DR. WILLIAM H. HUGG, superintendent of the Educational Home, was questioned yesterday as to how the Indian boys under his charge compared with the white children. He said: “I find the younger boys, whose habits are not formed - for we have some grown-up Indian men there, too - are fully as apt at learning the several trades as the others. They also study as hard in the school room and learn as well and they are very obedient. We are therefore qualified to form a judgment upon their comparative merits. We have an Indian boy fourteen years of age who can make a pair of shoes out and out. Some at thirteen and fourteen are real good bakers. One little fellow of nine years can write as good a letter to his parents in the ‘far West’ as any I ever knew a boy to write. The Indian boys are doing very well.”

Source: The Philadelphia Times Sat., Oct. 10, 1885, p. 4