The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-12-05


claims arising from damages by the fire
and cyclone, and SS6S. 30 for Insurance.
!! The report Of the Winthrop trustees
makes demand for $4,000 additional
appropriation to complete and run that
school until next January-I mean, to
run it after it is completed; not to pay
the beneficiary scholarships and main
tain the school now in Columbia.
/ 1t will be seen, then, that the total
appropriation required or asked for by
the four colleges will aggregate some
thing like this:
South Carolina College........... $50 600
| Citadel. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 23,429
SieHlson.......::. oo,OVO
! Winthrop College at Rock Hill. $4,000
Winthrop Normal College, Col
umbia.. .............................. 500
Agrregating g............. .s16e ,12e
It is altogether desira bic that the
Woman's College shall be completed
and opened as soon as possible. Our
! people are unit in this matter. The
friends of Clemson, and they are almost
as numerous as those of the girls
Ischool, are anxious to see it properly
eG6asseaazs2a sustained in carrying on
its allotted work q ehss Q
practical education. s'sssasaaa @,
The South Carolina College has the
largest attendance of new students in
its history, and has matriculated l5C
during the session. It's friends feel
very much encouraged.
The attendance at the Citadel is UP
to the average; but something some
where has absolutely to 60 lacking, or
there must be enforced by the General
Assembly general reduction of ex-
penses all along the line, not only OF
the colleges, but Of every other depart
ment. Phe people are in desperate f.
nancial straits, and the price of cotton,
which is lower than it has been for q
half century, and below the cost OF
production in most cases, leaves no al
tentative. Then, when it is remem-
bered that the phosphate royalty,
which has hitherto yielded large in
come annually, will yield this year
nothing above the amount due the
Sinking Fund for the retirement OF
bonds, it will take bold heart to vim
dicate before the people, in the next
election, any vote which does not mean
the most rigid economy. The only pos
sible source of revenue to replace the
loss of the phosphate royalty, or its
use for another purpose, is the dispen-
sary. I see no alternative, and indeed
think it..nothing but just and proper,
that the Legislature should order q re-
duction Of salaries in all the colleges
to correspond with the increased pur-
chasing power of money, and relieve as
far as possible the burdens of the tax
payers. This reduction need not be
| horizontal, nor the rule infexibie; but
| the institution can be run, and well
run at a smaller pay for the teachers
and those professors who will not sub
NIT to such reduction as will tide over
the present financial crisis Can be re-
placed by as good or better men.
A year ago So, 900, professors salary,
represented fifty 500-pound bales of cot
ton. It now represents about eighty
| bales. Should the price return to a
normal level, thus relieving the situa-
| ton, the present salaries, which under
ordinary circumstances are none too
| high can be restored.
If these views meet the appreciation
of the General Assembly, Clemson can
get along very we'll on $4,000, the
South Carolins College on $4,000, the
Citadel on Sl7,500, after paying it's
debts. For the College at Rock Hill I
hardly know what estimate to make.
A large amount of the appropriation
| asked for is for the payment of debts
already contracted and the liquidation
of contracts for special work, as heat
lug, lighting, plumbing, fire protection,
etc, which are already let at the lowest
possible dollar.
It will be remembered that the pen
itentiary has furnished, under a joint
resolution of the last General Assem- bly,,
! number Of conviets, averaging about
Dinety, to assist in the erection of
these buildings. The terms of that
resolution, in the opinion of the Attor-
ney General, require that the peniten-
tiary should pay all expenses for feed.
ing, clothing, guarding, etc. This has
not been done, and the trustees have
borne all these expenses, except the
guards. The penitentiary is in admi-
rable condition, and it's financial status,
which reflects the highest credit on its
management, will enable it to carry out
q scheme which now suggest, with
out serious trouble or embarrassment.
The building operations at Rock Hill
are at such stage that by the employ
nlent of a moderate Dumber of skilled
mechanics, they can be completed, &C.
cording to the designs of the architect,
by the penitentiary authorities. There
are good carpenters, brick masons, plas-
terers, ETC., among the convicts, aud
these can be employed, along with
such others as may be necessary, to
carry on the work. Nearly hi of these
conylcts we now have are unskilled,
aud at least half of them can be re-
turned to the institution to be other
wise employed; and by this means 40
appropriation Of sixty thousand dollars
will enable the board of trustees to pay
of all outstanding obligations, and help
furnish such additional material as
may be necessary.
AN examination of the Winthrop
trustees will show outstanding liabili-
ties to be $50, ops IS. The minimum
amount for the equipping the laundry
and kitchen, putting seats and furni-
ture iD the main building, and furnish
'1S viz N'i"iSOly Will US OIL UUU.
With $4,000 additional for materials,
and the payment Of such skilled labor
as the penitentiary cannot furnish, I
feel sure that the school can be ready
for opening by the first of September,
at minimum Of cost, and that the
penitentiary will not be iu the least
crippled. The admirable manner in
which Col. Neal, the superintendent,
has put in the many improvements in
the penitentiary, including the hand
some and large new hosiery mill, shows
conc!usively that this work can be in
trusted 20 his hands with absolute
safety, and with perfect assurance that
it will be well doue.
ss Cedar Springs Institute and
Clatilir>- College, the two other State
schools aie~in a prosperous condition
and will only~feauire the usual ap-
preparations. AS Ciasin, however,
gets each year a larger and larger
amount from the Morrill, fund, itsap-
preparation from the State can be di:-
unfinished without injury. The school
for the Deaf and Dumb aud Blind can
not and should not be expected to have
its appropriation lessened. Every dol
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