FUR-SEAL INDUSTRY. 85 
dren and the marked improvement in their conduct and general 
appearance have been made the subject of very favorable comment. 
During the summer months of 1916 efforts were made along lines 
suitable to the vacation period to keep the children interested in 
their work. » 
The 1916-17 session began September 12, with an enrollment of 
64 pupils. 
St. George Island.—Senior and junior schools were maintained on 
this island during the 1915-16 school year. The senior school was 
opened on September 6, 1915, and was continued until May 26, 1916. 
Twenty-four children, ranging in age from 7 to 17 years, were in 
attendance. In addition to the usual courses of instruction, special 
efforts were made to promote the use of English by the children in 
their ordinary conversation. Instruction was given the girls in plain 
sewing and darning and the boys in cobbling. During the vacation 
period in the summer season of 1916, with the exception of a short 
period when the teacher was detailed to St. Paul Island to assist with 
the seal census, the children were assembled one-half day each week 
for supplementary instruction. 
The junior school was opened on September 8, 1915, and was con- 
tinued through July, 1916. At the beginning of the term 23 chil- 
dren, ranging from 3 to 6 years of age, were in attendance. It was 
_ soon found that those 3 years of age were too young and they were 
excused from further attendance. Kindergarten methods were em- 
ployed, and it is felt that the benefits which these small children 
receive through intelligent direction of their activities fully justify 
the continuance of this kind of instruction. 
Attendance at Salem Indian Training School.—Most of the Pribilof 
Islands natives who were in attendance at the Salem Indian Training 
School, at Chemawa, Oreg., in 1915, continued their studies there 
in 1916. Two other natives, Ioaniky Emanoff and Peter Tetoff, of 
St. Paul Island, came on the supply ship to Seattle in the fall and 
entered the school in October. 
NATIVES OF THE PriBILoF ISLANDS IN ATTENDANCE AT THE SALEM INDIAN TRAINING 
ScHOooL, CHEMAWA, OREG., IN 1916. 
Name. Attendance began— Remarks. 
MIBOreo WOKANOL <2. ci0e-se-coes-5 August, 1914.......- From St. George Island. 
Constantine Lestenkof.............-.|.---- Gost: Aheaet ts Do. 
PUEXGY WS IMANOM Osco sae ccc a sees October, 1915. ..-| From St. Paul Island. 
ETT LONG a ee eS oe ee a GOL SE si. ee Do. 
CTS ACO TE Te) Oe 1 | Pe (a Kaye tre ea ie Do. 
Bemis -Wratiss>.-£h-. suk gc hie het ete dot tii Mehis Do. 
Peaiiicy Wmanofi. 2.0... -s20<02002- 0 Ocforer 1916. Do 
SE DEOID Shae ee. ome baat eee cers w(oceedOs o Lil eseessees Pols 
Alexander Melovidov................ } July, ‘oii Spree eee |: Entered from St. Paul Island, but no longer 
a resident of the Pribilofs. 
a Left the Chemawa school on February 29, 1916, for the school at the Fort Lapwai Sanitarium, Lapwai, 
0, on account of condition of health. 
