ing, to be erected with all possible economy consistent with stability and comfort. Bids were advertised for, according to law, and the lowest received was $13,000 in excess of the building limitation of 315 000. This instance is cited to show how difficult it is, while acting under the restrictions of such a rigid policy of economy, to do prompt and effective work in the pending attempt to educate the rising generation of Indians."

STATISTICS.

“On June 30, 1888, the end of the last fiscal year, the Government was supporting, in whole or in part, 233 Indian schools, of which 126 were boarding and 107 were day schools.

"On June 30, 1857, the end of the preceding fiscal year, there were 227 such schools-117 boarding and 110 day schools.

"It thus appears that during the fiscal year there was an increase of 9 in the number of boarding and a decrease of 3 in the number of day schools, the net increase in the whole number of schools being 6.

"Of the 126 boarding schools, 74 were under direct control of this Bureau, 3 were schools at which pupils had been placed under special appropriations made by Congress, and 43 were being conducted under contract with the Government. Of the day schools, 55 were under direct control of the Bureau and 22 were contract schools."

SCHOOL POPULATION, ATTENDANCE, ETC.

"The schools above referred to were supplied from a school population of, approximately, 40,000 children between six and sixteen years of age.

"The attendance at these schools, the number of pupils whom the school buildings could accommodate, and the cost to the Government of maintaining the schools during the fiscal year 1887-88, are shown in the following table:

TABLE 104.—Showing Number of Schools, School-house Capacity, Enrolment, Average Attendance, Number of Employés, and Cost during the Fiscal Year ended June 30, 1888.

Four of these schools (having 32 employés) are managed by religious organizations, and are se sisted by the Government, which issues clothing and subsistence to the pupils.

"In the preceding table reference is made to five training schools and to three schools for which special appropriations are annually made. The names and statistics of those

schools are as follows:

TABLE 105.-Showing Capacity, Enrolment, Average Attendance, etc., of Training Schools (1) Controlled Directly by Indian Bureau, and (2) Specially Appropriated for.

"The three schools 'specially appropriated for,' mentioned in Table 105, are not Government schools. They are private institutions, in which Indian children are placed under appropriations annually made by Congress for the education in such schools of a specified number of pupils at a certain rate per capita per annum.

"The enrolment and average attendance at Government and contract schools (including the three schools specially appropiated for) during the fiscal years 1886-'87 and 1887-88, respectively, and the increase in enrolment and in attendance during 1888, as compared with 1887, was as follows:

TABLE 106.-Showing Increase of School Enrolment and Average Attendance during the Fiscal Year 1887-88 over the Fiscal Year 1886-87.

"In this connection, the following comparative statement, showing the attendance at Indian schools during the past six years, is made: "

TABLE 107.-Showing Indian-School Attendance from 1882 to 1888, both Years Included.

"In the management of the schools controlled directly by this Bureau there were em ployed 757 white persons and 137 Indians-in all, 894 regular employés—as follows :" TABLE 108.-Showing the Positions and Number of White and Indian Employés in the Indian School Service during the Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 1888.

"In addition to the regular employés above enumerated a large number of persons are irregularly employed in connection with the schools. The great majority of these irregular employés are Indian pupils engaged in learning trades, to each of whom a few cents a day are paid. These payments are justified by the fact that the pupils work more willingly and industriously and learn more rapidly under the incentive of small wages than they would if they were not thus recompensed for their labor; and, moreover, they thus learn the value of small earnings and small savings."

CHAPTER XVIII.

EDUCATIONAL PERIODICALS.

The following list of educational periodicals represents such as are on file in the library of the Office, and such as are found useful in making up the annual report. Some in the list, no doubt, have suspended publication. There is no way at the disposal of the Office of finding out when many of these periodicals began or when they ceased publication.

The table is intended to give a brief description of these publications.

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