Lincoln Institution and Educational Home to be Maintained

UNDER PRIVATE AUSPICES

Mrs. J. Bellangee Cox has completed arrangements to continue the Lincoln Institution and Educational Home, from which the government has taken its appropriation, as a private institution supported by private contributions. She has received assurances of support from the Episcopal churches of the city and from many prominent men. The new institution will be known as the Lincoln Institution and Educational Home.

The building and grounds at Greenway avenue and Forty-ninth street will be sold. The building at 324 South Eleventh street will be used for school purposes. The two boards of managers of the former institutions will remain without change, having joint control of the new school. The school will open on October 1.

Some of the Students Still Here.

A majority of the pupils of the two schools were sent home or to the government school at Carlisle at the end of the last school year because it is impossible to support them all in a private institution. But fifty of the girls and eleven boys, several of whom are orphans, were allowed to remain. they are now at the summer school at Mrs. Cox's summer home near Wayne. They occupy a large building fitted up as a school and a home. The Indian girls do all the housework themselves under the direction of competent directors.

They receive instruction in laundry work, in sewing and mending, and take turns in assisting the cook with her work. There is no work about a well kept house which they are not taught, it being the policy of the school to do nothing for them which they can do for themselves. The boys are busy all day long working around the house and in the garden and fields. The younger children attend school every day. Those girls who are in the advanced grades of the pubic schools and in the normal school are not required to study during the summer and attend only to their household duties. Every hour of the day is filled with work. The children have the time from supper until bedtime to themselves and spend it in playing games and reading.

Free From Government Control

"For the last five years," said Mrs. Cox yesterday, "it has been my desire to get the school from under the control of the Government. But I have not seen my way clear to do so until this year. When the Indian Rights Association began their attacks on us last year, we were not prepared to give up the appropriation from the Government. When we decided in the fall of 1899 to ask for no appropriation for 1900, we informed Commissioner Jones. In his reply he said that he had omitted the appropriation for institutions simply because of his advocacy of exclusive Government schools for Indians and not because of any hostility to the institutions."

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Notes and References

Courtesy of the Philadelphia Times, 1900.07.25 Lincoln Institution and Educational Home to be Maintained, Philadelphia Times p6.pdf