Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-04-19

in its organization and aims-se far as
the male pupils are concerned-a
purely military school. This he has
pronounced to be untrue Gen. Pratt,
who was the founder of the school and
its head for "a years, was in training
and experience a military man. He
gave to the institution the ground
work of the military features. slight as
they are, which it now has. From the
beginning the boys have been or
ganized into companies, with their
Captains and other officers From the
beginning they have been drilled with
out arms. much as army recruits are
drilled. From the beginning they
have worn the blue army uniform, and
the company officers have been dis
tinguished by cheyrons of gold lace.
1t is feared by those who are OPP
posed to the abandonment of the
school that If the national government
confines its education Of the Indians to
schools on the reservations, the mill
tary features in all of them will be IN
tensified. II is, in fact, admitted that,
without such an appeal to the heredi-
tary tastes of the Indian, the greatest
difficulty that the whole scheme of In
dian education will have to contend
with will be the prevention of alb
senteeism. This can not be checked
in the wild western country, unless
the parents of the boys and girls wish
them to remain at school. The surest
way to overcome their prejudice
against the white mans learning is TO
touch upon their military instinct
Carlisle Indian school was opened on
October 5, 1879. with 50 Sioux boys
and girls as pupils. 1t rapidly eX-
panded, until II has represented at one
time as many at IS tribes. 1t has at
present enrolled more than 1000 stu
dents. The boys outnumber the girls
By nearly 200. They are quartered in
separate buildings, and rigid separa-
ton of sexes is enforced, boys and
girls meeting only under the eyes Of
teacher or disciplinarian at the com
mon exercises in classrooms or at So
cial entertainments. The campus,
beautifully laid out in drill ground,
tennis and croquet courts, flower beds
and artistic gardens, is most pictur-
esque one. 1t embraces 20 acres of
land, on which the dwelling. school,
Industrial, administrative buildings,
numbering SO, are grouped. SURROUND
ing the whole are 270 acres of farm
land, where the classes in agricul-
ture receive practical instruction. The
buildings are mostly Unrestricted,
usually of brick, with sun-exposed
verandas, lighted by electricity, heat
| ed by steam, and in every respect
modern in equipment A network Of
granolithic pavements unite the vari-
Gus buildings. The winter gymnasium,
with a ground area of 1873 by As, has
| complete athletic apparatus, running
| track, an armory, baths, reading
room, debating society quarters and
a large Y NJ c. A. hall. Protestant
and Catholic services are held every
| Sunday.
In the academic department the aim
is to give the pupils of both sexes an
elementary English education en-
bracing language. history, literature,
arithmetic, geography, music and
drawing. The Industrial department
teaches the boys carpentry, black.
smithing. printing, tailoring, wagon.
making, carriage and house painting,
calcimining, upholstering, tin-smith.
ing. shoemaking. harness-making,
steam fitting. plumbing, farming,
dairying, stock and poultry raising
bricklaying. masonry, cement work,
lath and plastering, and photography.
Every boy must elect trade.
The school is supported by an an
nual appropriation by congress OF
$4,000 1t haT is academic and Is
Industrial instructors, and the total
number of employees is so.