Show CRY GRY OF FIRE ALARMS PUPILS 4 Coolness of Teachers Averts Panic in in Webster School 4 STUDENTS TERROR STRICKEN BOY SOY CAUSED THE BY YELLING ur UP COLD COU AIB Am PIPES A panic was w narrowly averted at the th 1 Webster school Friday when a small boy yelled Fire up up the cold air a r shaft connected with the three rooms I presided over by Misses Cooper Clark and McFadden I But for the presence o qZ mind on the part Dart of Principal F D Keeler in im immediately immediately Immediately mediately circulating the news that the tIle alarm aarm was as false and the coolness manifested by the teachers in Handling their excited pupils the slight panic panh which did result might have developed i j i Into a tragedy with the victims the i j children of those rooms whose ages j I IS I range from 9 ii to 13 years i S i Boy Seen Running From Prom School i Suspicion rests upon Roland Poll PoU be because because cause he was seen running from the building shortly after the cry of fire had been given He was wa 3 a I former pupil at the school In some unknown manner Poll if it was he I who cried Fire gained an access I to the set of cold cod air pipes in the I basement running to the three rooms i mentioned Some time ago it was f deemed advisable to abandon the fire drill In the schools of the city The re result suit salt was that the instant the pupils I heard beard the alarm they rose to their feet as if It one human being and made a con concerted concerted concerted rush toward the doors leading out into the corridor on the second floor floo The teachers tea hers averted a stampede by exhibiting a cool and collected de do demeanor demeanOr meanor toward their scholars and quieting them by talking to them in ina ina ina a calm and deliberate manner At the same time they were forming the lit tie tle ones into line preparatory to march marching lug ing them out of the building Real I izing the seriousness of a general generalI I crush and jam in the corridor below I It if the pupils in every other room in the th building attempted to gain the j I I street in a wild scramble for safety sa fe b the three teachers exerted all the per personal persona personal sona I power powe 1 possible fe to keep their charges S under uI er control cont 01 I Alarm Was I Just as the teachers were about to march their frightened and restless reatIe s pu pupils pus pils downstairs do Principal Keeler sent word to them that the alarm was a j I I false one His attention was at to the second floor by the noise made by the children as they jumped to their feet at the cry cr of j 1 Fire and the efforts effort of the teachers to form them into line and march them from the supposed burning building in inan j an orderly manner The same commo II tion attracted the attention of the jan and suspecting something wrong he h made an investigation It was he who informed the prin cipal of the flight of Poll and his sus sue suspicions suspicions that It was the boy who sound sounded sounded ed the alarm either as a joke or for forI I personal spite against some one of the teachers of Principal Keeler A few minutes later the th children had quieted down and resumed their stud ies lea and recitations as though nothing I had happened |