The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-07-21
S. c.. WEDNESDAY,, JULY u, 1897.

eScaplo%- either from the p:p3 Of tie
privy or from TIE sewer, which,
strange TO sav, runs within two or
threc feet OF The dairy.
We quote sg2ia from the trustees,
who Cam that the statements made
three separate times that the water
clcsets shcLI4 be outside OF the bar
racks ana 2ot inside, apG should be
detached from them. IN fact the va
!sr closets were removed from the
buildings more than two years ago.
BY substituting but" for and" as
wss Intended, the SerteDce will be
CHANGED to simple a;hrmatioa that
wafer closets should no. be within the
main buildings. The report OF the
:commlttee was hastily prepared aud
illesioiv written, Eence number OF
y geographical errors appear. TIE sec
ond time the statement IS made that
water closets should be detached from
dwellings, has reference plainly and
.uneQUivccaiIy % private dwellings,
and the third tine the statement Is
used 20 press the TACT that water clos
ets sccuid De detached from buildings.
There is, therefore, no ground for the
trustees 10 assume that the committee
failed TO recognize that the water clos
cts were detacbe3 from the barracks
by latticed gallery Is feet long. The
trustees might have visited Clemson
for game of blind mans buff, but
rot so with the committee.
Hitherto the committee confined
themselves 10 reporting the sanitary
dafeciS Of Clemson. What shall they
say of its management? Shall we
speak Of lie diet, pronounced made
ousts for students V hose rhysical and
rlenLal powers are taxed oy an eX-
hausting curriculum and hy the seve.
rg.y OF military disci 2!iue2 Taat the
students &re required, when the day S
wcrk IS ended, 10 be SHUT up in their
rooms from an hour after sunset until
bedtime, to sweiter in building little
superior, in sanitary ARA. gements, to
the LIBBY prison IN Richmond2 Shall
we tell the public how the students
have been crowded like criminals,
four iu room, barely large eoough
to afford breathing space for twoG
Snail We tell them that deep ditch,
reeking with accumulated excreta, was
Intentionally arrested n its flow and
subjected to the dscomposing action
CT intense solar heat, AID that the stu
dents we're KEEP. working in the low
lands beside it, day By day, under the
beauing noonday sun-a menace to
Their lives
Saall We tel that the mich COWS
were driven daily through this pois-
oned water, of wh;ca they perhaps
drank, apd which must have splashed
upon their udders-in either instance,
enough 10 affect the milk irjuriously.
Shall We tell that the forest inter,
veaing between this pestiierous ditch
snd the barracks, the cnly protection
for the students against the incush OF
poisonous ell Ivia, was recAlessly de.
stroyed2
And that al official testified, OF his
own personal experience, that the bar-
racks ere invaded by q horrible
sterch2"
Just think Of it! All this right un-
der our noses, at Clemson, which as
liees 10 be tie brightest Jewel IN the
educational crown Ct South Carolina.
Spask rot OF typhoid fever at Clem-
son. Il cannot and must rot be. Bet
ter the Horrible inscription over the
gates OF hades than that OF epidemic
typhoid fever at Clemson!
Guard the Secret-aDd let fathers
and mothers come, and after weary
days and nights CT ceaseless vigils ard
with bleeding hearts, carry oack to
t1eir homes their own dear dead,
Might we no. write upon the walls
of Clemson that the "Ossa" Of igno-
rance is piIea on the '.P-lion' OF in
bec;lity2 Charles r. Taoer. II D.,
Chair. Com. Stale Bard OF Health
Fort Motifs, July 13, 1897.