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Show till the inquirer runs his eye over the roster of an average nonreser-vation school and finds there, under regular salary: 1 superintendent. 1 clerk. ' 1 assistant clerk. 6 teachers. 1 matron. 2 assistant matrons. 1 housekeeper. 1 nurse. 1 seamstress. 1 laundress. 1 farmer. 1 teacher of agriculture. 1 engineer. 1 assistant engineer. 1 physician. 1 dairyman. 1 baker. 1 cook. 1 assistant cook. 1 carpenter. 1 blacksmith. 1 shoe and harness maker. 1 tailor and baud leader. 1 laborer. To maintain such a salary list, exclusive of the superintendent's share, and to buy the food and the clothes and the fuel and the hun-dred other necessaries of this big-scale housekeeping, the Government pays $167 a year for each pupil taken care of. Besides that, it pays by separate appropriations the superintendent's salary, which in this instance is only $1,700, and the cost of transporting the pupils from and to their homes, and sundry additions to the plant like an addi-tional well, or a new boiler house, or a more modern steam engine, $4,000 to $10,000 for "general repairs and improvements? and the like, bringing the total charge up to nearer $200 per pupil. The next school on whose statistics my eye falls has a $2,500 superintendent and 60 employees, including among them, in addition to the classes represented in the list already given, a treasurer of the outing sys- . tem, a stenographer separate from the clerk and assistant clerks, a disciplinarian, a kindergartner, a music teacher, a stewardess, a superintendent of industries, a hospital cook, a gardener, a wagon-maker, a mason, a painter, a printer, and an assistant printer and librarian. The cost of this school to the Government, pooling all the appropriations, would reach about $250 per pupil. Yet these figures are what remain after we have, in this Office, trimmed down, with what looks like a merciless hand, the estimates turned in by the superintendents in their zeal. And I could cite other cases with large? figures still. The Cong'ess itself does not realize what it ia spending uselessly. Contrast such an exhibit with that presented by the day school, where we have a simple building and a simple equipment and employ only a teacher and a housekeeper; or if the school outgrows the dimen-sions within vhich these two persons can do all the necessary work, we employ more teachers. The cost per pupil ranges from about $36 a year to $67, according to the number enrolled in a single schooL A safe average for the whole day school system would be $50 per pupil, or from one-fourth to one-fifth what we are spending on each |