THE CARLISLE SCHOOL FOR INDIAN PUPILS,

done, and I know I express the feelings of the
company, when I say, that to us all it was a spon-
taneous proof of the
Spirit of Carlisle
School. It is only
proper to add that the
party did respond to
the invitation, Senator
Logan saying after-
ward that he was sure
the boy could do that,
for he had seen him.

The tin shop gives
work to fourteen ap-

prentices. It is a
most interesting de-
partment. The arti-

cles are strong and
well-made,
varied description.
My tiny coffee-pot will
often, as I make the
“fireside cup o’ coffee
for two,” take us back to the day at Carlisle, and
brighten the evening talk in the firelight.

Last year, from the tin shop, were sent out over
fifteen thousand articles, also seven tons of stove-
pipe; all despatched to the agencies for the use of
the Indians. No finer buckets, coffee-boilers
and pans, I presume, are made than those turned
out by some of the Indian boys.

The carpenter shop has twelve apprentices,
and has charge of the general repairs and con-
struction of new buildings at the school. Under
Supervision of the carpenter, the large hospital
building was built by Indian boys. ,

The hospital and care of the sick is under the
charge of Doctor O. G. Given, of Washington,
Iowa, an intelligent, Christian man, with genial,
large-hearted benevolence expressed in every fea-
ture. When pupils are taken sick, they are at
once separated from their fellows and placed in
the hospital.

The shoe shop is constantly kept busy in manu-
facturing and repairing boots and shoes for the
four hundred and thirty-three pupils of the school.

The harness shop turns out a very large propor-
tion of the harness required by the Indian depart-
ment for the use of agencies and Indians.

The sewing department was a most interesting

 

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feature, particularly to us matrons, who walked
around among the girls, inspecting the neatly
mended clothing, and the piles of new garments,
All of the girls’ clothing, and the boys’ underwear,
are manufactured mostly by the Indian girls, under
the instruction of Mrs. Worthington.

The laundry, with its methodical appliances and
nice arrangement, also detained us some time, to
examine closely the various sorts of work executed
by the strong, tidy Indian girls, who take hold of
this kind of work with an alacrity that shows
they are waking up to the truth of the statement,
“Cleanliness is next to godliness.”

Each mechanical branch is under the super-

 

WHITE BUFFALO (CHEYENNE).

intendence of a practical workman; the instruc-
tion, therefore, is not at all vague, and merely
theoretical, but thoroughly practical in every detail.

Carlisle School has also a fine farm of one hun-
dred and fifty-seven acres, worked by the pupils