The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-07
l FENCES FOR
 PARENTAL BOYS
Euelty Charge Denied By
 Former Bridgeport Peda- |rogue at Head of Institu- ton.

ew York, Aug. Half way be-
 len Jamaica and Flushing lies the
 Wv York Parental School, the prin-
 h1 and bandmaster of which nave
 n accused by Charles Langford, a Erner master, and Gustave Ruoff, Jr., Recent pupil. of being cruel to some |arincipai r1I Hobart H. Todd, formerly adt Of the Bridgeport High School Department. declared to a knrter- for the Evening Sun that he
 nothing to conceal and that any
 tor would find the school an open
 k MT. Todd denied that he, had sr cruelty used q pencil ans a gag PI cannot imagine where Iangford 4t any such idea" said MT. Todd in rnartly. "The only time I ever used 4 pencn in punishing any. one was =nen a boy had cheWed a pencil half and I ordered two of the boys to L khat he chewed the rest of the pen- The boys did and that cured the #at boy of chewing pencils
 Fr. Tedd admitted that the Ruoff
 and his companions who ran Nav, William Kolsen, Peter Panarello #d Herman Greenfield, were whipped, .zt he made light of the matter and #Id that if amounted to little
 
 rsksr Risseeuw. who was conductinz rehearsal in the strip of woods near N m power house, ordered three boys watch these four boys saw wood E.th a two-handed saw and see that #mw did not ahirk. MT. Todd ayers [sf these boys guadrs hit the other ss with small switches. MT. Todd #fh that these three young disdiplina- #nH were punished the next day for asppiug the runaways. and that they turn had to saw wood.
 Rteeeeuw was found re- = rNsn< his band. He denied that he H ever beaten pupils with drum
 rNm T use an old drumstick in-
 nH ef a baton when I conduct said
 handmaster, "and sometimes l Emht tap n boy with it to attract his
 Why. I have had twenty-five pa- iimA huym come back to visit me eince rf February,'' exclaimed MT. RS- sszrs. who is also a. master and has
 %fRe Of a cottage. That does not nsp as though I was cruel"
 eisseeuw showed number of letters
 had received from par0led boys 4amEing him for the good he had 4Ithoueh boys are allowed to stay tle school for two years, Principal <9f4& 92fo mat IT the majority or tHe .1plls remained that long the schoo #rf1lA be a failure. The average Enrth of residence here is seven &1nfhs. I am proud of the fact thai # the f,270 boys who have been pu- kln of the school since I organized il little over i've years ago not more Amn 125 boys have broken their pa Ere and been sent back to the &noo1
 Mr- Todd said that the masters and #mrh@rm were not allowed to use cor 8rel punishment. There are three laws in which we punish the refrac- |Arv hoye,'' continued the principal bne punishment is what is known q standing in line' A boy who @tmmds i'm line cannot wear his uni 8rm or parade for a month. When zera are en tertainments he must land outside of the hall under police Efard. Another punishment is cutting .sH saving and packing wood for two #mr@ and half every afternoon. The MfeH punishment is solitary confine- lent in the 'ceoler,' as the boys call Ihia is far the worst offenders 4nf shipping is not permitted. and Sen tell the boye at their weekly as- km bly, Wednesday, afternoons that ii nw nf the masters or teachers are too srere with them they should complain