The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1894-05-16
The Laying or The Cornerstone ut Rock
HILL

Rock HILL, S. c., May 12.-The laying
of the cornerstone of tho Winthrop Nor
NAL and Industrial School for Women in
spite of sultry weather, was attended by
lo,O2a people, atleast 1000 of whom came
from beyond Rock Hill and York coun-
ty. 1t was pre- eminently woman's day,
the students of the Winthrop Training
School, of Columbia, which is to be in
corporated as part of the new school,
attending in body and various other fe-
male colleges sending delegations of
charming lassios. The Clemson Cadets,
500 strong, in eight battalions, came from
tho Agricultural College at Fort Hill and
evoked great enthusiasm by their splen-
did appearance in Confederate gray.
Their dress parade at 5 o'clock was one
of the marked features OF the day. The
faculty and students Of the South Carroll
ma College also attended in body.
The building, massive brick structure
with basement of granite, stands al
ready half completed in magnificent
grove of oaks on the outskirts of the
town.
The speakers occupied stand erected
against the walls with seats ample around
it for the seating of the crowd.
DR.. Mercer, of Greenville, opened the
exercises with prayer, the Winthrop girls
followed with the singing OF beautiful
chorus and then Governor Tillman arose
to make his Introductory speech. The
cood-humored crowd chartered for few
moments and the buzz became so an
moving that the Governor stopped short,
and with a suspicion of asperity in his
voice, requested those who didn't care
to listen to keep quiet and shut their
mouths out of respect for those who did.
The Governors speech was charac
teristic mixture Of terse epigram wit
and classical allusion with picturesquely
expressed common-sense. The crowd
evidently found the weather too hot for
the exertion of applause, but listened
closely.
When the Governor appealed to the
women of the Safe to endeavor to restore
peace and harmony among their fathers
and brothers who were politically at war,
the greatest cheering of the day
occurred. The Governor spoke of the
Significance of the presence of the boys Of
Clemson, declaring that they. dou btless
came to make arrangements for oD'
tanning wives in the future, and took
advantage of the occasion himself To
r.
wife,"
The object of the school, he said, was
| to educate girls who would be suited 10
return to Gheir homes and marry good
men. he declared that all the hard work
| in the South had been done by negro men
and white women. In the strongest Ian.
guage he excoriated female "auffragists,'
and hoped that the time would never
come when women would be unsexed ny
their detestible teachings.
Major st. James Cummings, of the
Citadel Academy, read dedicatory ode
and Speaker Ira B. Jones, Of the South
| Carolina Eouse of Representatives, de-
liyered an address reciiing the history o
higher education in the State, and the
movement eliminating in the building o.
the Women's School.
The correr-stone was laid by Major S
P. Dendy, Grand Master of the Masons,
and the Grand Lodge. The trowel used
was the historic one with which in lS2S
Lafayette laid the cornerstone cfthe mon.
| ument to Baron De Kalb, at Camden, s
C., and which he presented to the Camden
Lodge.
The exercises were closed with the ben
ediction by DIR. Woodrow, President o.
the South Carolina College, after which
| at tho request Of the people Of Rock Hill
the Governor invited the assemblage to
the dining tables nearby, where boun'
| tiful picnic dinner was spread.
! All the prominent politicians OF the
! reform movement in the State were
present. Special to augusta Chronicle.
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