461

Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 17, 1901.

Mr. Martin F. Wheelock,
Seymour, Wis.

Dear Martin:--

I am expecting quite a party of the old students to return to Carlisle and a number of new ones, but they will hardly get away from De Pere before the close of the month. Jim Wheelock has some business to look after and desires to go up for the party and I have agreed to it provided Supt. Hart does not object. Mr. Hart has not replied to my letter yet so that I am a little at sea as to his own wishes. Unless I hear from him to the contrary I shall send Jim anyhow. Why could not you and James Swomp come in with Jim. It would save the duplicating of orders for tickets. Write me at once on receipt of this whether that will be satisfactory and if not I will provide you separate tickets.

Glad to know that you will return to Carlisle and complete that which you began so long ago and which you so nearly finished. I could only receive James Swomp as a student and must have the approval of Mr. Peairs whom I have written. I insist that Mr. Peairs must not take former Carlisle students without my consent and he has the same claim on me.

Expecting to hear from you soon, I am as ever,

Faithfully your friend,

Dio. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., August 19, 1901.

Captain George H. Hendry,
Fort Meade,
Folk Co., Fla.

Dear Captain:

I have yours of August 13th and am greatly tempted not
to reply to it at all when I know you were so near as William's
Grove and did not come to see me. I do not know if I can ever forgive
you. However, I am used to being out in this way by my friends and
shall try to bear it. I should have been glad to show you the School,
which now carries about one thousand children, and to have you
understand the philosophy of our work.

It has been my purpose to visit Florida for a number of years,
but somehow the little necessary pressure of inducement was lacking.
Now, if sometime towards Spring it occurs to you that I could make
up a little party of your Indians so as to round up the representa-
tion of every tribe and body of Indians in the whole country, I
should be inclined to come down and see you. We now have students
from seventy six different tribes excluding the Cherokees, Choctaws,
Chickesaws, Seminoles and Creeks of Indian Territory who are barred
by the agreement of the United States with them. The Seminoles of
Florida are not excluded. I should, therefore, be at liberty to

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accept children from there. What say you? I am entitled to several
let ups of some kind after twenty two years here, and a trip to
Florida, which would enable me to see the great improvement there
since my career in that State twenty five years ago, would be de-
lightful. I have ordered that our School paper be sent you a year
free and shall take a little from your letter and the clipping you
sent for its next issue.

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Carllisle, Pa., Aug. 17, 1901.

Mrs. J. A. Brook,
Olean, New York.

Dear Mrs. Brook :-

I thank you for your note. It is all right. We have our price and are worth it, and if people do not want us, it is immaterial to us. We are not traveling around for the fun of it any longer. The band has cost me an immense amount of money and I have been in debt a long on account of it. At the Pan-American we get over $125 a day straight thru.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 17, 1901.

Lt. J. R. Ettinger,
Manager Carlisle Indian Band,
321 Fifteenth St.,
Buffalo, New York.

My dear Ettinger :-

Miss Senseney expected to return to Carlisle via Buffalo and I secured her a ticket for that purpose. She had to change her mind because unable to get steamer accommodations down the Lakes; consequently she would like the money for her ticket. I see it is limited to the 30th. You will please use it and save one of your own which I think have a longer limit.

James Wheelock wants to go to Oneida for a party of returning students and others, and I favor his doing so, but think best that he return with the band and start from here with full instructions. It may be he desires a lake trip, and that is his reason for wishing to go direct from Buffalo. If that is so, I shall not object.

A letter from Clean says that the park people there are unwilling to pay our price for the band; so that matter is off, and we shall expect you home a week from next Monday. The boys have had a liberal cutting and I have no doubt it has been good education for them. I trust they will return to their duties at school with renewed energy and a desire to make the best use of their privileges here.

You may let Dennis Wheelock have $15.00 and take his due bill to me for $13.31, the amount he still owes me.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 17, 1901.

James R. Wheelock,
C/o Carlisle Indian Band,
Pan-American Exposition,
Buffalo, New York.

Dear James :-

Mr. Hart has not replied to my letter. Quite a number of
changes are being made in the management of schools and agencies and
it is barely possible he is among them, or he may be away from home.
Not hearing, I will let you go to Oneida, but it would be better for
you to return with the band and start from here with full instruc-
tions. That would give Mr. Hart ample time. Of course, if he oppos-
es your going I shall feel that it is not best for you to go now. I
do not think he will object, but I must say I do not understand him
very well. It is yet nine days till you leave Buffalo and I may
hear from him in the meantime. You might inquire the rate, Buffalo
to Green Bay, both by steamer and railroad, and if there is some very
special reason why you should go direct from Buffalo, I might arrange
so you could do that, but we have a very low rate from here.

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asked if they had anything better for you. They informed me that the
salary you are getting here is better than they could give you any
place else unless in the position of clerk. I told them you wrote
well and were quite accurate, had managed the business affairs of The
Red Man under Miss Burgess's direction for quite a while, and I thought
you could fill some subordinate position in that line very well. I
said also that you could lead a band. They said they would take the
matter up and see what they could do. Several occurrences since you
left have led me to feel it might be better for you and Mrs. Wheel-
cock to go away from Carlisle, at least for a time, and I believe it
would build you up to leave the nest for a while. That, however, is
a matter that can be settled when the opportunity comes if it does
come. I had an application from Major Stouch yesterday for a clerk
at $600, but he said he would make it $720 if he got the right man.
He wants someone who can take shorthand dictation and do well on the
typewriter.

Faithfully yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., August 17, 1901.

Juan Thomas,
San Miguel, Arizona.

My dear Sir:-

Mr. Hadley refers your letter in regard to your son to me for answer. Your boy, Saline Williams, has, as you perhaps know, never been stout, but still he has met all the issues of his school life here very well indeed, and ranks as one of our best boys. He was not very well in June but the July report states his health is good now. He is to return to the School in the middle of September, and from the accounts you can see you have no reasons to feel uneasy about him.

Die. (H)

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Aug. 17, 1961

Mrs. C. E. Agnew,
Sparkill, N. Y.

Mrs. Larocque sent you consent papers August 7th from Ridgefield, Corn. Have they reached you? Wire answer.

R. H. Pratt, Sept.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 17, 1901.

John Walpoose,
Keshena, Wis.

Dear John :-

Mr. George has sent me consent papers for a number of boys
and girls from that agency, and I wrote him that I would place trans-
portation for them when he advised. If you still want to come to Car
lisle I ought to know at once, so that you might be included in the
party. A number are coming from Oneida before long, and if you are
in time I could make arrangements for you to join them,should any-
thing prevent your coming from Keshena. Any arrangement of course
would be subject to Mr. George's approval.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 17, 1901.

John H. Londrosche,
Wabasha, Minn.

Dear Sir :-

It is now only a short time until the opening of school,
and if you are coming to Carlisle I ought to know very soon in order
not to hold a place for you if you are not coming. Shall I place a
ticket for you and where ?

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Dr. La Place,
Medico. Chi. Hospital,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Dear Doctor:--

One of my good Comanche boys, Preston Pohoxicout, has
a hand that was so badly burned in a fire when he was a child that
the middle and last two fingers of the left hand are half off at
the middle joint, and all three fingers are grown together and the
last two fingers are grown back unto the palm of the hand. I asked
my physician, Dr. Divin, to let me know if something could not be
done to improve the hand so as to be of more service to him, and he
writes me the enclosed note. Would you please advise me if you can
take up the case and when I should send Preston as I should like to
see such a good fellow as he is have a better use of himself.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 19, 1901.

Mr. G. S. Beaulieu,
St. Cloud, Minn.

My dear Mr. Beaulieu,

In regard to Agnes Goedker, we do not allow our students to remain out and not go to school. We put them in places where the schools are good and usually the girls so placed get ahead of their classes here. The association with the brighter young children of our own race and living in families where they hear constantly good english and under educational influence both in school and out of school is a great influence. Agnes is to stay out this winter. She has an excellent home and this is the judgment of my visiting matron and she prefers to remain out and go to school. We expect all out students to remain out and go to the public schools one or two winters out of the five while they are here.

In regard to the party you speak of in your previous letter, it is allright for them to go to Genoa and Haskell. They need students. We have 977 on our rolls this morning and parties coming that will make us well up to 1050 which is certainly as many as we ought to look after. I hear in several places of the representatives of these schools influencing prospective students to go to their institutions. In some cases the arguments are not proper ones but still so long as we are crowded, I make no fight on it.

Die. (M)

Lt. Col. 16th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 19, 1901.

Martin Wheelock,
Seymour, Wis.

Dear Martin:--

I will have Jim Wheelock at Oneida with all the authority
of transportation and incidental expenses so that you can be here in
good time for the 1st. I trust you will speak to all the worthy
old students of Carlisle and encourage them to return with you.
I would like to have a good party from Oneida this year.

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 19, 1901.

Mr. James Wheelock,
Carlisle Indian Band,
Pan American Exposition,
Buffalo, N. Y.

Dear Jim:-

Mr. Hart states that he has just returned and was not
able to answer my letter sooner on that account but says, "I have
no objection to Mr. Wheelock's coming if he will report to me be-
fore he asks any others than those of your pupils that you wish
back. If he is instructed to report to me as soon as he arrives,
it will aid both." Now that the band has young Francis, it may be
possible that you could be spared; if so, I would like you to go
at once to Oneida. You can wire me on receipt of this, gov't.
rate, my expense, whether Mr. Ettinger can spare you. Show him
this letter. If he cannot spare you without too much detriment,
of course the better way will be for you to hold on there and as
the time is limited, returning students ought to be here about the
first, perhaps it would be as well for you to go by rail from Buf-
falo to Oneida. I will give you instructions and furnish you the
means and shall want you of course to comply with Mr. Hart's wishes.

Die. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 19, 1901.

Mr. N. B. Ainesworth,
South McAlester, Ind. Ty.

Dear Sir:-

A letter from J. R. Wood, G. P. A. Penna. R. R., Phila., Pa., advises that the agent of the N. K. & T. at McAlester has been instructed to deliver to Murphy Tarby a ticket to Carlisle. Please see that it is used promptly.

Dio. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 19, 1901.

Miss Lida Jones,
247 Pike St.,
South Wabash, Ind.

Dear Miss Jones:-

Your ticket was sent to your order just before your letter
of the 16th was written and probably passed it on the way. All you
have to do is to present the order to the party to whom it is ad-
dressed in Chicago and you will get through all right. Get a Chicago
and Northwestern timetable and it will give you the trains between
Chicago and Reno, Nevada.

Dio. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 19, 1901.

Mr. J. L. Love,

Secy. Lawrence Scientific School,
Cambridge, Mass.

Dear Sir:-

The mere association of Carlos Galardo with Mr. Stilwell and his family will be invaluable to him and if there were opportunities for him to attend school in Cambridge entirely away from other Porto Ricans, his English and his education would advance far more rapidly than it could here where there are so many whom he can constantly talk to in Spanish. I write you this so that if it should be agreeable if every way and Mr. and Mrs. Stilwell wishes Carlos to remain with them through the winter, the way is open.

I expect to have 350 of my Indian pupils out in families and go to public schools this winter. We have been above 300 every winter for the last three or four.

I agree with you that your special training for Carlos should be continued next year and hope the way may open for his return to Cambridge.

Die. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 19, 1901.

Mr. Otto Coleman,

c/o J. S. Bucher,
Boiling Springs, Pa.

Dear Otto:-

Mr. Baird the Indian Agent at Santee says that you do not belong to that agency nor the Santee tribe, and there is no record of you there. He says that when you came here with Dr. Eastman in December '99 you were taken from that Agency but that you were probably on a visit from either Rosebud or Pine Ridge agency. Let me know what agency you came from.

Die. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 19, 1901.

Mr. R. S. Bailey,
Silver Creek, N. Y.

Dear Sir:-

My principal of the dress department is absent just at present and will not be back until about the 1st. so that I shall be unable to report on the system until she comes.

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Mrs. Thomas Livingston Kennedy,
1800 3rd Ave.,
New Brighton, Pa.

Dear Madam:-

In filing my letters today I just discovered that I wrote to you under date of July 19th addressing you as Mrs. Thomas Livingston, overlooking the name "Kennedy," and the chances are that you did not receive it. It was in reference to Miss Mabel Bristow confirming my previous letter to her in regard to the Civil Service examination before getting into the Indian Service.

The Spanish language has absolutely nothing to do with the fitness of a person for the Indian Service, nor does it have anything to do with the fitness of a person for service in this School. Our experience is that an instructor being able to speak the native language of the student is more of a detriment than a help for the reason that the student soon finds that he can make use of his native language to express himself and will hang on to that system, whereas if unable to make the instructor understand him in his own language he will soon come to use English. We have educated over four thousand young Indians, half of whom could not speak our language when they came. They come from many tribes, so that to undertake to

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have instructors familiar with the language of each, would be an absurdity. We, therefore, early adopted a rule against Indians speaking their own language and required the students to express themselves in English only. We are needing a teacher and the Department is looking for one for me. If Miss Bristow could come here and has any Civil Service claims at all on account of her service under the Government in Cuba, those claims could be transferred by some means into the circumlocution of Civil Service and made to aid somewhat, the not to accomplish all that is necessary.

If Miss Bristow is not already provided for and would advise
my by telegraph that she will come to see me quickly, I shall give
her the best consideration I can in regard to the position here.

Very truly yours,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

TELEGRAM

S. W. Thompson,

Trenton House,

Trenton, N. J.

Aug. 19.

Fred Siouxlan with Albert Reed, Lawrenceville, N. J., also Moses
Herring with Charles Patterson, Penn Valley, Pa. at large. See to
them.

Pratt, Lt. Col.

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Mr. R. G. Tibbetts,
Boston, Minn.

Dear Sirs:-

I have yours of August 14th in regard to your son Eugene.
As Eugene is in our Junior class it seemed best to hold him at
school even though his five years have expired. In this course I
was guided partly by his sister's judgement and partly by my own
desire to forward his interests. If I did not think him worth the
trouble I should not persevere against such demands as you make for
his return. Fred will graduate next Spring and I want to keep
Eugene on to the end also. He is bright and if he does his best it
will not take him more than twenty months more. It seems to me
when I am anxious to give your boys the best that any Indian School
can offer and the Government provides everything for their educa-
tion and training without any expense whatever to you, that a proper
regard for your children's interests would lead you to encourage
them to keep on.

Eugene's letter was probably written to you just at the time the
party went. The boys are usually somewhat restless at such times.
Eugene has been working in the printing office all summer and seems
to have settled down. School begins in two weeks and he will, of
course, take up his studies. A fair amount of encouragement from

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Dear Madam:

In filing my letters today I just discovered that I wrote you under date of July 19th and addressed you as Mrs. Thomas Livingston, overlooking the name "Kennedy," and the chances are that you did not receive it. It was in reference to Miss Mabel Bristow confirming my previous letter to her in regard to the Civil Service examination before getting into the Indian Service.

The Spanish language has absolutely nothing to do with the fitness of a person for the Indian Service, nor does it have anything to do with the fitness of a person for service in this School. Our experience is that an instructor being able to speak the native language of the student is more of a detriment than a help for the reason that the student soon finds that he can make use of his native language to express himself and will hang on to that system, whereas if unable to make the instructor understand him in his own language, he will soon come to use English. We have educated over four thousands of young Indians, half of whom could not speak our language when they came. They come from many tribes, so that to undertake to have

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Carliella, Pa., August 19, 1901.

Dr. George Harvard Reed,
President Dickinson College,
Carliella, Pa.

My dear Doctor:

Just now in filing my letters my clerk brings to my attention your letter of July 11th enclosing one from Mrs. Kennedy of New Brighton, Pa. in regard to Miss Brintow securing a position here.

I find that in writing to you Mrs. Kennedy signed her name "Anna S. Kennedy," and beneath in brackets "(Mrs. Thomas Livingston)." I wrote to her instead of you and addressed her as "Mrs. Thomas Livingston," so it is probable she did not receive the letter.

I failed to note at the time that you requested the letter from Mrs. Kennedy returned. I am sorry for all these faux pas and return herewith, her letter, with, as you see, the best amended I can make for the overnight.

Fraternally yours,

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Carlisle, Pa., Aug. 20, 1901.

To The Honorable, Elio Root,
Secretary of War,
Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Secretary :-

I am informed that Captain A. D. P. Smead of the Carlisle
bar, who was formerly a regular army officer, and who in 1898 prompt-
ly volunteered for war service and served in the volunteer army in
Cuba, has now applied for a commission in the Porto Rico provisional
regiment. I am surprised that he desires so subordinate a position
in the public service, but he was born in the army and loves it. I
think he deserves recognition for his past faithful service on the
frontier and elsewhere, and I should like to aid him in obtaining it
because I believe I should be helping the Government to secure a most
desirable officer. I have been intimately acquainted with Captain
Smead for the past twenty-two years, and in my judgment it will be
extremely difficult to secure from among those outside the army men
as captains in this provisional regiment as useful in other direc-
tions and as capable as company commanders as Captain Smead would be.
By birth and by training he is thoroughly an army man. His habits
are most exemplary. His standing at the bar here and in Philadelphia
where he practices before the Supreme Court I know to be most credit-
able. His legal attainments would make him exceptionally useful in
this particular service.

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Realizing that there are probably many applicants for these pla-
ces, I cannot close without expressing the hope that you will give
Captain Smead's application special consideration. I in common with
his many friends here would be greatly pleased to have him receive
the favor of your appointment to a captaincy, which I believe is the
highest position available.

With great respect,

Your obedient servant,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., August 20, 1901.

Pearl La Chapelle,
Wabasha, Minn.

Mt. dear Pearl,

In regard to your brother and sister, as in regard to all young Indian people everywhere who have public school privileges, my own judgment is that they are better off with such privileges than they can be in any Indian School, Carlisle not excepted. You certainly are in quite a town and must have good public schools. The struggle in the school room of young Indians with young white people equalizes them in capacity and courage as no other condition will. You and your brother were bright and capable when you came to Carlisle. We were glad to have you here and should be glad to have your brother and sister, but if I were your Father and Mother I would keep them in the public schools rather than have them sent to Carlisle. Now, if, after having this, my judgment, your Father and Mother still urge that they come to Carlisle, I shall gladly provide the transportation and receive them.

Please remember me most kindly to your brother and believe me your friend and school father,

Lt. Col. 15th Cavalry, Supt.

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Carlisle, Pa., August 20th., 1901.

Harry Lafferty,
Tullytown, Pa.

Dear friend:-

I received a telephone message this morning from a man in Newtown, saying Harry Smith was at his place.

I have directed the man to tell Harry to go back to his place at Tullytown and from there, write a letter, telling me his difficulties and I will listen to him, but cannot send a ticket to him to return to the School, unless I know all particulars and if I see that it is necessary for him to return.

Please let me hear from you and also let me know if Harry has returned to your place.

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Mr. Shongo,
C/o Carlisle Indian Band,
Pan-American Exposition,
Buffalo, N. Y.

My dear Mr. Shongo:-

I have instructed Mr. Ettinger to pay you for
August, and as you have been clever to us in the matter, have ad-
vised him to give you a full month's salary.

Sincerely your friend,

Dic. (H)

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Chas. L. Davis,

Indian Industrial School,
Lt. Totten, N. D.

Dear Sirs:

I have looked the ground over carefully and cannot find an available shoveler among our boys who have gone out or are here at the School when I think would fill the place satisfactorily, except one and he has been here only two years and is not far advance in his studies, is capable of making good headway and desirous of keeping on, and I do not think it would be good policy to deflect him from his course.

Allow me to congratulate you on your promotion to Lt. Totten and beg you to present my kind regards to your good wife.

Dio. (W)

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