The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-03-18
Retaining the Savage.

The recent graduating exercises at
the United States Indian Industrial
school at Carlisle appear to have re-
moved from the minds of many spec
tators the false impression that the
only sure way of reforming the noble
red man is by process of elimination.
From the reports which we have heard
and read of that occasion it seems to
have inspired in the minds of these
pale face onlouliers a higher cOncep-
ton of the possibilities of the Indian
character and a more civilized view of
the nations duty to its copper-hued
ward. From an interesting letter in
the Washington Post reviewing the
entire exercises we Gull the appended
extract in order that those yet un:a-
miliar with what has been done at
Carlisle may be at least partially en-
lightened:
The exercises of the eighteenth ami
versary ana ninth commencement of the
Carlisle school began with an address
by General John Eaton, personal Rem
iniscences of Lincoln and Grant" and his
most interested auditors We're the Indian
boys and girls who are imbibng loyalty
to the government with their education.
The athletic exhibition began with a
splendid drill i'm marching and counter
marching according to regulation forms.
This was followed by wand exercises,
given by the girls who looked we'll in
their gymnasium boomers. Then boys
and girls changed the dumb bells ana
swung Indian clubs in very graceful
style. The floor was then cleared for a
game of basket ball by the boys teams,
and their lightning agility called forth
loud applause. 1t Will be remembered
that the Carlisle football team played
the great college teams last fan and won
great praise as much for their excellent
team work as for their gentlemanly be,
havior under trying circumstances. The
exercises were brought to a close by an
exhibition of individual skill with the
various kinds Of athletic apparatus for
vaulting flying rings, etc This was fol-
lowed by an inspection of the various
industries taught here. These comprise
a carpenter shop, where building ana join
ers' work is taught, and these appren-
tices execute all the woodwork i'm the
buildings that are put up from time to
time; tin shop, where all sorts of tin
ware Is made; harness shop, whose an
nual output Is $50 sets Of handmade dou-
Bile harness; a shoe shop, where nearly all
the shoes used in the school are made,
ana the repairing Is done, tailor shop,
where the boys uniforms are made; a
sewing room, where the girls are taught
all forms of work, from darniug To dress
and the repairing Is done; tailor shop.
and a blacksmith shop, where horse shoes
and iron tools are hammered out; paint
shop, boiler room where the boys work
under the engineer; a printing office,
where the boys and girls We're at work
printing the two papers published by the
school, The Red Man, a monthly, and
The Indian Helper, u small weekly; boys
wore the cooks caps in the kitchen, and
the girls We're busy In the laundry newly
equipped with appliances for washing,
wringing, mangling and polishing, These.
with hospital work and the domestic ser
vice of the houses furnish manual train
ing for the 4t2 boys ana 3il girls who are
at present under The charge of the school,