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Show committed to his charge. This constant supervision requires what, under other circumstances, might seem an unusually large force. There were employed during the year 2,208 persons, of which number 1,529 were white, and 679 Indians. The annual salames range from $100 to $2,000. The positions are divided as follows: Supervisors, 5 white; superintendents, 104 white; clerks, 41 whlte and 14 Indian; physicians, 23 white, 1 Indian; disciplinarians, 10 white, 17 Indian; teachers, 411 white, 72 Indians; kindergartners, 57 white, 2 Indian; manual-training teachers, 7 white; matrons, 105 white, 9 Indian; assistant matrons, 76 white, 58 Indian; nurses, 24 white, 4 Indian; seamstresses, 95 white, 65 Indian; laundresses, 73 white, 88 Indian; industrial teachers, 71 white, 39 Indian; cooks and bakers, 124 white, 90 Indian; farmers, 45 white, 29 Indian; blacksmiths and carpenters, 52 white, 12 Indian; engineers, 32 white, 23 Indian; tailors, 13 white, 5 Indian; shoe and harness makers, 22 white, 15 Indian; Indian assist-ants, 50. In addition to these there were employed several hundred pupils at salaries ranging from $1 to $5 per month as apprentices in various trades, etc. Miscellaneous positions, 139 white, 86 Indian. INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE INSTITUTES. Under the direction of the Superintendent of Indian Schools five summer schools were held this year as follows: Keams Canyon, Ariz.; Pine Ridge Agency, 8. Dak.; Puyallup Agency, Wash.; the Depart-ment of Indian Education at Detroit, and the Congress of Indian Educators at Buffalo, N. Y. The summer schools at Keams Canyon, Ariz., Pine Ridge Agency, S. Dak., and Puyallup Agency, Wash., were well attended and the meetings interesting and instructive. Probably the most successful gatherings of Indian educators ever convened were those of the Department of Indian Educators at Detroit, Mich., and the Congress of Indian Educators at Buffalo. N. Y. The aim and purpose of these meetings is a nobleone, that of devising ways and means to improve and increase the e5ciency of the system of Indian education and in every way to better the condition of the aborigines. By means of these annual conferences the isolated schools scattered throughout the country are molded into one connected whole, and the disconnected and independent striving of each separate school is made of benefit to all the others, the whole becoming an organized and haimonious movement toward the goal for which all are working. At each session there was a comparison and interchange of ideas, plans, and methods as practiced in the various sections of the country, the object being to give to each school the benefit of the experiences of the others, and many valuable couclmions were reached as a result. In addition to the discussions the teachers attending the Detroit meeting received the benefit of addresses and lectures by some of the |
