buildings ready WILDE we'll crowded.
He says they intend 10 have every
thing ID readiness for the opening of the
college b ythe 1stof February, or, if not
at that time, by March /, at any rate.
Applications for admission still con.
tinue to pour in, and now they number
very nearly a thousand. Here are the
figures by counties: Abbeville 80, Aiken
30, Anderson 81, Barnwell 40, Beau
fort 1, Berkeley 10, Charlestol o, Ches-
ter 23, Chesterfield 5, Clarendon f18,
> Colletonf &c. Darlington 10, 9sd6ges4ertt
SO, Fairfield Is, Florence 3, George
town 4 Greenville Al, Hampton %.
Horny 2, Kershaw Z, Lancaster ii,
Laurens 38, Lexington S, Marion Ia,
Newberry 38, Oconee so, Orangebure
rs, Pickens 35, Rlchland Ia, Spartan.
burg Is, Sumter 80, Union o, Williams,
burg Is, York S, unclassifled IL.
The board passed the following very
important resolution:
ssResolyed; If upon the olening day
of the session, more applicants report
than can he admitted in the dormitories
that the number admitted from each
county be in the proportion of five to
each member of the House of Represen-
tatives from such county; and in the
event that enough applicants shall not
report TO fill out a %county's quota, then
the vacancies shall be given to the coun-
tics having an excess, preference being
given to those who applied first; Provii-
ed, however, that when applicants FROM
q county are in excess OF It's quota, the
fitness of the applicants for collegiate
work, upon examination, will govern"