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Show SOHOOL EMPLOYEES. Indian schools are the home for practically twelve months of the year for 22,124 children. For them must be provided school, home, hospital, shops, garden, farm, stock, etc.; and for watching over these interests, training the pupils, and caring for them in sickness and health there were employed during the year 2,175 persons, of which number 1,480 were white and 695 Indian. The annual salaries range from $100 to $2,000. They are divided as follows: Supervisors, 5 white; superintendents, 100 white; clerks, 35 white, 9 Indian; physi-cians, 21 white; disciplinarians, 7 white, 11 Indian; teachers, 418 white, 59 Indian; kindergartners, 53 white, 2 Indian; manual-train-ing teachers, 6 white; matrons, 97 white, 4 Indian; assistant matrons and nurses, 92 white, 54 Indian; seamstresses, 94 white, 25 Indian; laundresses, 77 white, 34 Indian; industrial teachers, 64 white, 45 Indian; cooks and bakers, 120 white, 46 Indian; farmers, 39 white, 14 Indian; blacksmiths and carpenters, 49 white, 7 Indian; engineers, 34 white, 8 Indian; tailors, 15 white, 4Indian; shoeand harness makers, 20 white, 8 Indian; miscellaneous employees, 134 white, 44 Indian; Indian assistants, 321. In addition to these there were employed sev-eral hundred pupils, at salaries ranging from $1 to $5 per month, as apprentices in.various trades, etc. THE OUTING' SYSTEM. In the reports of this Department for a number of yearn past there has been mention of the "outing system" in vogue at a number of the schools. It is probable that the subject has not been empha-sized to a degree commensurate with its importance in the scheme of Indian civilization. As one of the principal agents for the assimila-tion of the Indian into the mass of the American population it is of vast advantage and productive of the best results. While an efficient factor of civilization, it is limited by conditions of location, and can not at every nonreservation school be completely successful. A civilized white community in the immediate vicinity in sympathy with the plan is a prerequisite. An agricultural, well-settled community surrounding the school presents ideal conditions when coupled with an interest upon the part of the people themselves. The "outing system" is the placing of Indian pupils out among farmers and others duringvacation and for a longer period, that they may earn money for themselves and learn practically, by immediate contact, those lessons in civilized life which can not be taught so per-fectly in the school. A considerable number enjoy the privileges of public and other schools and are thrown into intimate relation with that sturdy yeomanry which is the strength and support of the Nation. |
