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Show IHNS-nLiPINOS-PORTO RiCANS. I COMING CONTEEElSrOE AT LAKE MOHONK WHICH IS TO i BE HELD IN T-HEIE INTEREST. ! Tribune-In?S Tribune-In?S t than twenty years Lake ? U and most picturesque lo-'-W T i the Catsklll region of New Hi-fi Ten the scene of annual aa- -for" Promotion of certain jCd philanthropic interests -w. fl1si ? ii-en the place a world-SSSinS world-SSSinS JSuince.1 The Hrst of m1 Kllcs, or conferences, as Iclot' was held in October, ltfltti interest of the Indians attb( 'T-'di-fi conferences have been ton' ' uriy at Lake Mohonk every tfe gfalways In October. brlni?- Srfor three days at each ses-2L ses-2L 2 two hundred men and wo- Solly chosen from all parts of 4 Sr Invited thither and enter-' enter-' Albert K- Smiley, owner of C ' Kouse. because of their cx-ito cx-ito Ok Stage of Indian affairs and Sil Interest in the promotion m Indian management. tOBtM, Sfences out of Albert i iuV1 u?s personal Interest in the wel-n wel-n 1,1 aborigines, to the promo-l5 promo-l5 Hch be has lone been ldcn- L ether ways- He has been a rj ref the Board of Commlsslon- win? undcr appointment from Hayes. He has also been J&tf W tr the Government with sev-H sev-H ttl rMrtaflt commissions connected of 22 'lcdlan service. In 1SS3 ho was aJ t a of a commission charged , i t election of a reservation for , Indians In Southern Cali- i erftrences will be held." Mr. glared at the first session. Lethia crerr Indian has his rights." l tiiim -(Hn. B. Flsk presided at the A iU -vitr.ee and continued as the itlZ b'o3r until Tils death in 1890, fa . lih time the chair has been'oc- Vt, ' estflMM b Dr. Merrill E. , 1 "fonnerly President of Amherst "k8! i ud latterly the efficient sec- SBlN V Ifce Board of Indian Commls- 'fi l' At the session last October idem uiisan was tfc Hon. John D. blseJI t4 tenerly Secretary of the Navy, itostrt j Hen of Prominence. 1 j-j tho who have been actlve- 0s"!m etiiid with these October mect- tahil LrGen. John H. Eaton. Hon. ksitj el. Jones. Commissioner of In- tntlri, its; Frank Wood. Esq.. Hon. anil f J. Barrows, Dr. Sheldon Jack- rLie, jr. Luclen C. Warner.. Alice !i2 jr. Gin. Whittlesey. Hon. Dar- i'i " , limit, and other members of . e:d of Indian Commissioners; "Tw ' ir.Lvrr.an Abbott and Rev. The- 9 J L Cuyler Senator Edmunds of caj toutant and deeply interested Tn it (or years, and the late Gen- itthU ritronr of the Hampton School .. !a Ihe late Senator Dawes of mnmim fsstts gave the conference at u kalots the benefit of their ripe za, wide know ledge and keen I' iliy trith the cause of Indian cftbe first platforms" adopted tenfertnee declaj-ed in favor- of 5 rrcmEnt of the system of In- 1 zutioD. including a plan of in- I! training. lfr the principle of ;fo.'t, the abolishment of the to .'ystcrn and other pauper-LHhods. pauper-LHhods. for the division of land rtlty and the ultimate intro- ef all Indians into the full S1 'd Arcrican citizenship. !0Ci ! promotion of such reforms as J nih others that have suggested I res from year to year, the con- hs devoted Itself up to the bi Ume, and has had the satis- s ' 6? seeing them adopted. " An Attractive Spot S1 l foil within the bounds of truth y ckrataon to say that no locaJ--ss'll Ike world offers more attrac-:i(Wti; attrac-:i(Wti; visitor and sight-seer than rtere the conference is held. pi three hundred acres Imme-ritoat Imme-ritoat the lake which came into t t-ajlon of Albert K. Smiley In jiv ti estate has gradually grown ii 10 year unt11 lt comprises a tcllW f0dr ,nousand acres lying In i1 ?tat 'townships and embracing it( H redon along the crest of T 7 ; "Wn for a space of six miles rib Sn4 1 mile in width. And 'Ultle mountain realm the ut-Mk ut-Mk fc'e has been taken to preserve . i I1 charm, and Us wild. kiii h P'eturesque scenery has , "hi y? marrei by the many I1 walks and broad, smooth R1 at have made every point I i wh comfort, ease and safe- -sfky Top, the highest peak In J WL tate, towering three hun- .Jf- above the lake, the vision .wer as noble and magnificent j Lri Enery. of lofty mountains VfIIeyB' 33 ma5' be seen in v!t r the sun- To the west and fertile farms of the Ufl? y." and b(?yond them rise rlch in romantic and his- Jr below the peaks of the Mo--1 Pvnf "lf,adows and orchards of ! valley, with the old Dutch g of New Paltz nestling "- UW3 and gardens, and, many ' fciS caatward, the highlands --J u":t?n; AnQ In those rare days, ,J. l'(m7,1s E0It anI clear, the pll-?5 pll-?5 bT,. aJontf land, looking out Swr Bhts or Sk' tp- ma' Sf t8, of the Berkshire hills Massachusetts, of Ver-J Ver-J Lir"1 mountains, and somc- ii! nd his vision even' to ' SZ,.?,1 .tho Alleghanles beyond & ' Wldened in Scope. - j-JJces at Lake Mohonk navo - ,br L?co,?e- ant with it their i ubn dlne amone the topics ! lCLh(L condition of the . UndianB. the Filipinos, the Ha- A itCn0 natlve Porto Hicans. ihSTent .of the conference RiSiiiU8ht wltnln ranPe oC 2i n"nd recommendations ; S X vltal Problems as ftomip ihe S0Clal- rellglouo '?e0n1nJltIon8 Prevailing crt ; jaal-v ?f 0Ur dependencies, rtaStivl: lmProved by educa- ' Ih fa and Philanthropic :, thA ,7 .Varly all questions ' 'Kur : -lntr oc theae de- i- "Went n.,n T"1-' quired tcrri-' tcrri-' 1 beaqT8tl0nB havlns a pure-heMn,!16, pure-heMn,!16, are within the do- ,t conference and pertinent to ft takn by the ard tl. .Vly OI e United Smi0 "'PinoB, Hawaiian ' n,ts may be judged by -' lch ivn,te?ce referring to & th?nrSl!?,es the Ptform J6lr Vivi,tob,er rneetlng Inst cJjR'JAy gaff " riBhts should be Snll(l be Uarded: "beral provi- aY Congress for ' thl : d.eve,,0Pment and clvllLzatlon; I n , f,,n.dust,ea shouId be encouraged; and their education should also be pro-noei pro-noei fv.that, whatever may be their inal relations to the United States, iwa be quipped, at the earliest possible day. for self-support and self-government." self-government." Tri7? frlGnd3 f the Indian and the n lT "1cacd to meet in council 20 and 21 0nk th,s ycar October 15, f1ionUm?er of specially important addresses ad-dresses have already been arranged iL a ArnonB the speakers on Philippine Philip-pine topics will be Professor E- B. Bry-nnd Bry-nnd and Dr. F. W. Atkinson, both for- iV,er-c, V,perl.ntcndGnts oC Education in the Philippines; Brig.-Gen. G. A. Good- nlfi .r?-Ured. ?rmy off,cor wlth a long and distinguished record in Philippine affairs; and W. Leoa Pcpperman of the bureau of Insular Affairs, formerly Commissioner for Civil Service In the Is ande. and Secretary to the Taft Commission. Com-mission. Conditions in Porto HIco. Porto Rican conditions will be ably presented by Prof Martin a. Brum-paugh, Brum-paugh, ex-Commissioner of Education in Porto Itieo, and by Samuel McCune Lindsay, his successor In the same pi Ice who has but recently left the Island, and Hon. Jacob H. Hollander, ex-treasurer of Portb Rico. Ex-Gov. Hunt will also speak, provided his new Judicial duties illl permit his attendance. attend-ance. Speakers on Hawaii will be Hon. Frank P. Sargent, Commissioner General Gen-eral of Immigration; Prof. Frank A. Hosmer. for ten years president of Oahu college, Hawaii; and William N. Armstrong, brother of the late Samuel C. Armstrong and a citizen of Honolulu. Hono-lulu. A noteworthy address on Indian In-dian affairs will be a review of Indldn development- bv S. M. McCow.an. director di-rector of the Indian exhibit at the St. Louis exposition and head of the well-known well-known Chlllocco school. ' Among others who have signified their Intention of being present are. Hon. W. A. Jones, Commissioner of Indian Affairs; Congressman James Sherman, chairman of the House Committee Com-mittee on Indian Affairs; Hon. Charles J. Bonaparte and other members of tho Board ofNIndlan Commissioners; Robert Rob-ert C. Ogden, Presidents Taylor of Vas-sar Vas-sar college, Slocum of Colorado college, col-lege, and Mcserve of Shaw university, Brig.-Gen. J. W. Clous, Capt. "William Mercer, Carlisle's new superintendent; Supf H. B. Peairs of Haskell Institute, Kan.; ex-Gov. W. M. Jenkins of Oklahoma, Okla-homa, and Indian School Superintendents Superintend-ents J. B. Brown of Morris, Minn., C. Li. Davis of Fort Totten. N. D., C. W. Goodman of Phoenix, Ariz., J. C. Hart of Oneida, Wis,, J. C. Levengood of Pierre. S. D., E. C. Nardln of Mt. Pleasant, Pleas-ant, Mich., and F. A. Thackrey of Shawnee, Oklahoma. Many other employees, em-ployees, representing all branches of the Indian service, aro also expected to be present. Li. A. MAYNARD. |
