The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1898-03-23
Textile Training
School at Clemson.
Plans for This Valuable
Branch Have Been Com
pleted.

Plans for This Valuable
Branch Have Been Com
pleted.
The executive committee of the
board of trustees of Clemson college
will meet at Fort Hill on the 23d
instant, to make final arrangements
for the commencement of work Oh the
new building for a textile training
school,
The building will be similar in de
sign to small model cotton factory.
. 1t will be equipped with specimen
machines for the work of the various
departments of mill in the manu-
facture of cotton. These machines
will be set up and equipped to be
operated. Besides lectures and the
study of text books on the manufac
ture of cotton, each student will be
required to analyze the construction
of each machine by taking it to
pieces and putting it together again.
This will be done unoer the direc
tion an instructor, who will explain
the functions of the different parts of
the machine. a careful explanation
will also be made of the manner of
adjusting the various machines for
different work
1t is the purpose of the board to
provide. not only complete course
of textile instructions aud training
for the regular students of the col
lege who may wish to take the
course. but special arrangements will
be made 80 that those already en-
gagged in cotton mill may go to this
school for day or week or month
to get special instruction upon some
point that stands especially in the
road of the progress OF an individual
who is otherwise making good head
way This will give an appropriate
opportunity for a boss spinner, for ex-
ample. who is bright, smart young
mau, and who has mastered the man
ipulation of the machinery practical
ly, to go and get weeks instruction
on the subject of calculating the
drafts aud twists for yarns through
out the mill This would at once put
him in a position to take the superin
tendency Of mill. which otherwise
he could not do
Provision will also be made for the
study of dye stuffs and their uses An
opportunity will be given for the ex
animation and determination of the
value of dye stuffs.
1t is intended that the school shall
be made valuable to the manufac
turers of the State as we'll as to those
people who are working for salaries
and wages Manufacturers may sub
NIT questions relating to the manu-
facture of cotton which the professor
in this textile department and his
assistants will undertake to answer
Dye stuffs will be analyzed and re
ported upon somewhat as the authori
ties Of school now analyze fertilizers
for the oil mills and fertilizer works
of the State. 1t is we'll known that
without this provision ofthe fertilizer
business the people of the State
would suffer enormously by paying
for a quality of stuff which they
could not be sure of getting without
the aid that the State gives by it's
examination and analyses. An equal
~ effective examination aud re ort
upon various dye suffs cannot but
prove the advantages of the school
to the manufacturers of the State
1t would seem that textile school
in South Carolina would undoubtedly
be next in Importance to an agricui-
tural school next to agriculture the
manufacture of cotton is perhaps the
most important in the State 1t ls
important from two points of view
Because of the number of peo
pie already engaged III 1t ana OF the
probability that the number will be
constantly increasing for an in
definite time in the future.
2. Because it is the occupation in
which more of the youth of the
State may look for profitable employ
ment than any other
The establishment of this de-
partment will provide means by
which the youth of the State may lay
a foundation of education and train
ing upon the basis of which they
may commence work with confidence
and with knowledge that they have
every equipment necessary for sue
cess. At the present time, many a
young man imagines that the New
England youth has some advantage
in the way of both knowledge and
training. For this reason many
young men from the south 60 to New
England to take courses Of study IN
tho ochor1e and cnnrseS Of training in