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Show REPORT OF COMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 129 expended on both buildings and grounds, showing that the 668 stu-dents enrolled, part of whose instruction consists in keeping .up the plant, receive practical industrial instruction. The school is mtuated m a section where many kinds of fruits and vegetabl? can be grown and general farming carried on to advantage, and since pupils will depend mainly upon these occupations for support after leaving school, too eat stress can not be laid upon the importance of horti-cultural anTagricultura1 instruction. The girls are taught sewing, hand-laundering and rag-car t makin but there is need of more training in f a d y cookin &orb are feing made to correlate more closely the industrial andsterary branches than heretofore, and w~th good results. Tbis school remains, in session during July, to afford pupils an oppohunity to work m the hop fields during September without interfering with their school work. The pup~ls earn considerable money whTle so employed, which they are encouraged to save. Attached to this school is one of the linest and best equipped hospi-tals in the service; and the open air treatment of tubercular patients has achieved some cures that had been considered hopeless. Sileta School.-The land allotted to the Siletz Indians is quite productive, and it is essential that the older children receive thorough training in the agricultural, mdustrial, and domestic branches. There are, however, much better facilities at the Chemawa school for training in these branches than there were at the Siletz boarding school, and the latter has been closed and a day school for the younger children substituted; this will be for the best interest of these Indians as well as a saving to the Government. PENNSYLVANIA. Carlisle (nonreservation) School.-Indian students from a11 p?rts of the United States, including Alaska, attend this school. Durlng the past year over 1,000 students were enrolled. The school is well equipped for industrial training, and the build-ings are kept in excellent repair by boys in the carpentry, masonry, plumbing, and other departments; and they, seem eager to prepare themselves for self-support by acquiring slnll in some mechanical trade. The work in the class rooms and industrial branches is more closely correlated than heretofore, with excellent results. The beneficial influences of the out+,g system are apparent and many pupils were placed in white fam~liesd uring thfr year. Pupils who devote their entire time to household or farm duties are paid for their work; those who merely perform minor tasks, morning and evening, while attending public school are housed and fed in return for their services. A considerable sum is earned by outing pupils each year, the greater portion of which is deposited in bank to their credit and turned over to them when they finally leave the jurisdiction of the school. Classes in native arts and crafts, under the direction of native teachers, form an interesting featum of the work. The commencement exercises t h ~ sye ar were especially commend-able and a part of the programme was repeated at the Cleveland Institute to show other schools how the office desires commencements conducted. |
