Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-12-20
LOCAL NEWS.
The Riggs school .sS,vrar Rox.

The Riggs school .sSyyeat Rox..,
sTArfskN1s By THE rEACHsa AND J1STroR-
Tux oTHER sIDs
The statenpnts made on bel alf OF the schoo,
girl Minnie Beall as 10 bar confinement in the
30 called ''sweat-ooxr at the Rigys hool build.
ing differ considerably from those made nv Miss
hOustfs, lhe teacher. and Mr.. Butter the tani-
tor. MISS Rodgers statement is 10 the ELECT fhat
ne chllo hsd been sent home Tor twenty-five
Genus Nne price or school coucerI uckeu Mon
day Afternoon, but did lot return TN tue neSt
morning when she slapped The money down on
the teachers desk, remsriling that her mother
hoped she would no, lose IL ls her pocket. Sh,
told the child 10 hand the money 10 her ana s1e
refused ana made faces AT her. 10 the evening
The child was directed 10 remain 90 do
some exercises which She proceeded 20 do huI
with III grace. The janitor happening TO walk
In at the time the teacher remarked that she
had punished children 10y s,ndin : them into the
hail but Il Was then crowded. by the pupils from
OthCr SCHOOLS. ana she asked II there was not
some place were unruly bows were put. The
lanitor replied that she might b. put I'm his
work room. aid she was there taken. This Is
not daTk room. she saws. arid she asserts that
II was not an improper place OF confinement:
mat while the girl was thet- her sister visited
her and said IL served her right: that the father
had had the matter explained Ia him and ex-
pressed himself satisfied: that the older sister
or the child expressed her satisfaction that she
was being punished and II.:t, she had reported
the suspension OF the child % Mr. Gage th,.
supervising principal
placed the iiule girl was only moderately warm:
that II Is distance OF u steps from the fire or
oolief room: that the child WIS there not over
20 minutes; and that BOYS had been confined I'm
this workshop before. but a. they had such
good times there they had TO stop combining
Them there.
on the father visiting Mir. Gage. the super
vislng principal that gentleman said ths
teacher bad the right TO cali the lanitor SO
enforce obedience, and on enquiry as to the
child going TO school again. ne was told thai
Cr,.s a n
would apologize 10 the teacher. The
parents OF the child refuse 10 accept this propo-
Siuion, and Insist that the girl should have a
tropsfer 20 another school Mr.. Beall Will lay
tne case before Trustees Lambert and Tenn
pie. Mr. Bean claims, first that the offsncs
for which the child was punished was one
caused by her obedience TO her mOthn pr: I'd that
the act or calling man OF the size OF the ian
ltor was enough 10 frtghten a child or that age
into spaSns; 2d, that locking her Ia q room was
dangerous; ana, 4th, that eyeh n the room was
not the iife-room, IL being ia close proximity 70
that room. al the time she was confined there
IL was excessively warm and dangerous 10
health: 5th. that after undergoing this contine-
ment, even for but few miRutesO the Girl was
ia no condition 10 do the examples; and. 9th
that having been punished by Imprisonment
the teacher had no right 10 add the further plp-
ishment Of suspension.
IL would appear that the following are the
facts In REGARD 10 the situation OF the rooms in
question: The boiler room l. outside OF the
main building and is shout ~ by Is feet, with a
height OF about ~ feet and Is well lighted hy
windows as Wei as skylight A passage way
from the rear GoOr OF the building leads u tais
room and the workshop in yAich the child was
confined is space or ABOUT IL feet vide on a
level with the noor OF The man building:
The boilers being about 10 feet below
and IN full view OF any one ia the shop
a wide light OF steps leading down In the boiler
pit. Ii Is claimed on the one hand that this
boiler room Is so well venuiatei that IL is never
uncomfOriably warm there. Others insist that
IL is civ warm faSnApiaitY fhta a
noon. The statement made by the pupil and
her friends would seem TO have been somewhat
exaggerated as 10 the horrors OF the place IL
is Dot. however. TO be denied that this shop had
received the name OF the ''sWeaU box" from the
pupils, ana that there is in the minds OF many
OF them an idea that IL Is "A horrible place.
The room had a placard OF mo Admission.
and TO The children who had never entered IT,
tt was place peopled with terrorS. Besides. IL
being well known that the building was for
merly a brewery, the pupils, al least Tue smaller
ones, have an Idea that on passing the door
they are taken 70 q vault formerly used for
storage purDOseS.