The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, February 25, 1903, Image 4
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1903.
The Swjwter fFato/itnan was toundec
is 185? and the True Southron in 1866.
Tie FTcte&naa anc? Southron now has
she combined circulation and influence
?f both of the old papers, and is mani
festly the best advertising medium in
Ssmter.
Adverting once more to the matter
o a site lor the new high school build
ing and the existing difference of
opinion, as to the proper location of
the building, between the city school
board and the Daughters of the Con
fderacy, it occurs to us that, when all
the circumstances are considered, the
Daughters of the Confedercay are
somewhat inconsiderate and arbitrary
in their peremptory refusal to consider
the plan of the school board to erect
the high schol* building in the North
ern half of the Graded School square.
Apart from the fact that the square is
the most centrally located site avail
able and that no other location would
be so convenient for purposes of super
vision by the Superintendent, in con?
nacticn with the the other schools,
there is another fact that the Daugh
ters of the Confederacy appear to
ignore entirely in the exercise of the
>wer vested in them as the holders of
le title in fee simple to the Graded
:hool square. Unless we have been
mislead by unreliable statements, the j
land now known as the Graded School
square was originally "set apart and
consecrated to school purposes, and a
of gift made to trustees to be
jld by them in] trust for the com
munity for so long as the land should
be devoted to school purposes. The
Daughters of the Confederacy became
of the title of this land as
le result of a peculiar combination
of circumstances, and are at present
owners merely by courtesy. Therefore,
re are puzzlec?to understand the at
titude thoy have assumsd. We are
not unmindful of the fact that the
Daughters of Confederacy .have fallen
heirs to the trust assumed by the
j?onument Association to care for
and protect thet monumental to the
~ Confederate dead of Samter District
that stands on the square, but we are
at a loss to understand how anyone
can take the postiion that the erection
of a high school building on the vacant
portion of the square will be detri
mental to the monument To the con
xary, some few years observation
teaches that the square has been better
vcared for and has uniform!ly present
*sd a -more sightly appearance since the
-erection of ?he Graded Sciaool build
ing on the Southern half than it ever
presented before; and we are con vied
that the utilization of the Northern
half for a high school building would
be an improvement, rather than a
detriment And, furthermore, what
^ more effective way can be conceived
? of for teaching reverence for the
? memory of the heroic Confederate dead
than to have constantly within the
view of school childen the monument
erected in honor of the men who wore
the grey?
"The Samter Item either has a short
memory or hopes that congress has.
That paper laments the fact that
South Carolina does not appear on
the public omnibus bill now on its
passage, and urges the representatives
from this state to be up and doing.
Last year we were so generously re
presented in that bill with three
buildings, that we were the envy and
the butt of every state in the union;
now the Item thinks that we are not
getting our share! Probably our Sum
ter contemporary thinks that so long
' as Sumter was left out the state is still
short of part of her dues. In that we
will quite agree with her. If Spartan
burg, Bock Hill, Charleston, Colum
bia, Greenville, Georgetown, Beaufort
and Florence are to have public build
ings Sumter ought to have one too,
and we will also have to agree with
- Anderson, Greenwood, Laurens and
Orangeburg, Aiken and Darlington,
that they too ought to come in on a
deal. We will not havo onr dues until
we get ali that we want."?Florence
"Times.
Our Florence friend should not re
hash old stories. What Florence se
cured as a result of last year's public
building raid on the treasury has
nothing whatever to do with the pre
sent matter. It is a fact that South
Carolina gets no appropriation for a
public building this year; and it is
also a fact that Sumter is entitled to
-one, and we want it as soon as possible,
next year, for instance. The less said
about Florence, Spartanburg, Char
leston, Columbia and other villages
having already captured more than
South Carolina's share of public build
ing booty, the better pleased we shall
be. Sumter does not envy her neigh
bors, nor covet the buildings they have
secured, but we are determined to get
one of oar own and are hot on the
trail already. Watch that omnibus
public building bill at the next ses
sion of Congress!
Daily Item, Feb. 19.
If the Daughters of the Confederacy
persist in their refusal to permit the
high school building to be erected on
the Graded Schol square?which was
granted by the original owner of the
land for school purposes?the school
board will be forced to expend a thou
sand or two dollars of school money in
the purchase of a lot for the building,
which sum the schools can ill afford
to spare for such purpose, at a time
when every dollar is needed for the
ordinary running expenses of the
system. There are now quite a num
ber of improvements that the school
board would authorize the Superinten
dent to make, if the funds were avail
able, but the actual expenses of the
schools a-e just about equal to the
income from all sources, even though
the strictest economy is exercised.
In these circumstances it will be a
hardship to force the school board to
expend a thousand or more dollars
for a lot that will not be as suitable in
any respect, nor as centrally located
or as convenient as the Graded School
square. If there were any vital prin
ciple at stake, the stand taken by the
custodians of the square?for the
Daughters of the Confederacy are
merely custodians, as successors to
the trustees who originally held the
property in trust for school pnrpsoes?
would be more easily understood; but,
as the matter stands, very few tax
payers do understand what the cus
I todians of the property are driving at,
f or what good end they expect to
! achieve by preventing the erection of
the high school building on the most
suitable site in the city. We are rea
sonable, and amenable to reason and
sound argument, and, if there are
good and sufficient grounds for the
attitude the Daughters of the Con
federacy have assumed, we would not
be difficult to convince of our error,
if we could be brought to see the
matter from that point of view; but
up to the present writing we have
never heard a single good reason for
denying the request of the school
board.
Daily Item, Feb. 20.
When the school board proposed ten
or twelve years ago, to erect the grad
ed school building on the southern half
of the old academy green, otherwise
known as the Monumental square,
there was a vigorous protest registered
against the plan by a number of the
members of the Monument Associa
tion, but after mature consideration
and reasoning together, this objection
was overcome, and the handsome
building that now adorns the square
was raised, as fitting a testimony of
the city's hope for the future as the
granite shaft that stands in the center
of the square is a memorial of our
people's reverence for the past. There
is nothing repellent or incongruous in
the idea of having the monument to
the Confederate soldiers, who died in
battle, flanked on either side by^ a
handsome school building in which the
discecdants of those soldiers shall be
educated and fitted for their life work.
If it were proposed to convert the
square into a wagon-yard, a site for
a tobacco warehouse, a cotton plat
form or some manufactory we would
be the last person to favor it; but a
high school building is different al
together, and for the life of us we can
not see a reasonable objection to the
plan of the school board. The erection
of another building on the square
will improve its apearance rather than
disfigure it, and while no interest
will be in anywise injured the commu
nity at large will be benefitted, and the
schools can be more efficiently managed
by having tho primary school and the
high school near together and centrally
located with respect to school popula
tion of the city. If the city continues
to grow as it has during the past few
years the time will come when one or
more additional primary and grammar
schools will be needed, and it will
then be both rational and advantage
ous to locate the buildings in other sec
tions of the city. Bnt the only proper
location for a high school building is
a central point and near the principal
primary and grammar school building.
That the northern half of the Graded
School square fulfills these require
ments perfectly, no one can success
fully gainsay.
The "Facts" furnished by "A
Daughter of the Confederacy" are in
teresting in that the position of the
organization is disclosed by this state
ment and that the public . is for the
first time given some of the reasons
actuating the refusal of the request of
the school board. Facts are always
stubborn things, but in this instance
we cannot see that the facts set forth
! furnish satisfactory grounds for the
1 refusal of the Daughters of the Con
federacy to permit the erection of the
high school building on the square.
The school board does not think so,
nor do a great many others, and the
school board was doubtless fully ac
quainted with these facts prior to mak
ing the request.?Item, Feb. 21.
The construction of the proposed
Lexington, Columbia, Camden and
Sumter electric railway would be a
splendid thing for Sumter, and all of
the other towns it touches, but the
greatest benefit will accrue to the
country districts it traverses. Lands
would be enchanced in value, the coun
try would be far more thickly settled,
farming would be more diversified and
in time the entire region adjacent to
the trolley line would be like one
continuous village with towns contain
ing, churches, school houses and post
office at near intervals. The electric
line would be an inestimable blessing
to this section of the State, and we
shall hail the day that marks the con
summation of the undertaking.
There are persistent rumors that the
Seaboard Air Line officials have now
decided to build fromMcBee, a station
on the main line in Chesterfield coun
ty, to Charleston, the road passing
through this city. There are reasons
for believing that the rumors are
founded on fact. The Seaboard is now
engaged in building a road from Mc
Bee, northward to Monroe, N. C,
where it will tap another road owned
I by the Seaboard system. This new
road has been completed to Jefferson
near the state line, more than half the
distance to Monroe. An air line from
Monroe to Charleston passes through
McBee and Sumter, and if the road
should be extended from Monroe, in a
northwesterly direction, it would
furnish the shortest route from the
coal fields of Virginia, Kentucky and
West Virginia to the South Atlantic
Coast. This is a day of big undertak
ings in the railroad world and as the
Seaboard is the most progressive and
aggressive system in the south, and
is constantly reaching out into new
fields, no one need be surprised if the
long talked of direct short line from
Charleston to the middle west should
be created by the building of the few
missing links by the Seaboard Air
Line. Sumter needs the Seaboard Air
Line, and Charleston needs it even
worse than we do, and it is to be hoped
that the rumors are based on facts
and that the road will be built soon,
the sooner the better.
THE DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFED
ERACY.
Item Editorial, Feb. 18th, 1903.
' 'Unless we have been misled by un
reliable statements, the land now
known as the Graded School square
was originally set apart and conse
crated to school purposes, and a deed
of gift made to trustees to be held by
them in trust for the community for so
long as the land should be devoted to
school purposes. The Daughters of
the Confederacy became possessed of
the title of this land as the result of
a peculiar combination of circum
stances, and are at present owners
merely by courtesy."
Item Editorial, Feb. 19th, 1903.
"If the Daughters of the Confederacy
persist in their refusal to permit the
high school building to be erected on
the Graded School square, which was
granted by the original owner of the
land for school purposes.
for the Daughters of the Confederacy
are merely custodians, as successors to
the trustees who originally held the
property in trust for school purposes.''
"A Daughter of the Confederacy,"
Item Feb. 20th, 1903. "The northern
portion of the Monumental Square,
. . was never dedicated to educa-.
tional purposes, but was purchased by
James D. Blanding, E. C. Green and
W. .F. B. Haynsworth, as trustees for
the Ladies Memorial Association, *
being conveyed to them by James L
Coghlan, Sheriff, under foreclosure
proceedings," etc.
Item Editorial, Feb. 21st, 1903.
"The school board was doubtless fully
acquainted with these facts prior to
making the request."
Regarding the Item as the mouth
piece of the school board, we leave the
public to draw their own conclusions,
as to the contradiction between the
first and second and the last editorials.
* This should have been the Monu
mental Association.
Daughters of the Confederacy.
Editorial in Item Feb. 23.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
should not jump at conclusion,
particularly when it comes to "regard
ing the Item as the mouthpiece" of
anything or anybody save the editor
himself. There has been no contradic
tion in the statements made in the
Item, save in respect to the manner in
which the Daughters of the Confeder
acy obtained control of the Northern
portion of the Square, and that was
due to misinformation. Perhaps the
Item would not have fallen into e'rror
in this respect, had it been the month
piece of the school board, for it is the
business of the board to know the ex
act status of the title to the square:
and, as a fact, we have ascertained
that the board was fully conversant
with the " facts'' that'' One Daughter of
the Confederacy" dug out of the re
cords, prior to making the request that:
the custodians of the square grant per
misison for the erection of the high
school building on the Northern half
of the Graded School Square. Not
withstanding;this side-issue and quib
bling as to the legal title to the square,
it is a fact that the square is the most
suitable location for the high school
building, as the board says it is.
Senator Tillman's Speech.
Washington, D. C, February 23.?
After nearly a month of waiting Sena
tor Tillman was able to get recognition
this afternoon for his speech upon
Southern conditions based upon the
race question. As the postoffice appro
priation bill was under consideration,
the South Carolina Senator confined
his remarks almost exclusively to the
Indianola case. In his opening state
ment he said he would surprise his
friends and perhaps disappoint his ene
mies, if he had any, by being calm
and dispassionate in his remarks. And
he did disappoint them, because he
made a legal argument, free from the
bitterness that has characterized most
of his utterances on this line. He
made ony passing reference to Senator
Hanna's slave pension bill, which
j seemed to please the Ohio Senator,
I who evidently thought he might be
i held up as a target for attack. He ar
gued that the action of President
Roosevelt in closing the Indianola
postoffice was violative of every idea
of Anglo-Saxon justice, because it was
punishment of the innocent for the
deeds of others. He showed that there
is law on the statute books providing
for punishment by fines of those guilty
of the charges he had made against
some of the people of Indianola, and
that it was the duty of the President
to have proceeded under the law, in
stead of resorting to the revolution
ary tactics of closing the office.
Coaling Stations in Cuba.
j Washington, Feb. 24.?President
Roosevelt has signed the agreement
drawn under the terms of the Platt
amendment providing for the acquisi
tion by the United States of a naval
station at Guantanamo and a coaling
station at Bahia Honda, both in Cuba.
The document had been previously
signed by President Palma and was
brought to Washington by Minister
Squiers. With these two places proper
ly fortified as naval bases the Gulf of
Mexico would not be possible of occu
pation by a hostile fleet and the
Caribbean sea would be unsafe for an
enemy.
Guatanamo as a naval station will
be the more important of the two bases
and within a short time there will be
erected extensive coal docks and per
haps a short line of railroad will con
nect the port with the backbone rail
road already finished by private enter
prise. Bahia Honda will for some time
probably be used simply as a place for
the storage of coal.
The Venezuelan Arbitration.
-/
Washington, Feb. 24.?Mr. Bo wen,
the Venezuelan plenipotentiary, has
proposed to the allied powers that the
czar of Rnssia be asked to name the
three arbitrators who, as The Hague
tribunal, shall decide the question of
preferential treatment. The suggest
ion has been approved by the State de
partment.
Mr. Bowen today submitted to the
allies' representatives' copies of the
proposed protocols submitting the
Venezuelan case to The Hague tribu
nal. /
The Bubonic Plague.
Mazatlan, Mexico, Feb. 24.?There
was one death from the plague today
and that at the lazaretto.
Four soldiers of the Eleventh infan
try have been removed to the observa
tion station, they having shown symp
toms of the plague.
Signs have been placed in some of
the business houses notifying the peo
ple that handshaking is stopped during
the prevalence of the plague.
There will be no carnival here this
year.
Government Must Pay $10,000.
Washington, February 2.?Justice
Brewer has delivered the opinion of
the United States Supreme Court in
the case of the United States vs. Ar
thur Lynah, holding that in cases in
which the property of private individu
als is destroyed through Government
improvements the owners are entitled
to recover damages. Lynah and
Williams are the owners of rice planta
tions on the Savannah River, which,
it is claimed, have been ruined by
flooding on account of the construc
tion of a dam by the Government.
They brought suit in the Federal Court
of South Carolina and were awarded
810,000. Today's opinion affirms the
opinion of the South Carolina Court.
The Court held the destruction of
the land to be equivalent to taking it
for the purpose of making improve
ment. The Chief Justice and Jus
tices Harlan and White united in a
dissenting opinion, which was deliver
ed by the last named.
Charlotte, sTc., Feb. 23.?Arthur
Bishop, charged with the murder of
Thomas Wilson in this city last Octo
ber., and who was yesterday convicted
of manslaughter, was today sentenced
to serve five years in the penitentiary
at hard labor.
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ALL persons having claim? against said
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Tlie Shamrock Mills
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on account of some pleasant ancestral connection, which caused
him to give to his mill its name, or like many others of us, he
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He seems to be quite an admirer of Lord Lipton, as every pair
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