Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-22

The Boys Are Taught to BE Blacksmiths,
Carpenters and Farmers, and the Girl.
Soon Learn to BE Good Cooks and
Housekeepers.
The civilization and education Of the In
dian is no longer an experiment, as the re
suits which have attended the efforts of the
management of Whites Indiana Manual
LABOR institute, south of Wabash, Ind, con-
clusively demonstrate. The school, founded
In 1852 by Josiah White, a benevolent Quaker
OF Philadelphia, though originally devoted
almost exclusively to the education Of white
End colored children, is now virtually an in
StItuaon for the education OF Indians. Mr.
White, in the year above named, donated
'tbout $4,000 for the purchase of a tract Of
land and the erection of the necessary build
ings, and with this sum 760 acres OF the most
fertile land in the Wabash valley were go
cured, and plain brick structure, serving
the dual purposes of a school and boarding
house, was erected The grounds about the
Institution were laid out with great care, and
considerable sum was expended in beauti-
tying and improving them
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
Soma five years ago the national execu-
tive committee of the Society Of Friends con-
ceived the idea Of undertaking the education
OF Indian pupils after the manner of the
schools at hampton, Va, and Carlisle, Pa.
Appil ca:ion was at once made to the secre-
tary OF the interior for permission to take
from the reservations in Indian territory
and Dakota a number of pupils to receive tut
ion at the institute ct the expense Of the
government, and in March, 1889 twenty
seven children arrived for a three year
course Of study. a group of Sioux Indians
from Pine Ridge arrived at tie institute last
August. They were unkempt, ignorant and
coarse, and true 10 their natural instincts
were as shiftiess as Alabama darkeys An
allowance OF si50 per student was made by
The government TO the institute people, and
this was continued until two years ago when
It was reduced TO Sk5. In the meantime the
class OF twenty-seven had been graduated
and returned to the west, while about seventy
more children of various tribes were brous ht
to the school and were receiving Instruction.
The small sum paid by the government for
the sustenance and education hardly suffices
20 pay the board OF the pupils, and with no
bope OF being reimbursed the management
Of the institute has generously mede up the
cLl4Si SiCe
There are at present seventy-scven Indian
pupils in the school-in fact, the work of the
school is low in the line Of Indian education
or the seventy seven, thirty-t7o are boys
and forty-ive girls, nearly ali Vi whom are
members OF the Sioux tribe The institute is
very pleasantly located on the banks Of
Treaty creek, down to which stream slopes
lovely lawn. There have been extensive adj
ditions made to the original building now
used as a residence for ths officers, and much
money has been invested in machinery and
tools for carrying on the farm work and for
instruction of the pupils in the trades In
dustrially the boys are taught husbandry
together with carpentering, glazing and
blacksmithing; and recently another occupa-
ton, that Of the manufacture of brooms, has
been added, the broom corn being produced
on the farm and the broonls finished by
the indian boys