The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1922-04-20
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about to be realized. Last Thursday
at noon the board of control OF Car
Isle awarded the contract for the
erection of the new dormitory for
the sum of $4,000 to the con-
struction firm of Haynesworth &
Lawton, contractors of Florence. The
terms of the contract specify that
work isf to be started at the earliest
possible date, and that the dormltory
must be turned over to the board by
september /, 1922, which will be in
ample time to furnish the building
for occupancy by the students on ar
rival at school at the beginning OF
the school year later in the month.
In accordance with these terms,
the contractors are now securing the
necessary matrials, and will assemble
them on the campus within the next
few weeks preparatory to the actual
laying of the cornerstone of the
building, which is to be an imposing
structure in every way worthy OF
Carlisle and in keeping with the gen.
eral building programme of the
school as recently mapped out by the
architectural firm of LaFaye & La
Fave, Of Columb bia, who have drafted
the specifications for this building,
as well as presenting the board with
a general landscape and campus plan
of the entire school property.
The new dormitory is to be the
last word in buildings of this char
acter. It will be three stories IN
height and freproof throughout.
Fifty-three rooms will be incorporat-
ed in the dormitory, which will be of
brick, each room to be furnished
with a closet and lavatory with run
ming hot and cold water. Double
deck beds will be used throughout
the building, each room being so
equipped as to accommodate two
boys. Modern and sanitary toilets,
shower baths, etc., will be installed
ON each floor. The rooms will be
heated by steam and lighted by elec-
tricity. .
That the beard was fortunate IN
securing a very conservative bid Tor
the work is evidenced by the fact
that the bids submitted, some ten or
twelve of them, ran as high as $49,-
100000, and the next nearest bid was
several thousand dollars higher than
the accepted bid.
The contracting firm is to give
good and sufficient bond for the
faithful execution of the contract,
this bond being sufficiently large
to cover any contingencies that may
arise. <
The work is to be done under the
supervision of competent engineer,
who will be on the ground until the
work is completed; in addition there
will be supervising architect to in
spect the work carefully as it pro-
crosses, on the part of the architects.
The friends of the school feel that
though the school sustained serious
losses by fire during the present
term, the fruitition of the plans for
the new dormitory were but hasten
ed by these disasters. The new dor
mitory had been planned before eth
er of the fires occurred, but in the
absence Of the fires it is not very
likely that the plans would have
been pushed to completion at such
an early date. Thus, out of disaster,
the school will reap large benefit,
and it will be at the beginning of the
next term decidedly one Of the best
equipped schools in South Carolina,
with two dormitories as modern as
any to be found anywhere.
Carlisle's misfortunes began last
fall when suddenly one night
fire was discovered in the
Mary Ann Bamberg hall, on
the west side of the campus. This
hall, a frame structure, burned like
tinder, and was under such head
way when discovered that the boys
barely escaped with their personal
effects. However, heroic work on
the part Of Bamberg's fire depart
ment succeeded in saving the lower
floor of the dormitory., Now this
building has been repaired and made
into practically new building. by
the means of which the congestion
among the cadets has been relieved.
Only few weeks after this resi-
dent of Carlisle street looking out Of
his window about 10 o'clock at night
saw small blaze issuing from the