Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-09-24

toned. This building will include a
blacksmith shop with seven forges, a
seven bench wagon shop. a small blast
furnace, a paint shop, Two S0-horse pow
| er boilers with u 50-horse power engine
and 100 it. stack. These fixtures will
all be on the ground floor. On the sec
ond floor will be located a printing office,
a Sloyd room for 24pupils, a tailor shop
for n instructor and six pupils, a shoe
shop, mechanical drawing rooms; and
each of these departments will occupy a
space about SO it. square, except the
| drawing room which will call for more
| extended quarters. Then again, 1t is
proposed to add to the main building a
two story brick wing 20X47 feet, for bath
rooms and closets principally, at II cost
of 81, 900.
At present all of the buildings are
heated by stoves, but by another year,
/ the superintendent proposes to have
them heated by steam, the interior
steam fixtures to cost SO, 700, without
| estimating the out of door connections.
| The steam will be taken from the boil
| ers In the new trades building, and the
connecting piping will be laid in brick
Iulnels large ohouSh ~ ""n w p"''
through to make necessary repairs.
What this Will cost cannon now DC stated.
Moreover, an electrlct p'ant IS 10 oe
added to IN establishment al an carry
| date, with $50 16-candle power incandes-
| cent lamps and 5000 feet of wire. For
| the present the current will be secured
from the penitentiary dynamo, which is
fully able to meet the demand; but
when the traces oul1alng IS up anu 1nG
new machinery IN place, the school VIII
have its WI dynamo ana generating
plant. A new Wen ~ 1eet square IS aiso
to be sunk untll wafer Is reacneo' anu
the new engine VIII pump al OF tne
water needed from thls we'll ouleaoie
precautions nave peer taken against
ire, ana there IS 'ooo leet OF nose on
wheeled rec IN u mousse Dull1 lor II.
A 1re company IS organized among Cne
boys, and with the nose and an aouno-
ance OF Migrants on inc premises, no
hre could progress lar ere oeihg eAtlh-
guished. connected Win the ihst'tu,
tioh Is tne farm Oh Ten acres "here all
the produce necessary 10 SUSTAIN Ihe
scnool IS successfully raised
mere are no" IN attehaahce " lhe
school l5o boys ana loo girls whose ayes
run from b TO 20, although the regular
school age runs from . 10 -; hieseh
lndlan trioes are represented, Us loi-
lows: Senecas', "~yanoottes, Apacles'
NaVaJoes, fueoios; western ~ohoShones,
Plmas, Moquls' Wascos' MoJaVes anu
Yumas. In manual work they are
taught farming ana gardening; sewing,
general housekeeping cooking. baking,
carpenterlhg, olacksihlthlng CaiioIlhe'
shoemaklng' ana tney all 40 these
Things wen. LII ohe iiteiary pIahGnes'
the cnlldren are taught from Ine Eng
llsn aipihaoet ciear up ohrough Che resu-
lar high school COURSE the omlnon
school grades numbering elshV' WIN
tour adoltlohai loI hlsn school course.
Inc hlgh Scnool gTaoe, however Is
known at Ihe scno0i as Norman
course. IheSe lndlan chlidfeh an
seem eager TO learn ana when q I their
idle and disturbance creating spirit so
often noticed among American school
children. On the contrary, these In
dian children seem to realize that study
is A serious business. and that they are
there for a serious purpose and not to
fritter away their time. Moreover.
there is none of that disposition among
the older bows or girls to impose upon
the OUNCE ones. On rare occasions
some half breed NAV ATTEMPT something
Of the kind. but he is Immediately TO-
nored by the Others and given to feel
that it Is an unmanly thing to take ad-
vantage of those Younger and less o
perienced than themselves. Anything
approximating to what is known in the
English schools as tagging would not be
tolerated for a moment in an American
Indian school; and it would not be nee
essarv for the Instructors to advise in
the matter. as the Indians would in.
stinctiyely act or their own initiative.
It il a great pity the ethics. in this de.
nartment at least. of the American alb.
oriqines could not be impressed upon
the minds of the big bows in Anglo.
Sayon schools
-. H.,
Inc !ndian chlioren are loho OF Sports
OF all xmas, and YAK very k'noly u
oase pail n other out-ol-ooor sPorts
Ihey also appreciate the cadet driii &c
which they are suo]ected, ana tneli
military eVolutlons are hienly credlta'
Die. There IS a BRASS Dand OF ~ pieces
connected with the cadet corps, and the
boys practice faithfully ana 90 well.
A bandmaster from oregon Is to take
them In charge, and ideas OF band con
cert work Will be taught the young mu,
sicians. superintendent Vets has found
that teaching an Indian child for two
| wars Or 40 does NOT work. NS. II allowed