288

March 31, 1900.

Supt. Russell Ratliff,
Indian Boarding School,
Omaha Agency, Neb.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of the 17th inst. in regard to
John Grant, I have to inform you that full explanation of our
rule in such cases was made you sometime ago for the benefit of
John's father, and in justice to our school and the boy, the mat-
ter cannot be settled differently. We do not break this rule ex-
cept in very special cases. The Sherman children's case was such.
If there are such weighty reasons for John's return that you strong-
ly recommend it, I shall of course give them consideration, but
for the boy's sake I should very much regret to comply. He is still
in one of our lower grades, having begun at the bottom. He has
improved much in conduct, and I am hopeful that we can do very
much more for him.

Your recommendation in the matter is requested.

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April 2, 1966.

To The Adjutant General, U.S.A.
Washington, D. C.

Sir :-

I have the honor to report myself on duty in charge of
this School under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved
June 27th per S.O. No. 104, Headquarters of the Army, A.G.O., Aug
ust 23rd, and letter of instructions from the Honorable Secretary
of the Interior, dated September 6th, all 1979.

My address for the next month is as above.

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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April 2, 1900.

The Ladies' Protestant Guild Bureau,
1502 Cherry St.,
Phila., Pa.

Mesdames :-

Complying with your letter of March 31st I herewith send
you two tickets from Masonville, N.J. to Carlisle. These are school
tickets for the use of students. Employees also are allowed to use
them, so that I can send them for the man and his wife. They will
be good from Broad St. Station to Carlisle. I do not happen to
have any Phila. tickets. Full tickets "Phila. to Carlisle" would
cost $3.70, so that with the enclosed $1.72 is saved. You had no
right to promise that I would furnish tickets. The government
does not furnish tickets for employees. The order is against it.
Mr. and Mrs. Fellows had to pay their own fare here and back.

I will wait till Wednesday noon for Mr. and Mrs. Van der May.
Should they not come for any reason, I ought to be informed at
once and the tickets returned.

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P. S. -- Since writing the above I have had a little conversation
by phone with Mr. Van der May, and have agreed that he leave Phila
at noon Wednesday, reaching here at 4:30.

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April 2, 1900.

Mr. W. K. Tate,
Secretary, Executive Committee,
Charleston, S. Car.

My dear Mr. Tate :-

I send a few clippings which will show you
how the Indian band was received in Washington where
it furnished the music for the Longfellow Memorial Ex-
ercises on the 16th inst., at the White House, where
they entertained President and Mrs. McKinley and mem-
bers and ladies of the Cabinet for more than an hour
with selections called for by Mrs. McKinley and others.

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April 2, 1900.

Mrs. Jessie W. Cook,
C/o Indian Band,
Richwood Hotel,
Boston, Mass.

My dear Mrs. Cook :-

Thank you for your very frank letter. We shall see what we shall see, I have to pay the bills. It has already cost me nearly four times as much for salaries of advance agents alone as you cleared at Trenton, Newark, and Yonkers, beside bills for printing, railroad transportation, and a great many other extras. However, it is too long a story to write about, and I have not the time, but will talk it all over when you return and convince you and every Indian that it has not been my fault in any sense that the band is failing to succeed financially. I concede the fullest success otherwise.

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April 2, 1900.

Major G. W. H. Stouch,
U. S. Indian Agent,
Cheyenne & Arapahoe Agency,
Darlington, O.T.

My dear Major :-

You should have been informed of Emily Clarke's return home. Immediately after commencement I went to Washington with the band and was there two days. Since my return I have not been up to my measure, and have been intensely occupied with the band's tour, which by the way, is proving anything but remunerative. The boys are doing well, and everything goes off nicely except the financial part of it. So far I am out of pocket over four thousand dollars, and have just to arrange to call it off at the close of a two weeks engagement in New York and Boston.

Emily Clarke has given you quite her characteristics. If you had sent for her and told her she was to go to Cantonment it would have been all right. It is true she has prepared herself for teaching, but she is not a kindergartner. She has only the merest smattering of kindergarten work. Kindergarten is not given here because our children are all too old; but she has had quite a little training as a pupil teacher. It has been only by arbitrary control that I have held her at Carlisle until she graduated. She fought hard to go away at the end of her five years, but I had information from the agency that it would be the worst thing that could be done for her to let her go home. I think Mr. Seger did

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have a talk with her while here. What promises he made her I do
not know.

to Cantonm-nt

Appointment came here for Fannie Harris, a Sac and Fox gradu-
ate of the same class with Emily. She is now at her home at Stroud
Oklahoma, not very far from you. I forwarded it to her. This is
probably the place you had in view for Emily. Fannie is much more
capable and is something of a musician; is bright, happy, and obe-
dient in her disposition. She has had no training in our pupil
teachers' class, nor has she had special training as matron, but
will respond cheerfully and promptly to instruction, and knows e-
nough about the routine and discipline of a school to at once fall
in with any measures or duties that may be ordered.

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April 3, 1900.

Hon. W. A. Jones,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner!

This will introduce to you one of my first graduates, Mr. Charles Dagenette, who has for years been a most acceptable and efficient employee in several western schools, and is now employed at this school. He wishes to see you about some particular matter relating to his people, at the instance of the principal man of the tribe.

I ask your fullest consideration to what he has to say,

Sincerely yours,

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April 3, 1900.

Coyou, Comanche,

Fort Sill, O.T.

Dear Friend :-

Your pictures came sometime ago, and I was glad to have them. It took Mrs. Pratt some time to make out who they were. We have been talking of taking a trip to your part of the country to see our old friends and the changes which have come since we were at Fort Sill. I have been troubled a great deal of late with rheumatism, and a rest would do me good. It may be sometime before we come, and it may be we will have to put it off altogether, but it is in my mind to do it.

With kind regards to all the old friends and yourself,

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April 3, 1900.

To His Excellency,

The President

The White House, Washington.

Dear Sir :-

I have known Dr. George G. Groff, now Superintendent of Public Instruction for Porto Rico, almost twenty years, and have always regarded him as one of the ablest educators in this section. He aspires to the position of Commissioner of Education for Porto Rico, and asks my testimonial to you, which I most cheerfully give because I think him eminently capable and worthy.

With the greatest respect,

Your obedient servant,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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April 3, 1900.

Olga C. Reinken,

Unalaska, Alaska.

Dear Miss Reinken :-

Your sisters and brother are in the country and are get-
ting on nicely. John's five years are up, but he is quite young
yet and has not as much education as he ought to have to be a use-
ful man. He ought to remain quite a while with us yet. The ex-
pense of sending him home is so great that it is not best to do
that until he goes home to stay. However, I will ask Dr. Jackson
what he thinks about it. Your brother Leon is too young now. We
do not take children under twelve or fourteen.

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April 3, 1900.

Governor Joseph Francis,
Millnockett, Me.

My dear Sir :-

It is entirely impracticable for me to allow your daugh-
ter to go home for the summer. There are a number of others from
your section who would immediately plead for the same favor, and
with as good reason. We have pupils from all over the United States
many from New York and some from western Pennsylvania, but our
rule is the same for all. They come here for five years, and if
we did not hold them to that it would be useless to expect to help
them very much. If pupils are themselves in good health, they are
expected to fulfill their part of the agreement, for it is clearly
explained to them before coming here that the term is five years.
You can easily understand into what difficulties it would throw me
to yield in one case and not in another.

No tuition is required or accepted at a Government school.
Clothing, books, etc. are issued free, food and quarters are pro-
vided, and parents are at no expense whatever for their children
while they are in attendance at such a school. It is desirable
however that students have a little pocket money, for little ex-
trus they may want, and it is expected that they earn such money.
They have a chance to do this under our outing, and all are expect-
ed sometime during their course to take that feature of ourtrain-
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care of for them our school bank. Pupils have their own bank books
and learn to keep their own accounts. They are not allowed to
spend their money for things that would be harmful to them, but
are taught to exercise judgment in regard to their expenditures.
Girls of your daughter's age and capability usually start at
five dollars a month or thereabout, and if they prove themselves
capable, they are given more. Some of our girls receive ten and
twelve dollars per month. But the money making is only a secon-
dary consideration in our outing. The principal object is to give
pupils a chance to learn to keep house and perform all the duties
required of a good house mother. That is worth more to them than
the money they receive. No girl's education is complete nor prac-
tical unless she has learned these things. We are very particular
in our selection of homes. Patrons and pupils often become very
fond of each other, and the girls cannot fail to be benefitted
greatly by association daily with these people. A lady from the
school visits the girls during the summer, and reports fully to me
all conditions. Monthly reports from patrons are also sent in, so
that we keep track of them, and if conditions seem to grow unfavor-
able they are immediately attended to.

Your daughter has not gone to the country yet, but should
she go, I trust you will have enough confidence in my management
to accept my assurance that she will be as carefully looked after
as if in your own charge. I will not do anything for her that I
would not do for my own daughters. I am glad you are interested
and it is right that you want to understand our system. I hope I
have made the matter clear. Grace is well and getting on nicely.

Sincerely yours,

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April 3, 1900.

Olga C. Reinken,

Unalaska, Alaska.

Dear friend :-

Your sisters and brother are in the country and are get-
ting on nicely. John has been here five years, but is quite young
and should keep on with his education. He has really only a good
start yet, and the expense of sending him home is so great that it
is not best to do that until he goes home to stay. He has many ad-
vantages here and it is to his interest to use them, for they will
not last always.

Your brother Leon is too young to come to Carlisle. Pupils
must be over twelve years of age, preferably over fourteen.

Yours sincerely,

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April 4, 1900.

Joseph LaFramboise,
U.S. R.S. "Richmond",
League Island Navy Yard,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Joe :-

As you leave port so soon I am glad for your parting let
ter. You have the proper spirit, and I hope you will always keep
your good resolutions. If you continue to seek out the best men you
can find for your friends and companions, and heed the advice of
those who have had long and honorable experience, as you indicate
you have done so far, I shall feel very comfortable as to your fu-
ture. Your career in the service of Uncle Sam is of much interest
to all your friends here. I trust we may hear from you as often
as possible.

With kind regards to all my boys on "The Richmond",

Faithfully your friend,

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April 4, 1900.

Miss Ellen C. Wright,
Wilmington College,
Wilmington, Ohio.

My dear Miss Wright :-

Replying to your letter in regard to Mary Moon I have to
advise you that Dr. Jackson while here at commencement in March
indicated his intention to take her to Alaska with him. I told
him I would pay her way as far as Seattle. As this would be at a
very low rate, such as I have for other tickets, it would be impos-
sible for me to arrange for her to stop off; nor would I think it
well for her to do so. She has always seemed inclined to get into
Ohio if she could. We have had some warm contentions lately on
that subject, she wishing to go to Cleveland.

Mary is capable of giving very good service in an Indian school
and Dr. Jackson proposes to use her in that way at some one of his
stations in Alaska. Considering all things she has done very well
and has given good evidence of being a Christian now. I trust you
will keep up correspondence with her. She will feel much more in-
clined to you I think after she gets into the field and at work; at
least it is worth your while to try.

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April 4, 1900.

Mr. R. M. Thomas, Attorney, etc.
Room 44,
88 6 90 LaSalle St.,
Chicago, Ill.

Dear Sir :-

I have your letter in regard to Mr. Conners. You have
probably not read carefully the agreement and my letters, and do
not understand all the conditions. With a better understanding of
these your judgment would be entirely different. My last telegram
to Mr. Conners dated, Dec. 28th, stated I was willing to pay trans-
portation of his goods both ways. If he makes a careful bill of
the expense of packing and hauling the goods to the station and
back again and unpacking, all of which will, I suppose, amount to
less than $25, and will affirm to it, I will send him that; but
only because that is practically what I said in my telegram.

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Dr. Carlos Montezuma,
C/O Indian Bard,
Richwood Hotel,
Boston, Mass.

April 4, 1900.

My dear Doctor :

I thank you for writing me of your arrangements. They appear to be as cheap and satisfactory as could be made. I trust that in every possible way economy will be observed. Mr. Pew writes me fully and thinks it impossible to make the band pay; says he is greatly disappointed in the appreciation of the public, and it is needless to say I share his disappointment. If I can get the band back here and be out of pocket in all not more than four thousand dollars I shall consider myself lucky.

I expected Mr. Eaton to arrive last night, but he has not re-
ported yet.

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April 4, 1900.

Dr. Alice M. Seabrook,
M. E. Hospital,
Phila., Pa.

My dear Doctor :-

I have been under great pressure and not at all well. We were all very sorry to hear of Dr. Lord's death. How very sad it must have made you feel after your long and apparently successful fight to save her.

Sometime when we meet if you will remind me of it, we will talk of Major Powell, and I will give you my opinion of ethnology and ethnologists in general,

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April 4, 1900.

Mrs. M. D. Thompson,
29 Atwood St.,
Hartford, Conn.

My dear Mrs. Thompson :-

We probably started out without giving sufficient time in advance to making our arrangements. The band has not been a moneymaker. On the contrary, it has buried quite a lot for me. After the Boston and New York engagements with Keith's which will last this week and next, I expect to call them back.

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April 4, 1900.

Gen. John Eaton,
"The Concord",
Washington, D.C.

My dear General :-

I did not reply to your letter immediately because I could see it would be practically impossible for me to maintain the band in the field. It is plain to me and plain to those who are in the business that the band cannot at present be made to win financial returns by any methods I would be willing to employ to that end. They have an engagement for this week and next with Keith's Vaudeville in Boston and New York. Then I expect to call them back to Carlisle and will mull over the results and see if I cannot in some way push out from under the more than five thousand dollars indebtedness I have incurred in this short venture.

There is no fault with the quality of music furnished, but the fact is, bands are so common that people can get all they want of that sort of entertainment free or in connection with other entertainments. If I would dress the young people up as Indians it would be a great take. I could add a little tomtom music, dances, and perhaps a few Indian solos, and attract a great crowd; but this would be doing violence to all my record and to my judgment, and hurt the school far more than any possible financial or other results that could accrue.

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April 4, 1900.

Editor,
"The New York Tribune",
New York City.

Sir :-

Several clippings from various New York papers of the 28th have been sent me by friends, suggesting that I answer statements made by Mrs. John F. Trow, Mrs. Lillie Devereaux Blake, and Mrs. T. St. John Gaffney, at a meeting of the Society of Political Study on the 27th of March at Fifty-ninth Street and Madison Avenue, asserting that "Indian children are torn from their parents to be sent to Carlisle or some other school," a school the parents look upon as a disgrace. I call this cruel."

I do not know of a single instance where Indian children have been taken from their parents against parents' consent and brought to this school during its more than twenty years' history, except two parties sent by the War Department from prisoner Indians, and in these cases there were no material objections from parents.

For some years the law has required written parental consent. The following is the Carlisle form :-

"I ............ of the .................... tribe of Indians, being in good health and of good character, ......years of age, acting for myself and with the full knowledge and consent of my parents (or guardian) do hereby make application to be admitted as a "pupil in the Carlisle, Pa., Indian Industrial School and do agree

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"if so admitted, to remain for the period of five years unless graduated sooner; and I do further agree to obey faithfully all the rules and regulations of the school.

"I ... being the ... of ...
"and as such duly authorized thereto, do hereby consent and agree
"to this act of my ... and I do further promise to cooperate
"date with the officers of the Carlisle, Pa., Indian Industrial School
"to enforce this agreement to the end that my ... may re-
"convey the greatest benefit possible attendance at the school.

"... Reserve.

"On behalf of the United States and in consideration of the
"promises and representations above made, it is hereby agreed to ac-
"cept of ... as a pupil of the Carlisle Indian Indus-
"trial School for the term named.

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt."

The allegation, "a school that parents look upon as a disgrace"
is equally without foundation. A multitude of written statements
and letters from parents prove it so. I have carefully preserved
every letter written me by Indians and students during the more
than twenty years since the establishment of this school. They
number very many thousands. A search through them will show facts

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contrary to Mrs. Trow's statements.

However, to fully meet the case, I make the following propo-
sitions:- I will pay the reasonable expenses of any one of the
three ladies mentioned if she will undertake a most careful inves-
tigation of this subject in her own way and on her own lines at
four or five separate agencies of her own choosing, and make pub-
lic her findings, or, I will share half the expense if two of the
said ladies will go together and do it, and will then make public
just what they discover, giving the names of their informants and
the questions and answers, as well as the names of those who sug-
gest and direct their movements and inquiries. I will make no sug-
gestion, nor willingly permit any friend of Carlisle to make any
suggestions as to the direction, tenor, or character of the inquir-
es, leaving that absolutely in the hands of the ladies mentioned
to be conducted as they may choose. Copies of all letters ever
written by me to parents, pupils, and others are carefully pre-
served in books, and these together with a 1 letters ever received
by me will be at the fullest scrutiny of the ladies. They will al
so be given every opportunity for just such consultation as they
care to have with every pupil and employee at the school, if they
care to look into the matter here.

so be given every opportunity for just such consultation as they
care to have with every pupil and employee at the school, if they
care to look into the matter here.
From its origin Carlisle has been an open house to every vio-
itor and inquirer.

If there is any wider facility that I have not thought of in
the above propositions that would assist in arriving at the facts
it is included herein.
paper

Please oblige me by putting this in your as prominently as
where their remarks were printed.

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April 4, 1900.

Mrs. A.A.F. Johnston,
Dean, Oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio.

Dear Mrs. Johnston :-

Mrs. Platt, one of my oldest and best friends and one of the most valuable workers the Indian service has ever had, writes me that it is possible for us to have the pleasure of a visit and a lecture from you about Miss Mather. I write at once to say that we should be delighted to have you with us, and will gladly undertake the small expense you mention if you will fix the date. If you can come I would like to know as long in advance as possible, so that I may be at home. I am anticipating a considerable absence some time this spring or early summer.

At Mrs. Platt's suggestion I send you a copy of The Red Man containing a report of our commencement exercises.

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April 4, 1900.

My dear Mrs. Wright :-

I have expected for some days to go to Washington and
saved your letter of the 25th ult. to answer after talking with
the Commissioner, but the band has kept me occupied and I could
not get away; so I have had a talk with him over the long distance
phone, and among other things brought up your case. From what the
Commissioner said briefly, I think if you had invited close scrutiny
in all your affairs, and especially your mess matters, you
would have had no trouble. I told Mr. Jones I believed in you and
would want to know all the evidence and the sources of it before I
would believe you had done wrong. He had read the testimony and
your letters. If I had gone to Washington prior to his action in
the matter I could have read all the testimony and given an intelligent
opinion, which I think would have had some little weight.
From what I know of the situation I could hardly believe that Mr.
Ryan has at all directed matters along this line. The Commissioner
has an enormous mail. He gives more personal attention to it
than any commissioner I have ever known. He sees every letter
and document addressed to him, and if it seems important he reads
it. I have been present a good many times and watched him.

One thing he said was that you changed employes a good deal.
Without exactly knowing the reason, I think one of the things that
has brought it about is the excessive salary list in proportion to

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the number of students. For several months back that has been
talked about considerably, and a careful list has been prepared of
all schools showing a salary list out of proportion to the total
cost. It is possible your school is on the high salaried list.
As you indicate an intention of leaving the service in May and are
so thoroughly disgusted with your present location, I cannot see
where I could make a move to help you. When you come east we shall
expect you and Mr. Wright to visit us at Carlisle. If there is
something in your mind that I can do, let me know.

With kindest regards to Mr. Wright, I am

Very sincerely yours,

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Mrs. Lydia Hunt Wright,
San Carlos, Ariz.

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April 4, 1900.

Dr. Carlos Montezuma,
C/O Indian Band,
Richwood Hotel,
Boston, Mass.

My dear Doctor !

Your letter of the 2nd duly received. I await with in-
terest every piece of information about the band. Dennison has
not seen fit to write me since he left the school, so that I have
been dependent upon you and Mr. Eaton. With certainly $400 ex-
pened yet to come in, our indebtedness has increased
from $1400 at the
start by about $400, so that we are practically $5000 in debt.
I cannot see my way at present to meet this outlay, nor is it rea-
sonable to expect me to allow it to increase. I sent for Mr. Velder
and Mr. Eaton to talk over the situation and see if we could work
out any easement. Mr. Velder came this morning. Mr. Eaton has
not yet turned up, although he telegraphed he would leave Boston
last night. If there is any certainty of income anywhere, or if
anybody can be found who will assume the financial responsibility
and keep the band in such entertainments as will not disgrace the
school I shall gladly avail myself of the opportunity to have them
do it. I see the disposition is to load me up with the responsi-
bility of failure. I have, as you know, built up the band, and
taken all the chances and responsibility in connection with it and
shall not fail to shoulder the responsibility for its failures as well.
It is all
very well to say that things might have been different if we had
done differently. If I had not been loaded with commencement and

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a good many other ifs had not been in my way I might have seen
more clearly and acted with greater precision. I am very sure if
I had not been so loaded with work I should never have turned over
the management of any part of Carlisle to such an utter stranger
as I did. That, however, is over, and we shall see what we shall
see very soon.

I am very glad to know the boys are true to themselves and
that you can speak so well of them. Every day of good conduct on
the part of all left there in the great city of Boston with no sup-
posed superior white man in charge is a telling argument for the
Carlisle idea. I trust you all and believe I can trust you even
though you are not placed in the surroundings that I myself would
have liked to place you. Mr. Albee, the general manager of
Keith's, writes me in a very complimentary way of your first per-
formance and its reception.

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TELEGRAM.

April 5.

J. P. Loomis, Mgr.

Kansas City, Mo.

Your letter Mr. Pew, Mo. 14, referred me. If you want Carlisle's
Indian card three days either first or preferably second week in
May, matinees, evenings throughout your option, $2000, will under
take western trip. Otherwise not. Albee, Mgr. Keith's, Boston
writes me yesterday had a hit there. Newspapers complimentary.
Next week, Keith's, New York. The feature both places. Can send
you abundance of billing immediately including 500 handsome col-
ored photos for windows. Mail you two today.

Time limitations permit few stops New York to Kansas City and
return. Advance agents here waiting your prompt wire answer.

Pratt. Major. Supt.

Postal. 10:10 a.M.

Govt. rate.

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April 5, 1900.

Hon. Darwin R. James,
123 Maiden Lane,
New York.

My dear friend :

Your very kind note to General Eaton, ap-
preciating the band, and your interest in its Brook-
lyn meeting, is forwarded to me by him.

It was imperative that I trust arrangements to
a manager who was selected by my band leader and ful-
ly recommended to manage this and all other band en-
gagements for me. It has been the very dearest ex-
perience in my Carlisle history. We were entirely
mismanaged in the advertisements in the large
cities, and as a result I am out a very large sum,
about four thousand dollars in expenses. The boys
are playing at Keith's in Boston under a contract
and are to play in New York, two weeks in all, for
$1000. Out of this we may have $400 over expenses.

Thank you for your kindly word. With kindest
remembrance to Mrs. James from both Mrs. Pratt and
myself,

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April 5, 1900.

Wm. H. Patterson,
Sanborn, N.Y.

My dear Friend :-

On receipt of your letter I sent it to Governor Roosevelt, who is an old friend of mine, and he sent me the game laws of the state and informed me that the courts had ruled that Indians would have to comply with them notwithstanding their treaties. If the courts have so decided, we must abide by their decision. Of course you understand that these laws are made to protect the fish In this country our trout have been very poorly protected; the streams have nearly been fished out, so that it is no longer any pleasure to go fishing. Pas are being sacrificed in the same way I should say the provisions are wise and the courts are right, and it would be well for us to abide by these judgments. In many places in the west the Indians have suffered much more than you have from the enforcement of the game laws. The courts have upheld the law, and Indians have had to yield even when their very living seemed to depend upon their right to kill game. We are soon to be one people, and we want to hand down to our children the best conditions we can. It seems to me it is especially becoming in Indians as far advanced as you are in New York to render very cheerful obedience to the law. I told the Governor I had thought of making you a visit with the special purpose of going fishing, thinking he

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March 27, 1900.

Mrs. J. T. Appleby,
6500 Monroe Ave.,
Chicago, Ill.

My dear Mrs. Appleby :-

Joseph Schildt was not tried and punished for his offense. He ran away before there was opportunity for that. Joe came to us with a pretty bad previous training, was profane and vile in his language. While in the country he ran away and was working at another place, and was gone nearly four months before we found him and brought him back to the school. He did quite well again for a while and I was in hopes that he had made a turn in the right direction, but his inclination to seek objectionable companions if they could be found among our own boys, made his running away less annoying than it otherwise would have been.

Joe is a good hardworking fellow. He had considerable experience under our outing on farms, and was in the kitchen most of the time as helper to the cook while at the school, though he was at times detailed to the dairy, and worked some months in our paint shop.

He is quite able to take care of himself, as shown by the fact that he was away several months, taking care of himself, before we found him and brought him back to the school.

His immediate discontent I think was that he wanted to enlist in the army, and I wrote to his father, but his father would not consent, which I think was a mistake, as army discipline would have been a good thing for Joe.

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April 5, 1900.

Good Cane Milk,
Naper, Neb.

Dear Friend :-

As it was Uriah's own desire to go into the army and he
was of age and legally able to manage his own affairs, I do not
see that anything can be done about it, and if it were possible I
do not think it would be right to try to break his obligation.
The matter is entirely out of my hands. I would not for a moment
consider your proposition. You ought to be glad that Uriah is
willing to do his share for his country, and not interfere because
of your own personal inconvenience. Reuben Quickbear wrote me a
week or two ago on the subject. He has probably told you what I
said.

Trusting you will give up cheerfully to what cannot now be
helped and to what ought to be considered a privilege instead of
a misfortune, I am

Yours truly,

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April 5, 1900.

Dan, W. Milk,

Ponca Creek, N. Dak.

Dear Sir :-

I have your letter about Uriah GoodCane. I am very sorry his father grieves so about his son's going into the army. It was his own doing, and being of age he had a right to do as he pleased. It is quite impossible for me to have him released from his obligation, nor would it be right for me to try it. A contract is a contract and is binding, and an effort to break it is likely to injure Uriah's scapability as a soldier. His father has cause to be proud of him instead of distressed at his action. Our country needs many thousands of men and Indians should be as willing to help as white men are.

I trust you will do what you can to comfort the father and to convince him that Uriah is only doing his duty.

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April 5, 1900.

Mr. E. B. Shaw, Asst. Mag. Editor,
"Boston Journal",
Boston, Mass.

Dear Sir :—

We have no up-to-date descriptive account of the school,
but I mailed you today The New England Magazine for April, '95,
which contains an article written by one of the professors in
Dickinson College, and a late number of The Home Monthly published
in Pittsburg, containing an article on the school; also a souvenir
book of pictures printed in 1895, and my last Annual Report.

Trusting you may get from these what you want,

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April 5, 1900.

Hon. J. M. Thurston,
U.S. Senate,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Senator :-

Thanks for your telegram and the gratifying information that the Committee has favored us in the "purchase of land" matter. The prospect of being able to accomplish the purchase is more encouraging than when I wrote you.

Supt. Hall of the Perris School, Cal. is here. I count him one of our best superintendents. He has had a long hard fight to have his school changed to a decent locality. I am in heartiest sympathy with the removal of the Perris school to Riverside, as in the proposed House bill. Have not seen the Senate bill. The school should never have been established at Perris and its location is unsuitable in every respect. I have been there twice with special reference to its surroundings, and cannot urge too strongly upon your Committee to stand by the Commissioner in his views.

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April 6, 1900.

Simeon George,

Onondaga Castle, New York.

Dear Simeon :--

Reuben Jones came here in October, 1895, and according
to our rule will not be entitled to return home until next summer.
Where pupils come after the beginning of the term in the fall,
their time does not expire until the end of the school year in
which the five years is completed.

About his going home for a visit, that is not practicable. So
many ask the same thing, and I cannot permit one to go without per-
mitting others. You know our rules and the reasons for them.
Please explain to Reuben's father. Reuben is doing well.

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April 6, 1900.

Rev. J. P. Pitcher,
Pastor M.E. Church,
Palmyra, New York.

My dear Sir :-

If the young Indian you write about is, as you say, already in the public schools and doing well, he could not be put in a better place. It is a great mistake to congregate Indians in schools by themselves and everyone who can be led to attend the public schools should in every way be encouraged to do so. Let him work mornings and evenings and out of school hours for his keep, which will be greatly to his advantage.

Under all the circumstances it does not seem best to send any literature, for the reason that it might indicate a desire on our part to have him break away from his excellent opportunities.

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Apr. 6, 1900.

Dear Ralph :-

The enclosed letter and envelope explain delay in hearing from me in answer to your letter written last fall. It was addressed as you will see, just as your letter indicated it should be. I try again, and hope to reach you this time.

Sincerely yours,

Ralph Armstrong,
Spalding,
Idaho

c/o Indian Agt.

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April 6, 1900.

Miss S. M. Marsh,
Gregory Institute,
Wilmington, N. Car.

Dear Madam :-

For information as to dates and places where Civil Ser-
vice examinations are held, write the Chairman of the Civil Ser-
vice Commission, Washington, D.C. stating what you want to know.
He will send you a book of instructions as to how to proceed, sub-
jects to be examined in, manner of appointment, etc.
Examinations are held in the spring and fall.

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April 5, 1900.

Reuben Shoulder,
Troop E, 2nd U.S. Cavalry,
Santa Clara, Cuba.

Dear Reuben :-

Am sorry to learn by your letter that you had to go in-
to the hospital, but glad to know that you are again able to per-
form regular duty. Twenty of my boys have enlisted in the past
year and are distributed in the various regiments and companies.
Several have asked to go into the Navy and been accepted, and are
awaiting assignment. I expect to hear the best of reports from
all.

Everything is going on as usual at the school. The first
country party of boys left last Saturday morning and the girls
Thursday morning. Spring work has begun here, and everyone is at
work. The helper contains most of the news, and I must refer you
to that for school items.

With best wishes and kind regards,

Faithfully your friend,

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April 6, 1900.

Miss Elmira R. Creason,
Prin. Teacher, Kaw Boarding School,
Kaw Agency, O.T.

Dear Miss Creason :-

Your letter of the 4th inst. to hand. I am ready to receive a class of suitable students from your agency, but only on conditions named in my letter of Mar. 1st. We do not accept students for a less period than five years. If they graduate sooner their term of course expires at the time they graduate. After entering Carlisle pupils are subject to all the regulations of the school, and parents and chiefs have no authority over them further than what tends to the best interests of the pupils themselves, upon which I decide as long as they are under my care.

Trusting you may be able to make up a nice party on the terms written you,

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April 7, 1900.

Dr. Wm. M. Irvin, Pres.
Vercersburg Academy,
Vercersburg, Pa.

My dear Doctor :-

Throughout the twenty years of my stay here I have heard of Vercersburg and its ancient history, and supposed it to be some wornout and beaten down educational institution until through your invitation to talk to your boys I saw it with my own eyes and at once realized how entirely mistaken I had been. The natural beauty of the location, its seclusion, the old and the new of your growing plant, and above all the manly appearance of your student body and the skilful commander of the place were all a revelation to me.

Your offer to take an Indian boy must in some way be utilized, and I shall send you my best when I can.

Fraternally and faithfully yours,

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April 7, 1900.

T. H. Patton, Gen. Supt.,
Pennsylvania Indus. Reformatory,
Huntingdon, Pa.

Dear Sir :-

After consideration I do not think it well to have Walter Bigfire return to Carlisle. He was repeatedly caught pilfering and his conduct is so well known, which added to his reformatory experience would, I fear, not be healthy however much I desire to help him. I think you had better undertake to farm him out in your own way. From our experience here I fear that when he gets away from you and the Reformatory he may not prove satisfactory. I trust, however, you will not allow him to go in the neighborhood of our boys, who are largely in Bucks County and the adjacent New Jersey counties. In fact, it would be better if he were not sent into eastern Pennsylvania at all, but remained in the middle or western part of the state.

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April 7, 1900.

Mrs. Lydia Flint Spencer,
C/O Indian School,
Wyandotte, Ind. Tx.

My dear School-daughter :-

Thanks for your letter which came duly, but found us in
the midst of commencement excitement, and had to lie until the
rush was over. It is pleasant to hear from you and to know that
you are fighting the battles of life womanfully. The many letters
that came from graduates were a great encouragement to me, and
were I am sure to the alumnae. At the alumni meeting many of
them were read, but they were so numerous that some could be read
only in part. There was quite a creditable attendance, consider-
ing how widely scattered the members are.

The commencement occasion was full of encouragement for us all
We had a large delegation from Washington, and all were most set-
isfactory in their appreciation. The new class organized immedi-
ately after commencement carries about half a hundred.

While you tell me about your work, school and duties there,
you say nothing about your family life, which is even of greater
interest. How come it you are in the school?

Remember me cordially to your husband. I am sure I can send
the kindliest greetings to you from all at Carlisle.

Faithfully your friend,

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April 7, 1900.

Hon. W. A. Jones,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner :-

The enclosed are sent me by Ex-agent Eels and Supt. Terry, who urge me to help Mr. Chalcraft's reinstatement. You know I have spoken to you several times about Chalcraft's case. A great wrong was done when he was put out, and I believe that both Mr. Eels and Mr. Terry have stated his case fairly. I regarded Chalcraft as one of our very best reservation superintendents. His school at Puyallup when I visited it was in fine shape and the discipline excellent. It was a Tacoma Democratic crowd that hounded him out.

If possible to have him reinstated, you will have one more good superintendent. I would do anything I could in his behalf.

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April 7, 1900.

Miss Alice M. Robertson,
1630 Nineteenth St.,
Washington, D.C.

My dear Miss Robertson :-

I enclose you a letter addressed to the Secretary, who I suppose is the proper party to consider your claims.

It was a great disappointment to us that you were not in better health when here. It would serve far better if you could come to us when there was no commotion and stayed long enough to renew acquaintance at least. In regard to what you say about the outing I must advise you that with me the outing idea began when I was serving with my troops, when I contended with my brother officers in favor of giving the Indians a full chance to become civilized Americans by association with the best class of Americans, and constantly fought the tribalizing idea. While in Florida I placed the prisoners out at anything I could find for them to do; had two for a long time handling lumber at a sawmill; one as a baggage smasher on a railroad; five at grubbing that dense palmetto land; others at picking and taking care of oranges, choring, milking and caring for the cows and horses, etc. and this, too, in the face of opposition from a large number of people in the community. When I went to Hampton I immediately urged the same method for the same young people and Mr. Hyde, one of the trustees, the father of Mary Hyde, undertook to find homes for them in Berkshire, but

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failed. When he notified General Armstrong that he had not been able to accomplish it, I immediately asked to be allowed to try it and with General Armstrong's permission took Etahdluah and went to Berkshire to see if I could not overcome their fears. I succeeded and that was the start of the Hampton outing. During the summer of 1880 we found places for 18 of the crude, ignorant, and almost non-English speaking young people who came to Carlisle in the first parties. In '81 I almost trebled the number; so you see that anything you might have said in the matter except as confirming my position originated nothing and really furnished no motive power. I do not think the idea an original one by any means, but so far as I was concerned it was simply a conclusion arrived at because of the operation of the same influences upon the non-English speaking people who come to our shores. However, we shall have no differences over that. If you are the best party for the place you seek, I certainly hope you will get it, notwithstanding you are a woman, and I may say that personally I think you are decidedly the best equipped for the place of anyone I know.

Thank you for your newspaper efforts in our behalf.

Sincerely yours,

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April 7, 1900.

Mr. C. W. Emerson,
Emerson College of Oratory,
Tremont & Berkeley Sts.,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Sir:

Thank you for your cordial letter on Mr. Hinton White's statements to you. We have about seven hundred pupils present during the winter months. They are largely low in grade. Our graduating point is only about half way between the grammar and high school grades of the Pennsylvania schools. Still there is a great deal of opportunity for practice in oratory; and from what Mr. White told me of your very natural methods, I thought it quite possible to get a competent helper also skilled in oratory from your classes, and if suitable in every way, gradually build that up as a small feature here.

If you were to send me a lady, the only available place would be as teacher. In that case she would have to take a civil service examination, but I think I could arrange that so she would be examined specially and assigned here. That could be done after she came here. In that case her salary would be $540 per year to begin with, with furnished room, light and heat, and board in our Teachers' club at $2.50 per week. I have a vacancy, but she would have to take up regular schoolroom work at first.

I have a position vacant for a man as assistant disciplinarian, who would assist in the care of the large boys of the school.

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During the winter there are from 275 to 300 boys in one large
building. There is a disciplinarian in general charge, an assist-
ant disciplinarian, and four assistants who are Indians. The sal-
ary of the assistant disciplinarian, which position is now vacant,
with the same perquisites.
is $600 per annum. The duties are to assist in the discipline,
lock after issues of clothing, care of clothing, bathing, and de-
tails, and he should know something about military drills and cal-
isthenics. My disciplinarian is an accomplished drill master and
physical instructor. In his absence the assistant must take his
place. I want to make a beginning in this line without establish-
ing a position directly, and if the plan proved applicable and
likely to be a success I would then propose that a special position
be established.

If you have something encouraging for me along either of these
lines I should be glad to hear from you promptly. I could wait for
the lady teacher until the first of September, but the man would
be needed at once.

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April 7, 1900.

Mr. Edgar C. Snyder, Clerk,
Indian Committee, U.S. Senate,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Snyder :

What I want now on the bill in regard to the band is au-
thority as explained by Mr. Jones, to pay a reasonable price for
the band instruments from Government monies back into my charity
account. What I was talking to Senator Thurston about before was
getting 5, 6, or 7 thousand dollars on the bill either to send the
band to Paris or on an excursion out among the Indians, as the Da-
partment might think best. I concluded to drop that feature of it
and cling to the hope that my venture before the amusement pub-
lie would bring some returns, but am sorry to say that since com-
mencement the band has cost me $4200.00 more than has come in from
entertainments. This added to a debt of $1400.00 that existed be-
fore on the band instruments, makes me in debt $5600.00. I talked
with the Commissioner about getting the Secretary to allow me to
pay from my this year's appropriation a reasonable price for the
instruments which had been accumulated entirely with what I call
my charity resources, gifts made to me for the school, and some
little additional money the band has earned by giving concerts in
near by towns at $100.00 an evening and expenses.

The sticklers for exactness in the Treasury Department, it is
feared at the Indian Office, might object to this payment even

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with the Secretary's authorization, though I should not be afraid
of that if the Secretary had once granted the authority. I placed
the whole matter before the Commissioner and he suggested that we
ask Congress to make this allowance to purchase the instruments
which will then belong to the Government, and very properly. The
Department has purchased instruments for many bands throughout the
service, and I never heard there was an objection to it before.
I would suggest a clause something like the following :-

"And the superintendent of said school is authorized to ex-
pend in the purchase of instruments for the band of said school,
the sum of $3116.25."

Please have the Senators understand that the Government gets the
full benefit of the money after it is thrown back into my charity
account. I have begged and expanded here at this school during
its twenty years more than $130000.00. We own a farm that cost
$20000.00, which our charity trustees rent to the Government for
$500.00 a year, and this amount after paying the farm taxes and in
cidental cost of repairs, goes into the charity fund and is expend-
ed again for the benefit of the school.

This is a long letter, but seemed necessary in order to get
the facts before you.

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April 7, 1900.

Hon. Ethan Allen Hitchcock,
Secretary of the Interior,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir :-

Miss Alice M. Robertson advises me that she is a candidate for the position of Supervisor of Schools for the Creek Nation, and asks my intercession in her behalf.

I can say for Miss Robertson that she is exceptionally well equipped for this particular duty, being well educated, bright, and exceedingly capable and courageous. She was born and reared among the Creeks and is not excelled by anyone in a general knowledge of their peculiarities and educational needs. She is withal wise in her conclusions as to the most practical and proper methods of education that should prevail among them. In the early days of the school she was a clerk in my office, coming in July, '81 and leaving in December, '82.

I request for her aspirations your fullest consideration.

With great respect,

Your obedient servant,

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Mrs. Simon W. Metoxen,
Oneida, Wis.

Dear Madam :-

Celicia is a junior and it would be greatly to her ad-
vantage to graduate. With a Carlisle diploma she can get employ-
ment very readily, as you know. You understand however, that stu-
dents settle the matter themselves whether they will go home at
the end of their five years or stay to complete the course. Both
Amelia and Celicia will have the opportunity to decide the matter,
and if they insist on going home I shall not keep them.

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April 9, 1900.

Mr. R. G. Rhett,
Chairman, Committed on Entertainments, N.E.A.
Charleston, S. Car.

Dear Sir :-

Replying to your letter of April 4th in answer to mine of the 2nd, I have to advise you that it was on the suggestion of the officials of the Indian Bureau in Washington that I wrote you. We have a band composed of 55 pieces. They have completed a week's engagement at Keith's celebrated theatre in Boston, and will play under the same auspices in New York this week, for this service receiving $500 per week. They render the best classic music in a way to satisfy the critics, not that it can be so well done by Indian but that it is well done. Their performance at the N. E. A. would be a strong stimulant to educational effort. Among the 24 different tribes represented in the band are the Apache, Pima, and Sioux, which furnish some of the best performers. Most of the young men were born and reared in the teepee, and nine or ten years ago were little camp Indians with no knowledge of English or civilization.

I will undertake to get the band to and from Charleston for $650; the cost of entertainment while there you will know about. If these expenses can be covered by your committee, and I think they can by using the band in whole or part in pay entertainments it will be at the service of your committee.

I enclose some notices of their performances at Washington and other places.

Yours very truly,
R. H. Pratt

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My dear Sir :-

Thank you for yours of April 4th. It is only confirmatory of almost all cases of the kind. It comes to me from all over the field from those who have charge, agents, instructors, and missionaries, that it is unfortunate to send students back to the reservation; and so far as I am concerned, if they are at all worthy from all my experience I am personally against it, until they are mature and able to stand for themselves.

If it can be arranged that the Sherman children come back I will undertake the expense of their transportation and shall be glad to receive them again.

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April 9, 1900.

Andreas Waxey,

Mesa Grande, Cal.

My dear Sir :-

Your brother Miguel wrote me from the Insane Asylum in Washington such a very plain straightforward letter that it seemed he was certainly in his right mind. He claimed he was entirely well and that the Superintendent was ready to let him come back to Carlisle and he wanted to come back and complete his course. Expecting that I could probably send him home, I wrote the Superintendent telling him that if the young man was recovered as stated in his letter, I would be glad to have him returned to Carlisle. The superintendent that he was entirely recovered and that he would start him for Carlisle as soon as I sent a ticket. The ticket was sent and Miguel was placed on the train, but if he was in his right mind when he left Washington he lost it on the way, for he went astray and when he reached Carlisle was worse than when he first went away. His behavior was so bad that I had to lock him up until arrangements could be made for his return to the asylum. It is the opinion of my school physician and of the superintendent of the hospital that he is incurably insane. It would therefore be entirely impracticable to send him to you and would be a great harm to you to have him there. You would have to keep him confined or have a powerful guard for him always, as he is very strong. His mania inclines him to be offensive to women. If you had him there you would undoubtedly have to send him to the State Asylum in California, which perhaps would not be as fortunate for him as where he now is.

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April 9, 1900.

Dr. Carlos Montezuma,
With Indian Band,
Bradford Hotel,
11th St. W. of Broadway,
New York.

My dear Doctor :-

I have your letter written just as you were leaving Pos-
ton and also yours of yesterday, noting your arrival at The Brad-
ford. You know very well I agree with you in all you say about
the situation. The only drawback is the want of money. It has
been a sore lick to me. The football boys got me out of debt on
the farm, but as it looks now I shall have to renew that debt,
place an obligation on the farm and add something to it, unless
something more turns up than is in sight at present. In the long
run I believe with you that the advertisement of the abilities of
and
the Indians, their exceptionally good conduct under all the influ-
ences under which they have been placed, will prove of great value
The money results are, I fear, to be nil, and of course we can
venture on nothing beyond. I have learned one good lesson which
is that the ordinary report of an advance agent is to be taken
with very very many grains of allowance. Mr. Velder when he came
here was dead sure he could make arrangements to cross the state
of New York with profit, and was willing to start right out to try
I suggested telegraphing to find out in advance something of the
prospect. He did telegraph to many places, spending considerable

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in that way. When the returns came in there were only two who
would consider it at all, principally because the places were all
occupied. After getting many disheartening replies Mr. Velder fi-
nally concluded he had been mistaken. So you see to hear them talk
and read their letters is very different from getting at the ac-
tual facts. Mr. Velder thought when he left that he could make
several weeks engagements at vaudeville and I authorized him to do
that, hoping that might pull us out somewhat. Though I expected
to hear from him on Saturday, no word has come yet, and it is
Monday afternoon. So the vaudeville as a resource is also unreli-
able, and we shall of necessity be compelled to welcome you back
to Carlisle at the end of the week, however much we may desire the
contrary.

Give my love to the boys, and believe me always

Faithfully your friend,

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April 9, 1900.

Mr. T. G. J. Powers,
Clarke House,
534 King St. West,
Toronto, Canada.

Dear Sir :-

I enclose New York draft for $15.42, covering your bill
for expenses herewith, which please receipt and return.

When we got down to it we found there was no possibility of
making a consecutive series of appointments for the band in towns
near enough together to warrant the expectation of
covering expenses. Unless they get another vaudeville agreement
or two, they will return to Carlisle at the close of this week.
You can therefore cancel the Toronto date. It appears now that
the only way possible to make the band pay would be to start in
during the summer and engage consecutive dates, arranging with so-
cieties or persons long enough before hand to give the amplest ad-
vertising opportunity to work up the concerts. Mr. Velder was her
and with my authority telegraphed to every point he could think of
in New York, Penna., and Ohio, but mostly in New York, trying to
arrange for points on the way to Buffalo where we had an evening
open on the 27th. But the time was too short and all proper plac-
es were engaged.

I know how hopeful you fellows are that work these things,
and I understand a great deal more about it than I did in the be-
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make the tour through New York a success, but the result of his ef-
fort was stated above, and the matter had to be dropped.

I know how to make a show go perhaps as well as Buffalo Bill
but it takes that kind of a show or partly that kind to do it, and
it would not be policy for me to violate all my notions of pro-
priety and get down to that level. The school and the cause would
lose more than could possibly be gained by any income that might
be derived from such a procedure.

Should we in the future undertake a new move, Mr. Velder's con-
fidence in you assures confidence with me, and I should be glad to
know that we might use you.

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April 10, 1900.

Miss Mary E. Wolfe,
C/O Mrs. Edge,
Downingtown, Pa.

Dear Mary :-

We all feel that you will have a better outlook if you
wait awhile. You are quite young yet, and Miss Cutter tells me
you learn very readily, and a year or two at school would give you
so much better an equipment. When you went out, it was with the
understanding that you wanted to continue your schooling in the
fall, and we would try to get you one of our best places, perhaps
in Lansdowne, or wherever a good opportunity offered. If you are
determined to apply for the position you speak of at Crow Agency,
I will send you an application blank, but I should like to see you
stick to your former conclusion, and am sure in the long run that
will be best for you.

Faithfully your friend,

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April 10, 1900.

Edith M. Smith,
Normal School,
West Chester, Pa.

My dear Edith :-

Thanks for your good letter which says to me plainly
that you have reached the point for which you have been aiming so
long, that is, the equipment of yourself so that you may teach,
and I congratulate you most heartily. Good Dr. Philips has been
very kind to you as well as to other of our girls, and you owe him
and West Chester a debt of gratitude that I am sure you will ac-
knowledge and return in the noble career you will work out for
yourself hereafter.

Glad to hear the good word from Dahney and Mabel. Just why
you should be shocked because Miss Campbell is married, I cannot
understand. It seems to me her right and privilege, and to be on
tirely her own affair. You ought to write and congratulate her in
stead of being shocked.

I send you an application blank for appointment in the Indian
service, and if you will fill and return it to me with a little
note from Dr. Philips I will add more from here and forward it for
you. I think there is no doubt about your getting a good appoint-
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April 10, 1900.

Miss Dollie E. Wheelock,
Wynoote, Pa.

My dear Dollie :-

It is so singular that you intelligent and capable young
women cannot see the propriety of completing a course before mak-
ing such a radical move as you propose. Just such notions as you
have now get into the heads of those who are near the end of
their course so often, and I am forced to write and give you the
common-sense notions you ought to have without any imposition upon
my time. You will be through with your course at Drexel shortly
and will then have a wide range. Whatever you intend to do can
best be arranged after you have finished that. It will be all
right for you to visit home then, and if you are seeking employ-
ment in the west you will not need to return east again, but can
just as easily get an appointment from your home. Or, if you want
employment in the east, you can return and take it up then.

Propriety, economy, common-sense, all say, "Finish Drexel
first; then home; then what you like."

Faithfully your friend and school-father,

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April 10, 1900.

Miss Alice McCarthy,
C/O Hon. Frank M. Eddy,
"The Varnum",
Washington, D. C.

My dear Alice :-

Your ticket came all right. It was a mistake that the notice was sent you. The business is a little new to Miss Miller and she has made a number of similar mistakes.

Sorry to hear you have diphtheria in the family, but trust it may not extend further. Now is the time for you to show the womanly courage I have always felt sure you possessed.

Let me advise you to omit all correspondence with Mrs. Gale of Baltimore. She cannot be a true friend to your best interests when she invades the rights of Mrs. Eddy and writes me as she has in regard to your making a change so soon. Your duty is where you are, and I am sure you have both the courage and happy disposition to fill your obligation to the letter.

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April 10, 1900.

Rev. John B. Wasson,
Editorial Rooms, "New York Tribune",
New York City.

My dear Friend :-

In hopes the band could earn money enough to
pay a good part if not all its expenses to Paris, I sent
it out on a concert tour, but so far have been greatly
disappointed in the returns, having accumulated quite
a debt instead of a surplus. Our boys play this week at
Keith's on Fourteenth Street under contract. Some lit-
tle financial advantage is derived from this, but it is
very small. Everybody highly appreciates the boys and
gives them credit for unusually fine music. I suspect
the band business is overdone. Can't you say a good
word for them editorially?

Sorry to have missed you at commencement. We had
a fine delegation of members of Congress, four senators
and seven representatives headed by Mr. Thurston. The
exercises were exceptionally good, going ahead of any
previous ones.

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April 14, 1900.

Mrs. Lydia Flint Speteman,
Indian School,
Wyandotte, Ind. 78,

My dear School-daughter :-

The hearts of all of us go out to you in great sympathy
for your sad and loss, May the good Father in every way as he can
replace to you, and if there is anything we can do for you here,
command us. Your husband fell in defense of his country, and the
country will do what it can to take care of his wife and children.
Your claims will have to be stated upon the facts as you keep them
and from there, but it may when they are in Washington I can push
them to a conclusion. If so I shall be glad to do that,

With love to you always,

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April 11, 1900.

Mr. D. F. C. Mink, G. P. A.,
12 S. Delaware Ave.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

My dear Mr. Mink :—

I am negotiating with the local authorities of the National Educational Convention at Charleston, S. Car. for the use of our band during the convention. If we succeed in getting there at all it will have to be through the very lowest rates of transportation and care while in Charleston. The band is composed of forty-five members. It occurred to me that possibly I could get a round trip ticket between Philadelphia and Charleston by steamer at a lower rate than by railroad, although I have a half rate by railroad.

Please let me know what you could do. They would go down one of the early days of July probably and return the 11th or 12th.

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April 13, 1900.

Miss Carrie Hite,
Chicopee Indian School,
Amherst City, Mass.

My dear Carrie !—

I send you your certificate of membership in the Second Presbyterian Church. Dr. Horace has been away of you would have had it sooner.

Glad to get your good long letter and to see how well you have done the English language, and how well you meet the affairs of life. I have often thought of you and wondered how you were getting on. I did not know you had lost your hand, but am so very glad to see that you are full of courage and that you have found you can do as much with one hand, and a good deal more I am sure that many people with two.

Our commencement passed off handsomely. I send you a copy of
The Red Man giving an account of the exercises. Miss Ely and your
other friends here join me in love and all best wishes to you,

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April 11, 1900.

Mr. Samuel U. Pow, Secy., etc.,
5100 Whitby Ave.,
W. Phila., Pa.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to your request for one of our girls, I am sorry to be compelled to tell you that we have a very positive rule against placing girls in the city of Philadelphia except in one or two cases where graduates go in order to take a course in Drexel Institute on the high schools. In addition to this, the applications for girls are more than trouble what we can supply, and we have exhausted all our resources to meet the needs of our old and satisfactory patrons and such new ones as we were able to encumber this year.

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April 11, 1900.

Mrs. Florence Davis,
Indian School,
Rapid City, S. Dakota.

My dear friend :—

We got your very nice photographs and the one
for me is on the mantel wall of my desk where it has a
much favorable comment. I have made up my mind that if
I can succeed in getting all my good girls married to
school superintendents that much of the Indian problem
will be solved. Allow me to congratulate you and your
good husband on the change of venue. You will now be
independent and can work out your own salvation with
less fear and trellising.

I am very sorry I was not with that fishing party
you tell about, and am afraid that your new location
offers me no inducements on that score to come and see
you.

Our commencement passed off delightfully as usual,
even better than ever before. Of course you know of
this through The Red Man. Let us not, however,
I send you a copy by this mail.

With best wishes not only for your continued hap-
INESS, but for enlarged and enlarging success, and
with kind regards to your husband, I am as ever

Yours faithfully your friend,

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April 11, 1900.

Mrs. Horace Nicolar,
P. O. Box 1162,
Old Town, Me.

My dear Mrs. Nicolar :

When students come to Carlisle it is for five years continuously. We maintain that our vacation period is a period of great benefit to the students as we separate them from each other and give them places in the country to work, where by living with the families in which they work they associate not with Indians, but entirely with white people. In this way they lose all fear and diffidence, and get used to being individuals instead of Indians. I acknowledge what you say about the financial benefits that will accrue to your boy if he can get ten dollars per week there, but it would cost him nearly two weeks pay to get home and as much to get back. Then the business is only a little Indian business, and while it pays very well for a while, it does not lead out into the broad ways of agricultural or commercial life, but rather narrows instead.

In view of the fact that we cannot permit pupils to go home during their school period, and that this is an enlarging and more of a man-making plan, I think you will see that it is better for him to stay here and take what Carlisle gives during vacation as well as during the school period.

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April 12, 1900.

Mr. J. Quincy Katon,
Treas., Indian Band,
Hotel Bradford, 11th St. near Broadway,
New York.

My dear Quincy :-

I have arranged with the Phila. & Reading R.R. for a
rate of $2.00 each "New York to Carlisle" for the band, to leave
New York at midnight Saturday, and special from Harristown, ar-
riving here Sunday morning. The bill will probably come to me
for settlement, so you can omit any anxiety on that score.

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April 12, 1900.

Randolph G. Hill,
Large Boys' Quarters,

Dear Randolph,

You have not been here five years, and are therefore not
entitled to go home this year. You understand this, and the rea-
son I must adhere to the rule. The best thing for you to do is to
make use of your opportunities while you have them. If you were
to go home this summer I could not take you back in the fall with-
out special permission from the Indian Office because you are be-
yond the age limit. You are mistaken about my promising youth this
permission when you spoke to me about it last year. It is not at
dall in accordance with our rules.

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April 12, 1900.

Miss Clara Miller,
Hathoro, Pa.

My dear Clara :-

I am surprised to receive such a request from you when you know that our rules positively forbid sending pupils home for a summer visit. You are getting on nicely and I have much confidence in your ability and good sense, and when you think the matter over again you will see that aside from the fact that it would be against your own best interests to break off your agreement for the summer, it would be unfair to allow you to go home and refuse others who want to go, and with as good reason as you have.

I have written your grandfather just how it is, and you also had better explain to him. Am sorry you should make a request that I am compelled to refuse.

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April 12, 1900.

Marcus Peters,
Pekin, New York.

Dear Sir :-

Your granddaughter has not been here five years, and it
is a rule of the school that pupils cannot be released sooner, ev-
on for a summer visit. Clara has gone to the country for the sum-
mer and I could not think of letting her break her agreement for
the sake of a summer at home, which would retard her progress more
than aid it. She has been doing nicely, and her health does not
require the change. Please accept this answer as final, for I can
not consider the matter again this year. Justice demands that I
make no exceptions to the rule.

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April 12, 1900.

Mr. Louis Shawadegan,
Rapid City, Mich.

Dear Friend :-

Your son Jonah had already signed to go to the country when your letter came, and arrangements had been made for a place for him. He went out about two weeks ago. Jonah knew he was entitled to go home this summer, and that if he went to the country he obligated himself to remain at school another year. If he had decided to go home at the end of the school year it would have been all right, but it is too late for that now. It is advisable for him to make the best use possible of his time here, as he is now over twenty years of age, as shown by our records, and if he had gone home we would be unable to admit him again except by special permission from the Department in accordance with a recent ruling of the Indian Office.

Jonah is at Hulmeville, Pa. Your letter would have been answered earlier, but for the fact that it arrived after the matter was settled.

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April 12, 1900.

James King,
Delaware, Ind. By.

Dear Sir :-

In reply to your letter of April 7th asking admission to this school, I have to say that as you have been enrolled at Haskell it would be better for you to return there and complete the course. It is not advisable to change except for special reasons. Pupils coming to us remain for a period of five years unless they graduate earlier.

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April 12, 1900.

Mr. Chas. Ebener,
Supt., Educational Home,
Phil., Pa.

Dear Sir :-

President Fetterolf of Girard College advises me you will be out of employment when the Educational Home closes, and recommends you for a position here.

There are very few of our positions that can be controlled outside of civil service. I am just now badly in need of an assistant disciplinarian. The salary is $600 a year with furnished room, light and heat. Employee board at the Teachers' Club for $2.50 a week; washing costs about $2.00 a month. But this position is emergent, and I cannot well wait until the last of July. There may be something in reach at that time from the changes that usually take place at the close of the fiscal year. I forward you, herewith application blank and two endorsement blanks. Fill out the one yourself as fully as you can, stating in letter or on the blank itself what you are best qualified for, and give a full pose of your training and experience in any special line of work, and I will gladly do what I can for you on Dr. Fetterolf's recommendation, provided there is an opening.

You will understand how to use the endorsement blanks. Send all to me in the enclosed envelope.

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April 12, 1900.

Miss Jennie P. Cochran,
Millerstown, Pa.

My dear Miss Cochran :-

Assuming that you are well enough and that you will continue and I shall not at an early date be compelled to make another change, I will arrange that Miss Luckenbach remain long enough to turn the affairs of the office over to you when you return next Monday. If you feel that on account of your health or for any other reason there is a likelihood you will not remain long in the position, I would prefer that you advise me.

I believe you can carry the work all right or I would not have asked you to take it.

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April 12, 1900.

Mr. J. Quincy Eaton,
Treas. Indian Land,
Hotel Bradford, 11th St. W. of Broadway,
New York.

My dear Mr. Eaton :-

A telegram from Mr. Beaver, A.G.P.A. of the Reading R.R., with whom I have made arrangements for you advises that they will have to charge $15.00 for the special train from Harrisburg to Carlisle. You may pay the whole bill, as he indicates that that will serve them better, and charge the same on your account.

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April 12, 1900.

Mrs. Mary Morris,
Overbrook,
Phila., Pa.

Dear Mrs. Morris 1-

I send you Betha Beneva, a larger and stronger girl and one who is more willing than the one you have, and who has fair ability in the laundry. Our best girls are in the senior, junior, and sophomore classes, and unless they are exceptionally quick to learn and well up with or in advance of their class, we do not let them go out until the end of June. Betha is a junior, and takes her books with her, and her teacher thinks with what help she can give her by writing to her, and by using her spare time in study, she can keep up with her class. She is not yet seventeen, but is large for her years. If the work were to be continuous through the summer I would hesitate to send one so young; but as you are to be through with her in May I think she will be quite equal to it for that time.

I have a letter from Delia which shows she is inclined to be plain and is not the girl I thought she was when I selected her for you.

Trusting this arrangement will work out satisfactorily to you
I am, my dear Mrs. Morris, as ever

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April 13, 1900.

Rev. John W. Sanborn,
Franklinville, New York.

My dear Sir :-

I send you additional photographs asked for in yours of
the 12th inst. I cannot remember what I gave you about the school,
but if you have not a copy of the New England Magazine for April
1895 I can send you one. You have in this a pretty fair histori-
cal sketch of the school, and this together with several of my
last annual reports is about all we have. Am just now making an
extensive report of the Outing for the Commissioner, which will be
printed later. I shall be glad to send you a copy of that when
it is ready. It will be mostly a compilation of extracts from my
reports during the twenty years of the school's history. Shall
be glad to forward you anything else you think of as a possible
help, if we have it.

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April 13, 1900.

V. W. Burnside,
1358 Broadway, Tower "A",
New York, N.Y.

Dear Sir :-

In reply to yours of April 12th I have to advise you
that balance of cards arrived here yesterday afternoon and are
just now being counted. In reference to your strictures as to bus
iness ways, on looking up the correspondence in this "unbusiness-
like affair" I find that on the 16th of February Mr. Pew wrote
that it would take three weeks to get the cards out ; that on the
17th of February I signed the contract and by repeated correspon-
dence it was expected that the cards would be ready to be used be-
fore our Washington performance on the 16th of March. From that
on delivery was delayed from time to time and was completed only
yesterday, whereas Mr. Pew telegraphed me March 30th as follows :-
"Cards perfectly satisfactory. Delivered as ordered. Mail check
direct to Burnside."

On the following day I sent Mr. Pew check for balance, $325.00.

When the sample card came I found it was the card that was 17 x 11
instead of the picture. Previous correspondence had led me to be-
lieve that the picture itself was to be 17 x 11. I hesitated be-
cause of this and ordered Mr. Pew to withhold the check. Not re-
ceiving the balance of cards as arranged, I telegraphed you April

5th as follows :-

"Where are pictures of Carlisle band ? Wanted at once. Wire answer."

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-2- Mr. Burnside.

To this you made no reply. I therefore stopped payment of the check.

Owing to your delay, the cards have been of no use whatever in the limited and unfortunate experience we have had in getting the band before the public. The cards were to have been delivered in three weeks after ordered, whereas delivery is only now completed, more than eight weeks after. To this delay for which you are responsible is due a large part of our lack of being properly advertised. We had a right to expect them in time to help in advertising our first and all subsequent concerts, but had them only for the last at Brooklyn.

Put yourself in my place and advise me who you think is unbusiness-like and who should suffer the loss.

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April 13, 1900.

Edward Oga,
Co., 8th U. S. Infantry,
Camp Columbia,
Havana, Cuba.

Dear Edward :-

I enclose a receipt from Miss Luckenbach for the Twenty-five Dollars sent in yours of April 9th.

We are glad to hear from you again. I send you today several late numbers of The Red Man. The Helper goes to you weekly. I understand, so you have a pretty good knowledge of what is happening at the school.

Commencement passed off pleasantly and profitably for all. We had many visitors of distinction from Washington and other places. You will find a full account of the exercises in The Red Man for March. Promotions followed immediately after commencement. About two hundred boys and girls have already left us for summer homes, and those remaining are busy with the usual spring duties. Spring is rather late, and although this is Good Friday not a tree is in leaf.

There are now twenty-four of my boys serving Uncle Sam in the army and navy, all in different regiments and companies. All from whom I have heard speak in high terms of their officers, so that I know they have the true soldier spirit, I will speak to some of your teachers and friends and perhaps may be able to send you more reading matter soon. With kind regards from all,

Faithfully yours,

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April 13, 1900.

Mrs. Samuel Spring,
Box 420,
Brookfield, N. Y.

Dear Madam :-

When Samuel arrived at the school I knew absolutely nothing of him except what he could in a maudlin way tell me himself. He was in such a condition as to make his presence at the school obnoxious. I put him into a room where he could sleep himself into a better condition, provided him with something to eat and kept him over night. He told me he was going to Brookfield where his wife was. Accordingly, in the morning I gave him one of our Indian half rate tickets to Elmira and started him for his destination. If your letter of the 10th had reached me earlier I might have tried to accomplish something for you, but now of course it is too late.

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April 14, 1900.

Mr. Robert F. Meyers,
Front & Market Sts.,
Harrisburg, Pa.

My dear Sir :-

I have yours in regard to Mr. Miller of Millersport, Ohio. You advise that Mr. Miller objected to the long hours at Morganza. Now, that is just what he would have here, and what I want is a long hour man. He would have to live in the quarters with the boys and work long hours, all day and every day, so that I very much fear Mr. Miller is not my man and your writing to him to apply for the place an unnecessary labor.

Yours truly,

Major 10th Cavalry, Supt.

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April 14, 1900.

Miss Estelle Reel,
Dept. Indian Schools,
Washington, D. C.

Yours dear Miss Reel :-

I have not yet received a final answer in regard to the
Charleston matter, and suspect I have got myself into something of
a box in my proposition to see the band to and from for $650. For
fifty passengers this would be less than $13.00 each, while the
regular rate is $20.00 one way. I am negotiating with one of the
steamship companies in Philadelphia through an old friend of mine,
Mr. Mink, who is in that business, and hope to be able to land the
band there at the figure I have named. Mr. Rhett, Chairman of the
Entertainment Committee, states in his letter that they have sev-
eral excellent local bands and the band of one of our artillery
regiments.

You understand, I suppose, that the holding of the band to go
to Charleston means the surrender to them of the benefits of our
cutting and the opportunity of the whole party to earn money, which
is quite a disaster in that respect as well as in loss of experience.
The mandolin club under the instructor I engaged has not developed
satisfactory ability, although I have spent about three hundred
dollars in special instruction. Instruction has everything to do
with development and the person to lead Indians ought to know them
as the man they had at Parris does. This quiet way does the bus-
INESS.
It doesn't seem best to hold the girls back for anything

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April 11, 1960

Mr. J. O. Velder,
34 E. 14th St.,
New York,

My dear Mr. Velder :-

I sent your little bill to Mr. Eaton by last night's
mail and instructed him to pay it, as you requested. We should
have it this morning.

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April 14, 1960.

Miss Margaret Roberts,

Rosebud, S. Dakota.

Dear Miss Roberts :-

As now appears we shall need two teachers for the next
miscal year beginning July 1st. They will be at the beginning and
aries of $540, as it is my habit to promote in my own corps where
it is practicable. For one of these places I want a specialist.
The other is not settled. The salary may not suit you, but if it
does this place is open to negotiation. I have written Supt. Cox,
and you can write me again.

Yours truly,

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April 14, 1900.

Mrs. J. H. Walden,
271 Lafayette Ave.,
Passaic, New Jersey.

Dear Madam :-

Replies to your letter asking for circulars in regard
to mode of admission, terms, etc. I have to advise you that we do
not issue circulars on this subject.

This is an Institution for Indians supported by the Govern-
ment, and is intended for those Indian children who have not the
privileges of education in the white schools of the land. We au-
ment pupils from any tribe who are in suitable health and of good
character and between the ages of 12 and 16, preferably 14 and 16.
Pupils must come with the consent of parents or guardian and of
the agent under whose care they have been. The term is five years
and we accept none for a less period. While here all are expect-
ed to take advantage of every feature of our curriculum which comes
within their ability. The course, in addition to the usual school
branches, includes training in some industry for the boys, and saw-
ing, cooking, laundry work, etc. for the girls. Farming, dairying
etc. for the boys and housekeeping for the girls is acquired by
living in families where they can be learned by actual practice.

I send you my last annual report and several papers, addre-
ses, etc. from which you may get a better idea of the school.

Yours truly,

Major 1st Cavalry, Dept.

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April 12, 1900.

Mr. H. W. Spray,
Supt. Indian School,
Cherokee, N. Car.

My dear Sir :—

William Ratley has long been tricky and sly in the school and a leader among the boys in seeking low places. He has from time to time been under duress for such offences. This morning I have undoubted proofs of his constant wrong doing and feel assured he has no intention to mend his ways and make a man of himself. I have therefore concluded to summarily dismiss him, and he will leave for his home on the two o'clock train today. He has been given a small amount of money and informed that his balance amounting to $ 96.15 will be sent by money orders direct to you.

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P.S. — I enclose William's bank book, by which he will see that $18.98, the price of his ticket home, is charged to him as he leaves the school before the expiration of his five years.

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April 26, 1900.

Zitkala Sa,
62 Rutland Square,
Boston, Mass.

Dear Friend :-

I have talked with Mrs. Cook and she thinks the enclosed
check will probably balance our account, and I send it accordingly
If for any reason it is not what you expect please write me and I
will make you comfortable about it if I can. I ought to say
that the bank is about $3600 behind because of its expedition.
Whether we have $3600 worth of experience as an off-set remains to
be seen. Will write you later about any future arrangements.

in progress

There are negotiations for vaudeville engagements in May and June
that may help to get us out of debt. Should these be realized,
something may turn up in favor of the European trip.

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J. C. Velder,
34 E. 14th St.,
New York,

My dear Mr. Velder

I return you Mr. Power's letters. Mr. Power told me that
delivery of your goods was complete and numbers correct in quantity and
quality. On the strength of this telegram I issued check in payment.
The U. S. Post Office has not yet responded to my telegram
of several days ago asking where the balance of bars were. Your
letter informing me that they were sent from Chicago by fast freight
March 31st, is all I know of them. My check was returned at the
bank, but under my orders payment was withheld.

I have your letter of yesterday that the boys will come directly home, and accordingly am making arrangements for them. Hope to still further relieve the rate via the Reading Road. They can leave New York at 12:30 Saturday night and be here at 9:00 in the morning by having a special from Harrisburg to Carlisle.

There is no reply from Washington, Congress having denied it, so that I am facing an out-of-pocket of more than $5000. I do not know the best terms you can make with Mr. Albee for additional time, and also the terms with Worcester, Springfield, and Cleveland. I shall of course be ready to hear any proposition to take the hand to Paris.

Yours truly,

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April 11, 1900.

Mr. H. W. Spray, Supt.
High School,
Chenokeg, R. I.

My dear Mr. Spray :-

In reply to the enclosed letter I have written Mr. Jack-
all that we have not received any students for a shorter period
than five years for the past fifteen years, and they can be re-
sumed sooner only on account of ill health or graduation. I send
the letter for your information.

I also enclose a money order for Ten Dollars payable at Whit-
桥. This is to replace the one returned because it could not be
paid. In the interval Joseph sent his mother Ten Dollars by rail,
the stated letter, so that she had received Twenty Dollars instead of
the

Thank you for your invitation to come and fish. Mrs. Pratt
and I will hardly get down this year. I must get off somewhere
soon, but work palls up as it seems almost impossible you get a
vacation.

Sincerely yours,

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Fred W. Atkinson,
Sept. High School,
Springfield, Mass.

April 11, 1900.

My dear Sirs,

I should be very glad to see you at an article at any time
the earlier the better. We are now placing our students, and al-
ready 400, nearly half, are so out. The first of May, the first
of June, and the end of June we will further increase the number.

I do not know what your design is but certainly the schools
you name offer some good patterns. You have a very broad field if
you take charge of the Philippines.

Yours truly,

P. S. - We have no catalog of this school, but I mail you today
a picture book of the school together with several of my annual
reports and several addresses which cover what it usually embraces
in a catalog.

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To: B. Winnie Humphreys Gaffney,
41 Riverside Drive
New York City.

Dear Adam :-

I thank you for your letter of the 9th and accept in the good spirit in which it was written all you say. I know by many personal experiences that ex- tempore remarks made in public meetings are oftener misquoted by reporters than quoted correctly.

There is much misrepresentation of the temper of the Indians in regard to education and civilization, due very largely to the fact that both interfere with the plans and resources of a very large number of our own people who live on the borders of the reservations and get gains from the public money expended thereand often by others who have given themselves up to special study of the Indians' past, and because quick development interferes with their plans they become inimical to that development. The fact that we have here more than a thousand children representing nearly every tribe in the United States, all sent with parental consent emphatically contradicts what was stated at the meeting referred to.

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ary of the Southern M. E. Church, working among the
Kiowa, Comanche, and Apaches at Fort Sill, three of
our wildest tribes, brought me ten boys and girls,
one of them a daughter of a Kiowa Indian whom I took
to Florida twenty-five years ago this month in compa-
ny with seventy-three others, all prisoners in chains.
This indicates radically contrary conditions to what
was stated. I enclose a letter just received from Mr
Methvin, which please return in the enclosed envelope.

I do not wish to cumber you with these matters,
as
but you are interested in public questions, and cer-
tainly the Indian question is a public question. I
venture to add several brief papers on the subject.

Blotched (P)

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