Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-08
CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOLS
PASSING NOTEWORTHY EVENT
established I'm 1870, Many Noted Ath-
ietcs Developed Thereto sl}e
Grcnt Hospital.

CARLISLE. PA. September THE
passing of Carlisle Indian School on
TWe a l and its retransfer to the
war department for use as an army
general hospital marks the closing OF
the life OF one of Americas uniuuely
successful institutions. The school was
carlisle. first named ''Washingtonburg"
me plant was known in Revolutionary
DAYS as the Public Works." and it's
,oSatlon was kept IL secret for military
purposes; government laboratory
and finally a cavalry barracks were
located here. the latter being vacated
Lieutenant Richard II. Pratt, now a
Tetreu origadier-genera in charge of
inolan war prisoners from Fort Sill at
81. Augustine. conceived the idea of
eoucating his charges. and after inter-
estihs Congress secured the use OF the
oaV airy barracks and land in Carlisle
sehooi was a success. 1t aimed to
[he duties les of citizenship. Both aca-
uchllc ana vocational training v,ere
given. y novel educational system
was evolved. known as the Outing svs-
.em' which allowed students to work
iarHiS IN nearby States and attend
local tocai public schools. Children between
one-quarter Indian blood were elirib1e
Tor enrolment.
s General traits retirement saw him
SucS Msrc oyi In succession. Major W.
John Francis. Jr, and {. V. pei jpp ns
s Soho, ,ssu,,rerintenden.s; Active in the
a. J. stanIipE @osK iss of ri, the school were
Denny, Glenn S. Warner Vance Mic
Eo' MEX w; q. Thompson and others
III indian educational fields
INSTITUTION TURNED
OUT NOTABLE ATHLETES
The school first attracted wide ot,en.
uon through the phenomenal success
III me boys trained along athletic lines
A Anne 5ien racos 5; Warner became
ihority through his work with the In:
dams. ~ -"
Vance Mccormick. Yale 90 football
lnalan youth football instruction, and
n1 sncceeaed In 1923 in placing Carlisle
G Tu, me aaie and Penn schedules. Silly
Yale; coached Carlisle. Glenn S. War.
ner left Cornell and came here in 1899.
lie Wing for Cornell in 1904, Returning
mere until 1912: Other coaches OF dis
tinction were Edward Rodgers. Frank
hudson hudson o. and Bemus Pierce. Indian
Kinney; Carl Flanders. Charles O'Brien.
Victor Kelley and Gustavus Welsh. the
Two 1--WE, las last being Indians. Great Indian
great athlete; Metoxen. Frank Mount
Pleasant. Red Water. Seneca, Hudson.
~, ne pterceSi Hendricks. Rodg ers.
dine. Lubo. Little Boy, payne Iittie
c 5ba MA Nan SSehousshuk; Afraid;of Bear
well. Lone Wolf. Powell. Gardner.
CHIEF BENDER ONE
OF IT'S NOTABLE PRODUCTS
Baseball gave number OF noted
payers, particularly Bender and ten
tributed stars to the American erma-
ment each year. The latter activi,ias
gave Thorpe TO the world as "a great
h AN at stockholm. and records were
ncr. Hunt, Libby. Billy and Mitchell
Lewis Tewanima shone as "A long-dis-
lance runner here and abroad
Notwithstanding occasional criticisn
or carlisle athletics. it may be said
that sports at the school were always
G, co. in clean and sportsman
eral years ago was owing - The fact
that the term OF enrolment of students
nSing hve years. some of the boys
the team and because of it a rule was
made limiting Them to four years on a
team. The athletes were drawn from
averaged over 200 in number. The
football team travelled all over the
country and in one year played all the
The Carlisle School property was
rendered several months ago BY the
indian Bureau to the War Departn>n,.
The institution consists Of nearly sixty
buildings. and over 800 acres Of excel
lent farming land facilities are imme-
diatcly available for many OF the uses
or big army hospital. The general
hospital Will be equipped to handle
thousands OF patients. and will be UNI
der the direction II Major a. G. Bach
+. l.. Sanborn, of Ohio University. viii
be in charge of vocational educational
work.
Patients may BIO placed on special
trains at the ports OF New York, Phila-
delphia and Baltimore and taken of
tho trains with minimum of handling
at the receiving station, which is on
the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Japnnesc Occupy khabnrOvsk.
SHANGHAI, September 7,-Jap-
anese forces have occupied the town