Point Hope.-J. B. Driggs, M. D., Rev. H. E. Edson. Anvik.-Rev. and Mrs. J. W. Chapman, Miss Bertha W. Sabine. Fort Adams.-Rev. and Mrs. Jules L. Prevost, Mary V. Glenton, M. D. Douglas Island.-Rev. A. J. Campbell. Sitka.-Bishop Peter Trimble Rowe. Circle City.-Rev. R. Bowen. Congregational. Cape Prince of Wales.-Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Lopp, Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Hanna. Roman Catholic. Kosyrevsky.-Rev. R. Crimont, S. J., and Brothers Rosati, S. J.; Marchesio, S. J.; Cunningham, S. J.; Sisters M. Stephen, M. Joseph, M. Winfred, M. Anguilbert, M. Heloise, and M. Damascene. Nulato. Rev. A. Ragaru, S. J.; Rev. F. Monroe, S. J., and Brother Giordano, S. J. Shageluk.-Rev. William Judge, S. J. Urhhamute, Kuskokwim River.-Rev. A. Robant, S. J. St. Josephs, Yukon Delta.-Rev. J. Treca, S. J.; Rev. A. Parodi, S. J.; Rev. F. Barnum, S. J.; Brothers Twohigg, S. J., and Negro, S. J., and Sisters M. Zypherine, M. Benedict, M. Prudence, and M. Pauline. Juneau.-Rev. J. B. Rene and Sisters Mary Zeno, M. Peter, and M. Bousecour. Moravians. Bethel.-Rev. and Mrs. John H. Kilbuck, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Helmick, Miss Mary Mack, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Romig, M. D. Quiegaluk.-Mr. Ivan Harrison (Eskimo). Tulaksagamute.—Mr. and Mrs. David Skuviuk (Eskimos). Kalchkachagamute.-Mr. and Mrs. George Nukachluk (Eskimos). Akaigamiut.-Mr. Neck (Eskimo). Ugavig.-Rev. and Mrs. Ernst L. Webber. Quinehaha.-Mr. L. Kawagleg and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Suruka (Eskimos). Carmel.-Rev. and Mrs. John Schoechert, Rev. S. H. Rock, Misses Mary and Emma Huber, Miss P. C. King. Methodist Episcopal. Unalaska.-Miss Agnes S. Sowle, Miss Sarah J. Rinch, Miss Ada Mellor. Friends. Douglas City.-Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Reploge. (No report.) Baptists. Wood Island.-Rev. and Mrs. Curtis P. Coe, Miss Alice Thompson. Presbyterian. Point Barrow.-L. M. Stevenson. St. Lawrence Island.—Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Gambell. Haines.-Rev. and Mrs. W. W. Warne, Miss Anna M. Sheets, Miss Fannie H. Willard (native). Hoonah.-Rev. and Mrs. Alvin C. Austin, Mrs. John W. McFarland, and Mrs. Mary E. Howell. Juneau.-Rev. and Mrs. James H. Condit, Rev. and Mrs. L. F. Jones, Miss Sue Davis, Miss M. E. Gould, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Moore (natives). Sitka.-Rev. and Mrs. Alonzo E. Austin, Mr. and Mrs. U. P. Shull, Dr. B. K. Wilbur, Mrs. E. C. Heizer, Mrs. M. A. Saxman, Mrs. A. Carter, Mrs. L. S. Wallace, Miss A. J. Manning, Mrs. T. K. Paul (native), Mr. P. Solberg. Fort Wrangell. -Rev. and Mrs. Clarence Thwing. Jackson.-Rev. and Mrs. J. Loomis Gould, Mrs. A. R. McFarland. Church of England. Buxton.-Bishop and Mrs. Bompas, Rev. Frederick F. Flewelling, Miss MacDonald, Mr. R. J. Bowen. Fort Selkirk.-Rev. and Mrs. B. Totty. Rampart House.-Rev. and Mrs. H. A. Naylor, Rev. and Mrs. T. H. Canham. Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant of America. Golovin Bay.-N. O. Hultberg, superintendent; Mrs. N. O. Hultberg, P. H. Anderson, school-teacher; Gabriel Adamson (native worker). Unalaklik.-A. E. Karlson, superintendent; Mrs. A. E. Karlson, August Anderson. Miss Malvina Johnson, David Johnson, school-teachers; Miss Alice Omekejook (an Eskimo). Yakutat.-K. J. Hendrikson, superintendent; Albin Johnson, Mrs. Albin Johnson, Miss Selma Peterson (at present in this country). Kangekosook (outstation).-Stephan Ivanoff, assistant worker. Alaskan children in schools and families in the States. The Sitka Industrial School. This largest of all the industrial schools in Alaska was established in 1880 by the Board of Home Missions of the Presbyterian Church. The buildings are admirably located on an elevation about 200 feet from highwater mark about inidway between the town of Sitka and Indian River. An abundant supply of pure water is brought in pipes a distance of three-fourths of a mile. The water is forced to a height of 80 feet into a large tank by means of a force pump, and from this source all the buildings, including the hospital, are supplied. In connection with the school are eight "model cottages" where the married couples from the school begin housekeeping in Boston style," as the natives express it. Funds for the erection of some of the cottages were loaned (without interest) by the Indian Rights Association; others were erected with money furnished by benevolent individuals in sympathy with this rational method of dealing with the Indian problem. The young people who occupy these cottages have a life lease of the ground, and are expected to pay for the cottages in installments. The average cost of a cottage is $350. We expect these model homes to be centers of purity, from which will radiate influences that will be far reaching and lasting in their results. Here family life is established and family ties are held sacred; here industry, frugality, perseverance, and thrift are developed; here old heathen customs have no place-no Indian doctors, no witchcraft, no plural wives, no drinking, no gambling, no reckless living. In these homes the young husbands have a chance to develop into manly, self-respecting men and the young wives into tidy, industrious women. Hospital.-In 1889 it became evident that a place was needed for the care of the sick, and Mrs. Elliott F. Shepard, of New York, very liberally donated the money for the erection of a hospital for the girls. Later a boys' hospital was erected near by. In 1892 it became evident that it was unwise to attempt to carry on two separate establishments, and the boys' hospital was somewhat enlarged and the upper floor devoted to a ward for girls. This combined hospital was opened for patien's November 22, 1894. Previous to 1894 the building had been opened only to patients from the school, but now the wards were opened to natives from any part of ED 97-102 Alaska. The following is a summary of the work during 1897: Number of patients treated, 206: aggregate number of days in hospital, 2,594; average number of days, each patient, 12.5; number of prescriptions to in-patients, 2,634; percentage of deaths, 3; unimproved, 2; improved, 12; cured, 83. Causes of death: Tuberculosis, 3; capillary bronchitis, 3. Number of out-patients treated in doctor's office, 1,119; number of operations performed, in-patient, 38; total number of prescriptions made since June, 1894, 10,581. Language. The children speedily acquire an English-speaking vocabulary when strictly prohibited from using their native dialects. For five years English has been the exclusive language of the school. Experience has removed all doubt as to its expediency. The use of their vernaculars (Thlinget, Tsimpshean, Hydia) seriously retards their progress and does them no essential benefit. No schoolbooks have ever been printed in any of their native dialects. Each distinct people has a dialect of its own, local in character, and in course of time the vernacular dialects of the tribes of southeastern Alaska will become obsolete and English will everywhere prevail. As a matter of preservation the Society of Alaskan Natural History and Ethnology has lately commenced to reduce the Thlinget language to writing, which we hope to accomplish through the instrumentality of Mrs. Paul and Miss Willard. Culinary department.—This department is a place of great interest to the pupils, both boys and girls, small and large. All want to come into the kitchen to work and to learn to cook. The boys wish to know how to cook good meals and bake good bread, pies, and cakes. They often ask if they can come into the kitchen to work, and this stirs up a spirit of emulation among the girls so that they beg to work in the kitchen; consequently, there is no lack of those who desire to work in these departments. In the bakery the work is too heavy for the girls, and is done entirely by the boys. During the past year they have averaged 140 pounds of flour baked daily, turning out from 30 to 100 loaves of delicious bread a day. When the girls serve in the kitchen, they bake the pies and cakes and the boys in their turn do the same, which is during the winter season, that being the hard period of work. Much attention has been given to the quality of food, and in the past few years it has been greatly improved. One great victory won in the battle of work in these departments is cleanliness. In this direction there has been a vast improvement made. It is a pleasure now to be with them and hear them say: "Oh, this must be very clean; I want it to be clean and nice." Viewing these departments, they have made rapid progress in the last year. The kitchen is supplied with both hot and cold water. The greatest obstacle in the work of these departments is the annoyance of having green wood much of the time. The sewing room has been enlarged and nicely papered. The light is admitted from the east, so that they get the benefit of the morning sun. This department is well equipped, and the amount of work done each week is surprising. The girls over 7 years of age knit their own stockings. In the sewing department they learn quickly and accomplish much. Sewing machines are in daily use, and the girls soon learn to use them. Almost every graduate has a machine of her own. All the shoes are made by the boys, apprenticed under the direction of a master workman. Considerable custom work is also done. Gardening.-Mr. John Gamble, gardener and general worker, has three mediumsized plats of arable land. One garden, which has been cultivated for several years, produces lettuce, beets, peas, and onions in abundance. Of the other gardens, which are new, one is planted in potatoes and the other sown in turnips. Cereals, for lack of warmth and sunshine, do not ripen. Currants, rhubarb, raspberries, cauliflower, and celery are easily grown. Fruits, such as apples, plums, and pears, have not been fully tested, but it is believed that they could be grown with success. Blacksmithing can hardly be classed among the trades by which a man can earn a living in Alaska, yet there is much work in this line, doing repairs about the mission, mending machinery, repairing stoves, making stovepipes and camp hooks, sharpening tools, and doing miscellaneous jobs for the citizens of the quaint little capital. Soldering and a little tin work are also done. The constant wear and tear in most of the work departments require much repairing, nearly all of which is done by the boys. Painting.-Two or three of the boys have received instruction in this useful branch of industry, and are kept busy painting, papering, glazing, and calcimining. Recreations and amusements.-The home life of the school is particularly pleasant. Their games and plays are such as white children enjoy, consisting of games of marbles, baseball, townball, playing soldier, flying kites, sailing ships, target practice with bow and arrow, authors, checkers, dominoes, rope jumping, hideand-seek. Coasting and skating are indulged in by both sexes. Then there is an organ for the girls and another for the boys, and violins, guitars, fifes, bugles, and the irrepressible mouth organs are among the amusements and recreations of each day. A rational system of discipline is easily and well maintained. Those in charge aim to make the industrial training school just what its name implies. Manual occupations are in reach of the pupils as fast as they acquire sufficient knowledge of the English language to enable them to prosecute the learning of a trade with success. To accomplish anything permanent and of material benefit in the way of mastering trades they must first acquire a fair, commonschool education, before which they are not prepared to serve an intelligent apprenticeship. After certain initiatory advancement has been made, industrial training is then made coequal with schoolroom work. While the boys are taught trades, the girls are taught all branches of household industry. Indeed, the appointments and work of the school are such as to familiarize them with American ways of living and to ingraft into their lives industrious habits. The steam laundry, with its labor-saving machinery, relieves the teachers and pupils of much hard drudging work incident to a school of this character, where water and soap must be used in such copious quantities. Carpentry department.—All of the buildings on the mission premises, twenty or more, have been built by boys apprenticed to this trade, under the supervision of a competent foreman. Shopwork consists in the making of furniture, bookcases, clothespresses, screens, chests, curtain poles, picture frames, hand sleds, bric-a-brac work, and undertaking. The outdoor work consists of joining, framing, contracting, and building. Sailmaking and boat building are among the useful industries of this department. Among our carpenter apprentices a number have shown special aptitude as artists and designers. The spirit of earnest industry is most praiseworthy, and the boys appreciate their opportunities. In the winter of 1887-88 the Society of Alaskan Natural History and Ethnology was organized and incorporated. The purpose is to collect and preserve in connection with the Sitka Industrial and Training School specimens of the natural history and ethnology of Alaska. In addition to the Sitka Industrial School, the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions maintains stations at Point Barrow, St. Lawrence Island, Haines, Hoonah, Juneau, Fort Wrangell, and Jackson. MORAVIAN MISSIONS. We are indebted to the Rev. J. Taylor Hamilton, secretary of the Moravian Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, for the following sketch of the progress of Moravian inission work in Alaska: Moravian missionary and educational work in Alaska began in 1884, at the suggestion of Dr. Sheldon Jackson. After a preliminary tour of exploration, the then practically unknown region of the Kuskoquim and Nushagak rivers was selected. To establish the work two ordained missionaries, the Revs. William Weinland and John Kilbuck, were sent out with their wives, together with a lay assistant, Mr. Hans Torgersen, who was to superintend the erection of the needful houses. Mr. Kilbuck is a full-blooded Indian, the descendant of a long line of distinguished Delaware Christians, and, like his colleague, was a graduate of the Moravian College and Theological Seminary at Bethlehem. Before one house had been erected Mr. Torgersen was accidentally drowned in the Kuskoquim River. Before any converts had been won Mr. Weinland and his family had to withdraw, owing to seriously impaired health, later to labor in California. For a while Kilback and his wife held out alone, contending with the severities of a climate which in winter sometimes reached 60 of cold below zero, and with the difficulties of the Eskimo language. But God blessed their zeal and fidelity. The first sign of any reward for their labor was given on Good Friday, 1887. In the best Eskimo at their command the missionaries had been striving to acquaint the people with the love of God, and now he was telling that the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin, when an old Eskimo interrupted him: "Thanks. We, too, want our badness washed away." From the inception of the mission attention has been paid to education, and at the three main stations-Bethel and Ougavig, on the Kuskoquim, and Carmel, on the Nushagak-industrial schools have been steadily maintained, except when for brief intervals lack of provisions, after a season of failure in the catch of salmon, has compelled a temporary intermission. The schools at Bethel and at Carmel are |