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Show IN FLORIDA. the pnraent boildip (adjoining) and on the first floor. Such partition andaddition would oost $2,800 1Fthehal! is made 40 by 70 feet. The present sewing room is but 14 by 22 feet and contains heating stove, cutting table, table for assorting clothing to be examined and repaired, five sewing machines, and shelves for material and new work. The girls have no sitting roam or reading roam sufficiently large to hold all the girls at ans time. The present dining room should be divided, making of oneend a sewing room and of the other end a g~rlss' ittinn room. The present kitchenshould be extended back 60feet, thus giving us a new <fining room. The oost of sach parti-tion and exteusian would be $1,650. Upon tho completion of tho new water aystem of Grand Junction we can lay pipe and drain into the river. this oan be done at only tho oost of the pipe. The cost of 1 mile of 12-inch asewer iipe is inforrcration I have been unable to obtain. k'or safety, economy, comfort, and health the plaoe should be heated bg s t e m and lighted by eleotrioity. A steam plant that will heat the building8 uniformly, pump water from the river (instead of buying it at $600 per annum), run a dynamo for light~ing the plaoe, furnish power for laundry and lathe, hat water for laundry and kitohen, and steam for cooking, and be fired with slilok st $1.50 a ton instead of coal, lump or nut, st $2.50 or $3 a ton, can he put in for $6,950. The dynamo, wiring, and 125 lamps will oost $1,000. I hwe the honor to be, very respectfully, TaEo. G. LEMMONS, ~pwintmdent. The COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN APEAIRS. - REPORT OF INDUSTRIAL TEACHER AMONG THE SEMINOLES IN FLORIDA. FIELDS ERVICEM, YERS,F LA.A. uguat 13,1885. SIR: I have the honor of oomplyin with office lnstrpotions and forwarding the following as my report of the ~emino;de~ndiainns Florida for 1895: As the work is largely in the fisld, with its headquarters same 40 miles southeast ' f ron~M yers Fln., which is onr post-office, the servioe being near the Big Cypress group of ~nhians,m y report, eto.. must, as s, matter of course, be based chiefly on what ooourred among these Indians during the paet year, bath as to work and progress. Romber and looation.-There are not many births nor deaths among them, so that the number does not vary much during the different years, though from information obtsined from an Indim which 1 consider more reliable than that gained heretofore, I learn that they number 565, men, women, and children, and these are still located in the three different sections of Florida: Miami, on the east ooast; Cow Creek, in the Lake Okeeohohee region, interior from the esst coast, and the Blg Cypreas Indims, west of the Evsrglades. These banda, it will be seen, do not Live in close proximity, and this can be said also of the individual camps of each group. Each band has, in a meaBUre, a hcatlmss, though not a chief, but old Doc,tor Tommy, a, Big Cypresa Indian seems to be the lawgiver for all thew Florida Indians. He is a mild old man, hut'is, of oonrso, fearful and shy of the Government, and is much prejudios<l. As atated, most of my report must be made concerning our Bi Cypress Indiana, as I have been unable to come io close uoutaot with the other %an<ls, though this would seem the very thing nsCeS8my for the best furtherance of the work. The funds for the fiscal yew 1895 were so arranged by Congress that little or nothing was left, for ramp or district work, in fact not enough to meet incidental expense81n cnlmeotian with other needed work here. Dnring the year 1894 camp work was done in this section, and with good effect, andwe are still reaping the fruit, box our opposers-whisky,meu, etc.-had a clearer field during 1895. They watchedmy movements and, wa ~ tmgth eir chance, would rush to the Iudictn oamps as soon as they learned I ww not there, and as matters were I could not spend much tima in visit,ing among these Indians daring the fiscal year 1895. The whisky sold among the Indians was of such a poor quality that several of ihem came >>ear dying from the effects of the stuff. They came to ma for trastxtment and seemed very anxious, fearing they would never get well. Children.-It is rather difficult to give a true oensos of their number, because of my not having seen enough of the Miami and Cow Creek Indians, but predicating my judgment on what I hare seen among our Cypress Indians, I call safely place the number at 125 children and youths. Pmpcesa.-I am sorry to say this is much-slower than one would wish, but they are not standing still. Unconsoiouslj, to themselves they are going forward. They live better, improve their homes more, oultivate better aud larger fields, s ~ ~ p ptlhye m-selves with oxen and wagons, and more of the younger men are putting on citizen's 6069 I A-24 |