The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-02-11
Present Site and Equipment
Wholly Inadequate and School
is Greatly Crowded.
ASKS FOR HALF MILLION
This With Proceeds of Sale of
Present Property Would Pro-
vide for Expansion of the
Institution.

joint committee meeting of the
finance committee of the senate and
the ways and means committee of
the house the Charleston delegation
in behalf OF the Greater Citadel. ap-
peared in the senate chamber. MI.
w. K. Bradford, chairman of the
ways and means committee, pre-
sided.
Mr.. j. P. Thomas, a member Z
the board of visitors OF the Citadel
was the first to speak. He told OF
the terribly crowded condition at the
Citadel saying there were $50 cadets
and only eighty-seven rooms. He
said that it would take at least
! 100000 to s15O,00O to put the
Citadel in good condition, but this
would not relieve the crowded con-
dition. He told also Of the objec-
tionable dust caused by the bagging
factory nearby The ground which
the cadets drill on does not belong
to the state but is the property OF an
Independent corporation for pleas
ure ground, and this right could be
taken away any time they see fit.
When asked what he would appraise
the few hundred acres offered by the
city OF Charleston he said a verv
conservative value would be $3.50.
| 600. The Citadel has been desig-
mated as one Of the honor military
institutions OF the country. The
Citadel will be passed in this respect
unless II can be allowed to expand
| and this cannot be done in the pres
ent place. He told Of the great war
| record OF the Citadel. there being
over 300 graduates as officers and
200 or more ex-cadets as officers in
this war. He said ninty-fve acres
of the two hundred were high dry
land and the rest marsh. although
it could be reclaimed at little cost.
Major H. E Raines. who is a
member OF the Citadel faculty, was
the next to speak. He is a graduate
and has been connected with the
academy for twelve and a half years.
lie said il was no new plan to ex-
nand, because the present field is too
small for extended order drill and
the methods of modern warfare. He
said the Hampton Park site was
worth 100000 He told how some
of the rooms had four and five in
them. The Citadel is asking the leg
islature for 100000 to be given in
three years. The new project is to
cost $3.50, 900, the rest OF the monev
coming from the sale OF the present
site, which Major Raines said was
worth at least 100000
Mr.. d. b. Aver. an architect. who
had drawn up some tentative plans.
appeared He submitted these. The
proposed barracks is to cost $500
600 and will accommodate 500 bows.
II is to be OF reinforced concrete.
Quarters for officers and their wives
are also provided for with a central
heating plant. He said the lower
floor could be used as mess hall
until such was erected.
Mr. j. r. Hannahan. president and
~enrosent'rT the chamber OF com
merce of Charleston. which he said
had been in existence since 1873 and
has 200 members. told from a busi-
ness mans standpoint the feasibility
OF the project. Charleston takes
great pride in the Citadel. He Wis
ualized the proposed site, telling how
IL overlooked the broad Ashley river
close TO the old town of Charleston
and told how great the opportunities
were OF making a greater Citadel on
the site.
Mr.. Ben A. Hagood also spoke OF
the great feasibility of this plan. He
said that the property on the water
front was worth at least SIS per
front foot
Mr.. Frost, a ma ior in the United
states army who has been recently
mustered out and who is a graduate
Cf the Citadel. spoke heartily in fa
vor OF the plan. He fled figures of
the appropriations OF the State col
leges since their creation and showed