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Show I of Indian pupils. The attendance at Los Angeles was large and enthu-siastic, and the institute will prove beneficial to all. A fall report of the institute .will accompany the annual report of the Superintendent of Indian Schools and be found on page 437 of this report. I EMPLOYEES. There are employed in the Indian-school servicein various capacities 2,562 persons. Of these there are 99 superintendents, 41 clerks and assistant superintendents, 22 physicians, 17 disciplinarians, 475 teach-ers, 51 kindergartners, 10 manual-training teaehers, 105 matrons, 165 assistant matrons and nurses, 168 seamstresses, 159 laundresses, 205 cooks and bakers, 72 farmers, 55 blacksmiths and carpenters, 112 iudus-trial teachers, 73 tailors and shoemakers, 39 engineers, 157 miscellane-ous employees, such as gardeners, dairymen, laborers, night watchman, etc., and 537 Indian assistants in various capacities. It is the policy of this office to employ Indians as far as possible in those positions to which they are adapted by nature and education. In pnrsnance of this policy there were carried on the school rolls 1,160 Indians. There are 9 Indian clerks, 11 disciplinarians, 78 teachers, 2 kindergartners, 4 matrons, 80 assistant matrons and nurses, 65 seamstresses, 03 laun-dresses, 102 cooks and bakers, 27 farmers, 10 blackshmiths and car-penters, 44 industrial teachers, 37 tailors and shoemakers, 20 engineers, 41 miscellaneons employees, and the 537 Indian assistants above mentioned. This may appear to be a large force for the education of the Indian youth, bnt it should be borne iu mind Indian schools are different from the ordinary public or private white schools. kt such schools a few hours each day for only five days in the neek are required of teachers, while in nearly all Indian schools the terms are practically twelve months. These instructors are confined for long hours each day, with little opportunity for recreation or social pleasure. Their labors do not begin and end at stipulated hours, hut they may be, and are, often called upon to perform any service rendered necessary by an emer-gency. These services are usnally performed willingly and cheerfully. The Indian school is the Indian's home, and the success of the present educational policy is largely due to the earnest and faithful cooperation of these patient workers in this great field. Their missionary spirit is displayed in a quiet and earnest manner, which will produce resnlts of lasting good. Although sectarian teaching is forbidden in the schools, they are not godlessinstitutions. The broad principles of the Bible, of religion, and morality are taught, and, so far as it is possible, only strong religious characters are placed in charge of the children. The petty distinctions of creeds are ignored, but all employees are required to lay sueh a foun-dation in the hearts and minBs of their pupils that the great religious bodies of our country may hereafter build upon it a vigorous and endur- |
