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Show 3 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDEST OF IKDIAN SCHOOLS. these new buildings go np they must of eotlrse he filled with children fro111 the reg-t, rvations. They are taken in mauy exsea from the Government schools there, and these in turx must be kept fbll aud made to present the best showin* possible, ?ud the niiaaion and ooutraot sohools are made to feel the pressure. I bzlieve it is tlms to call a halt ou the overbt~il~liutgsn tlency unonr observable in thia section of the ]Indian field, otherwise a. rwactiou )nay set iu which will be very hurtful to the onuse of Indian etlluration. If leading pGlitioians will adopt this view of tlle orso no ,loubt t,he desired resnlt will be neoolnplished. It is a. m;ttter of some interest to know which class of schools, sup-ported wholly or in part by the Government, has the largest number of pnpils on the average for each einploy4. By looking at the general recapitalation in the Anr~nal Report of the Commissioner of Indian Afitirs (1892,1?. 780) r e find that 67 Government reservation boarding scl~oolsh ad 902 employ4s, and the average attendance of pupils was 5.13 to each ea~ployt. In the Government training and induskrial schools were 438 employ&, and the average attendance of pupils was 6.8 to each employl'. I n 67 eo~rtracst chools, including iii this number ll schools especially appropriated for, making them essentially alike, there were 816 enlplopbs, and an average attendance of 5.9 pupils to each employ6. RELATIVE EXPENSE. The inquiry is often made which kind of schools, supported wholly or i l l part by the Government, i~ivolveth e greatest expense. Reference to the m~ u eso urce of illformation enables us to decide the question. The comparison lies between the reservation Government boarding scl~oolst, he Government industrial training schools, and the contract boarding. schools, leaving out altogether che day schools. Our data give the following tabulated results: The 67 Government reservation boarding schools, with an average atteudsnce of 4,642 pupils, cost in the fiscal year ending June 30,189'2, $765,231.G4 (expenses for building and repairs not included), an raverage per capita of $164.85. The 14 indnstrial trainin,g . 8chools. including~ , onl"v the larg. .e r sohools cot t l~i scl a.<ss itn;~ledt )~~tsiodlc rrsrrvario~rsa 1111o l~litti~1l1g1 c ~lewrr" c8ne.s uot folly ill uprl.ntior~,1 1ml ;!u io.erngtx~ t t ~ u d a l lolf :L~',!) 4U l)11pi17, :IIIII post P14;5.,2 2;.27 itw olle vc:~r's runtti~-~ errz -lw njrs. 01. il.i'J.41 ti~r each pupil. The 56 contract boarding schools and 11 schools especially appro-priated for, and therefore virtudlly contract schools, 67in all, including all denominations, had an average attendance of 4,789 pupils and cost to the Government $526,471.28, or $109.93 for each pnpil. But these contract schools received from other parties-the religious bodies with which they are associated-during the same year and duly t.abulated in tlie Gommis~ioner'sr eport for 1892, $185,778.69 additional. I give a few examples of yearly receipts of these contract schools fro111 the churches: The St. Savier School (Roman Catholic), Crow lleservation, Mont., with an enrollment of 119 pupils, received $ll,.5?5.75; the Ramona School (Unitarian), same reservation, with 53 pupils, received $5,733.86; the Santee Normal Training (Cong~e-gational), in Nebraska, with 150 pupils, reeeived $8,025.21; the Good Will (Presbyterian), Sisseton, S. Dak., with 74 pupils, received -- ~ -- - *It wonld be unfair to inelltde these jnst darting, with only a broken or frn?tional gear. |