Weekly Chemawa American., October 09, 1903, Page 2, Image 2

THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN.
building just completed for occupancy at
the beginning of the school term. It is
called ''Mitchell Hall," after our senior
Senator, who procured the appropriation
of $25,000 from Congress to build it.
The small boys and girls have their
buildings also, with efficient matrons in
charge. In all buildings the pupils take
care of their own rooms,which bear daily
inspection by the ever-watchful officials.
The hospital is white and dainty as any
to be found on the Coast. Each ward is
supplied with all necessary bath and
toilet appliances, and the wide verandas
and beautiful flowers make it a most
attractive spot. There is, however, very
little sickness here, considering the large
, number of pupils.
A huge dining-hall, in which over 700
boys and girls sit down to their meals,
. and the roomy kitchens above, were in
teresting to a recent visitor. Prune sea
son was at its height, and the whole builds
ing was redolent with the sweet odor of
preserved fruit. In immense copper vats
prunes were being made into jam, butter
and preserves. In the adjoining pantries
the array of fruits already "put up" Was
.amazing. The cook explained that it took
90 quarts for one meal, however, and then
one wondered how they would ever get
enough to last through the Winter. A
visit to the drier solved the prune ques
tion, for many thousand pounds were
there ready to put away, and the crop is
not yet half picked. The school consumes
the entire product of a 15-acre prune
orchard each year, and of five acres of
applet . Their patatoes and all other veg-
etables are raised in the school garden,
and they have cows and chickens to sup
ply the necessary milk, butter and eggs.'
The pupils do all the work on the farm
and garden and in the dairy, under the
guidance and instruction of competent
teachers, and they are thus fitted to be
come practical gardeners, farmers, dairy
men, orchardists. Poultry raising is also
made a study, and the boys and girls who
,are interested in this branch can give you
the age and pedigree of any of the hand
some Plymouth rocks or white Wyan-
dottes with which the pqultry yards me,
stocked.
The industrial trade building is perhapx
the most interesting of any of this group,
for here are located the different simps,
where the pupils learn their various trinity.
In the wagon shop were substantial
vehicles which gave proof of what good
work the pupils were accomplishing there,
and in the harness shop hang six blue ril
bon bows attached to cards and neatly
framed, bearing witness that the Chenmwa
boys had excelled all other exhibitors in
that line at the Oregon State Fair for
six consecutive years. One of the gia I
uates of the school, a Umatilla Indian, i
now employed as the head shoe and liar
ness maker and gives entire satisfaction
The tailoring and dressmaking shops are
turning out good work, and the pupil
show great aptitude for this industry. A
number of' the ex-pupils have splenic
positions in tailor shops, many here in
Portland, and all are getting good salar
ies. One of Salem's leading dressmaker-.
Clara Devault, was a Chemawa girl an I
learned her trade there before starti:.'
out for herself.- In the carpenter --! ! j
each apprentice has his own bench a:. I
set of tools, and all learn to do excels
work under the head carjeuter. w! .
keeps them busy about the dilfen-:.'
buildings.
Charles Cutter, the magnificent U- '
the Taylor Street Methodist Church, i-i
product of this carpenter shop. He i i ' i
i a graduate, but learned enough to e!i;.'
him to obtain a good position in a el.
factory, and he is now working steal!;. .'
his trade and spending his money t.n .'
tivate his rare voice. Cutter is an h-'-Crow
Indian, and is only 20 years oil i
other boy from the carpenter A'' '
has done well is Peter Williams. ..f )
class of 1900. Peter worked at hb ' '
for a year or so, and then succtr I !
getting a contract for fnniishii:: '
hauling a large amount of wood. I ( :
this cantract in the most bush '
manner, hiring white men to do tie
The handsome bandstand is a gul
of what these boys can do. A !