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Show REPORT OF .THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. XXXV $776.6'2 over the cost of materials, siblaries of instructors, and vages of apprentices-the wages being 1Gg cents per day for the time actually employed. The carpenter and tailor shops have also more than paid expenses. St,imnlus to the industrial work of tho school has been gi~een by the clanse in the Indian appropriation act of May 11,1880, which provides that the Secretary of the Interior is '! authorized, whenever it can be done advalltageonsly, to purchase for use in the Indian service from Indian manual and training schools, in the manlier customary among individuals, such articles as may be manufactrrred at such schools, and which are used in the Indian service." A market has thus been found for all articles ma~~ufacturedan, d this year the Carlisle school has shipped to forty-two Indian agencies 8,929 tin cups, coffee-boilers, fnn. nels, pails, aud pans; 183 sets donble harness, 1 G 1 riding-bridles, 10 l~alters9, spring magons, and 2 carriages, valued (according to the low contract rates paid by this office for such articles) at $6,333.46. The parents are proud of the skill attained by their children, and the boys are interested to have specimens of their har~diwork sent to their homes. Among those "graduated" from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency boardiug.sc?hool mere fonud, last spring, sixteen young men who offered to pay their owu traveling expenses from the Indian Territory to Car-lisle, provided the gove.r~lment woi~ld there give them instruction in various trades. Their request was granted, but a similar request from one of the Sionx agencies has had to be refused for lack of funds with which to support the applicants after reaching Carlisle. Interesting details of the ye,ar's work at Carlisle vill be found in Lieutenant Pratt's report, on page 184. At the Himpton Inititnte, 81 Indian pupils have been in attendance, two-thirds of whose support is furnished by government, the remain-der being obtained from charitable sourees. The principal event of the year has been the return this month to their homes in Dakota of, 30 of the 49 Sioux youths who went to Hampton three years ago, and with the returned Florida pris0ne.r~ initiated the experiment out of which the Carlisle and Forest Grove schools have grown. Of the re-maining 19 youtlis, 5 had died at Hampton; 12 had been previously re-turned to their homes, ten on account of ill health, one for hadconduct, and one at his own request ; by cobsent of their gnardians 2 will remain at Hampton for further training. The abilit.~o f Indian youth to acqnire civilized ideas and habits has been proved. Their ability to resolutely apply and continne them amid great disadvantages is now to be demon st rat el^. It cannot rea-sonably be expected that every one of a company of 30 boys and girls taken out of heathenism and barbarism will he transformed by a three-years' course of training into enlightened Christian men and women, with character and principles sturdy enough to successfully resist all the degenerating and demoralizing influences which they must encounter |
