The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-05-26
Albuquerque Indian School NOw
Closing Its Most Successful Year

trades which 90 to make a complete
manual training course. We visited
the harness shop, now housed In one
OF the old frame buildings soon to be
discarded. Here under the guidan' ,
/ OF Guy Gilmore. a San Carlos Apache
a large class Of boys are being turned
Into expert harness makers. shJ,
makers and shoe repairers. The shor
now has ID contract for forty sets Of
double harness for delivery to tn,
government commissary next year
Every Item OF shoe and harness r..
pairing required by the school r. duns
In this shop, which also turns out the
schools considerable harness equip
mcnt. We saw tables. cabinets,
chairs, ana even bunets turned out
from the cabinet making department
which indicated perfect trsining Va
that trade. There In u barn. one ~
the finest In New Mexico. built en-
tiroly boy the Indian carpenters ana
stoncinasons and brick masons. at a
cost Of approximately s3.5be. ~
duplicate az another southwestern
school when built by contract. cost
$40, Gee. Every sash and door for the
new buildings now under way will he
turned out Of the carpenter shop At
the school, the work being done ~
the boys.
II means that the boy leaves this
school leaves Il prepared TO earn his
living on an equal footing with his
school trained white brother. aud
maybe on just q little better footing.
from The standpoint OF the thorough
ness OF training.
BUILDINGS and Equipment.
II In for the housing Of the manual
training and domestic silence depart
ments that the new buildings now UNI
der way are designed. The new shops
building has a iioor space over all 81
~ by ~ feet. The FIRST iiOor viii
house the blacksmith shop, wagon
shop, carpenter shop, machine shop
ana paint shop, equipped with ccmeut
floors. ON the second floor will be %
big hall for use as an armory and
band room. n surrounding II The
harness shop, h u shop and tailor
shop. for there h. 10 be q thorough
coursa Ia tailoring. This building W.
occupy the northwest corner Of the
biE plaza, leaving just room enough
for the construction OF the new as
sembly hall and gymnasium building.
which u Is now expected will be proc
vided for by the pending Indian APP
preparation bill. and for which there
IL pressing need, since tho present as
sembly hail IN the class room build
ing. is being used for teaching.
The new domestic science building
Is located just behind the girls dor
mitory and Is also two stories. with
floor space IS by - feet. The nrst
floor will contain the kitchen. dini1g
room, sewing room. living room anu
teachers room, while the second hoor
will have i've rooms in which the de-
tail taking the work will live. In the
present equipment the details at work
on domestic science have been limited
TO four girls. with the new building
the details can be increased to ten ~
twelve girls doing the work two
months each,
The third buildins provided for icy
this years appropriation Is a double
cottage for the use Of employees.
II THE appropriation asked for ~
the department, on Mt. Perry's rec
ommcndation. IL approved by con-
gress. the gymnasium and assembly
hall building can be built within a
year.
One other building superintendent
Perry needs Co complete ms plant
and make Il up To his very high IDEAL
OF thorough equipment. This is n
library building. and this he hopes II
will be possible to get within a year
or two
Practically all Of the nd frame
buildings with which the school orig
inally was equipped ave been dis
caTdcd. torn down OF moved back for
secondary uses. The dormitorics all
are Of brick. with more than ado-
quato air space. broad sleeping porch
es, living and recreation rooms, the
latter being appropriately termed
rough house rooms" me Of he
older buildings IN the west side OF
the plaza Is Used by the very lttue
boys. The dormitories a rapacity
for 100 girls and 260 boys. each with
an individual bed and without crowd
ing. All the beds are full.
The girls dormitOTy where all The
Indian girls. both big and little, live,
while one of the older buildings has
been completely rebuilt under Mr.
Perry's direction. Hardwood floors
and steel ceilings have beer installed
and the whole building surrounded
by broad. deep. double-story porches
which make for comfort, convenience.
room and the homelike atmosphere
which pervadcs the whole institution.
The dOrmitorics are models Of neat
ness and the room given to the
larger girls, three TO a room. are at
tractiye. The sleeping porches on the
girls dormltories have been htted