The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1901-06-27
INDIAN
TRAINING
SCHOOL
Many Salem People Witness
the Successful Closing Ex.
erciSeS.
What a Practical Superinten-
dent and Competent ASsiS-
tantS Have Accomplished
in a Few Years.

sunt Potter opened the exercises
with some brief but very appropriate
remarks about the character OF the
Indian Training School work and prog
ress that the boys and girls sent here
were making in learning to become USE
ful. citizens.
Supt. Potter aud his faculty and Off.
cials have made this institution q model
of its kind in the United States. When
he took it sanitary conditions were bad,
many of the children were improperly
clothed and poorly ied and the sicklist
and deathrate were too high for even an
Indian School.
Mr.. Potter has put in sewerage,
good water and light system, better
dormitory, dining room and school
facilities, cleared land, drained low
places, tiled the wet land. and made the
farm productive through the employ
ment OF modern methods and keeping
himself surrounded with the best class
OF assistants.
The school has grown in 81 years from
an attendance of 25 to at present about
900. The appropriations by congress
last year we're about Sl30,0O0, and the
average expense is about 100000 for the
school and annual improvements.
In the coming vacation, many of the
children will go home, but most of them
remain at the schoool. They work at
| tra1aa opI ~, tbA farm and xvnrG Vnnuu
| the farmers and in families for miles
about. Their value as workers is fast
growing in appreciation.
After singing the "Gloria" from Mo-
zart's Twelfth mass, Rev. Ketchum OPEN
ed the program with prayer. The junior
grades then presented musical sketch.
No graduates we're presented as the
grade OF this school has been raised from
the ninth to the tenth.
The sketch in chorus reCitative by the
Juniors was quite witty and rendered
with much spirit. The snlos and united |
part. songs by boys and girls was excel |
lent. After the excitement OF a sham |
battle had died away awakening several |
of the babies in the audience) ten little |
suntlowers shone upon the delighted |
audience, especially those who had |
lived in the native home of those prairie |
orchids Of Kansas. Next followed reci-
tatioRs and physical culture drill. A |
bunch Of ten backberries, ten little |
girls in ragtime song, brought down the |
house, and the junior part Of the pro-
gram closed with piano solo.
The ragtime performance carried the
crowd at it generally does, and Father
Dominic, dean OF the Mt. Angel col
lege of music, who was present was
Al haN ha Nhnnnht
OF ragtime. He said while IL was fad
with musicians to sneer at it, it had one
of the strongest elements of good music |
the counter. movement of melodies,
and ii Richard Wagner were alive he |
would have utilized ragtime.
In part second the seniors now went |
to bat, Alfred Gillis's Grafton on Labor |
was we'll constructed and very well |
delivered. Johnny Raub's burlesque |
oratons brought down the house sever.
al times over and he made home run.
The singing by Misses Cora Majors and
Edna Baldwin was very sweet as was
the piano playing Of Miss Brewer.
Owing TO lateness of the hour and
length OF the program the audience we
permitted to hear but one OF Miss Nina
Woodworth's recitations, "The Wind"
but would gladly have heard more. Miss
Ada Shattuck also gave q splendid recita-
ton on the women OF the bible. Chas.
Gutter sang 1.-The Mighty Deep" in a
powerful and sympathetic bass voice.
His enunciation was very clear and his
musical phrasing excellent. Hattie
Lane concluded with a piano solo
very sweetly rendered. This closed the
program, because it was time for the |
last train TO the city, and by the courtesy |
of the Southern Pacific this limitedover-
land express was ordered held at the |
station until all visitors from Salem !
were aboard.
A play "Song of Seven" from Jean
Ingelow was unavOidably crowded off |
the program. 1t was by the pupils OF
the grammar grade and they had spent
much time in rehearsal until IL was
really the best thing of the evening, but
there were so many good things some
had 10 be missed.