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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF IXDIAN AFFAIRS. XVII In this connection it is worth while to note the allowances made by the Government to other than Government schools for the edncation of Indians. TABLE 6.-Sh0t~i.g amowzt8 8et qavt for. various religio8ra Bodies fov Ijadian cdvmtim for mch of the pscal years 1%6 to 1891, inclusine. Fam.. C.tbolio ........................ P.eabyt.rin. ........................... Canpa@onal ......................... Msrtin8borgb. Pa ...................... AlaskaTramingSohool ........................... Eplseopal ......................................... Friends ....................... ;... ...... Mennonite ........................................ Middletown, Gel .................................. unicarim ......................................... Lutheran, mittenberg, wia ................................. Methodist ............................................................ - Total ............................. I I 1 I I I SOHOOL SUPEI1VISION. The present energetic, con~cieutiousa, nd faithful Soperintendent of Indian Schools has been in the field almost c~nt inu~pssliyn ce May 1, 1889, when he assumed his arduous duties. He has personally inspected and reported upon about eighty boarding and training schools, hot although a vigorous man, and most assiduous in hislabors, it has been a physical impossibility for him to visit all. There will be at least one hundred and fifty hoarding a,nd training schools, wholly or partially 811pported by the Government, before the close of the present fiscal year, and the Superintendent can not inspect all of these, and the one . I hundred day schools, even once in two years, for the obvious reason that one man can not perform the duties of five. ' I In addition to the Superintendent of schools thereshould be at lea& four supervisors of education, reporting directly to tbis ofice. Eaoh - of them should be a trained school expert, charged with the duty of visiting,reporting upon, and advisiugwith the teachers of all the schools within a definite area, and should have such relations to Indian sohools as are genar&lly snstained by county superintendents in the States. They should be required to devote their entire t,ime to the work, ~hould be subject to orders from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and be ready to proceed whenever necessary upon telegraphic instructious to any part of the field. Their services mould be invaluable in determin. ing building sites, selectiug employBs, investigating charges, establish-ing new schools, securing and retaining pupils at both reservation and non-reservation schools, and in generally building up the edpoatioual work. 9975-2** |
