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Show REPORT OF SUPERITITTENDEN? OB INDIAN SCHOOLS. 351 INDIANS AS SCHOOL EMPLOYEES. This gradation of salaries has furthermore facilitated the employ-ment of Indians in the work of the schools by enabling the ofice to srlet:t psou~isi~y~on$l ig Indi:~~flosr minor po;iti&~sa nd to~promototh em acco~tli~tiog tho measure of tlleirsu~~ceislsl thc \\.orlc a s~ignet~ol t hem. Tho I I I U I I ~o in I m o v e d I the srrvice has grcatl.v inoreased since the date of my lastAre;ort. Out of 1,744 school &ploy-ees on se~temhe1r5 ,1896, there were in the service 493 or over 28 per n.n.n-t. ~-n dia-n s.a gainst 25 aer cent on Sentember 15.1895. Among this ~ number there~are6 0 teachers, 54 matr'ons and aisistant matrolls, 47 cooks. 19 bakers, 52 seamstresses, 72 laundresses, 16 day schoolhouse-keepers, 26 di~c<~linarian1s0, industrial teachers; 10 carpenters, 8 tail-ors, 18 shoe and harness malrers, 19 farmers, 8 janitors, 8 engineers, 23 watchmen. 5 firemen. 3 teamsters, 19 laborers, and 7 clerks. These nun~hcrsd o not inrludo genera11 Tntlinn ussistanis aud npprentice&. Tl~ereh ave been a number of l~romotio~(l~usri ng the year 01' 111dians from inioor nositions to nosirionsot' gre:itrr rcs~onsihilityt,u 111t ho IIUN-ber of filil11i6.x rel,orted i o thr o8j1:e'is comparitively a6all. co~~t rntroy the npprehensioua of those who charged the Indians with iuherent indo- ' Ience : I I I ~s l~it'rleus~~esTs.h o 11111ian. whool en~vloreean bore cnumer-atell, \\.it11 a very few excrptio~~cxo,m l1:lre not ~i~~rarorawhilt1y1 their mhitec.olleag~~t.s[i~oc ~.yisteanttt nntio~tlo dnty,in ~tcadtksct ontinuance ill their work. i l l 3 #leuire tior srlfim~~~ovemcinn tu, nselfisll devotion to tile interests bf their charges, :~ndin a 11rodr11ut se 01' their i~~rome. 111 Jnly, 18013, i-I:~skcllI ~ ~ s t ~ t u:rrt eL,a wrence, Kans., gmdnnte~lt he first class of atndrnta who L:ld ~uecessf111l.~y ~ : ~ stsherodi iyl~n two years' t.eac-her~s' co~urse.~ Th e class consisted of eight eraduates. annarentlv ~ , L A not inferior in relative nttaii~u~rnts,ienar rle'titl~efis,n~i~nd g eneral a spi ration to theaveragu graduates of gei~rranl ~,rnlals chools. The srhools :tt Carlisle. Han~nton.P l~i l i~t lel~la~ndia .S nnta FP nlso vlaced at tho disposal oC the office number bf giritduates apparently well prepared for the work of teaching. TRANSFERS OF PUPILS. Last March I submitted a detailed plan for systematizing thc trans-fer of pupils from day schools to reservation boarding schools and from the latter to nonreservation boarding schools. The plan was approved by the honorable Secretary of the Interior and promulgated by you on March 12. This plan classifies the Indian schools as closely as the varying local conditions and needs will permit. It establishe&quite definitely the attainments which justify the transfer of children from one class of sohools to a,nother, provides for full reports to the Indian Office of all chlldren fitted for tranefer, and for a relatively economical plan for effecting these transfers. Unfortunately it was too late to reap the full benefits of this plan for the current year; nevertheless-thanks to the readiness with which agents and superintendents complied with the provisions of these rules--enough was gained to show that in another year they will accomplish the purpose for which they were framed. These rules vrooerlv carried out will on the one hand do awav with the qurst~tsund~AeI IIk xpensivc custom of ae~tding(l uring tho ijimmer term ncents of rival achools to the llirt'e~.tnrr escrratio~~fosr t h c~ak e of securing pupils, a custom fraught with many demoralizing possi-bilities and involving much needless expenditure of money. On the |
