Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-17
WORTH FINDING OUT
When Does the Season Close
for Shooting School Children?
Mr.. BLAIR WANTS ToKN0W,
Garfield Affair Brought Up Before
the Board Of Education.
CARELESS HUNTER HITS THREE
None of the Carroll Children Much
Hurt, But Little Norman Is
Nightly Inconvenienced.

A special committee OF the board OF
education Is today looking up the game
laws to find out when the season fol
shooting school children closes. Because
three children were peppered with bird
shot while on their way to the Garfield
School Henry P. Blair Of the board has
asked that II there Is already no game
law covering this particular phase OF
hunting there should be one drawn
up and introduced into the legislature.
The matter came up at the meeting OF
the board Of education yesterday after.
noon. A graphic pen picture of the sport
of potting school children en- route to the
halls OF learning was presented to the
board through the combined efforts OF
Harry Hine. secretary. and G. Wythe
Lewis, principal of the Garfield School,
who reported the occurrence by letter.
1t seems that little Annie Carroll was or
her way to school the morning of NOvem-
| Der II. She had much responsibility on
her young shoulders, for she was strug-
| Cling to keep enthusiasm concerning edu
| cation In the hearts of Maize and Norman
Carroll, who would rather run into the
bushes and play tiger than go to school.
"Come Long" Said Little Mother.
You better come long here and get out
| VI SAAVSO OdchCcs VI SOiuCIIIlIS Will 6Cl
you." she said. but to no effect, for at
that minute Maize and Norman. simulat-
ing the full-grown nobility of a Bengal
tiger, plunged headlong into the brush
and wallowed on the ground.
Annie went after them, and, gripping
each by the neck, brought them to their
| feet and marched them out in the road
| AS the three presented q broadside to an
unidentified youth who was hunting for
birds that morning. mistaking the target
for some feathered denizens Of the wood
| land, he pulled the trigger. Whether or
not he really thought he was aiming at a
bird or whether IT was accidental or what
perhaps will not be known. Anyhow. the
Carroll trio lurched forward in unison and
| roared. Maize and Norman, tigers. imag-
ined for a moment that Col. Roosevelt had
arrived with his entire sporting outfit.
Annie was gTieved, because 1t seemed
hard that one following the path Of duty
from the brush. So they ran bawling to
school, where there was so much excite
ment for few minutes that no one knew
exactly what to do. School children car
f f ~ '''' - ~
| Upon the scene stepped Principal G..
| Wythe Lewis. When Annie and the IT,
gers were led to him he saw little trickles
| Of blood and was scared.
Norman, He Preferred to Stand.
"sit down." he said to Norman. press
ing him gently at the same time into a
chair.
NO! Nor screamed Norman. writing
upward.
Principal Lewis.
yet nothing could induce him to sit
down.
"Come. come now" pleaded Mr.. Lewis.
tell me where you are hurt and what
did it?''
Somebody shot u.s." beloved the tiger
as he fought of another attempt to make
him sit down. He wouldn't even sit down
| on a cushion.
The other tiger and the conscientious
Annie also had wounds, but sitting down
did not seem to bother them at all-mere
4 wounds In the wrist.
Principal Lewis telephoned to the Cas-
ualty Hospital and to No. IL police sta
/ ton at O. o'clock Meantime he bathed the
places where the shot had hit and did
| not find much cause for alarm. Norman,
the tiger. stood up all the morning. un-
| til the police ambulance strolled in casu-
ally at about IL am. A man on the
and said that there was nothing much
| the matter-just few shot wounds But
Principal Lewis said he que used those
| children had better go to the hospital
ally uOW. on tuCy went. hey returned
| in about an hour. smiling and happy, and
self-consci0us as children are when sud-
denly made heroic and conspicuous, and
Principal Lewis Immediately sat him
down to write out his report of the mat
| ter.
Thinks It Might Interest Some One.
| When this was read at the board meet
ing yesterday there was a silence, such as
that which always follows merely routine
matters. The silence was broken by the
voice Of Henry p. Blair, who said mildly
and alphabetically:
Perhaps that might have some interest.
| Shooting children on the way to school.
you know. might have a tendency to dis
| turb parents"
But this Is in the hands OF the police -
| said some one
"Ah, end when will 1t come out Of the
hands Of the police?'' asked Mr.. Blair
| lover In Garfield. this was" said some
| one, apropos of nothing.
''Yes, indeed" pursued Mr.. Blair, "but
even Garfield school children might not
want to be shot" School children shot on
| the road is perhaps q matter of some in
| terest to US. Let us inquire into the mat
/ ter and find out whether the open season
| for shooting school children is on yet or
not"
And so Annie and the two tigers will be
the subject Of thought on the part Of the
guardians Of the educational interests of
the young.