The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-09
SET The SCHOOLHOUSE APIRE,
TEN.IELR-OLD EDDIE LUKE GOT
HrNk WITH A TEACHER.
lie Had Deen Sent 10 the Principal for
Punishment--PrOmpt Action Only Pro-
vented . Panic In q Brooklyn Pub.
lie SrhOol--FIre Put Out by Teachers

'ooei''i "ht WV hoppy VI u NiiiVi y
discovery prevented the spread Of a fire
set by a miscellaneous boy in a Brookly n
public school, on Thursday. and averted a
! panic among the 800 pupils who were In the
building The boy who started the fire
did IL with the deliberate intention OF gettin 4
square with a teacher.
The culprit is Eddie Luke. 10 years old ,
the son Of a bookkeeper who lives at Al
Underhill avenue in Brooklyn. He at
tended Public School 13a at Butler street
and Fourth avenue, Although a bright
boy. he was strongly disinclined to be stu.
dious and obedient On Wednesday he
was sent to the principals Office aud was
made TO Sit outside the door al! day, instead
of attending his classes, owing to bad be-
havior. He got good whipping for that
when he went home that night taking with
him note telling OF his naugh.iness
On Thursday when preparing for school
he asked his father to give him a note to the
teacher explaining that he had been pun :
ished, and he offered in consideration for this
TO promise to be very good boy henceforth,
His grandmother had promised to give
him a bicycle if lie behaved himself, and
he was very anxious to get it. His father,
however. firmly refused to give him the
note, his mother said yesterday, and babe
him instead bring back from school a note
saying that he had been very good before
thinking of such thing as getting the BIZ
cycle.
The boy went OF to school, forget ting
to take with him transfer card, and when
his mother took the card to him half an
hour after school time she found him
sitting outside the principals door again.
where he had spent the preceding day.
His teacher. Miss Phillips, who has charge
Of the second primary, mixed" had sent
Of order. Eddie had been in three different
classes within very short time. and one
teacher after another had given up trying
to control him personally. as he was sys-
tematicaly slothful. disobedient and i'm
pertinent.
Principal Henry Ludwig, r.. was s,,, no.
time waiting for him. Mrs. Luke did not
wait to see the principal, but left the trans
fer card with Eddie and went home. Eddie
think Of. He had been too many times
to the principal to feel that his punishment
on this occasion would be light, What
would happen to him2 o. well. let that
trouble come when it had TO; there was
Eddie had not reached the principals
office unruffled. He sluff'ed his feet along
the halls on his way there when Miss Phillips
ordered him to go. Another teacher.
Miss Edna Campbell. had met him and had
floors, ard this had deepened his sour
feelings toward teachers as general op-
pressors. Miss Campbell, who has charge
OF the third primary mixed, was on her
way u aa s to the gymnasium Ia with her
As Eddie sat awaiting the principal he
espied through the open door OF closet
In Miss Campbell's classroom large plcoe
Of rumpled paper lying on the floor among
other papers and books which naturally
find place in a schoolroom closet In
Eddies pocket were matches to burn. and
Eddie burned to burn them. They were
constant and annoying reminder to him OF
a seductive habit which he had conquered.
light a cigarette with them, having, re-
formed, as he processes principal Ludwig
il dubious as to the rcformatio but he
could light that bundle of crumpled paper,
awe the fun Of starting fire and frighten-
ing Miss Campbell and 1get hunk on her at
all of her ella 6.
1t was forty feet to the inviting
closet but Eddie took the risk Of being
caught there by the principal and went in
PAPER The fire started. 1t seemed to
F Idle that better thing than waiting for
Mr.. Ludwig was to run away from the
building before the principal got around
where he might observe that Eddie was the
only person near the fire. 50 the boy
scooted out of doors,
A few minutes later Miss Campbell and
her class came down from the eymna-
SUM, and Miss Campbell, before her pupils
had noticed it, saw The smoke issuing from
her closet. Instead of turning the children
toward the classroom or hating them, she
told them to march on Quietly and promptly
10 the street
at is fire drill she said to them.
Her class oheyed her Miss Camubell
shut the closet door and closed the transon,
Then. asking another teacher to notify
the principal and the depart ment heads,
she started to nut ont the Are herself. ask
inc the other teacher r. send helm az soon
as abe could, The bells for Are drill were
soon sounded throupho,,t the school, and
the 500 children marched to the street..
as they had often done in the drill. without
knowing that ANYTHING was the matter.
Miss I'amnbeIl and other tenchers nut
the Are out without having to cali for the
fire departm ent' 3 Idle I1ike went home
at the usual time and told his mother that
she missed Il bv not being at the school
n little later, a. they had had fire there
and a little excitement.
How did il hannenp- his mother asked
him.
II don't know said Eddie,
And Yesterday morning he started for
school again at The rer,ilan time. a. though
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