Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-08

to the Humane Society.
The Industrial Home School for boys aud
girls of the District Of Columbia is being
conducted with more uurelieved brutality
than any prison or penitenhary for crimi-
mails in the country, if the facts here recited
by Mrs Kate Black, Third and G streets
northwest, are true or unexaggerated. And
that they are true the unpreiudiced reader
will perceive by the circumstautial manner
in which they are related and the witnesses
cited who corroborate the main or salient
points in her story.
Here Is Mrs. Blacks statement taken
down in the GLOBE Office the past week:
Il am an ex.employe of the Census De-
partment. My father was starved to death
in Andersonville prison during the Civil
War NV husband is a cripple and unable
to contribute anything to the family sup
port We have one boy, George Irving
Black, thirteen years Of age. Some weeks
ago the doctor decided that l should 60 to
the hospital for few weeks for treatment
/ determined to place the boy in some in
stitution while was in the hospital, as his
father could not look after him when school
was over / visited several places and was
finally directed to this home, of which Mr..
i. McCaslin is superintendent, and his wife
the teacher Of the sixth grade. After con-
siderable red tape the boy was admitted.
The day I left him at the home saw
little fellow in a room we passed looking
down-hearted and spoke to him. His eyes
filled with tears ] asked him why he was
not out with the others under the trees.
Because l am to be whipped for asking for
some apple sauce before amen was said,
The prayer was so long at the table and
the little fellow thinking it was over, asked
for apple sauce and he was removed from
the table to be whipped
" How long must you wait, / asked him.
F" am so hungry, please he replied. I
lave had nothing to eat ince and will get
nothing this evening
Il left the institution with painful mis-
givings, and before going to the hospital I
determined to call OF visiting day to see
how George was treated and whether the
children we're being whipped and starved.
I'm a few days l called aud while sitting
with George under the trees, the little boys
playing around I noticed that many Of them
had the marks of welts on their legs. Call
ing one little chap whose name was Guy
Knott and who has a little brother in the
school, I examined his legs. They we're
in a frightful state with running sores, the
hesh being torn; etc. l asked him what was
the cause Oh' said two or three of his
companions, Guy couldn't say bustle and
Mrs McCasliu whipped him on the legs
Then Guy told me his pitiful little story
of cruelty and what made it more pathetic
the poor child could not pronounce the
word bustle' in telling the cause of his ter
rible whipping. spoke to Mr.. McCaslin
about It and he replied:
He is a little helion and deserves whip
ping We must whip them, they are all
little helions. This boy can say hustle and
rustic, but my wife couldn't get him to say
hustle and she very properly whipped
him, ! explained to Mr.. McCaslin that
the boy couldn't pronounce the word and
that tried to teach him how to do so. He
only replied that he was a heliou and must
be whipped. I demonstrated with him on
the neglected condition of the boys legs and
the condition they were in. He finally gave
the boy an order on the housekeeper for
some witch hazel to rub on the raw flesh.
While at the home I learned from my boy
George, that the children we're cruelty
whipped for the most triaing ofense. At
this home, you understand, the children
assist in all the work, both in the trades
carried on and farming some of them assist
the negro cooks, and these negroes whip
these poor little white children In fact
George told me everybody from Mrs. Nc
Casln down whipped and i'll treated the
children. My boy had not been whipped
as he was very particular owing to my
health, not to grieve me by doing the
slightest boyish thing out Of the way. He
tried to console me and said be would re-
main until got out of the hospital But
the scenes I had witnessed aud the condi-
ton Of the children 50 shocked me, that
determined to take George away in a few
days.
When called for him in a few days, he
informed me that the superintendent had
called him in his Office and accused him Of
telling his mother things about the boys,
but especially Of showing little Guy
Knotts legs. My boy, who is a manly
little fellow and has been used to a good
Christian home, answered him to the effect
that while he did not bring the condition
of Guy Knott to my attention, he did think
that the boy was punished cruelty for some
thing he could not help, as all the children
knew that Guy could not pronounce the
word 'bustle' This made Mr.. Mccaslin
mad aud when he is mad he turns white as
sheet. He is a man Of awful temper. He
Is childless. And both himself and his
wife thinks the way to raise children prop
erly is By brutal whipping
In my former two visits he had treated
me very courteously, but when / entered
the Office to ask for Georges release he
shouted, Get out Of here you rueddle-
some disturber, and never come back
II had reported the condition Of the Child
reu to the Humane Society, aud 1t appears