The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-11-10

SLEEPING APARTMENT OF INDIAN GIRL,
Hugh Lee wasted tho premises hy fire.
and today the only one Of the structures
built by the Hessians, still standing, Is The
guard.house, which is massive strength.
lts walls arc OF stone, and seven feet in
thickness; its coils tloored and nrelled
overhead with, brick. The old founda-
lions were used in rebuilding, and the
Carlisle Barracks, Notwithstanding the Vi
cissltudes through which they have pass.
ed, diiIer but little, il any, III appearance
from what they were originally. In 1870,
Captain Pratt recommended to the Inteyi.
or Department their dlsuse Us n depot for
recruits and n training school for cavalry,
and their conversion into an industrial
school for Indian youth. Ills advice was
followed, and in less THAN n month from
that date the Indian school at Carlisle,
Pennsylvania was opened. i
THE SCHOOL AT CARLISLE olESrp. 4
The beginning OF the school was a1spi-
cious. Enlightened public opinion favor
cd titan experienced md generous phil
anthropist was at its head, and Indian
opinion largely favored what even the
comparatively siuntnd dimensions OF In
dian intelligence saw would prove adyan.
tageous to the bcfricnded race. Thirteen
tribes we're represented in the motley ar.
ray Of pupils which We're convened for In.
struction on the first dry Of, November,
1879. The total number Of students was
III, OF whom onc.third were girls, Acea
ranged from eight O. ten TO twenty, Ref
ercnce 10 Captain Pratts last rcport shows
what encouraging progress has been made
since the beginning.
I9f ITS rERsEyT CONDITION.
His fifth annual report, addressed 10 the
Commissioner Of indian .Ailairs, Wishing.
ton, DC, bears date September H. 1851,
1t shows that th~irty.eight tribes had been
represented at the school during the year.
AZ the date Of the previous report there
had been $50. boys and 100 girls in the in
stitution. During the year l39 boys and
90 girls were received, making the total
number connected with the school during
the year, $50. Ahundrcd boys md ninety,
TOUR girls were returned to the agencies
during the year, two boys and four girls
died, and the. number remaining at tho
date Of the report was 27G Buys and 03
girls, n total OF 500 persons. Tie pupil at
Carlisle spends half the day in study and
half IN TN industrial occupation, generally
speaking Of his own choice. Trades and
industries are: for the boys, farming work,
carpenterii1g, blacksmitliins and wagon.
working, painting, s%hoemaking, harness.
making. tailoring, ti%nsmithing, paint.
Ing: and baking; for the girls, sewing
cooking and general house work. =
SENDING OUT rurlIs TO WORK, AND ITS RE.
M SUITS.
Perhaps the most important result OF
the industrial operations namedis the
sending pupils out to work among white
people and earn money for their support,
Captain Pratt. established an TinAexih|e
regulation, that all who went out from the
school should do so entirely attl,o expense
! Of those employing them, and should RI
ceive pay according to their ability. In
nearly every case the Government has
been saved the espenso OF their support
while they have been absent from school,
and many boys and girls have not only
bought themselves sufficient clothing be-.
sides, but have become capitalists by tho
best OF m~cans-saving from their own
earnings No.scholar is placed out unless
he or she hns lSen two years at school,
and only the best are entrusted wilh.thr
responsibilities OF seli.support.
As many rs 2l1 were thus DISTINGUISHED
during the year slsSS.sl. Their capacity
for work appears In. the returns Of eighty.
four, excellent; cighty.three, good; forty.
one, fair; aud nine, lazy, These figures
show the Indian in competition with civ,
ilized persons, advancing in his knowl.
1edee Of the language and in the arts which
constitute the distinction between civil
cation and barbarism. So far as they q
they cannot but be regarded us s~atisiac
Tory, md the regret comes to mind thu,
there remains SO large II number OF boys
and girls on the reservations to whom tht