Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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STILL IN GOOD USE ... Fo at 916 Main Street. The building are Bill Edens, Ed Tremeolt, Blen Jim Nagel, Don Miller and Charli laboratory. The nachinei that Cha by lin MeElveen) Chem Enp Was Onc ly HEtBEirT HRYANT Campus FAitor Around on Main Street there is a rather inconspicuous red brick building occupying the site of 916 Main Street. If you happen to be majoring in chemical engineering you probably know that it is used for a chemical engineering labor atory, but it hasn't always been used for that purpose. If you take a close look at the dr building you will see two arch shaped structuretks. One of them has been bricked up and is now used for window space. The other is still used for a door. The space Cs -between the sides (if the arches is wide enough for a good-size truck to run through, and that's exactly what used to run through there. The building hasn't always been used by the university. It tised to be a fire station. The property is still reft-rred to as the "Fire Engine Lot." Back in the volunteer fire fight ing days the building housed a steel engine that was pulled by two horses and manned by citizens of Columbia. According to D. W. Hollis, as sistant professor of history who is currently finishing the second volume he is compiling on the history of the university, back in 184'9 .James HI. IIammond, at gradluate of the class of 1825, gamve a sizeable piece of land to the Navy, Marines 4 rj0 InterVieW Future Pilots Naval andI Marine Aviation Camdet Procurement officers will visit the unive'rsity on March 3t and 4 to interview apllicamnts for I. S. Navy and Marine (Corps aviattor triain ing. Interviews will be condtluc ted in Room 201, Ham ilI tonu College, Commander Lewis of the NRUOTlC Unit has announced. Movies of Aviation C'adet train ing will be shown. Inquiries re latting to all Navy officers and enl isted programs will also be W answeredl. Basie qualifications for Avia tion Cadets are that the candidate be betwveen 18 andI 25 years old, unmarried, anad hamve two years college credits, or be amble to at tain two years credlits by the end of this school year. Candidates who meet the re qu ired standlardls will be given q ualification tests and may make application for Aviation Cadet training if they desire. Applica S tions may also be made at the Naval Air Station, Atlanta, Geor gia, at a later (late if it is more conIven1ient. Candidates who take quamlifica tion tests, or make application for examlinationls are( not obligated in any way. Naval Aviation Cadets undergo flight training at Pensacola, Florida, the "Annapolis of the Air," andl at C'orpuis Christ i, Texas. After completing the training program, they are com missionedl ensigns ini the Navy or secondl lieutenants in the Marine Corps according to their choice. F"or futhelt'r infoim atiotn, in - tereostedl students may contact Commander L ipham at the NROTC Unit, university exten alnn A98. 'IE ar Carolina students are seenl coimlin, now llon'ses tle chemical engineer afort Law mid 1oh LAe, from left - Rogers, all chemical ergineerig i lie Rogers is manipulating is anl Oli rineering I E Old Fir< .South Carolina College. Incidently Mr. Hammond was once governor and a IT. S. Senator from South Carolina. The Engine House was later built on a piece of the donated property. but that came 2.1 years later. In 1873 the university author ities permitted the Enterprize FIirv Company to use a portion of the property, a 52 foot by 208 foot piece. They built a wooden house on the lot, and until 1892 used the wooder structure as a fire house. In 1892 the Enter prize Company "quit going to fires." IDrrring the time when the EInterprize Company occupied the lot the remainder of the donation by Mr. Hammond was sold for 15 hundred dollar.s. The money was uSCd to pay for an infirmary, a frame house on the south side Of College Street between Sum ter and Main. It served the uni versity until 1908 when a new infirmary, at the present site, was built. In 1902 the city- of Columbia erected on the lot the present. commoidious brick house and the building was occupied by the city I fire force with the apparatus for fighting fires. Even though the city had the fire house on the Main Street piropert y. they didn't have a title to the land. So in 1912, when the city diWeie they wouhtl modlern Placement Bureau Sets Interviews Job1 inte.rviews for seniors for lhe week of Feb. 28-March 4 have been announced by the university Platcemuent Bureau. App)ointments for all interviews should be madec trough detpa rtmen t he'ads, Miss ,1 ill Swinogle of the houreaui sa i. Rad io (Corporation of A merica will hold interviews in the School of l*sngineeri ng February 28 for electrical and mechanical engi - neers andl p)hyiiits. This will be piri mari ly for their dies ign and development specializedl training pirogram. Amniericain blowver (Corporation will see niechan icalI and electrical engineiers for sales engineering in the IEngineering School on March 1. TIe Robertshaw-Fulton C'on trol s Coimpa ny, also Iiite'res tedl in electrical ainil mnchan icalI engi - neer inrg, will meet in the School if iEnginaeerinrg on Mtarch 2. Buckeye Cotton Oil Comnpany will be in the Engineering School on Al arch 3 and 41 to holtl iter views wvith engineers, chem'riist.s antd accouintanrts. On Mlarcth 4, SidIney -Ul1umen thal and Compa pny will meet biusiness admiin ist ration majors, chemical anrd mechaniical engineeris ini the Sthool of IBusirness Aidministra tion. The Bureau of Placement has lie fu nction oif hel pinrg students make ctotacts for jobs. It air ranges interviews ini various schools on the campus between senirors aind industrial, business, andii professional representait ives ini all field.. l.istirng indiviidual positions whiich ciome in from otside souirces rind keeping information onl these available for seniors and aluimni is another jnh of the r out of the old Fire Eigine house ing laboratory. The four students to right. In the picture at the right najors, are seen in the Main Street ver Rotary filter. (Gamecock photos jaboratory E - House - ize the building, the city council of Columbia decided they would get the title to the land. The trustees of the university said a title had not been issued concern ing the land, and that the uni versity still owned the land. The university said they had granted the city permission to build on the land hut hadn't given the land to them. The university said the prop erty would not be turned over to the city because the university woulldn't receive any compensa tion in return. In return, the city said they had provided the city an1d university with fire protec tion. They finally went to court about it with the trustees of the University of South Carolina against the city of Columbia. The university won out, and then owned hoth lot and building. The engirt-ering department will move the chemical engineering laboratory out of the Engine lfHouse and into the new building to be finished on Green Street sonetimle this summer or early fall. The university is undecided as to what will be (lone with the Engine House. Maybe the old builditng 'will have to move over for more modern ideas, but if that happens and a new structure is pit up, the youngster can be proutd to be on a piece of land that has some teal exciting his tory behind it. hurteau. M trs. Ruth Et. AlcVey is head of the Placement Bureau, wvhich is located in .Rootm 220, Admini st rat ion Bil ding. When the stag-line your delectable For more No oth4 4. 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