The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1919-10-17

cept Moral Delinquents or Mental
ly Deficient.
The De La Howe State Industrial
school at Wilmington is an institution
whose service is like double-edgeo
sword that will cut in two directions
it will save it's wards, the INDECENT
children of the state, from poverty
and crime and will make them into
valuable moral and intellectual as
sets of the state.
Unlike the various denominationai
orphanages throughout South Caro-
lima. De La Howe is open to worthy
moor children who have living faith
ers That makes this school do, not
onlv the work that the orphanages are
doing. but also the work they are pro-
hibited by their charters from doing
Any child who is normal and poor
NAV be received by the De La Howe
authorities and given the protection
and training of the school. De La
Howe is not intended for children
who are moral delinquents; the refor-
matory exists for them. 1t is not in
tended for mentally deficient chill
dren; the state is building school
for them in Laurens county. The
children received by De La Howe
are normal, healthy, intelligent chill
dren, the only reason for their COM
initial to the school being that they
can not obtain proper support and
training either by their own or their
relatives efforts.
State Takes Over School.
For hundred years De La Howe
has. existed to serve the children of
old Abbeville county in the way stat
ed above, but year ago the state
took control of the school, and now
its doors are open to the poor child
in the remotest corner of South Car
olina. DR.. John De La Howe, a
French physician, who came to South
Carolina with a party of French col
onists during the eighteenth century,
left his large estate for the purpose
of educating poor boys and girls. DR..
De La Howe died in 1897, and is
buried on the estate in a tomb of
brick and plaster, and on the locked
iron door is inscribed the sentence
that tells of his founding a farm
school for poor youth. This sentence
is in Latin. The De La Howe proper
ty consists of more than 1900 acres
of land, 1000 of which is original
forest and the remainder is in culti-
vation. There are three cottages in
which live the entire, school family,
a school and chapel, many tenant
houses and barns. The institution has
been maintained by the rents paid by
the tenants. The family is limited by
reason of lack of room to thirty chill
dren.
Money appropriated by the state
legislature is being used to erect a.
large and handsome building on the
site chosen for the future develop
ment of the institution. This building
will be of granite quarried on the
estate, and most of the lumber on the
ing into the construction will be cut
from the schools fine forest. It will
be two stories and will for the time
have both dormitories and school
rooms in it. As soon as it is finished
there will be accommodation for
seventy more children, which will
run the total to 100. The plans of
the architect call for a possible So
buildings of all kinds, cottages,
schools, mechanical buildings, library
chapel, etc. The, campus will be
planned and the trees and shrubbery
set out even before the entire plant is
built.
Plans for Future.
Having a French origin and a