New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-20
INDIAN ASSOCIATION NEWS
HELP GIVEN THE REBECCA COLLINS
HOSPITAL NEW MEXICO
DR. PEPPER's INTERESTING TALK on THE MAYA
Jos-soME HINTS FOR MAKING IND
IAN COSEY CORNERS

The NeH-York City Indian Association held Its
regular monthly meeting yesterday at 1870 a. m
in the pleasant parlors Of the Broadway Taoer-
nacle Broadway and Thirty-fourth-st the pres-
dent Mrs. Hamilton S. Gordon, in the chair.
The meeting opened by reading OF the Script
ure and prayer by the president
The secretary Mrs Horace Green read letter
from Mrs. Eldridge, superintendent OF the Navajo
Mission at Jewett. New-Mexico, which told OF the
completion of the Rebecca Collins Memorial Hos
initial at that place and urging the necessity for
prompt action raising the additional funds need
ed for barn and other outbuildings 1t was voted
10 forward SIS Immediately. The hospital was built
from fund contributed in memory Of Rebecca
Collins a deceased member of the organization. and
IS intended for the Navajo Indians, among whom
the association established a mission last year
Mrs Eldridge the Government Field Matron. has
undertaken also the SUPPLEMENTARY of the mis-
sion. and contributed the lot of thirty-hve acres
on which the hospital is built. 1t is on the border
line OF the Navajo Reservation, which is the home
OF about twenty-five thousand Indians
In addition to giving the site, Mrs. Eldridge has
contributed largely in other ways The letter noted
also the completion of the Industrial Building at
Two Gray Hills and mentions that the Navajo
women are learning to with great success the
sewing and knitting machines.
The clerk. Miss II. NJ. Thompson, read letters
from Two Gray Hills and from Warner Cal.
knoWledging the receipt OF boxes at Christmas. The
letter from the missionary at Warner. who. like
Mrs. Eldridge. is Government matron. in addition
is particularly interesting in its revelation Of the
hardly enjoyable variety OF life IN that billy region
I'VE all demoraIized," she writes, by the
earthquake, that destroyed every house but one In
the village on Christmas morning. Since then we
have had eighty shocks. and live in constant terror
No one has thought OF trying TO rebuild even the
small and rough cabins but all sleep in tents. The
Government has just built cabin Of one room IA
feet square for me- and there lives my little faT1y,
consisting of my of eighteen who came home
wreck from service IN Cuba at the end of the
war; myself and my little Indian maid
The box delighted my poor people. The children
enjoy making doll clothes in their sewing lessons
and the harmonious give great pleasure to the
boys The youth shows a good deal of talent and
is longing for a cornet mandolin"
Following the report, DR.. Pepper. who has passed
much time among the Navajos in studying the
archaeology of the region. and is now at the Mu-
scum in the Park IL charge Of an exhibit, gave an
Interesting talk upon his life with them. He had
thought q collection OF Photographic, showing every
eage, from the initial TO the final, in the manu-
faeture Of the blankets popular for cosey
corners and kindred uses.
POTTERY AND BLANKETS.
Women who have taken UP the fad for Indian
corners" are naturally anxious that the ornaments
and hangings Of this cosey retreat shall be the
genuine articles
The blankets made by the Navajo Indians In
Sew-Mexico and Arizona produce fine decorative
effects as the designs bold and striking,
the principal coIors used being brilliant reds and
blues and white. Their wearing qualities are re-
narkable. and they made Of ali wool and
beaten down in the loom tight that a good
Specimen is absolutely waterproof.
The genuine hand woven blankets are never COM