CARNEGIE MEDAL

REVERSE Carnegie Hero Fund Commission

CREATED BY

ANDREW CARNEGIE

Established April 15th, 1904

OFFICE

Oliver Building, Pittsburgh, Pa.

1914.

(XI-l "I do not expect to stimulate or create heroism by this fund, knowing ‘well that heroic action is impulsive; hut I do believe that if the hero is injured in his hold attempt to serve or save his fellows that he and those dependent upon him should not sufl'er pecuniarily thereby. "

'—Andrew Carnegie.

525704 CONTENTS

Page Design of Medal' - - - - - Frontispiece List of Officers and Members - - - - 7 Deed of Trust ------9 Members of Commission (Original) - - - 12 Acceptance of Trust ------13 Resolutions Presented to Founder of Fund - - 14 By-Laws ------16 Regulations ------21 List of Awards for Acts of Heroism - - - 22 Index to List of Awards for Acts of Heroism - 205-212 Titanic Memorial - - - - - 212-213 List of Awards for Disasters - - - - 213 List of Awards for Special Purposes - - 214 Recapitulation of Awards - - - - 214 Dates on which Awards were Made - - 215 Statistics of Cases - - - - - 216 Kindred Funds ------216 Method of Distribution of Pecuniary Awards 217-218 Officers and Standing Committees, 1914 - 219

Carnegie Hew Fund Commission 1914

OFFICERS

Chas. L. Taylor, President W. J. Holland, Vice President J. H. Reed, Treasurer F. M. Wilmot, Secretary and Manager C. B. Ebersol, S. E. Weir, Assistant Manager Assistant Treasurer

MEMBERS

Wm. L. Abbott ' W. J. Holland Taylor Allderdice Thos. Lynch Thomas S. Arbuthnot H. H. McClintic Edward M. Bigelow Thomas Morrison W. W. Blackburn F. C. Perkins Jos. Bufiington H. K. Porter A. C. Dinkey J. H. Reed Ralph M. Dravo W. L. Scaife R. A. Franks W. H. Stevenson W. N. F rew Chas. L. Taylor F. M. Wilmot

FORMER MEMBERS

Edwin H. Anderson, resigned January 18th, 1905 William Scott, died February 27th, 1906 C‘ c' Menu' - l DiedResigned April October 2nd, 1909 17th, 1906

Jm" B‘ Jackson' . { DiedResigned October October 31%[1908 18th, 1907 Robt. Pitcairn, died July 25th, 1909 Thos. N. Miller, died December 16th, 1911 Albert J. Barr, died February 24th, 1912

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Carnegie Hero Fund Commission

DEED OF TRUST

T o the Hero Fund Commission:

GENTLEMEN:—We live in an heroic age. Not seldom are we thrilled by deeds of heroism where men or women are injured or lose their lives in attempting to preserve or rescue their fellows; such the heroes of civilization. The heroes of barbarism maimed or killed theirs. I have long felt that the heroes and those dependent upon them should be freed from pecuniary cares resulting from their heroism, and, as a fund for this purpose, I have transferred to the Commission five million dollars of First Collateral Five Per Cent. Bonds of the United States Steel Corporation, the proceeds to be used as follows: FIRST. To place those following peaceful vocations, who have been injured in heroic effort to save human life, in some what better positions pecuniarily than before, until again able to work. In case of death, the widow andchildren, or other dependents, to be provided for until she remarries, and the children until they reach a self-supporting age. For exceptional children exceptional grants may be made for exceptional educa tion. Grants of sums of money may also be made to heroes or heroines as the Commission thinks advisable—each case to be judged on its merits. SECOND. No grant is to be continued unless it be soberly and properly used, and the recipients remain respectable, well behaved members of the community, but the heroes and heroines are to be given a fair trial, no matter what their antecedents. Heroes deserve pardon and a fresh start. THIRD. A medal shall be given to the hero, or widow,or 9 next of kin, which shall recite the heroic deed it commemorates, that descendants may know and be proud of their descent. The medal shall be given for the heroic act, even if the doer be uninjured, and also a sum of money, should the Commission deem such gift desirable. FOURTH. Many cities provide pensions for policemen, firemen, teachers, and others, and some may give rewards for acts of heroism. All these and other facts the Commission will take into account and act accordingly in making grants. Nothing could be further from my intention than to deaden or interfere with these most creditable provisions, doubly precious as showing public and municipal appreciation of faithful and heroic service. I ask from the Commission most careful guard against this danger. The medal can, of course, be offered in such cases. Whether something more can not judiciously be done, at the request of, or with the approval of, the city authori ties, the Commission shall determine. I hope there can be. FIFTH. The claims upon the Fund for some years can not exhaust it. After years, however, pensioners will become numerous. Should the Commission find, after allowing liberally for this, that a surplus will remain, it has power to make grants in case of accidents (preferably where a hero has appeared) to those injured. The action taken in the recent Harwick Mine accident, where Heroes Taylor and Lyle lost their lives, is an illustration. The community first raised a fund of forty thousand dollars, which was duplicated by me after waiting until the generosity of the community had full scope. Here again the Commission should be exceedingly careful, as in this case, not to deaden, but to stimulate employers or communities to do their part, for such action benefits givers themselves as well as recipients. SIXTH. It seems probable that cities and employers on this continent will ultimately be placed under similar conditions to those of Britain, Germany, and other European States, and required to provide against accidents to employees. Therefore, the Commission, by a two-thirds vote, may devote any surplus that accrues beyond providing for heroes and their dependents (which provision must never be abandoned) to such other modes of benefiting those in want, chiefly caused through no fault of their own (such as drunkenness, laziness, crime, etc.) but through exceptional circumstances, in such manner and to such extent

10 as the Commission thinks advisable and likely to do more good than if such sums were given to those injured by accident, where the latter may be suitably provided for by law, or otherwise. SEVENTH. The field embraced by the Fund is the United States of America, the Dominion of Canada, the Colony of Newfoundland, and the Waters thereof. The sea is the scene of many heroic acts. No action more heroic than that of doctors and nurses volunteering their services in the case of epidemics. Railroad employees'are remarkable for heroism. All these and similar cases are embraced. Whenever heroism is displayed by man or woman in saving human life, the Fund applies. EIGHTH. No personal liability will attach to members for any act of the Commission. The Commission-has power to fill vacancies. NINTH. The Commission has full power to sell, invest, or re-invest all funds; to employ all ofiicials, including Secretary, traveling agents to visit and oversee beneficiaries, etc., and to fix their compensation. Members of the Commission shall be reimbursed all expenses incurred, including traveling expenses attending meetings. The President shall be granted such honoraria as the Commission thinks proper and as he can be prevailed upon to accept. TENTH. An annual report, including a detailed statement of sums and medals granted and the reasons therefor, shall be made each year and published in at least one newspaper in the principal cities of the countries embraced by the Fund. A finely executed roll of the heroes and heroines shall be kept displayed in the oifice at Pittsburgh. (Signed) ANDREW CARNEGIE. WITNESS: LoUIsE WHITFIELD CARNEGIE.

New York, March 12th, 1904. MEMBERS OF COMMISSION

Original members and ofiicers, as named by Andrew Carnegie in his letter to Chas. L. Taylor, dated March 12th, 1904, accompanying the Deed of Trust

Wm. L. Abbott Thos. N. Miller Edwin H. Anderson Thomas Morrison Edward M. Bigelow F. C. Perkins W. W. Blackburn Robt. Pitcairn Jos. Buffington H. K. Porter W. N. Frew J. H. Reed W. J. Holland W. L. Scaife Jno. B. Jackson . William Scott Thos. Lynch W. H. Stevenson C. C. Mellor Chas. L. Taylor, President F. M. Wilmot, Secretary

12 ACCEPTANCE OF TRUST

Resolutions adopted at first meeting of Commission held April 15th, 1904

Resolved, That we, the Trustees of the Hero Fund, desire at this our first meeting, at which we have convened for the purpose of organization, to express to Mr. Carnegie our appre ciation of the high honor which he has conferred upon us in inviting us to administer the affairs of the trust which he has created, and thus in some measure to share with him in the pleasure of doing good. Resolved, That a committee of five, of which the President of the Commission shall be a member, be appointed to draw up a series of resolutions suitably expressing our sense of the noble character of the gift which Mr. Carnegie has made to the people of the United States, of Canada, and of Newfoundland, the said resolution, when drafted, to be submitted to the Commission for their approval, and to be thereafter suitably engrossed and transmitted to Mr. Carnegie.

Resolved, That the transfer to this Commission of five million dollars of First Collateral Five Per Cent. Bonds of the United States Steel Corporation, stated by Mr. Carnegie in his letter of trust dated March 12th, 1904, be accepted, and the President be authorized to accept the custody of the same, and that the formal registration of such bonds be deferred until- the question of incorporation or other formal organization of the Commission be determined by this body. 13 RESOLUTIONS PRESENTED TO FOUNDER OF FUND

Adopted at a meeting of the Commission held May 20th, 1904, signed by all the original members of the Commission, and forwarded to Andrew Carnegie

WHEREAS, Mr. Andrew Carnegie by his deed of gift, dated March the 12th, 1904, and witnessed by Mrs. Louise Whitfield Carnegie, has with more than princely generosity set aside from his fortune the sum of five millions of dollars for the purpose of recognizing in a suitable manner heroic efforts to save human life made by those following peaceful vocations, to relieve those injured in making such efforts, and to’ provide for their widows and orphans in cases where life may have been sacrificed, and to aid to some extent those who may be injured by accident in future great catastrophies or disasters, and WHEREAS, Mr. Andrew Carnegie has named the undersigned as the first members of the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission, charged by him with the important duty of administering the trust created by him for the purposes above mentioned; there fore be it Resolved, That we express to Mr. Carnegie our grateful appreciation of the high honor which he has conferred upon, and the confidence reposed in us, in entrusting the execution of his plans and purposes to our keeping and thus permitting us and our successors in the trust to share with him to some extent in the inestimable privilege of doing good to our fellow men. Resolved, That we individually and collectively desire to express to Mr. Carnegie our sense of the great benevolence displayed by him in this gift, which for the purposes designated is altogether without parallel in the history of human benefi cence. Resolved, That we believe the action of Mr. Carnegie is calculated to foster in the minds of the people of the countries 14 named in the deed of gift, a sense of their brotherhood and to promote among them the spirit of self-sacrifice, which is one of the most exalted traits of the highest civilization. Resolved, That we appreciate the nobility of his purpose in confining the operations of this Fund to those who have shown true heroism in the peaceful walks of life, by which act he consistently testifies to his ardent desire for the coming of that better day when men shall forget the arts of war and shall seek for peace and good-will throughout the earth. Resolved, That in accepting this trust we pledge ourselves to the sincerest endeavor to administer it according to the best of our knowledge and ability and with the purpose of realizing, so far as possible, the hopes and aims of the generous founder of the Fund.

15 BY-LAWS

ADOPTED MAY 20th. 1904

AMENDED JANUARY 15th, 1908, AND NOVEMBER lst. I912

ARTICLE I

COMMISSION SECTION 1. The title of this body, created by appointment of Andrew Carnegie, is the “Carnegie Hero Fund Commission." It is composed of the following-named persons and their successors forever, namely: Wm. L. Abbott Thos. N. Miller Edwin H. Anderson Thomas Morrison Edward M. Bigelow F. C. Perkins W. W. Blackburn Robert Pitcairn Jos. Buffington H. K. Porter W. N. Frew J. H. Reed W. J. Holland W. L. Scaife Jno. B. Jackson William Scott Thos. Lynch W. H. Stevenson C. C. Mellor Chas. L. Taylor F. M. Wilmot

SEC. 2. The Carnegie Hero Fund Commission shall act as trustee of the “Carnegie Hero Fund" and administer it in accordance with the provisions of the letter of Andrew Carnegie dated New York, March 12th, 1904, to accomplish which these “By-Laws” for the control of the Commission, and “Regula tions" for the government of the Fund, are adopted.

SEC. 3. The members of this Commission shall never exceed twenty-one in number and it shall be a self-perpetuating body. In the event of vacancies, occasioned by death, resignation, or otherwise, of any of the above-named twenty-one members, or their successors, such vacancies shall be filled by the remaining members in the following manner, viz.: by ballot at any regular or special meeting of the Commission properly convened. The affirmative votes of two-thirds of all of the said remaining members shall be required to elect. 16 SEC. 4. The regular annual meeting of the Commission shall be held on the third Wednesday of January of each year. Other regular meetings shall be held on the Friday following the last Thursday of April and October, respectively, in each year. Special meetings of the .Commission may be held at the call of the President, or upon the written request of any three members. Notices in writing of all meetings of the Commission shall be given by the Secretary to each member, not less than one week before each regular meeting, and not less than three days before each special or adjourned meeting; and the call for a special meeting shall recite the object for which it is called, and whether by the President, or at the request of members. At all meetings of the Commission, nine members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of busi ness, but a less number than a quorum may adjourn toa fixed date. ARTICLE II OFFICERS SECTION 1. The officers of the Commission shall consist of a President, a Vice President, a Treasurer, and a Secretary. They shall be elected by ballot from among the members of the Commission at the annual meeting in January, and shall hold office for one year and until their successors are elected. The Commission shall also elect annually a Manager of the Fund. He need not, but may, be a member of the Commission.

SEC. 2. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Commission. He shall appoint all standing committees and be ex-officio a member of each. He shall approve all vouchers for the payment of money. He shall have power to enforce all by-laws, regulations, and orders, and shall perform such other duties as are common to the office. SEC. 3. The Vice President shall, in the absence or disability of the President, perform all the duties of the office of President.

SEC. 4. The Treasurer shall be the financial officer of the Commission, and, under the direction of the Finance Commit tee, shall be charged with the collection of all income, and the disbursement of all funds upon proper voucher certified by the Manager and approved for payment by the President, Vice President, or other authorized member of the Commission. He shall keep books of'accounts, showing in detail all moneys

17 received and paid out by him, which books shall at all times be open to the inspection of the Commission. His accounts shall be audited at least once annually by the Audit Committee. He shall deposit all funds to the credit and in the name of the Commission, in such depositories as the Finance Committee shall designate. With the sanction of the Finance Committee, he may employ an assistant at the expense of the Fund. He, or the Assistant Treasurer, as may be directed by the Finance Committee, shall give a bond with sureties, and in such amount as may be approved by the Finance Committee, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties. When called upon by the Commission or Finance Committee, he shall make detailed reports to them of receipts and disbursements, and at each annual meeting he shall present a statement or summary show ing the income and expenditures for the preceding year, and shall perform such other duties as are common to the ofiice.

SEC. 5. The Secretary shall keep a record of all meetings of the Commission in a book provided for that purpose. He shall preserve the correspondence of the Commission, and all such correspondence shall be open ‘to the members for their infor mation at all times. He shall send to the members of the Com mission notices of all regular and special meetings, and perform such other duties as are common to the oflice.

SEC. 6. The Manager, under the direction of the President and Executive Committee, shall have general charge of all the business pertaining to the Fund, and prescribe the forms and blanks to be used. He shall certify to the correctness of all benefits and allowances, and bills for general expense and services rendered, and shall employ such persons as may be necessary for the proper conduct of the business of the Fund. He shall also furnish to the Commission such reports as it may require, and perform such other duties as shall be specifically defined in the Regulations governing the Fund. With the sanction of the Executive Committee, he may appoint and be aided by an Assistant Manager, who shall, in the absence or disability of, or when specifically directed by the Manager, or President, act for the Manager.

18 ARTICLE III D STANDING COMMITTEES SECTION 1. The following Standing Committees, consisting of five members each (except the Executive Committee, which shall consist of nine members), shall be appointed by the President at each annual meeting, to serve for one year, and until their successors are appointed: (a) Finance Committee (b) Executive Committee (6) Membership Committee (d) Audit Committee SEC. 2. The Finance Committee shall have the custody and control of the investments of the permanent fund. It shall report at the annual meeting of the Commission, in detail, the amount and character of the investments ‘and securities in its control. All securities and investments shall at all times be subject to the examination of the Audit Committee. The Finance Committee shall provide a safe deposit vault for securities, or investments made by it, and the vault in which such securities are deposited shall only be opened in the presence of two or more members of the Committee. It shall recommend to the Commission for its approval the compensation, if any, for officers and employees. SEC. 3. The Executive Committee shall meet on the first Tuesday of each month and shall consider cases and make its recommendations in respect to all benefits and medals. Its actions shall be governed by the Regulations of the Fund and the circumstances surrounding each case. It shall cause to be made a resume of each case and present same to the Commission for final action. SEC. 4. The Membership Committee shall be entrusted with the selection of, and power to nominate to the Commission, the names of suitable persons to fill vacancies in the Commis sion. It shall meet at such times as occasion may require and the result of its deliberations as to persons nominated shall be communicated to the members of the Commission in the Secre tarv's call for meeting. SEC. 5. The Audit Committee shall examine and report upon the accounts and securities of the Finance Committee, at least annually, and as much oftener as the Committee may 19 deem necessary, or the Commission may direct; It shall also examine as often as it may desire the Treasurer's books and vouchers, and papers pertaining thereto, and shall make special audit of his accounts each January before they are presented at the annual meeting, and certify its findings to the Commission.

ARTICLE IV ORDER OF BUSINESS SECTION 1. The order of business at all regular meetings of the Commission shall be as follows: (a) Roll call (b) Reading and approval of minutes of previous meeting (0) Unfinished business (d) Reports of Officers and Standing Committees (e) Election of Members of Commission (f) Election of Officers (g) New business

ARTICLE V AMENDMENTS SECTION 1. These By-Laws may be amended at any regular or special meeting of the Commission by a two-thirds vote of all the members present, provided the amendment shall have been proposed at a previous regular or special meeting and written notice of the proposition to amend, together with the text of the proposed amendment, shall have been mailed by the Secretary, at least one week prior to the meeting at which the same is to be considered, to each member's address as filed with the Secretary.

20 REGULATIONS SCOPE OF FUND AS APPLYING TO HEROIC Ac'rs Adopted at a meeting of the Commission held October 19th, 1904 . Amended November lst, 1912 The scope of the'Fund shall be confined strictly within the following limitations: ' lst. To acts in which conclusive evidence may be obtained showing that the person performing the act, voluntarily risked his own life in saving, or attempting to save, the life of a fellow being, or who voluntarily has sacrificed himself in an heroic manner for the benefit of others. 2d. Such acts must have been performed by persons the nature of whose duties in following their regular vocations does not necessarily require them to perform such acts. 3d. Such acts must have been performed in the United States of America, the Dominion of Canada, the Colony of Newfoundland, or the waters thereof. 4th. Such acts must have been performed on or after April 15th, 1904, and brought to the attention of the Com mission within three years of the date of the act.* 5th. Mr. Carnegie having directed that, in case of death, widows and children, or other dependents, are to be provided for until the widow remarries and until the children reach a self-supporting age, and, in the event of disability, the disabled to be provided for until again able to work, the maximum death or disablement benefit to be paid in any one year to any one family or dependent shall not exceed $1,000.00, the amount and manner of payment in each case to be fixed by the Commission upon the recommendation of the Executive Committee, provided, in no case, however, shall death or disablement benefits be paid unless it shall be clearly shown that the dependents or disabled need such assistance. ’ 6th. Medals, when awarded, shall be presented to the person performing the act, or, in case of death, to the widow or next of kin. 7th. Heroic acts may be brought to the attention of the Commission by direct application, or through the public press.

*This last clause is an amendment which became effective January 1st, 3.

21 ACTS OF HEROISM

WHICH HAVE BEEN RECOGNIZED Since the establishment of the Fund to and including January 3lst, 1914

AND THE AWARD MADE IN EACH CASE

ACT AWAR D

Louis A. Baumann, Jr., aged seventeen, laborer, saved Bronze Medal. Charles Stevick, aged sixteen, laborer, from drowning, near Wilkinsburg, Pa., July 17, 1904. Baumann dived in Sulphur Pond, in water ten feet deep, and, after three attempts, rescued Stevick, who was panic-stricken.

Gideon K. Marshall, aged thirty-nine, carpenter, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Arthur Truby, aged twenty-three, laborer, $500 toward sup and Fernand Pilette, aged thirty-two, glass-worker, from port of widow suffocation, Springdale, Pa., May 25, 1904. Marshall was and child. overcome by gas while sliding down a rope to the bottom of a thirty-two-foot well to rescue the two men, who were already unconscious. All three perished. John J. Healy, aged twenty-four, hospital attendant, Bronze Medal. saved Agnes Stroebel, aged nineteen, from drowning, New York City, May 16, 1904. Healy swam out one hundred feet from shore, in New York Bay, in water twenty-two feet deep, and rescued the woman, who was intent on suicide.

John J. Riley, aged forty-four, ticket seller, saved August Bronze Medal. Rolke, aged forty-eight, tailor, from drowning, Coney Island, N. Y., August 15, 1904. Riley jumped from a pier, ten feet high, into the ocean, and made rescue in water twenty feet deep, twenty feet from the pier.

Ernestine F. Atwood, aged seventeen, student, saved Silver Medal and Harry M. Smith, aged thirty-six, coachm'an, from drowning, $500 for educa North Weymouth, Mass., August 22, 1904. Miss Atwood tional purposes, dived from a rowboat in Boston Harbor, two hundred feet as needed. from the shore, and rescued the man from under a float.

Thomas H. McCann, aged thirty-two, draw tender, died Bronze Medal and saving Alfonso Sekosky, aged eight, from drowning, Portland, $600 toward sup Me., June 29, 1904. McCann jumped from a bridge, twenty- port of widow. five feet high, into Portland Harbor, swam with the boy to a boat, but was too fatigued to get into it himself, and was drowned.

22 ACTS OF HEROISM—Continued

ACT AWARD

Seymour J. Leighton, aged forty-one, machinist, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Mary G. Kane, aged sixteen, and Evelyn $600 toward sup Bliss, aged fourteen, from drowning, Lawrence, Mass, July 4, port of widow. 1904. While wading toward the girls, who had drifted over the falls in the Merrimac River, Leighton was carried away by the swift current, and all three perished.

Alexander Cameron, aged twenty-seven, painter, saved Silver Medal. George H. Bryans, aged eight, from drowning, Lindsay, Ont., April 24, 1904. Cameron swam one hundred feet to the middle of Scugog River, at flood stage, and efi’ected rescue, becoming almost exhausted.

Lavinia Steele, aged twenty-seven, cataloguer, saved Bronze Medal. George E. Hill, aged twenty-six, student, from drowning, Iowa City, Iowa, December 9, 1904. Miss Steele skated to the middle of Iowa River, on thin ice, when others of lighter weight refused to attempt a rescue, and pulled Hill out upon the ice with a short pole.

10 Daniel Davis, aged twenty-three, coal miner, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save William Monroe, aged thirty-eight, coal miner, $1,000 t o w a r d from suffocation, Sherodsville, Ohio, July 11, 1904. Davis support of widow was overcome by black damp while walking into a mine to and two children. rescuedMonroe, who was helpless from the gas but was later rescue .

11 Wade H. Plummer, aged fifteen, schoolboy, saved John Silver Medal and M. Gibson, aged nineteen, laborer, from drowning, Lamar, $600 for educa S. C., May 7, 1904. Plummer, having just reached goal in a tional purposes, swimming race, swam to his competitor, who had been taken as needed. with a cramp in the middle of Lynches River, and, after two attempts, rescued him, despite the commands of his father to desist.

12 Michael A. Doyle, aged thirty-one, ship laborer, saved Silver Medal. Charlotte L. de Kastner, aged seventeen, from drowning, Quebec, Que., April 28, 1904. Doyle jumped into the St. Lawrence River, which was running with ice, and rescued the girl, who was intent on suicide.

13 Maude A. Titus, aged sixteen, student, saved Laura V. Silver Medal and Reifsnyder, aged twenty-seven, from drowning, Yarmouth, $2,500 for educa Me., July 30, 1904. Miss Titus, when thrown into Casco Bay, tional purposes, with three other occupants of a boat, instead of swimming to as needed. the overturned boat, as two did, supported Miss Reifsnyder, who could not swim, in a choppy sea until both were rescued.

14 Sadie L. Crabbe, aged thirty-three, housewife, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Ralph Young (colored), aged nineteen, $2,000 in trust laborer, from drowning, Avalon, Va., February 11, 1905. for four children. Mrs. Crabbe broke through treacherous ice on Great Wicomico River while making an effort to get Young out of a hole. Both were carried off by the current and drowned.

23 ACTS OF HEROlSM—Continued

ACT AWARD

15 Anne M. Cunningham, aged twenty, trained nurse, Bronze Medal. attempted to save Walker Cutts, aged twenty-one, attorney, from drowning, Tybee Island, Ga., May 26, 1905. Miss Cunningham swam twenty-five feet out into the ocean from a point one hundred twenty-five feet from the shore, and, against the tide, assisted in taking Cutts toward shore; but, upon being carried under the water the third time by the high waves, her hold on him was broken. She was pulled to shore exhausted, and Cutts was drowned.

16 William C. Brune aged seventeen, laborer, saved George Bronze Medal. P. Pfanner, aged nine, from drowning, Sandusky, Ohio, July 8, 1904. Brune made rescue in Sandusky Bay, thirty feet from shore, experiencing much difficulty in locating Pfanner, on account of the dangerous bottom.

17 Arthur J. Gottschalk, aged twenty-four, storekeeper, Bronze Medal. saved Phoebe Webster, aged thirty-five, from drowning, Crystal Beach, Ont., July 6, 1904. Gottschalk's canoe was capsized in his effort to rescue Mrs. Webster, who was intent on suicide, and he then supported her in the water until both were rescued. ' -

18 George F. Russell, aged twenty-four, ship fitter, saved Bronze Medal. Frank G. Baler, aged twelve, and Leon Morrison, aged ten, from drowning, New London, Conn., July 29, 1904. Russell jumped from a launch into Long Island Sound, and, with the two boys clinging to him, swam to their capsized boat.

19 Arthur A. Ross aged twenty-three, hat maker, saved Bronze Medal. Nellie T. Welsh, aged eighteen, Mamie H. Welsh, aged seven teen, and Joseph R. Gillis, aged nineteen, chemist, from drowning, Foxboro, Mass, April 19, 1905. Ross swam with a boat, in a mill pond, and effected rescues fifty feet from the bank, in water twenty-five feet deep, the boat being once overturned by the panic-stricken victims.

20 Mark Casto, aged thirty-six, master, schooner “Alberta," Gold Medal and with a volunteer crew of six men, rescued the passengers and $6,500; $5,000 for crew of the steamer “Cherokee," Atlantic City, N. J., the education of January 14, 1906. During a fierce gale, Captain Casto took Capt. Casto's son, to the stranded steamer on Brigantine shoals his sixty-foot as needed, and boat, to which were transferred fifty-two persons, his two $1,500 to liquidate dories and one from the steamer being lost in the sea before a mortgage on the transfers were effected. Casto 's property.

21 Nels Gregersen, aged twenty-six, fisherman, went with Silver Medal and the schooner “Alberta" and assisted in the rescue of the $500 in trust. passengers and crew of the steamer “ Cherokee," Atlantic City, N. J., January 14, 1906. (See Award No. 20.)

22 Frederick Bouchie, aged forty-seven, fisherman, went Silver Medal and with the schooner “Alberta" and assisted in the rescue of the $500 in trust. passengers and crew of the steamer “ Cherokee," Atlantic City, N. J., January 14, 1906. (See Award No. 20.)

24 ACTS OF HEROISM—Continued

ACT AWARD

Marius Nelsen, aged twenty-five, fisherman, went with‘ Silver Medal and the schooner "Alberta" and assisted in the rescue of the $500 in trust. passengers and crew of the steamer “ Cherokee," Atlantic City, N. J., January 14, 1906. (See Award No. 20.)

24 Joseph M. Shute, aged thirty, fisherman, went with the Silver Medal and schooner “ Alberta " and assisted in the rescue of the passengers $500 in trust. and crew of the steamer “Cherokee," Atlantic City, N. J., January 14, 1906. (See Award No. 20.)

25 Axal Holmquist, aged twenty-six, fisherman, went with Silver Medal and the schooner "Alberta" and assisted in the rescue of the $500 in trust. passengers and crew of the steamer “ Cherokee," Atlantic City, N. J., January 14, 1906. (See Award No. 20.)

26 Lewis J. Johnson, aged twenty-five, cook, went with the Silver Medal and schooner “ Alberta " and assisted in the rescue of the passengers $500 in trust. and crew of the steamer “Cherokee," Atlantic City, N. J., January 14, 1906. (See Award No. 20.)

27 Michael Gismondi, aged twenty-seven, laborer, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Percy Summy, aged thirteen, from suffo $600 toward sup- cation, Mt. Pleasant, Pa., September 22, 1905. Gismondi port of widow. was overcome by gas six feet from the bottom of a thirty-foot well, while descending a ladder to rescue the boy, who was already unconscious and later taken out dead.

28 William Watkins, aged twenty-four, coal miner, rescued Silver Medal and Brinley R. Davis, aged twenty-two, mine car tender, Rees J. $1,200 to liquidate Williams, aged nineteen, driver, and Joseph Winchent, aged mortgage on his forty-five, coal miner, in a mine, Kingston, Pa., September 3, property. 1904. Watkins successively took the men from the place of an explosion, where there was imminent danger of the roof falling, to a position of safety.

29 Timothy E. Heagerty, aged forty-one, master, tug Silver Medal and "Thomas Wilson," with a crew of three men, rescued the $1,200 to liquidate officers and crew of the schooner “Yukon," Ashtabula. Ohio, mortgage on his October 20, 1905. Captain Heagerty took his boat out of the property. harbor during a gale blowing fifty-two miles an hour, and, with the waves on Lake Erie running fourteen feet high, steered it in the trough of the sea, past the sinking schooner, close enough to enable the men on it to leap to his boat.

30 Robert W. Simpson, aged forty-six, engineer, went with Bronze Medal and the tug “Thomas Wilson" and aided in the rescue of the $1,950, as needed. olficers and crew of the schooner "Yukon," Ashtabula, Ohio, October 20, 1905. (See Award No. 29.)

31 Michael Sasso, aged twenty-two, fireman, went with the Bronze Medal and tug “Thomas Wilson" and aided in the rescue of the ofi'icers $500, as needed. and crew of the schooner “Yukon," Ashtabula, Ohio, October 20, 1905. (See Award No. 29.)

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32 Michael P. O'Brien, aged twenty-three, plasterer, saved Silver Medal. Bessie Eyl, aged thirty, and her two children, aged three, and three weeks, from suffocation, New York City, May 14, 1904. O'Brien, from a third-story window of an adjoining house, . climbed, on window caps, over to a window in the room occupied by Mrs. Eyl and the children, went into the room through dense smoke, and carried them to windows.

George B. Williams, aged twenty-eight, laborer, died Silver Medal. attempting to rescue George J. Weigle, aged twenty-nine, draughtsman, from electric shock, Elizabeth, Pa., October 24, 1904. Williams was knocked from an iron bridge by an electric shock while climbing to the top of it to assist Weigle, who was hanging, head down, unconscious from a shock. AVhgn later removed from the bridge, Weigle was found to be ea .

Lucy E. Ernst, aged twenty, saved Harry E. Schoenhut, Silver Medal. aged sixteen, from death from snake-bite, Porter's Lake, Pa., July 8, 1905. Miss Ernst, though having a fever blister on her lip, repeatedly sucked the venom from a rattlesnake bite on Schoenhut 's arm near the shoulder.

Walter H. Murbach, aged twenty-two, machinist, saved Silver Medal. John I. Allen, aged thirteen, from drowning, Elyria, Ohio, February 16, 1906. Murbach, after swimming thirty feet in the West Branch of Black River, breaking the ice before him, became almost exhausted, and returned to the bank; then, partly supported by a frame door, made a second attempt and eflected the rescue ninety feet from shore.

36 Newton Stuchel aged twenty-four, teamster, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Charles Hoburn, aged eighteen, laborer, $1,000 t o w a r d and Oscar Newberg, aged seventeen, laborer, from drowning. support of widow Mutual, Pa., June 13, 1904. Stuchel went to the assistance of and child. the two men, who had become panic-stricken while bathing in a reservoir, and was dragged to the bottom by one of them. All three were drowned.

37 James W. Gilmer, aged twenty-five, deckhand, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Howard McKarney, aged nineteen, deck $200 to father, to hand, from drowning, Elizabeth, Pa., March 23, 1905. Gil reimburse him for mer, in a row boat, essayed to reach McKarney, who was on a expenses incident barge which was in imminent danger of being carried over a to son's death. dam in the Monongahela River. Both were swept over, the boat capsizing. McKarney escaped unhurt.

38 Harry E. Moore, aged thirty-eight, railroad conductor, Bronze Medal and attempted to save Farmer Miller, aged fifty-five, coal miner, $500 to reimburse from being run over by a train, Amsterdam, Ohio, June 17, him for pecuniary 1905. Moore jumped from the locomotive of the moving loss sustained train, and ran in front of it, in an effort to reach Miller, who account of in was lying on the track, but was overtaken and knocked down, juries. the wheels passing over a part of his left hand. Miller was killed.

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John M. Delo, aged twenty-seven, electrician, attempted Bronze Medal and to save Roy Yingling, aged twenty-four, lineman, from electric $500 to reimburse shock, Oil City, Pa., January 18, 1905. Delo, while climbing him for pecuniary a pole to assist Yingling, who was helpless from a shock, tried loss sustained to catch the latter as he was falling, and was himself knocked account of in from the pole, sustaining a fracture of the skull. Both juries. recovered from their injuries.

Therese S. McNally, aged thirteen, schoolgirl, saved Bronze Medal and Loretta Merwin, aged four, from drowning, Woodmont, Conn., $2,000 for educa June 16, 1904. Miss McNally made the rescue in Long Island tional purposes, Sound, eighty feet from shore, in water eight feet deep, after as needed. swimming thirty feet.

41 Daniel J. Curtin, aged fifteen, water-boy, saved Hulda Bronze Medal and Johnson and Hilda Elg, aged ten, from drowning, New York $2,000 for educa City, August 21, 1905. Curtin swam ten feet to the girls, tional purposes, who were carried into deep water while bathing in East River, as needed. and after successfully overcoming the struggles of the first girl, returned and assisted the second one to shore.

42 William L. Wolff, aged thirty-five, deckhand, saved Bronze Medal and Albert G. Fosman, aged nineteen, laborer, and John Lewis, $500, as needed. aged eighteen, laborer, from drowning, Camden, N. J., September 22, 1905. Wolff jumped from a dock on the Delaware River, swam seventy-five feet, put one of the men on their capsized boat, and getting the other one from under it, laced his body against the boat, and swam to shore, pus ing the boat before him.

Richard X. Hughes, aged forty-two, laborer, saved Bronze Medal and John R. Owens, aged thirty-six, laborer, from an explosion, $250, as needed. Bangor, Pa., October 17, 1904. Hughes ran from behind a shelter in a slate quarry, in the face of a blast (the fuse being lighted), picked up Owens, who was blinded by burning powder, and near a precipice, and carried him to safety.

Edward H. Campbell, aged nineteen, coal miner, saved Bronze Medal. George W. South, aged nineteen, coal miner, from drowning, Buena Vista, Pa., August 21, 1904. Campbell, whose friendly relations with South were strained, swam twenty-five feet from shore, in the Youghiogheny River, and rescued South, who could not swim.

45 William J. Wild, aged nineteen, moulder, saved George Bronze Medal. K. Fanner, aged twenty, machinist, Peter E. Schroeder, aged twenty, janitor, and Frank Johnson, aged twenty-one, plumber, from burning, Clifton, Pa., March 3, 1905. Wild, having escaped from a wrecked passenger coach which took fire, re-entered it three times, and carried out the men, who were helpless in the wreckage.

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Charles A. Swenson, aged twenty-seven, track walker, Bronze Medal. saved Gustav Herb, aged thirty-seven, tinner, from drowning, Brooklyn, N. Y., November 5, 1905. Swenson jumped from a moving ferry boat in East River, following Herb, who was intent on suicide, overpowered him, and then supported him until help arrived.

47 Edward Murray, aged thirty-nine, yard conductor, saved Bronze Medal. Margaret and Robert Lewis, aged four and two, respectively, from being run over by a train, Pittsburgh, Pa., January 22, 1906. Murray jumped from the locomotive of a moving train‘, and, running aheadof it, dragged the children off the trac .

48 Samuel M. de Sherbinin, aged twenty, jeweler, saved Bronze Medal. Alfred O. Buriiham, aged twenty-five, carpenter, from drown ing, Langham, Sask., August 23, 1905. De Sherbinin swam thirty feet from shore and, after a struggle, effected rescue in Saskatchewan River, where the water was ten feet deep.

49 Arthur Simon, aged fifteen, schoolboy, saved Mable Bronze Medal. Lippman, aged fifteen, and Golda Simon, aged seventeen, from drowning, Valparaiso, Ind., August 24, 1905. Simon effected rescues in Flint Lake, after swimming forty feet to the girls, who had clutched each other and gone under.

Henry J. Schiller, aged thirty-one, baker, saved Wendell Bronze Medal and B. Tussing, aged sixteen, schoolboy, from drowning, Lakeside, $1,500 to liquidate Ohio, August 30, 1905. Schiller jumped from a dock into Lake mortgage on his Erie,and,after being dragged under the water twice by Tussing, property. supported him until help arrived in a launch.

51 William G. Stillwell, aged thirteen, schoolboy, saved Bronze Medal and Ruth L. Schoolcraft, aged fourteen, from drowning, Bellaire, $2,000 for educa Mich., April 26, 1906. Stillwell swam fifty feet in Intermediate tional purposes, River, and, although thirty-eight pounds lighter than the girl, as needed. swam twelve feet with her to shallow water.

52 William J. A. Darst, aged fourteen, schoolboy, helped to Bronze Medal and save George H. Grosvenor and Robert Bell, aged seventeen, $1,000, as needed. students, from drowning, Chicago, Ill., May 17, 1904. Darst and another boy of same age, in a small boat, rowed a quarter of a mile out on Lake Michigan, the waves running high, and rescued the two boys, whose canoe had capsized, paying no heed to the entreaties to return to shore of the third member of the rescue-party, who was older and whose courage had failed him.

Clifford W. Snyder, aged fourteen, student, helped to Bronze Medal and save George H. Grosvenor and Robert Bell from drowning, $1,000, as needed. Chicago, I1l., May 17, 1904. (See Award No. 52.)

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Elsie C. Plantz, aged fifteen, student, saved Norman Silver Medal. Brokaw, aged eleven, and attempted to save Beulah E. Hubbs and Blanche H. Bennison, aged nineteen, from drowning, Appleton, Wis., January 20, 1905. Miss Plantz walked out upon thin ice on Fox River, pulled Brokaw out of the water, and then broke through herself while endeavoring to pull the two girls out. All were rescued later.

55 Irving W. Church, aged twenty, student, saved Elsie C. Bronze Medal. Plantz, aged fifteen, and Beulah E. Hubbs and Blanche H. Bennison, aged nineteen, from drowning, Appleton, Wis., January 20, 1905. Church, supported only by thin ice, pulled the girls out of Fox River, twelve feet from shore, where the water was eight feet deep. 56 John M. Parks, aged nineteen, laborer, with two others, Bronze Medal. rescued Charles A. McCoy, aged twenty-eight, ore miner, froma blast ina mine, Ketchum, Idaho, June 13, 1905. Parks, after having been knocked down by the concussion from a premature explosion, rushed to the assistance of McCoy, who had been rendered helpless and was lying near other blasts which were momentarily expected to go off, and helped carry him to safety. 57 LeRoy McCoy, aged nineteen, laborer, with two others, Bronze Medal. rescued Charles A. McCoy, aged twenty-eight, ore miner, from a blast in amine, Ketchum, Idaho, June 13, 1905. LeRoy, after having been knocked down by the concussion from a premature explosion, rushed to the assistance of Charles, who had been rendered helpless and was lying near other blasts which were momentarily expected to go off, and helped carry him to safety.

58 Wallace 0. McPheters, aged twenty-four, ore miner, Bronze Medal. with two others, rescued Charles A. McCoy, aged twenty eight, ore miner, from a blast in a mine, Ketchum, Idaho, June 13, 1905. McPheters, who had reached a place of safety, after having been knocked down by flying rock from a pre mature explosion, returned to the assistance of McCoy, who had been rendered helpless and was lying near other blasts which were momentarily expected to go off, and helped carry him to safety.

59 Rufus K. Combs, aged forty-eight, blacksmith, saved Silver Medal and Richard Godson, aged forty-two, lawyer, from suffocation, $1,500, as needed. Midway, Ky., April 2, 1906. Combs went into a vault con taining a gas-making apparatus, and rescued his political and personal enemy, who was overcome by gas, while friends stood by, fearing to enter the vault.

60 James V. Godman aged thirty, civil engineer, died Silver Medal and attempting to save William H. Funk, aged thirty-six, city $1,811.54 in trust marshal, from suffocation, Warsaw, Ind., July 25, 1904. for three children. Godman entered a “lift-well" of the city sewer system, and was overcome by gas while endeavoring to remove Funk, who was already unconscious.

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61 Harris G. Giddings, aged forty-five, captain of city fire Gold Medal and boat, helped to save Jacob F lyter, aged thirty, labor foreman, $1,500, as needed. from drowning, Milwaukee, Wis., April 30, 1906. Giddings and two other men descended a fifty-five-foot shaft, and rescued Flyter, who was imprisoned in an air-chamber of a tunnel under the Milwaukee River, into which water was leaking.

62 Lawrence A. Hanlon, aged forty, assistant chief, city Gold Medal and fire department, helped to save Jacob Flyter from drowning $1,500, as needed. i131 a tu)nnel, Milwaukee, Wis, April 30, 1906. (See Award o. 61.

Peter Lancaster, aged thirty-seven, captain, city fire Gold Medal and department, helped to save Jacob Flyter from drowning in a $1,500, as needed. tunnel, Milwaukee, Wis., April 30, 1906. (See Award No. 61.)

Jeremiah M. Donovan, aged twenty-six, sailor, went Bronze Medal and with the tug "Thomas Wilson" and aided in the rescue of the $500, as needed. officers and crew of the schooner “Yukon," Ashtabula, Ohio, October 20, 1905. (See Award No. 29.)

65 Cline Horton, aged seventeen, schoolboy, saved Ralph Bronze Medal. P. Baxter, aged twelve, from drowning, Astoria, 11l., Decem ber 11, 1905. Horton broke through thin ice on Spring Lake, while endeavoring to pull Baxter out of the water, and then swam ten feet with him to shallow water.

John H. Young, aged fifteen, coal miner, saved Albert Bronze Medal. Brookham, aged fifteen, coal miner, from drowning, Bryant, 11l., July 16, 1904. Young, though thirty-five pounds lighter than Brookham, went to the latter's assistance in a pond, and swam with him twenty feet to shore.

67 Leo H. Nokes, aged twenty, student, saved Lillie Win Bronze Medal. gerson, aged four, from being run over by a train, Sac City, Iowa, April 27, 1906. Nokes crossed the track on a bicycle, in the face of a fast-approaching train, and shoved the child out of danger, his arm being grazed by the engine.

68 Morris A. Nourse, aged fifty-eight, railway mail clerk, Bronze Medal. saved Frank Leonard,aged nine, from drowning, Des Moines, Iowa, July 19, 1905. Nourse effected the rescue in the Des Moines River, which was at flood stage, by swimming out twenty feet from the bank, and bringing Leonard ashore.

Samuel M. Stowe, aged twenty-six, assistant foreman, Bronze Medal. saved George A. Hemminger, aged twenty, pipe fitter, from drowning, Oregon City, Ore., July 20, 1906. Stowe jumped into a canal at the Willamette River Falls, and, in a current running seven miles per hour, supported Hemmingcr until they were assisted up the ten-foot perpendicular sidewall.

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70 Thomas A. Harris, aged seventeen, porter, saved Ivy G. Bronze Medal and Blair, aged fifteen, from drowning, Ogden, Utah, March 25, $2,000 for educa 1906. Harris, after swimming two hundred feet, rescued the tional purposes, girl, in Weber River, which was at flood stage, the current as needed. - being five miles per hour.

71 George H. Poell, aged twenty-five, locomotive fireman, Bronze Medal and saved A. Paul Ussary, aged three, from being run over by a $250 to reimburse train, Powells, Neb., June 26, 1905. Poell climbed out to the him for pecuniary pilot of the locomotive of the train running eight miles per loss sustained hour, and pushed the child from the track, but in doing so fell, account of in and had his left foot torn off. juries.

Herman J. Petzel, aged fifty-four, painter, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save John J. Heet, aged eighteen, porter, from drowning, $1,500 t o w a r d Suttcr Station, Mo., July 4, 1905. Petzel swam seventy-five support of widow feet in a swimming pool to rescue Heet, but was dragged to and five children. the bottom by him, both perishing.

73 Luther H. Wagner, aged twenty-seven, student, died Silver Medal and saving Katie Crabb, aged fifteen, from drowning, Parkville, $250 to father, to Mo., February 9, 1906. Wagner went to the rescue of Miss reimburse him for Crabb, who, with a companion, had broken through the ice on expenses incident a slough of the Missouri River, supported her in the water for to son's death. a time, and then sank.

74 Benjamin F. Willits, aged twenty-two, carpenter, died Silver Medal and saving Grace McDonald, aged twenty-four, from drowning, $360 a year for Bean Lake, Mo., June 23, 1905. Willits, after swimming one support of par hundred feet in the lake, and releasing Miss McDonald from ents, during their under a capsized boat, sank before assistance reached him. lives.

James Lukins, aged twenty-two, coal miner, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save Vance Ray, aged twelve, from drowning, Peters $500 in trust for burg, 11l., June 24, 1904. Lukins swam forty feet in the child. Sangamon River to the assistance of Ray, but was exhausted by the boy's struggles, and both perished. 5:6 James A. Harris, aged twenty-seven, farmer, died saving Silver Medal and Irvin Choate, aged seventeen, farmer, from drowning, Brazil, $1,500 toward Tenn., June 9, 1906. Harris swam over a hole in Forked support of widow Deer River, assisted Choate to within reach of an extended and two children. pole, but was too exhausted to reach safety himself.

77 Herman Zick, aged thirty-two, butter maker, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Philip J. Drissen, aged twenty-five, $1,500 t o w a r d manager of stock farm, from drowning, Athens, Wis., June 16, support of widow 1905. Zick, who could not swim, was dragged to his death, and two children. with Drissen, while trying to assist the latter from a deep hole in Black Creek.

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78 Theodore Boettcher aged thirty-seven, coal miner, Silver Medal and saved Daniel Hopp, aged thirty-eight, coal miner, from a $850 to liquidate blast in a mine, Belleville, Ill., November 16, 1905. Boettcher, mortgage on his from a place of safety, rushed to a blast and pulled out the property. fuse which had burned to within a quarter of an inch of the powder, to save Hopp, who had been pinned to the floor, by a fall of slate, six feet from the blast.

79 Mary 0. Black, aged twenty-five, housewife, saved, Silver Medal. Ruth E. and Beulah B. Balderree, aged sixteen and eleven, respectively, from drowning, Sampson, Ore., July 23, 1904. Mrs. Black, encumbered by four skirts, waded into Schofield Creek, pulled one girl out of a hole eight feet deep; then followed by her dog, she swam into the hole for the other girl, but while assisting her became exhausted, and, only by the aid of the dog, succeeded in getting her out.

Charles L. Haynes, aged fifteen, schoolboy, saved Harold Silver Medal. E. Smith, aged thirteen, from drowning, N eosho Rapids, Kan., August 25, 1906. Haynes, somewhat fatigued by previous exertions, swam into the current of Cottonwood River and succeeded in overcoming Smith's struggles, only after render ing gim unconscious by a blow on the neck, and then got him to s ore.

81' Jewel H. Reed, aged seventeen, student, died attempting Silver Medal. to save Laura Pulvermacher, aged fifty, and Pauline Hermanns, aged fifty-two, from burning, St. Louis, Mo., January 6, 1906. Miss Reed, through fire and smoke, ascended the stairway of her home to the second floor, to assist the two women, but was cut off from escape, and was burned with them. .

82 Earl B. Spencer, aged seventeen, steamfitter's helper, Bronze Medal. saved Frank Perry, aged fifteen, from drowning, North Dighton, Mass., January 17, 1906. Spencer ran five hundred feet on weak ice, and, lying down upon it, pulled Perry from a hole, the water running onto the ice as it bent under the weight of the rescuer's body.

83 Thomas B. Bockwich, aged nineteen, apprentice, saved Bronze Medal. Harold C. Ashborn, aged nine, from drowning, Waterbury, Conn., January 1, 1906. Bockwich dived into a hole in the ice on Forrest Lake, and supported Ashborn in the water ten minutes until they were assisted onto firm ice. .

Malcolm C. Auerbach, aged seventeen, student, Bronze Medal. attempted to save Charles L. Erdmann, aged twenty, printer, from drowning, Ocean City, N. J., July 7, 1906. Auerbach swam out into the ocean after Erdmann, but was unable to reach him, and was carried by a strong current against a pier, which slightly stunned him.

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Lyndon B. Phifer, aged thirteen, schoolboy, saved Paul Bronze Medal and I. Burrows, aged five, from being run over by a train, Rich $2,000 for educa Hill, Mo., October 14, 1905. Phifer ran out onto a trestle, tional urposes, released Burrows' foot from between two cross-ties, dropped as neededi him over the side into a small stream thirteen feet below, and then hung to the end of a cross-tie until the train passed.

Jessie K. Melson, aged thirty-seven, clerk, saved John Bronze Medal and B. McClosky, aged two, from being run over by a street car, $250 to reimburse Washington, D. C., July 17, 1905. With one foot on the her for pecuniary track, Miss Melson grabbed the child, and threw him over her loss sustained right shoulder, just as the car knocked her from the track, account of in fracturing her nose. juries.

87 Fenton 5. Gregory, aged eleven, schoolboy, saved Bronze Medal and William F. Bohlayer, aged twenty-three, bookkeeper, from $2,000 for educa drowning, Laceyville, Pa., June 29, 1906. Gregory, though tional purposes, one hundred five pounds lighter than Bohlayer, swam to the as needed. himlatter's in water assistance fifteen in feet the deep Susquehanna until others River, arrived and andp su helpedported Bohlayer to shore.

Oliver L. Schmuck, aged twenty-three, student, died Silver Medal. attempting to save William H. Nichols, aged twenty, student, from burning, Ithaca, N. Y., December 7, 1906. During a fire which destroyed the Chi Psi Fraternity House at Cornell University, Schmuck got out safely from the flames, but returned for his room-mate. He could not find him, and, after having received fatal burns. went to a third-story window and jumped.

89 Clarence J. Pope, aged twenty, student, attempted to Silver Medal. save James McCutcheon, II., aged twenty, student, from burning, Ithaca, N. Y., December 7, 1906. With hands severely burned, Pope, while making his escape, stopped on the stone balcony onto which opened a window in McCutch eon's room on the third floor, and made three attempts to reach McCutcheon, who was prostrate inside. While endeav oring to pull him from the room, Pope fell back over the balcony, striking a porch roof below, and thence falling to the gougg.) No serious injuries were sustained. (See Award 0. . '

Henry M. Curry, Jr., aged twenty-one, student, saved Silver Medal. James McCutcheon, II., from burning, Ithaca, N. Y., Decem ber 7, 1906. Having escaped onto the balcony, Curry, after Pope's attempt, re-entered his room, which was filled with heat and smoke, and dragged his room-mate outside. They were taken to the ground by means of ladders, but McCutcheon later died'of his injuries. (See Award No. 89.)

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91 Gustav Wohl, aged thirty-two, gunsmith, saved Clement Silver Medal. R. Donahue, aged eight, from drowning, Hartford, Conn. December 28, 1905. Breaking the ice before him, and swimming against the current, Wohl succeeded in reaching Donahue, who had broken through the ice on Park River, sixty feet from shore, and swam back with him.

92 Thomas H. Burns, aged seventeen, molder's helper, Silver Medal. died attempting to save Frank Newell, aged five, from drown ing, Lowell, Mass., July 23, 1906. Burns, who could not swim, tied a condemned hawser (the only thing available) around his waist, and jumped into the Pawtucket Canal to the rescue of Newell. The rope broke and Burns sank. Newell was later rescued. ‘

93 George H. Williams, aged forty-four, locomotive engineer, Silver Medal and attempted to save Jennie M. Hill, aged forty-three, from $1,000 to liquidate being run over by a train, Quincy, Mass, December 21, 1905. a mortgage on Williams ran in front of an express train and tried to push his property. Mrs. Hill from the track just as the watchman at the crossing drew her back from the other side. Williams was struck by the train and sustained a fractured rib and contusions of right hip and thigh.

John Morris, aged sixty, gate-tender, died saving an Silver Medal and unknown woman from being run over by a train, Hartford, $480 a year for Conn., May 19, 1905. Seeing that the woman was about to support of widow be struck by a fast-approaching train, Morris left his post of during her life or duty, ran in front of the train, and pushed the woman from until she remar the track, but in doing so was struck and instantly killed. ries.

95 John W. Smith, aged fifty-three, master, schooner Gold Medal and “Elsie," with a volunteer crew of seven men, rescued eight $4,000, as needed, passengers of the steamer “Larchmont," off Block Island, for the education R. I., February 12, 1907. With the thermometer registering of Smith's two two degrees, the wind blowing thirty-five miles an hour, and sons. the waves running twenty feet high, the “Elsie," a sixty foo't boat, was taken five miles to sea, to a raft on which were fifteen bodies. Seven of the castaways were found to have been frozen to death. The living were transferred to the schooner, by the crew, in twelve-foot dories.

96 Albert W. Smith, aged forty-six, fisherman, went with Gold Medal and the schooner “Elsie" and assisted in the rescue of eight $4,000, as needed. passengers of the steamer “Larchmont," off Block Island, for the education R. I., February 12, 1907. (See Award No. 95.) of Smith 's two daughters. 97 George E. Smith, aged fifty-one, fisherman, went with Gold Medal and the schooner “Elsie" and assisted in the rescue of eight $2,000, as needed, passengers of the steamer “Larchmont," off Block Island, for the education R. I., February 12, 1907. (See Award No. 95.) of Smith's son.

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Harry L. Smith, aged twenty-four, fisherman, went with Gold Medal and the schooner "Elsie" and assisted in the rescue of eight $1,000 in trust. passengers of the steamer “Larchmont," off Block Island, R. I., February 12, 1907. (See Award No. 95.)

Earl A. Smith, aged twenty, fisherman, went with the Gold Medal and schooner “ Elsie" and assisted in the rescue of eight passengers $2,000, as needed, of the steamer “Larchmont," off Block Island, R. 1., for the education February 12, 1907. (See Award No. 95.) of Smith's son.

100 Louis E. Smith, aged nineteen, fisherman, went with the Gold Medal and schooner “ Elsie" and assisted in the rescue of eight passengers $1,000 in trust. of the steamer “Larchmont," off Block Island, R. 1., February 12, 1907. (See Award No. 95.)

101 Jeremiah M. Littlefield, aged forty, fisherman, went Gold Medal and with the schooner "Elsie" and assisted in the rescue of eight $2,000, as needed, passengers of the steamer “Larchmont," off Block Island, for the education R. 1., February 12, 1907. (See Award No. 95.) of Littlefield 's son.

102 Edgar Littlefield, aged thirty-five, fisherman, went with Gold Medal and the schooner "Elsie" and assisted in the rescue of eight $6,000, as needed, passengers of the steamer “Larchmont," off Block Island, for the education R. 1., February 12, 1907. (See Award No. 95.) of Littlefield 's three children.

103 William J. Breen, aged thirty-two, engineer of city Bronze Medal. fire-boat, saved Christopher Powers, aged twenty-seven, sailor, from drowning, New York City, May 16, 1906. Breen dived from a dock on the Hudson River into the slip, and, after reaching Powers and overcoming his struggles, swam with him twenty feet to a boat.

104 Philip C. Pregenzer, aged thirty-four, city fireman, Bronze Medal. saved Annie Gearty, aged thirty-five, from drowning, Coney Island, N. Y., August 2, 1904. Pregenzer went to the assist ance of Mrs. Gearty, who had been taken with a cramp while swimming in the ocean, two hundred ten feet from shore. After a struggle, he knocked her unconscious, and then swam with her to shore.

105 Leon Harris, age'd fifteen, student, saved Bernard Z. Bronze Medal and Johnson, aged ten, from drowning, Pensacola, Fla., May 29, $500 for educa 1905. Harris jumped from a moving sailboat into Pensacola tional purposes, Bay, and swam about sixty feet to Johnson, who had fallen as needed. from another boat, and supported him until both were picked up.

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106 Thomas F. Maher, aged thirty-nine, engineer, saved Bronze Medal and William Fitzgerald, aged eight, from drowning, Boston, Mass., $1,500 to liquidate September 29, 1906. Maher, who was overheated from mortgage on his working on a steam roller, jumped from a dock eight feet property. above the surface of the water into Dorchester Bay, and, after swimming about twenty-five feet, reached Fitzgerald, with whom he swam, against the current, back to the dock.

107 John B. Hill (colored), aged thirty-five, coachman, Bronze Medal and rescued Thomas S. Prescott, aged six, and Florence Williams $500 to reimburse (colored), aged twenty-one, from a runaway, Atlanta, Ga., him for pecuniary December 1, 1905. By grabbing the bridle of one of the horses loss sustained of a runaway team hitched to a landau containing the child account of in and maid, Hill, after being dragged some distance, threw the juries. horse. It fell upon him breaking the stitches of a wound due to a recent operation.

108 Ralph F. Berlin, aged twenty-two, lumber inspector, Bronze Medal. saved Samuel Koch, aged thirty-two, rabbi, and Jennie Levy, aged twenty-six, from drowning, Santa Rosa Island, Fla., June 21, 1906. Berlin jumped from a dock, from which the two had fallen, in the darkness, into Pensacola Bay, and, catching hold of the Rabbi, with Miss Levy clinging to him, swam with them to a nearby launch.

109 Charles Weiss, aged fifteen, schoolboy, saved an unknown Bronze Medal and woman from drowning, Bath Beach, N. Y., September 28, $2,000 for educa 1906. Weiss swam out about one hundred feet in Gravesend cational purposes, Bay to the woman, who was intent on suicide. When she as needed. attempted to grasp him, he kicked her, rendering her uncon scious, and then swam with her to the beach.

110 Frederick H. Hanker, aged eleven, schoolboy, saved Silver Medal and Emmons T. Gray, aged eight, from drowning, Ellenville, $2,000 for educa N. Y., May 27, 1905. Gray fell into Beerkill Creek, and tional purposes, when Hanker swam to his assistance, he struggled so frantic as needed. ally that Hanker was almost exhausted and was compelled to leave him. After resting a moment, Hanker made another attempt and got Gray to shore.

111 Gabriel Farrell, Jr. , aged twenty, student and boatman, Bronze Medal and attempted to save Morris Rinnig, aged fifteen, clerk, and $2,000 for educa Morris Stalinsky, aged seventeen, glassworker, from drowning, tional purposes, Boston, Mass., August 18, 1906. Farrell jumped into the as needed. Charles River and swam to the two boys, who were struggling together. He was seized by Stalinsky and rendered helpless, but both were later rescued. Rinnig reached safety himself, after getting free from Stalinsky.

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112 James T. Farrell, aged twenty-one, boatman, saved Bronze Medal. Morris Stalinsky and Gabriel Farrell, Jr., from drowning, Boston, Mass., August 18, 1906. Farrell dived for the two boys, Stalinsky having dragged Gabriel under the water, and swam with them a few feet to a float, where they were drawn up by others. (See Award No. 111.)

113 Nels P. Nelson, aged twenty-eight, stationary engineer, Silver Medal. with three others, rescued Adam Haggerty, aged fifty-five, stationary engineer, from suffocation, Boston, Mass., June 18, 1905. Nelson, having first attempted the rescue alone, led the party into a room filled with ammonia gas, out of which they succeeded in carrying Haggerty.

114 William J. Higgins aged thirty-nine, bath attendant, Bronze Medal. helped to rescue Adam l'laggerty from suffocation, Boston, Mass., June 18, 1905. (See Award No. 113.)

115 Thomas Lawrence, aged fifty-two, bath attendant, Bronze Medal. helped to rescue Adam Haggerty from suffocation, Boston, Mass, June 18, 1905. (See Award No. 113.)

116 Thomas F. Taylor, aged sixteen, bellboy, helped to rescue Bronze Medal. Adam Haggerty from suffocation, Boston, Mass, June 18, 1905. (See Award No. 113.)

117 Rosa P. Schaller, aged thirty, housewife, saved Ida Silver Medal. Weissman, aged seventeen, from drowning, North Beach, N. Y., July 17, 1905. Mrs. Schaller swam one hundred feet in Long Island Sound to the assistance of Miss Weissman. She knocked her unconscious, after a struggle, and then supported her until other assistance arrived.

118 Joseph Grady, aged seventeen, student, saved Arthur E., Silver Medal. Everelda G., and Gertrude L. Dockstader, aged four, three and two, respectively, from burning, New York City, January 15, 1907. Grady, by way of the roof and fire escape, entered a room filled with smoke, on the fifth floor of a six-story apart ment house, and carried the three children, one at a time, up the fire escape, which was being licked by the flames, to the roof, and then led them to the ground through the building.

119 Charles W. Haight, aged thirty-eight, locomotive Silver Medal. engineer, saved Marguerete Urino, aged two, from being run over by a train, West Winfield, N. Y., April 26, 1905. Haight climbed out of the cab-window of his engine, which was bearing down upon the child, to the pilot, and, clinging to it with one hand, with his other caught up the child.

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John C. Burns, aged forty-two, assistant secretary, New Silver Medal. York Stock Exchange, saved Julia Puillier, aged thirty-five, from drowning, Sea Gate, N. Y., August 14, 1906. Burns, who was not in health, swam out into the ocean about two hundred feet, and, assisted part of the way by a Japanese, who later deserted him, succeeded in getting Miss Puillier to within reach of others, but was himself exhausted by his efforts.

121 Caroline Stanyon, aged thirty-five, major, Salvation Silver Medal and Army, saved Caroline Degisi, aged six, from being run over $500 to reimburse by a runaway, Mt. Vernon, N. Y., April 30, 1906. Mrs. her for pecuniary Stanyon snatched the child from the path of the team, but loss sustained was herself knocked down, sustaining a bad contusion of right account of in knee, and other minor injuries. ' juries.

122 Robert H. Canfield, aged twenty-two, clerk, saved Silver Medal. Edith M. Canfield, aged nineteen, Kate L. Haeberle, aged twenty, and Elsa L. Auerbach, aged twenty, and died attempt ing to save Amelia A. and Edna M. H. Kramer, aged twenty six and twenty-three, respectively, from drowning, Oquaga Lake, N. Y., August 25, 1904. The boat in which the party was sailing having capsized, Canfield successively assisted three to it, and then dived for the Kramer girls, but became exhausted, and was drowned with them.

123 Nelson V. Smith aged thirty-four, clerk, saved Amelia Silver Medal. Dietz, aged fifty-five, f’rom being run over by a train, Mineola, N. Y., February 7, 1906. Smith, seeing that the woman was about to be run down by a train running at high speed, rushed onto the track, and into her with such force as to carry them both clear of the rails, but prostrate on the ground, just as the train passed.

124 David Waterman, aged sixty-three, crossing watchman, Silver Medal. died saving Margaret Weber, aged sixty-seven, from being run over by a train, Rochester, N. Y., December 12, 1905. The woman was standing on the west-bound passenger track, unconscious of a fast-approaching train, waiting for a train on the east-bound track to pass. Waterman shoved her between the two tracks, but was himself struck by one of the trains. Mrs. Weber was unhurt.

125 Lochlin M. Winn, aged thirty, physician, saved William Silver Medal. Miller (colored), aged fifty-four, laborer, William E. Houston, aged thirty-five, watchman, and James H. Smith, aged thirty six, cotton buyer, from drowning, Clayton, Ala., February 16, 1906. The three men were thrown into a pond, at night, three hundred feet from the shore, by the capsizing of a boat. One who tried to swim to shore was becoming benumbed by the cold when Winn swam out about sixty feet and helped him to shore. This greatly fatigued Winn, but he successively swam the full distance to the other two and helped them to shore, although the second rescue had almost exhausted him.

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126 AndrewJ. Hedger, aged forty-five, county superintendent Gold Medal and of schools, rescued Joseph H. King, aged forty-seven, from a $3,600; $600 to be cave-in, Pierceville, Kan., November 27, 1906. While work applied to the ing at a well-pipe, at the bottom of a hole, thirty-two feet deep liquidation of his and four feet square, the earth, which was of sandy nature, debts, and $3000 caved in, and buried King, hands down, up to his arm pits, for the education and another man, completely. After remonstrating with the of his children, as friends of the men who had gathered, for their refusal to go needed. by themselves, or to accompany him, to their assistance, Hedger, a stranger, went down into the hole alone and extri cated King, and then the other man's body, being engaged in the work upwards of two hours. All this time another cave-in was imminent, as indicated by a crack at the surface, and, later, the threatened cave-in occurred.

127 George F. LaCroiX, aged thirty-three, broom manufacturer, Bronze Medal. saved Ernest J. Poirier, aged eight, from drowning, Cambridge, Mass., January 27, 1906. Poirier broke through ice on a pond sixty feet from the bank, where the water was twelve feet deep. In going to his assistance, his cousin also broke through. La Croix, although just having recovered from bronchitis, slid out on the ice into the hole made by the boys, and, after freeing himself from the second boy, who had rabbed him around the neck, swam to Poirier, and sup rte him until a ladder was extended to them. All three ggld to the ladder and were drawn ashore.

128 William H. A. Missett, aged eleven, schoolboy, saved Bronze Medal. Frank L. Cook, aged nineteen, machinist, from drowning, Springfield, Mass., August 7, 1906. Cook, who was a poor swimmer, gave out while attempting to swim to a raft moored in deep water. Upon being left to his fate by two companions, who had been swimming by his side, Missett, although weigh ing less than half as much as Cook, went to his assistance, and swam ten feet with him to the raft.

129 Thomas McGown, aged thirty-three, wire-worker, saved Bronze Medal. Michael Gahagan, aged seventeen, wire-weaver, from drown ing, Worcester, Mass., June 18, 1905. While swimming in a pond, twenty feet from the bank, Gahagan called for help. McGown swam out to him, and was clasped around the body by the drowning boy. In the struggle which followed, McGown got close enough to the bank to reach the hand of one of three companions, who, in a line, had waded in as far as they could go.

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130 Winston B. Stephens, aged seventeen, student, saved Bronze Medal. Maurice H. Richardson, aged nineteen, student, and Haskell Williams, aged eighteen, from drowning, Westport Harbor, Mass, September 6, 1906. With a rope tied to himself, and the end held by a man one hundred feet from the shore, Stephens swam about one hundred thirty feet through break ers, from six to ten feet high, to the two men who had been thrown into the ocean by the capsizing of a cat-boat, and were clinging, one on either side, to a twelve-foot tender. As Ste hens reached them, the tender was capsized over him, an in getting from under it, he was struck on the head by it, but was unin ured. With a hold on the rope, all three were pulled through the breakers to shallow water.

131 P. John Bibby, aged twenty-nine, mate, saved James Silver Medal. Jamieson, aged forty, laborer, from drowning, Bracebridge, Ont., October 31, 1905. Bibby jumped from a steamer into Muskoka. Lake, and swam to Jamieson, who had become benumbed and exhausted while clinging to a small boat, which had capsized during a heavy storm. It was impracticable to launch a lifeboat from the steamer. Supporting him until the steamer was brought nearer, Bibby then caught hold of a life preserver thrown from it, and both were hauled on board.

132 William Raymond, aged thirty-eight, teamster, saved Bronze Medal and Victor Henry, aged ten, from drowning, Lindsay, Ont., $300 to liquidate February 27, 1906. Raymond, although just having recovered mortgage on his from a long siege of pleurisy, went out on weak ice on Scugog property. River to Henry's assistance, and, after breaking through, swam thirty-five feet to where Henry was in the water. Swim ming back to the edge of the ice with him, they were assisted to firm ice by others, who extended a board to them.

133 John J. Bright, aged eighteen, manager of restaurant, Bronze Medal and attempted to save Joseph Ramsky, aged four, from being run $250 to reimburse over by a street car, Holyoke, Mass., April 5, 1906. Leaning him for pecuniary over the track, Bright grabbed at the boy, but was struck by loss sustained ac the car and fell to the street, sustaining bruises on his shoulder, count of injuries. arm and thigh, while the boy was knocked under the car and killed.

134 Florence Hoose, aged forty, housewife, attempted to save Bronze Medal and Frederick Jackson, aged twenty-four, clerk, from committing $1,000, payable at suicide, Chelsea, Mass, September 5, 1905. After being the rate of $25 choked and threatened with death by Jackson, who was in a e v e r y t h r e e state of delirium resulting from typhoid fever, she ran after months. him in his mad course to harm himself, and after again being molested, continued to follow him through the house, and made a vain effort to prevent him from plunging through a window to the pavement thirty-five feet below. His neck was broken by the fall.

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135 Rollin H. Burr, aged twenty-six, student, died saving Silver Medal. Henry Dwight, aged thirteen, from drowning, Milford, Pa., July 1, 1904. After being thrown into the Delaware River by the capsizing of a canoe, Burr supported Dwight until other assistance arrived, but while Dwight was being helped into a boat, Burr sank before assistance could be given him.

136 Newell S. Gilman, aged nineteen, student, saved Joseph Silver Medal and S. Murdock, aged fift -three, furniture dealer, from drowning, $2,000 for educa Old Orchard, Me., ugust 23, 1906. Gilman swam about tional purposes, fifty feet through heavy breakers, supporting Murdock, who as needed. was helpless, becoming completely exhausted as he turned his buri'lien over to others, who had waded as near to him_ as they cou .

137 William Gilmour, Jr., aged thirty-four, printer, Silver Medal and attempted to save John A. Moorhouse, aged ten, from drown $1,000 to liquidate ing, Sorel, Que., July 1, 1905. Gilmour jumped from a mortgage on his , steamer into the St. Lawrence River, and swam after Moor property. house, who had fallen from the boat, and was bein carried off by the current. He could not find the boy, an became almost exhausted attempting to swim back to the steamer, which was a half mile distant. He succeeded in reaching a raft, which had been thrown from the steamer, and was later picked up by a boat, which, after much delay, had been launched.

138 Homer J. Morrison, aged nineteen, iron-worker's Silver Medal and apprentice, saved Mary Hughes, aged fifty-one, from being $1,000, as needed. run over by a_train, Buffalo, N. Y., August 1, 1906. In the face of a fast-approaching passenger train, Morrison jumped to the middle of the track, when the ilot of the locomotive was but ten feet distant, and dragge Mrs. Hughes clear of the rail, but fell under her at the side of the track, being barely missed by the engine. The train ran more than six hundred feet past them before being stopped.

139 William T. Donovan, aged twenty-nine, machinist, saved Silver Medal and Jennie Wilson, aged thirty, and attempted to save Annabelle $2,000 1: o w a r d Parnell, aged thirty, from drowning, Nahant, Mass., June 3, p u r c h a s e of a 1906. Donovan jumped from a moving sloop-yacht into the home. Atlantic Ocean, and supported the two women, who had fallen from the yacht, until three tacks had been made to get close enough to reach them with a rope. In attempting to grab the rope, while holding both women in one arm and hand, one slipped from his grasp and was drowned. On the fourth tack the yacht dropped anchor, and Donovan grasped the rope which was thrown to him, and was pulled aboard with Miss Wilson.

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140 Carlton H. Funck, aged thirty, pressman, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save Jennie E. Bechstedt, aged eighteen, from drown $25 a month for ing, Glastonbury, Conn., July 7, 1907. Funck swam twenty support of widow feet from shore, in the Connecticut River, to Miss Bechstedt, during her life, who had bxome distressed while bathing. After swimming or until she re a few strokes with her, she grasped him around the body, marries, with $5 a rendering him helpless, and both were drowned. month additional for each of three children, until each reaches age of sixteen.

141 George A. Grant (colored), aged thirty-three, teamster, Silver Medal and sustained fatal injuries rescuing Charles G. Campbell, aged $25 a month for forty-six, President, American Painting & Decorating Co., support of widow, and Charles A. Whipple, aged forty-eight, superintendent of during her life, building construction, from a runaway, Groton, Conn., or until she re June 23, 1906. Grant grasped the bridle of one of the horses, marries, with $5 a and finding himself unable to control the other horse, because month additional its bridle was off, he threw the one he had hold of, and was for each of four kicked on the neck, and run over by the vehicle. He died children, until the second day after. each reaches age of sixteen.

142 Florus W. Carrier, aged forty-eight, insurance agent and Silver Medal and ferryman, saved Patrick F. Gannon, aged thirty-two, painter $2,500 to liquidate and paperhanger, from drowning, Smiths Ferry, Mass., mortgage on his March 16, 1907. To reach Gannon, who had broken through property. the ice on Connecticut River, Carrier crossed six hundred feet of ice, breaking through many times, but always getting out by means of a pike pole and a board, which he slid on the ice on either side of him. Crossing the pole and board, he rested his weight upon them and dragged Gannon partly out of the hole, and supported him, unconscious, one hour and a half, until the arrival of two boats, which took them to shore.

143 Rolan Daily, aged forty-five, laborer, saved Samuel Bronze Medal and Walters, aged thirty-four, deckhand, from drowning, Valley $500 to liquidate City, Ill., August 13, 1906. Daily dived from a steamer into mortgage on his the 11linois River, and, after a struggle under water, brought property. Walters to the surface at the up-stream end of a dredge, from which the latter had jumped in an effort to board the steamer.

144 Silas M. E. Dennis, aged twenty-one, car-checker, saved Bronze Medal. Ruth R. Bolich, aged three, from being run over by a train, Ottumwa, Iowa, January 29, 1907. Dennis jumped in front of a moving freight car, placed his feet upon the brake beam, and, with one hand holding to the hand rail above the bumper, reached under the car and picked up the little girl, who was being pushed along by the car. He then jumped to the slippery ground with the child. ACTS OF HEROlSM—Continued

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Paul Childers, aged fifteen, schoolboy, saved Arthur S. Bronze Medal and and Caroline Childers, aged three and one, respectively, from $2,000 for educa burning, Louisville, Ky., October 30, 1906. Paul, seeing the tional purposes, house on fire, broke the glass and opened the outside door as needed. leading to the kitchen, entered the room, picked up a chair in which Caroline was tied, close to the flames, and carried her out. He then went in again, through dense smoke, and got Arthur, there being danger of the roof falling the while.

Thelma M. McNee, aged seventeen, dentist 's assistant, Bronze Medal. saved James D. and Alice Cooney, aged seven and three, respectively, from burning, Boston, Mass., May 30, 1905. Miss McNee went from her apartment, by way of the roof, to the one adjoining, on the third floor of a building which was burning fiercely, and took the children, who were locked in a room, through dense smoke, to the street.

147 Edward A. McGrath, aged fifty, station agent, saved Bronze Medal and Emma Humich, aged six, from being run over by a train, $1,000 to liquidate Milwaukee, Wis.. August 26, 1907. McGrath, who is a mortgage on his cripple, jumped in front of the train, which was running fast, property. threw the girl aside, and fell at the side of the track as the engine rushed by.

148 Marion Clevenger, aged thirty-nine, brakeman, saved Bronze Medal. George R. Clemens, aged two, from being run over by a train, Berry Station, Ky., September 30, 1006. Clevenger, from the pilot of the locomotive, picked the child up from the track, while the train was running six miles an hour.

14.9 ‘ Richard E. Ryan, aged thirty-four, city fireman, saved Bronze Medal. Margaret E. and Rolla J. Knox, aged six and four, respect ively, from being run over by an automobile, St. Louis, Mo., March 11, 1907. Ryan ran from the curb to the middle of the street, picked the children up and swung them back of him, out of the path of the machine, but was himself struck and run over, sustaining a concussion of the abdominal cavity wall, and minor sprains and bruises.

150 Nels J. Nelson, aged sixty-two, laborer, saved Stanley Bronze Medal. McArthur, aged eight, from drowning, Kushequa, Pa., March 27, 1907. Nelson swam one hundred forty feet in Kinzua Creek, which was in flood stage and running thick with floating timber, to McArthur, and then swam twenty five feet with him, reaching shore within a short distance of a log jam under a bridge.

151 Albert E. Flatt, aged eighteen, roundhouseman, saved Bronze Medal and Curtis W. Ayers, aged nine, Walter E. Todd, aged ten, and $1,000 t o w a r d Arnold W. Wood, aged ten, and attempted to save Nathan B. purchase of a Ayers, aged eleven, from drowning, Port Morris, N. J., Decem home. ber 6, 1905. Flatt broke through the ice on Lake Musconet cong while going toward the boys, who were in the water. He broke the intervening ice with his fists, and succeeded, after being in the water fifteen minutes, in getting all but one, upon the ice.

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152 Samuel B. Van Hise, aged thirty-seven, well-digger, Bronze Medal. rescued William E. Carey, aged fifty, plumber, from a cave in, Cassville, N. J., August 90, 1906. Carey was pinioned in a well twenty-five feet from the top, his feet having gone through the stone casing while he was bracing himself against it. Van Hise, with the help of another man, removed the casing from the top down and released Carey at imminent risk of the ground giving away.

153 Arthur Smith, aged twenty-eight, driver, helped to Bronze Medal. rescue George Spencer, aged fifty-four, coal miner, from a cave-in in a mine, Fayette Co., near Stockdale, Pa., October 9, 1906. Spencer was caught by a fall of slate. There was room for only one person to work at his release. Smith was first to o, and, while digging away the debris, another fall occurred, ut missed them by a narrow margin. Fatigue compelled him to stop and while he was resting, Spencer was gotten out by another man.

154 Albert W. Simpson, aged twenty, coal miner, helped to Bronze Medal and rescue George Spencer, from a cave-in iii a mine, Fayette Co., $2,000 for educa near Stockdale, Pa., October 9, 1906. (See Award No. 153.) tional purposes, Simpson took up the work when Smith was forced to rest. as needed. After fifteen minutes' work he extricated Spencer. Another fall seemed to be impending and did occur an hour later.

155 Willard P. Van Deventer, aged fifty-one, railroad con Bronze Medal and ductor, saved Katharine F lattinger, aged fifty-two, and $40 a month dur attempted to save Elizabeth Schemper, aged fifty-three, from ing his life. being run over by a train, Trenton, N. J., October 16, 1907. Van Deventer jumped in front of the moving train, the engine being in the rear, and pushed Mrs. Flattinger from the track, but was knocked down while endeavoring to get Mrs. Schemper off, one wheel running over his left foot, necessitat ing amputation. The woman was also injured, and died as the result.

156 Clifford V. Graves, aged fifty, farmer, saved Merritt L. Bronze Medal and Brown (colored), aged forty-two, farmer, from an enraged $700 to be applied bull, Versailles, Ky., March 7, 1907. Graves attacked the to the liquidation animal with a pocket knife, while it was butting and trampling of his debts. Brown on the ground. He was himself knocked down, and sustained a fractured rib, and bruises all over the body, before the bull was chased away by Graves' dog.

157 William J. Riley, aged twenty-one, printer, saved Bronze Medal and Thomas C. Mackay, aged thirteen, schoolboy, and John D. $2,000 for educa Raisbeck, aged fifteen, laborer, from drowning, Darlington, tional purposes, Wis., January 22, 1907. Riley broke through the ice on as needed. Pecatonica River, twenty feet from Mackay, while walking to the latter's assistance. Breaking the ice before him, he swam to Mackay, and took him to solid ice. After getting out upon the ice, Riley, though much fatigued, again jumped into the water and helped Raisbeck to reach the edge of the ice.

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158 George A. Haviland, aged forty-four, laborer, attempted Silver Medal. to save John Kane, aged fifty-three, laborer, from sufiocation, Akron, Ohio, August 30, 1906. Haviland without a rope, none being at hand, entered the manhole of a sewer to assist Kane, who had become unconscious from the effects of gas, and was himself overcome, but later recovered.

159 Raymond H. Hinds, aged thirty-one, molder, saved Silver Medal. George A. Haviland, and attempted to save John Kane from suffocation, Akron, Ohio, August 30, 1906. (See Award . No. 158.) With a rope around him, Hinds climbed down the manhole and tied another rope around Haviland, and was then drawn up, having been affected by the gas. Haviland was pulled out, and Hinds again descended and tied the rope around Kane. They were both drawn up, but Kane died within a few minutes.

160 lvah J. Coles, a ed twenty-one, bricklayer, died attempt Silver Medal. ing to save Richar E. Crumwell, aged twenty, carpenter, from drowning, Gillespie, Ill., June 8, 1904. Coles waded into a reservoir to assist Crumwell, who had been swimming and had become helpless while climbing up the steep bank. Both sank, about eight feet apart, and were drowned.

161 Thomas M. Mullins, aged forty-four, watchman, saved Silver Medal. Harry B. Teetsel, aged twenty-six, deputy jail warden, from drowning, Jersey City, N. J., September 20, 1906. Mullins dived into North River, at night, and effected the rescue despite the resistance of Teetsel, who, intent on suicide, had jumped from a ferry boat into the slip.

162 Maree Y. Trevor, aged nine, saved George W. Rochester, Silver Medal. aged seven, from drowning, Marion, 1ll., December 30, 1906. Maree, who could not swim, jumped from a low bridge cross ing Marion Creek, into the water, which was high and swift, and grabbed George, who had fallen in. She then caught hold of the bridge, and, while makin her way toward the bank, help arrived, and both were lift out. 163 Marjorie E. Coast, aged eleven, saved Margaret Hayes, Silver Medal. aged ten, from drowning, Iowa City, Iowa, June 17, 1907. Uncertain of her ability to swim, Marjorie jumped from a dock into the Iowa River, where it was about seven feet deep, and shoved Margaret, who had fallen in, to a lank which was floating near the dock. Others then assisted er out.

164 Luther J. Heal, aged twenty-seven, blacksmith, saved Silver Medal and Joseph Collins, aged seven, from a mad dog, Pittston, Pa., $250 to reimburse May 6, 1907. Heal saw the dog bite his son, and then start him for pecuniary toward Collins. Not stopping to remove his son to the house, loss sustained ac he pursued the dog, and attracted the animal to himself. It count of injuries. snapped his hand as he attempted to grab it, but he held it, under both knees, until it was shot.

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165 Louis Lamade, aged forty-eight, laborer, saved Francis Silver Medal and C. O'Dea, aged sixteen, schoolboy, J. Arthur Pineau, aged $500 to be applied fifteen, schoolboy, Charles Krauser, aged seventeen, silk mill to the liquidation operative, and Lewis Jenkins, aged fifteen, boilermaker's of his debts. apprentice, from drowning, South Williamsport, Pa., June 10, 1906. Lamade rowed out on the Susquehanna River during a severe storm, to a disabled launch which was being carried toward a dam, and with two boys in his boat, and two in the launch, he held the latter against the current until the storm partly subsided; then he succeeded in towing it close to shore, where others assisted them to land.

166 William H. Eaton, aged forty-five, clerk, died saving Silver Medal and John Schock and George C. Maloney, aged twelve and eleven, $25 a month for respectively, from drowning, New York City, September 21, support of widow, 1907. Eaton jumped from a dock into the East River, and, during her life, or grabbing both boys, who were in bathing and struggling to- until she remar gether, swam with them to the bulkhead where they were ties, with $5 a pulled out of the water by others with a rope. The rescuer month additional was exhausted and went down before assistance could be for each of five given him. children until each reaches age of six teen.

167 George E. Davis, aged twenty-two, dyer, died attempting Silver Medal and to save John Arki, aged nine, from drowning, Rockaway, N. J., $25 a month for December 26, 1906. Davis broke through the ice on Rock- support of widow, away River, while going toward Arki, who was in the water, during her life, or and whom the former had earlier warned about the unsafe until she remar condition of the ice. Both were drowned. ries.

168 Eugene C. Johnson, aged fifty-eight, laborer, died at- Silver Medal and tempting to rescue Warren D. Rice, aged sixteen, teamster, $25 a month for from a runaway, Urbana, Ill., May 7, 1906. During the mad support of widow, flight of a team of horses, Rice fell between them onto the during her life, or wagon tongue. Johnson tried to grasp the bridle of one of until she remar the horses, but was knocked down and received fatal injuries. ries. Rice escaped injury.

169 Ira P. Shear, aged fifteen, student, saved Sarah Landers, Silver Medal and aged forty-five, a paralytic, and his sister, Ruby L., aged nine, $2,000 for educa from drowning, Dunkirk, N. Y., January 20, 1907. When tional urposes, the three, with as many others, were thrown into the water by as needed). the capsizin of a boat, Shear immediately rabbed Miss Landers, an swam with her to Ruby, whom e allowed to take hold of him, and then swam two hundred fifty feet against a heavy sea caused by a severe storm which was driving the water from Lake Erie over the low lands. Reach ing an ice wagon anchored in the frozen ground, he clung to it and supported them in the water until they were all picked up by a boat, in an exhausted condition.

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170 Lemuel R. Brigman, aged twenty, student, saved Silver Medal and Francis A. Hock, aged two, from drowning, Coney Island, $2,700 for educa- Ohio, August 4, 1905. The child, at night, fell into a cistern tional purposes, which had been unused for so long a time that no one knew as needed. what it was. Overcoming efforts to prevent him, Brigman dropped into the dark hole, and, under six feet of water, found the child on the bottom, which was fourteen feet from the surface of the ground. A rope was brought five minutes later, and both were drawn up.

171 Thomas Conroy, aged fifty-seven, city fireman, helped Silver Medal and to save Amos Schweitzer, aged twenty-eight, merchant, from $1,000 to liquidate drowning, Niagara Falls, N. Y., June 5, 1906. Conroy waded mortgage on his out thirty feet in Niagara River, fifteen feet above the brink property. of the Falls, and standing in water four feet deep, supported the end of a ladder as it was extended from the shore. Holding to it with one hand, he assisted a man, who had climbed out on the ladder, to secure Schweitzer. The latter who was demented, had entered the water about five hundred feet above the Falls, and was carried off by the current, but miraculously regained his footing at the point of rescue.

172 Joseph H. Batts, aged forty-four, police sergeant, helped Silver Medal and to save Amos Schweitzer from drowning, Niagara Falls, N. Y., $1,000 to liquidate June 5, 1906. (See Award No. 171.) Batts went out on the mortgage on his ladder, and, while Conroy supported the end of it, put his property. legs between the last two rungs, and lunging forward, grabbed Schweitzer, who would not accept assistance. He resisted but'his rescuers clung to him, and the ladder was drawn in.

173 Frederick (ioebel, aged thirty-seven, clerk, saved Carrie Silver Medal and Vought, aged thirty-three, from being run over by a street $250 to reimburse car, Pittsburgh, Pa., October 3, 1908. Goebel crossed to the him for pecuniary far rail, in front of the rapidly moving car, and while removing loss sustained ac Miss Vought, who had fallen on the track, was struck, and count of injuries, sustained fractures of the right leg and collar-bone. and $750 toward p u r c h a s e of a home.

174 Keith A. Catto, aged fourteen, student, saved Forest G. Bronze Medal. and Preston T. Wikoff, aged fourteen and eleven, respectively, from drowning, Decatur, 1ll., July 4, 1906. While the brothers were struggling together in Sangamon River, twenty-five feet from the bank, Catto went to their assistance, and was pulled under, but after freeing himself and resting a moment, he swam to the shore with one, enabling the other to get out himself.

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175 Erwin J. Roller, aged fourteen, schoolboy, saved William Bronze Medal and F. Lehman, aged twelve, from drownin , Manchester, Mich., $2,000 for educa December 25, 1905. Roller pulled Le man from a hole in tional purposes, the ice on Raisin River, seventy-five feet from the bank, as needed. where the water was fifteen feet deep, and current swift. He broke through the ice with one leg himself, while crawling to the hole through water on top of the ice.

176 Edward A. Biber, aged thirteen, schoolboy, saved Clarence Bronze Medal and A. Baske, aged eleven, from drowning, Lansing, Mich., June 8, $2,000 for educa 1906. Biber swam out ten feet from a pier, in the middle of tional purposes, Grand River, where the water was ten feet deep, and back to as needed. the pier with Baske, but was swept away from it by the swift current, necessitating his swimming with him two hundred and fifty feet to the bank. '

177 William _A. Schneider, aged thirty-eight, blacksmith, Bronze Medal and saved Marian Sturgis, aged eighteen, from drowning, Hazel $1,100 to be ap ton, Iowa, July 24, 1906. Schneider went to the assistance plied to the liqui of Miss Sturgis, who had become panic-stricken while bathing dation of his in Otter Creek, twenty feet from the bank, where the water debts. was ten feet deep. He was forced under the water by being grabbed around the neck and head, but after a brief struggle he succeeded in getting her to shallow water.

1'78 William A. Cross, aged sixteen, student, saved Michael Bronze Medal. W. Colton, aged twenty-four, clerk, from drowning, Maple Lake, Minn., July 19, 1906. Cross, who weighed much less than Colton, went to the latter's assistance in Maple Lake, sixty feet from shore, where the water was ten feet deep, and, being pulled under, struck Colton, rendering him unconscious, an‘? then supported him until both were rescued by a man in a oat.

179 Judson H. Lamb, aged forty-six, publishing agent, Bronze Medal. saved Helen L. Way and Florence E. Jackman, aged nineteen and twenty, respectively, from drowning, Vermillion, Ohio, July 12, 1906. After running four hundred feet to the scene, Lamb swam to the girls, who had been carried out forty-five feet by the undertow, in Lake Erie, and, with a light pole under one arm, swam twenty feet, holding a girl in each hand.

180 George S. Mason, aged twenty-six, enameller, saved Bronze Medal and Charles J. Sheckler, aged twelve, from drowning, Toledo, $500 toward pur Ohio, December 23, 1906. While going to the assistance of chase of a home. Sheckler, who had broken through the ice on the Maumee River, Mason also broke through, but proceeded, by swimming and breaking the ice with his fists, and, getting the boy on his back, swam back with him one hundred feet to shore.

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181 Charles R. Leonard, aged twenty-six, street car con Bronze Medal and duetor, saved Philpena Reisinger, aged sixty-three, from being $1,000 toward run over by a train, Elyria, Ohio, August 9, 1907. Leonard p u r c h a s e of a ran ahead of a passenger train, forty feet, to the woman on home. the track, and grabbing her, pulled her to the safety gate, to which he clung with her while the train passed them at a speed of fifty miles an hour.

182 Edwin A. Crolius, aged nineteen, bank clerk, saved Bronze Medal. Arthur H. Jacks and Melvin C. Smeck, aged twenty-five and twenty-one, respectively, bank tellers, and Edgar A. Russell and Harry S. Ditchburne, aged twenty-nine and twenty-one, respectively, clerks, from drowning, Chicago, 11l., August 3, 1906. Crolius swam from a capsized yacht in Lake Michigan two miles to the shore, in darkness, at midnight, in the face of the wind and waves, and secured assistance for his com panions, who, he feared, were not as able as himself to with stand remaining in the water until daybreak, before when it was very unlikely they would be able to attract notice.

183 Frank F. Berg, aged fourteen, schoolboy, saved Minnie Bronze Medal and B. Love, aged forty-four, from drowning, Peoria, 1ll., May 16, $2,000 for educa 1907. Berg jumped from a boat on the 11linois River into tional purposes, six feet of water, and, with difliculty, owing to his lighter as needed. vileigbht, swam to a dock with Mrs. Love, who had fallen from t E oat.

184 Jens W. Jensen, aged nineteen, picture frame maker, Bronze Medal and saved Tracy Moercke, aged fourteen, from drowning, Manistee, $1,000 toward Mich., January 6, 1907. While skating four hundred feet purchase of a through fog on Manistee Lake, Jensen broke through the ice home. once, but continued to the hole in which Miss Moercke was struggling, and jumped into the water. With a strap in one hand, held by a man on firm ice, he swam to the girl, and holding her with his other hand was pulled to the edge of the hole, where both were assisted out.

185 Walter S. Slear, aged twenty-seven, hotel clerk, saved Bronze Medal. Harry C. Creger, aged eleven, from drowning, Tecumseh, Mich., December 9, 1906. Without removing his skates, Slear sat down on the ice on Raisin River, one hundred fifty feet from the bank, and slid into a hole which had been made by Creger breaking through, and, diving three or four times, brought him to the surface. Both had to be assisted onto the ice.

186 August H. G. Hanson, aged eighteen, student, saved Bronze Medal and Hazel M. Shaw and Bertie L. Borden, aged fifteen and seven $2,000 for educa teen, respectively, from drowning, Owatonna, Minn., Novem tional purposes- ber 30, 1907. The two girls broke through the ice on Straight as_needed. River, at different places, forty feet from the bank. Hanson got one out, by getting on his knees close to the hole and lifting her. While lying on a plank and reaching for the other, he fell headlong into the water, but, regaining the plank, he caught the girl and supported her about five minutes, until they were pulled out with a rope.

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187 William H. Cotter, aged thirty-two, master, tug “Frank Bronze Medal and W," with a crew of three men, rescued six members of the $1,000 toward ship's company of the steam barge “Sarah E. Sheldon," purchase of a Lorain, Ohio, October 20, 1905. ‘ Captain Cotter took his home. boat from Cleveland, with a life boat and crew from the U. S. Life Saving Station in tow, twenty-three miles on Lake Erie, during a gale blowing fifty miles an hour, and through waves fourteen feet high, to the “Sheldon," which had been beached one-eighth mile off shore. After the life saving crew got the men aboard their boat, the tug towed them three miles farther, into Lorain harbor. On the run_ to the wreck, the boiler shifted, and the main steam pipe cracked.

188 John F. Carroll, aged twenty-seven, engineer, went with Bronze Medal and the tug “Frank W" to the rescue of six members of the ship's $600 to liquidate company of the steam barge “Sarah E. Sheldon," Lorain, mortgage on his Ohio, October 20, 1905. (See Award No. 187.) property.

189 Adolph Lacroix, aged thirty-two, fireman, went with the Bronze Medal and tug "Frank W" to the rescue of six members of the ship's $500 for educa company of the steam barge “Sarah E. Sheldon," Lorain, tional purposes, Ohio, October 20, 1905. (See Award No. 187.) as needed.

190 William H. Baker, aged twenty-two, fireman, went with Bronze Medal and the tug “Frank W" to the rescue of six members of the ship's $500 for educa company of the steam barge "Sarah E. Sheldon," Lorain, tional purposes, Ohio, October 20, 1905. (See Award No. 187.) as needed.

191 Olaf A. Young, aged twenty-nine, farmer, saved Evan Bronze Medal and Jones, aged eighteen, stationary engineer, and Clyde Jones, $1,000 toward aged twenty-three, coal miner, from suffocation, Viola, I1l., p u r c h a s e of a April 7, 1907. The two men had been overcome by black home. damp at the bottom of an old mine air shaft, twenty-five feet from the surface, and Young made two descents. First he 'was lowered with a rope, which he tied around one of the men, and was drawn up with him; the second time he descended a ladder, with the rope unattached to himself, and, after tying the rope to the other man, ascended the ladder.

1.92 Jacob C. Casler, aged sixty-six, farmer, helped to rescue Bronze Medal and William E. Carey, aged fifty, plumber, from a cave-in, Cass $250 to be ap ville, N. J., August 20, 1906. (See Award No. 152.) plied to the liqui d a t i o n of his debts.

1 93 William N. Williams, aged thirty-one, farmer, saved Bronze Medal and Lillian M. Trammell, aged two, from burning, Alpharetta, Ga., $1,000 to be ap March 25, 1908. Williams was boosted five feet from the plied to the liqui ground through a window, from which dense smoke was d a t i o n of his emerging, groped his way to the child, melted pitch dropping debts. from the roof blistering his hands, and burning his clothing in spots, and handed her out of the window.

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194 William Walsh, aged forty-eight, crossing-watchman, Bronze Medal. saved an unknown woman from being run over by a train, Sewickley, Pa., December 7, 1907. Walsh jumped in front of a passenger train running sixty miles an hour, and only two hundred feet distant, and dragged the woman off the track, falling with her just as the train rushed by.

195 S. Harry Jamison, aged twenty-four, printer, saved Bronze Medal. Mary Merriweather, aged forty-five, from drowning, Chicago, 11l., October 16, 1907. Jamison went to the woman's assist ance in an artificial lagoon, fifty feet from the bank, and, despite her resistance, swam with her fifteen feet when, almost exhausted, he was assisted by a policeman.

1 96 William J. Rheinfrank, aged thirty-nine, park manager, Silver Medal and saved Bertha Hammersmith, aged forty-three, and Frank $1,000 toward Kremer, aged forty-two, President, Industrial Chemical purchase of a Institution, and attempted to save Daniel G. Rogers, Jr., home. aged fifty-one, real estate agent, from drowning, Milwaukee, Wis., June 13, 1908. Rheinfrank, at midnight, swam twenty feet from a dock, in Milwaukee River to a capsized launch, and returned with the woman, going under several times by getting entangled in her skirts, and, after assisting Kremer, swam to the launch twice for Rogers, locating him under it the first time, and extricating him the second. Rogers could not be resuscitated.

197 John W. Frain, aged fifteen, ofi‘ice boy, saved C. Edward Bronze Medal. Ley, aged seventeen, clerk, from drowning, South Bend, Ind., June 16, 1907. After having swum to Ley, who had become exhausted while swimming in St. Joseph River, fifty feet from the bank, Frain avoided Ley's grasp, and returned to shore, but again swam out to him and effected the rescue.

198 Hershal E. Eaglebarger, aged twenty-five, instructor and Bronze Medal. solicitor, died attempting to save C. Edward Ley from drown ing, South Bend, Ind., June 16, 1907. (See Award No. 197.) Eaglebarger swam fifty feet to Ley, after Frain had left him the first time, but sank to the bottom just as he started to support Ley.

199 Marion R. Lux, aged twenty-eight, locomotive fireman, Silver Medal and saved Gladys Dixon, aged two, from being run over by a $1,000 toward train, Seward, Neb., September 26, 1907. Lux noticed the purchase of a child on the track from the cab, and started for the pilot, but home. saw he could not reach it in time, and jumped forward from the pilot beam, while the train was running about ten miles an hour. He fell on the rail, but rolled aside, sweeping the child before him.

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200 Philo (i. Plummer, aged thirty-six, jobber, attempted to Silver Medal and rescue Inez C. Gludey, a ed nineteen, from a- runaway, $600 to reimburse Lansing, Mich., May 29, 1 08. Plummer grabbed the line, him for pecuniary close to the bit, of one of a team of horses, hitched to a hack loss sustained ac occupied by Miss Gludey, but was knocked down, and sus count of injuries, tained three deep cuts of the head, one severing the right ear, and $1,400 to be and another the temporal artery. applied to the liquidation of his debts. 201 Helen L. Stapp, aged twenty-six, forewoman, saved Silver Medal and Lulu P. Breedlove, aged twenty-two, from burning, Indian $1,000 toward apolis, Ind., March 3, 1906. Miss Stapp entered a room purchase of a dense with smoke, and filled with flames and stifling fumes, home. where highly inflammable material was burning, and dragged Miss Breedlove forty feet to the door, sustaining burns of face and neck. 202 Franklin H. Holdridge, aged thirty-five, farmer, Silver Medal. attempted to save William A. Glaze, aged thirty, farmer, from suffocation, Neponset, Ill., June 22, 1907. Holdridge was lowered with a rope around him to the bottom of a sixty five foot well, where Glaze had been overcome by gas, and tying the rope around him, both were drawn out. The rescuer was white and limp, but revived. Glaze could not be resuscitated. . 203 Ward W. Bennett, aged twenty-seven, lumberman, saved Silver Medal and Harry D. Tobin, aged eleven, from drowning, Glenmere, $1,000 toward Mich., December 25, 1906. Tobin broke through the ice on purchase of a Glenmere Lake, five hundred feet from shore, where the water home. was ten feet deep. As Bennett was about to dive for him the ice broke, and he fell into the water. Letting himself down to the bottom twice, he found Tobin the second time, and, bringing him to the surface, both were pulled out of the hole with a rope. 204 J. Carroll Barr, aged thirty-five, civil and mining engineer, Silver Medal. saved Virginia W. Stephens, aged fifty-two, from burning, Joplin, Mo., January 12, 1908. Following a terrific explosion, which completely wrecked the apartment in which Mrs. Stephens was sleeping, Barr made his way through the wreck age of several rooms, and extricated the woman from the debris, which was afire.

205 Earl A. Ames, aged twenty, student, saved Ernest A. Silver Medal and Albright, aged twenty-one, student, and attempted to save $2,000 for educa Rollo W. Eastman and Thomas A. Herrman, aged nineteen tional purposes, and twenty-one, respectively, students, from drowning, as needed. Olathe, Kan., December 25, 1906. Ames skated to a hole in the ice on New Lake, one hundred feet from the bank, where the water was eight feet deep, and pulled Albright out with a strap, breaking through the ice himself with one foot. He then threw the strap to Eastman and Herrman, but they sank while trying to grasp it. Albright, Eastman and Herrman were deaf-mutes.

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Thomas A. Herrman died attempting to save Ernest A. Silver Medal. Albright from drowning, Olathe, Kan., December 25, 1906. (See Award No. 205.) Herrman broke through the ice while trying to pull Albright out with a short board, after Eastman had failed, and became too much exhausted to help himself. Rollo W. Eastman died attempting to save Ernest A. Silver Medal. Albright from drowning, Olathe, Kan., December 25, 1906. (See Award No. 205.) Eastman broke through the ice while trying to pull Albright out by the hand, and could not get out himself. Minnie L. Meyers, aged forty-four,matron,saved Annie Silver Medal and Glover, Charles Church and Frank Martin, aged six, three $1,000 to reim and two, respectively, from burning, Riverton, Wash., Decem b u r s e h e r f o r ber 28, 1907. Being awakened at 2 A. M. by an alarm of fire, pecuniary loss sus Mrs. Meyers aroused the children in the girls‘ and boys' dormi tained account of tories on the second floor of a children's home, and led them fire. out to safety. To get Annie, Charles, and Frank, she re entered the building twice. The last time, her own escape was cut off by the fire, and she was compelled to go close to the flames and let herself drop through the stair opening to the first floor. She sustained deep burns of neck, back, and hands.

209 Marie V. B. Langdon, aged twenty, housewife, saved Silver Medal. Sophie, Henry L., and Estella M., and attempted to save Gertrude S. Jacques, aged twenty-one, four, one and two, respectively, from freezing, Telma, Wash., January 11, 1907. With the thermometer fourteen degrees below zero, and the snow six feet deep, Mrs. Langdon, without snow shoes, went six hundred feet from her home, on hearing cries for help, and met Mrs. Jacques and two of her children, only partly dressed, ' who had fled from their burning home. She relieved the woman of her baby, and carried it to her home, followed by the mother; returned and got Henry; and then struggled through the snow about three-quarters of a mile, where Gertrude was found, the mother having been compelled to abandon her, after having removed the only skirt she wore and wrapped it around the child. When Mrs. Langdon had carried Gertrude half way back to the house, she discovered she was dead, and as her own strength was fast failing, she was compelled to abandon the child and was barely able to reach home herself.

210 Frederick Hiser, aged sixteen, farmhand, attempted to Silver Medal and save Olive Hiser, aged fifty-four, from burning, Hessel, Mlch., $250 to reimburse December 14, 1906. Hiser was asleep on the first floor of his him for pecuniary home, and was awakened by an alarm of fire. He ascended loss sustained ac- to the second floor, and dragged his aunt from her bed and to count of injuries. the stairs. She struggled with him, because of fright, but ‘he continued to drag her down the stairway, which was all in flames. The clothing of both took fire, resulting in fatal burns to the woman, and serious injury to the rescuer.

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211 Rachel E. L on, aged twenty, servant, died attempting Silver Medal. to save Caroline . Hehl, aged twenty-six, from burning, Long Lake, Minn., December 20, 1906. Discovering Mrs. Hehl in her room, enveloped in fire, Miss Lyon tried to beat out the flames and drag her from the room, but her own clothing ignited, and before other assistance arrived both had sustained fatal burns.

212 Lincoln J. Partridge, aged forty-three, dealer, died Silver Medal and attempting to rescue George D. Tarr, a ed sixty-two, fisher $25 a month for man, from a saw mill, Bristol, Me., ovember 23, 1907. support of widow, Partridge reached over a saw making fifteen hundred revo during her life, lutions a minute, in response to a cry from Tarr, whose clothing or until she remar had caught in a belt wheel, and falling on the saw, sustained ries, with $5 a fatal injuries. Tarr escaped. month additional for each of two children until each reaches age of six teen.

213 Patrick McAteer, aged forty, agent, died rescuing Silver Medal and Johanna A. Tulley, aged eleven, from a runaway, St. Louis, $50 a month for Mo., June 15, 1908. McAteer saw the girl approaching on support of widow, the back of a galloping pony, which she could not control, and, during her life, or torunning the ground, into the but, street, falling grabbed with it, the his bridle, skull dragwas racturedr.J ing the ony until she remar ries, with $5 a month additional for each of seven children until each reaches age of six teen.

214 Thomas Kaczmarek, aged thirty-four, spinner, died Silver Medal 'and attempting to save Bernard Krupinski, aged twenty-one. $25 a month for weaver, from drowning, Dudley, Mass., December 7, 1907. support of widow, Kaczmarek, paying no attention to the warnings of others, during her life, or went to the assistance of Krupinski, who had broken through until she remar the ice on Merino Pond, one hundred fifty feet from the bank, ries, with' $5 a where the water was fifteen feet deep. He broke through month additional himself and both were drowned. for each of seven children until each reaches age of six teen.

7 215 ‘ David Pittsley, aged twenty-seven, mine wireman, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Michael Maloney, aged forty-two, coal $25 a month for miner, from a cave-in in a mine, Rossiter, Pa., May 6, 1907. support of widow, Maloney was knocked to the ground by a fall of rock, and, during her life, or without taking time to ascertain whether there was further until she remar danger, Pittsley ran to the spot, and, while endeavoring to ries, with $5 a release Maloney, both were killed by a second fall. month additional for ‘each of three children until each reaches age of six teen.

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Charles H. Cosgrove, aged thirty, tool-dresser, died Silver Medal and saving Grace E. Rentschler and Ethel Kuhns, aged twenty $50 a month for nine and twenty-one, respectively, from drowning, Center support of widow, Point, Ind., August 4, 1907. Unable to swim, Cosgrove during her life, or waded into a pond to within a few feet of a boat from which until she remar the women had been upset, and then jumping to where the ries, with $5 a water was eight feet deep, he gave the boat a shove and month additional twist,_ which righted it and enabled the women to reach a for her son until fence. Cosgrove sank, and was drowned. he reaches age of sixteen.

Max Suess, aged twenty-one, brickmaker, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save Eva Ehlers and Maud Worles, aged seventeen and $30 a month for nineteen, respectively, from drowning, North Mankato, support of mother, Minn., June 25, 1908.‘ Suess swam to the girls, who called for during her life, or help while swimming in an inundated pasture field, one until she remar hundred fifty feet from the water's edge. He grabbed one of ries, with $5 a them, but they were carried off by the current, and all three month additional were drowned. for her son until he reaches age of sixteen.

Daniel P. Greely. aged twenty-eight, blacksmith, died Silver Medal and attempting to save William J. Kelly, aged sixteen, office-boy, $50 a month for from drowning, Sparrows Point, Md., June 13, 1908. While support of widow, sailing on Bear Creek, nine hundred feet from shore, Kelly during her life, or was knocked into the water by the boom. Greely immedi until she remar ately jumped in and grabbed him, but Kelly made him help ries, with $5 a less by pinioning his arms, and both were drowned. month additional for each of two children until each reaches age of six teen. Elbert W. Gibson, aged forty, teacher, died attempting Silver Medal and to save Harry Vallance, aged fourteen, from drowning, $50 a month for Riverdale, Mich., January 11, 1907. Gibson crossed ‘Pine support of widow, River on the ice, to within thirty feet of the shore, and while during her life, or extending a bough to Vallance, who was struggling in a hole, until she remar he broke through. Vallance put both arms around his neck, ries, with $5 a and both sank. month additional for each of four children until each reaches age of six teen. [Q August Schultz, a ed thirty-four, molder, died saving Silver Medal and Louisa Woerner, aged orty-two, from drowning, Brainerd, $50 a month for Minn., June 7, 1908. Schultz jumped from the deck of a support of widow, steamer running fifteen miles an hour, on Rice Lake, and during her life, or swam seventy-five feet to Mrs. Woerner, who had fallen off until she remar the boat. Returning to the boat with her, she was handed ries, with $5 a aboard, but Schultz, almost exhausted, was struck by a month additional piece of the railing which broke off, and sank. for each of four children until each reaches age of six teen.

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221 Raymond A. May, aged twenty-three, locomotive fire Bronze Medal. man, saved James L. Douglas (colored), aged two, from being run over by a train, Pates, Ky., September 8, 1908. While his train was running thirty miles an hour, May noticed the child on the track. The brakes having been applied, he went from the cab to the pilot, where he braced himself in a kneeling position on the foot-rail, and, reaching forward with both hands, lifted the babe from the ground and threw it to the side of the track.

222 George H. Cole, aged seventeen, schoolboy, saved Bronze Medal and Churchill L. Roberts, aged sixteen, from drowning, Yazoo $2,000 for educa City, Miss., May 30, 1906. After having swum across the tional purposes, Yazoo River, Cole swam back one hundred fifty feet to the as needed. middle, where Roberts had been taken with a cramp and was being carried off by the current. He supported him until both were rescued by boys in a boat.

- 223 Florence A. Whaley, aged thirteen, schoolgirl, saved Bronze Medal and Brace W. McKenzie, aged seven, from drowning, San Diego, $2,000 for educa Cal., August 25, 1908. In the Pacific Ocean, about forty tional purposes, feet from shore, Miss Whaley swam ten feet with the boy on as needed. her back, holding to her shoulders.

224 John Bosko, Jr., aged twelve, schoolboy, saved Michael Bronze Medal and Ridilla, aged seven, from drowning, Marblehead, Ohio, $2,000 for educa March 16, 1907. Ridilla was carried two hundred feet from tional purposes, shore on an ice floe on Lake Erie, and jumped off. Bosko as needed. went in for him, and, after swimming with him one hundred feet, became almost helpless from cold and exhaustion. He lost his hold on Ridilla three times. He was finally assisted by a man.

225 Neal W. Beattie, aged twenty-one, student, saved Bronze Medal and \IVilliam A. Sargent, aged twenty, student, from drowning, $1,000 for educa Bradford, Vt., January 27, 1906. While others searched for tional purposes, a pole to assist Sargent, who had broken through the ice on as needed. Waits River, twenty-five feet from the bank, Beattie, having removed his skates, started toward him from the bank, but broke through. He then swam to Sargent, breaking the ice as he proceeded, and brought him back to shallow water.

226 John C. Wilson, aged fifty, clerk, saved Robert H. Bronze Medal and Whitehill, aged nine, from drowning, West Waynesburg, Pa., $1,000 t o w a r d December 8, 1907. Wilson crawled thirty feet on thin ice p u re h a s e of a on Brown's Fork of Ten Mile Creek to Whitehill, who was in home. a hole, and as he was pulling him out of the water, the ice broke. Both went under twice. Then, holding the boy above the water, Wilson tried to walk on the bottom, with his head under, but could make no progress. After struggling for a time, they received assistance and were rescued.

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N R.‘ q James A. Forsyth, aged forty-nine, boiler-maker, saved Bronze Medal and John C. Reed, aged seventy-one, lawyer, from being run $1,500 to liquidate over by a train, Atlanta, Ga., February 10, 1907. Forsyth mortgage on his ran twenty feet ahead of the train—a passenger—which had property. been runnin thirty miles an hour up to within forty-five feet of Reed, an crossed the track, pushing Reed in front of him, barely being missed by the engine.

228 George I. Roberts, aged twenty-five, express messenger, Bronze Medal. saved Agnes M. Gettins, aged twelve, from drowning, Antioch, Cal., March 17, 1908. From a trestle, eight feet above the water, Miss Gettins was knocked by a train into the San Joaquin River, two hundred feet from the shore. Roberts jumped from the platform of a car before the train stopped, and, going to her, swam with her fifteen feet to the trestle.

229 James H. Archibald, aged thirty-four, farmer, saved Bronze Medal and Walter V. and Carl V. Chalk, aged thirty-eight and eighteen, $1,000 toward respectively, farmers, from drowning, Gates, Tenn., July 4, purchase of a 1907. Carl became exhQsted while swimming in Forked farm. Deer River, twenty feet from the bank, where there was a whirling current, and when his father attempted to assist him, he pulled him under water. Archibald swam to the latter and was grabbed by him around the neck. He got free, and, grasping Walter under the arm, while the latter held to his son, he got both to shallow water.

230 Abner L. Kuykendall, aged thirty-one, yardmaster, Bronze Medal. saved an unknown man, aged sixty-two, from being run over by a train, Beaumont, Texas, December 21, 1907. Standing on the end of the first of twenty cars being pushed by a loco motive upwards of three miles an hour, Kuykendall saw the man step on the tracks, and warned him. The man stood still, dazed, and when about eight feet from him, Kuykendall jumped in front of the car, against the man, both falling, but managing to get outside of the rail before the wheels reached them.

231 Peter Dean (Indian), aged twenty-five, deckhand, died Bronze Medal and helping to save Mrs. W. W. McCune, aged twenty-eight, $25 a month for and W. W. McCune, Jr., aged six, from drowning, San support of widow, Bernardino Co., Cal. (near Parker, Ariz.), July 11, '1907. ' during her life, or The woman and boy fell from a disabled steamer into the until she remar Colorado River, at flood stage. Dean and another Indian ries. threw a plank into the water and jumped in, swimming with it to the McCunes. The current was too strong to allow them to get to shore, and as the plank would not sustain the four, Dean, after going one-quarter of a mile, left the plank, but failed to reach shore.

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232 Saltamah (Indian), aged thirty-eight, deckhand, helped Bronze Medal and to save Mrs. W. W. McCune and W. W. McCune, Jr., from $1,000 toward drowning, San Bernardino Co., Cal. (near Parker, Ariz.), purchase of a July 11, 1907. (See Award No. 231.) After Dean left the farm. plank, Saltamah guided it one-quarter of a mile farther, when he received assistance from shore, and succeeded in landing the woman and boy, all three being almost exhausted.

233 Sarah H. Killikelly, aged seventy, author and educator, Silver Medal and saved Mary E. Kilgallon, aged twenty-six, from burning, $75 a month dur Pittsburgh, Pa., September 26, 1908. With her clothing a ing her life. mass of flames, the maid ran through several rooms calling for help. Miss Killikelly forced her to the floor and smothered the fire with a rug, her tongue and hands being burned. The maid sustained very serious burns of the body, generally.

234 Francis C. Skinner, aged thirty-two, stationary engineer, Silver Medal and died attempting to rescue Wesley J. Wright, ' e boss, and $40 a month for John W. Rowe, electrician, aged forty-eight and thirty-six, support of widow, respectively, in a mine, Salineville, Ohio, May 27, 1908. during her life, or Wright and Rowe were disabled by an explosion and Skinner, until she remar with others, was lowered one hundred and eighty feet down a ries, 'with $5 a shaft, where the carriage stuck, ropes being used to get to month additional the bottom, twenty feet farther. Having been released from for each of six debris, Wright was being carried to the shaft when a piece of children until each timber fell, striking Skinner on the head, killing him instantly. reaches age of six teen.

235 James B. Goldman, aged thirty-one, foreman, saved Silver Medal and Warren Finley (colored), aged thirty, laborer, from being $1,000 toward run over by a train, Waterloo, S. C., June 29, 1907. Becoming purchase of a frightened at sight of an approaching train, Finley jumped farm. from a hand-car on which he was riding, and fell in front of it. He was held to the ground by the hand-car and just as Goldman released him, they were struck by the engine, both being injured, Goldman sustaining bruises on the body and a cut on the cheek.

236 Adolph Arnholdt, aged thirty-four, weaver, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save Earl Johnson (colored), aged eight, from drowning, $50 a month for Philadelphia, Pa., October 3, 1908. Arnholdt swam fifty feet support of widow, from the bank, in Schuylkill River to Johnson, who had fallen during her life, or in the water, and, being grabbed around the neck by the boy, until she remar was unable to free himself. Both were drowned. ries, with $5 a month additional for her daughter until she reaches age of sixteen.

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237 Arthur J. Sweeney, aged forty-four, foreman, died Silver Medal and saving William J. Callahan, aged eighteen, laborer, from $50 a month for suffocation, Buffalo, N. Y., September 10, 1907. Sweeney support of widow, entered a tank where Callahan lay, overcome by sulphureted during her life, or hydrogen, and lifted him to others at the top, who pulled him until she remar out. Before Sweeney could climb out, he fell unconscious, ries, with $5 a and was dead when taken out. month additional for each of five children until each reaches age of six teen.

238 Edward S. MacConnell, aged twenty-five, student, died Silver Medal. attempting to save Claude W. Friendship, aged twenty-eight, clerk, from drowning, Absecon, N. J., August 6, 1907. Mac Connell jumped from a boat in Absecon Bay, to help Friend ship, who had fallen overboard, but the latter pinioned his arms and both were drowned. 239 John Schwendinger, aged forty-two, clerk, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save Louis J. Traut, aged twenty, machinist, from $30 a month for drowning, Dubuque, Iowa, September 6, 1908. Traut, who support of widow, could not swim, got into water beyond his depth, while bathing during her life, or in the Mississippi River. Schwendinger swam to him, but until she remar was grabbed around the arms and shoulders, and could not ries, with $5 a release himself. Both were drowned. month additional for each of seven children until each reaches age of six teen.

240 Charles Stappenbeck, aged forty-seven, carpenter, died Silver Medal and attempting to rescue Frank Pizzini, Jr. , aged six, from a runaway, $25 a month for San Antonio, Texas, September 23, 1908. The runaway was support of widow, approaching a dangerous railroad crossing and Stappenbeck, during her life, or seeing the boy in the wagon, ran to the street and grabbed the until she remar rein close to the bridle. He was struck behind the ear by the ries. shaft, and sustained a fractured skull.

241 Charles E. Barnes, aged thirty-two, foreman, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Edward Hoagland, aged twenty-four, $50 a month for laborer, from suffocation, Pioneer, Cal., December 23, 1904. support of widow, Barnes entered a tank car through the dome, to help Hoagland, during her life, or who had been overcome by gas, and was himself suffocated. until she remar Both were dead when removed from the tank ries, with $5 -a month additional for each of two children until each reaches age of six teen.

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Samuel A. Johnson, aged twenty-nine, saved James J. Silver Medal. Houlihan, aged forty-six, foreman, and attempted to save Michael Muldoon and Peter J. Collins, aged forty and fifty four, respectively, laborers, from suffocation, New York, N. Y., August 14, 1908. Muldoon was overcome by gas at the bottom of a sixteen-foot manhole. Houlihan and Collins went to his rescue, but were themselves overcome. Johnson then descended, protected only by a handkerchief tied over his nose, and tied a rope around Houlihan, who was pulled out. While lifting one of the other men, Johnson felt himself weakening, and he started u the ladder for fresh air. He was caught by men at the top just as he was about to fall back. He later suflered two epileptic seizures.

243 James J. Houlihan attempted to save Michael Muldoon Silver Medal. from suffocation, New York, N. Y., August 14, 1908. (See Award No. 242.)

244 Peter J. Collins died attempting to save Michael Muldoon Silver Medal and from suffocation, New York, N. Y., August 14, 1908. (See $40 a month for Award No. 242.) support of widow, during her life, or until she remarries, with $5 a month additional for each of two children until each reaches age of sixteen.

245 Frank Omner, aged thirty-seven, foreman, died saving John Silver Medal to Bevin (colored), aged fifty-eight, laborer, from suffocation, widow and $2,000 New Orleans, La., October 22, 1907. Omner went to the to l i q u i d a t e bottom of an eleven-foot sewer manhole and fastened a rope mortgage on her around Bevin, who was overcome by gas. He then started to property, and $50 climb out, but fell on Bevin. The latter was pulled out and a month during recovered, but when Omner was removed he was dead. her life, or until she remarries, with $5 a month addi tional for each of two children until each reaches age of sixteen.

John F. Kennedy, aged thirteen, schoolboy, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save Edward A. Pellissier, Jr., aged ten, from drowning, $250 to father to Holyoke, Mass., July 6, 1904. Kennedy swam to the assist reimburse him for ance of Pellissier, who had fallen from a boat into the expenses incident Connecticut River, forty feet from the bank. After being to son's death. dragged under twice by Pellissier, Kennedy started for shore alone, but returned to the sinking boy, and was grabbed around the neck. Both were drowned.

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247 John J. Zangerle, aged twenty-three, clerk, rescued Bertha Bronze Medal. Killeen, aged two, from a runaway, Buffalo, N. Y., August 9, 1904. Zangerle grasped the bridle of a runaway horse drawing a phaeton containing the child, and, after being jerked along (at times off his feet) for three hundred feet, succeeded in stopping it. 248 John Carruthers,aged thirty-seven, engineer, saved William Bronze Medal and C. Fleming, aged two, from being run over by a train, West $1,000 t o w a r d Newton, Pa., July 22, 1907. Rushing from the cab to the pilot purchase of a of a locomotive, running eight miles an hour, Carruthers grasped home. the child by one arm. Before he could lift it, its body was dragged under the pilot, but he clung to it until the train was brought to a stop sixty feet farther on, and the child was only bruised.

249 John C. Scureman, aged fifty-five, salesman, rescued Karl Bronze Medal and A. Keller, aged eleven, from electric shock, West Pittston, Pa., $2,150 to be March 24, 1907. Heedless of warnings of others, Scureman applied to the rasped the ankle of the boy, who lay unconscious holding a liquidation of his ive wire, and pulled him free from the wire, but was himself debts. knocked down by another wire coming in contact with his neck. He was disabled eighteen days.

250 John Falter, aged seventeen, butcher, saved Harry D. Bronze Medal. McCune, aged fifteen; from drowning, Columbus, Ohio, January 31, 1908. Falter broke through the ice on Scioto River, thirty-five feet from shore, while going toward McCune who was in a hole. Grasping McCune, who was sinking, Falter caught a rope thrown from shore, and both were pulled out.

251 Henry Herwig, aged thirty-three, laborer, saved Louis E. Bronze Medal and Armstrong, aged fifteen, laborer, from drowning, Sharon, Pa., $1,000 toward April 27, 1908. Herwig waded twenty feet and then swam purchase of a sixty feet farther in the Shenango River, encumbered with home. heavy clothing and hip-length rubber boots, and towed Armstrong, who also wore hip-length boots, to shore.

252 Charles F. Meyer, aged thirty-eight, auditor, saved Roslyn, Bronze Medal and and helped to save Bessie Morris, aged nineteen and twenty-one, $500 to reimburse respectively, from burning, New York, N. Y., April 5, 1908. him for pecuniary Going to an automobile, which had been wrecked by a street car loss sustained ac and was burning, Meyer lifted Roslyn from the floor and count of injuries. pushed her out of the machine, and was trying to lift Bessie when a slight explosion knocked him to the street. Getting up, he ran around to the other side of the machine, from which a man had dragged Bessie, and was helping to carry her away when the gasoline tank exploded. He sustained burns which disabled him twenty-seven days.

253 Eugene P. Heinze, aged twenty-nine, captain, Salvation Bronze Medal. Army, saved Dena M. Schmidt, aged nineteen, from drowning, Cleveland, Ohio, August 3, 1908. Heinze swam one hundred fifty feet in Lake Erie and rescued Miss Schmidt, after being grabbed and taken under once by her.

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Henry E. Weckbecker, aged seventeen, ruler, saved Bronze Medal and Anthony J. Hensel, aged fifteen, from drowning, Sharpsburg, $1,000 payable at Pa., July 14, 1907. Weckbecker went to Hensel's assistance rate of $20 a in the Allegheny River and swam twenty-five feet with Hensel, month. who was under water and clinging to his waist. 255 Frederick W. Miller, aged thirty-three, crossing watchman, Bronze Medal and saved Timothy Maloney, aged sixty, farmer, from drowning, $600 to liquidate Rush, N. Y., April 24, 1908. Miller swam fifteen feet in mortgage on his Honeoye Creek to within four feet of the foot of a dam, where property. water was falling from a height of eight feet, and rescued Maloney, who had been carried over the dam in a rowboat. 256 I Frederick W. Weiher, aged forty-four, driver, saved Bronze Medal. Zachariah T. Dimpsey, aged sixty-three, laborer, from sufl’oca tion, Wall, Pa., February 11, 1909. Dimpsey was struck by a flying rock from a blast at the bottom of a twenty-five-foot well, and he fell into the well, unconscious. After another man had been lowered ten feet on a rope and had requested to be hoisted on account of the dense smoke, Weiher volunteered to go down and was lowered. He fastened the rope to Dimpsey, who was drawn up. Then Weiher was hoisted. Dimpsey died from injuries a few hours later. 257 Patrick H. Fitzpatrick, aged thirty-six, insurance agent, Bronze Medal and saved Bridget L. McGrath, aged thirty-one, from drowning, $1,200 to liquidate Southbridge, Mass., May 23, 1908. Fitzpatrick jumped from mortgage on his a six-foot wall into the Quinebaug River, and, after being bitten property. and taken to the bottom once by the woman, who, insane, was attempting suicide, swam to the wall with her. 258 Frances E. Hall, aged fourteen, schoolgirl, saved Nellie M. Bronze Medal and Rathbun, aged twenty-four, from drowning,Canandaigua, N.Y., $2,000 for educa August 30, 1908. Miss Hall swam twenty feet in Canan tional purposes, as daigua Lake to Miss Rathbun who had become panic-stricken, needed. and aftera brief struggle swam nine feet with her. She was unable to swim farther, but supported Miss Rathbun, by tread ing water, until assistance reached them. 259 John W. Ely, aged twenty-eight, laborer, saved Edward D., Bronze Medal and and George W., and attempted to save Joseph Johnson, aged $1,000 to be twenty-six, twenty-four, and twenty-three, coke drawer, applied toward blacksmith, and coke drawer, respectively, from drowning, restoration of his Point Marion, Pa., December 8, 1907. Ely crossed Cheat health. River on weak ice, and lying on the ice, with a twelve-foot fish pole pulled Edward and George, separately, from a hole. The ice broke under him as he extended the pole to Joseph, but he reached shore after a five-minute struggle in the water. Joseph was drowned.

260 Pierce D. Marsh, aged thirty-one, locomotive engineer, Silver Medal and prevented a train from being wrecked and saved the passengers $1,000 to liquidate and crew, Jane Lew, W. Va., June 25, 1907. As his train was mortgage on his climbing a heavy grade, Marsh saw a string of runaway cars property and for approaching at a speed of forty-five miles an hour. He stopped other worthy pur and reversed his engine, and had run his train twenty-two pose as needed. hundred and fifty feet down-grade, at speed of fifty miles an hour, when the cars overtook it, but the force of the collision was so slight that no one was injured.

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261 J. G. Stewart Walker, aged twenty-three, clerk, saved Bronze Medal and Claire M. McCauley, aged eighteen, from drowning, Alexandria, $1,000 to be Pa., September 27, 1908. Walker jumped into the fore-bay of applied toward a power-plant, in water eleven feet deep, where two turbines restoration of his were each making one hundred seventeen revolutions per health._ minute, and grabbing Miss McCauley, who had fallen in, held to a scaffold for a minute or two until both were assisted out.

262 John A. Koonz, aged nineteen, locomotive firemen, saved Bronze Medal. Leah C. Lautenschlager, aged seventeen, from drowning, Philo, Ohio, January 8, 1909. Koonz broke through the ice on Philo Canal, thirty feet from land, while extending a stick to Miss Lautenschlager, who was in a hole. After struggling with the girl, sinking once, and being bitten by her, he grasped a pole extended by others and was pulled ashore with the girl.

263 Lehmann D. Lautenschlager, aged twenty, laborer, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Barbara E. Kussmaul, aged seventeen, from $250 to father to drowning, Philo, Ohio, January 8, 1909. While reaching for reimburse him for Miss Kussmaul, who was struggling in a hole in the ice on Philo expenses incident Canal, Lautenschlager fell into the hole. Both were drowned. to son's death.

264 Amila G. Cone, aged sixty-one, housewife, attempted to Silver Medal. save Evaline Smith (colored), aged five months, from burning, Raleigh, Fla., May 5, 1908. Rushing into a burning cottage, through dense smoke, to the second room from the outside door, while embers from the roof dropped about her, Mrs. Cone rolled the baby from a blazing bed into the front of her gingham skirt and carried it outside, sustaining severe burns of the hands. The baby died.

265 Patrick O'Connor, aged thirty-three, teamster, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Andrew P., and Charles J. Arthur, aged $35 a month for twelve and sixteen, respectively, from drowning, Northampton, support of widow, Mass., December 16, 1908. While trying to pull the boys from during her life, or a hole in the ice on Mill River with a rope, O'Connor broke until she remarries, through and was drowned. The boys were rescued by another with $5 a month man. additional for each of two children - until each reaches age of sixteen.

266 Robert C. Baur, aged twenty-four, cement-worker, attempt Silver Medal and ed to save Edward L. Barnes, aged forty-one, iron-worker, $1,000 toward from drowning, Richmond, Va., January 8, 1908. During a purchase of a flood, Barnes ell from a boat into the James River and was home. carried over a dam, where the water dropped two and one-half feet, and into some shrubbery thirty feet beyond. Baur, in a boat, was let down by a rope to Barnes, from an island one hundred feet above the dam. He got Barnes into the boat, but, the rope breaking, it capsized. Barnes was drowned. Baur reached an island and was later rescued.

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267 Lulu J. Small, aged thirty-three, housewife, saved Mary E. Silver Medal. Mays and Lillian S. Towson, aged twenty-three and thirty-one, respectively, from drowning, Sea Gate, N. Y., September 17, 1907. Mrs. Small went to the assistance of the women, who were struggling together in the Atlantic Ocean, and, after being taken to the bottom by Mrs. Mays and having a rib broken, she swam sixty feet to a life-rope, holding to Mrs. Mays and assisting Mrs. Towson, who was floating, by pushing her. 268 Irvin R. McGee, a ed twenty-two, farmer, died saving Silver Medal and Willis E. Leonard, ag twenty-six, laborer, from suffocation, $300 to mother to Hoskinsville, Ohio, August 17, 1908. McGee, at his own liquidate mortgage request, was lowered in a bucket to the aid of Leonard, who had on her property, been overcome by gas at the bottom of a twenty-five foot well. and $25 a month He was unable to lift Leonard and ascended, but when another during her life. man refused to go down and assist him, he descended again and tied a rope around Leonard. As Leonard was drawn up McGee was overcome, and was dead when gotten out half an hour later. Leonard recovered. 269 Jonathan Dillinger, aged fort -one, train conductor, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Mary E. Gru , a ed sixty-five, from being $50 a month for run over by a train, Pottstown, a., January 23, 1909. support of widow Dillinger ran forty-five feet across two tracks, and attempted during her life, or to shove the woman from in front of a string of cars being untilsheremarries, backed at a speed of ten miles an hour, but she fell with her with $5 a month legs across a rail and was run over. Dillinger also was run over additional for her and killed. The woman died two hours later. daughter until she reaches age of six- teen. 270 Halley M. Woods, aged thirty-eight, merchant, saved Silver Medal and Nellie B. Dana, aged thirty-seven, and others, from drowning, $1,000 to be Athens, Ohio, March 14, 1907. Using a small boat, Woods applied to the rescued the people from houses which were being inundated liquidation of his by the surging flood waters of the Hocking River. On one debts. trip, he rowed a half mile to a partly wrecked house standing in the path of a twelve-mile-an-hour current, got three excitable women aboard, and, skilfully avoiding telephone poles, trees, and floating debris, rowed a thousand feet across the current to land.

271 Ray V. Vincent, aged twenty-three, coal miner, saved Bronze Medal and James A. Bolin, aged twenty-two, teamster, and others, from $1,000 t o w a r d drowning, Athens, Ohio, March 14, 1907. Vincent twice purchase of a rowed a half mile in a small boat on the flood waters of the home. Hocking River, to a house which stood in a twelve-mile-an .hour current, with water almost to the second story, and took three men from it on each trip, rowing them among trees and bushes and across the current to land. 272 James C. McMichael, aged fifty-two, watchman, assisted Silver Medal. in an attempt to save Nancy J. Simmons, aged forty-one, and others, from drowning, Athens, Ohio, March 14, 1907. McMichael and a companion, in a small boat, put out on the flood waters of the Hocking River, to row two thousand feet to the Simmons' house, but their boat capsized and they had narrow escapes from drowning.

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273 Amanson Lewis, Jr., aged thirty, stationary engineer, Silver Medal and assisted in an attempt to save Nancy J. Simmons, and others, $1,000 toward from drowning, Athens, Ohio, March 14, 1907. (See Award purchase of a No. 272.) Lewis was the companion of McMichael. home.

274 William A. Casley, aged thirty-nine, superintendent, helped Bronze Medal and to save Alvin L. Downard, aged thirty-five, merchant, and $1,000 to be others, from drowning, Athens, Ohio, March 14, 1907. Casley applied to the and a companion, in an eighteen-foot skill, contended with the liquidation of his nine-mile-an-hour current of the flood waters of the Hocking debts. River, avoided numerous trees and crossed an elevated street where the water was rushing like over a dam, and rescued the people from houses which had been carried from their foundations and had lodged among trees nine hundred feet from dry land. 275 Edward Swett, aged thirty-three, painter, helped to save Silver Medal, and Lydia S. Young, aged twenty-six, and others, and died assisting $20 a month, each, in an attempt to save Ira C. Young, aged twenty-eight, for support of machinist, and others, from drowning, Athens, Ohio, March father and mother, 14, 1907. Swett and a companion, in an eighteen-foot skiff, during their lives. took Mrs. Young and five others from a house in the flood waters of the Hocking River one thousand feet from dry land, but while he and another companion were taking Mr. Young and three others from the same point the boat shot across an elevated street, where the water was rushing like over a dam, and was capsized, all the occupants losing their lives.

276 Alonzo Barnes, aged forty, painter, helped to save Lydia S. Bronze Medal and Young and others, from drowning, Athens, Ohio, March 14, $1,000 toward 1907. (See Award No. 275.) purchase of a home.

277 Charles F. Bearhs, aged forty-eight,driver, died assisting Silver Medal. in an attempt to save Ira C. Young, and others, from drowning, Athens, Ohio, March 14, 1907. (See Award No. 275.) 278 Carl J. Hibbard, aged twenty-one, machinist, helped to Silver Medal and save Mary E. Dana, aged sixty, and assisted in an attempt to $1,000 toward save John P. Dana, aged sixty, auditor, and two others from purchase of a drowning, Athens, Ohio, March 14, 1907. In an old sixteen home foot boat, Hibbard and a companion went one hundred fifty feet from dry land, and rescued Miss Dana from a house in the seething flood waters of the Hocking River. While Hibbard and another man were trying to reach the Dana house again, their boat capsized. Hibbard got into the house and was later rescued with the occupants, but the other man was drowned.

279 Otto Barth, aged forty-seven, miller, died assisting in an Silver Medal and attempt to save John P. Dana, and two others, from drowning, $25 a month for Athens, Ohio, March 14, 1907. (See Award No. 278.) support of widow, during her life, or until she remarries.

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280 Pascal L. Traglio, aged forty-six, painter, helped to save Bronze Medal and Minerva M. Carsey, aged fort , and others, from drowning, $1,000 t o w a rd Athens, Ohio, March 14, 1907. n an eighteen-foot skiff, Traglio liquidating mort and a companion rowed out twice on the seething flood waters gage on his pro of the Hocking River, rescuing Mrs. Carsey and six others from perty. a tree into which they had climbed from a wrecked house, and a man from a tree which he had gained on losing his boat while going to the aid of the others. 281 Frederick L. Guenther, aged forty-two, contractor, helped Bronze Medal and to save Minerva M. Carsey, and others, from drowning, Athens, $1 ,000 toward pur Ohio, March 14, 1907. (See Award No. 280.) chase of a home. 282 Walter O.Allen, aged twenty-six, student, helped to save Bronze Medal and James N. Carsey, aged fifty-one, laborer, and Noah H. Martin, $1,000 for educa aged forty-six, carpenter, from drowning, Athens, Ohio, March tional purposes, as 14, 1907. Allen and a companion, in a sixteen-foot skiff, needed. rescued the men from a tree in the seething flood waters of the Hocking River, twice almost capsizing in their efforts to get the men into their boat.

283 Harry G. Seevers, aged twenty-six, coal miner, helped to Bronze Medal and save James N. Carsey and Noah H. Martin, from drowning $1,000 toward Athens, Ohio, March 14, 1907. (See Award No. 282.) purchase of a home. 284 Theodore H. Homer (colored), aged thirty-two, waiter, Bronze Medal and rescued Freddie Berger, aged eight, from a runaway, $500 for educa Philadelphia, Pa., August 2, 1908. Homer ran seventy feet tional purposes, as to meet a badly frightened runaway horse drawing a delivery needed. wagon containing Berger, and grasping its bridle stopped it within eighty feet. 285 William F. Sayle, aged fifteen, schoolboy, saved Ethel H. Bronze Medal and Aldrich, aged twenty-two, and Russell R. Dyer, aged nineteen, $2,000 for educa tool maker, from drowning, North Attleboro, Mass., January tional purposes, as 17, 1908. Sayle crawled to within four feet of a hole in the ice needed. on Attleboro Falls South Pond, forty feet from shore where the water was fifteen feet deep, and extended a pole to Miss Aldrich, who had broken through with Dyer, but she was unable to hold tight enough to be drawn out. Sayle finally succeeded in drawing her and Dyer, separately, from the water with a clothes-line. 286 John F. Conroy, aged twenty-eight, physical instructor, Bronze Medal. saved Walton Scully, aged ten, from drowning, Manchester, Mass., August 28, 1908. Conroy swam out nine hundred feet into the Atlantic Ocean, to Scully, who was being carried seaward, and brought him ashore in the face of a strong wind, and waves ten to fifteen feet high. 287 Timothy J. Madden, aged twenty-five, machinist, assisted Bronze Medal and in saving Joseph Fiszko, aged ten, from drowning, Thomaston, $1,000 to ward Conn., January 9, 1909. Lying flat on the ice on Naugatuck purchase of a River, Madden had almost reached Fiszko, who was in a hole home. forty feet from the bank where the water was fifteen feet deep, when he broke through. He grabbed Fiszko, and both were rescued by another man.

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288 Albert K. Sweet (colored),aged twenty, machinist, attempt Bronze Medal. ed to save Ran hild S. D., Lilly H. C., and Axsel W. L. Hanson, aged fifteen, thirteen, and ten, respectively, and Gilbert W. Johnson (colored), aged fifteen, from drowning, Norwood, R. I., February 17, 1909. The Hansons and ohnson broke through the ice together on Sand Pond, two undred feet from the bank where the water was twenty feet deep. Sweet skated to within four feet of the hole, and, as he flung his overcoat, which Ranghild Hanson and Johnson grasped, the ‘ice broke under him. After being in the water twenty minutes, (Slweet véas rescued by men with a boat. The four others were rowne . 289 Harry R Kennard, aged thirty-five, laborer, attempted to Bronze Medal. rescue David B. Blair, aged thirteen. from electric shock, Chester, Pa., February 27, 1909. With a green branch of a tree, Kennard attempted to knock an electric wire, carrying fifteen hundred volts, from the hand of the boy, who lay unconscious, but received a shock himself and was knocked down. The wire was then cut but both were seriously burned. 290 AlbertGuildoo, aged fourteen, schoolboy‘, rescued Minnie M. Bronze Medal and Lowers, aged thirteen, from a mad dog, Wampum, Pa., March $2,000 for educa 16, 1909. Failing to make the dog let go the girl's leg by tional purposes, as kicking it, Guildoo grabbed it by the neck with both hands and needed. pulled it from her, being bitten himself on the left wrist. Both recovered after treatment. 291 John A. Cameron,aged twenty-six, janitor, saved Martha Bronze Medal and W. Donnelly, aged twenty-seven, from burning, Cincinnati, $1,000 t o w a r (I Ohio, October 29, 1908. Through a blazing and smoke-filled purchase of a hallway on the fourth floor of an eleven-story building, home. Cameron made his way to a room in which Mrs. Donnelly was, and dragged her to safety, sustaining slight burns. William G. Buley, aged thirty-eight, stationary engineer, Bronze Medal and saved Hannah A. Lewis, aged fifty-five, from being run over by $1,750 to liqui a train, Aldan, Pa., April 16, 1908. Stepping in front of an date mortgage on approaching passenger train, Buley lifted the woman, who had his property. fainted, and fell backward with her clear of the track, being barely missed by the engine. 293 Frank H. Terry, aged fourteen, student, saved Fred C. Bronze Medal and Claus, aged seventeen, laborer, from drowning, Paulsboro, $2,000 for educa- N. J., July 14, 1908. When Claus, who could not swim, tional purposes, as abandoned a log on which he had floated eighty feet from shore needed. in the Delaware River, Terry went to his aid, and after being grabbed and taken under once, swam eight feet with him, and unable to swim farther, supported him until a boat reached them. 294 George E. McCue (colored), aged twenty-six, porter, saved Bronze Medal and Jacquelyn M. Herman, aged two, from being run over by a $500 for educa train, Garden City, Kan., November 19, 1908. McCue ran tional urposes, as five hundred sixty feet, part of this distance on the track neede . ahead of a passenger train running forty miles an hour, and grasping the baby and its carriage, which had rolled onto the track, threw them aside, and cleared the track himself, the pilot beam of the engine missing him by a few inches.

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Robert Dowling, aged thirty-eight, machinist, saved Bronze Medal and Mahlon R. Potts, aged twenty-eight, pumpman, and attempted $1,000 t o w a r (1 to save Paul Szyslak and Andrew Chlap, aged thirty-three and purchase of a thirty-five, respectively, laborers, from suffocation, Elizabeth, home. N. J., December 9, 1905. Dowling entered a tar still in which the three men were unconscious from gas, and fastened a rope to Potts, who was drawn up. Dowling climbed out, but a minute later descended for the other men, and was overcome. All were subsequently rescued with a long iron hook. Potts and Dowling recovered but the other two died.

Linwood E. Clarke, aged nineteen, student, saved Edgar Bronze Medal and V. Bump, aged seven, from burning, Wilton, Me., December 23, $2,000 for educa 1908. From the head of a stairway opening into a room which tional purposes, as was in flames, Clarke crawled thirty-five feet into a smoke needed. filled adjoining room, the door to which was right at the stair head,d and dragged Bump out unconscious. Clarke's hair was singe . 9 297 Ralph l-l. Reeder, aged twenty-five, superintendent, saved Bronze Medal. Bessie L. Lewis and Katherine M. Cain, aged nineteen and twenty-one, respectively, from drowning, Bordentown, N. J., July 6, 1908. Reeder went to the assistance of the girls in the Delaware River, and, with Miss Cain clinging to his neck, while Miss Lewis, under water, held to her, swam twenty‘five feet to shallow water.

298 Henry R. Berry, aged twenty-five, laborer, died attempt Bronze Medal and ing to save Carl G. Britton, aged twelve, from drowning, $25 a month for Cambridge, Ohio, June 13, 1909. Berry swam to the assist support of widow, ance of Britton, who had been carried out inWills Creek by the during her life, or swirling current, but sank as he reached him. Britton was untilsheremarries. rescued by another boy.

299 Frederick E. Foss, aged thirty-eight, lineman, died attempt Bronze Medal and ing to rescue William Quann, aged thirty-seven, lineman, from $25 a month for electric shock, Somerset, Mass., November 16, 1908. While support of mother, Quann was working at a lightning arrester, his head came in during her life, or contact with an electric switch carrying thirteen thousand two untilsheremarries. hundred volts. He instantly stiffened, a bluish light spread about him, and his hair and clothing began to blaze. Foss grasped his legs to pull him away from the switch, but both men were killed.

300 Patrick Casey, aged twenty-five,pipe-fitter, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save William B. Jones, aged thirty, foreman, from suffo $50 a month for cation, Youngstown, Ohio, April 29, 1909. Casey descended support of widow, a ladder to the bottom of a gasometer pit, which was ten feet during her life, or deep and filled with carbon monoxide and had carried until she rema rries. Jones, who was unconscious, almost to the ladder when he was with $5 a month overcoéne. Both were gotten out, but neither could be additional for her revive . son until he reaches age of six teen.

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30] Robert L. Troescher, aged eighteen, wireman, attempted to Bronze Medal and save Patrick Casey and William B. Jones, from suffocation, $2,000 for educa Youngstown, Ohio, April 29, 1909. (See Award No. 300.) After tional purposes, as Casey had been overcome, Troescher entered the it with a rope needed. about his waist, and was tying a rope to Casey, w en he fell over unconscious. He was drawn up, and recovered. 302 Stephen Borovsky, aged thirty-four, foreman, attempted to Bronze Medal and save Patrick Casey, from suffocation, Youngstown, Ohio, April $500, as needed, 29, 1909. (See Award No. 301.) Following Troescher's attempt for the education at rescue, Borovsky, with a rope about his waist, entered the pit of his children. and tied a rope to Casey, who was drawn up. Borovsky had climbed almost out, when he lost consciousness. He was drawn up and revived. 303 Harry D. Thompson, aged forty-three, master mechanic, Bronze Medal and attempted to save William B. Jones, from suffocation, $500, as needed, Youngstown,~0hio, April 29, 1909. (See Award No. 302.) for the education After Casey had been rescued, Thompson entered the pit with of his children. a rope about his waist, and attempted to fasten a rope to Jones, but was overcome. He was drawn up and revived. Robert Backus, aged twenty-nine, stationary engineer, Bronze Medal and attempted to save William B. Jones from suffocation, $500 for a worthy Youngstown, Ohio, April 29, 1909. (See Award No. 303.) purpose,as needed. Backus assisted in drawing Thompson from the pit, and with a handkerchief tied over his nose and mouth and a rope around him, descended. After fastening a rope to ones, he was overcome. Both were drawn up and ackus recovered. Jones was dead. Bertha Rattenbury, aged fifteen, student, saved Abigail J. Silver Medal and Wellner, aged twenty~three, from drowning, Charlottetown, $2.000 for educa P. E. I., August 6, 1909. Miss Rattenbury went to the assist tional purposes, as ance of Miss Wellner, who had been seized with a cramp, fifty needed. feet from shore in Charlottetown Harbor, but, after swimming a few strokes with her and going under water once, returned to shore fora few moments'rest, and then swam out again and effected the rescue. lthamer C. Sapp, aged fort -one, farmer, rescued William Silver Medal and C. Whitney, aged thirty-four, armer, from burning, Wester $2,100 to liquidate ville, Ohio, November 17, 1907. Sapp entered a burning barn, mortgage on his in answer to Whitney's cries, but was forced back by the heat property. and smoke. Then he entered by another door and dragged Whitney out unconscious. Sapp's eyebrows and mustache were singed. Whitney died five days later.

307 Clarence M.Thompson, aged forty-nine, farmer, attempted Silver Medal and to save Eugene G. Davis and Nelson C. Thompson, aged $1,000 to be twenty-nine and twenty-four, respectively, farmers, from suffo applied to the cation, Cimarron, Kan., May 18, 1909. Thompson slid liquidation of his down a rope to the bottom of a forty-five foot well, where the debts. two men lay overcome by gas, fastened the rope to each, in turn, and, after they had been drawn up, lost consciousness. He was rescued by another man, and recovered. Davis and Nelson Thompson were dead.

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308 William F. Bayless, aged twenty-three, farmer, saved Silver Medal and Clarence M. Thompson, from suffocation, Cimarron, Kan., $1,000 t o w a rd May 18, 1909. (See Award No. 307.) After Thompson had purchase of a been overcome in the well, Bayless was lowered with the rope farm. fastened about him. He took the rope from his body, fastened it to Thompson, and the latter was hoisted. The rope was lowered a am and Bayless was drawn up, weak and dazed. He and T ompson recovered.

309 George A. Lowry, aged fifty-two, inventor, attempted to Silver Medal. save Annie L. Pollard, aged thirty-seven, from drowning, Pablo Beach, F la., August 22, 1908. Lowry, in a weakened condition resulting from sickness, swam out three hundred feet into the Atlantic Ocean to the unconscious woman, who was drifting seaward, and returned, pushing her ahead of him, to within one hundred fifty feet of shore, where others gave assistance. Mrs. Pollard died without regaining consciousness. Lowry wa confined to his bed for a week. -

310 William M. Edwards, aged twenty-five,- longshoreman, Silver Medal and rescued Lucius Hubbard (colored),aged twenty-nine, stevedore, $1,000 toward from burning, Philadelphia, Pa., June 20, 1908. Edwards slid urchase of a down a rope through a hatchway of a freight steamer to the CHIC. first under-deck, which was in flames due to an explosion, and securing Hubbard, fastened him to the rope, and, climbing up, with assistance drew him up. Hubbard died.

311 Jesse C. Stewart, aged twenty-three, farmer, saved Otis Silver Medal and E. Nichols and Spencer Bullard, aged twenty-eight and thirty, $1,000 t o w a r d respectively, laborers, from suffocation, Brownwood, Texas, purchase of a April 26, 1909. Nichols and Bullard were overcome by gas at farm. the bottom of a seventy-three-foot well which was in danger of caving in. Stewart was lowered twice on a rope, and, in turn, fastenfid another rope to each of the men, who were hoisted and revive .

312 Clemmie C. Lebus, aged twenty-six, housewife, died Silver Medal. attempting to save Mazell Ellis and Kathryn E. Weaver, aged fifteen and thirteen, repectively, from drowning, Henrietta, Texas, April 29, 1909. Mrs. Lebus went to the assistance of the girls, who were struggling together in the Little Wichita River, and was grabbed by them. All were drowned.

313 Herbert L. Mitchell, aged forty-four, clergyman, died Silver Medal t0 attempting to save Clarence B. Blakeslee, aged sixteen, from widow and $300 to drowning, Fishers Island, N. Y., August 3, 1909. The sudden liquidate her in swinging of the sail knocked Blakeslee from a cat boat in debtedness, and Fishers Island Sound, two miles from land. Mitchell dived $70 a month dur overboard to his rescue, and, after supporting him for ten ing her life, or minutes, sank with him. until she remar ries, with $5 8 month additional for each of two children until each reaches age of six- ‘ teen.

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314 Charles W. Hammond, aged forty-four, laborer, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Archibald C. Reynolds, aged seventeen, $20 a month for laborer, from drowning, Sidney, Me., April 1, 1909. While support of widow, oing toward Reynolds, who was in a hole in the ice on the during her life, or fiennebec River, eighty feet from the bank, where the water until she remarries, was twenty-five feet deep, Hammond, who could not swim, with $5 a month broke through and was drowned. Reynolds was rescued later. additional for each of four children until each reaches age of sixteen.

315 Ignatius J. Raif, aged twenty-two, blacksmith, died rescu Silver Medal and ing Adolph Riess, aged five, from electric shock, Houston, $40 a month for Texas, April 30, 1909. With two sticks Raif tried to pull an support of widow, electric wire, carrying twenty-three hundred volts, away from during her life, or Riess who was lying on it unconscious. The wire broke, untilsheremarries, fell on Raif's arm, and killed him. Riess was severely with $5 a month burned. additional for each of two children until each reaches age of sixteen.

316 Michael Donlon, aged thirty-five, porter, died saving Silver Medal. Malvina and Delcina F. Gauthier, aged thirty-five and eight, respectively, from being run over by a train, Meriden, Conn., January 2, 1909. The girl fell on the track in front of an approaching passenger train. Her mother rushed to her, and stood bewildered. Donlon jumped between the rails, flung the girl aside, and shoved her mother clear of the track, but was himself struck by the engine and died nine hours later.

Michael J. Duffy, aged fifty-five, special officer, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Emma C. Conklin, aged sixty-seven, from $40 a month for being run over by a train, Hallstead, Pa., January 11, 1909. support of widow, Duffy shouted a warnin to Mrs. Conklin, who had started during her life, or across the track ahead o a train running sixty miles an hour, until she remarries. and then rushing thirty-five feet across two tracks, approached her with arms extended as if to push her forward. She gleared the track, but Duffy was struck by the engine and kille .

318 Francis 0. Stewart, aged fifty, crossing watchman, died Silver Medal. saving G. Gary Bercaw, aged six, from being run over by a train, Hammond, La., April 13, 1908. Jumping onto the track in the path of a backing freight train, Stewart threw the boy aside, but was himself run over and killed. 319 Matthew J. Kelly, aged thirty-one, laborer, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save John A. McCue, aged thirty-five, gas inspector, $50 a month for from suffocation, Pittsburgh, Pa., August 4, 1909. McCue was support of widow, overcome in a regulator pit by escaping gas. Kelly, after during her life, or making fruitless efforts to get someone from the crowd present untilsheremarries, to assist him, sat down with his feet dangling in the pit, and with $5 a month reaching down grasped McCue with both hands but as he gave additional for her a pull, he was overcome and fell into the pit. Both were dead son until he reaches when gotten out. age of sixteen.

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320 Francis T. Smith, aged forty-three, engraver, saved Mary Bronze Medal. Cunningham, aged twenty-three, from drowning, Georges Mills, N. H., August 23, 1909. Miss Cunningham dived into Lake Sunapee from a dock,and, being unable to swim, failed to reach a board which a woman threw in to her. Smith, although fatigued from swimming, swam forty-five feet to her, and, after being grabbed and taken under once, towed her ten feet, when others gave assistance and got both upon the dock, Smith being in a semi-conscious condition.

321 Thomas J. Canifi, aged forty-three, tool setter, rescued Bronze Medal. John E. Ross, Jr., and Edward A. Saum, aged twenty-four and twenty, respectively, electricians, from electric shock, Water bury, Conn., September 12, 1905. Holding a pair of twelve inch ships with both hands, each of which was protected only by a worn and damp rubber overshoe, Caniff cut an electric wire, carrying two thousand two hundred fifty volts, which was in contact with the two men, who were unconscious. aniH received a slight shock. Ross and Saum eventually recovered.

George F. Burba, aged forty-four, editor, saved Catherine Bronze Medal. Murty, aged twelve, from drowning, Snyderville, Ohio, August 12, 1909. As Burba let himself to the bottom of Baker's Pond, sixteen feet from shore where the water was eight feet deep, to locate the girl, who had sunk, his feet were grasped by her. Freeing one foot, he struggled to the surface several times but could not reach shore. He was able finally to crawl on bottom to shallow water, dragging the girl with him.

323 Oscar H. Thomas, aged twenty-nine, salesman, saved Bronze Medal and Alfred H. Smith, aged seven, from drowning, Milford, Conn., $1,000 toward December 7, 1907. Thomas broke through the ice on Mill purchase of a Pond while going to Smith who was in a hole thirty feet from home. shore, where the water was ten feet deep. Breaking three feet of ice which separated him from Smith, and going under water to get him, Thomas swam six feet with the boy to solid ice.

324 James W. Marrinan, aged sixteen, student, saved NeilE. Bronze Medal and Duffy, aged four, from being run over by a train, Woburn, Mass., $2,000 for educa’ June 12, 1909. Dashing on the track in front of a passenger tional purposes, train approaching at a speed of twenty miles an hour, Marrinan as needed. snatched the child from between the rails, when the engine was almost upon them. He rolled down an embankment with the child as the train rushed past.

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325 Frank B. Weik, aged twenty-one, school teacher, saved Bronze Medal and Charles I. Fisher, aged forty, clergyman, Olive M. McCalley, $2,000 for educa aged fourteen, and Cora B. Butterfield, aged seventeen, from tional purposes, burning, Walker, Iowa, November 1, 1908. A gasoline tank as needed. exploded in the vestibule of a small church, the building took fire, and Fisher's clothing was spattered with gasoline, and ignited. He ran to the front of the auditorium, where Weik and the two girls were. Weik extinguished the flames on Fisher by smothering them with his coat and a cotton curtain, and by tearing off parts of the burning clothing. He then broke a window—escape through the door being cut off by flames— and Fisher climbed out. The girls, panic-stricken, had failed in an attempt to open a window at the opposite side of the room, and, going to them, Weik broke the window, through which they and he escaped. Weik sustained slight burns of right hand, face, and ears. All the others sustained burns.

326 Anthony J. Langhammer, aged eighteen, machinist's Bronze Medal and apprentice, saved Edward Yung, aged ten, from drowning, $2,000 for educa Dayton, Ky., August 8, 1909. Langhammer dived from a tional purposes, skiff in the middle of the Ohio River, grabbed Yung, who, as needed. having been upset from a yawl by the paddle-wheel of a steamer, was under the "overhang" eight feet from the hull and fourteen feet aft of the wheel,which had just stopped turning, and swam with him to a launch.

327 Charlesw. Weld, aged twenty-one, salesman, savedJ. Chase Bronze Medal. Harbaugh, aged twenty, park attendant, from drowning, Waterloo, Iowa, August 1, 1908. Weld's arms were pinioned and he was dragged under water when he went to Harbaugh's assistance in the Cedar River, but he freed himself and arose, and, as Harbaugh came up, swam toward him. Harbaugh sank again and when he reappeared, Weld seized him and swam with him twent -five feet to shallow water. Weld was nearly exhausted and arbaugh was unconscious.

328 John A. Grady, aged thirty, fisherman, helped to save Bronze Medal and Arthur Nystrom, aged thirty-two, mate, and Herman Peterson, $500 to be applied sailor, and assisted in an attempt to save another sailor, aged to the liquidation twenty-two, from drowning, near Souris, P. E. I., November 8, of his debts. 1906. Grady and a companion, in a fifteen-foot dory, rowed out six hundred feet in a bay of the Gulf of St. Lawrence to a wreck, the waves running fifteen to twenty-five feet high, the water strewn with heavy timbers, and the wind blowing thirty miles an hour, and took Nystrom and Peterson to shore, after having made a number of futile attempts to throw a line to the third man, who was on a piece of the wreck which had been driven away from the main part.

329 Duncan J. Campbell, aged twenty-four, lineman, helped Bronze Medal and to save Arthur Nystrom and Herman Peterson, and assisted in $500 to be applied an attempt to save another sailor from drowning, near Souris, toward the liqui P. E. I., November 8, 1906. (See Award No. 328.) dation of his debts.

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330 Cornelius H. Bertrand, aged seventeen, office boy, died Bronze Medal to attempting to save Charles Zimmerman, aged sixteen, from father and $1,000 drowning, New York, N. Y., August 8, 1909. Despite his payable at the rate brother's call to him not to do so, Bertrand swam to the assist of $20 a month. ance of Zimmerman in the Hudson River, was grabbed around the nec(lj< by him and was unable to free himself. Both were drowne .

331 Charles F. P. McCrory, aged nineteen, clerk, died attempt Bronze Medal to ing to save John A. Altenbaugh, Jr., aged twenty, clerk, from father and $3,000 drowning, Sandy Creek, Pa., August 4, 1909. McCrory at to liquidate mort tempted to swim ashore with Altenbaugh when the latter be gage on his prop came anic-stricken, in the Allegheny River, twenty-two feet erty, and $20 a from s ore, but Altenbaugh broke loose and sank, and McCrory, month for five after diving for him several times, was too exhausted to reach years. shore and was drowned.

332 Edith M. Origor, aged thirty-six, school teacher, died Silver Medal. attempting to save James C. Morrison, aged seven, from drown ing, Wentworth, N. H., August 13, 1907. Miss Grigor, who could not swim, went to the assistance of the boy, who had waded into deep water in Brown's Creek. He grasped her about the neck, and both were drowned.

333 Jesse B. Patterson, aged thirty, photographer, attempted Silver Medal and to save Minerva M. Carsey, aged forty, and nine others from $500 to be applied drowning, Athens, Ohio, March 14, 1907. In a small boat to the liquidation Patterson rowed out on the flood waters of the Hocking River, of his debts. the current being ten miles an hour, to some trees into which the people had climbed from a floating house. As he grasped a branch, his boat filled with water and was carried away with Patterson standing in it. He grasped the branches of another tree and drew himself up as his boat struck its trunk and broke in two. He and the others were later rescued. '

334 Matthew Walsh, aged forty-five, laborer, died as the result Silver Medal and of attempting to save James E. Kelly, aged thirty-nine, $25 a month for laborer, from suffocation, Boston, Mass., August 12, 1909. support of widow, Walsh went to the rescue of Kelly, who had been overcome by during her life, or sewer -gas at the bottom of a twelve-foot manhole, and fell until she remar unconscious upon Kelly. He revived a few minutes later and ries, with $5 a climbed to the surface. From the effects of the gas and sewer month additional water, sickness resulted from which he died about a month for each of four later. children,untileach reaches age of sixteen.

335 Thomas Bragan, aged forty-nine, laborer, attempted to save Silver Medal and James E. Kelly, from suffocation, Boston, Mass., August 12, $1,000 toward 1909. (See Award No. 334.) Bragan followed Walsh into the purchase of a manhole to rescue Kelly, and was overcome but was rescued by home. another man.

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aSilver Medal and 336 Humphrey J. Moynihan, aged fifty-one, inspector, saved {games E. Kelly and Thomas Bragan from suffocation, Boston, $1,000 t o wa r d ass., August 12, 1909. (See Awards Nos. 334 and 335.) urchase of a Immediately after Bragan had been overcome, Moynihan ome. entered the manhole and fastened ropes to Kelly and Bragan, who were drawn up. Moynihan climbed out for fresh air, and Walsh, reviving, climbed to the surface at Moynihan's call.

Margaret I. Davies aged thirty-three, clerk, saved Bronze Medal and Charles E. Bodamer, aged’forty-seven, retired, from being run $500 for a over by a train, Sharon, Pa., December 29, 1909. Standing worthy purpose, on hard-packed snow, between the track and a pile of snow as needed. three feet from it, Miss Davies grasped Bodamer, who, intoxi cated, had fallen across the rail in front of an approaching freight train, and dragging him outside the rail just as the engine passed, lay on him and held his legs to prevent his flinging them on the rail again, until the train stopped with the engine two hundred feet past them.

338 George V. Knopf, aged thirty-six, clerk, saved Emma Q. Bronze Medal and Keyes, aged fifty-four, from burning, Sandusky, Ohio, Novem $1,000 t o w a r d ber 18, 1909. Knopf groped his way through halls dense with purchase of a smoke and ablaze in places, to the top floor of a four-story farm. building, and led the woman down to the street.

339 Martha Generals (colored), aged fifty-seven, housewife, Bronze Medal and rescued Peter M. Malkemes, aged nine, from electric shock, $20 a month dur Wilkes-Barre, Pa., July 29, 1906. Unable to release his hold ing her life. of an electric light wire carrying twenty-two hundred volts, the boy was being jerked about when Mrs. Generals grasped him by the neck and received a shock which temporarily paralyzed her arm. She appealed to bystanders to aid him but none responded, and then she grasped the boy again and succeeded in pulling him free from the wire. Her hand was disabled for a week. The boy's hand was badly burned.

340 Alexis B. Luce, aged twenty-three, actor, saved an un Bronze Medal. known woman, aged twenty-eight, from drowning, New London, Conn., September 20, 1908. Luce jumped from a dock and swam out twenty feet in the Thames River to the woman, who, intoxicated, was attempting suicide, and after a struggle, in which he was taken under once, with the assistance of another man, rescued her.

John A. Weist, aged twenty, salesman, saved Theodore Bronze Medal. Kendall, aged sixteen, laborer, and Leo Kendall, aged eleven, from drowning, Pittsburgh, Pa., December 12, 1909. Weist ran four hundred eighty feet from shore on unsafe ice on the Allegheny River and, with a rope, pulled the boys from a hole. He broke through himself, but reached a bridge pier and was drawn upon the bridge by others with a rope.

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John Adriance Jr., aged twenty-five, insurance agent, Bronze Medal. saved Cordelia M. K’eplinger. aged thirty-three, from drowning, Galveston, Texas, July 15, 1909. The woman got beyond her depth in the Gulf of Mexico, two hundred feet from shore, and a man companion, after a short struggle, deserted her. Then Adriance swam to her and after being grasped and taken under, rendered the woman helpless by a blow in the face, and towed her to shallow water.

Clarence W. Lyons, aged twenty-seven, accountant, Bronze Medal and saved Marguerite K. Hartman, aged thirteen, from drowning, $1,000 toward Williamsport, Pa., January 22, 1909. While approaching purchase of a Miss Hartman, who was in a hole in the ice on the West Branch home. of the Susquehanna River, three hundred eighty feet from shore, Lyons broke through, and was grabbed about the neck by the girl. They went under and rose beneath the ice, but Lyons managed to swim with the girl into open water and cling to the ice until others pulled them from the hole.

Bernard D. Connelly, aged forty, attorney, saved Bronze Medal. Charlotte R. Chamberlin, aged twenty-two, from drowning, Le Claire, Ia., June 29, 1906. Connelly, a poor swimmer, jumped from a boat into the Mississippi River, four hundred feet from shore, to aid Miss Chamberlin, who had been upset from a launch, and supported her until they had drifted over four hundred feet, when they were picked up.

Joseph A. Riley, aged thirty, policeman, saved Mayme Bronze Medal and F. Price and Lottie R. Firestone, aged twenty-six and twenty $1,000 for a three, respectively, from drowning, Cleveland, Ohio, worthy purpose, August 25, 1909. Riley dropped into the Cuyahoga River, as needed. between a wharf and a steamer, at night, and supported the women, who had fallen from a gangplank, until others gave assistance.

Frederick W. Sies, aged twenty-one, locomotive fireman, Bronze Medal and saved James M. Hayek, aged two, from being run over by a $1,000 t o w a r d train, Dixon, 1a., November 4, 1909. While his train was purchase of a running thirty-five miles an hour, Sies' attention was called to home. the child on the track, by the applying of the emergency brakes. Quickly making his way to the pilot, he braced himself on it and snatched the child from the track.

Robert W. Young, aged thirty-six, brakeman, saved Bronze Medal and Ray E. Benham, aged nine, from being run over by a train, $1,000 toward Abilene, Kan., April 20, 1909. Springing in front of a string purchase of a of cars being pushed by an engine, to assist Benham, who had home. been knocked down, Young was struck by the coupler and thrown to the ground. Holding to Benham with one hand, he hooked the other arm over the forward axle of the car, and was dragged fifteen feet before the train was stopped. He was not injured. Benham‘s right leg was severely injured.

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John G. White, aged forty-six, yardmaster, saved Mary Bronze Medal and F. and Elizabeth Scamacca, aged thirty-five and two, respect $700 to liquidate ively, from being run over by a train, Batavia, N. Y., June 14, mortgage on his 1909. Dashing across the track in front of a passenger train property. running thirty-five miles an hour, White shoved the woman and child out of danger, and fell on his hands and knees beside the track as the train rushed past.

George E. Hemphill, aged twenty-nine, farmer, Bronze Medal and attempted to save Clarence Slaughter, aged twenty-eight, $1,000 toward farmer, from suffocation, Anna, Texas, August 31, 1909. purchase of a Slaughter was overcome by smoke from a powder blast at the farm. bottom of a twenty-foot well. Hemphill was lowered with a rope, which he untied from himself and fastened to Slaughter, and, holding to it, was drawn up with him. Slaughter died four days later, without regaining consciousness. '

Patrick F. Williamson, aged twenty-two, brewery Bronze Medal. worker, died helping to save George M. Myers, aged forty two, brewery worker, from suffocation, Punxsutawney, Pa., January 10, 1910. Williamson entered a tank in which Myers had been overcome by fumes of amyl nitrite, and lifted Myers to others at the top, when he fell unconscious. He was dead when gotten out. Myers recovered.

351 Edward W. Noll, aged twenty-five, brewery worker, died Bronze Medal and assisting in an attempt to save Patrick F. Williamson from $50 a month for suffocation, Punxsutawney, Pa., January 10, 1910. (See support of widow, Award No. 350.) While on the rim of the tank helping to during her life, aescue Williamson, Noll collapsed and was dead when taken or until she re own. marries.

Harley Tomlinson (colored), aged thirty-four, farmer, Bronze Medal 'and died assisting in an attempt to save Oscar Colson (colored), $15 a month for aged twenty-seven, farmer, from drowning, Norwood, N. C., support of widow, August 3, 1909. During a flood of the Yadkin River, during her life, Tomlinson and another man, in a bateau, paddled four or until she re hundred feet from shore to Colson, who was clinging to a marries, with $2 wrecked flatboat, and had gotten Colson aboard, when the a month addit bateau capsized. Tomlinson and Colson were drowned. ional for each of three children until each reaches age of sixteen.

Frank Forrest (colored), aged fifty-three, farmer, assisted Bronze Medal and in an attempt to save Oscar Colson and helped to save Henry $500 to liquidate C. Myers, aged sixty-two, insurance agent, from drowning, debt, and for other Norwood, N. C., August 3, 1909. (See Award No. 352.) worthy purpose, When the bateau capsized, Forrest swam downstream five as needed‘ hundred feet and was rescued by his son in a boat; then running along the bank a mile and a quarter upstream to get above Myers, who was in a clump of trees four hundred feet from land, he secured another boat, and, accompanied by his son, rescued Myers.

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E. Ralph Adams, aged fifteen, schoolboy, helped to save Bronze Medal. Arvy D. Mahoney (colored), aged thirteen, and died assisting in an attempt to save Burdette C. Blett, aged eleven, from drowning, Decatur, Mich., December 7, 1904. Lying flat on the ice on Lake of the Woods, twelve hundred feet from shore, with another boy holding to his ankles, Adams worked his way to a hole in which Mahoney and Blett were struggling, and dragged Mahoney from the water. He and his companion were approaching the hole, as before, to rescue Blett when‘the ice broke, and all three were drowned.

355 B. Franklin Bayles, aged fifteen, schoolboy, helped to Bronze Medal and save Arvy D. Mahoney and died assisting in an attempt to $20 a month for save Burdette C. Blett, from drowning, Decatur, Mich., support of mother, December 7, 1904. (See Award No. 354.) for six years, or until she re marries. 356 Archie P. Brake aged twenty, telegraph operator, died Bronze Medal. attempting to save Dorothy V Bruce, aged twenty, from drowning, Iowa Falls, Ia., July 13, 1909. Brake dived from a launch into the Iowa River to assist Miss Bruce who had been knocked overboard; but, as he was about to grasp her, he sank, simultaneously with the disappearance of the girl.

357 Carl F. Wagner, aged fourteen, schoolboy, died attempt Bronze Medal and ing to save Anthony Geraci, aged eleven, from drowning, $20 a month for Rochester, N. Y., May 29, 1909. The boys, on a raft, had support of mother, drifted twenty-five feet from shore in the Genesee River, when for six years, or‘ Geraci, unable to swim and fearing for his safety, jumped into until she re the water, which was fifty feet deep. Wagner immediately marries. ' sprang to his assistance, but was grabbed by him, and both were drowned.

Francis P. De Santis, aged twenty-eight, miner,'assisted Bronze Medal and in an attempt to rescue Michele Rubino, aged twenty-eight, $1,000 toward miner, from a cave-in in a mine, Brockwayville, Pa., Decem purchase of a ber 12, 1908. Rubino was caught by a fall of rock. De Santis home. and another man immediately made an effort to lift the rock, but were unable. Later De Santis and two other men were about to attempt to lift the rock when another fall occurred, catching De Santis' trouser leg and pinning him to the floor, and killing his companions. Rubino, when released, was found to be dead.

359 William P. Harris, aged thirty, boss mine driver, assisted Bronze Medal and in an attempt to rescue Michele Rubino and helped to rescue $1,000 t o w a r d Francis P. De Santis, from a cave-in in a mine, Brockwayville, purchase of a Pa., December 12, 1908. (See Award No. 358.) When home. De Santis was pinned down by the second fall, Harris, while other falls impended, crawled close enough to hand him a knife, with which he freed himself.

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Guiseppe Petruccelli, aged eighteen, miner, died assist Bronze Medal to ing in an attempt to rescue Michele Rubino from a cave-in in brother and $250 a mine, Brockwayville, Pa., December 12, 1908. (See Award each to two de No. 358.) pendent sisters, as needed.

Vincenzo Stefanelli aged twenty, miner, died assisting Bronze Medal and in an attempt to rescue Michele Rubino from a cave-in in a $500 to father, as mine, Brockwayville, Pa., December 12, 1908. (See Award needed. N o. 358.)

A. Eugene Smith, aged thirty-three, saloon keeper, Silver Medal and attempted to save Charles Hendren, aged fifty-one, well-digger, $900 to be applied and A. Jackson Clark, aged thirty-two, farm laborer, from to the liquidation suffocation, Rogers, Texas, August 6, 1909. Hendren and of his debts. Clark were overcome by gas at the bottom of a forty-five-foot well. Smith was lowered with a rope and fastened another to each of the men, in turn, and they were hoisted, followed by him. Smith collapsed on reaching the surface, but recovered. Hendren and Clark were found to be dead.

363 George A. Trost, aged thirty-one, brakeman, saved Silver Medal and William B. Malsberry, aged eighty-six, retired, from being run $1,500 to liquidate over by a train, Hyndman, Pa., May 25, 1908. Running mortgage on his thirty-five feet in the middle of the track toward a freight p r o p e r t y a n d train coming down-grade twenty miles an hour, Trost grasped other indebted Malsberry, and, after a brief struggle, dragged him from the ness. track, the engine barely missing them.

Matthew D. Robson, aged twenty-four, laborer, saved Silver Medal and Samuel Slater, miner, and others, from suffocation, Pana, 1ll., $1,000 for a October 23, 1907. Robson ran about one and one-quarter worthy purpose, miles, from the foot of a shaft to the end of the west entry of as needed. a coal mine—others having refused to accompany him—and warned fifteen men and boys of a fire which was raging at the top of the seven-hundred-foot shaft. The fan had been stopped, the cages had been burned from their cables, and sparks and brands were dropping down the shaft. He hurried back toward the shaft, which had to be passed for escape to be possible, accompanied by the men and boys. When near the shaft, they encountered dense smoke and considerable heat, but finally reached, and passed, the shaft, getting into the east entry, and to safety.

Wylie Looney, aged seventeen, schoolboy, died attempting Silver Medal. to save George C. Barker, aged fifteen, from drowning, Duncan ville, Texas, June 2, 1907. Looney went to the assistance of Barker, who, unable to swim, had gotten into a hole in Ten Mile Creek, and sunk, and was grasped from behind by Barker as he rose to the surface. Both were drowned.

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366 A. Albert Richards, aged twenty-two, attorney, died Silver Medal and attempting to rescue Joseph T. Parker, aged twelve, from a $1,000 to father to runaway, Denton, Texas, November 11, 1904. With both liquidate his debts hands, Richards grasped at the rein of a runaway horse hitched and for other to a delivery wagon occupied by Parker, but was struck in the worthy purpose, face by the point of the shaft and knocked to the ground as needed. unconscious, sustaining injuries which resulted in his death seven days later. Ira S. Houser, aged thirty-seven, railroad flagman, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Gail L. Mickey, aged two,. from burning, $50 a month for Chambersburg, Pa., January 6, 1910. Houser ran to the support of widow, second floor of a burning frame house to rescue the sleeping during her life, or baby. An hour later, after the fire had been extinguished, his ~until she remar blackened body was found on the first floor at the foot of the ries, with $5 a stairs, with the body of the baby near his outstretched arms. month additional for each of two children until each reaches age of six teen. Robert J. Lurty, aged thirty-three, laborer, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save Mary J. Marsh, aged fifty-six, from drowning, $15 a month each Nelsonville, Ohio, March 14, 1907. In a rowboat, Lurty went for support of three hundred feet from land on the flood waters of the Hocking three children River, where the current was seven miles an hour, and had until each reaches taken Mrs. Marsh from the roof of her flooded home and age of sixteen. started shoreward, when the boat capsized. He grasped the woman and, clinging to a post, supported her for forty-five minutes, when she died, and he allowed her body to float away. A few minutes later he was swept away and drowned.

369 Clarence G. Baxter, aged twenty-one, dairyman, saved Bronze Medal. Annie B. Coker, aged five, from being run over by a train, Stone Mountain, Ga., May 8, 1909. Dashing to the track, thirty-five feet ahead of an approaching passenger train, Baxter grasped the child and carried it to safety, himself beingr barely missed by the locomotive.

370 Thomas R. Dobson, aged seventeen, pattern-maker's Bronze Medal and apprentice, saved Laura A. Alberts and Josephine M. Herold, $1,000 for a aged sixteen and fourteen, respectively, from drowning, worthy purpose, Baltimore, Md., September 19, 1908. Dobson jumped from as needed. a moving launch into the Patapsco River and was clasped about the neck by one of three girls who had fallen overboard. He freed himself, and, supporting Misses Alberts and Herold, each holding to one of his arms, he grasped the other girl and supported her momentarily, until relieved of her by another man. Miss Herold let loose and sank, and Dobson then swam twenty-five feet to a bridge, towing Miss Alberts. A third man reached under the water and brought Miss Herold, who had clung to Miss Alberts' foot, to the surface. All were taken ashore in a boat.

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371 Harry Z. Householder, aged twenty-three, clerk, saved Bronze Medal and Loretta M. F organ, aged sixteen, from drowning, Baltimore, $1,000 for a Md., September 19, 1908. (See Award No. 370.) House worthy purpose, holder jumped from the launch immediately after Dobson, and as needed. relieved the latter of Miss Forgan. He was forced under the water, momentarily, when the girl grasped him about the neck, but he freed himself and towed her twelve feet to the bridge, and supported her there until a boat arrived.

372 Lawrence B. Ryman, aged fourteen, schoolboy, saved Bronze Medal and Edison R. Austin, aged twenty, school-teacher, from drowning, $2,000 for educa Alderson, Pa., August 25, 1906. Ryman swam forty feet and tional purposes, grabbed Austin, who was struggling in the deep water of as needed. Ryman's Pond, and despite the fact that he was thirty-five pounds lighter than Austin, after much difficulty, he swam to shallow water, supporting him.

373 Justin J. McCarthy, aged twelve, schoolboy, attempted Bronze Medal and to save Gladys M. Lowd, aged thirteen, from drowning, $2,000 for educa Washington, D. C., August 31, 1908. McCarthy dived from tional purposes, a floating timber into a deep pond and grabbed Miss Lowd, as needed. who had fallen from the timber, by her hair, but the girl clasped him about the neck and took him under the water. He freed himself, and as they rose, Miss Lowd was able to grasp the timber, which another boy poled ashore. McCarthy, almost exhausted, was in imminent danger of drowning, when a man waded in and pulled him out. '

374 James D. Ledbetter, aged twenty-nine, liveryman, saved Bronze Medal. Carrie Gresham, aged twenty, from drowning, Newton, Ga., June 11, 1909. Ledbetter plunged from a ferry-boat into the Flint River, at dusk, swam a short distance and grasped Miss Gresham, who had fallen overboard, and, after a struggle in which he was dragged under the surface once, swam three hundred fifty feet with the girl, when he grasped a bush at the bank, and both were taken into a boat. 375 James T. Martin, aged thirty-six, overseer, saved George Bronze Medal and Heal, aged ten, from drowning, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., January 27, $1,000 toward 1908. Martin ran to the edge of a hole in the ice, thirty feet purchase of a from the bank of Darling Street Pond, and, as he was reaching home. for Heal, who had broken through with five other boys, the ice broke and precipitated him into water ten feet deep. He grabbed Heal with one hand and, with the other, caught a rope}, which had been thrown to him, and was pulled from the ole. 376 John H. Thompson, aged twenty-seven, locomotive fire Bronze Medal and man, saved James H. Ray, aged forty-seven, locomotive $1,000 toward engineer, from drowning, Rock Point, Pa., March 1, 1910. purchase of a After having had his right wrist badly sprained and his back home. injured, when his locomotive left the track and plunged into the Beaver River, Thompson swam eighteen feet through water in which ice was running, to Ray, who had been thrown into the flooded stream, and towed him about ten feet, from which point they were assisted to the bank. Ray had sus tained three broken ribs.

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377 Herbert J. Hesse, aged sixteen, farmhand, saved Carrie Bronze Medal and E. Krause and Elsie G. Breytspraak, aged twenty-six and $1,000 for educa twenty-two, respectively, from drowning, Whitehall, Mich., tional purposes, July 14, 1909. Hesse, who had suffered a slight heat stroke as needed. four hours previously, swam fifty feet to the women, who had gotten beyond their depth in Duck Lake. He grasped Miss Breytspraak, while she held to Mrs. Krause, who was under the water, and started toward the shore with them. His burden forced him so low in the water that he had difficulty in breathing, but he succeeded in swimming to shore with both women.

378 Elias Roser, aged forty-eight, clergyman, saved Mary A. Bronze Medal and Wittenbach, aged thirteen, from drowning, Lowell, Mich., $2,000, as needed, July 31, 1908. Roser swam one hundred feet to the assistance for the education of Miss Wittenbach,who had sunk in the swirling water below of his children. a dam in Flat River, and diving, brought her up. He swam to within ten feet of the dam, while her arms were clasped around his neck and her legs were wrapped about him. Losing strength, he began to sink, but unexpectedly secured a footing on a submerged knob of rock, in water to his shoulders. He twice attempted to start for the dam, but was prevented by the hysterical girl, who tightened her hold on his neck and strangled him. After fifteen minutes, boys took a raft to him and they got the girl to shore. Roser was much fatigued. - 379 Daniel W. McGowan, aged forty-five, butcher, saved Bronze Medal. Elizabeth F. Fleckenstein, aged twenty-two, from drowning, Willow Creek, Cal., August 7, 1909. McGowan swam to the assistance of Miss Fleckenstein, who had become frightened in a swimming hole in Willow Creek. After his leg had been grasped and he had been taken under the surface twice, he freed himself, and, much exhausted, swam to shallow water with the girl, who had lost consciousness. She was revived.

380 Vaughn V. Longmire, aged fifteen, schoolboy, helped to Bronze Medal and save A. Lafayette Sharp, aged fifteen, from drowning, Lost $2,000 for educa Creek, Tenn., June 21, 1908. Longmire swam to Sharp, who tional purposes, had become distressed while swimming in the Clinch River, as needed. thirty-five feet from the bank, took him half way to the bank, and was endeavoring to climb upon a submerged rock, when Sharp clasped him about the chest with both arms and wrapped his legs about him. They sank together and lost conscious ness, but were rescued by other boys and resuscitated. 381 Byron P. Van Orman, aged twenty-five, clerk, rescued Bronze Medal and Jane M., aged fifty-one, and Thomas E. and Frank K. Benham, $1,000 toward aged nineteen and seventeen, respectively, students, from a purchase of a runaway, Canandaigua, N. Y., March 15, 1909. Van Orman home. ran into the street and grabbed the horse by the rein, but was thrown to the brick paving, dragged ten feet and then run over by the surrey containing the Benhams. The horse also fell, and others held it down. Van Orman sustained sprains, cuts and bruises.

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382 James L. McFarland, aged forty-three, retired, saved Bronze Medal. Ruby Cantrell, aged fifteen, from being run over by a train, West Frankfort, 1ll., November 12, 1909. McFarland sprang to the side of the track, when a passenger train running twenty miles an hour was within ten feet of Miss Cantrell, who had fallen across the track, and grasping the girl by the shoulders, jerked her out of danger, but was himself struck on the elbow by the bumper-timber of the locomotive and slightly injured.

383 Jesse Dunlap, aged thirty-seven, conductor, saved Bronze Medal and Frances Walker, aged one, from being run over by a train, $800 to be ap Carbondale, Pa., June 1, 1908. While the brakes were being plied to the liqui applied and the speed of the train was being reduced from dation of his twenty miles an hour, Dunlap climbed from the running-board debts. down onto the pilot, grabbed the child, who had stepped onto the track, and, to avoid falling in front of the locomotive, jumped to the side of the track. Neither was injured.

384 Edmund M. Price, aged thirty-four, legging maker, saved Bronze Medal and Hazel Owens, aged five, from being run over by an electric car, $1,000 t o w a r d Seal Garden, Cal., May 26, 1907. Price, a deaf-mute, dashed purchase of a across the track in front of the car, running twenty-five miles home. an hour, and grabbed the child from between the rails, himself being barely missed by the car.

385 W. Benjamin McAnally, aged seventeen, farmhand, Bronze Medal and saved Robert L. Morrison, aged thirty-three, farmer, from $1,000 for a suffocation, Plano, Texas, March 22, 1909. Regardless of worthy purpose , the remonstrances of another man, McAnally had himself as needed. lowered, with two ropes around him, one old and weak, to the bottom of a thirty-eight foot well, where Morrison had been overcome by dynamite fumes. Feeling a pain in his chest he asked to be raised, and was hoisted part way out; but after taking a few breaths of fresh air, he was lowered again, and removed the strong rope from himself and fastened it about Morrison, who was drawn up. The rope was lowered again and McAnally tied it around himself and was hoisted. Mor rison was revived in an hour.

386 Henry P. McCoy, aged twenty-two, clerk, attempted to Bronze Medal and save Frank L. Scherrer, aged twenty-one, farmer, from.suffo $1 ,000 for a cation, Mendon, 11l., September 12, 1906. Taking no pre worthy purpose, cautions for his own safety, McCoy descended a ladder to the as needed. bottom of a twenty-two foot well, where Scherrer lay, over come by gas. Failing in his attempts to lift Scherrer, and feeling himself weakening, he started to climb out. When near the top he lost consciousness and would have fallen back had not men caught him. He soon recovered consciousness.

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Charles B. Evans, aged thirty-one, farmhand, attempted Bronze Medal and to save Frank L. Scherrer, from suffocation, Mendon, 11l., $1,000 to be ap September 12, 1906. (See Award No. 386.) Evans entered plied to 'the liqui the well with a rope fastened around him, shortly after McCoy's dation of his attempt at rescue, fastened another rope to Scherrer, and debts. ascended. The rope needing adjustment, he descended again about fourteen feet and fixed it, and came out feeling dizzy. Scherrer was hoisted, but died.

388 James M. Flanigan, aged twenty, mine car tender, Bronze Medal and rescued William Derrig, aged nineteen, laborer, and John W. $1,000 for a Mullery, 3 ed twenty-one, mine car tender, in a mine after an worthy purpose, explosion, nkerman, Pa., May 7, 1909. Flanigan went into as needed. an abandoned drift, immediately following an explosion of gas, and brought out Derrig. He returned, others refusing to go with him, and got Mullery. Both Derrig and Mullery were severely injured, the former dying one week later. F lanigan 's hands were burned from beating out fire in the men's clothing, and he was disabled eighteen days.

389 Patrick F. Walsh, aged twenty-nine, miner, helped to Bronze Medal and rescue John R. Eustice, aged fifty-two, timberman, from a $1,000 for a cave-in in a mine, Inkerman, Pa., August 22, 1907. While worthy purpose, the roof was working, the walls squeezing and small stuff as needed. falling at intervals, Walsh crawled over a fall for a distance of twenty-five feet, to Eustice, who with four others had been caught by the caving of the roof. With the assistance of three others, Walsh dug Eustice from under the coal and debris where he lay injured, and carried him to safety. Eustice recovered.

390 George R. Jopling, aged fifty-five, miner, helped to Bronze Medal and rescue John R. Eustice, from a cave-in in a mine, Inkerman, $1 ,000 for a Pa., August 22, 1907. (See Award No. 389.) Jopling was worthy purpose, helping to prop up the dangerous roof preparatory to the rescue as needed. of the men when he heard Eustice call for help. He crawled over the fall, found Eustice and summoned help.

391 John Merrick, aged fifty, miner, helped to rescue John R. Bronze Medal and Eustice, from a cave-in in a mine, Inkerman, Pa., August 22, $1 ,000 for a 1907. (See Award No. 389.) worthy purpose, as needed. 392 Benjamin J. George, aged twenty-six, miner, helped to Bronze Medal and rescue John R. Eustice, from a cave-in in a mine, Inkerman, $1 ,000 for a Pa., August 22, 1907. (See Award No. 389.) worthy purpose , as needed.

393 Thomas Huntley, aged forty, outside mine foreman, Bronze Medal and helped to rescue John R. Eustice, from a cave. in in a mine, $1,000 for a Inkerman, Pa., August 22, 1907. (See Award No 389.) worthy purpose, as needed.

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394 John R. Ranson, aged nineteen, student, saved George Bronze Medal and R. Holder, aged sixteen, farmhand, from suffocation, Keene, $2,000 for educa Texas, November 26, 1908. After one man had refused to tional purposes, descend, and another had called to be hoisted when lowered as needed. part way, Ranson was lowered by means of a rope to the bottom of a forty-three foot well, where Holder had been overcome by gas. Ranson fastened a rope to Hqlder, became dazed, but was drawn up, and recovered; Holder was drawn up and revived.

395 Cl. Harold Griffirl, aged nineteen, student, died attempt Bronze Medal. ing to save Leslie Nelson, aged twelve, from drowning, Dazey, N. D., June 20, 1909. Griffin went to Nelson's assist ance in a deep hole in Bald Hi‘ll Creek. He was grabbed by the shoulders by Nelson and both were drowned.

396 Alva B. Coffey, aged twenty-three, mill hand, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Charles M. Poling, aged twenty-nine, mill $25 a month for hand, from drowning, Martinsville, 'Ind., July 10, 1910. support of mother, Coffey swam one hundred feet toward Poling, who was in during her life, distress in a deep hole in the west fork of the White River, and or until she re had gotten within thirty feet of Poling, when the latter sank marries. and was drowned. Cofi'ey kept on swimming toward the place where Poling disappeared, and, a few moments later, also sank and was drowned. 397 Alan St. C. Blood, aged fifteen, schoolboy, saved Silver Medal. R. Lucian Blood, aged twelve, Frank 0. Carroll, aged seven teen, student, and Paul R. Blood, aged twenty-one, clerk, from drowning, Grayville, Ill., December 23, 1909. Alan Blood pulled Carroll, and Paul Blood, his cousin, from Bonpas Creek, they having broken through the ice where the water was eight feet deep, and then plunged into the hole, swam fifteen feet amidst pieces of ice, and grasped Lucian Blood, another cousin. After swimming with the latter about six feet, he grabbed an extended pole, and both were drawn to shore. All recovered.

398 Fleming C. Bower, aged twenty-six, student, saved Silver Medal and Stoner F. Watts, aged twelve, from drowning, Milton, Pa., $2,000 for educa January 21, 1909. Bower jumped into a hole in the ice, in the tional purposes, as middle of the Susquehanna River, to the assistance of \Natts, needed. who had skated into the open water; supported him while they drifted sixty feet to the end of the hole, and, while the current pulled at his legs, with his arms on the ice, he supported the boy for five minutes until two men reached them in a boat.

39%) Gertrude Sharpsteen, aged seventeen, housekeeper, Silver Medal and saved Gertrude E. Downie, aged four, from being run over by $500 for a a train, Spencer, N. Y., August 31, 1909. As she rushed worthy purpose, across the track, in front of a passenger train running forty as needed. miles an hour, Miss Sharpsteen shoved the child from the track, where it had wandered. She was struck before she could get out of the engine's path, and was knocked to the ground, sustaining a comminuted fracture of the right elbow.

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Jesse A. Wilson, aged twenty-three, stationary fireman, Silver Medal and rescued Joseph A. Duffy, aged two, from burning, Pittston, $1,000 toward Pa., July 16, 1909. Breaking a window, Wilson scrambled urchase of a into a room filled with smoke and heat, and going into an ome. adjoining room, one end of which was in flames, picked up the child, whose clothing was ablaze, and, carrying it to the window, dropped it outside. Dazed, he staggered backward, but quickly recovered and tumbled out of the window. Wilson's hands were badly burned and his hair was singed. The child died two hours later.

401 James L. Smith (colored), aged thirty-six, puddler, saved Silver Medal and Frances R. Hetrick, aged two, from burning, Sistersville, $1,000 toward W. Va., October 28, 1909. Breaking away from men who purchase of a tried to restrain him, after two or three men had failed to enter farm. it, Smith crawled through a doorway, under a blast of heat and smoke and occasional flames, into the hall of a cottage and then into the adjoining living-room which was dense with smoke, and grasped the child who had been left there. Smith groped his way back to the open door, dragging the child with him, and when he reached the open air, collapsed. He soon revived. His hands and arms and the back of his head were burned. The child sustained no burns. I. Wood Miller, aged thirty-four, liveryman, saved Silver Medal and John H. Eggen, Jr., aged twenty-eight, painter, from drown $1,000 towa rd ing, Taylorsville, Ky., February 23, 1909. In darkness, the purchase of a Miller, wearing rubber boots, swam one hundred eighty-five farm. feet in the rushing flood waters of Brashears Creek, to the corner of a picket fence, eleven feet from a lamp-post to which Eggen was clinging. Standing on top of the fence, he broke off a section of it and swung it toward Eggen, but the latter missed it. He then tried to extend a plank, but the current whirled it away. Miller then broke off another section of the fence, and as he swung it out, Eggen dropped on his chest on it and he did likewise, keeping his feet on another floating section. They were carried against a tree and Miller shoved Eggen up on its trunk and then swam twenty-five feet to a house. He secured a rope, swam back with difficulty to Eggen, grasped his hand, and the two were pulled to the house.

Frederick E. Kilroe, aged twenty, watchmaker, died Silver Medal to attempting to save George H. Massicotte, aged twenty-one, mother and $150 machinist, from drowning, Middlebury, Conn., July 10, 1910. to liquidate her Kilroe swam in Lake Quassapaug to the assistance of debts and $30 a Massicotte, who had released his hold of a boat and had month for five become distressed. Massicotte grabbed Kilroe and both sank. years. The former did not reappear and Kilroe was too exhausted to reach safety.

404 Adam J. Bopp, aged twenty-three, shoe-worker, died Silver Medal to attempting to save John J. Gallagher, aged twenty-six, mother and $1,000 telegraph operator, from drowning, Lakeville, Mass., May 22, to be applied to 1910. Bopp dived from his motor boat to the assistance of the liquidation of Gallagher, who had fallen into Lake Assawompsett, and as he her debts. brought the latter to the surface, he was grabbed by the throat. After a struggle, both were drowned.

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C. Gustav Groenevelt, aged fifty-five, laborer, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Roy A. Phillips, aged nineteen, laborer, $40 a month for from suffocation, Watsonville, Cal., April 27, 1910. Not support of widow, withstanding warnings, Groenevelt went down into a tank during her life, or which was thirteen feet deep and contained vinegar dregs until she remar and carbon dioxide, to assist Phillips who lay unconscious on ries. the bottom. He fell unconscious across Phillips and both were dead when gotten out through a hole cut in the side of the tank.

Thomas Fleming, aged twenty-six, assistant foreman, Silver Medal and died attempting to save John Bonick, aged forty-three, $65 a month for laborer, from suffocation, Corning, N. Y., July 9, 1910. support of widow, Fleming, who had seen Bonick fall unconscious from gas at during her life, or the bottom of a gas-producer, which was not in operation, until she remar descended to his assistance, but was overcome. Both were ries, with $5 a dead when pulled out with a hook. month additional for each of two children until each reaches age of sixteen.

Martin Demyan, aged twenty-nine, laborer, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save John Bonick, from suffocation, Corning, N. Y., $1,000 t o w a r d July 9, 1910. (See Award No. 406.) Declaring he must support of widow. rescue Bonick and indifferent to warnings that he would be overcome by gas, Demyan entered the producer, grasped Bonick and then fell unconscious, and was dead when gotten out.

408 Walter C. Sweet, aged thirty-seven, pipe-fitter, attempted Silver Medal and to save John Bonick, Thomas Fleming and Martin Demyan $1,000 toward from suffocation, Corning, N. Y., July 9, 1910. (See Award purchase of a No. 407.) Sweet entered the producer, after being warned home. that it was dangerous to do so, and had started to tie a rope around Bonick, when he was overcome. He was lifted out by means of a hook, and revived.

David R. Tibbs, aged twenty-six, foreman,'died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save Antonio Costalgo, aged twenty-eight, laborer, $60 a month for from drowning, Amsterdam, N. Y., June 28, 1909. Tibbs and support of widow, Costalgo were thrown into the swift current of the Mohawk during her life, or River by the capsizing of their boat, and when Costalgo cried until she remar- out in distress, Tibbs, who had started to swim toward a pier, ries, with $5 a swam to him and was about to grab him, when Costalgo threw month additional himself upon Tibbs, and both were drowned. for each of two children until each reaches age of six teen.

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410 Giovanni B. Pinazza, aged thirty-seven, miner, died Silver Medal and attempting to save John Lubik, aged twenty-six, miner, from $1,000 t o w a r d suffocation, Meaderville, Mont., May 20, 1908. Another support of widow. miner having refused to make a second attempt at rescue, Pinazza crawled into an abandoned crosscut of a mine to Lubik, who had been overcome by gas, and fell unconscious as he reached him. Pinazza was dead when taken from the passage. Lubik was rescued, and revived.

411 Hiram W. McIntosh, aged forty-two, assistant yard Silver Medal and master, died attempting to save Constant Gasquet, aged $70 a month for twenty-seven, switchman, from being run over by a train, support of widow, Fresno, Cal., June 10, 1909. McIntosh ran up behind Gasquet during her life, or and endeavored to shove him off the track, when a train run until she remar ning seven miles an hour was within fifteen feet of him. ries, with $5 a Unaware of danger, Gasquet resisted him, and both were run month additional over and killed. for each of two children until each reaches age of six teen. 412 Mary R. Brown, aged twenty-seven, trained nurse, saved Silver Medal and the family of a delirious man, by disarming h'im of a revolver, $30 a month for Washington, D. C., December 20, 1909. Miss Brown, having support of mother, been shot in the right breast by a typhoid-fever patient, grasped during her life, or him from behind as he started toward his family in another until she remar room with the loaded revolver, and a struggle ensued, at the ries. end of which she secured the weapon. Miss Brown was recovering from her wound when she suffered a relapse, and died seventeen days following the accident.

413 William H. Hagerman, aged thirty-four, teamster, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Mary Price, aged seventy-two, from being $35 a month for run over by a train, Malaga, N. J., December 25, 1909. support of widow, Hagerman ran upon a snow-covered crossing, in front of an during her life, or electric train, which was approaching at a speed of fifty-five until she remar miles an hour, grabbed Mrs. Price, who had fallen, and started ries, with $5 a to drag her from the track. He fell and both were struck, the month additional woman being killed. Hagerman died later in the day. for each of four children until each reaches age of six teen. 414 Isaac Lewis, J r., aged thirty-four, liveryman, died helping Silver Medal and to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, 11l., November 13, $40 a month for 1909. Lewis, and others at intervals, descended to the second support of widow, vein of coal, and in the heat and dense smoke, called and during her life, or assisted dazed miners to the hoisting cages, occasionally going until she remar to the surface for fresh air. He was assisting in an attempt ries, with $5 a to rescue men from the third vein when a blast of heat and month additional flames struck the main shaft, burning Lewis and others to for each of three death on the cage. children until each reaches age of six teen.

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Dominick Formento, aged thirty-two, merchant, died Silver Medal and helping to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, Ill., $30 a month for November 13, 1909. (See Award No. 414.) Formento support of widow, descended from the surface to the second vein. He was during her life, or burned to death on the cage. until she remar ries, with $5 a month additional for each of two children until each reaches age of six teen.

Andrew McLuckie, aged thirty-one, miner, died helping Silver Medal and to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, 11l., November 13, $20 a month for 1909. (See Award No. 414.) McLuckje descended from the support of widow, surface to the second vein. He was burned to death on the during her life, or cage. until she remar ries, with $5 a month additional for each of five children until each reaches age of six teen.

417 J. Alexander Norberg, aged thirty-eight, mine boss, died Silver Medal and helping to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, 11l., $55 a month for November 13, 1909. (See Award No. 414.) Norberg support of widow, ascended from the third vein to the second vein and directed during her life, or the rescue work. He was burned to death on the cage. until she remar< ries, with $5 a month additional for each of two children until each reaches age of six teen. 418 Henry Stewart, aged twenty-eight, miner, died helping Silver Medal and to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, 11l., November 13, $20 a month for 1909. (See Award No. 414.) Stewart descended from the support of widow, surface to the second vein. He was burned to death on the during her life, or cage. until she remar ries, with $5 a month additional for each of four children until each reaches age of six teen.

419 Robert Clark, aged twenty-eight, miner, died helping to Silver Medal. rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, 11l., November 13, 1909. (See Award No. 414.) Clark descended from the surface to the second vein. He was burned to death on the cage.

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420 James Speir, aged thirty-four, miner, died helping to Silver Medal and rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, Ill., November 13, $35 a month for 1909. (See Award No. 414.) Speir descended from the support of widow, surface to the second vein. He was burned to death on the during her life, or cage. until she remar ries, with $5 a month additional for each of six children until each reaches age of six teen.

421 John Bundy, aged fifty-three, mine manager, died help- Silver Medal and ing to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, Ill,, Novem- $65 a month for ber 13, 1909. (See Award No. 414.) Bundy spent two hours support of widow, warning and assisting men to escape from the mine. Suffering during her life, or from the smoke and heat, he was heedless of warnings to leave until she remar the mine. He was burned to death on the cage. ries, with $5 a month additional for each of three children until each reaches age of six teen.

422 John Szabrinski, aged twenty-nine, cage operator, died Silver Medal and helping to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, Ill., $35 a month for November 13, 1909. (See Award No. 414.) After going to support of widow, the surface on account of the dense smoke, Szabrinski returned during her life, or to his post on the second vein and signalled for the operation until she remar of the cages. He was burned to death on the cage. ries, with $5 a month additional for each of two children until each reaches age of six teen.

423 Charles Waite, aged forty-three, mine examiner and boss, Silver Medal and died helping to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, 1ll., $55 a month for November 13, 1909. (See Award No. 414.) Waite descended support of widow, to the second vein and assisted in signalling for the operation during her life, or of the cages. When last seen he was warned to ascend to the until she remar surface, but he stated he would wait awhile. His body was ries, with $5 a found in the sump bottom of the shaft five days later. month additional for her son unti he reaches age of sixteen. 424 John Flood, aged forty-nine, merchant, died helping to Silver Medal. rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, Ill., November 13, 1909. (See Award No. 414.) Flood descended from the surface to the second vein. He was burned to death on the cage. '

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425 Walter Waite, aged forty-one, assistant mine manager, Silver Medal and helped to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, lll., $1,000 to liqui November 13, 1909. Waite was on the second vein of coal, date mortgage on one-half mile from the shaft, when apprised of the fire. After his property. warning a number of miners to go to the surface, he started out with others but was prevented from reaching the shaft by the dense smoke. Waite and another man made two attempts to lead out the others—nineteen in number—but were halted by smoke and black damp. Under the direction of Waite and the other man, the miners built brattices, and, after spending seven days behind them, were rescued in a famishing condition. One man died later from the privations.

426 George Eddy, aged forty-eight, mine examiner and boss, Silver Medal and helped to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, 11l., $1,000 for a November 13, 1909. (See Award N o. 425.) Eddy descended worthy purpose, to the second vein from the surface, and, with Waite, assumed as needed. charge of the miners imprisoned for seven days. He was weak when rescued, but recovered.

427 James T. Mason, aged forty-eight, saloon-keeper, helped Bronze Medal. to save Mary E. Dolan, Von L. Holliday, mechanic, Carroll V. Rector, farmer, and William B. Sweet, clerk, aged twenty-three, twenty, twenty-three, and eighteen, respectively, from drown ing, Grand Rapids, Wis., May 26, 1909. At midnight, Mason with another man, in a fifteen-foot boat, rowed six hundred feet, to a capsized launch, which had been carried over a dam in the Wisconsin River, and took the four persons clinging to it aboard. The heavily-loaded craft, in darkness, was guided to shore with great difficulty, through rapids in which many rocks extended above the surface of the water.

428 George K. Muir, aged twenty-two, clerk, helped to save Bronze Medal and Mary E. Dolan, Von L. Holliday, Carroll V. Rector, and $2,000 to be ap William B. Sweet from drowning, Grand Rapids, Wis., May 26, plied toward the 1909. (See Award No. 427.) restoration of his health. 429 Harry L. Masser, aged seventeen, student, helped to save Bronze Medal. Bertha L. Pillsbury, aged seventeen, from drowning, Yosemite, Cal., August 12, 1907. Masser swam fifty feet to Miss Pillsbury, who had become frightened when carried beyond her depth in the Merced River. She grasped him, and they struggled together until another man arrived and relieved Masser, who then swam to shallow water, almost exhausted.

J. Parks Jones, aged seventeen, student, helped to save Bronze Medal. Bertha L. Pillsbury from drowning, Yosemite, Cal., August 12, 1907. (See Award No. 429.) Jones, who shortly before had sprained his neck, witnessed the struggle between Miss Pillsbury and Masser, and swam seventy-five feet to them. He grabbed Miss Pillsbury, and swam forty feet with her, being dazed and weak when he got to the bank.

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431 Jerome Miller, aged forty-four, contractor, saved William Bronze Medal. C. Stapel, aged twenty-one, machinist, from burning, Oshkosh, Wis., October 16, 1908. Miller, who' was a very poor swimmer, rowed to Stapel, who was on a launch which had been drawn by air-currents to the bank of the Fox River, close to great piles of burning lumber. With the flames passing high over his head. he got Stapel into his boat, and took him to a place of safety. His neck was slightly burned, and his hands badly, being dis figured for life.

432 Arthur A. Thornley, aged nineteen, hospital orderly, Bronze Medal. saved an indeterminate number of persons from burning, Middletown, N. Y., August 24, 1907. Fire having broken out in the operating room of Thrall Hospital, Thornley entered the burning room with extinguisher and fire-hose, and with the air dense with smoke, directed the pressure, until he was overcome, just as he got the fire extinguished. He was found by a fireman and revived. '

Guy F. Empey, aged fifteen, schoolboy, saved Cornelia Bronze Medal. E. Denne, aged eleven, from drowning, Merrill, Wis., November 29, 1906. Empey, heavily clothed, skated to Miss Denne, who had broken through the ice on the Wisconsin River, forty feet from the bank, where the water was ten feet deep, and broke into the same hole while attempting to pull the girl out. He grabbed her and she caught him about the neck, but Empey struck her and she released him, going under the edge of the ice. Breaking the ice, he grasped her and supported her until boys shoved a small sled to him, and pulled both out.

James V. Logan, aged thirty-six, minister, saved D. Ward Bronze Medal and Denton, aged sixteen, student, from drowning, Burnside, Ky., $2,000, as needed, July 29, 1909. Logan, partly clothed, swam twenty-five feet, for the education in the Cumberland River, and caught Denton, who had sunk in of his children. water over his depth. After Logan had swum several feet with him, Denton grabbed Logan about the neck, and a struggle ensued, which almost exhausted Logan. He finally got Denton to shallow water, where others helped to get him to shore.

Charles R. McCabe, Jr., aged twenty, insurance agent, Bronze Medal and saved George M. Cummins, aged twenty-three, chief clerk, $1,000 for a from drowning, Sayner, Wis., June 28, 1909. McCabe, wearing worthy purpose, heavy, high-top leather boots, dived from his boat and swam to as needed. Cummins, who had been seized with a cramp in his arms, in Lost Lake, two hundred feet from shore. Recovering the use of his arms, Cummins wrapped them about McCabe's neck, and his legs about his body, and, struggling together, the two went to the bottom. They came up together, when McCabe got free and towed Cummins twenty feet. A man arrived in a boat,and McCabe grasped it and lapsed into semi-conscious ness. Both were taken to shore, and revived.

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Fred B. Karr, aged thirty-one, brakeman, saved William Bronze Medal and Damaszewski, aged seven, from being run over by a train, $1,000 toward pur Kankakee, 1ll., July 2, 1908. While a freight train, running chase of a farm. at a speed of eighteen miles an hour, was crossing a railroad bridge which spanned the Kankakee River, thirty-five feet above the water, and the locomotive swayed under the sudden application of the brakes, Karr went from the cab to the pilot. With one foot resting on a step but three inches wide, he caught Damaszewski, who stood helpless on the track, with one hand, and swung him back to the bumper-timber. His other hand, which held to a rod, slipped just as he grabbed the child, and he almost lost his balance.

Reuben P. Swortley, aged twenty-three, molder, saved Bronze Medal and George A. Phillips, aged thirteen, from drowning, Norristown, $2,000 for educa Pa., February 8, 1910. Swortley, assisted by his father, tional purposes, as shoved a boat out over the ice on the Schuylkill River, until needed. they and the boat broke through, when twenty-five feet from Phillips, who had broken through the ice, two hundred feet from shore, in fifteen feet of water. After breaking the ice ahead of him six feet, Swortley let go of the boat, swam ahead, breaking the ice with his arms, and was just about to grab Phillips, when he sank. Swortley dived at once and brought him to the surface, when the bow of the boat was pushed close to them, and the boy was taken ashore in the boat.

William T. Kennedy, aged twenty-four, chemist, saved Bronze Medal and Viola and Brainerd Fountain, aged nine and six, respectively, $2,000 for the from drowning, Wharton, N. J., January 3, 1908. Kennedy education of his approached the children, who had broken through the ice on brother and sister, Plane Pond, thirty feet from the bank, where the water was as needed. eight feet deep, and extending a stick to Viola, drew her to the edge of the ice, and lifted her out. Brainerd was unconscious under the water, and Kennedy realizing the danger of coming up under the ice, stepped into the hole, went below the surface, caught the child, brought him to the surface, and swam with him about fifteen feet toward the shore through a channel which had been broken.

439 James Brennan, aged fifty-eight, laborer, died saving Bronze Medal to Barbara M. Loomis, aged eleven, from drowning, New London, widow and $750 Conn., September 7, 1910. Brennan, fully clothed, and suffer to liquidate mort ing from a weak heart, waded and swam to the girl, who had gage on her prop become helpless and frightened in a current in Long Island erty, and $25 a Sound, two hundred fifty feet from shore, and was swimming month during her back toward shallow water, supporting her, when another life, or until she swimmer arrived and relieved Brennan, who became exhausted, remarries. floated off, and was dead when reached.

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Robert C. Woods, aged twenty-two, farmer, died attempt Bronze Medal to ing to save Harry A. Strom, aged sixteen, schoolboy, from mother, and $25 drowning, Southbend, Minn., July 17, 1910. Woods plunged a month for five into the deep water and grabbed Strom, who could not swim years. and had stepped backward into a hole in the Blue Earth River, forty feet from the bank. A desperate struggle followed, and both were drowned.

Lynn A. Gates, aged nineteen, student, died attempting Bronze Medal to to save Victor M. Cross, aged twenty, farmer, from drowning, father and $1,000 Gerry, N. Y., June 7, 1908. Gates swam forty feet in the to be applied to Cassadaga Creek, to Cross, who could not swim and had lost the liquidation of a plank and sunk in deep water, thirty feet from the bank. his debts, and for They grasped each other, and Gates had made but little pro other worthy pur gress when another man arrived and took Cross, but Gates was pose, as needed. too exhausted to reach shore, and was drowned.

Lynn B. Fisk, aged twenty, school teacher, helped to save Bronze Medal and Victor M. Cross, from drowning, Gerry, N. Y., June 7, 1908. $1,000 to be ap (See Award No. 441.) Fisk swam to Cross about the time his plied to the liqui first rescuer became exhausted. Cross grabbed him by an dation of his debts. ankle, but Fisk succeeded in swimming with him forty feet to shallow water, and dragged him to the bank, where he was compelled to lie down, much fatigued.

\Villiam H. Edwards, aged thirty-three, Commissioner of Silver Medal. Street-cleaning, overpowered the assassin of William J. Gaynor, aged fifty-nine, Mayor of the City of New York, Hoboken, N. J., August 9, 1910. Edwards, standing on the promenade deck of the S. S. “Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, " at the side of the Mayor, who had just been shot in the head, at close range, threw himself upon the assailant, who was still facing the group about the Mayor, with upraised pistol, and bore him to the deck upon his back. As Edwards fell on top of him, the pistol was discharged again and the bullet grazed Edwards' left fore arm on the under side. Others hurried to pinion the man's arms, but before they accomplished it, the pistol was discharged a third time. Edwards arrested the assailant. The Mayor and Edwards recovered from their wounds.

Daniel B. Howard, aged thirty-nine, laborer, saved Mary Silver Medal and Tillotson, aged sixty-two, from drowning, Baldwinsville, N. Y., $1,000 toward pur April 18, 1909. Howard, fully clothed, wearing heavy working chase of a home. shoes, sprang from a bridge into the Seneca River, where the current was five miles an hour, and grasped Mrs. Tillotson, who had been carried over a dam. She slipped away and he swam to her and grabbed her again. The woman struggled until she became unconscious, and Howard very tried, and in a short time they had drifted one thousand two hundred feet, when they were picked up by men in boats.

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Anna O. Bromley, aged sixteen, student, saved Philip F. Silver Medal and Fackenthall, aged twenty-one, chemist's helper, from drowning, $2,000 for educa High Point, N. J., July 31, 1908. Miss Bromley, somewhat tional purposes, as tired from swimming, swam fifty-five feet in Barnegat Bay to needed. Fackenthall, who could not swim, and was struggling, two hundred feet from the shore, his water-wings having become deflated. He threw both arms about her neck and tried to climb on her shoulders, but she overcame his efforts, after going to the bottom, and caught hold of him and swam with him fifty-five feet to a sailboat. He climbed in, but she was so near exhausted that she was compelled to rest before getting aboard.

Ray M.'Taylor, aged twenty-six, well digger, attempted Silver Medal and to save Francis M. McCune, aged twenty-seven, well digger, $1,000 toward pur from suffocation, Summit, S. D., November 19, 1908. chase of a home. Taylor descended to the bottom of a well, sixty-eight feet deep and two feet in diameter, standing on a cross pin at the end of a cable, and with a strap fastened under his arms,‘ to help McCune who was in convulsions. After a minute he was affected by gas and was hoisted, but recovered on the way up. He was lowered again, but was overcome almost as soon as he reached the bottom, and was hoisted out, and recovered. McCune died in the well.

Erford H. Coon, aged twelve, schoolboy, helped to save Silver Medal. Carl H. W. Verbeck, aged nine, and died attempting to save Harold L. Stevens, Jr., aged seven, from drowning, Manlius, N. Y., December 4, 1909. Coon, who was heavily clothed and could not swim, crawled to the edge of the ice, forty feet below Manlius Falls, where it had broken under Verbeck and Stevens, and was pulled into the water while trying to draw Stevens out. Coon grabbed the ice with one hand and shoved Verbeck with the other, while a boy on the ice pulled him out, with a stick. Coon, partly supported by a log, then paddled to Stevens and supporctgd him until unable to do so longer, and both were drown .

44S Arthur T. Christ, aged seventeen, office boy, sustained Silver Medal to fatal injuries rescuing Charles A. Hetzel,Jr.,aged fifteen,office father and $1,000 boy, from burning, New York, N. Y., November 11, 1909. to be applied to Following the explosion and rapid combustion of celluloid on the liquidation of the sixth floor of a factory, Christ delayed his escape and went his debts, and for to Hetzel, who had become dazed. He dragged Hetzel to a other worthy pur door, which was closed, and, beating the glass out with his bare pose, as needed. hands, hel ed Hetzel through the opening, and followed him self, both being badly burned. Hetzel recovered, but Christ died twelve days later.

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Victor M. Durgin, aged twenty-three, advertising solici Silver Medal. tor, died attempting to save lsabel B. Norton, a ed thir ,and Anna W. Norton, aged two, from drownin , Middleton, ass., April 19, 1909. Durgin, who with Mrs. orton, her husband, and her babe had been in a canoe, which capsized in Middleton Pond, during a storm, swam to and supported Mrs. Norton and the;i babe until he became exhausted, and all three were drowne .

Watson M. Seeley, aged thirty-three, machine hand, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Mary M. Knoll, aged eighteen, from drown $45 a month for ing, Salina, N. Y., August 9, 1910. Seeley, fully clothed, swam support of widow, to the aid of Miss Knoll, who had been upset from a canoe in during her life, or the Seneca River, fifty feet from the bank, where the water until she remarries, was twelve feet deep. As he neared the woman, -she threw with $5 a month herself upon him, and both disappeared and were drowned. additional for her son until he reaches age of sixteen.

451 Roy A. Fees, aged twenty-five, mail-carrier, died attempt Silver Medal to ing to save E. Albert Heaton, aged twenty-six student, from widow and $600 to drowning, Elmdale, Kan., August 10, 1910. Fees swam eight liquidate mortgage een feet to Heaton, who had become distressed while swimming on her property, in the Cottonwood River, fifteen feet from the bank, where and $30 a month the water was nine feet deep, and grasped at him, when Heaton during her life,‘ or caught Fees, and both went down in a struggle. They were untilshe remarries. drowned.

4552 F. Kent Smith, aged thirty-four, assistant mine foreman, Silver Medal and died attempting to save two men from suffocation, Bingham $75 a month for Canyon, Utah, November 21, 1908. An unconscious man sup rt of widow, having been rescued from a level of a copper mine known during her life, or to be full of deadly gas, Smith led two other men into the level until she remarries, for the purpose of rescuing two men who were supposed to have with $5 a month accompanied the man who had been rescued. Smith was over additional for her come, and his dead body was later found about forty-five feet daughter until she from the entrance. It was subsequently discovered that the reaches age of sought-for men were not in the dangerous part of the mine. sixteen.

Floria A. Sears, aged thirteen, schoolgirl, saved Emily Bronze Medal. Heckmann, aged twenty-one, from drowning, The Corner, N. Y., July 30, 1908. Miss Sears, although much frightened and excited, went to the assistance of Miss Heckmann, who could not swim and had stepped into water beyond her depth in Beaver Kill Creek, and got her to shallow water after a strenuous effort.

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Frederick W. Zengen, aged thirteen, schoolboy, saved Bronze Medal. Ferdinand G. Ludeke, aged ten, from drowning, New York, N. Y., March 19, 1908. Zengen, fully dressed, dived into the East River and swam sixty-five feet to Ludeke, who had fallen into the river, and, unable to swim, was being carried rapidly downstream by the strong tide. Zengen grabbed Ludeke by the hair, raised his head out of the water, and tried to swim toward shore with him but could make no headway against the tide. After discovering he could not reach the bank, he trod water and supported Ludeke. Later, men in a rowboat went to their aid and took both boys aboard. Ludeke was unconscious but was revived on the bank.

455 Edward Loadman, aged thirty-one, motorman, saved Bronze Medal and Elizabeth, F rank,and Steve Apwach, aged thirty-six, three,and $1 ,000 for a two, respectively, from being run over by a train, Gastonville, worthy purpose, Pa., April 13, 1910. Placing one foot over the rail, Loadman as needed. grabbed Frank, who was standing on the track, and swung himself and the child back from the track. -While doing so, he noticed Mrs. Apwach with the babe in her arms about to step on the track, and he pulled her back also, all four clearing the track just as the train rushed by at a speed of forty miles an hour.

Thomas W. Moran, aged forty-two, contractor, saved Bronze Medal and Anna Z. Eggers, aged twenty-eight, from an impending fatal $1,000 toward fall, Pittsburgh, Pa., September 4, 1910. Moran, by sticking liquidating mort his fingers and the toes of his shoes into the meshes of a wire gage on his prop lattice screen enclosing the porches of a hospital,climbed to the erty. woman who was insane and was trying to escape on the outside of the screen. He reached her as she stood on a two-inch ledge of the screen, forty-two feet above the ground, threw his arm around her waist, and got behind her to keep her from falling. Moran held her about twenty minutes, during which time she struggled to free herself. He felt himself growing weak and shouted for help. Firemen dropped a noosed rope from the roof, and Moran and another man who had climbed the screen fastened the rope around the woman, and she was hoisted and taken into the building. The rope was lowered again, and Moran tied it about himself and was lowered to the ground.

457 J. C. Fremont Hailes, aged forty-eight, pottery foreman, Bronze Medal and saved Peter Foley, aged seventy-seven, retired, from being $1,000 toward run over by a train, Steubenville, Ohio, July 31, 1910. Dash liquidating mort ing onto the track, twenty feet in front of a passenger train gage on his prop running thirty-five miles an hour, Hailes thrust Foley, who erty. was walking along unconscious of danger, ahead of him off the track just as the train rushed by, the cylinder-head of the locomotive brushing Hailes' coat-tails.

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Calvin C. Williams, aged fifty-one, hotel clerk, saved Bronze Medal and Bertha Whittaker, aged eighteen, and Louise Felsberg, aged $1,000 for a twenty, from drowning, Spring Lake, N. J., August 7, 1908. worthy purpose, Williams swam to the assistance of the girls, who were strug as needed. gling together in Wreck Pond twenty-five feet from shore, was grabbed by them, and all went under the surface slightly. With the girls holding to his neck and choking him, and their weight forcing him under the surface most of the time, Williams swam fifteen feet to shallow water, the girls becoming semi unconscious. They were revived.

Richard C. Williams, aged twenty-three, brakeman, saved Bronze Medal and Melvin B. Mayo, aged two, from being run over by a train, $1,000 t oward Reusens, Va., June 17, 1906. While the train was running purchase of a fifteen miles an hour and swaying under the application of the home. brakes, Williams got down from the pilot-beam onto the base of the pilot of the locomotive, picked up the baby from the track, and, feeling it slipping from his grasp, threw it to one side. The baby was not seriously injured.

Roy Lockwood, aged fifteen, schoolboy, saved David A. Bronze Medal and Risler, aged four, from drowning, Bellaire, Ohio, June 11, 1909. $1,000 for a Lockwood went to the assistance of the child, who had fallen worthy purpose, from a rock into McMahon's Creek, where the water was as needed. twelve feet deep. The child grabbed Lockwood from behind, about the neck, partly choking him and struck him over the head and face repeatedly. During their struggles, they went under the surface twice, and a man dived into the water and shoved them to the bank. Both were very weak, but recovered.

461 Randolph Osborn, aged forty-five, teamster, attempted to Bronze Medal and rescue Donald C. Ball, aged‘ five, from a runaway, Bellingham, $1,000 toward Wash., September 12, 1905. Osborn jumped from his wagon purchase of a and, standing in the path of the runaway, with a long-handled home. shovel, struck at the horse, which was hitched to a buggy con taining the child; but he was knocked down and sustained fractures of the skull and other injuries, which disabled him two months. The child escaped injury.

Park S. Rushford, aged twenty-five, telegrapher, saved Bronze Medal and Elbert G. Cunningham, aged twenty-four, teamster, from $1,000 t oward drowning, Mannington, W. Va., January 19, 1907. Rushford, purchase of 41 fully clothed, dived into Buffalo Creek, which was swollen and home. flowing at a speed of five miles an hour, and came up near Cunningham, who had been thrown into the stream and, unable to swim, had drifted into the water fourteen feet deep. Swimming to Cunningham, who was unconscious, Rushford grabbed him. He swam toward shore with him, then caught an extended rod and both were drawn to the bank. Cunning ham was revived. .

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463 Claude V. Wetzel, aged nineteen, armature-coil winder, Bronze Medal and saved Claire C. Evans, aged eleven, from drowning, Unionville $1,000 t o w a r (1 Center, Ohio, February 19, 1910. With the temperature six purchase of a degrees below zero, Wetzel went to the assistance of Evans, home. who had broken through the ice in Big Darby Creek, thirty feet from the bank where the water was more than six feet deep and, unable to swim, had gone under the surface twice. Breaking the ice for about eight feet, Wetzel swam to Evans, clasped him around the waist and swam back to the point where he had entered the water. A man lifted Evans out, while Wetzel got out himself.

Wallace W. Six, aged fifty-two, miner, helped to save Bronze Medal and Myrta A., Mildred J., and Roy A. Nash, aged thirty-one, four, $1,000 for a and one, respectively, and Lena G. Johnson, aged seventeen, worthy purpose, from drowning, Glen Ebon, Ohio, March 14, 1907. In a as needed. twelve-foot, flat-bottomed boat, Six and a companion paddled three-quarters of a mile in the flood waters of the Hocking River, the current running seven miles an hour, to the Nash home. They succeeded in avoiding trees till near the house, when they struck one, and Six tumbled into the water. After much difficulty, he got into the boat again, and he and his companion went to the house, took Mrs. Nash, her two children, and Miss Johnson aboard and, steering clear of floating debris and trees, paddled a half-mile to shore.

Thomas O. Wycuff, aged thirty-one, miner, helped to save Bronze Medal and Myrta A., Mildred J., and Roy A. Nash, and Lena G. Johnson, $1,000 for a from drowning, Glen Ebon, Ohio, March 14, 1907. (See worthy purpose, Award No. 464.) as needed.

Charles B. Moon, aged thirty-six, deputy sheriff, attempted Bronze Medal and to save William H. Funk, aged thirty-two, city marshal, and $1,000 to liqui James V. Godman, aged thirty, civil engineer, from suffoca date mortgage on tion, Warsaw, Ind., July 25, 1904. Regardless of warnings, his property and Moon, with two ropes fastened around his chest, started down other indebted a ladder in a sewer lift-well, twenty-two feet deep, to rescue ness. Funk and Godman, who had been overcome by carbonic acid gas near the bottom. When his head was about ten feet below the surface, it dropped aside, and he was evidently about to fall from the ladder. He was hoisted out of the well in an unconscious condition in less than one-half of a minute after starting down, but was soon revived. Funk and Godman were dead when gotten out.

Benjamin J. Cottle, aged twenty-four, drug clerk, rescued Bronze Medal and Morris M. Caldwell, Jr., aged three, from a runaway, Wil $1 ,000 for a mington, N. C., August 28, 1910. Cottle, who had little worthy purpose, knowledge of the handling of horses, grasped the rein, beside as needed. the bit, of a spirited horse drawing a light wagon containing the child, and, after being jerked along, at times off his feet, for one hundred seventy-five feet, succeeded in stopping it. The child was not injured.

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John R. Graham, aged thirty-six, telegraph operator and Bronze Medal and station agent, saved George W. Thomason, aged thirty, farmer, $1,000 to liquidate and attempted to save C. Lee Lipscomb, aged twenty-seven, his debts and for farmer, from drowning, Thickety, S. C., May 9, 1910. Graham, other worthy pur fully clothed and carrying a meal sack at his side containing pose, as needed. five pounds of fish, swam thirteen feet to Lipscomb, who, unable to swim, had stepped into water over his depth, while he and Thomason were seining in Little Thickety Creek. Thomason had attempted to pull Lipscomb out by grabbing the seine, but he also got into deep water and struggled by himself. After being grabbed and taken under twice by Lipscomb, Graham freed himself with difficulty, rose, and, in a weakened condition, swam to an overhanging branch of a tree. Lipscomb did not come up. Graham saw Thomason go down about six feet from him and, holding to the branch, managed to catch Thomason's hand. Dragging him to the branch, he shoved him partly upon the bank. A man arrived and helped both to the bank. Thomason was revived.

James F. Collier, aged twenty-one, printer‘s apprentice, Bronze Medal and rescued Rocco J. Cinfro, aged thirty-eight, teamster, from a $1,700 to liquidate runaway, Chicago, I1l., June 12, 1910. Collier grasped both indebtedness on reins, close to the bit, of a horse drawing a heavy wagon con his property. taining Cinfro, and, after running about thirty-five feet with the horse, swung it from the track just in time to avoid colliding with anapproaching street car. The horse reared, and Collier lost his hold of one of the reins, was jerked off his feet, dragged over the sidewalk into an alley and pushed against a fence. The horse lowered its head, and Collier grabbed the other rein; then, with Collier dragging in front of its forelegs, the horse continued seventy-five feet through the alley to a barn, where Collier was wedged into a corner formed by the barn and the fence. He maintained his hold on the reins until men arrived and released him. Cinfro was unhurt.

470 Russell M. Williams, aged sixteen, student, saved Ray S. Bronze Medal and Coates, aged sixteen, student, and Herold H. Smith, aged $2,000 for educa fifteen, schoolboy, from drowning, Wellington, Ohio, June 13, tional purposes, as 1910. Williams swam to Coates, who had gone under the water needed. for the third time in Horr's Pond, and, diving, brought him to the surface. He swam to shallow water with Coates, and while helping to revive him, heard Smith's cries for help. Williams swam about thirty feet to Smith and told him to put his hand on his shoulder; but Smith threw his arms around Williams' neck and wrapped his legs around Williams' legs, both going under the water. While under water Williams broke Smith's hold with his legs, and, upon coming to the surface, swam to shallow water with Smith's arms around his neck. All recovered.

100 ACTS OF HEROlSM—Continued l No. ACT AWARD 4 l 471 Albert J. Appleby, aged eighteen, farmhand, saved Ruthella Bronze Medal and M. Harbeson, aged forty, from being run over by a train, $2,000 for educa Bowyer, S. C., March 11, 1910. Appleby noticed the woman, tional purposes, as who was deaf and near-sighted, walking into danger, crossed needed. the track in front of a freight train approaching at a speed of thirty miles an hour, and shoved her out of danger just as the train rushed by.

472 Boyce Lindsay, (colored) aged sixteen, delivery boy, saved Bronze Medal and E. Reynolds Smith, aged eleven, from being run over by a train, $2,000 for educa Spartanburg, S. C., May 28, 1910. Stooping over one rail tional purposes, as before an approachingstring of boxcars, when the front car was needed. but four feet distant, Lindsay flung Smith from the middle of the track where he had fallen from his bicycle. As he was straightening up to get back from the track, Lindsay was struck on the right shoulder and whirled around against the side of the car. Neither was injured. 473 N. Peter Lugen, aged fourteen, schoolboy, saved Tony Bronze Medal and Resso, aged nine, and Joseph Maggio,aged nine, from drowning, $2,000 for educa Dunkirk, N. Y., February 4, 1910. Lugen ran about eighteen tional purposes, as hundred feet over the ice in Dunkirk Harbor, Lake Erie, to the needed. boys, who had broken through the ice where the water was fourteen feet deep. He extended his foot to Resso and pulled him out upon the ice; and, after failing in an attempt to grab Maggio by the hand, dived into the water, caught him by the collar and foot, and shoved him out onto the ice. Lugen then climbed out himself.

474 Charles F. Falvey, aged ten, schoolboy, died attempting Bronze Medal. to save William W. Hook, aged ten, from drowning, Washing ton, D. C., June 21, 1909. Falvey dived from a rowboat into the Potomac River to theassistance of Hook, who wasin distress; came up in front of him and was instantly grabbed about the neck. A desperate struggle ensued and F alvey was unable to break Hook's hold. Both were drowned.

475 Wallace G. McVey, aged twenty-nine, minister, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Edna H. Olds, aged nineteen, from drown $50 a month for ing, near Cory, Ind., August 1, 1910. McVey and Miss Olds, support of widow, the latter being a very poor swimmer, were wading in the Eel during her life, or River seventeen feet from shore, when the girl stepped into until she remarries. water over her depth. McVey grabbed her hand and started to swim toward the bank but could make no headway, and, after going under the surface twice, they became separated, and both were drowned. 476 Carroll M. Kester, aged sixteen, student, died attempting Bronze Medal and to save Harold C. Cottrell, aged sixteen, student, from drown $1,200 to father to ing, Des Moines, Ia., June 18, 1910. Kester swam to Cottrell, liquidate mortgage who, unable to swim, had gotten into deep water in the on his property. Des Moines River fifty-five feet from the bank. Two com panions who could swim had tried to rescue Cottrell but had abandoned their attempt. Kester was grabbed around the neck by Cottrell,and both went under the surface. They came up and went down close together two or three times and then sank and were drowned.

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477 Nora V. Dunlea, aged fourteen, schoolgirl, died helping to Silver Medal and save Louise G. Griffin, aged thirteen, Catharine Ford, aged $1,000 to mother ten, and Mary Daugherty, aged ten, from drowning, West for a worthy pur Gloucester, Mass., August 6, 1910. Miss Dunlea swam to the pose, as needed. three girls, who were struggling together in the deep channel of the Little River, and was grasped by them. Another girl came to them about this time, and all five bobbed up and down in the water, until a man reached them and supported all but Miss Dunlea, who helped him with the others. Two men arrived in a rowboat, and, while helping the men get the other girls aboard, the boat foundered, and Miss Dunlea was drowned. The men and four girls were rescued.

478 Louise (‘1. Griffin, aged thirteen, schoolgirl, helped to save Bronze Medal and Catharine Ford and Mary Daugherty, from drowning, West $2,000 for educa Gloucester, Mass., August 6, 1910. ‘(See Award No. 477.) tional purposes, as Miss Griflin swam thirteen feet to the girls, who were struggling needed. together in the deep channel of the Little River, and was grabbed by them and taken under the surface. She was later rescued by men from the shore.

479 Eleanor F. McQueeney, aged thirteen, schoolgirl, helped Bronze Medal and to save Louise G. Griffin, Catharine Ford and Mary Daugherty $2,000 for educa from drowning, West Gloucester, Mass., August 6, 1910. (See tional purposes, as Award No. 477.) Miss McQueeney swam to the three girls needed. a moment after Miss Dunlea, and was grasped by them. When the boat foundered,Mary got her arms about Miss McQueeney's neck and climbed upon her back. The latter took several strokes toward the shore, when a man rabbed her arm and assisted her with her burden to the ban . Miss Griffin and Catharine were rescued by men from the bank.

William B. Simson, aged fifty-seven, lawyer, saved Silver Medal. Raymond Sprenger, aged nine, from drowning, Tonawanda, N. Y., January 15, 1911. Simson, suffering with a severe cold, left his home and ran two hundred feet to Ellicott Creek to ward Raymond, who had broken through thin ice at a point forty-five feet from the bank, where the water was fourteen feet deep. He lunged into the water, caught the boy and, breaking the thin ice about him, swam near the edge of the solid ice, from whence he and the boy were gotten out. After the rescue, Simson collapsed but was revived. Raymond was unconscious but recovered. Herman W. Downing. aged sixteen, student, saved Frank Silver Medal. R. Clapsaddle, aged seventeen, shirt-worker, from drowning, Ocean City, Md., June 20, 1909. Downing swam to Clap saddle, who was struggling against the strong undertow in the Atlantic Ocean three hundred feet from shore, and started to shore with him, when a large wave swept over them and broke Downing's hold. Clapsaddle began to drift away, but Downing, although dazed and tired, again grabbed him. While struggling to keep his hold on Clapsaddle and go shore ward, the two were swept to a pier and rescued by men clinging to the piles. Downing was too weak to climb a lowered ladder, and Clapsaddle was unconscious, but both recovered.

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482 Thomas M. Christenbury, aged thirty-eight, chief of Silver Medal and police, rescued Rufus Long (colored), aged seventy-six, laborer, $200 to liquidate from a cave-in in a well, Charlotte, N. C., August 9, 1909. mortgage on his Regardless of the warning of another man, Christenbury, who p r o p e r t y a n d measured twenty-two inches across the shoulders descended a $2,000 f o r t h e ladder with a rope around him into a well twenty-five feet education of his deep and thirty inches in diameter to Long, who had been c h i l d r e n , a a caught by the wall caving in and pinioning his arm, about needed. thirteen feet from the surface. Christenbury removed the stones holding Long's arm and, although there was danger of the overhanging wall falling, worked until he had freed Long, and then drew him to the ladder. Both got out safely.

483 Marion A. Hyland, aged thirty, bank cashier, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save Guy R. Henderson, aged twenty-one, barber, and $50 a month for Reuben D. Hoxie, aged sixteen, schoolboy, from drowning, support of widow, Hollenberg, Kan., June 23, 1910. Hyland went to the during her life, or assistance of Henderson and Hoxie, who were struggling until she re together in deep water in the Little Blue River, and was marries, with $5 grabbed by Hoxie, and both were drowned. Henderson a month additional reached shore after getting free from Hoxie. for each of two children until each reaches age of sixteen.

484 David Whelan, aged twenty-three, motorman, died Silver Medal and rescuing William F. Thompson, aged thirty-six, driver, city $1,000 towa rd fire department, from a runaway, Boston, Mass., January 17, support of father. 1910. Whelan grabbed the bridle of one of five spirited horses drawing a heavy fire-engine down a snow-covered street obstructed by the iron pillars of an elevated railroad, Thompson having lost control of the horses. The horse reared and plunged, and Whelan fell under its feet. Awheel of the fire engine passed over his head, and his skull was fractured. l\il/helan's act enabled Thompson to regain control of the orses.

485 August Wesley, aged twenty-seven, steam shovel work Silver Medal. man, died attempting to save two men from suffocation in a mine, Bingham Canyon, Utah, November 21, 1908. (See Award No. 452.) Wesley was one of the men who accom panied Smith, and was overcome, and his dead body was found later, forty-five feet from the entrance.

486 Hugh Burnes, aged twenty-two, steam shovel workman, Silver Medal. died attem ting to save two men from suffocation in a mine, Bingham anyon, Utah, November 21, 1908. (See Award No. 452.) Burnes was one of the men who accompanied Smith. He was found dead twenty feet from the entrance.

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487 Joseph Robeza, Jr., aged twenty-two, driver, died helping Silver Medal. to rescue men from a burning mine, Cherry, Ill., November 13, 1909. (See AwardNo. 414.) Robeza, who had ascended to the surface when warned of the fire, returned to the second vein, and called and assisted dazed miners to the hoisting cages, at one time going to the surface for fresh air. He was assisting in an attempt to rescue men from the third vein, when a blast of heat and flames struck the main shaft, burning him and others to death on the cage. 488 Cirlo Achille, aged twenty-six, laborer, attempted to save Bronze Medal. George Palmer, aged forty-two, structural iron-worker, from drowning, Tribes Hill, N. Y., December 12, 1910. Achille, who could not swim, walked on ice until he was one hundred feet from the bank and at the edge of the ice, five feet from Palmer, who, badly injured, had fallen from a bridge across the Mohawk River, into open water over eight feet deep. He took off his coat, and holding one sleeve, threw the other part of the coat to Palmer, who caught it. Achille, holding to the hand of a man who stood back of him, tried to draw Palmer onto the ice, but broke through to his shoulders and let go of the coat. His companion assisted him out of the hole to safety. Palmer was rescued at that time by two men who arrived 'in a rowboat, but died in a few minutes from the injuries sustained when he fell.

J. Stewart Bryson, aged eighteen, student, saved Maurice Bronze Medal. Gershuny, aged fourteen, ticket salesman, from drowning, Covington, Ky., July 11, 1910. Bryson, wearing only his undergarments, swam to Gershuny, who was in distress in the swift current of the swollen Ohio River, fifty-five feet from the bank, in water fifteen feet deep. Gershuny had gone under, and Bryson let himself down, caught hold of Gershuny, and rose to the surface with him. Gershuny grabbed Bryson, but the latter freed himself, and caught hold of Gershuny again. Although his underwear dropped down about his feet and hindered his swimming, Bryson, after being carried downstream one hundred feet, by the swift current, succeeded in swimming to shallow water with Gershuny. 490 Marcus E. Benson, aged fifty-three, lumber manufacturer, Bronze Medal. attempted to save Florence Thomas, aged thirty-one, and saved P. Eugenia Peterson, aged thirty-one, from drowning, Clover Bend, Ark., August 29, 1909. Benson, a poor swimmer, and dressed, swam fifty-five feet to the women, who, unable to swim, had gotten into water twelve feet deep in the Black River, at a point seventy feet from the bank. Holding to the hair of the women, Benson swam twenty feet, when Mrs. Thomas's skirt entangled Benson's legs, and she grasped him. He freed him self and swam sixty-five feet downstream with the two women, where another man took Mrs. Peterson, and Benson swam toward a launch with Mrs. Thomas. He lost his hold on Mrs. Thomas's hair when a man on the launch caught hold of him and pulled him aboard. Mrs. Thomas was drowned. Benson was exhausted but soon recovered.

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491 John Murdock, aged thirty-five, farmer, attempted to save Bronze Medal. Leland V. Whiting, aged twelve, from drowning, Clitherall, Minn., December 1, 1910. Murdock, fully dressed, with the temperature at zero, dived to the bottom of an eight-foot-wide air hole in the ice on Clitherall Lake, where Whiting had sunk in water fourteen feet deep. He caught Whiting by the coat and swam to the surface with him, finding it necessary to swim about three feet toward the middle, to avoid coming up under the thick ice at the edge of the hole. Several boys threw Murdock a rope and helped get Whiting and Murdock out. Whiting could not be revived.

492 William F. Neff, aged forty-five, merchant, helped to save Bronze Medal. Amno F. Sharer, aged thirty-four, bookkeeper, from drowning, Allentown, Pa., July 14, 1911. Neff, of extremely nervous temperament, dived and swam to Sharer, who had become distressed in the Lehigh River, in water six feet deep. He started to swim toward a platform with Sharer, but the latter's weight and his struggles forced N eff under the surface several times and he became exhausted. Sharer then grabbed him around the neck and both went under the surface. When they came up, a girl who held to the platform, caught Neff's extended arm and pulled them to shallow water. Neff suffered from nervous prostration for three days.

493 William Laird, aged sixty-eight, farmhand, rescued Vera Bronze Medal and M., and attempted to rescue E. Theron Anderson, aged three $500, to reimburse and five, respectively, from burning, Bobcaygeon, Ont., him for pecuniary january 9, 1911. Laird entered a bedroom of a burning house loss sustained and going to the bed caught hold of Vera, put her under his account of fire, arm, and felt under the covers for Theron, but could not find and for ot her him. The heat was so intense, and the smoke so thick, that worthy purpose, Laird had to leave the room, a burning curtain falling across as needed. his shoulders as he went out the doorway. He was badly burned about the head and was disabled seventeen days. Vera was slightly burned and Theron perished in the flames.

494 John G. Walker, (colored), aged twenty-nine, drayman, Bronze Medal and rescued William G. Obear, aged forty-four, Quartermaster $500 toward pur~ General, State Militia of Georgia, Legare H. Obear, aged chase of a home. thirty-four, and Julia H. Obear, aged four months, Edward W. Butler, aged fifty-five, mayor and lawyer, and Green Thomas, aged fifty-six, laborer, from a runaway, Madison, Ga., June 27, 1909. Walker tried to grab the rein of one of a team of spirited horses drawing a surrey containing Butler, Thomas, and the Obears, but, failing, he ran alongside the horses a few steps and then grabbed the rein. It slipped through his hands to the loop, and at that moment Walker was struck by a wheel and knocked to the ground. The wheel passed over his legs below the knees and, still clinging to the rein, he was dragged along the street for about fifteen feet,when,as the result of his pulling back, the horses ran into an embankment and came to a stop. Walker was disabled nine days by his injuries. None of the occupants of the surrey was hurt.

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495 Anna E. Sutton, aged nineteen, student, saved Anna M. Bronze Medal and Blake, aged twenty-one, from drowning, Naples, N. Y., August $1,000 f o r a 3, 1907. Miss Sutton swam to the assistance of Miss Blake, worthy purpose, who, unable to swim, had stepped into water over her depth in as needed. . Canandaigua Lake, forty feet from shore. After being seized and taken under the surface by Miss Blake and finding it impossible to break the latter's hold, Miss Sutton swam with Miss Blake, who was still struggling, to shallow water.

496 Charles A. Foster, aged twenty-two, carpenter's apprentice, Bronze Medal and saved Anna A. Sweeney, aged eleven, and Leland F. Sweeney, $1,000 f or a aged seventeen, schoolboy, from drowning, Sherrill, N. Y., worthy purpose, January 22, 1911. Foster skated to the assistance of Anna as needed. and Leland, who were struggling in the Oneida Community Pond, after having broken through the ice at a point forty feet from the bank, where the water was over ten feet deep. With the temperature registering fifteen degrees, Foster jumped into the hole, relieved Leland, who had been holding his sister up, and supported her until men pusheda plank over the edge of the hole. Then, sweeping away the floating ice with every stroke, he swam with the girl to the plank. The three were pulled out by the men on the solid ice.

‘ 497 Charles A. Kuhr, aged twenty-five,chauffeur, rescued Lena Bronze Medal and Krueger, aged sixteen, from a runaway, Cincinnati, Ohio, $1,000 f o r a June 10, 1911. Kuhr grabbed the bridle and rein of a runaway worthy purpose, horse hitched to a runabout containing Miss Krueger and was as needed. dragged one hundred feet, when he fell to the asphalt street, the front wheel of the runabout passing over his leg. He jumped to his feet and caught up with the horse again after it turned a corner, guided it toward the curb, and succeeded in stopping it when the runabout struck a fire-plug and threw the horse to its knees. Kuhr fell to the sidewalk, and his legs were badly bruised. Miss Krueger was unhurt.

498 Clinton B. Runner, aged nineteen, farmer, saved Pearl E., Bronze Medal and aged three, Lelah 0., aged five, and Cecil V. Hungerford,aged $1,000 toward seven, from burning, Hershey, Neb., March 26, 1910. His purchase of a hands having been burned as a result of coming in contact with farm. a fierce prairie fire which had swept over the farm on which he was working, Runner ran to a cave in which the three children had been left. Although the flames were burning about the door, and the cave, which was dug six feet below the surface, was filled with smoke, he entered and found Pearl. He lifted her to the surface and carried her to nearby water tanks. He wet his clothing and returned to the cave and got Lelah and Cecil and took them to the tanks. Shortly after wards the roof of the cave fell in. The children were not burned but were unconscious from the smoke. They were revived later. Runner sustained burns on his neck and hands.

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499 James M. Snyder, aged fifty-one, farm foreman, rescued Bronze Medal and Phaon Hausman, aged sixty-nine, laborer, from a fierce bison, $1,000 t o w a r cl Schnecksville, Pa., March 3, 1911. Snyder, carrying an over purchase of a coat, approached the bison while it was butting and trying to farm. gore Hausman, who was on the ground. Hearing him approaching, the animal wheeled around and rushed toward Snyder with lowered head, but Snyder, when the bison was about four feet from him, threw the coat over its head and jumped aside. The animal stopped,and,when it had rid itself of the coat, it turned around and ran away. Snyder stood about ten feet distant ready to defend Hausman had the bison attacked him again.

Abraham T. Matthews, aged thirty-four, laborer, saved Bronze Medal and Benjamin H. Wright, aged two, from being run over by a train, $1,000 toward Tunkhannock, Pa., July 24, 1910. Dashing to the track forty purchase of a feet in front of an approaching train, Matthews placed one foot home. in the middle, and, with both hands, grabbed Wright, who stood on the track bewildered. He swung the boy and him self off the track just as the train rushed by, the bumper-timber grazing his hand.

501 Charles A. Smith (colored), aged thirty-one, laborer, Bronze Medal and attempted to save Theodore Dilhof, aged forty-three, laborer, $1,000 toward from suffocation, Cincinnati, Ohio, November 26, 1910. Dis urchase of a regarding warnings to take precautions for his own safety, ome. Smith descended a ladder in a twelve-foot manhole of a sewer, where Dilhof lay unconscious from carbonic acid gas and methane. When about two feet above Dilhof, and as he was reaching toward him, Smith fell unconscious across Dilhof's body. He was rescued about five minutes later and resuscita ted. Dilhof was dead when gotten out.

Frederick W. Morrice, aged thirty, reporter, rescued Bronze Medal and Walter W. Fox, aged nine, from suffocation, Goshen, Ind, $1,000 to be ap November 3, 1909. After two men had failed to rescue Fox, plied to the Morrice entered the parlor of a burning house, in search of the liquidation of his boy, but after proceeding about ten feet was compelled to debts, and for retreat on account of the smoke and heat. He next entered other worthy pur the dining-room, through a broken door out of which dense pose, as needed. smoke poured, and dropping on his hands and knees, crawled around until he found Fox. Picking up the boy, Morrice groped his way through the heat and smoke to the door, and, dazed, staggered onto the porch. Fox died the following morning.

Louis J. Bruya, aged thirty-six, telegrapher, saved George Bronze Medal and 0. Perkins, aged seventy-two, from being run over by a train, $1,000 to be Montpelier, Vt., May 11, 1910. Dashing onto the track ahead applied to the of an approaching train, Bruya grabbed Perkins, who was liquidation of his walking in the middle of the track with his back to the train, debts, and for and shoved him off the track, the train being but a few feet other worthy pur distant when they cleared the rail. pose, as needed.

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504 Alexander Morton, Sr., aged fifty-six, miner, saved Louis Bronze Medal and Davidson, aged thirty, salesman, from drowning, Revere, $1,000 to be Mass., August 19, 1908. Morton, who was recuperating from applied to the injuries received in a mine, swam one hundred fifty feet to liquidation of his Davidson, who had become distressed in water six feet deep at debts, and for Revere Beach. He was grasped by the shoulder and pulled other worthy pur under the surface. Upon coming up, they were separated and pose, as needed. Morton shouted for help while he swam twenty feet with David son, who was half unconscious, and grasped the hand of a man who had waded out from shore. Morton and two men pulled Davidson to shallow water and tothe beach, where he revived.

505 Patrick H. Campbell, aged twenty-seven, groundkeeper, Bronze Medal and saved Charles D. Stone, aged forty-one, advertising agent, from $1,000 t o be drowning, Worcester, Mass., August 27, 1909. Campbell, who applied toward was dressed, and suffered from an ailment which made him short restoration of his of breath and tired him quickly, went to the assistance of Stone, health, and for who had become distressed in Lake Quinsigamond, twenty-five other worthy pur feet from shore, in water fifteen feet deep. Stone threw both pose, as needed. arms around Campbell's neck and both went under, but came up in a minute, still clasped, when Campbell caught a life- pfieserver that had been thrown to him, and both were pulled to s ore.

Howard 1. Davis, aged twenty-seven, lamp maker, rescued Bronze Medal and Frank L. Ramos, aged four, from burning, West Haven, Conn., $215 to reimburse March 24, 1911. Davis went to the second story bedroom of a him for pecuniary burning house and picking the child up from a bed, carried it l o s s sustained down the stairway, through dense smoke and flames, to a hall, account of injur and then broke open the front door and fell on the porch with ies, and $1,000 the boy. The boy was badly burned and was in a hospital over toward purchase three weeks. Davis was badly burned on the hands and head of a home. and was 'disabled seven weeks.

507 Alexander J. Bonner, aged twenty-five, sign-painter, Bronze Medal and saved William I. Decker, aged twenty-eight, bill-poster, who $500 disablement was falling, from impending fatal injuries, Philadelphia, Pa., benefits, a n d March 25, 1909. Bonner saw Decker falling headfirst from a $1,000 t o w a r d window twenty feet above the ground and ran onto the flagstone p u rc h a s e of a sidewalk, with outstretched arms. Decker struck him on the home. chest, and he closed his arms around him and fell backwards on the sidewalk, with Decker on top of him. Decker was un hurt, but Bonner suffered a compound fracture of both bones of right leg and was incapacitated over four months. 508 (i. James Shaw, aged forty, foreman, rescued Harry M. Bronze Medal and Videan, aged thirty-six, laborer, from a machine, Goderich, $1,500 to liquidate Ont., September 14, 1908. Shaw, one attempt having failed, mortgage on 1115 pulled ofii' a belt, traveling four thousand feet a minute, in property. response to a cry from Videan, who was entangled in a rope and being crushed by the machine. The belt came off just as Shaw's arm came in contact with the pulley, but he was not injured. Videan was badly injured, but recovered.

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Walter E. Baker, aged seventeen, waiter, saved Thera M. Bronze Medal and Douglass, aged eighteen, and Ethel B. Brush, aged nineteen, $2,000 for educa from drowning, Long Lake, N. Y., July 20, 1908. Baker swam tional purposes, to Miss Douglass, a poor swimmer, and Miss Brush, who could as needed. not swim, when they lost their holds on a small raft on Long Lake, eighty feet from shore where the water was seven feet deep. Miss Douglass grabbed him around the neck and both went under the surface. Baker broke loose and got each of the girls to the raft. They lost their holds again and again, and Baker, growing fatigued, called for help. Two men went out in a rowboat and all were taken to shore.

510 Andrew E. Fleming, aged nineteen, rodman, saved Mildred Bronze Medal and E. Cassady, aged seventeen, from drowning, Covington, Ky., $2,000 for educa February 3, 1911. Fleming, heavily dressed, including knee tional purposes, length leather boots, swam to Miss Cassady, who, unable to as needed. swim, was in distress in the flood waters of the Ohio River, at a point fifteen feet from the bank, where the water was nine feet deep. Miss Cassady had gone down the second time and was being carried toward the deeper water in the middle of the river when Fleming caught hold of her arm. He swam with her to shallow water and carried her to the bank. 511 Rowland F. Bell, aged nineteen, painter and paper-hanger, Bronze Medal and saved W. Edward Moriarty, aged sixteen, clerk, from drowning, $2,000 for educa Toronto, Ont., June 27, 1909. Bell dived from a rowboat into tional purposes, Ashbridges Bay and swam forty feet to Moriarty, who had as needed. become distressed in water eight feet deep, and after struggling desperately with Moriarty, during which time he was grabbed around the neck and taken under the surface twice, he support ed Moriarty, who had become unconscious from his struggles, until men in a boat rescued them. Bell was fatigued. Moriar ty was revived in an hour.

512 Edgar A. Current, aged fourteen, schoolboy, assisted in an Bronze Medal and attempt to save Chester Snowberger, aged fourteen, schoolboy, $2,000 for educa and saved Harvey Current, aged sixteen,schoolboy, and Albert tional purposes, Nierman, aged twenty-four, driver, from drowning, Fort as needed. Wayne, Ind., August 6, 1909. Current and another boy swam to Snowberger, who had become distressed in a hole in the St. Mary's River, in water. six feet deep. The boys tried to swim with Snowberger to the bank, but the latter struggled and repeatedly dragged them under the surface. Finally, after pulling them under, Current broke loose, but Snowberger did not come up and was drowned. When Current came up, he noticed his brother Harvey and Nierman, who weighed re spectively thirty-five and fifty-five pounds more than he did, struggling a short distance away, and swam to them and shoved them into shallow water.

513 Claude Bauserman, aged fourteen, schoolboy, assisted in Bronze Medal and an attempt to save Chester Snowberger, from drowning, Fort $2,000 for educa Wayne, Ind., August 6, 1909. (See Award No. 512.) Bauser tional purposes, man was the boy, who with Current, had been dragged under as needed. the surface by Snowberger. He broke loose and when he came up and discovered Snowberger had been drowned, swam to the bank, bordering on a state of exhaustion.

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514 Edward T. Rasmussen, aged fifteen, laborer, saved Henry Bronze Medal and M. Merritt, aged thirty-seven, foreman, from drowning, F air $2,000 for educa port Harbor, Ohio, August 6, 1909. Rasmussen jumped into tional purposes, the Grand River, to help Merritt, who had fallen from a pier as needed. into water ten feet deep. Merritt struggled with Rasmussen, taking him under the surface twice, and with Merritt holding him tightly under the arms, Rasmussen succeeded in swimming to the pier, where others got them out.

515 Charles H. J. Pickett, aged fourteen, schoolboy, saved Bronze Medal and Luther M. Nauman, aged sixteen, schoolboy, from drowning, $2,000 for educa Laceyville, Pa., August 13, 1910. Pickett dived from a boat tional purposes, into the Susquehanna River, and swam to Nauman, who was as needed. struggling at a point sixty feet from the bank, in water eight feet deep. Nauman, from behind, grabbed Pickett around the body under the shoulders, but the latter, screaming for help, freed himself and supported Nauman until several boys in the boat reached them and took both to the bank.

516 Lewis A. Spinner, aged ten, schoolboy, attempted to save Bronze Medal and Hiram S. Wilkerson, aged eight, from drowning, Lockport, $2,000 for educa N. Y., January 27, 1911. Spinner, a poor swimmer, walked tional purposes, over thin and soft ice to Wilkerson, who had broken through as needed. the ice on Eighteen Mile Creek, where the water was eleven feet deep. He pulled Wilkerson out of the hole, when both boys broke through. They struggled together, going under the surface, and after Spinner had gotten free, Wilkerson grabbed Spinner's leg. Spinner kicked Wilkerson loose and tried to grab Wilkerson by the head but his cap came off and Wilkerson sank and was drowned. Spinner held to the ice at the edge of the hole and was rescued by a man.

517 Thomas L. Marquis, Jr., aged nineteen, student, died Bronze Medal. attempting to save Myrtle Lewis, aged eighteen, from drowning, Bartow, Fla., July 1, 1910. Marquis, in darkness, jumped from a launch in Crooked Lake to the assistance of Miss Lewis, who, while in the water, had lost her hold on the launch and was drifting away. Marquis and Miss Lewis were seen side by side, but soon sank in water forty feet deep and were drowned. When their bodies were recovered, Miss Lewis's hair was down and her side-comb was found wedged in Marquis's belt. 518 Irving 0. Paulding, aged forty, electrical engineer, died Bronze Medal attempting to save Bessie B. Drake, aged nineteen, from drown ing, Rhinebeck, N. Y., August 23, 1910. Paulding and Miss Drake, with six others, were thrown into water over twelve feet deep, when their sailboat capsized in Pink's Pond. After holding to the overturned boat, while Paulding attempted to right it, Miss Drake lost her hold and drifted away. Paulding swam toward Miss Drake, but as he got near her, she sank. He went under in an attempt to get her, but neither came up. The bodies were recovered and finger marks on Paulding's neck gave evidence of a struggle.

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519 Russell L. Manlove, aged fourteen, schoolboy, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Thomas W. Sullivan, aged ten, from drown $250 to mother, as ing, Indianapolis, Ind., July 7, 1910. Manlove, unable to needed. swim, waded toward Sullivan, who had gotten beyond his depth in a pool in the White River, in water twelve feet deep, and was carried by the strong current to the swirling water of the pool and drowned before he could reach Sullivan. Sullivan was rescued by another boy.

520 Augustus C. Anderson, aged twenty-six, student, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save William Boyd, aged fourteen, from drown $250 to father, as ing, Jackson, Miss., May 8, 1909. Anderson, wearing clothing, needed. dived from a rowboat into the Country Club Lake, and swam to Boyd, who, unable to swim, had jumped from a sinking boat into water ten feet deep, at a point sixty feet from shore. Boyd caught hold of Anderson and both went under the surface. Anderson's arm appeared above the surface a moment later, but neither Anderson nor Boyd came up. When the bodies were recovered, Anderson's collar was found loosened and one or two buttons at the top of his shirt had been torn off, indicat ing a struggle had occurred.

521 Lars O. Risvold, aged twenty-six, laborer, died attempting Bronze Medal and to save William J. F orfar, aged twenty-three, and Richard H. $800 to father, as Craig, aged twenty-six, well diggers, from suffocation, Ayles needed. bury, Sask., November 22, 1907. Refusing to tie a rope about himself, Risvold, a total stranger, with his foot in the loop of a cable, had himself lowered into a well, one hundred twenty-five feet deep and two feet in diameter, to help F orfar and Craig, who had been overcome by gas about seventy feet from the surface and had fallen off a crosspiece at the end of the cable. When his head was about twelve feet below the surface, Risvold called that there was gas, but before he could be drawn up again his foot slipped out of the loop and he dropped on top of F orfar and Craig. All were dead when gotten out.

522 William H. Williams, Jr., aged thirty, farmer, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Glenn L. Woolard, aged seventeen, student, $25 a month for from drowning, Hartford City, Ind., May 31, 1911. Williams, support of widow, a poor swimmer, and wearing high gum boots, waded about during her life, or sixty feet toward Woolard, who had become distressed in the until s h e re Zimmerman gravel-pit pond, in water eight feet deep. When marries. within five feet of Woolard, Williams, who had been wading with arms extended as if to offer aid, stepped into water over his depth, and was drowned. Woolard also drowned. The bodies were found close together.

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523 Leonard M. Elder, aged thirty-nine, salesman, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Ralph B. Shugert, aged ten, from drowning, $75 a month for Indianapolis, Ind., July 4, 1911. Elder, a poor swimmer, and support of widow, dressed, plunged into deep water to Shugert, who, unable to during her life, or swim, was struggling in Fall Creek. Elder caught Shugert and u n t i1 s h e re the latter grabbed him by the hair and climbed onto his marries, with $5 shoulders, forcing Elder under the water. Elder held Shugert's a month addition feet and made no effort to dislodge him, but by the time al for her son Shugert's father reached him Elder had released his hold. He until he reaches did not come up after being forced under the surface and was age of sixteen. drowned. Shugert was taken ashore by his father.

John T. Brown, aged forty-six, mine foreman, helped to Silver Medal and save Joseph Lucas, James E. Dougher, and Anthony Gowrey, $1,000 t o w a r d miners, and saved Frank Kleisch, laborer, aged thirty-three, purchase of a twenty-seven, forty-three and twenty-one, respectively, from home. suffocation, Sebastopol, Pa., January 10, 1911. Brown led four other men into a heading of a coal mine, one-half mile from the shaft, immediately following an explosion which had deflected the air ‘current and filled that and other headings with after damp. They found Lucas, unconscious, and carried him into fresh air. Returning, Brown and four others found Dougher, whom they also carried out. All had been somewhat affected by the after damp. Brown and three of the men went through another heading into the gangway where the explosion had occurred, where they found Gowrey. Asecond explosion seemed imminent,but Brown stayed alone with Gowrey until the others brought a stretcher, and, while the men carried Gowrey out, Brown continued through the gangway until he found Kleisch, delirious, and carried him out. Brown was completely exhausted, but after going to the surface he soon recovered. Lucas and Dougher were revived, Gowrey was badly burned, and Kleisch died from his burns.

525 James L. Conlon, aged thirty-six, assistant mine foreman, Bronze Medal and helped to save Joseph Lucas and James E. Dougher from $1 , 000 f o r a suffocatism, Sebastopol, Pa., January 10, 1911. (See Award worthy purpose, No. 524. as needed.

526 Martin F. Mangan, aged twenty-six, mine footman, helped Bronze Medal and to save Joseph Lucas, James E. Dougher and Anthony Gowrey $ 1 , O 0 0 f o r a from suffocation, Sebastopol, Pa., January 10, 1911. (See worthy purpose, Award No. 524.) as needed.

527 Andrew J. Devers, aged fifty-four, miner, helped to save Bronze Medal and James E. Dougher from suffocation, Sebastopol, Pa., January $ 1 , 0 0 0 f o r a 10, 1911. (See Award No. 524.) worthy purpose, as needed. 528 Jacob Modlo, aged twenty-two, mine driver, helped to save Bronze Medal and Joseph Lucas and James E. Dougher from suffocation, Sebas $1,000 toward topol, Pa., January 10, 1911. (See Award No. 524.) purchase of a home.

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529 Andrew J. Horan, aged forty-four, miner, helped to save Bronze Medal and James E. Dougher from suffocation, Sebastopol, Pa., January $1,000 f o r a 10, 1911. (See Award No. 524.) worthy purpose, as needed.

530 Michael J. Madden, aged thirty-seven, assistant mine Bronze Medal and foreman, helped to save Anthony Gowrey from suffocation, $1,000 fo r a Sebastopol, Pa., January 10, 1911. (See Award No. 524.) worthy purpose, as needed.

Michael L. Belangie, aged thirty-three, miner, died Silver Medal to attempting to help save Dennis Lynch, aged fifty-three, repair widow and $1,350 man, and Stephen Hogan, aged fifty-seven, pumpman, from to l i q u i d a t e suffocation, Butte, Mont., January 14, 1911. Belangie, who mortgage on her had already made two trips into a copper mine, was one of a property, and $65 party of four men who made two trips to the pump station on a month during the one-thousand-foot level in search of Lynch and Hogan, who her life, or until had been overcome by smoke from a fire in the mine. On the she remarries, second trip through the station, Belangie was overcome. The with $5 a month others went on and rescued Lynch and Hogan, but when additional for each Belangie was gotten out, about ten minutes later, he was dead. of three children Lynch and Hogan were revived. _ until each reaches age of sixteen.

Philip D. Joughin, aged thirty-five, miner, assisted in an Bronze Medal and attempt to save Dennis Lynch, Stephen Hogan, and Michael $1,000 toward L. Belangie from suffocation, Butte, Mont., January 14, 1911. p u re h a s e of a (See Award No. 531.) Joughin was one of the men who made home. the first trip to the pump station on the one-thousand-foot level, and a short time afterwards he and three other men descended again to the station, located Belangie and took him to the surface.

533 Frank Faulkner, aged twenty-eight, miner, helped to save Bronze Medal and Dennis Lynch and Stephen Hogan, and assisted in an attempt $1,000 t o wa r d to save Michael L. Belangie from suffocation, Butte, Mont., p u r c h a s e of a January 14, 1911. (See Award No. 531.) home.

534 Murdoch Murray, aged thirty-nine, miner, helped to save Bronze Medal and Dennis Lynch and Stephen Hogan from suffocation, Butte, $1,000 f o r a Mont., January 14, 1911. (See Award No. 531.) On the worthy purpose, second trip to the station, Murray took the place of one of as needed. Belangie's companions and after helping Lynch and Hogan to the cage, he attempted to arouse Belangie. Being affected by the smoke, he went to the surface in a weakened condition.

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Frederick A. Babcock, aged twenty-five, miner, saved Bronze Medal and Joseph Harkins, aged twenty-three, and David McPherson, $1,000 t o w a rd aged thirty-eight, miners, from sufi'ocation, Butte, Mont., p u re h a s e of a January 14, 1911. Babcock made his way through dense home. smoke on the twenty-two-hundred-foot level, toward Harkins and McPherson, who were working at the face of the level. He met four men whom he warned of a fire in the mine. One of these men shouted the warning to Harkins and McPher son. Before Babcock could retrace his steps to the shaft, from breathing smoke, he sank from weakness, and had to be helped to the shaft by Harkins and McPherson, who found him. When he reached the shaft, Babcock was unconscious, but revived in half an hour.

536 Alfred B. Kanaly, aged fifteen, schoolboy, saved Mary E. Silver Medal. Murphy, aged twenty-four, and Lillie E. Moran, aged thirty four, from drowning, Falls City, Neb., August 16, 1910. Kanaly,a poor swimmer, went tothe assistance of Miss Murphy, who had gone under the surface in water six feet dee in the Nemaha River. Miss Murphy grabbed his leg, but naly, frightened, freed himself, and as her head appeared above the surface, he grabbed her hair and swam with her to the bank. Miss Moran, who weighed fifty pounds more than Kanaly, had also become distressed, in water ten feet deep, while trying to aid Miss Murphy, and Kanaly, despite warnings and although weakand faint, swamabout twenty feet to thewoman, who had gone under the surface, and grabbing her by the hair, swam to the bank with her. None suffered any ill effects.

537 Archibald H. Davis, Jr., aged nineteen, student, attempted Silver Medal. to save R. Manly Hazzard, aged sixteen, student, from drown ing, Tallulah Falls, Ga., August 10, 1909. Davis swam up stream about one hundred feet to Hazzard, who had become distressed in the Tallulah River in water six feet deep. Haz zard grabbed Davis and they struggled desperately, while the current carried them rapidly toward a large rock in the river. They went under the surface together several times and at one time Hazzard had hold of Davis at the throat. When they reached the rock, Davis, who had broken Hazzard's grasp, stood up in shallow water and tried to lift Hazzard up, but the current swept them off the rock and they became separated. Hazzard was drowned. Davis was almost powerless from fatigue, but after swimming twenty feet, managed to catch hold of some bushes and pull himself half out of the water. He then collapsed and was not revived for an hour.

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Charles F. Lentino, aged twenty-two, plumber, saved Silver Medal and Carrie J., and Mary A. Shallow, aged twenty-one and fourteen, $2,000 t o b e respectively, Annie Carifi, aged thirty-one, and others, from applied to the burning, New York, N. Y., October 5, 1908. Lentino entered a liquidation of his burning tenement house and assisted Carrie Shallow through debts, and for smoke from the second floor to the street, and then climbed other w o r t h y up a water spout on the outside of the building, and helped p u r p o s e , a s Mary Shallow reach a place of safety from a narrow ledge upon needed. which she stood. He then climbed the fire-escape to the third and fourth floors and assisted Mrs. Carifi and thirteen others to the ground, at one time entering a room on the third floor and bringing out five children, all of whom he carried down the fire-escape to safety. While on the fourth floor fire-escape helping an old man out of a window, Lentino, feeling a rush of smoke, looked down and saw flames and smoke issuing from the first floor door and the windows below him and was about to jump to the street, when firemen raised a ladder and he climbed down. The old man was safely taken to the ground.

539 William H. Shaw, aged twenty-two, locomotive wiper, died Silver Medal to attempting to save John McK. Ritchie, aged twenty-six, loco mother and $1,100 motive wiper, from drowning, Medicine Hat, Alta., July 18, to l i q u i d a t e 1909. Shaw swam to Ritchie, who, unable to swim, had mortgages on pro stepped into water over his depth in the Saskatchewan River, perty of parents. fifty-five feet from the bank. When Shaw took hold of Ritchie, the latter immediately turned and climbed on Shaw's back, forcing him under the surface. While he stood on Shaw's back, with his own head above the surface, Ritchie called for help, but sank, in a moment or two, and was drowned. Shaw came to the surface a few minutes later and a man caught hold of his leg, but lost his hold and Shaw drowned.

540 Albert E. Johnson, aged forty-seven, farmer and well Silver Medal and digger, died attempting to save Frederick A. Herbaldsheimer, $35 a month for aged twenty-eight, laborer, from suffocation, Powell, Wyo., support of widow, February 14, 1910. Regardless of warnings, Johnson insisted during her life, or and had himself lowered on a rope, to the bottom of a fifty-foot until she re well, to rescue Herbaldsheimer, who had been overcome by marries, with $5 a gas. In less than a minute, Johnson was heard to groan and month additional those at the top became excited and made no attempt to hoist for each of three him. After about fifteen minutes, the rope was drawn up with children u n t i 1 Herbaldsheimer tied to it. He was dead. Johnson was each reaches age brought up later. He recovered consciousness during the day, of sixteen. but died that evening.

‘541 Alexander Fraser, aged forty-six, fireman, sustained fatal Silver Medal and injuries attempting to save Frank O. Stenberg, aged twenty $40 a month for eight, stationary engineer, from burning, Allston, Mass., support of widow, January 16, 1907. Fraser entered an engine room filled with during her life, or steam which was escaping at eighty-five-pounds pressure from until she re an exploded engine, in search of Stenberg, who he thought was marries, with $5 a in the room. In about five minutes he came out of the room, month additional badly scalded. He was taken to a hospital where he died the for her daughter next morning. Stenberg had left the engine room before until she reaches Fraser entered. age of sixteen.

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542 Cosimo Gisondi, aged twenty-seven, track foreman, died Silver Medal. saving Tony Flakeheri, aged thirt -seven, laborer,from being run over by a train, Fonda, N. Y., August 25, 1909. Springing onto the track in front of a freight train running thirty-five miles an hour, Gisondi shoved F lakeheri, who stood there bewildered, ahead of him off the track, but just as he was clear ing the rail,the pilot struck Gisondi and knocked him clear of the track. He died in a few minutes.

543 M. Woodhull Blanchard, aged twenty-nine, clerk, died Silver Medal and attempting to save John Giesinger, aged thirty-three, em $50 av month for broidery stitcher, from drowning, Keansburg, N. J., August support of widow, 25, 1910. ‘Blanchard swam one hundred feet to Giesinger, during her life, or who had stepped into a deep hole in Raritan Bay, and when until s h e r e he got within reach of Giesinger, the latter grabbed him around marries. the neck with both arms. After a violent struggle, both sank and were drowned.

Henry E. Kuphal, aged twenty-nine, mining engineer, Silver Medal and helped to save Mattie Roderick, aged forty-six, from drowning, $1,000 for a Libby, Mont., June 15, 1910. Kuphal,who had just completed worthy purpose, a walk of twenty-eight miles, got astride a steel cable, stretched as needed. across the Kootenai River twenty-five feet above the water, to which was attached a ferry-boat and made his way out to the assistance of Mrs. Roderick, who was in a perilous position on the ferry, which had been disabled in the swollen waters of the river, one hundred seventy-five feet from shore. He got the woman to a safer place and while trying to steer the ferry to the bank, was struck by a floating log and pinioned against the steering-wheel. In about half an hour, one cable support gave way, freeing Kuphal, and he was swept into the river. The water was fifteen feet deep and the current flowed about eight miles an hour. Kuphal felt numb and had a cramp in his leg, but managed to seize a drifting log and swim to a man in a rowboat, who took him to the bank. Mrs. Roderick was rescued later.

Charles E. Marshall, aged thirty-six, forest ranger, Silver Medal and attempted to save Henry E. Kuphal, and helped to save Mattie $1,000 t o w a r d Roderick, from drowning, Libby, Mont., June 15, 1910. p u r c h a s e of a Marshall saw Kuphal and Mrs. Roderick and with great diffi home. culty, made his way out .to the ferry, as had Kuphal. He tried to free Kuphal but was not able to move the log. Marshall had carried a rope out with him and called to men on the bank to attach an axe. While pulling the axe out the cable gave way and Marshall seeing Kuphal was carried away by the water, hurried to Mrs. Roderick, who was hysterical and barely able to to stand in the rushin water. He held her while the ferry drifted downstream an grounded on a rock and remained there with Mrs. Roderick about twenty-five minutes, until a man reached them in a rowboat and took them to the bank.

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William E. Dawson, aged thirty-five, merchant, saved Bronze Medal and Henry E. Kuphal, Mattie Roderick, and Charles E. Marshall, $1,000 t o be from drowning, Libby, Mont., June 15, 1910. Dawson, using applied to the an old and unwieldy rowboat, and two board paddles, had liquidation of his failed in two attempts to reach the ferry, the strong current debts. each time sweeping him far below the disabled boat. Another rowboat was secured and, with similar paddles, Dawson tried again, but this trip resulted as had the others. On the fourth trip be nearly collided with the ferry, but managed to swing his boat clear and in a moment or two the cable gave away. After rowing about ten feet toward the ferry, Kuphal swam to him. He helped Kuphal into the boat and watched the ferry until it grounded and then rowed Kuphal to the bank. Dawson was exhausted and rested twenty-five minutes before he dragged his boat above the ferry, and launching it again went out and got Mrs. Roderick and Marshall.

547 Paul Jones, Jr., aged twenty-four, student, attempted to Bronze Medal. save Charles H. Wigmore, aged twenty-three, egg sorter, and John F. Murphy, aged twenty-three, rubber worker, from drowning, Cambridge, Mass., January 9, 1909. Wigmore and Murphy broke through the ice on the Charles River, seventy feet from shore. Jones heard their calls for help but could not see them on account of darkness. Shoving a ladder in front of him on the ice, Jones succeeded in reaching a point thirty-five feet from the bank, when he broke through. He shoved the ladder five feet more and then could make no further progress, and was compelled to hold to the ladder until men in a boat reached him. He was incapacitated two days, from exposure. ~

Delia R. Powers, aged thirty-two, housewife, saved Joseph Bronze Medal and Kennedy, aged three, from being run over by a train, Rochdale, $1,000 toward pur Mass., December 9, 1909. Standing between the west-bound chase of a home. and east-bound tracks,a few feet from the child,who had fallen just outside the inner rail of the west-bound track,on which a passenger train was rapidly approaching, Mrs. Powers crouched down and rolled Joseph toward her, getting him three feet from the rail, as the engine rushed by. A passenger train stood on the east-bound track,and the clearance between the cars of the two trains was only about three feet. Neither was injured.

549 Charles V. Swain, aged twenty-three, student, saved Bronze Medal and John Halton, aged forty-two, physician and hotel proprietor, $1,000 for a from drowning, Sarasota, Fla., December 29, 1909. Swain worthy purpose. swam four hundred feet to Halton, who had been caught by a as needed. swift current in Big Sarasota Pass, in water fifteen feet deep. Drawing Halton's arm across his shoulders, Swain swam across the current and against a strong wind, until he got into a current paralleling the shore. Still supporting Halton, who was almost unconscious, Swain swam and drifted to shallow water, and from there dragged Halton to shore, where he revived him. Swain swam and drifted with Halton almost nine hundred feet.

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550 Peter C. Banfield, aged twenty-seven, foreman of linemen, Bronze Medal and rescued John F. Casey, aged forty-two, lineman, from electric $1,000 to be shock, Windsor, Conn., November 27, 1909. Banfield climbed applied to the to the top of a twenty-four-foot pole to aid Casey, who had liquidation of his come in contact with a wire carrying a current of forty-eight debts, and for hundred volts, and lay unconscious upon it. Banfield, moving o t h e r w o r t h y among the high-power wires, cut one of them, and then jerked purpose, as needed. Casey loose from the one on which he lay. Casey struggled, but Banfield, while clinging to the pole with his legs, worked resuscitating him until another man climbed the pole and handed Banfield a rope, with which Casey was lowered. Casey died from his injuries six days later. Banfield was disabled five days.

Levi Jackson, aged thirty-two, fisherman, helped to save Bronze Medal and William H. Haskell, aged forty-six, sea captain, Ida M. Haskell, $2,000 to be aged thirty-four, and twelve others from drowning, Edgartown, applied to the Mass., January 23, 1910. In a very rough and treacherous liquidation of his sea, following a heavy storm, Captain Jackson and a crew of debts, and for four men went in the “Priscilla," a small fishing-boat, to a other worthy pur~ disabled schooner which had grounded on a shoal in the pose, as needed. Atlantic Ocean, four miles from shore. The “ Priscilla," after careful maneuvering, was brought in the lee of the schooner and anchored, and three of the crew, each with a seventeen-foot dory, made trips to the wreck and rescued its occupants, one at a time. Great difficulty was experienced in effecting the rescues on account of the waves which swept over the wreck, but after two hours' work, under Jackson's direction, all were gotten aboard his boat. The “Priscilla" had to make a trip of thirteen miles, part of the way through very heavy seas, to Leach Edgartown, a huge wave at one time nearly filling the oat.

552 Patrick 5. Kelly, aged twenty-two, fisherman, helped to Bronze Medal and save William H. and Ida M. Haskell, and twelve others $1,000 for 8 from drowning, Edgartown, Mass., January 23, 1910. (See worthy purpose, Award No. 551.) Kelly manned a dory and made five trips as needed. to the wreck, rescuing Captain Haskell and three members of the schooner's crew. On the fourth trip, when a sailor jumped from the wreck and missed the dory, Kelly stood by to try to pick the man up. Upon reaching the dory, the man grabbed hold of the gunwale and a wave swamped the dory, which by chance was swept under the bowsprit and both were able to catch hold of its stays and climb up to the bowsprit, from which they were taken later in a dory.

553 Louis A. Doucette, aged thirty-two, fisherman, helped to Bronze Medal and save William H. and Ida M. Haskell, and twelve others $1,000 toward pur from drowning, Edgartown, Mass., January 23, 1910. (See chase of a home Award No. 551.) Doucette made seven trips to the stranded schooner in a dory and rescued six of its crew without mishap.

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554 Henry A. Kelly, aged twenty-four, fisherman, helped to Bronze Medal and save William H. and Ida M. Haskell, and twelve others $1,000 for a from drowning‘, Edgartown, Mass., January 23, 1910. (See worthy purpose, Award No. 551.) Henry Kelly, a brother of Patrick, rowed as needed. four times to the wreck, taking off the Captain's wife and three members of the crew, by skillful work meeting with no accident.

Eugene L. Benefito, aged thirty-seven, fisherman, helped Bronze Medal and to save William H. and Ida M. Haskell, and twelve others $1,000 toward pur from drowning, Edgartown, Mass., January 23, 1910. (See chase of a home. Award No. 551.) Benefito was not a regular member of the “Priscilla's" crew. At the wreck, at Captain Jackson's command he remained on the “ Priscilla" and with him helped the benumbed and exhausted ship-wrecked ones from the dories to the deck. '

G. Grey Evans, aged fifteen, student, died attempting to Bronze Medal. save James R. Driggers, aged fourteen, from drowning, Chickasha, Okla., June 1, 1910. Evans, who could not swim, waded to the edge of a sand-bar and extended his hand to Driggers, who was helpless in the swift current of the Washita River, in water eight feet deep. As Driggers caught his hand, Evans slipped into the deep water and both boys went under the surface. Driggers freed himself, came to the surface,and was later rescued. Evans did not reappear.

557 William F. Leland, aged twenty-seven, captain, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save David Simpson, (colored),aged twenty-five, $250 to father, as deck-hand, from drowning, McClellanville, S. C., May 24, 1911. needed. Leland jumped from a river-boat into Jeryme Creek, and, in water fifteen feet deep, swam ninety feet to Simpson, who had fallen overboard. Leland caught Simpson's hands, Simpson's head appeared above the surface of the water momentarily, and then both sank and were drowned.

558 Hector L. MacDonald, aged fourteen, schoolboy, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Richard F. F ahey, aged eleven, from drown $500 to father, as ing, Boston, Mass., March 25, 1910. MacDonald, a poor needed. swimmer, and F ahey who could not swim, were on a raft which was being carried out from shore by the tide and wind in the deep waters of Boston Harbor. The boys jumped from the raft, and, as MacDonald went to the assistance of Fahey, the boys grasped each otherand went underthesurface at a point eighty-five feet from shore. They reappeared a moment later, but sank and were drowned. When the bodies were recovered, the boys still had hold of each other.

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5559 Frank R. Benton, aged sixteen, farmhand, died attempt Bronze Medal to ing to save David Brownell, aged eighteen, farmhand, from father and $1,025 drowning, Huron, Ohio, June 25, 1911. Benton, a poor to be applied _to swimmer, started to the assistance of Brownell, who had been the liquidation of seized by a cramp in the Huron River, where the water was his debts. seven feet deep. When within fifteen feet of Brownell, Benton threw up his hands and went beneath the surface. He came up once or twice, and then sank and was drowned. Brownell also was drowned.

560 Myron L. Reynolds, aged fifteen, schoolboy, died saving Bronze Medal and Philip E. Rollins, aged nine, from drowning, Riverside, Me., $500 to father, as May 19, 1911. Reynolds swam to Rollins, who, unable to needed. swim, had called for help when he got into water over his depth - in Seven Mile Brook, twenty-five feet from.the bank. He grasped Rollins' wrist with his left hand and both went beneath the surface momentarily. When they came up, Reynolds released his hold and pushed Rollins toward the bank. He tried to reach Rollins a second time, as if to push him toward the bank again, but sank and did not reappear. Rollins was zssisted to the bank by boys who extended pieces of timber to 1m.

Elmer R. Martins, aged sixteen, delivery boy, died saving Bronze Medal t0 Aloysius H. Ruppelt, aged eleven, from drowning, Cleveland, father and $1,000 Ohio, June 6, 1911. Martins swam to the assistance of to be applied to Ruppelt, who, unable to swim, had fallen from a raft into water the liquidation of eight feet deep in Kellog's Pond. As Martins extended his his debts, and for hand, Ruppelt grasped it, climbed upon Martins' back and other worthy pur closed his hands around Martins' neck. Martins made some pose, as needed. progress towards the bank, but could not free himself. Another boy extended his hand to Ruppelt, who grasped it and released his hold upon Martins. Martins then sank and did not reappear. Ruppelt was pulled to the bank by the other boy.

562 William R. Howe, aged thirty-three, lock tender, died Bronze Medal to attempting to saveJ. George Myers, aged eight, from drowning, widow and $125 St. Johnsville, N. Y., July 28, 1911. Howe went to the assist to liquidate mort ance of Myers, who could swim but a few strokes and was gage on her prop holding to an overturned canoe in water eight feet deep in the erty, and $20 a Erie Canal, twenty feet from the bank. As he took hold of month during her Myers, the latter threw both arms around Howe's neck. Howe life, or until she swam fifteen feet with Myers and then suddenly shoved Myers remarries, with $5 violently away, sank and was drowned. Myers also was a month additional drowned. for each of five children until each reaches age of sixteen.

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John E. Cook, aged seventeen, painter, died attempting Bronze Medal to to save Clarence Clymer, aged eighteen, farmhand, from mother, and $20 a drowning, Seaford, Del., December 27, 1910. Cook, fully month for five dressed, skated to within ten feet of a hole in the ice on Seaford years. Pond, into which Clymer had fallen. The water was twelve feet deep and Cook knew the ice was weak. Lying on his stomach, he crawled toward the hole, but, when within five feet of the edge, the ice broke under him and he fell into the water. He and Clymer were unable to get out of the hole, and both were drowned.

Mack Stallworth, (colored), aged thirty-three, oil-tank Bronze Medal and cleaner, died saving Squire Bradford (colored), aged twenty $30 a month for eight, oil-tank cleaner, from suffocation, Port Arthur, Texas, support of widow, June 25, 1910. Bradford was overcome in a tank-car by gas during her life, or which had formed in it. Stallworth entered the car through untilsheremarries, an opening fifteen inches in diameter, and, grasping Bradford, with $5 a month lifted him up so that two men on the outside of the car could additional for her reach him. Bradford was gotten out, but Stallworth was over son until he reaches come by the gas and was suffocated before he could be rescued. age of sixteen. Bradford revived.

565 Bernhard Schneider, Sr., aged forty-three, farmer, died Bronze Medal and saving Robert A. Iffrig, aged fourteen, farmer, from drowning, $35 a month for St. Peters, Mo., July 28, 1911. Schneider went to the assist support of widow, ance of Iffrig, who, unable to swim, had stepped into a hole in during her life, or Dardenne Creek, where the water was fourteen feet deep. As until she remarries, he reached the edge of the hole and caught hold of Iffrig, with $5 a month Schneider, also unable to swim, slipped into water over his additional for each depth, and both went beneath the surface. When they came of three children up, Schneider pushed If‘frig toward the bank and then sank until each reaches and did not reappear. Iffrig was pulled out by a boy who age of sixteen. extended a stick to him. 566 William McSweeney, aged thirty-six, bartender, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Charlotte J. O'Brien, aged twenty-eight, $35 a month for from drowning, Utica, N. Y., November 4, 1911. McSweeney support of widow, dived and swam about seventy feet toward Mrs. O'Brien, who, during her life, or unable to swim, was drifting downstream in the Erie Canal, at untilsheremarries, night, in water eight feet deep. When within six feet of Mrs. with $5 a month O'Brien, McSweeney sank beneath the surface and drowned. additional for each Mrs. O'Brien was rescued by men who extended a pole to her. of four children until each reaches age of sixteen. 567 John F. Van Derkar, aged forty, core maker, died attempt Bronze Medal and ing to save Salvatore Sitaro, aged seven, from drowning, $45 a month for Hoosick Falls, N. Y., August 20, 1911. Van Derkar swam support of widow, thirty feet in the Hoosick River to Sitaro, who had fallen from during her life, or a bridge into water six feet deep. Catching hold of Sitaro, he untilsheremarries, swam about ten feet with him and then let go of him and with $5 a month sank. He did not come to the surface again. Sitaro was additional for each rescued by two other men. of five children until each reaches age of sixteen.

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568 William A. Norman, aged thirty-five, barber, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save an indeterminate person, or persons, from a $50 a month for runaway, Pittsfield, Mass., June 9, 1911. Norman grabbed support of widow, the bridle of one of two horses, but was thrown under the during her life, or horse and dragged fifteen feet, when he lost his hold and was untilsheremarries, trampled upon and run over by the wagon. He sustained with $5 a month injuries which resulted in his death. additional for each of two children until each reaches age of sixteen. 569 Daniel F. Allen, aged twenty-six, city electrician and fire Bronze Medal and man, attempted to save William F. Wolters, aged thirty-three, $1,000 toward pur brewer, from suffocation, Olean, N. Y., August 21, 1911. Allen chase of a home. descended a ladder to the bottom of a cistern fourteen feet deep, to the assistance of Wolters and a boy, who had been overcome by carbonic acid gas. Picking up Wolters, he ascended the ladder a few feet, but finding he was being weakened by the gas, he returned to the bottom and dropped Wolters. Allen was able to ascend and, after reaching the surface, recovered. Wolters and the boy were gotten out later and revived.

570 Joseph R. Haase, aged thirty-two, brewery worker, died Silver Medal and attempting to save William F. Wolters from suffocation, Olean, $60 a month for N. Y., August 21, 1911. (See Award No. 569.) After Allen support of widow, and another man had made an attempt to rescue Wolters, during her life, or and the boy had been rescued, Haase arrived at the cistern. untilsheremarries, Refusing to take any precautions for his own safety, Haase, with $5 a month holding one end of a rope, descended into the cistern and additional for each attempted to fasten the rope around Wolters' body, but was of two children overcome and fell to the bottom. He was gotten out later, until each reaches but could not be revived age of sixteen.

571 Samuel A. Wetton, aged fifty-two, timber foreman, helped Silver Medal and to save Andrew Anderson, aged fifty-one, carpenter, from $1,000 for a drowning, Superior, Wis., April 10, 1910. Anderson's sail worthy purpose, boat had been dismasted and, helpless, he was being tossed as needed. about violently on Lake Superior, by the high waves that were running. Wetton and others hauled a rowboat to the shore and Wetton called for volunteers. Two men responded and the three launched the boat, but it was upset in the breakers, a hundred feet from shore. The men were thrown into shallow water and waded ashore. Wetton again called for volunteers and two other men joined him. They successfully passed through the breakers after a half-hour's hard rowing, during which their boat was nearly capsized several times. They reached Anderson's boat, five hundred feet out, just outside the breakers. Anderson changed his position and his boat capsized, but Wetton was able to grab him and, with the help of one of the other men, pull him from the water into their boat. The trip to shore was made safely. 572 John Conley, aged thirty-six, blacksmith, helped to save Bronze Medal and Andrew Anderson from drowning, Superior, Wis., April 10, $1,000 for a 1910. (See Award No. 571.) Conley was one of the two men worthy purpose. who made the second trip with Wetton and it was he who as needed. helped pull Anderson into the boat.

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William J. Munnings, aged seventeen, blacksmith's Bronze Medal and helper, helped to save Andrew Anderson from drowning, $1,000 for a Superior, Wis., April 10, 1910. (See Award No. 571.) worthy purpose, Munnings was one of the two men who accompanied Wetton as needed. on the second trip.

574 Oren G. Buchner, aged eighteen, student, saved Sadye Bronze Medal and Guttery, aged twenty-three, from drowning, Middletown, Ill., $1,000 for a June 16, 1910. Buchner extended his hands to aid Miss worthy purpose, Guttery, who, unable to swim, had slipped from a sand-bar as needed. into deep water in Salt Creek, but she grabbed his wrists and pulled him into water over his depth, and both went under the surface. Miss Guttery's hold prevented Buchner from swimming, but he trod water and they arose. The current carried them downstream and, despite Buchner's efforts, they went under again, when Miss Guttery released her hold on one of his wrists. Buchner then succeeded in swimming with Miss Guttery to the protruding roots of a submerged tree seventy-five feet below the bar, to which they clung until she was taken into a boat, twenty-five minutes later. 575 Clara Hogstad, aged twenty, stenographer, attempted to Silver Medal and save Joseph Schultz, aged seventy, boatkeeper, from being run $1 ,000 for a over by a train, Lafayette, Pa., September 23, 1910. Miss worthy purpose, Hogstad, in a weakened condition from a recent operation, ran as needed. fifty feet to Schultz, who stood motionless a few inches outside the track on which the train was approaching at a speed of forty miles an hour. Just as she caught his sleeve and attempt ed to pull him off the track, the train struck Schultz, knocking him against Miss Hogstad. She was hurled fifteen feet and badly bruised. Schultz was instantly killed. 576 Henry S. Moore, aged forty-four, hoist operator, saved Silver Medal and Neil F. Campbell, aged nine, from drowning, Sydney, N. S., $2,000, as needed, February 7, 1911. Moore broke through the thin ice on Sydney for the education Harbor as he crawled toward Campbell, who, unable to swim, of his children. had broken through where the water was over ten feet deep. Breaking the ice for a distance of fifteen feet, Moore swam to Campbell, who was beneath the surface and unconscious. He caught hold of Campbell and swam to the edge of the hole, but as he tried to support himself, the ice broke several times. Finally an overcoat was thrown to him and he and Campbell were pulled to solid ice, and out of the hole. Moore suffered no ill effects. Campbell was revived. 577 Percy E. Morrell, aged twenty-six, manager, attempted to Silver Medal and save Charles W. Laue, aged twenty-three, real estate dealer, $3,000 to be from being run over by a train, New York, N. Y., January 7, applied to the 1910. Jumping from the platform down onto the track in liquidation of his front of an approaching subway train, Morrell grabbed Laue, debts. who, stunned, lay on the track. He leaped off the track into a narrow space under the overhanging platform, dragging Laue with him, and had him almost off the track when the train, running eighteen miles an hour, reached them. Laue's foot was caught, and he was pulled from Morrell's grasp. His right leg was amputated and his thigh fractured, but he recovered. Morrell escaped unhurt.

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578 Clark H. Presley, aged forty-three, driver, died attempt Silver Medal. ing to save Howard M. Huseselton, aged three, from being run over by a street-car, Nottingham, Ohio, August 31, 1911. Presley ran to the edge of the track and, with the car only twenty feet away and approaching at a speed of thirty miles an hour, reached for the child, who sat between the rails. Before he could grasp the boy, the car struck him. He was fatally injured and died two hours later. The child was run over by the car and died the following day.

579 Canzada M. Owen, aged forty-two, housewife, died Silver Medal. attempting to rescue Emma C. and Mabel C. McLain, and Elizabeth Deffenbaugh, aged thirty-three, one, and thirty-six respectively, from a runaway, Brashear, Texas, May 31, 1905. Mrs. Owen, with an uplifted chair in her hands, ran into the road in the path of a team of mules drawing a wagon containing the women and child. She was struck by one mule, knocked to the ground, and run over by the wagon, sustaining fatal injuries.

580 Saul M. Krieger, aged nineteen, student, died attempting Silver Medal. to save Nelson Staley, aged eighteen, student, from drowning, St. Ignace, Mich., August 22, 1911. Krieger swam seventy five feet toward Staley, who had become exhausted in water seven feet deep in the Straits of Mackinac, and, just as he approached within reach of Staley, both boys sank and were drowned.

581 William M. Hoffmann, aged twenty-nine, polisher, died Silver Medal and attempting to save William G. Hotchkiss, aged eleven, from $25 a month for drowning, New Hartford, Conn., January 23, 1911. With the support of step temperature at freezing point, Hoffmann went from the shore mother, during her to the assistance of Hotchkiss, who had broken through the ice life. on the Farmington River, onehundred thirty-five feet from the bank, where the water was over eight feet deep. When within reach of Hotchkiss, the ice broke beneath Hoflmann, throwing him into the water. He caught hold of Hotchkiss and helped him reach the edge of the hole, but his efforts to assist Hotchkiss out of the hole were unsuccessful, as the ice broke each time he tried. Hoffmann then became separated from Hotchkiss and was too dazed and numb to help Hotchkiss or himself. In a few moments both sank and were drowned.

582 Edward S. Saunders, aged fifty-seven, baggage-master, Silver Medal and died attempting to save Ann E. Stone and Hannah C. Colyer, $40 a month for aged seventy-seven and sixty, respectively, from being run over support of widow, by a train, Elizabeth, N. J., April 16, 1911. Saunders sprang during her life, or upon the track, at night, in front of a rapidly-approaching until she remarries, passenger train,and, just as he attempted to catch hold of one with $5 a month of the women, both of whom had stepped upon the track, the additional for each train struck the three. They were dead when picked up. of two children until each reaches age of sixteen.

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Adam Eichele, aged thirty-five, carpenter, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save William ]. Forest, aged eleven, from drowning, $40 a month for Troy, N. Y., September 6, 1911. Eichele jumped from support of widow, a bridge, thirty feet above the surface of the water, into during her life, or the Hudson River, and swam to Forest, who was struggling untilsheremarries, against the current in water twelve feet deep. Catching hold with $5 a month of the boy with his left arm, Eichele swam fifty feet with him additional for each and then suddenly became distressed and both went under the of two children surface, and were drowned. until each reaches age of sixteen; also $30 a month for support of mother, during her life.

584 Stanley 0. Seccombe, aged eighteen, student, saved Bronze Medal. E. Ralph Alexander, aged twenty-six, student, from drowning, Derby, Conn., August 7, 1910. Seccombe, in darkness, dived into the Housatonic River to save Alexander, a poor swimmer, who had fallen from a float and was drowning, thirty feet from the bank, in water ten feet deep. Alexander grasped Seccombe and pulled him under the surface. He then released his grasp. Seccombe held Alexander's head above the surface until he was able to grasp a canoe that was shoved to them and they were assisted from the water.

585 William C. Diville, aged fifty, blacksmith, attempted to Bronze Medal. save Earl H. Torrance, aged twenty-eight, chauffeur, from burning, Lisbon, Ohio, November 25, 1911. Diville, knowing the situation, went through a hole in a partly-wrecked and burning garage to Torrance, who, with his clothes burning, lay unconscious, close to five steel tanks containing two hundred fifty gallons of gasoline. Diville, with the help of another man, dragged him from the building. Torrance died a few minutes later. Diville was not injured.

586 King Upton, aged forty-eight, First Vice-president, Ameri Bronze Medal. can Glue Company, saved Francis A. Low, aged seventy-four, private secretary, from drowning, Duxbury, Mass., September 18, 1910. Upton, fully dressed, jumped from a yacht, at night, and swam to Low, who had fallen overboard and was nearly unconscious in the main channel of Duxbury Bay, where the water was over twenty feet deep. He was unable to progress against the tide, but supported Low fifteen minutes, when a boat reached them.

587 Michele Perri, aged thirty-nine, laborer, helped to save Bronze Medal and Eugene P. Duncan, aged six, from being run over by a loco $500 for a motive, Allison Park, Pa., May 15, 1911. Perri and another worthy purpose , man ran across the east-bound track to Eugene, who was as needed. walking on the ties outside the far rail of the west-bound track, on which a locomotive was approaching at a speed of forty miles an hour. They reached Eugene together, and their momentum carried him and them from the track, just as the locomotive rushed by.

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588 Giuseppe Caruso, aged twenty-eight, laborer, helped to Bronze Medal and save Eugene P. Duncan from being run over by a locomotive, $500 for a Allison Park, Pa., May 15, 1911. (See Award No. 587.) worthy purpose, Caruso ran to Eugene at the same time as Perri. as needed.

589 Carrie Bashlin, aged twenty-five, waitress, saved Herman Bronze Medal and E. Lewis, aged twenty-four, hotel clerk, from drowning, $1,000 for a Rockland, Me., August 4, 1909. Miss Bashlin waded and worthy purpose. swam fifty feet to where Lewis, who could not swim, was as needed. struggling in Rockland Harbor, where the water was over six feet deep. Lewis grasped her and pulled her under the surface, but she freed herself and, towing him after her, swam fifteen feet to _wadable water.

590 Joseph P. Herlihy, aged seventeen, printer's apprentice, Bronze Medal and saved John J. Noone, aged eight, schoolboy, from drowning, $1,000 for a Chelsea, Mass., January 22, 1911. Herlihy ran and crawled worthy purpose one hundred thirty-six feet over the ice on Snake Creek as needed. toward Noone, who had broken through into water seven feet deep. When he was seven feet from the hole, he broke through the ice and then swam to Noone, breaking the thin ice before him. He grasped Noone's coat and supported him until a man approached with a board and took 'Noone from the water. Another man brought a board and assisted Herlihy from the water.

591 Norman McIntosh, aged forty-five, fisherman, helped to Bronze Medal and save Henry Hayden, captain, aged sixty-one, and George R. $1,000 for a and Harry H. Hayden, apprentice seamen, twins, aged worthy purpose, thirteen, from drowning, Souris, P. E. I., October 8, 1907. as needed. At night, in a gale, McIntosh and another man put out in an eighteen-foot dory, and rowed twenty-seven hundred feet to the schooner “Marcella," which was wrecked on a pile of rocks in Souris Harbor, seven hundred fifty feet from the shore, where the water was over twelve feet deep. While one man rowed the dory, the other bailed water from it, and it was handled with great difficulty. Waves were breaking with great force. over the rocks and the schooner, and it was neces sary to approach the wreck three times and take the crew off one at a time. Fifteen minutes after the crew was taken off, the schooner went to pieces.

Mark Cheverie, aged eighteen, fisherman,~helped to save Bronze Medal and Henry, George R., and Harry H. Hayden from drowning, $1,000 for a Souris, P. E. I., October 8, 1907. (See Award No. 591.) worthy purpose, Cheverie accompanied McIntosh to the schooner "Marcella" as needed. and assisted in saving the crew.

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593 Thomas F. Gallagher, aged twenty-five, car-runner, Bronze Medal and helped to save Joseph Lucas, James E. Dougher, and Anthony $1 ,000 for a Gowrey, from suffocation, Sebastopol, Pa., January 10, 1911. worthy purpose , (See Award No. 524.) ‘ as needed.

594 Samuel J. Plowman, aged twenty-eight, farmer, saved Bronze Medal and G. N. Eames, aged fifty, well-digger, from suffocation, Overton, $1,000 for a Texas, September 28, 1911. Despite the pleadings of his worthy purpose, wife and mother, Plowman had himself lowered to the bottom as needed. of a thirty-seven-foot well to save Eames, who he knew was overcome by gas. He placed around Eames the end of a rope, which was loosely looped over a windlassat the mouth of the well. While Plowman was being drawn up, the rope around Eames caught on the windlass and began to wind up. The combined weight of the two men caused the windlass to break. Plowman thrust his feet into the clay wall, and, with his back against the opposite side, supported himself for a few minutes, half way from the top, while the windlass was being fixed. The rope by which Eames was suspended was cut near the wind lass, but the end of it caught on Plowman's foot as Eames fell, and Plowman carried it to the surface when he was drawn up. He then fastened the rope to the windlass and Eames was drawn to the surface and revived.

595 William F. Mann, aged thirty-three, blacksmith, saved Bronze Medal and J. Luke Erne, aged twenty-three, well-digger, from suffocation, $1,000 for a Lynchburg, Va., June 22, 1910. Mann ran to a well and, worthy purpose. seeing others afraid to descend, slid down a rope to Erne, who as needed. lay overcome by gas at the bottom, thirty-five feet below the surface of the ground. He wrapped the rope around his left arm, grasped Erne with his right arm, fastened his teeth in - Erne's clothing, and was drawn to the surface with him. Erne was revived.

596 Curtis C. Wright, aged eighteen, student, saved Scot Bronze Medal and Johnson, aged fifteen, student, from drowning, Fort Smith, $1,000 for a Ark., May 13, 1911. Wright swam one hundred feet against worthy purpose, a strong current to Johnson, who, panic-stricken, was strug as needed. gling in Arkansas River, where the water was nine feet deep. He supported Johnson several minutes until a boat reached them, and they were taken from the water in a very weakened condition.

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597 Alphonse N. (iagnon, aged sixteen, factory hand, Bronze Medal and attempted to save George Potvin, aged twenty-five, carpenter, $1,000 for a from drowning, Georgiaville, R. I., August 13, 1908. Gagnon worthy purpose, swam thirty feet and then dived toward Potvin, who could as needed. not swim and was in distress in Georgiaville Reservoir, where the water was fifteen feet deep. He reached Potvin, as the latter was going down a third time, and was seized by him. They went down twice, and, in the struggle, Gagnon swallowed some water. A companion then caught Gagnon's right hand and jerked him so violently to shallow water that Potvin lost his hold and was drowned. Gagnon was exhausted.

598 ‘ Henry S. Blank, aged twenty-three, plumber, attempted Bronze Medal and to rescue Philip A. Herbert, aged fifteen, plumber's apprentice, $1,000 for a from burning, Dayton, Ohio, November 23, 1910. Blank worthy purpose. went down intoa cellar to a tank, which was forty inches high as needed. and had contained lard-oil, to rescue Herbert, who was standing in the tank with his clothes ablaze. Flames extended above Herbert's head and small ones rose from the ground near the tank. Blank attempted to lift- Herbert and then called another man to help. They raised Herbert about a foot, when Blank's companion slipped and fell. Blank, with his trousers burning, ran from the scene. At the top of the stairs, he lay down and another man assisted him to extinguish the flames in his clothes. Herbert was taken from the tank, unconscious, a short time later and died. Blank sustained burns of the hands and ankles.

599 John L. Gridley, aged twenty-five, machinist, died Bronze Medal and attempting to help rescue Philip A. Herbert from burning, $50 a month for Dayton, Ohio, November 23, 1910. (See Award No. 598.) support of widow. Gridley assisted Blank in his effort to lift Herbert from the during her life. tank but fell. His clothes caught fire, and he sustained burns or until she re which resulted in his death. ' marries.

600 Claude M. Hiser, aged twenty, horticulturist, saved Bronze Medal and Antonio Giurdano and Tomaso Luprica, laborers, aged thirty $1,000 for a five and twenty-five, respectively, from drowning, Bradner, worthy purpose. Ohio, August 14, 1910. Hiser removed his outer clothes and as needed. shoes and swam cautiously to the men, who could not swim and were struggling in Stone Quarry Pond, twenty feet from the bank, where the water was over eight feet deep. Holding Giurdano, who was conscious, at arm's length, he swam to the bank and then returned for Luprica, who had gone beneath the surface. He let himself down into the water twice without finding Luprica; then, after going to the bank and resting about half a minute, he returned and let himself down several times, before he touched Luprica. Grasping him he swam to the bank with Luprica, and the latter was revived.

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60 1 William C. Cavett, aged twenty-six, farmer, saved Edward Bronze Medal and D. Smith, aged twenty-seven, farmer, from suffocation, Glade $1,000 t o \v a rd water, Texas, August 4, 1910. Cavett went down a ladder purchase of a farm. into a twenty~six-foot well, from which he had previously ascended because of the presence of gas, to rescue Smith, who had been overcome and had fallen to the bottom as he was being drawn up. Cavett tied a rope around Smith and climbed to the surface. and Smith was then drawn up and revived.

T. Edgar Conway, aged twenty-five, saw-mill foreman, Bronze Medal and rescued Ellie, Veda, Fern, and Winston Wilson, aged thirty $1,000 toward four, five, thirteen, and three months, respectively, from a purchase of a farm. runaway, Center, Texas, May 25, 1910. Conway, whose right hand had been badly cut and bandaged, ran and grasped the bridle of a horse driven by Mrs. Wilson, which was lunging and rearing wildly. He was lifted from the groun several times as the horse reared, and finally lost his hold. He fell to his knees and was struck on his face and on both shoulders by the horse's hoofs. He rose and again grasped the bridle and, after a brief struggle, threw the horse to the ground. Mrs. Wilson, Fern, and Winston were assisted to the ground, and then Conway ran and lifted Veda from the buggy. The cuts on Conway's hand were re-opened, his face was cut, and his shoulders were bruised.

603 James W. Sampson, aged thirty-six, store manager, saved Bronze Medal and Charles C. Grantham, aged twenty-two, clerk, from drowning, $1,000 towa rd Ryan, Okla., July 21, 1909. Sampson, although tired and purchase of a farm. nervous from having been forced to swim farther than he was accustomed to swimming, swam thirty feet in the Red River to Grantham, who had become exhausted in water ten feet deep. Grantham became unconscious as Sampson reached him. Sampson was unable to swim with him, and, as he was pulled under the surface by the weight of Grantham's body, he shoved Grantham toward the bank and went to the surface for air. Twice he let down and, standing on the bottom in water over his depth, pushed Grantham toward the bank. He gasped to companions on the bank that he needed assistance. When he reached the surface ten feet from the bank, with Grantham on his right arm, a pole was extended, and he was assisted to the bank. He was exhausted. Grantham was revived.

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604 James V. Manges, aged thirty-nine, driver, rescued Bronze Medal and Frederick G. Williams, aged forty, telephone-inspector, from $1,000 t o ward electric shock, Cleveland, Ohio, May 13, 1911. Williams was purchase of a farm. on a pole, thirty-five feet above the ground, inspecting wires. He grasped a guy-wire and a wire through which a current of electricity of unknown vcltage from an unknown source was passing. He was unable to free himself and lost consciousness. He hung from the wire, with one leg unsupported and the other partly resting on a cable-box. Manges and a companion were near the pole, and Manges's companion ran to the pole, climbed half-way up, and then descended. Manges, un daunted, climbed up and hooked his leg over an arm on the pole, carefully holding himself away from a cable which was fastened to the pole. With pliers, he cut the wire to which Williams was holding; then quickly grasped Williams to prevent him from falling backward. A man then ascended and aided Manges. Williams,who had regained consciousness, was helped to the ground.

Thomas L. Gooley, aged thirty-three, locomotive engineer, Bronze Medal and attempted to save Adam J. Gibson, aged forty-two, clay miner, $1,000 to ward from drowning, New Brighton, Pa., February 11, 1911. liquidating mort Gooley stopped his locomotive, ran to the Beaver River, and gage on his prop swam forty-five feet toward Gibson, who had fallen erty. into the stream. He was attacked by cramps and com pelled to return to the bank. Two men made an effort to prevent him from again entering the water, but he broke away and swam toward Gibson. After swimming twenty-five feet, he was attacked by cramps a second time and returned to the bank. Gooley made a third attempt and swam to a boat, which had approached, and aided the man in the boat in getting Gibson to the bank. Efforts to revive Gibson were unavailing. Gooley suffered from his exposure and was dis abled seven days.

606 G. Frank Caler, aged thirty-nine, machinist, saved Bronze Medal and Caroline Bell, aged seventy-five, from burning, Transfer, Pa., $1,000 toward July 20, 1911. Caler climbed through a window and, seeking liquidating mort Miss Bell, twice felt his way around her bedroom, which was gage on his prop filled with dense smoke and into which flames were bursting erty. overhead. Not finding her, he groped to the window and was pulled out. Despite entreaties of his wife and children, he entered another room, also filled with smoke, in which he found Miss Bell, unconscious. Although he was becoming weak, he managed to drag her to the window, where other men took her and carried her from the building. Caler was dazed. Miss Bell was revived.

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607 Cornelius Fitzgerald, aged forty-two, stationary engineer, Bronze Medal and attempted to save Alfred Legault, aged twelve, schoolboy, and $1,200 to liquidate Gladys Bouchard, aged fourteen, from drowning, Ware, Mass., mortgages on his January 1, 1912. Fitzgerald ran five hundred eighty feet, and property. then walked over thin ice on Muddy Brook toward a hole in which Legault and Miss Bouchard were struggling in water nine feet deep. As they were too exhausted to grasp a rope which he threw them, he approached nearer the hole. Legault sank,and,as Fitzgerald reached out to grasp Miss Bouchard's dress, the ice broke, and he also fell into the water. He grasped Miss Bouchard's dress but was unable to retain his hold, and she sank. Fitzgerald clung to the ice fifteen minutes before assistance reached him. He was too weak to stand alone when taken from the water and was unable to work for two weeks. ' Thomas N. Hazlett, aged forty-two, district superintend Bronze Medal and ent of electric-light company, rescued Robert A. Kaler, aged $1,500 to liquidate twenty-four, arc-lamp inspector, from electric shock, McKees mortgage on his port, Pa., May 21, 1911. Hazlett climbed twenty-five feet up property. an electric-light pole to aid Kaler, who was unconscious and was held to the pole by his safety-belt. Awire carrying a current of thirty-eight hundred volts was in contact with Kaler's hand, and the current was passing through his body. Hazlett shook Kaler‘s arm and dislodged the wire. Hazlett tried to raise Kaler to an upright position against the pole, but Kaler, who was regaining consciousness, struggled and knocked the wire against Hazlett's bare hand, and he was shocked and thrown to the ground. Kaler regained consciousness and descended the pole unaided. Hazlett was badly injured and was dis abled seven weeks.

Lena B. Hunsaker, aged seventeen, schoolgirl, attempted Bronze Medal and to save Lillian Knight and Ruby Miller, aged sixteen and $2,000 for educa fourteen, respectively, from drowning, Colfax, W. Va., June 27, tional purposes, 1911. Miss Knight and Miss Miller, who could not swim, were as needed. struggling in the Tygart's Valley River, having waded into water over their depth. Miss Hunsaker, who could swim but a few strokes, went to their aid, stepped into deep water, was caught by the swift current, and, struggling, was swept a hundred feet from shore, at which point she reached the girls. Having all she could do to keep afloat herself, she was incapable of helping them. She became unconscious and was rescued by a boy. Misses Knight and Miller were drowned. 610 Josephine ' Picroski, aged thirteen, schoolgirl, saved Bronze Medal and Victoria Korzeniowska and Mabel Girotkowska, aged thirteen $2,000 for educa and fifteen,respectively, and attempted to save Mary Zybura, tional purposes, aged thirteen, from drowning, Chicopee, Mass., February 27, as needed. 1911. Miss Picroski, who could not swim and was barefooted, ran one hundred twenty feet across rotten ice to the girls, who had broken through into the Chicopee River, where the water was seven feet deep. She crawled to within a foot of the hole, and, grasping Miss Korzeniowska and Miss Girotkowska, in turn, pulled them from the water. She then crawled to the edge of the hole to assist Miss Zybura, but, just as she reached out for her, Miss Zybura sank and was drowned.

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611 Thomas 0. Doyle, aged twenty-two, student, saved Bronze Medal and Edward Hart, aged eight, from drowning, Worcester, Mass., $2,000 for educa January 18, 1911. Doyle ran one hundred fifty feet over ice, tional purposes, as which at times cracked under him, to Hart, who had broken needed. through into the Blackstone River, where the water was over eight feet deep. He lay on the ice and grasped Hart, but the ice broke a moment later, and Doyle fell into the water. He swam to the edge of the ice, pushing Hart before him, and they were rescued by boys who lay on the ice and formed a chain.

612 Walter W. Powers, aged fifteen, student, attempted to save Bronze Medal and Warren L. 11sley, aged fifteen, student, from drowning, Boston, $2,000 for educa Mass., December 20, 1910. Powers skated to 11sley, who had tional purposes, as broken through ice on the Charles River, forty feet from the needed. bank, where the water was eight feet deep. When Powers attempted to pull 11sley from the hole, the ice broke and Powers fell into the water. Both boys swam to the edge of the ice and were assisted out by another boy, who also broke through, and some men.

613 Chester W. Holmes, aged sixteen, student, attempted to Bronze Medal and save Warren L. 11sley and Walter W. Powers from drowning, $2,000 for educa Boston, Mass., December 20, 1910. (See Award No. 612.) tional purposes, as Holmes was two hundred feet from 11sley when he broke needed. through the ice. He climbed over a fence and was running over the ice toward the hole when Powers broke through. The ice broke under Holmes when he was four feet from the hole, and he swam between the two boys and placed a hand under an arm of each. He supported them in that manner until men arrived with a rope and life-preserver and assisted them from the hole.

614 Alfred D. Cole, aged fifty-five, teamster, sustained fatal Bronze Medal and injuries saving Ivis Jackson, aged twenty-one, from being run $25 a month for over by a locomotive, Saginaw, Mich., November 29, 1911. support of daugh Cole and Miss Jackson, in darkness, stepped on a track to ter, until further gether, without noticing a locomotive, which was backing notice. toward them at a speed of three miles an hour, until it was five feet distant. Cole grabbed Miss Jackson and threw her off the track, but he was struck by the locomotive and was dragged thirty feet before it was stopped. He was taken to a hospital and died three weeks later.

615 Robert H. D. Stephenson, Sr., aged twenty-six, laborer, Bronze Medal and died attempting to save John P. Duffy, aged fifteen, school $25 a month for boy, from drowning, Brooklyn, N. Y., August 4, 1911. Duffy, support of widow. who could not swim, was struggling in water twenty feet deep during her life, or in Gowanus Bay, thirty-five feet from the bank. Stephenson, until she remar although hot and tired, waded toward him. When ten feet ries, with $5 a from where Duffy had last been seen, Stephenson swam toward month additional Duffy, but sank almost immediately and did not re-appear. for her son until When the bodies were recovered, it was found that Stephenson he reaches age of had a large bruise on the right side of his forehead. sixteen.

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616 Robert M. Meek, aged forty-two, miner, died attempting Silver Medal and to save Edwin A. Sutton, aged thirty-four, assistant superin $25 a month for tendent, from suffocation, Cokedale, Colo., February 10, 1911. support of widow, Seventeen men were working in a mine forty feet below the during her life, or surface, when a terrific explosion occurred which disarranged until she remar< the ventilation system and caused after-damp to fill parts of ries, with $5 a the mine. Sutton and Meek, and other men, searched through month additional various entries, finding several bodies. Sutton and a com for each of four panion, wearing oxygen helmets, walked into an entry in children, until which it was known the air was bad, and, after going four each reaches age hundred twenty-five feet, Sutton's helmet failed to work of sixteen. properly, and he fell and became unconscious. His com panion removed Sutton's helmet and went back to Meek, who, upon hearing of Sutton's condition, without a helmet, went into the entry to his assistance. A companion followed about one hundred fifty feet, then turned back because of gas. After going three hundred twenty-five feet, Meek was overcome. He and Sutton were taken out within fifteen minutes, but they could not be revived. 617 William A. Easton, aged forty-seven, mine foreman, Bronze Medal and attempted to save Robert M. Meek and Edwin A. Sutton $1,000 for a from suffocation, Cokedale, Colo., February .10, 1911. (See worthy purpose, Award No. 616.) Easton learned of the accident to Sutton as needed. and Meek and went to the entrance of the entry in which they lay. He knew after-damp was present, but, stooping and breathing cautiously, he led three other men to Meek, and helped to carry him out. Easton felt a slight weakness in his knees, but, others showing a reluctance to go for Sutton, he, five minutes later, leda second party to him, and Sutton was taken out. 618 Kenneth L. Lindsey, aged twenty-one, student, helped to .Silver Medal. save Timothy Lynch, aged forty, janitor, from drowning, Boston, Mass., March 9, 1910. Lynch, who was delirious, attempted to walk across the Charles River on the ice, about one-thirty A. M., but, when seventy-five feet from the bank, he broke through into water over ten feet deep. Lindsey, in bed, heard Lynch's cries and, running from his home, jumped from a wall down to the ice, breaking through to his armpits. He got out upon solid ice with little difiiculty, and walked and crawled on the ice, his hands breaking through several times, until he could grasp Lynch. Then, with the assistance of another man, his guest, who had followed him, he succeeded in gletting Lynch out of the water and a part of the way to the wa . 619 John T. Nightingale, aged twenty-one, student, helped to Silver Medal. save Timothy Lynch from drowning, Boston, Mass., March 9, 1910. (See Award No. 618.) Nightingale, Lindsey's guest, ‘ followed him a short time after he had gone to the rescue. The ice broke under Nightingale, and he went into water to his armpits, but he got out upon solid ice and assisted in getting Lynch from the water. After getting Lynch within thirty-five feet of the wall, Lindsey went ahead to get stimulants. Lynch was unable to stand, and Nightingale pulled and ushed him to the wall, both going through the ice twice be ore the wall was reached. 133 ACTS OF HEROlSM—Continued

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620 J.‘ Malcolm Semmes, Jr., aged thirty-two, salesman, Silver Medal. rescued M. Belle Allstadt and Ira C. Allstadt, Jr., aged twenty-nine and four, respectively, from a runaway, Memphis, Tenn., September 21, 1910. Mrs. Allstadt and Ira were in a buggy to which was hitched a horse, which had been frightened and was dashing down a paved street. Semmes ran into the street and caught one of the reins, near the bit. He was jerked off his feet and dragged one hundred thirty-five feet before the horse was stopped. He was badly bruised and was disabled about twenty days. Mrs. Allstadt and Ira were uninjured. -

621 Raymond l. Coldren, aged thirty-six, foreman of linemen, Silver Medal and rescued Clark Trump, aged twenty-seven, lineman, from $1,000 to be ap electric shock, Uniontown, Pa., January 14, 1911. Coldren plied toward the ran to the assistance of Trump, who was unconscious and was liquidation of his held by his safety-belt and spurs to a pole, near its base. A indebtedness. current of eight thousand one hundred sixty volts was passing through the pole. Coldren grasped Trump's clothes and tried to pull him away from the pole, but was rendered unconscious and hurled against a nearby fence. He made a second attempt, but was again rendered unconscious and thrown to the middle of the street. At the third attempt, he succeededin pulling Trump away from the pole. Trump died from his burns three weeks later. Coldren escaped injury.

622 H. Guy Brown, aged twenty-seven, civil engineer, died Silver Medal. attempting to save Joseph Freer (colored), aged eleven, laborer, from suffocation, Charleston, S. C., April 18, 1911. Brown descended through a twenty-inch opening into a man hole of a sewer where Freer had been overcome by gas and was lying at the bottom, nine and one-half feet below the surface of the ground. He was overcome beforehe could aid Freer, and was taken from the manhole by other men, but could not be revived. Freer was dead when he was gotten out.

623 Bertram N. l-lollingworth, aged nineteen, window-sash Silver Medal. maker, died saving Joseph R. Swaine, aged twenty-two, black ' smith, from drowning, Windsor Locks, Conn., August 29, 1910. Hollingworth jumped from a moving launch and swam to Swaine, who could not swim and had fallen into Windsor Locks Canal, where the water was over eight feet deep. Swaine grabbed and clung to Hollingworth until he was able to catch hold of a rope and climb aboard the launch, but Hollingworth became distressed and was drowned.

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624 H. Burdette Martin, aged thirty-seven, farmer, died Silver Medal to attempting to save Eva S. Wheeler, aged twenty-one, from widow and $2,000 suffocation, Thermopolis, Wyo., May 8, 1910. Martin ran to liquidate her from a place of safety in a sulphur mine and jumped down an indebtedness, and eight-foot descent to Miss Wheeler, who was practically help for other worthy less and being overcome by gas at the bottom of the mine. p u r p o s e , a s Twice he lifted Miss Wheeler but fell to the floor with her. needed, and $30 a Both were overcome and, when taken out later, were found to month durin her be dead. life, or unti she remarries, with $5 a month addi tional for each-of five children until each reaches age of sixteen.

John H. Simmons, aged forty-one, farmer, died attempting Silver Medal and to save John A. Rhyne (colored), aged thirty-four, night $30 a month for watchman, from suffocation, Nebo, N. C., September 29, 1911. support of widow, Simmons made two descentsintoa fifty-foot well, in which were during her life, gas and dynamite smoke, to save Rhyne, who was at the or until she re bottom, unconscious. As Simmons was being drawn up the marries, with $5 second time, after having tied a rope around Rhyne, he a month addi gasped and fell backward to the bottom. Rhyne was dead tional for her son when drawn from the well. Simmons died shortly after being until he reaches gotten to the surface. age of sixteen.

626 Oliver K. Harwood, aged twenty-nine, civil engineer, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Rexford J. Lyon, aged twenty-nine, civil $50 a month for engineer, from suffocation, Syracuse, N. Y., September 1, 1911. support of widow, Lyon was overcome in a sewer manhole by gas which had during her life, or accumulated in it, and Harwood descended to his assistance. until she remar While trying to get Lyon out, Harwood was overcome by the ries. gas and fell into water at the bottom of the manhole and was drowned. Lyon also was drowned.

627 James M. Rose, aged fifty-four, switchman, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save Louise Potts, aged fifty-four, from being run over $45 a month for by a train, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 22, 1912. Rose ran support of widow, twenty-five feet to Mrs. Potts, who had stepped on a track during her life, or on which a passenger train was approaching. When he until she remar started, the train was one hundred twenty-five feet away and ries, with $5 a running at a speed of fifteen miles an hour. In attempting month additional to take her off the track he slipped and fell and caused her to for her son until fall also, and both were struck by the locomotive. They were he reaches age of knocked fifteen feet and rendered unconscious. Neither sixteen. regained consciousness, and both died within an hour.

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628 Newton W. Joyce, aged fifty-three, crossing watchman, Silver Medal and died attempting to save James M. Rose and Louise Potts $35 a month for from being run over by a train, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 22, support of widow, 1912. (See Award No. 627.) Joyce was twenty feet from during her life, or Rose and Mrs. Potts when they fell, and, although crippled until she remar somewhat by rheumatism, he ran toward them. Before he ries. could reach them, he was struck by the locomotive and rolled ithirty feet. He was taken to a hospital and died two hours ater.

Thomas F. Maher, aged fifty-three, crossing watchman, Silver Medal and died attempting to save Jennie S. Kinsella and Ellen L. Sheehan, $30 a month for aged thirty-one and sixty-five, respectively, from being run over support of widow, by a train, Lancaster, N. Y., April 16, 1911. Maher ran in during her life, or front of a train running at a speed of thirty-five miles an hour until she remar to save the women, who had fallen on the track. All three ries. were struck and knocked from the track. Mrs. Sheehan, as well as Maher, was killed, but Mrs. Kinsella escaped with slight injuries.

630 William Riehle, aged sixty-nine, cabinet-maker, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Fritz F. Muller, aged twenty-one, laborer, $40 a month for from suffocation, Walhalla, S. C., May 20, 1911. Muller support of widow, was overcome by gas, following a dynamite blast at the during her life, or bottom of a fifty-three-foot well, and Riehle was lowered to until she remar‘ his assistance. Riehle was dazed by the gas before he could ries. aid Muller and was overcome a short time later. Both were taken from the well by others. Riehle was dead, and Muller died later.

631 James Pruitt (colored), aged forty-four, farmer, saved Silver Medal and Fritz F. Muller and attempted to save William Riehle, from $500 toward pur suffocation, Walhalla, S. C., May 20, 1911. (See Award No. 630.) chase of a farm. Pruitt descended to assist Riehle rescue Muller. He tiedarope around Muller, and he and Muller were drawn to the surface. When Riehle failed to grasp the rope that was let down to him, Pruitt was lowered into the well but, when part way down, called to be drawn up. Pruitt was hoisted, and was weak and unable to work for two weeks.

632 James Hunter (colored), aged fifty-six, farmer, attempted Bronze Medal and to save William Riehle from suffocation, Walhalla, S. C., May $500 toward pur 20, 1911. (See Award No. 630.) Hunter, tied to the well-rope, chase of a farm. was lowered into the well to rescue Riehle, after Pruitt had been drawn up the second time. He tied a rope around Riehle, and both were drawn from the well. Hunter was so weak he was hardly able to stand.

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633 John J. Wilber, aged forty, mine track-layer, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save an indeterminate person, or persons, from suffoca $35 a month for tion, Panama, 111., November 11, 1910. Following an explos support of widow, sion of gas, which disarranged the ventilating system of a coal during her life, or mine, Wilber, with two others, left a safe entry and went into until she remar the section of the mine affected by the explosion to the aid of ries, with $5 a the miners who had been working there. After they had gone month additional two hundred fifty feet in an entry in which much after damp for each of three was present, and in which they had to stoop low to get fresh children until each air, Wilber crawled one hundred sixty-five feet farther and reaches age of six was then compelled to call for assistance. His companions teen. tried to drag him out but had to leave him, and he suffocated.

634 James W. Blaylock, aged thirty-four, miner, saved Silver Medal and Arthur E. McReaken, aged twenty-nine, miner, and attempted $1,000 towa rd to save an indeterminate person, or persons, from suffocation, purchase of a farm. Panama, 11l., November 11, 1910. (See Award No. 633.) Blaylock was one of Wilber's companions and was able to crawl only one hundred feet. He lay with his face close to the floor and, having revived somewhat, had started to crawl back to good air, when Wilber called for assistance. He returned and helped drag Wilber. A few moments after leaving Wilber, Blaylock's other companion became too weak to go farther, and Blaylock dragged him to where the air was better. They then both lost consciousness. Blaylock was taken from the mine later, and revived.

635 Arthur E. McReaken attempted to save an indeterminate Silver Medal and person, or persons, from suffocation, Panama, Ill., November $1,000 t o w a r d 11, 1910. (See Award No. 633.) McReaken was the other liquidating his in of Wilber's companions. He was able to crawl fifty feet far debtedness. ther than Blaylock, and, when “'ilber called for help, he went with Blaylock to his assistance. He became very weak shortly after leaving Wilber, and was assisted by Blaylock. He lost‘ consciousness, and was taken from the mine later, and revive .

Emil F. Grabruck, aged thirty-eight, mine superintendent, Silver Medal and attempted to save an indeterminate person, or persons, from $1,000 for a suffocation, Panama, Ill., November 11, 1910. (See Award worthy purpose, No. 633.) Grabruck, who joined Wilber and his two com as needed. panions in the gassy entry, was able to go nearer to the scene of the explosion than they, and he assisted two men toward fresh air. He became too weak to continue his efforts, started to crawl to good air, lost his way, and became unconscious. He was taken from the mine later, and revived. The men he tried to rescue lost their lives.

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637 Forest W. McNeir, aged thirty-four, contractor and Gold Medal. architect, saved Charles A. Rogers, aged twenty-five, city fireman, from burning, Houston, Texas, February 12, 1910. Rogers was at the top of an aerial ladder, when the cable supporting it came in contact with an electric wire and was burned in two, allowing the ladder to drop and catch Rogers's foot between it and the stationary ladder supporting it. The ladder remained in contact with the wire, and a current of electricity of unknown voltage passed through parts of the ladder and the truck to which it was fastened, and Rogers was being shocked. Unable to release his foot, he was thirty-five feet above the ground, opposite a window from which flames and smoke frequently belched and enveloped him. After two firemen had attempted to go to Rogers's assistance and been knocked away from the truck by the electricity, and the assistant chief of the fire department had warned his men not to attempt to scale the ladder, McNeir went to the truck and climbed the ladder to Rogers, McNeir's hair being singed and his clothing scorched as he passed a window below Rogers. When McNeir touched Rogers, he received a shock which caused him to fall backward to the ground, his body striking and jarring the ladder as he fell. The jar enabled Rogers to release his foot, and he slid to the ground. McNeir was unconscious when picked up, and was disabled six weeks, having sustained three severe scalp wounds and burns on hands and face. Rogers was disabled four months.

638 Nathan Duncan (colored), aged forty-one, farmer and Gold Medal and well digger, rescued William C. Anderson, aged fifty-two, well $2,000 toward digger, from a cave-in in a well, West Point, Texas, August 5, purchase of a farm. 1907. Anderson was working in a well, three feet in diameter, forty feet below the surface, when sand slid from the sides and buried him to his shoulders. For a distance of twenty feet above his head, there was an unsupported wall of sand, from which other slides seemed imminent. Of the twelve or more men who gathered, all were afraid to go to the aid of Anderson. Duncan was summoned, and, fastening a rope to himself, was lowered into the well. He dug the sand from about Anderson until he was free to the waist, when another slide occurred which covered Anderson to a depth of ten inches. Duncan escaped being buried by jumping up and grasping a rope dangling over his head, the sand coming only to his knees. Duncan was frightened but, after two hours' work, dug Ander son free, and he was hoisted out. Duncan was then drawn up. After the two had reached the surface, Anderson, to test the wall, gave the curb at the top a poke with a stick, and the curb and a large mass of sand fell into the well, filling it to a depth of over twenty feet.

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639 Biddle Hiles, aged fifty-six, bank cashier, saved Walenty Bronze Medal. Szymkowski from an enraged bull, Salem, N. J., June 11, 1910. Szymkowski entereda pasture and was attacked by the bull and knocked to the ground. He clung to the bull's neck, while it tried to toss and gore him. Hiles entered the pasture from a road and went to Szymkowski's aid with a four-foot length of a fence rail, with which he struck the bull on the nose. Szymkowski let go of the bull when Hiles shouted to him to do so and staggered toafenceand left the pasture. The bullcharged at Hiles, and he struck it again. Backing toward the fence, Hiles continually struck the bull with the rail as the animal made short charges toward him. When he reached the fence, Hiles struck the bull three rapid blows, and, while it was some what dazed, he vaulted the fence. Szymkowski had been gored in the thigh, his clothes had been ripped open, and he had a number of flesh wounds and bruises.

John L. LaMarche, aged thirty-nine, street-car conductor, Bronze Medal. saved Leonard L. Slipp, aged twenty-eight, farmer, from drowning, Watertown, Mass., October 8, 1908. LaMarche waded and swam to Slipp, who, demented and apparently intent on ending his life, was floating passively in the Charles River, forty-five feet from the‘ bank, where the water was over seven feet deep. LaMarche grasped Slipp and swam toward the bank with him. Slipp tried to grab LaMarche by the throat, but LaMarche prevented him from doing so, and got_higi to the bank. Slipp was partly unconscious, but was revive .

Samuel N. Parks, aged thirty-seven, physician, attempted Bronze Medal. to save T. Edward Meley, aged thirty-four, well digger, from suffocation, De Soto, Texas, April 27, 1909. Meley was over come by gas at the bottom of a fifteen-foot well, and his assistant refused to descend to save him. Parks, who had that morning left his bed for the first time after an illness of several days, tied a rope around his body, and had himself lowered, regardless of the request of his wife that he should not go into the well. He fastened a rope around Meley, and called to be drawn up. At that moment, he lost consciousness, but, upon being drawn up, he revived within five minutes. Meley died twenty-four hours later without regaining con sciousness.

James J. Doyle, aged twenty-six, lineman, saved Abbie Bronze Medal. T. Danforth, aged eighty-three, from being run over by a train, Royalton, Vt., August 30, 1910. Doyle ran thirty-five feet to Mrs. Danforth, who was somewhat deaf and had walked on a track in front of a passenger train running at a speed of thirty-five miles an hour. He stepped between the rails and, placing one arm around Mrs. Danforth's waist, half-dragged and half-carried her off the track, just as the train rushed past. Neither was injured.

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643 William B. Hutton, aged thirty-one, foreman, helped to Bronze Medal and save William Porter, aged forty-five, stockman, and attempted $1,000 t o wa rd to save John Rykmans, aged twenty-nine, foreman, and Mike p u r c h a s e of a Lewicki, aged twenty-five, laborer, from suffocation, Los home. Angeles, Cal., August 19, 1911. Rykmans and Lewicki were overcome by gas at the bottom of a twelve-foot settling-tank, and Porter was clinging to a ladder at the bottom of the tank in a dazed condition. Hutton climbed down and supported Porter while another man tied a rope around him. Porter was pulled to the surface, and Hutton climbed up. He was dizzy and weak. A few minutes later, he tied one end of a rope around his waist, and, while men at the surface held the rope, he carried the other end into the tank and tied Rykmans, who was pulled up. Hutton climbed to the surface and fell to the ground. Water was dashed in his face, and, two minutes later, he descended and tied the rope around Lewicki, who was pulled up. Hutton climbed to the surface and was in a dazed condition, but soon recovered. Porter revived, but it was impossible to revive Rykmans or Lewicki. Fred L. Maneval, aged twenty-two, brakeman, saved Elna Bronze Medal and Newburg, aged twenty-two, from being run over by a train, $1,000 toward Ridgway, Pa., July 19, 1907. When a train, which was p u r c h a s e of a backing toward Miss Newburg at a speed of four miles an home. hour, was less than ten feet distant, she fell across the track, and fainted. Maneval jumped toward her from the rear platform of the train, alighting between the rails. He pulled her from the track, the rear platform of the train grazing him as they cleared the rail. Neither was injured. 645 John W. Freeman, aged twenty-nine, salesman, rescued Bronze Medal and Johnnie Porter, aged thirteen, from a runaway, Fort Smith, $1,000 to be ap Ark., December 25, 1908. Miss Porter was in a phaeton plied toward the with another young woman, when the horse ran away. The liquidation of phaeton was upset, and the driver thrown out, but Miss Porter his debts, or for was caught in the top of the phaeton. The horse continued other worthy pur along a gravel roadway on a hard run. Freeman ran into the pose, as needed. street, and, when the horse reached him, he jumped and grasped one of the lines with his left hand. He was jerked from his feet, and they and his right hand were dragged along the ground. The horse fell to its knees after running forty feet farther. When it fell, Freeman struck the ground so violently that he was somewhat dazed, but he got up and assisted Miss Porter from the phaeton. She was dazed and bruised, but suffered no serious injury. Thomas W. Erwin, aged twenty-nine, railroad yard fore Bronze Medal and man, saved Jetta W. Caudill, aged seventeen, from being run $1,000 to be ap over by a train, Clyffeside, Ky., September 5, 1910. Miss plied toward the Caudill stopped in the middle of a track on which a locomotive liquidation of his was pushing several cars toward her at a speed of six miles an debts. hour. Erwin ran ten feet, stepped between the rails, and attempted to pull her off the track. She did not appreciate her danger or his intentions, and jerked her arm away from his grasp. He then placed one arm around her waist, and, as he was swinging her from the track, the train struck them and knocked them from the track. Miss Caudill rolled fifteen feet. Some part of the first truck of the train caught Erwin's overalls and ripped them down one leg. He then rolled away from the track. Neither was severely injured. 140 ACTS OF HEROlSM—Continued

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Roy T. Hughes, aged thirty-one, farmer, helped to save Bronze Medal and Elma J. Stafford, aged twenty-eight, May Turner, aged $1,000 to be ap twenty-nine, and eight children, aged two to fifteen, from plied toward the drowning, Letot, Texas, May 24, 1908. Although other men liquidation of his refused to go, Hughes and a companion entered a boat and, debts, or for other in darkness, paddled it a mile and a half across the flooded worthy purpose, country-side, in the waters of the Trinity River, to a house as needed. which the women and children had entered for safety and which was in danger of being washed away. Another boat followed, and, when the house was reached, the women and children were taken into the two boats. After paddling a quarter of a mile from the house, the boat which had followed Hughes's was swept against a tree by the current and upset, the boat and one of the men handling it being swept away. The children in it, with difficulty, were pulled into Hughes's boat and taken to a barn, a quarter of a mile distant, where they were landed. With their original passengers, Hughes and his companion paddled toward their starting-point, but they lost their way in flooded timber-land, and tied up until morning, when they paddled to safety.

648 I. Newton Law, aged twenty-three, ranchman, helped to Bronze Medal and save Luther F., Anna, and Nettie L. McClanahan, and Dorris $1,000 toward A. Stafford, aged ten, thirtsen, fifteen, and eight, respectively, purchase of a from drowning, Letot, Texas, May 24, 1908. (See Award farm. No. 647.) When Hughes went to the rescue, Law and a com panion volunteered to follow in another boat. It was Law's boat which upset. With great difficulty, he held the children to the tree, and, after they were picked up by the other boat, he climbed into the tree, where he remained until taken off in a boat in the morning.

649 Nathan Record (colored), aged thirty-one, farmer, helped Bronze Medal and to save Luther F., Anna, and Nettie L. McClanahan, and $1,000 toward Dorris A. Stafford from drowning, Letot, Texas, May 24, 1908. purchase of a (See Award No. 648.) Record accompanied Law to the farm. rescue, and, when swept away from the others, although slightly injured, succeeded in swimming to a tree, in which he remained until taken off in a boat in the morning.

650 James A. Bales, aged twenty-six, farmer, saved W. Bruce Bronze Medal and Fowler, aged twenty-nine, farmer, from suffocation, McKinney, $1,000 toward Texas, November 14, 1910. Fowler had been overcome by purchase of a gas at the bottom of a well twenty-eight feet deep, and, although farm. the well-rope was the only rope available, Bales had himself lowered by it. He booked the rope around Fowler, who was then pulled to the surface. The rope was immediately lowered to Bales, but he had been affected by the gas and did not see the rope for a few seconds. \Vhen he saw it, he hooked it around his chest and was pulled to the surface. Fowler was revived.

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Elijah A. Walker, aged twenty-nine, laborer, attempted to Bronze Medal and save John R. Northcutt, aged thirty-two, laborer, from suffo $1,000 toward cation, Palopinto, Texas, August 19, 1909. Northcutt was purchase of a working in a well thirty-eight feet deep, when he was over farm. come by gas. Walker ran nine hundred feet to the well. After another man had refused to descend, Walker, although badly winded, had himself lowered by means of the well rope, without taking any precautions. He remained in the well between five and ten minutes, but did not succeed in fastening the rope around Northcutt. He felt himself smothering and called to be raised. When he reached the surface, he was sick at his stomach, and he suffered from severe headache for several hours. Northcutt was taken from the well later, and revived.

652 George A. Blitch, aged thirty-one, laborer, saved John R. Bronze Medal and Northcutt from suffocation, Palopinto, Texas, August 19, 1909. $1,000 toward (See Award No. 651.) Blitch ran to the well and asked two men purchase of a to descend and assist Walker. They refused, and,immediately farm. after Walker reached the surface, Blitch had himself lowered. He had considerable difficulty in tying Northcutt and asked for assistance, but the men at the surface refused to descend. He tied Northcutt to the well rope, and he was raised to the surface. The rope was lowered, and Blitch was drawn up after having been in the well ten minutes. He had a head ache, but suffered no other ill effects.

George H. Paul, aged fifty-two, farmhand, attempted to Bronze Medal and save William Hamilton, aged sixty, farmer, from being run $1,000 toward over by a train, California, Ky., October 2, 1911. Hamilton purchase of a was standing, outside the rail, on the ties of a track on which farm. a train was approaching at a speed of sixty miles an hour. Paul ran along a path close to the track and, reaching out, tried to pull Hamilton off the ties. Just as Paul touched Hamilton, some part of the locomotive struck his outstretched arm, causing him to spin around several times and throwing him fifteen feet from the track. Hamilton was instantly killed. Paul's arm was broken in two places.

654 E. Thompson Benbow, aged twenty-three, farmer, helped Bronze Medal and to save Pearl Drummond, aged fifteen, from drowning, $1,000 toward Bryan, Texas, August 18, 1911. Miss Drummond and a purchase of a companion were in a boat on Hall's Lake, seventy feet from farm. the bank, where the water was over seven feet deep, when the boat upset and sank. When they came to the surface, they struggled together. Benbow swam to them, and, while attempting to assist Miss Drummond, was pulled under the surface several times. He strangled, sank, and did not come to the surface. They were soon gotten to the bank, and Benbow was found, unconscious, clinging to Miss Drummond's skirt. He recovered consciousness in a few minutes.

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655 J. Archie Robinson, aged twenty, farmer, helped to save Bronze Medal and Pearl Drummond from drowning, Bryan, Texas, August 18, $1,000 f o r a 1911. (See Award No. 654.) Robinson ran three hundred worthy purpose, yards to the water's edge, and then swam to where Miss as needed. Drummond and the others were struggling in the water. He took hold of Miss Drummond's arm, and she caught hold of him, and they went beneath the surface several times. A rope was brought and thrown to them, and they were pulled to the bank, in a weakened condition.

656 Marion Greiner, aged seventeen, factoryhand, saved Lora Bronze Medal and Madon, aged ten, from drowning, Plattsburg, N. Y., May 1, $1,000 f o r a 1911. Lora fell down a steep twenty-foot bank into the worthy purpose, Saranac River, where the water was over ten feet deep. as needed. Although she was fully dressed and the water was very cold, Miss Greiner ran sixty feet, scrambled down the bank, jumped into the water, and swam to the child. Lora was then nine feet from the bank, and when Miss Greiner grasped her, both went beneath the surface. When they came up, Miss Greiner put her left arm around Lora,and swam twenty-five feet down-stream with her, to a point on the bank where she could make a landing.

Charles A. W. Hansen, aged twenty-nine, deckhand, Bronze Medal and helped to save Joe A. Jones, aged thirty-seven, bank cashier, and $1,000 f o r a thirty-six others from drowning, Galveston, Texas, July 21, worthy purpose, 1909. Jones and the others were on a fishing-pier, erected as needed. over a jetty in the Gulf of Mexico, three miles from shore, which was threatened with destruction by a storm. The wind was blowing at a velocity of thirty-six miles an hour, and the waves were running twenty feet high. A pilot-boat went to the scene, but it could not get nearer than seventy-five feet to the pier. Hansen and another of the crew volunteered to man a yawl and go to the rescue of the men on the pier, and a yawl was lowered. It was tossed about like a cork, but, with great difficulty, the men got to within four feet of the pier and took off four men. They made eight or nine trips from the pilot-boat to the pier, from fifteen to forty minutes being necessary for a trip, when the pier was dashed to pieces and the remaining men were thrown into the water. The men succeeded in grasping wreckage, and all were picked up.

Klaus L. Larsen, aged twenty-eight, deckhand, helped to Bronze Medal and save Joe A. Jones and thirty-six others from drowning, $1,000 f o r a Galveston, Texas, July 21, 1909. (See Award No. 657.) Larsen worthy purpose, accompanied Hansen in the yawl and helped to take the as needed. men off the pier.

Sub A. Anderson, aged twenty-two, farmhand, saved Bronze Medal and Robert B. Walker, aged seventeen, farmhand, from suffo $1,000 f o r a cation, Collinsville, Texas, July 4, 1911. Walker had been worthy purpose, overcome by gas at the bottom of a well forty feet deep, and as needed. Anderson, who suspected what was wrong, had himself lowered to the rescue. He hooked around Walker the rope by which he had been lowered, and Walker was pulled to the surface, after which Anderson was pulled up. \Nalker was revived in thirty minutes.

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William H. McDaniel, aged thirty, farmer, saved Alonzo Bronze Medal and L. Smith, aged sixty-one, well digger, from suffocation, Kosse, $1,000 f or a Texas, September 22, 1909. Smith was overcome by gas at worthy purpose, the bottom of a well sixty-five feet deep, and McDaniel, as needed. knowing that an aged man and three women were the only persons near to render assistance if it were needed, slid down the well-rope to the aid of Smith. He tied the well-rope around Smith, who was pulled to the surface. The rope was then thrown down to McDaniel, but he refused to be pulled up until efforts had been made to revive Smith. When Smith showed signs of returning consciousness, McDaniel was pulled to the surface.

661 Henry J. Schanewerk, aged thirty-nine, switchman, saved Bronze Medal and an indeterminate person or persons from a runaway locomo $1,000 fo r a tive, Fort Worth, Texas, June 9, 1909. A locomotive, with worthy purpose, the throttle wide open, was on the main track backing at a as needed. speed of twenty miles an hour toward two intersecting streets and a passenger station at which passenger trains were being continually switched. Schanewerk realized the locomotive was running away,and ran toward it and grabbed a handhold on the tender. He was jerked from his feet,and his body was thrown against the side of the locomotive, but he succeeded in getting his feet on a step, and entered the cab. He stooped to avoid a jet of steam, and closed the throttle and applied the air-brake, bringing the locomotive to a stop. He sustained sprains which disabled him for thirty days.

Thomas J. Gibbons, aged twenty-six, pit motorman, Bronze Medal and assisted in an attempt to save Robert M. Meek and Edwin $1,000 f or a A. Sutton from suffocation, Cokedale, Colo., February 10, worthy purpose, 1911. (See Award No. 616.) Gibbons accompanied a party as needed. into the entry,and assisted in carrying Meek three hundred twenty-five feet to fresh air; then, although he felt queer in his head and weak in his knees, he accompanied a second party into the entry,and helped to carry Sutton fourhundred twentjcll-five feet to safety. Neither Meek nor Sutton could be revive .

663 Arvey N. Florence, aged twenty-two, painter, assisted in Bronze Medal and an attempt to save W. Hampton Arrasmith, aged thirty, $1,000 f or a painter, from electric shock, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 7, 1911. worthy purpose. Arrasmith lay face downward across a narrow girder of a steel as needed. trestle, seventeen feet above the ground, his body being in contact with two wires, each of which carried a current of twenty-three hundred volts of electricity. He was uncon scious, and his clothing was burning. Florence, standing on a girder three feet distant, grasped Arrasmith's clothing, and supported him, with the assistance of a companion, until another man arrived with a rope and it was tied around Arrasmith. He then helped to jerk Arrasmith away from the wires and lower him to the ground. Florence received several shocks, but was not injured. Arrasmith died within a short time without regaining consciousness.

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Benjamin F. Langsdale, aged thirty-four,_ painter, Bronze Medal and assisted in an attempt to save W. Hampton Arrasmith from $1,000 f o r a electric shock, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 7, 1911. (See Award worthy purpose, No. 663.) Langsdale attempted to lift Arrasmith off the as needed. wires, but received a shock which knocked him from his feet across a scantling. He made four or five attempts to remove Arrasmith, but each time received a shock which knocked him away. He then aided Florence in supporting Arrasmith until a rope was tied around Arrasmith and he was lowered to the ground. Challen A. West, aged thirty-seven, express agent, assisted Bronze Medal and in an attempt to save W. Hampton Arrasmith from electric $1,000 f o r a shock, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 7, 1911. (See Award No. worthy purpose, 663.) West climbed a pole to the girders, and, with a rope, as needed. helped Florence and Langsdale in their efforts to save Arra - smith. He received three shocks, the last of which knocked him backward. His head struck a girder, which prevented him from falling to the ground. He assisted in jerking Arrasmith from the wires and lowering him to the ground. Edward W. Hargett, Sr., aged thirty-four, restaurant Bronze Medal and proprietor, attempted to rescue Nora N. Higdon and Anna E. $1,000 f o r a Wendelborn, aged seven, from a runaway, Globe, Ariz., worthy purpose, March 6, 1908. Nora and Anna were in a wagon to which as needed. was hitched a team of horses, when the horses became fright ened and loped down a sharply-descending street. Hargett ran into the street, grasped the harness of one of the horses near the bit, and ran ten feet beside it. The horses swerved toward him, and he was thrown to the ground. Both wheels on one side of the wagon passed over his legs. The team was stopped farther down the street by another man. Neither of the girls was injured. Hargett's legs were bruised. Robert MCD. Logan, Jr., aged twelve, schoolboy, saved Bronze Medal and William B. Schell, aged twelve, from drowning, Fort Worth, $2,000 for educa Texas, July 25, 1911. Schell, who could not swim, got into a tional purposes, hole in Clear Fork of Trinity River, where the water was as needed. fifteen feet deep, and struggled to keep at the surface. Logan, who also could not swim, ran two hundred feet, mounted a pony without a saddle, and swam it into the stream toward Schell. The latter had sunk, and, when he came up near Logan, unconscious, Logan grasped his hair and guided the pony to the bank, drawing Schell with him. Schell was revived. W. Sterrett Parkinson, aged seventeen, student, saved Bronze Medal and Charles L., aged eight, and attempted to save John D. Graham, $2,000 for educa aged forty-one, shoemaker, from drowning, Carlisle, Pa., tional purposes, July 15, 1911. Parkinson, who was not strong, jumped from as needed. a launch, and swam fifty feet to Charles, who could swim but a few strokes and was struggling near his father in the middle of Conodoguinet Creek, where the water was eight feet deep. Charles caught hold of Parkinson's abdomen, but Parkinson struck him and freed himself. He grasped Charles and swam fifteen feet with him, when a canoe reached them and took Charles aboard. Parkinson was towed to the launch, but he returned and dived several times to find Graham, with out success. He was almost exhausted. Graham's body was secgred later. Charles was revived. 145 ACTS OF HEROlSM—Continued

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John G. Wolfe, aged twenty-nine, assistant yardmaster, Bronze Medal and died attempting to save A. Reginald Eltringham, aged twenty, $25 a month for clerk, from drowning, West Fairview, Pa., July 4, 1907. support of mother Eltringham was swimming in Conodoguinet Creek, one hundred during her life. feet from the bank, where the water was eight feet deep, when he became ill, and called for help. Wolfe dived from the bank and disappeared beneath the surface. His back soon appeared, but he sank and was drowned before he could reach Eltringham. Eltringham also was drowned.

670 C. Bert Raymond, aged sixteen, office boy, died saving Bronze Medal to Hershel F. Shelby, aged twelve, from drowning, Indianapolis, mother, and $30 Ind., June 10, 1911. Shelby was wading in Fall Creek where a month for five the water was shallow, while Raymond, a poor swimmer, years. swam in deep water ten feet from him. Shelby stepped into the deep water, and, as he went down, called for help. When he came up, he heard Raymond telling him to hold him, and he climbed up on Raymond's shoulders, forcing Raymond beneath the surface. Other boys made efforts to get Shelby off of Raymond's back but were unsuccessful, and Raymond was drowned. Shelby was gotten to shore in safety.

671 Walter A. Smith, aged twenty-seven, deputy collector, Bronze Medal to died attempting to save Frederick H. Voorhis, aged four, widow and $500 from drowning, Middletown, Ohio, July 11, 1912. Smith, as needed, and $50 who could not swim, waded into the Miami River to save a month during Frederick, who had fallen in and was drifting with the her life, or until current. As Frederick drifted from the bank, Smith followed. she remarries, with After wading fifty-five feet, Smith suddenly threw up one $5 a month addi hand and sank, in water seven feet deep. Both were drowned. tional for each of two children until‘ each reaches age of sixteen.

672 Louis G. Burkhalter, aged twenty-seven, machinist, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Ruth E. Mastellar, aged nineteen, and $55 a month for Veda G. Hemstock, aged twenty-six, from drowning, Bradley, support of widow. Ill., July 28, 1912. The women, who could not swim, waded during her life, or seventy feet from the bank, in the Kankakee River, and until she remar then suddenly stepped off a ledge into deep water. They ries, with $5 a went beneath the surface and drifted down- stream. Burkhalter. month additional who had swum as a boy, and who was dressed, ran into for each of two the water and also fell off the ledge. He swam fifty feet children until each toward Mrs. Mastellar and Miss Hemstock, called for help, reaches age of SIX and went beneath the surface before he reached them. teen. He reappeared twice, and then sank and was drowned. The women reappeared once, and then sank and were drowned. The bodies were recovered later.

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673 T. William Hutchins, aged twenty-six, clerk, died as Bronze Medal and the result of attempting to save Leila de Llorens, aged $40 a month for twenty-one, from drowning, Ship Island, Miss., July 17, 1910. support of widow, Hutchins, who had been ill for two weeks, swam to Mrs. during her life, or de Llorens, who had been caught by the undertow in the Gulf until she remar of Mexico, five hundred feet from the beach, where the waves ries, with $5 a were five feet high. She clasped him and struggled, taking month additional him under the surface several times. Hutchins screamed for for each of two help. He freed himself, but was unable to find Mrs. de Llorens children until each afterward, and she drowned. He was rescued by two men. reaches age of six Within thirty minutes after being rescued, Hutchins developed teen. a high fever and became delirious. Pneumonia set in, and he died six days later.

674 Michael O'Loughlin, aged sixty-eight, laborer, attempted Bronze Medal to to save Patrick McMahon, aged sixty-two, laborer, from widow and $20 a suffocation, Stoneham, Mass., October 11, 1909. O'Loughlin month for five descended into a sewer-manhole to McMahon, who had been years, or $1200 overcome by gas at the bottom, over eight feet below the o t h e r w i s e a s surface of the ground. O'Loughlin was overcome before he needed. could render McMahon any assistance. Both men were gotten out and were revived. O'Loughlin lost his life a year later, in another sewer accident.

675 James Higgins, aged sixty-three, laborer, saved Patrick Bronze Medal. McMahon from suffocation, Stoneham, Mass., October 11, 1909. -(See Award No. 674.) Higgins descended into the manhole and hooked a chain around McMahon. He then climbed to the top, and, showing signs of being affected by the gas, was grasped and assisted out. He was dizzy, but soon revived.

676 Francis E. Park, aged forty-two, physician and surgeon, Bronze Medal. saved Michael O'Loughlin from suffocation, Stoneham, Mass., October 11, 1909. (See Award No. 674.) Park reached the manhole as McMahon was being drawn to the surface,and, realizing that something should be done quickly for O'Loughlin, he descended and fastened a chain around O'Loughlin, who was drawn to the surface. Park, although dizzy from having breathed the gas, was able to climb out of the manhole.

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677 J. Louis Little, aged thirty-seven, fisherman, helped to Silver Medal and save four men, and assisted in an attempt to save two others, $1,500 for a from drowning, Bonavista, N. F., September 19, 1907. During worthy purpose. a storm at night, a schooner was torn from her moorings in as needed. the harbor and wrecked on the rocks that bound it. She went ashore stern foremost and struck between two rocks at the shore-line. The darkness was intense, the wind was blowing sixty miles an hour, and the waves, from twenty to thirty feet high, dashed up on the rocks for a distance of forty feet. Holding to a line in the hands of fishermen up on a large rock, Little climbed down its steep and dangerous face, and attempted to cast the line to the vessel but failed. He hastily scrambled upward to escape an incoming wave, but it caught him and surged up around his knees. He coiled his rope again and, as the water receded, scrambled rapidly down the rough surface until he was right under the stern of the schooner. He cast his line to the deck, twelve feet above, where it was made fast. Little was caught by an incoming wave, and, clinging desperately to the rope, was washed into a gulch beside the rock, but was pulled back on it. The men left the wreck rapidly, and Little approached close to it and assisted two of them. Several times he narrowly escaped being swept to sea. Two of the vessel's crew were washed overboard and drowned. 678 Robert Brown, aged fifty-five, sub-collector of customs, Bronze Medal and helped to save four men, and assisted in an attempt to save $1,000 for a two others, from drowning, Bonavista, N. F., September 19, worthy purpose, 1907. (See Award No. 677.) Brown descended far down the as needed. rock and attempted to cast a line on board the wreck before Little. He made another unsuccessful cast; and then, remain ing in a position of much danger, he helped get the seamen up the rock, several times narrowly escaping being washed away by the waves. 679 James C. Little, aged forty-five, fisherman, helped to save Bronze Medal and four men, and assisted in an attempt to save two others, from $1,000 for a drowning, Bonavista, F., September 19, 1907. (See worthy purpose, Award No. 677.) Little descended to a point far down the as needed. rock, and, in a position of much danger, helped the seamen up. He was swept off his feet once, but prevented himself from being washed away by clinging to the rope.

680 William Ford, aged thirty-five, fisherman, helped to save Bronze Medal and four men, and assisted in an attempt to save two others, from $1,000 for a drowning, Bonavista, N. F., September 19, 1907. (See worthy purpose. Award No. 677.) Ford descended on the rock to a point of as needed. much danger and assisted in the rescue work. When one of the seamen fell on the rocks, Ford grabbed him and helped him up the rock. He saved himself from being swept away by clinging to the rope. 681 James Ford, aged forty-one, fisherman, helped to save four Bronze Medal and men, and assisted in an attempt to save two others, from $1,000 for a drowning, Bona'vista, N. F., September 19, 1907. (See worthy purpose. Award No. 677.) Ford held to the rope with the other as needed. rescuers and assisted the seamen to get up the rock. His grasp on the rope alone prevented him from being swept away.

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682 Eli Paul, aged forty-two, fisherman, helped to save four Bronze Medal and men, and assisted in an attempt to save two others, from $1,000 for a drowning, Bonavista, N. F., September 19,1907. (See Award worthy purpose, No. 677.) Paul assisted in the rescue work, from a place of as needed. great danger, helping the seamen up the rock.

683 Richard S. Stokes, aged seventy-four, retired, saved Silver Medal and Lillie B. Evetts, aged fifteen, R. Ashley Greaves, aged twenty $1,000 for a one, assistant bank cashier, and Eva Foster, aged fourteen, worthy purpose, from drowning, Lometa, Texas, July 19, 1911. Greaves and as needed. Miss Foster, who could not swim, stepped into swift, deep water, in the Colorado River, thirty feet from the bank, and went down. When they came up, they clutched each other and called for help, and Stokes, not heeding the calls of his wife and daughter not to do so, swam toward them. Miss Evetts, who could not swim, stepped into the deep water shortly after Greaves and Miss Foster. When Stokes was near Miss Evetts, she grasped his collar with one hand. He continued to the others. Greaves threw one arm around Stokes's neck from the side opposite Miss Evetts, and Miss Foster clung to Greaves. Stokes swam fifteen feet diagonally across the current to a narrow ledge, where he stood in water reaching to his chin. Miss Foster became unconscious just as they reached the ledge, but help arrived almost simul taneously, and the rescued were taken to shore. Stokes was very tired.

684 Lance H. Mardiss, aged twenty-five, farmhand, attempted Silver Medal and to save Charles A. Hill, aged thirty-five, farmer and miner, $1,000 for a from suffocation, Naco, Ariz., June 17, 1908. Hill had been worthy purpose, overcome at the bottom of a well one hundred sixty-eight feet as needed. deep; and Mardiss, who knew that the air in the well was bad and that but one man and one woman, both greatly excited, were left to operate the windlass, had himself lowered to Hill. He fastened around Hill the rope by which he had been lowered, and Hill was drawn to the surface. The rope was then let down, and Mardiss was drawn to the surface. He had difficulty in keeping himself from becoming unconscious as he was being drawn up, and when he reached the surface he was nauseated. Hill could not be revived.

685 H. Frank Fizer, aged twenty-seven, motorman, saved Silver Medal and Thomas Bowen, aged thirty-two, foreman, and seven other $1,000 for a men from a cave-in in a tunnel, Santa Barbara, Cal., April 7, worthy purpose, 1912. Fizer, while taking a train of muck cars out of the as needed. tunnel, discovered that a cave-in, which would cause water to back to the face of the workings, was imminent at a point about two miles from the entrance. In order to warn the other men he waded back in the tunnel a distance of over four thousand four hundred feet, through water from twelve to twenty inches deep, against a current of two and one-half miles an hour. All escaped. The cave-in closed the tunnel three hours after they got out.

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686 Lafayette L. Davis, aged thirty-two, blacksmith, saved Silver Medal and Alonzo M. Barnett, aged eighteen, farmhand, from suffocation, $1,000 to be Bangs, Texas, May 14, 1907. Barnett had been overcome at appliedtowardthe the bottom of a twenty-five-foot well by powder smoke and liquidation of his carbon dioxide. After others had refused to descend, Davis debts. placed his leg in a noose in the well-rope and had himself lowered into the well. He tied the rope around Barnett,and he was raised to the surface, after which the rope was lowered to Davis, and he was drawn up. Barnett was revived.

Joseph K. lsenberg, aged forty-four, contractor, saved Silver Medal and Arabella V., and Paul K. Crist, aged thirty-seven and five, $1,000 to be ap respectively, from a runaway, Altoona, Pa., December 25, 1910. plied toward the Paul had fallen in the path of the horse which, galloping, was liquidation of his drawing an empty sleigh, when it was less than sixty feet debts. distant, and Mrs. Crist had stooped to lift him. Isenberg ran and grasped Mrs. Crist with one hand and Paul with the other, and gave them a strong push to one side. The next moment, the horse struck him in the back, knocking him twenty feet and rendering him unconscious. He regained consciousness in ten minutes, but was disabled four days. Mrs. Crist and Paul were uninjured.

688 Dennis P. Morgan, aged thirty-one, farmhand, saved Silver Medal and Armanda L. Briscoe,aged sixty, from drowning, Gustine, Texas, $1,000 toward September 6, 1910. Mrs. Briscoe's dwelling was swept away purchase of a by the flood waters of South Leon River, and when it broke farm. up she managed to climb into a tree in a grove, two hundred feet from land, where the water was eight feet deep. She called for help, but her exact position could not be determined. Many men refused to go to the rescue, but Morgan said he would go. Men tried to dissuade him, but, although the current had a velocity of over seven miles an hour and was full of debris, he entered the water. The current carried him rapidly down-stream, and, unable to reach the woman or the bank, he was just able to grasp the branch of a tree as he was being carried into an open field. Laboriously, he made his way from tree to tree to the bank. Although warned that he would be drowned, Morgan went far above the tree, and, fully clothed, again entered the water. With great diffi culty, he succeeded in reaching Mrs. Briscoe by swimming, working his way along tree-branches, and drifting. Mrs. Briscoe was nearly exhausted, and it was necessary for Morgan to support her until assistance reached them. On account of the strength of the current, it required the combined efforts of six men, with ropes, to get Mrs. Briscoe to the bank.

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689 Henry W. Burge, aged twenty-three, farmhand, saved Silver Medal and Walter C. Bailey, aged twenty-nine, farmer, from suffocation, $1,000 t o w a r d Delba, Texas, March 6, 1911. Bailey had been overcome at purchase of a the bottom of a well, twenty-six feet deep, by gas which had farm. rushed into the well from a newly-opened pocket following an ineffective blast, and, after other men had refused to go to his rescue, Burge had himself lowered into the well with a rope. He placed the rope around Bailey, fastened it, and then grasped it above Bailey's head. The men at the surface pulled both up at once. When near the top, Burge became so weak that his hold on the rope relaxed, but men above grasped him before he fell. Bailey was revived after several hours. Burge did not lose consciousness, but he was dizzy and weak, and was disabled six days. 690 William T. Howard, aged twenty-seven, farmhand, saved Silver Medal and Thomas R. Lewis, aged thirty-six, and J. Edgar Rogers, aged $1,000 toward twenty-one, farmers, from suffocation, Parker, Texas, July 5, purchase of a 1911. After others had refused to descend, and although told farm. that he would encounter gas, Howard had himself lowered to the bottom of a well twenty-seven feet deep to rescue Lewis and Rogers, who had been overcome. He tied a rope around Lewis, who was pulled up; then he tied the rope around Rogers, and, after Rogers had been pulled up, was about to tie it around himself, when he became unconscious. He was taken out ten minutes later. All were revived. Howard was partially dis abled for two weeks. 691 Alvin J. Miller, aged thirty-three, laborer, saved Hugh Silver Medal and and Henry Cooper, aged thirty-two and twenty, respectively, $1,000 toward farmhands, from suffocation, Rising Star, Texas, April 5, 1910. purchase of a The Coopers were overcome by dynamite smoke and gas at farm. the bottom of a well,'seventy-eight feet deep, the bottom of which could not be seen because of the smoke. After a younger man of lighter weight had refused to go to their rescue, Miller had himself lowered into the well without taking precautions for personal safety. Immediately upon reaching the bottom and finding that he could not stand the smoke, he called out to be drawn up, and was drawn up. After ten minutes he again had himself lowered, refusing to wait until precautions were taken for his safety. He tied around Hugh the rope by means of which he had been lowered, and, holding to the rope above Hugh, was drawn to the surface with him. Miller was weak, and sat on the ground to rest. Ten minutes later, regardless of remonstrances, he had himself lowered once more. He tied the rope around Henry, and was drawn up with him as he had been with Hugh. Miller was weak and could not stand alone, but he recovered after an hour. The Coopers were revived. 692 Leo J. Lockard, aged twelve, schoolboy, died attempt Silver Medal to ing to save John A. Roberts, aged fifteen, delivery boy, father, and $250 from drowning, Altoona, Pa., December 10, 1911. Lockard, as needed. who could not swim, and who was very heavy for his age, ran and walked over thin ice to a hole in which Roberts was struggling in the waters of Mill Run Reservoir, thirty feet from the bank, where the water was over seven feet deep. He extended an arm to Roberts and pulled him partly out of the water; but the ice broke, and both went beneath the surface, and were drowned. 151 ACTS OF HEROlSM—Continued

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693 Patrick McMahon, aged sixty-three, laborer, died as Silver Medal to the result of attempting to save Michael O'Loughlin, daughter and $20 aged sixty-nine, laborer, from suffocation, Stoneham, Mass., a month for five August 9, 1910. McMahon descended into a twelve-foot years, or $1,200 sewer-manhole to O'Loughlin, who had been overcome by gas. o t h e rw i se as McMahon hooked a chain around O'Loughlin and started to needed. . climb out of the manhole, but he was overcome and fell to the bottom. O'Loughlin was pulled to the surface twenty minutes later by men who gathered at the scene, but was found to be dead. McMahon was taken from the manhole a short time later. He died, without regaining consciousness, two days afterward.

694 Robert A. Atkinson, aged forty-four, driver, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Jacob Sachs, aged forty-three, dairyman, $25 a month for or one or more of three other persons from suffocation, supportof mother, Cincinnati, Ohio, June 4, 1912. Sachs and the three during her life. others had been overcome in a cistern twelve feet deep, in which brewers' grains had been stored and in which the atmos phere contained over forty per cent. of carbon dioxide. Although a man remarked to him that there must be gas in the cistern, Atkinson descended a ladder to the rescue. As soon as he reached the bottom of the ladder, it was noticed that he was in distress, and he was told to come out. He began to ascend, but was overcome before he could get out, and was dead when taken from the cistern. The others also were dead when taken out.

695 Joseph Schlageter, J r., aged thirty-five, driver, attempted Bronze Medal and to save Anna Espelage, aged twenty-eight, from suffocation, $1,000 for a Cincinnati, Ohio, June 4, 1912. (See Award No. 694.) Mrs. worthy purpose, Espelage was one of those in the cistern when Atkinson as needed. descended. When Atkinson was overcome, Schlageter, although warned that there was gas in the cistern, descended the ladder witha rope around him. He reached down from the ladder and grasped Mrs. Espelage, and then lost con sciousness. He was drawn up, and revived.

696 James Feeney, aged thirty-five, laborer, died attempt- Silver Medal and ing to rescue John H. McGee, aged sixteen, stone-cutter's $25 a month for apprentice, from electric shock, Pittsburgh, Pa., April support of widow, 13, 1912. McGee was operating a windlass at the foot of during her life, or a derrick, when the boom came into contact with a wire car until she remar rying a current of ten thousand volts of electricity. He was ries, with $5 a rendered unconscious and thrown upon the boom at the base month additional of the derrick, where he lay, with the current passing through for each of five him, and his clothing and flesh burning. Feeney ran to children until each McGee and received a shock. When other persons reached reached age of the scene, a little later, McGee and Feeney were dead. sixteen.

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697 Percy Walker, aged forty-five, hotel proprietor, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Abram B. Henrickson, aged thirty $50 a month for one, automobile agent, from drowning, Keen Camp, Cal., support of widow, February 29, 1912. Henrickson was in a canoe on Lake during her life, or Hemet, five hundred feet from the bank, when the canoe until she remar upset and he fell into deep, ice-cold water. Walker, who ries, with $5 a suffered from heart trouble, undressed and swam toward month additional Henrickson towing a log, but when he was forty feet from for each of two Henrickson the latter sank and was drowned. Walker swam children until each to the canoe, and tried to locate Henrickson but was unable to reaches age of do so. He clung to the log and called to men on the bank for sixteen. assistance. He was benumbed. Because of its temperature, none dared enter the water. Walker had drifted an hour, when his head fell back and he died, as a result of the exposure. His body was taken to the bank within a short time, and Henrickson's body was recovered eight days later.

698 George W. T. Snare, aged twenty-nine, attempted to save Bronze Medal. Percy Walker from drowning, Keen Camp, Cal., February 29, 1912. (See Award No. 697.) Snare was on an island, and he watched Walker as he swam to Henrickson's aid. When he saw Walker was becoming benumbed, he removed all of his clothes, and waded and swam to a stump, where he stood for twenty minutes in the cold wind until Walker reached a point one hundred ninety feet from the island. At this time Walker's head fell back, and, thinking he was only unconscious, Snare dived and swam to him. He supported Walker's head above the surface, and, with the log, swam two hundred forty feet to a point where he could stand, and then dragged Walker to land. Snare was almost crazed with pain and chills for a few minutes, and the chills lasted three days.

699 Louis C. Scholl, aged twenty-three, carpenter, saved Bronze Medal and Raymond C. Lanfear, aged twenty-three, clerk, from drowning, $1 ,000 for a Santa Cruz, Cal., July 9, 1911. Lanfear, who was in a canoe worthy purpose, ori Monterey Bay, one hundred twenty-five feet from a high as needed. and precipitous rocky point, jumped into the water to save himself from being capsized. Waves from six to nine feet high were breaking against the point and sweeping shoreward over submerged rocks. Lanfear was unable to swim toward shore, and was caught in a current which swept past the point. Shortly, he was barely able to keep at the surface. Scholl ran a quarter of a mile to the point,and, although a companion urged him not to go saying that he might be dashed against the rocks and killed, he partly undressed and plunged into the water. A life-preserver attached to a rope was thrown to him,and he swam to Lanfear. Lanfear grasped Scholl's arm, and both went down for an instant, but Scholl jerked loose and forced the life-preserver over Lanfear's head and arms. While men on the point pulled on the rope, Scholl, holding to the life preserver, swam with Lanfear. When near rthe point, Scholl twice was forced to back away with Lanfear to avoid being dashed against the rocks. He then swam to the rocks, and pushed Lanfear up as men above pulled him in the life preserver from the water. Scholl was then compelled to swim away to avoid a breaker. With great difficulty, he swam to the point, and was pulled up a steep rock. Lanfear was revived. 153 ACTS OF HEROlSM—Continued

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700 Clarence Van Nostrand, aged sixteen, attempted to save Bronze Medal and T. Waverly Doxey, aged ten, and saved Florence E. Doxey, $1,000 for a aged thirteen, and Frank Halvorsen, aged thirteen, from worthy purpose. drowning, Glen Cove, N. Y., January 8, 1911. Van Nostrand as needed. ran from the bank across thawing ice on Upper Lake toward Doxey and Halvorsen, who had broken through at a point thirty feet from the bank, where the water was over six feet deep. Before he could reach the hole, Miss Doxey, also, broke through. Van Nostrand went close to the hole and extended a short stick to Doxey, who grasped it and gave it a quick jerk, causing Van Nostrand to break through the ice. Van Nostrand immediately swam to Miss Doxey, who could not swim. He placed one arm on the ice and used the other to push her up on it until she was able to get out of the hole. He then swam to Halvorsen and pushed him up in the same way. Van Nostrand then climbed up on the ice and went home. Men rescued Doxey by throwing a rope to him. 701 John McBride, aged forty-eight, laborer, saved Cyrus L. Bronze Medal and Nall, aged seventy, laborer, from drowning, Tarpon, Texas, $1,000 for a March 9, 1910. Nall was working on a flat-car on a jetty in worthy purpose, the Gulf of Mexico, forty-three hundred feet from shore, when as needed. he fell into the water and was caught by an outgoing current and carried away from the jetty. Waves seven feet high were rolling in from the Gulf. McBride undressed and, from a car, dived over the rough, rocky top of the jetty, which extended seven feet from the car, and attempted to swim to Nall with a heavy plank. Waves continually swept over the men, and McBride could not swim directly toward Nall. Five men in a boat were compelled to abandon an attempt to row to the rescue on account of the roughness of the water. After Nall had been carried out several hundred feet, a current carried him shoreward. He was getting weak, and went down three times at brief intervals. After maneuvering carefully, and with difficulty, McBride reached Nall, and Nall grabbed the end of the plank. McBride then swam one hundred fifty feet, pushing Nall and the plank, and then caught Nall around the waist and arms and waded to the jetty with him. 702 William H. Prather, aged fifty, deckhand, saved F. William Bronze Medal and Pheasant, aged twenty-six, leverman, from drowning, Knights $1,000 for a Landing, Cal., May 27, 1911. Pheasant became entangled in worthy purpose, a coil of wire cable, which fell from the gang-plank of an as needed. anchored dredge-boat into water fifteen feet deep, carrying him with it. Pheasant and the coil finally rested on the bottom, well under the boat, and Pheasant struggled frantically to free himself. Prather dived under the boat, and Pheasant grasped him violently. Pheasant soon released his tight grasp and placed his hands on Prather's hips, and Prather attempted to swim upward with him. He then realized that Pheasant was caught, and he stood with his feet on the muddy bottom while he pulled Pheasant with both hands. When this did not free Pheasant, he grasped the coil and, with one tug, freed Pheasant. He then locked his legs around Pheasant's waist and swam upward with him. They struck the bottom of the boat, and Prather, supporting Pheasant, swam five feet to the edge of the boat, and arose to the surface. Both were assisted from the water. Prather had been under the surface a minute. Pheasant was nearly unconscious when brought to the surface, but he was revived.

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703 John V. Hagemann, aged thirty-two, laborer, rescued Bronze Medal and David C. Schlueter, aged thirty-six, farmer, and Minnie L. $1,000 toward Schlueter, aged thirty-three, from a runaway, Elgin, 1ll., purchase of a June 22, 1906. Schlueter and his wife were in acarriage, when farm. their horses bolted and ran at their utmost speed. Hagemann ran into the street, and, when the team was about to pass him, grabbed the bit of the nearer horse with his left hand and placed his right hand over the horse's nostrils. He ran with the team, pressing on the horse's nose to stop its breath. The horses did not slacken their pace, but, after Hagemann had run three hundred feet with them, the horse which he held reared and fell. Hagemann also fell. The horse regained its feet almost ‘immediately, but others had grabbed the team and it ran but a short distance farther. Hagemann lay unconscious in the street. He was disabled six days. Schlueter and his wife were thrown from the carriage just as the horses were stopped. Mrs. Schlueter was slightlyinjured.

704 Ernest E. Boggess, aged thirty-two, machinist, attempted Bronze Medal and to save Ray S. Utter, aged twenty, machinist, from burning, $425 disablement Hood River, Ore., May 18, 1910. Utter was working at a b e n e fi t s, a n (1 gasoline brazing-machine in a machine-shop, when a stream of $1,000 for a burning gasoline spurted from the tank. His clothing was worthy purpose, ignited, and the building was set on fire. With his arms as needed. across his face, Utter backed into a corner and crouched to get out of the flame. Boggess ran to Utter from an adjoining room, passing through the stream of gasoline flame, which was then six inches in diameter. Utter was somewhat bewildered, and Boggess put his arm around him and assisted him toward a place of safety. They passed through the stream of fire and through flames which rose from the floor, but before Boggess could get Utter from the building, Utter expired. Boggess escaped, but he was so severely burned that he was disabled forty-four days.

705 Rodney A. Perry, aged thirteen, schoolboy, saved Albert Bronze Medal and B. Collins, aged twelve, from drowning, Alton, Me., December $2,000 for educa 1, 1909. Perry and Collins were walking on the ice on tional purposes, ' Round Pond, when the ice broke and Collins fell into water as needed. twenty feet deep, at a point one hundred fifty feet from the bank. The temperature was ten degrees. Collins called to Perry, and Perry, who was but eight feet distant, thinking Collins had gotten into an air-hole, walked to the hole and extended a hand to Collins. The ice broke before he could grasp Collins, and Perry also fell into the water. Collins went beneath the surface, but he came up and grabbed Perry. Perry quickly freed himself, and scrambled up on the ice. He turned and extended a hand to Collins, and, kneeling, slowly pulled Collins up. He rose to his feet and had Collins's feet nearly on the ice, when the ice again broke, and they fell into the water. Perry caught hold of Collins, who was badly frightened and nearly helpless with cold, and supported him with one hand. He succeeded in reaching firm ice, and climbed out on it. He then caught the back of Collins's coat and pulled him from the hole. Collins was weak and cold, and Perry had to assist him to the bank.

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70( VI Walter B. Wallace, aged thirty-six, chief clerk, Bronze Medal. died attempting to save Cathleen B. Suggs, aged twenty-one, Sallie C. McLean, aged twenty-two, or Mary B. Wolfe, aged eighteen, from drowning, Santa Rosa Island, Fla., June 22, 1911. The women, of whom Miss Suggs could not swim, were bathing in shallow water in the Gulf of Mexico. They were swept off their feet by the strong undertow and carried into deep water. Wallace, who was in shallow water, saw the women being carried out, and immediately swam toward them, but he was drowned before he could reach them. Miss Suggs, also, was drowned, but her companions were saved by bathers who went out with lines.

707 Adam A. Oberst, aged fifty-one, stationary fireman, Bronze Medal and died saving Charles L. Carr, aged thirty-nine, foreman $25 a month for (gas company), from suffocation, Carpentersville, Ill., February support of mother 6, 1911. Carr and another man went into a cellar to inspect during her life. a broken gas-pipe from which gas was pouring. They were overcome and fell at the foot of the cellar steps. Oberst, who was passing, was called and informed of their plight. He immediately descended the steps to Carr, and lifted him to other men who stood at the top of the steps, and they pulled Carr to the open air. As the men grasped Carr, Oberst was overcome and fell to the floor, where he lay twenty-five minutes before he was pulled from the cellar by means of a rope. He could not be revived. Carr was revived several hours after the accident. His companion died.

708 Carl B. Warren, aged twenty-eight, farmer and black- Bronze Medal and smith, died attempting to save Rupert E. Tobey, aged $25 a month for five, from drowning, Vassalboro, Me., May 19, 1912. Rupert support of father, and his father, neither of whom could swim, and Warren and a or mother, during companion were in a sail-boat on Webber Pond. When three the life of either, hundred feet from the bank, and while the wind was blowing and $700 to be in strong gusts and the waves were running two to three feet applied to the high, Rupert fell overboard into water twelve feet deep. liquidation of their Warren, who was heavily dressed, and his companion immedi debts ately jumped from the boat, and Warren reached the child and took him on his back. The boat ran on before the wind, as Rupert's father did not know how to handle it. Warren's companion swam toward the boat and reached it with much difficulty after ten minutes' effort. In the meantime, Warren and Rupert had sunk and drowned. Their bodies were recovered later.

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709 Cecil R. Karberg, aged nineteen, reporter, died attempt Bronze Medal and ing to save Dorothy McGrew, aged thirteen, from drown- $500 to mother, ing, La Jolla, Cal., August 6, 1911. Miss McGrew, who as needed. could not swim, but who wore water-wings, was swept off her feet in a cove of the Pacific Ocean, and was carried toward the ocean by a current. Karberg, who was a poor swimmer, immediately swam thirty feet to Miss McGrew, and placed one hand under her arm. Both tried to swim against the current to shallow water, but their efforts were futile, and they were carried out of the cove. After remaining with her five minutes, Karberg urged Miss McGrew to keep paddling and to have courage, and then separated from her, and they drifted apart. Karberg made swimming motions for a few feet, and then became motionless. When he was reached by a strong swimmer, he was dead. He had died of heart failure. Miss McGrew was rescued by a man who swam to her with a rope.

710 C. Henry Carr, aged fifteen, schoolboy, died attempt Bronze Medal and ing to save George H. Cronin, aged seventeen, relaster's $1,000 to mother, helper, from drowning, Lynn, Mass., July 2, 1912. Cronin, as needed. who could not swim, got into deep water twenty-five feet from the bank of Flax Pond, and went beneath the surface. When he came up, he called for help, and Carr, who could swim a few strokes and was near, immediately swam to him and grasped him by the hair. Cronin then grabbed Carr's arm with both hands, and both sank and were drowned.

711 Frank Beaumont, aged thirty-six, farmer and boat- Silver Medal. man, died attempting to save John G. C. Beaumont, aged nine, from drowning, Beaumaris, Ont., July 27, 1912. John G. C. Beaumont fell into Muskoka Lake, where the water was ten feet deep, from a boat running at a speed of fifteen miles an hour. The wind was blowing twenty-five miles an hour, and the 'waves were five feet high. Frank Beaumont, John's uncle, ran to the side and dived after him. He swam eighty feet to John, and John placed his hands on Frank's neck or head. Frank then threw up his hands and sank. John struggled at the surface a few seconds, when he, also, sank, about the time the boat was turning. Both were drowned. ACTS OF HEROlSM—Continued

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Charles L. Covell, aged fifty-six, Superintendent of Public Silver Medal. Works, saved Ruth King, aged eighteen, Sarah J. Williams, aged thirty-six, and two unidentified women, and attempted to save Albert Hurst, aged four, from drowning, Wellington, Kan, June 29, 1908. A cloudburst at night caused the waters of Hargis Creek to rise suddenly and flood a portion of Well ington, a current of seven miles an hour sweeping houses from their foundations and carrying much debris down-stream. Covell entered a boat which leaked badly,and, with a man to bail out water, rowed across the current and took a woman off a roof. After landing her, he made three more trips to various points in the flooded district, rescuing the other women. On the last trip, while returning to land with Albert, the boat was carried down-stream and upset. When the boat cap sized, an oar struck Covell on the head, stunning him. Covell caught Albert, and Albert grabbed Covell's hair, and Covell went beneath the surface. He lost his hold on Albert, and the latter was drowned. Covell caught hold of a tree and clung to it until he was taken to land by means of a rope.

713 Austin M. Morgan, aged fifty-five, real estate dealer, Silver Medal. saved William E. Mason, aged thirty-two, minister, from assassination, Cleburne, Texas, December 7, 1907. In dark ness, Mason was attacked in his yard by a man with a revolver, who fired twice at him, one shot plowing through his scalp. The man then shot Mason's mother and his wife. Mason, calling for help, ran toward Morgan's home, pursued by the assassin. Morgan heard the shots and calls for help and ran from his home to the street, with his revolver in his hand. When Mason was within six feet of Morgan, the assassin fired again, the bullet striking Mason, who fell at Morgan's feet. With their revolvers but two feet apart, Morgan and the assassin exchanged shots, neither being hit, and the latter then turned and ran from the scene. The wounds of the injured were of a serious nature, but all recovered.

714 Lorenzo Ortiz, aged twenty-eight, track laborer, saved Silver Medal and Alexander S. Townes, aged ten, from drowning, Oklahoma $500 for a City, Okla., January 27, 1912. Alexander and an elder worthy purpose, brother, neither of whom could swim, fell into the North Fork as needed. of Canadian River, and were carried ten feet from the bank, where the water was six feet deep. Ortiz and a companion, who were warm from work, ran seven hundred feet, undressed, and, although the water was nearly covered with cakes of drifting ice, swam seventy feet across the stream to the boys. Ortiz could not reach Alexander because of the ice. He swam to the bank and ran a few feet along it to a point opposite which Alexander, unconscious, had disappeared, and jumped into the water. Ortiz dived and, having secured Alexander, swam a few feet to the bank. His companion brought the other boy to the shore and held both boys until Ortiz scrambled up the steep bank and helped them out. The two worked over the boys until another man brought them some clothes, thirty minutes after they had entered the water. The boys were revived. Ortiz cut his right leg near the shin while performing his act, and was disabled thirteen days. 15‘8v 7' ACTS OF HEROlSM—Continued

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715 Magdalene Bargas, aged thirty-eight, track laborer, saved Silver Medal and S. Brooks Townes, Jr., aged thirteen, from drowning, Okla $500 for a homa City, Okla., January 27, 1912. (See Award No. 714.) worthy purpose, Bargas accompanied Ortiz to the rescue, and swam to Brooks, as needed. whom he secured and took to the bank.

716 Sydney Metzler, aged thirty-two, dentist, saved Annie Silver Medal and Newton, aged twelve, from drowning, Whycocomagh, N. 5., $1,000 f o r a October 25, 1909. Miss Newton, who could not swim, was worthy purpose, alone on a point of land between Indian River and a brook, as needed. when heavy rains caused the streams to rise suddenly and overflow their banks, cutting her off from safety. The streams - became raging torrents, ten feet deep, carrying a large amount of debris, and the lowlands and the point were flooded two to four feet deep. After a man on horseback had failed to reach Miss Newton because of the swift current, Metzler, who was not familiar with the scene, was guided to it by this man, who waded a few steps behind him. It was about dark, and they had no light. When they neared the main current, Metzler stripped to his shirt and trousers and said he was going to swim to the point. His companion urged him strongly not to make the attempt, believing it would be suicidal. The point could be dimly seen. Metzler tied one end of a rope around his waist, intending to use it in getting Miss Newton to safety, and the man held the other end. Metzler swam sixty feet diagonally across the current and tied the rope to a tree. He waded about on the point until he found Miss Newton, and then led and carried her to a place opposite his companion. He had spent two hours on the point. He was shaking with cold, and was beginning to feel weak. A boat was brought to the scene, and, after one unsuccessful attempt, a man succeeded in reaching the point in it and taking Metzler and Miss Newton to safety.

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717 James A. Miller, aged forty-three, foreman, attempted to Silver Medal and rescue Jet C. Rogers, aged fifteen, farmhand, and Ora Postle $1,000 for a wait, aged thirty-four, farmer and well digger, from a cave-in worthy purpose, in a cesspool, Liberal, Kan., October 14, 1911. Rogers and as needed. Postlewait, at night, were buried under bricks and sand, ten feet deep, at the bottom of a cesspool which they were deepen l ing, when the wall caved in upon them, leaving an arch of bricks overhanging and scarcely supported by the soil, eighteen feet above their heads. The opening in the arch was but twelve by sixteen inches. A number of men gathered, and, an hour after the accident, Rogers's father and another, who had signified their willingness to enter the cesspool, were pulled away from the opening by Miller, who said he would descend to the rescue. An electric light was lowered into the cesspool, and, regardless of remonstrances and warnings, Miller descended with a rope around his thighs. There was a general apprehension that the arch might fall. The imprisoned men could be heard groaning, at this time, but twenty minutes later the groaning ceased. At intervals of twenty or thirty minutes, Miller was raised to the surface to rest and get fresh air. Several times, efforts were made to dissuade him from descending again. After working four hours sending up buckets of sand and bricks, Miller reached Rogers's hand. While he was resting, a fall of sand occurred, covering the hand to the depth of a foot. When he had again uncovered Rogers, Miller tied a rope around him, and he was then pulled to the surface. While this was being done, a slide of sand occurred, suflicient to cover Miller's feet as he stood at the bottom. Twenty minutes later Miller reached Postlewait, and he, also, was pulled up. Both men had been suffocated.

718 Allen W. McDowell, aged twenty-two, tool-dresser, saved Silver Medal and Jessie P. and James R. Bateson, aged fifteen and three, $1,545 disable respectively, from burning, Delaware, Okla., January 22, 1910. ment benefits. McDowell, Miss Bateson, James, and several children were in a tent, when gas and gasoline escaped into the tent, through a broken pipe, and exploded. The burning gas and fluid swept across the tent three or four feet from the floor, and all rushed from the tent but Miss Bateson and James. Their escape was cut off by flames and by the wooden sides of the tent. Miss Bateson crouched in the middle of the tent with James, and screamed for help. McDowell turned and, bending down in order to be under the flames, entered the tent immediately. He grasped Miss Bateson and James, and gave them a strong push toward the opening of the tent, losing his balance as he did so. He fell against the pipe from which the gasoline was escaping, and his clothing from his waist up was saturated and ignited. He rushed from the tent, and then became unconscious. He was badly burned, and was disabled ten months. Miss Bateson and James were not burned seriously.

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719 William P. Murley, aged forty-nine, farmer, attempted to Silver Medal and rescue J. Austin Lott, aged four, from a runaway, Capron, $1,000 disable Okla., February 8, 1911. Austin was in a buggy to which two ment benefits, and horses were hitched, when the horses ran away. After they $1,000 to be ap had run half a mile, and when they were still running at top plied toward the speed, Murley, standing in the road, attempted to grab the liquidation of his collar and a rein of one of the horses. He failed to get a hold, debts. and was knocked to the ground and run over, sustaining injuries which permanently disabled him. The horses ran more than a mile, and then stopped at a fence. Austin was not injured.

720 Doris E. Lewis, aged fourteen, schoolgirl, saved Benjamin Silver Medal and W. Draper, aged seven, from drowning, Cowansville, Que., $2,000 for edu November 25, 1911. Miss Lewis, whose height was five feet, cational purposes, three inches, approached to within three feet of a hole in the as needed. ice on the Yamaska River, where the water was five feet deep, and extended a hockey stick to Benjamin, who had broken through the ice. Finding that he was too benumbed to grasp the stick, she crawled forward until her body was in the water and the ice broke under her. After swimming two or three feet to Benjamin, she placed her arm around him and swam with him. Her feet touched a boulder on the bottom, and she stood on it, in water four feet deep, holding Benjamin, until assistance reached her, ten minutes later. D Miss Lewis was unconscious when taken from the water, but she was revived.

721 Albert C. Zeiner, aged forty-five, roofer and slater, Silver Medal to died attempting to save Charles P. Sullivan, aged seven, widow and $800 to from electric shock, Burlington, Vt., September 7, 1912. liquidate mort Charles came in contact with a dangling guy wire which had gage on her prop fallen upon an electric wire carrying a heavy voltage, and was erty, and $45 a thrown to the ground with the wire in his hand. Charles's month during her mother ran to him, grasped him, and was knocked down. life, or until she Zeiner ran to the wire and caught it with a pair of steel pliers. remarries, with $5 He uttered a groan and toppled over, falling partly on top of a month addi Charles. Both were pulled away from the wire by means of tional for her son straps and rubber hose. Charles was revived three hours until he reaches later. He was seriously burned. Zeiner was dead. age of sixteen.

Edwin S. Newlin, aged fifty, farmer, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save Alta W. Waite, aged twenty-two, and Nellie $20 a month each F. Anderson, aged twenty-seven, from drowning, Emporia, for support of Kan., July 17, 1912. The women, neither of whom could three children, swim, got into a deep hole in the Cottonwood River, until f u r t h e r twelve feet from the bank, and struggled together and called notice. for help. Newlin, who was the only person in the vicinity who could swim, waded rapidly toward them from the opposite side of the stream. When in water to his shoulders, he caught Mrs. Waite's hand, took a step back toward the bank, and then, in answer to a call, turned to help Miss Anderson. At that moment Mrs. Waite grabbed his hair and pulled him under the surface. He strangled and released his hold. The women sank, and were drowned. After appearing at the surface for a few seconds, Newlin sank, and was drowned. The bodies were recovered thirty minutes later.

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W. Roy Stokes, aged twelve, school-boy, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save Lorena J., Sarah G., and Charlotte Kenly, $1,000 to father, aged twelve, thirteen, and eight, respectively, from drowning, as needed. Coral, Pa., January 18, 1908. The girls, none of whom could swim, were together on the ice on a reservoir. The ice broke, and they fell into water nine feet deep. Stokes, who could not swim well and who knew that the ice in the vicinity of the hole was not safe, skated to the hole from a point four hundred feet distant. Lying face downward, he pulled Lorena up on the ice, and then one of them or Stokes and Lorena together attempted to pull one of the other girls out, and they fell into the water. All were drowned.

724 William J. Reidy, aged forty-three, carpenter, saved Bronze Medal. Abraham Hildebrand, aged forty-six, laborer, from suffocation, Gresham, Ore., November 8, 1904. Hildebrand was overcome by gas or smoke, following a blast in a well forty feet deep; and although others seemed unwilling to go to the rescue and one man had refused to go, Reidy had himself lowered to the bottom on the well-rope, with another rope around his body. He tied the well-rope around Hildebrand, and both were pulled to the surface. Hildebrand was revived in an hour. Reidy was nauseated.

725 Charles R. Lilly, aged forty-three, station-master, saved Bronze Medal and M. Frances Gooding, aged four, from being run over by a train, $900 to be ap Grafton, W. Va., May 4, 1912. Frances stepped from the plied to the liqui station platform and stood astride a rail in front of a passenger dation of his train, which wasapproaehing at a speed of eight miles an hour. debts. Lilly, who was two feet from the edge of the platform, leaped to the track and grabbed Frances with both hands. He then sprang to the platform,landing on the extreme edge. Before he could get farther away from the track, the bumper-timber of the locomotive brushed against him. Neither was injured.

726 Edgar H. Shorman, aged twenty-nine, grocer, rescued Bronze Medal and Mabel McCalley, aged thirty-three, from a runaway, Marion, $1,000 to be lowa, March 3, 1911. Mrs. McCalley was in a buggy, and applied toward her horse became frightened and broke into a hard run. After the liquidation of it had run six blocks at unslackened gait, Shorman ran into the his debts. brick-paved street and grabbed a line with one hand and the harness at the horse's neck with the other. He was jerked violently from his feet, and his weight caused the horse to fall on him. He was rolled along the street for a short distance as the horse slid after its fall. Men grabbed the horse and held it while others pulled Shorman from under it. He was badly injured and was disabled three weeks. Mrs. McCalley was uninjured.

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727 Jeremiah Frain, aged thirty-eight, boiler-maker, saved Bronze Medal and Charles L. Davis, aged forty-one, assistant master mechanic, $1,000 toward from suffocation, Rankin, Pa., June 21, 1907. Davis lowered liquidating mort himself eleven feet to the bottom of a valve-chamber of a blast gage on his prop furnace without taking any precautions for his safety, although erty. he had been warned of the presence of gas. He was almost immediately overcome and fell to the bottom of the chamber, unconscious. Men at the top called for help; and Frain ran sixty feet, lowered himself into the chamber, and dropped to the bottom. A rope was immediately lowered, and he raised Davis and tied the rope around him. Davis was pulled to the top and was revived. Frain got out in safety.

728 Lillamae Formby, aged twenty-two, school-teacher, saved Bronze Medal and Ethel R. Y'Blood, aged nineteen, from being run over by a $1,000 for a train, Waldo, Ark., August 2, 1912. Miss Y'Blood and Miss worthy purpose, Formby were running to cross a track ahead of a passenger as needed. train, which, although gradually reducing its speed for the station-stop, was approaching at a speed of twelve miles an hour. When Miss Y'Blood reached the track, she fell across it and was unable to get up. Although the train was but three hundred twenty-five feet away and she was tired from her run, Miss Formby ran thirty feet to Miss Y'Blood, grabbed her feet, and tried to pull her off the track. She was unsuccessful and ran across the track and grabbed Miss Y'Blood's shoulders and pulled, but she could not get her off. The locomotive was then one hundred seventy-five feet away, and Miss Formby stepped back to a place of safety. A moment later she ran to the middle of the track, grabbed Miss Y'Blood's arm and skirt, and pushed and swung her to a position parallel to the rails. Then she stepped outside the rail and pulled and rolled Miss Y'Blood Off the track, a moment before the locomotive passed over the spot where she had been. Neither was injured.

729 Ralph E. Maxey, aged twenty-nine, baggage-master, saved Bronze Medal and Harriett E. Malcolm and Lottie Hollenberg, aged sixty-two and $1,000 for a forty-nine, respectively, from being run over by a train, worthy pu rpose , Monmouth, 11l., May 12, 1908. The women were walking on as needed . a crossing toward a track on which a passenger-train was approaching at a speed of ten to fifteen miles an hour; and when they were about to step over the rail, the locomotive was within seventy feet of them. Maxey sprang onto the track from the opposite side and pushed or pulled them away from it, clearing it himself but a moment before the train passed at undiminished speed. None was injured.

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730 Samuel Nasser, aged twenty-six, weaver, saved Edward S. Bronze Medal and Whelan,aged four, from burning, Elmira, N. Y., April 12, 1912. $1,000 for a Edward was sleeping in a second-story room when it caught worthy purpose, fire from an exploding lamp and became filled with dense as needed. smoke. His mother opened the door and then ran from the house. The halls quickly filled with smoke. After another man had been driven back by the smoke, Nasser entered the house and started up the stairs; but the smoke was so dense that he returned to the outer door. When he saw the mother crying for her child, he turned and groped his way up the stairs and through the halls to the room in which he understood Edward to be. He saw a light, as of fire, in the room, but he crouched and went forward. He reached a bed but found no one on it. As he was leaving the room, he heard a cough and again went to the bed and felt over it. He then crawled over the bed and found Edward in another bed beside the first. Nasser picked the child up and groped his way down the stairs and out of doors. Both were burned somewhat, and Nasser was disabled thirty-two days. 731 Thomas P; Cahill, aged forty-seven, assistant superinten Bronze Medal and dent, life-insurance company, saved Isabella Mandel, aged $1,000 for a three, from being run over by a street-car, Pittsburgh, Pa., worthy purpose, April 27, 1912. Cahill sprang into the street and crouched as needed. between the rails to rescue Isabella, who had wandered upon the track. While the car was approaching at a speed of ten miles an hour and when the fender was but four feet distant, Cahill grabbed Isabella. He jerked her backward and threw himself off the track just as the car passed. 732 David Phillips, aged twenty-seven, mine fire-boss, saved Bronze Medal and Martin A. Wright, aged seventy-nine, from being run over by $1,000 for a a train, Snowden, Pa., June 11, 1912. Phillips was eight feet worthy purpose. from Wright on the opposite side of a railroad track when as needed. Wright stepped inside the rails in front of a passenger-train which was approaching at a speed of seven miles an hour. Phillips immediately stepped to a position with one foot just outside the rail and the other about midway between the rails, and when the pilot of the locomotive was but ten feet distant, grabbed Wright with both hands. He pulled Wright toward him and swung himself off the track, barely missing being struck. The locomotive ran a hundred feet beyond Phillips before the train was brought to a stop. 733 William J. Arthur, aged thirty-five, salesman, saved Bronze Medal and Benjamin J. Vetrone, aged nineteen, clerk, from drowning, $1,000 for a Erie, Pa., August 25, 1912. Vetrone swam, in Lake Erie, to worthy purpose, a point one hundred eighty feet from shore, where the water as needed. was over six feet deep. He was tired, swallowed some water, became frightened, and called for help. Arthur swam one hundred fifty feet to Vetrone, who went beneath the surface and became unconscious a moment before Arthur reached him. Arthur grabbed the back of Vetrone's bathing-suit and swam ten feet toward shore‘ with him; then Vetrone threw his arm around Arthur's neck, interfering with his breathing. Both went beneath the surface. Another man had swum out, and he towed both twenty-five feet to shallow water. Arthur was unable to break Vetrone's hold until they reached shallow water. Vetrone was revived in about fifteen minutes. 164 ACTS OF H EROlSM—Continued

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734 Bernard C. King, aged thirty-five, clerk, saved Ralph C. Bronze Medal and Brown, aged twelve, from drowning, Warren, Pa., December $1,000 for a 28, 1912. Brown was skating on the ice on Conewango Creek, worthy purpose, and he broke through to his armpits at a point twenty feet as needed. from the bank, where the water was twelve feet deep. King went upon the ice some distance from Brown, and after he had run fifteen feet, broke through to his chest, in deep water. The ice broke under his arms as he tried to climb out, and it was not until the third attempt that he succeeded in getting out. Securing a board eight feet long, he slid from the bank on it; but when he was eight feet out, the ice again broke, and he fell into deep water. He grabbed the board and broke the ice before him as he made his way to the bank. King then aided a young man and some boys to rescue Brown by means of a boat which had been brought to the shore. Alexander E. Shearer, aged twenty-four, lamp tender, Bronze Medal and saved Francis L. and Zura L. MacDonald, aged three and $1,000 for a eleven, respectively, from burning, Dingville, ‘IV- Va., worthy purpose, September 26, 1912. Francis and Zura were in a room across as needed. which fire and smoke swept from an open doorway. They lay asleep in a bed the foot of which was near an open window through which tongues of flame were entering. Although the smoke was so dense that the location of the flames could not be determined definitely, Shearer smashed a window at the opposite side of the room from the bed ;and, notwithstanding the fact that he was severely burned on the face by flames v which darted out, he climbed into the room and ran through smoke and flames to the bed, twenty feet distant. He carried Francis and led Zura to a point ten feet from the window through which he had entered, and then Zura jerked away from him and ran toward the flames which came through the door way. Shearer dropped Francis and followed Zura one or two steps and caught her; then he again picked Francis up, took both children to the window, and threw them out. He was nearly overcome by smoke and heat, and seemed about to fall, but a man reached through the window and grabbed his arm. He was pulled from the room. Two minutes later the roof fell in. Shearer sustained burns which disabled him fifteen days. The children were not severely burned. 736 Alvin M. Crafton, aged forty-seven, farmer, saved Thomas Bronze Medal and Griffin, aged seventeen, school-boy, and Robert Conyers, aged $ 1 , 000 for a twenty-seven, farmer, from drowning, Sidney, Ark., July 4, worthy purpose , 1912. Griffin, who was a fair swimmer, and Conyers, who as needed. could not swim, got into a deep hole in Piney Creek, twenty five feet from the bank; and Conyers grabbed Griffin around the waist with both arms. They went beneath the surface and came up, and then they went down again. Crafton, who was up-stream from them in shallow water, swam toward them. They had gone down a third time before Crafton reached them and jerked Griffin away from Conyers. Crafton swam to the bank with Griffin, who did not struggle. Crafton then swam to Conyers, who had managed to get a foothold on a stone and keep his head above the surface. He carried an eight-foot pole; and when Conyers grasped it, Crafton swam to the bank with him. Both men were in a semiconscious state when rescued, but they revived.

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737 Elliott D. Nichols, Jr., aged thirteen, school-boy, saved Bronze Medal and F. Bernice Fleek, aged seventeen, from drowning, Watts Flats, $1,000 for a N. Y., July 29, 1906. Miss Fleek's stepfather, an expert worthy purpose, swimmer, was teaching her to swim in a reservoir. When as needed. they were sixty-five feet from the bank, where the water was six feet deep,he became distressed; and both went beneath the surface. He supported her with her head above the surface, although he did not reappear. Nichols, who was a poor swimmer, swam to Miss Fleek with a short fence-rail; and she grabbed him around the neck with both arms, jerking away from the grasp of her stepfather. Both went beneath the surface; and when they came up, Nichols told her to release him. She did so and grabbed the rail, and he swam forty-five feet, towing her. His strength was almost gone; and when he cried out that he could not swim farther, a fishing rod was extended to him, and he was pulled to the bank. Neither suffered any ill effects.

738 William M. Orr, aged thirty-three, saw mill operator, Bronze Medal and saved W. McDonald Morriss, aged ten, from drowning, Glade $1,000 for a Spring, Va., March 16, 1912. Orr, who was very heavily worthy purpose, dressed, jumped into the Middle Fork of the Holston' River, as needed. which was at flood stage with a current of six miles an hour, and swam to Morriss, who was unconscious and drifting down stream, seventy-five feet from the bank. Two men returned to the bank in fright, after vainly trying to breast the current on horses. Orr grabbed Morriss and swam with him to a point ten feet from the bank, where he attempted to touch bottom but was swept off his feet. He was becoming tired, and called for help. Being swept against a nearly sub merged bush, he grabbed a limb and pulled himself toward the bank. They were helped out, and Morriss was revived.

739 James Reynolds, aged thirty-seven, foreman of linemen, Bronze Medal and saved John C. Jackson, aged twenty-five, lineman, from $1,300 to liquidate electric shock, New Haven, Conn., September 1, 1908. mortgage on i11s Jackson was ‘on a wooden pole, forty-eight feet above the property. ground, where he came in contact with a wire conducting a current of twenty-three hundred volts of electricity. He fell, unconscious, across the wire, and one hand clutched a ground wire. Reynolds immediately climbed the pole, and, standing on an arm two feet from the top, lifted Jackson by his belt from the wires. Still supporting Jackson, he beat out flames which had started in Jackson's clothes, and then got astride an arm. Jackson began to regain consciousness and to struggle, but he remained quiet when Reynolds told him to do so. Twenty minutes after Reynolds lifted Jackson from the wires, a ladder was brought; and Jackson was assisted to the ground. Jackson was badly burned, but he recovered.

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740 Joseph T. Holland, aged nineteen, clerk, attempted to Bronze Medal and save Hazel M. Murray, aged nineteen, from drowning, Erie, $2,000 for educa Pa., August 21, 1912. Miss Murray was swimming in Lake tional purposes, Erie, sixty feet from the shore, where the water was over six as needed. feet deep. She became distressed and called for help. Holland, who was on the beach and had just recovered from a cramp in his leg, immediately waded and swam to her. She grabbed the back of his bathing-suit and forced his head beneath the surface. Miss Murray became unconscious but retained her hold on Holland, who managed to get his head to the surface often enough to keep from strangling. Two men swam out to them; and as they approached, Miss Murray's grasp relaxed, and she went beneath the surface. Holland was able to swim to shore but was nearly exhausted. Miss Murray was taken to shore by the others and was revived.

741 Sheldon V. Clarke, aged seventeen, student, savedJ. Byron Bronze Medal and Duke, aged seventeen, student, from drowning, Williamsport, $2,000 for educa Pa., June 3, 1912. Duke, who was a fairly good swimmer, tional purposes, became distressed in the West Branch of the Susquehanna as needed. River, two hundred twenty-five feet from the bank, where the water was between five and seven feet deep. Clarke, a stranger to him, immediately dived from the base of a bridge pier, swam one hundred feet, and then put his arm under him. Duke put his hands on Clarke's head and shoulder, and both went beneath the surface. When they came up, Clarke freed himself; and Duke ceased to struggle. Clarke endeavored to swim to the bank with Duke, but could not make headway on account of the current and Duke's weight. With difliculty he supported Duke as they drifted with the current. Both yelled for help, and men were attracted by their cries and went to them in a boat. The boys were nearly exhausted.

742 J. Floyd Frasier, aged thirteen, school-boy, saved Wayne K. Bronze Medal and Williams, aged sixteen, farm-hand, from drowning, Dulaney, $2,000 for educa Texas, May 28, 1911. Williams was twenty feet from the bank tional purposes, of a pond, where the water was over six feet deep, and he was as needed. seized by cramp and went beneath the surface. When he came up, he paddled feebly; but he again went down. Frasier, who was five inches shorter than Williams, swam to him from the bank and grasped him; but Williams grabbed Frasier and they struggled. Frasier was pulled beneath the surface twice, but he succeeded in getting Williams to the bank without assistance.

743 Kenneth R. Oliver, aged eleven,school-boy, saved Gladys Bronze Medal and M. Russell, aged seven, from being run over by a train, $2,000 for educa Tampico, 11l., March 15, 1912. Gladys stood midway between tional purposes, the rails of a railroad-track, without noticing a train which was as needed. approaching her at a speed of twenty-five miles an hour. When it was one hundred feet from her, Oliver saw her danger. He ran twenty feet over a snow-covered crossing and pushed her off the track, clearing the track himself when the pilot was but ten feet distant.

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744 James 0. London, aged twenty-six, assistant general Bronze Medal and foreman (construction), died attempting to save Harry R. $55 a month for Hicks, aged eleven, from drowning, Mahoning, Pa., June 30, support of widow, 1912. Hicks, who could not swim, and an older companion during her life, or were in deep water in Mahoning Creek, and they became untilsheremarries, involved in a struggle. London was on a dam, sixteen feet with $5 a month from them, and he immediately jumped into the water, fully additional f o r dressed, and swam to them. He caught hold of Hicks, who e a c h of f our struggled wildly; but before he could save him, all went children until each beneath the surface. Hicks's companion was saved by a man reaches age of who extended a pole to him, but Hicks and London were sixteen. drowned. Their bodies were recovered within a few minutes.

745 E. Gertrude Semon, aged thirty-two, housewife, rescued Silver Medal and Elizabeth G. King, aged thirty-six, from burning, Galesburg, $1,000 for a Ill., December 14, 1910. Mrs. Semon, who was in a weakened, worthy purpose, nervous condition, in her home, saw Mrs. King running toward as needed. the house with the entire back of her clothes in flames. Mrs. Semon grabbed a quilt and opened the door, but as Mrs. King rushed into the house, she evaded Mrs. Semon and ran past her. Mrs. Semon followed, tore off some of her burning clothes, and tried to detain her. Mrs. King struggled and, clad only in her burning union suit, went out onto the back porch. There Mrs. Semon rubbed the fire out with her hands, and then,after assistance reached them, fainted. Mrs. Semon's skirt and rough cotton dressing-sack were found in flames on the floor. Mrs. King died about six weeks later as a result of her injuries. Mrs. Semon was badly burned and shocked, and she was totally disabled seven and a half months.

746 lram Kevorkian, aged twenty-four, laborer, saved Henry Silver Medal and J. Lutz, aged fifty-one, candy maker, from drowning, Niagara $1,000 for a Falls, N. Y., May 19, 1912. Lutz fell into the Niagara River worthy purpose. and was being rapidly carried toward the American Fall. as needed. Kevorkian, who could not swim, waded out twenty feet, into water which reached nearly to his hips, at a point one hundred fifty feet above the brink, and as Lutz was drifting by, caught him with a pike-pole. The pull of the current on Lutz's body caused Kevorkian to slide two or three feet on the slimy, rocky bottom, and he called for help. Men joined hands and waded into the water; one of them grabbed Kevorkian‘s hand, and he and Lutz were pulled to shore.

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747 Martin D. Wade, aged fifty-seven, railroad flagman, Silver Medal and attempted to save Raymond V. Ryan, aged fifteen,school-boy, $1,000 for a from being run over by a train, Mount Alton, Pa., March 2, worthy purpose, 1912. While Ryan was attempting to board a slowly-moving as needed. freight-train from an embankment of snow, frozen solidly, he fell between the train and the embankment. The space between the bodies of the cars and the snowbank was only five inches. Wade quickly got down between two cars and while between the train and the embankment made an unsuccessful attempt to grab Ryan. Ryan was run over, and Wade immediately made efforts to save himself from being crushed between the bank and the train. He groped upward and caught an iron fitting beneath a sliding door; and, holding to it with both hands, with his feet sometime inside and some time outside of the rail, he was dragged three hundred feet before the end of the embankment was reached. The train was then running five miles an hour, and he threw himself away from it and fell face downward beside the track. Wade's whole body was badly wrenched, and he was disabled fifty four days. Ryan was so badly injured that he died that night.

Joseph M. Friel, aged twenty-four, brakeman, saved Silver Medal and Agnes E. Walsh, aged seventeen, from being run over by a $1,000 for a train, Riverton, Pa., October 25, 1912. Miss Walsh stepped worthy purpose, from one track to avoid a light locomotive which, running as needed. backwards, was approaching behind her, and walked between the rails of another track in front of a freight-train which, unknown to her, was approaching back of her at a speed of twenty miles an hour. Friel, who limped somewhat, jumped from the pilot of the light locomotive; and, running faster than the locomotive was going, he got between the rails of the other track and grabbed Miss Walsh from the rear. He lifted her to a place between the tracks less than four feet wide, an instant before the freight-locomotive passed overthe spot where she had been,and held her while both locomotives passed them.

749 Patrick J. Reidy, aged thirty-six, yard conductor, saved Silver Medal and Thomas Hayes, aged six, from being run over by a train, $1,000toliquidate Buffalo, N. Y., June 28, 1906. Thomas was on a railroad mortgage on his bridge and,too terrified to move, squatted on the trackon which property. a train was approaching him at a speed of thirty-five miles an hour. Reidy, who was on a box-car in the middle of a train going in the opposite direction and running twenty miles an hour, noticed Thomas and the oncoming train; and he alighted on the ground at the end of the bridge. Without looking to note the position of the approaching train, Reidy ran between the rails toward Thomas, fifty-five feet distant. When Reidy was ten feet from Thomas, the locomotive reached the bridge; and just as he grabbed the child and threw himself from the track, the locomotive rushed past at undiminished speed. Reidy alighted on the open frame-work of the bridge, where he lay and held Thomas until assistance reached him. Neither was injured.

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750 Stanislaus Orlemanski, aged fifty-five, crossing watch Silver Medal and man, attempted to save an unidentified man from being run $1,000 to be over by a train, Erie, Pa., July 24, 1912. The man walked applied toward toward a track on which a passenger-train was approaching at the liquidation of a speed of twenty miles an hour, and Orlemanski started his debts. toward him when the train was four hundred seventy-five feet distant. When Orlemanski reached the man, he was between the rails, and the train was seventy feet away. He grabbed the man, and the latter grasped him and resisted, and both were struck and knocked twenty-five feet. Both were rendered unconscious, and the unknown man died within a few minutes. Orlemanski recovered consciousness seven hours later and was disabled sixty-eight days.

751 Charles G. Davis, aged eighteen, laborer, saved Vi’. Silver Medal and Franklin Gorman, aged twenty-six, well-digger, from suffoca $2,000 for educa tion, Charlotte, N. C., September 19, 1911. Gorman had tional purposes, called to be hoisted out of a well; and when the bucket in as needed. which he stood was ten feet from the bottom and twenty-five feet from the top, he was overcome by gas. He fell, and having twisted his legs around the rope, hung head downward. Three men at the surface said they feared to enter the well, and they were afraid to hoist Gorman further lest he would fall to the bottom. Davis descended on the rope to Gorman and assured himself that Gorman was in a safe position to be hoisted to the surface. He then climbed hand over hand until his arms were near the surface; then he became weak and called for help. A man caught his arm and assisted him from the well. Gorman was hoisted and was revived, although he did not fully recover for two or three weeks.

752 Alvah H. Gibson, aged fourteen, assembler, helped to save Silver Medal and Howard C. Warren, aged fifteen, assembler, from an impending $2,000 for educa fatal fall following an electric shock, Kalamazoo, Mich.,-April tional purposes. 16, 1912. Disregarding a warning sign at the base of a steel as needed. tower, Gibson and Warren climbed the open frame-work of the tower to the top, seventy feet above the ground. The tower supported six uninsulated wires, and each wire carried a current of forty thousand volts of electricity. While descend ing, at dusk, Warren came in contact with a wire and, in a semiconscious condition, fell upon the frame-work, being supported sixty feet above the ground. He lay on his back within a few feet of a wire. Gibson called for help, climbed a short distance to Warren, and then grasped Warren's ankles. Although Warren struggled a little and Gibson was fearful that Warren would fall to the ground, Gibson held him fifteen minutes before a man climbed up and aided him. A second man followed the first man, but he came in contact with a wire and was killed. Gibson and the man held Warren twenty minutes; then another man climbed up with a rope, and \Varren was lowered to the ground. Warren died five days later from his injuries. Gibson reached the ground in safety.

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Roy W. Carney, aged thirty-four, city detective, helped to Silver Medal and save Howard C. Warren from an impending fatal fall following $1,000 t o b e an electric shock, Kalamazoo, Mich., April 16, 1912. (See applied t o wa r d Award No. 752.) Carney was the first man to climb to the liquidation of‘ Gibson's assistance. After Warren had been lowered, Carney his debts. reached the ground in safety.

754 William W. Webster, aged forty-three, merchant, died Silver Medal and attempting to help save Howard C. Warren from an impending $70 a month for fatal fall following an electric shock, Kalamazoo, Mich., April support of widow, 16, 1912. (See Award No. 753.) Webster was the man who during her life, or followed Carney to the rescue. His body was lowered to the untilsheremarries, ground a few minutes after his death. with $5 a month additional for each of two children until each reaches age of sixteen.

755 Herbert R. Cornell, aged twelve, school-boy, died attempt Silver Medal and ing to save Carl C. Henry, aged twelve, from drowning, Athens, $600 to father, Ohio, June 28, 1912. Henry, who could swim very little, was as needed. bathing in the Hocking River, twenty-five feet from the bank, where the water was eighteen feet deep, and he became distressed and went beneath the surface. Cornell, who was a good swimmer, waded fifteen feet and then swam to Henry, who immediately grabbed him with both arms. The boys struggled and then sank and were drowned.

756 John T. Brooke, aged twenty-two, teacher, saved Earl L. Silver Medal and R. Askam, aged seventeen, student, and died attempting to $1,000 to father, save Clarence M. Dell, aged nineteen, student, and George as needed. W. Smith, aged twenty-six, teacher, from drowning, San Mateo, Cal., August 15, 1907. Askam and Dell became distressed and exhausted in the waters of San Francisco Bay, thirty feet from a bathing pier, and could not swim farther against the waves, which were five feet high. Brooke, who had heart trouble, and Smith took off their outer clothes and jumped from the pier. Smith became distressed before reaching the boys, but Brooke reached Askam and took hold of him. Dell had grabbed Askam, and Brooke released Askam and swam beside him, encouraging him to swim to the pier. He pushed Askam up the steps of the pier and then swam toward the others; but before reaching them, he became dis tressed, and all were drowned. The bodies were recovered ater.

757 George W. Smith, aged twenty-six, teacher, died attempt Bronze Medal and ing to save Earl L. R. Askam and Clarence M. Dell, from $1,000 to mother, drowning), San Mateo, Cal., August 15, 1907. (See Award as needed. No. 756.

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758 Peter W. H. Finney, aged twenty-one, farmer, died Silver Medal and attempting to save John Thomas, aged forty-four, farmer $25 a month for and well-digger, from suffocation, Snake Creek, Va., May 26, support of sister, 1911. Thomas was overcome by gas in a well forty feet deep, until f u r t h e r in which he had set off a blast of dynamite some hours before; notice. and although several men refused to descend to his aid, Finney descended into the well with a rope around him. When he reached the bottom, he removed the rope from his body and tied it around Thomas and told the men to pull him up quickly. Before Thomas was got to the surface, Finney was overcome. Thomas was found to be dead. Finney's dead body was removed from the well by means of hooks,forty-five minutes later. '

759 Charles Thomas, aged thirty-four, laborer, died attempt Silver Medal to ing to save Joseph E. Murphy, aged'forty-nine, contractor, widow and $100 from suffocation, Circleville, Ohio, September 16, 1912. to liquidate her Murphy descended into a sewer manhole and was immediately indebtedness, and overcome by gas. Thomas was working on the sewer seven $30 a m o n t h blocks from the scene when he learned of the accident, and he during her life, or immediately rode to the manhole on a bicycle. He descended untilsheremarries, a ladder into the manhole before any person could stop him with $5 a month or explain what had happened to Murphy, and he refused to additionalforeach wait until a rope was tied around him. Thomas was overcome of four children before he reached the bottom of the manhole. Murphy and until each reaches Thomas were taken out later, but neither could be revived. age of sixteen.

760 Elias B. Adams, aged sixty-eight, crossing watchman, Silver Medal and died attempting to save Olivia R. Schmidt, aged eighteen, $25 a month for from being run over by a train, Dayton, Ohio, November 14, support of widow, 1912. At night, at a point illuminated by an electric arc-light, during her life, or Miss Schmidt heedlessly walked toward a track on which a untilsheremarries. passenger-train, which was then but one hundred fifty feet from her, was approaching at a speed of fifteen miles an hour. Adams was beside the track forty-two feet away, between her and the train, and saw her danger. He shouted and ran toward her; but his shout startled her, and she stopped on the rail of the track. As Adams ran, he extended his arms to grasp her. Both were struck by the locomotive, and Adams was instantly killed. Miss Schmidt died several hours later.

Alexander Johnston, aged forty-four, assistant master . Silver Medal and mechanic, died attempting to save Sylvester L. Hines, aged $75 a month for twenty-three, rigger, and Frederick Meyer, aged twenty-six, support of widow, rigger helper, from suffocation, Etna, Pa., June 11, 1912. during her life, or Hines and Meyer were overcome by gas at the bottom of a untilsheremarries, charging-box over a blast-furnace, which was in operation. with $5 a month Johnston, who was on top of the charging-box, immediately additional for her slid down a rod to the bottom, a distance of ten feet, and s o n u n t i l h e stooped over Meyer, who was gasping but apparently reaches age of unconscious. He called to men above to let down a rope, sixteen. and then fell over unconscious. He was dead when taken out. The other men were taken out, and Meyer was revived.

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762 Oswald (1. Beck, aged fifty, pipe fitter, died as the result of Silver Medal and attempting to save Alexander Johnston from suffocation, $55 a month for Etna, Pa., June 11, 1912. (See Award No. 761.) Beck ran support of widow, one hundred fifty feet and then climbed a ladder to the top during her life, or of the charging-box, which was one hundred seventeen feet untilsheremarries, above the ground. He tied a rope around his body, leaving with $5 a month the end hang free, and although weak from his exertions and additional for her short of breath, slid to the bottom of the box while another daughter until she man held the rope. Beck tied the loose end of the rope around reaches age of Johnston, and then fell forward and began to groan. An sixteen. attempt was made to pull the two men up together, but Johnston's body became wedged in the box, and the effort was unsuccessful. They were taken out later. Beck died two _ weeks after the accident, without having recovered con sciousness.

763 Lawrence E. Riddle, aged thirty-six, superintendent, Silver Medal. saved Frederick Meyer, and attempted to save Oswald G. Beck and Alexander Johnston, from suffocation, Etna, Pa., June 11, 1912. (See Award No. 761.) Riddle ran six hundred feet to the furnace, ordered the blast shut off, and then climbed the ladder. He was in an almost breathless condition when he reached the top of the charging-box, but he immediately slid down and quickly untied the rope around Johnston. Beck was pulled up, and Riddle then tied ropes around Meyer and Johnston in turn. While Johnston was being pulled out of the charging-box, Riddle lost consciousness and fell. He was taken out in a few minutes and revived.

764 Henry Wagner, aged twenty-three, trestle foreman, saved Silver Medal and Lawrence E. Riddle from suffocation, Etna, Pa., une 11, 1912. $ 1,000 for a (See Award No. 761.) Wagner ran one hundre fifty feet and worthy purpose, climbed the ladder. He assisted in pulling Beck and Meyer as needed. from the charging-box; and when Riddle was overcome, he slid down to him although he was still somewhat breathless. He quickly tied a rope around Riddle, who was then pulled to the top. Wagner began to gasp and to get dizzy. A rope was hastily let down to him, and he grasped it. He was assisted to the top and then to the ground, and was revived.

765 Frank H. Sykes, aged thirty-two, publicity manager Bronze Medal. (insurance company), saved Bertha Loeb, aged thirty-four, from drowning, Atlantic City, N. J., September 16, 1911. Mrs. Loeb, who could not swim, jumped into the Atlantic Ocean, from a pier, five hundred feet from shore. The sea was rough, the waves being five to eight feet high. Although he had been warned not to enter the water because of his physical condition, Sykes took off his coat and shoes and jumped into the water from the pier. He swam one hundred twenty-five feet to Mrs. Loeb and grasped her. She soon became unconscious; and Sykes supported her,without attempt ing to reach any definite point, for four minutes until a boat reached them. Both were taken to shore, and Mrs. Loeb was revived.

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John N. Sennott, aged eight, school-boy, saved Maria M. Bronze Medal. Poli, aged fourteen, from drowning, New York, N. Y., July 25, 1911. Miss Poli, who could not swim, lost her water-wings in deep water in New York Bay, fifty feet from shore; and Sennott, who weighed nearly one hundred pounds less than she, immediately swam to her. He grasped her hand and then, swimming on his back, towed her about thirty feet to water in which they could stand.

767 Lucy (i. Edwards (colored), aged thirty-seven, nurse, Bronze Medal. rescued Garnett Andrews, Jr., aged seven, from a rabid dog, Chattanooga, Tenn., May 21, 1912. Mrs. Edwards warned Garnett and other children not to leave the house, because of the dog, which was known to be mad and at large; but while she was temporarily absent, Garnett went out on a porch and the dog made its appearance. Mrs. Edwards saw the dog enter the house and ran to the room into which it had followed Garnett. She was about to push Garnett through the door, when the dog fastened its teeth in the seat of his trousers. She dropped to her knees and grabbed the back of the dog's neck with both hands, and it turned and bit her hand. She held the dog about a minute until her husband arrived and killed it. She was disabled three weeks.

768 Regina A. Ford, aged fourteen, school-girl, saved Mildred Bronze Medal and King, aged eight, from drowning, Brooklyn, vN. Y., August 22, $2,000 for educa 1912. Mildred, who could not swim, ‘fell from a pier into tional purposes, Betts's Creek and was carried out by the tide. Miss Ford saw as needed. her drifting and, running to the end of the pier, plunged into the water. She swam seventy-five feet to Mildred, who was then unconscious. Miss Ford grasped Mildred and swam over sixty feet with her to a pile. ‘She was tired and held to the pile, supporting Mildred until assistance reached her. Mildred was revived.

769 Dora Hyatt, aged eighteen, student, saved two unidentified Bronze Medal and men from drowning, Brooklyn, N. Y., July 7, 1911. The two $2,000 for educa men were swimming in Gravesend Bay, and one of them tional purposes, became distressed fifty feet from a pier. His companion as needed. swam to him and was grabbed, both going beneath the surface. Miss Hyatt dived from a float and swam one hundred feet to the spot where the men had disappeared. She sawa bathing suit beneath the surface and, grasping it, pulled the distressed man to the surface. He still clung to his companion, who struggled feebly to free himself. Miss Hyatt trod water and supported the distressed man, who was semiconscious, an shouted for help. A youth swam up and aided until men in a boat reached them. The two men were taken to shore in the boat, and Miss Hyatt swam following the boat.

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770 R. Pauline McKinney, aged fifteen, student, saved Robert Bronze Medal and W. Drye, aged two, from being run over by a train, Van Alstyne, $2,000 for educa Texas, October 14, 1910. Miss McKinney saw Robert about tional purposes, to cross a track on which a passenger-train, less than four as needed. hundred fifty feet from him, was approaching at a speed of about twenty miles an hour. He reached the rail of the track and was unable to step over it. Miss McKinney ran two hundred feet to him, leaned over the rail, grabbed him by his ankle and an arm, and swung away from the track just as the locomotive passed the spot at undiminished speed. She fell down an embankment with the child in her arms, but neither was injured.

771 W. Ross King, aged seventeen, clerk, saved Henry W. Bronze Medal and Beuschel, aged seventeen, from drowning, Kane, Ill., May 23, $2,000 for educa 1912. Beuschel was swimming in Macoupin Creek, and he tional purposes, became distressed fifteen feet from the bank where the water as needed. was over six feet deep. King, whose right hand and lower forearm had been amputated, ran to the bank and sprang into the water, his momentum carrying him to Beuschel. King grasped Beuschel's hair; and when he raised Beuschel's head above the surface, Beuschel grabbed his shoulders. Both went beneath the surface; and although King tried to free himself, he could not. His struggles brought him near the bank, and a young man grasped King's fingers and slowly pulled him to the bank and assisted Beuschel out of the water.

772 Olen M. Scott, aged fourteen, school-boy, saved Ida M. Bronze Medal and ‘ Shipman, aged twenty-three, from drowning, Weldon, Texas, $2,000 for educa September 15, 1912. Miss Shipman was swimming across tional purposes, Trinity River; she became tired and went beneath the as needed. surface forty feet from the bank where the water was over ten feet deep. She continued her efforts to swim but made no progress. After she had gone down a second time, Scott, who was much smaller than she and had learned to swim about a month before, jumped into the water and swam to her. About the moment he grasped her, she became uncon scious, or nearly so, and Scott swam to the bank with her.

773 Joseph T. F. Allen, aged twelve, school-boy, saved Raymond Bronze Medal and J. Gaunay, aged six, from drowning, Troy, N. Y., March 31, $2,000 for educa 1912. While at play Raymond fell from a wharf into the tional purposes, Hudson River, which was at flood-stage, and was carried from as needed. the wharf by the current. After a better swimmer had made an excuse for not going to the rescue, Allen took off his coat and shoes and dived into the water, narrowly missing a cake of ice. He swam about fifty feet to Gaunay and grasped him, and then swam to the bank with him.

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774 Bert T. Yates, aged seventeen, student, saved Percival A. Bronze Medal and Newman, aged nine, school-boy,and J. Frederick W. Shaver, $2,000 for educa aged fifteen, student, from drowning, Mille Roches, Ont., tional purposes, August 30, 1909. Yates, Newman, Shaver, and two other as needed. boys were crossing a section of the St. Lawrence River near the foot of Mille Roches Rapids; an oar-lock broke and the boat upset one hundred thirty-five feet from the bank where the water was five and one-half feet deep. Yates and two of the boys grabbed the boat, which drifted upside down; but Newman, who could not swim, called for help,and Yates swam fourteen feet to him. He placed Newman's hands on his shoulder and had swum a few feet with him when he saw Shaver, who could not swim, beneath the surface. He pulled Shaver to the surface, put his arm around Shaver's body, and swam about seven feet farther with the boys to a punt which was coming to their aid.

775 Howard E. Little, aged seventeen, student, saved Frank A. Bronze Medal and Barrett, aged nineteen, student, from electric shock, Pittsford, $2,000 for educa N. Y., May 5, 1911. Barrett climbed a pole to take down a tional purposes, banner, but while loosening it he came in contact with a wire as needed. conducting a current of over four thousand volts of electricity, and was instantly rendered unconscious. He fell on an arm of the pole with his jaw in contact with a high-power wire. Little, who was inexperienced with electricity, immediately climbed up and, standing on the arm, used both hands to raise Barrett to a sitting position. He put one leg under Barrett, but he received a shock and quickly withdrew his leg. Stand ing with his feet between low-power wires and close to the high power wires, Little supported Barrett in a sitting position until an electrical repairman ascended and tied a rope around Barrett, who was then lowered to the ground. He was revived.

776 Claude M. Tournienaged twenty-one, clerk, saved James, Bronze Medal and Samuel, and Rose Efedducea, aged five, seven, and nine, $2,000 for educa respectively, from drowning, Auburn, N. Y., February 14, tional purposes, 1913. James, Samuel, and Rose Efedducea were playing on as needed. the ice on Owasco Outlet; the ice broke at the edge, and they fell into open water and drifted to points where the depth was eight feet. Tournier, who was dressed except as to coat, ran over two hundred feet to the edge of the ice, jumped into . the water, and swam to James, whom he grasped. He swam fifteen feet with James to a man standing in shallow water, and then swam to Samuel and took him to the same place. Tournier then swam thirty feet to Rose, who was unconscious, and grasped her. As he swam with her, he began to grow weak and went beneath the surface; but he reached the man with her, and she was revived.

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777 Basker N. Burel, aged twenty-one, student, saved Adolphus Bronze Medal and Bowls, aged twenty-eight, farmer, from suffocation, Duncan's $2,000 for educa Creek, Ga., August 9, 1912. Bowls was working in a well, tional purposes, three feet in diameter and fifty feet deep. He was over as needed. come by carbon dioxide and fell to the bottom. Burel and others were attracted to the well; and when they learned what was wrong, three men,.one of them Bowls's assistant, refused in Burel's hearing to enter the well. Burel took off his shoes and descended to Bowls by means of notches which were cut in two sides of the well. He tied a rope around Bowls and then climbed to the surface without assistance. Bowls was raised and was revived.

778 Elbert Gray (colored), aged sixteen, school-boy, saved Bronze Medal and A. Calvin Step ,aged two, from drowning, Canton,Texas, Feb $2,000 for educa ruary 5,1912. alvin fell feet first into a well thirteen inches in tional purposes, diameter and sixty feet deep, which contained eighteen inches as needed. of water; and unsuccessful efforts were made to rescue him with a hook. An uncle of the child went to a town three miles distant and there met Gray, to whom he told the cir cumstances. Making no mention of a reward, he asked Gray if he would enter the well, and Gray said he would. When Gray reached the well, a rope was tied under his arms; and he was lowered into the well. He put his shoulders forward in order to make his body smaller and held his hands down in front of him. He grasped Calvin and was hoisted to a point near the surface, when Calvin's clothes gave way and he again dropped to the bottom. Gray was hoisted to the surface. He was crying, being somewhat frightened. The skin had been rubbed off his arms in several places, and his face was scratched and bleeding. When asked, he agreed to descend head first with a rope around his ankles although he heard a man say that he, Gray, would be dead before he reached the bottom. Gray was lowered into the well head first carrying a rope; and when he reached Calvin, he tied the rope around him; and both were hoisted. Neither suffered any ill effects from the experience.

779 Noldon Townsell (colored), aged sixteen. porter, saved Bronze Medal and Emma E. Scale, aged four, from being run over by an auto $2,000 for educa truck, Waco, Texas, February 1, 1912. As Townsell and tional purposes, Emma were crossing a street, the child darted ahead of Town as needed. sell, in front of an autotruck, which was approaching at a speed of twelve miles an hour. Townsell sprang forward and landed between the child and the autotruck. He grasped Emma's shoulders and pushed her out of the path of the machine just as it struck him. He was knocked to the pave ment, and one wheel ran over his leg. Emma was not injured, but Townsell suffered a broken rib and was otherwise injured, being disabled two months.

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780 Michael E. Walsh, aged twenty-seven, deck-hand, attempt Bronze Medal and ed to save Harry J. Browne, aged twenty-two, and William $1 ,000 for a H. O'Donnell, aged fifty-one, painters, from suffocation, worthy purpose, Mariners Harbor, N. Y., June 18, 1912. Browne and as needed. O'Donnell were overcome by paint fumes in a compartment of the hold of a vessel. Access to where they lay (although their exact position in the hold was unknown) was through two other compartments, the dividing bulkheads of which had in them holes only eighteen inches in diameter. Walsh entered one compartment through a hatch, and crawled through one bulkhead and, in darkness, over beams on the bottom of the hold to the west bulkhead. He reached through the hole and found the men, but he was affected by the fumes and unable to pull the men through the hole. He returned to the deck, and a hole was chopped through the deck over the men. Walsh and another man were let down by means of ropes, and they tied other ropes to Browne and O'Donnell. All were pulled out, and Browne and O'Donnell were revived. 781 Patrick White, aged forty-five, ropeman, rescued Andrew Bronze Medal and L. Leininger, aged thirty-six, lineman, from electric shock, $1,000 for a Butte, Mont., July 7, 1912. Leininger was working on a pole worthy purpose, forty feet above the ground, and his foot got in contact with as needed. one of three wires carrying a current of thirty-eight hundred volts of electricity. He was rendered unconscious and hung suspended by his safety-belt. A man climbed the pole far enough to knock Leininger's foot away from the wire, receiving a slight shock; and then, being afraid to do more, he descended. Taking a rope with him and wearing leather gloves covered with asbestos, White ascended the pole. He grasped the burning cloth at Leininger's breast and received a slight shock. He then placed the rope around Leininger, moving him in order to do so, and with the rope over a spike, cut Leininger's belt. Men below lowered Leininger, White guiding his body‘through the wires. Leininger died two days later.

782 Horace W. Beebe, aged thirty-eight, musician, saved Bronze Medal and Ella B. Williams and Lillian E. and Myra R. Sauter, aged $1,000 for a nineteen, twenty-five, and nineteen, respectively, from drown worthy purpose, ing, East Lyme, Conn., August 4, 1912. The young women, as needed. none of whom could swim, got into deep water in Niantic River forty feet from the bank; and as they struggled, they got farther out. Beebe, the only swimmer near at hand, ran forty feet through the water and then plunged ‘in among the young women. ‘Miss Williams threw her arms around his neck, and he squirmed around and made confused swimming motions toward the bank. After letting down six times, he found himself in water where he could stand, but he could not climb up the sharply-sloping bottom. His wife, who had waded out, reached and grasped his bathing-suit, and he was then able to get up into shallower water with Miss Williams still clinging to him. Lillian had in some manner been taken along with Miss Williams, and both women stood up. Beebe then saw Myra's hand at the surface; and although winded and uncertain of his swimming ability, he plunged into the water, swam about twenty feet, grasped the hand, and swam to shallow water with Myra, who was unconscious. She was revived.

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783 Arthur L. McGuire, aged forty, patrolman, helped to save Bronze Medal and George \V. Berton (colored), aged sixty-seven, laborer, Mattie $1,000 for a Berton (colored), aged forty-five, and three children (colored), worthy purpose, aged fourteen, twelve, and nine, from drowning, St. Louis, as needed. Mo., March 25, 1913. Heavy rains caused the River des Peres to rise to a depth of over twenty-five feet; and the home of George W. Berton was surrounded with water over three and one-half feet deep, which flowed with a strong, swift current. Berton woke, at night, and called for help; and after two men had rowed twenty feet from the bank and then returned because of the swift current and the conditions of the oar-locks of their boat, McGuire and another man entered the boat and rowed diagonally across the current. The boat drifted down-stream; and a rope which had been tied to a telegraph-pole and the stern of the boat was found to be an encumbrance, and it was removed from the boat and tied to a house. Then by hard rowing, the men reached the Berton house, which was two hundred seventy-five feet across the current from their original starting-place. When the Bertons had been taken into the boat, the men tried to reach the house where the rope was tied, but the current carried them past it. McGuire's companion caught the corner of a house with a pike pole, but it was jerked from his grasp. The boat: struck fence-post and tipped, and a quantity of water was shippe , then, with the gunwale but three inches above the water, it drifted with the current. As the boat neared a house, McGuire put his legs around a seat, reached out, and graspeda door step, to which he clung desperately. He and his companion pulled the boat to a door, and all entered the house. All reached safety by means of ladders extended from an embank ment thirty-five feet from the house.

784 Louis 0. Mott, aged twenty-two, teamster, helped to save Bronze Medal and George W. and Mattie Berton and three children from drown- $1,000 for a ing, St. Louis, Mo., March 25, 1913. (See Award No. 783.) worthy purpose , Mott volunteered to accompany McGuire and assisted in as needed. handling the boat during the trip.

785 C. Frederick Welch, aged thirty-seven, cable foreman, Bronze Medal and saved Edward C. Birks, aged twenty-four, lineman, from $1,000 for a electric shock, Waterbury, Conn., April 12, 1912. Birks was worthy purpose, working on a pole twenty-two feet above the ground, and as needed. he came into contact with the uninsulated end of a wire con ducting a current of twenty-three hundred volts of electricity; and as he was grasping another wire, the entire current passed through his body, rendering him unconscious. Welch, who was at the foot of the pole, immediately climbed to an arm above Birks, intending to throw a rope around the latter; but when he saw Birks begin to fall, he grasped an arm with one hand and grabbed Birks with the other. He pulled Birks up and laid him across an arm and then tied a rope around him and pushed him clear of the wires. Other men then lowered Birks, and Welch descended to the ground. Birks was revived, but he was badly burned.

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John Lemmon, aged fifty-three, blacksmith, saved Leta Bronze Medal and McC. and Ida McC. Collins, aged one and forty-six, respect $1,000 for a ively, from being run over by a train, Churchville, N. Y., worthy purpose September 16, 1911. Leta was in a baby-carriage, which as needed. Mrs. Collins was attempting to lift over the rails of a track on which a passenger-train was approaching at a speed of sixty miles an hour. The train was but five hundred feet from them when Lemmon, who saw their danger, ran eighty feet to them and, having placed one foot between the rails, grabbed the carriage and jerked it from the track. Almost at the same instant he grabbed Mrs. Collins and when the train was but five feet from him, threw her and himself 03 the track. He was weak and nervous from fright.

787 I-l. Clay Snyder, aged twenty-five, brakeman, saved Arthur Bronze Medal and J. Hartman, aged two, from being run over by a train, West $1,000 for a Wheeling, Ohio, May 11, 1911. Arthur wandered to the track worthy purpose, and stood with his foot on a rail when a train running twenty as needed. five miles an hour was but five hundred feet from him. Snyder, who was on the bumper-timber of the locomotive, saw the child's danger; and after turning a lever to set the air brakes, he bbed a rod and half slid and half jumped to a step at the bott of the pilot. He crouched, extended his arm, and grasped Arthur's shoulder. He lifted the child, whose body struck him, causing him to lose his hold on the rod. Ile felt the child falling from his grasp and kicked him to one side. The rapidly-decreasing speed of the train caused Snyder to sway forward; and failing to regain his grasp on the rod, he jumped. He fell to one knee beside the track, ten feet from Arthur. Arthur's shoulder was dislocated, and he was otherwise injured, but he recovered.

788 (iurley C. Jacobs, aged twenty-nine, dairyman, helped to Bronze Medal and save Elma J. Stafford, May Turner, and eight children from $1,000 for a drowning, Letot, Texas, May 24, 1908. (See Award No. 647.) worthy purpose, Jacobs accompanied Hughes and assisted in handling the as needed. boat.

789 Moses C. Large, aged thirty-two, painter, saved Margaret Bronze Medal and Miller, aged eighty, from burning, Jacksonville, Ill., August 18, $1,000 for a 1910. Mrs. Miller was in a room sixty feet from the street, in worthy purpose, a building which caught fire at night, and Large made his way as needed. along a hall in which was considerable smoke, and led her to the street. Some time later he was told that she had returned to her room, and he again entered the hall. After going a few feet he was choked by smoke and returned to the open air, but after taking several deep breaths he entered again. Flames were visible in the ceiling, and the hall was filled with smoke; but Large stooped and walked to Mrs. Miller's room where he found her unconscious. As he entered the room, plaster fell from the ceiling. Large needed air, and after he had put his head through a small window a moment, he went to Mrs. Miller and dragged her to the street where she revived.

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790 Thomas H. Bayne, aged nineteen, laborer, saved Ethel C. Bronze Medal and Taylor, aged nineteen, and M. Inez Trow, aged eighteen, $1,000 for a from drowning, Trinity, Texas, September 3, 1912. Miss worthy purpose, Taylor, Miss Trow, and two other young women, none of as needed. whom could swim, while amusing themselves in Trinity River, got into deep water thirteen feet from the bank. Bayne and a companion, a brother of two of the young women, ran over a hundred feet through shallow water and then swam to the women. Three of them grabbed Bayne's companion; and Bayne grasped Miss Taylor, who had gone down twice, and swam to the bank with her. He then swam to the others and grasped Miss Trow, and with a hard jerk pulled her from the others. She threw her arms around him, and they went beneath the surface twice before Bayne succeeded in freeing himself. He then swam to the bank with Miss Trow.

791 J. Ray Shepard, aged twenty-eight, machinist's helper, Bronze Medal and saved J. Paul Phelps, aged twenty-two, clerk, and attempted $1 ,000 for a to save Mary A. Stevens, aged seventeen, from drowning, worthy purpose, Columbus, Pa., February 16, 1911. Miss Stevens and Phelps as needed. were walking on the ice on Lake Columbus; the ice broke, and they went beneath the surface of the water thirty feet from the bank where the depth was over six feet. When they came up, they clung to the ice. Shepard ran over five hundred feet to the scene and was ten feet from those in the water when he broke through the ice and fell into the water to his shoulders. Miss Stevens and Phelps lost their grasp on the ice and again went beneath the surface. Kicking off his rubber boots, Shepard swam to Miss Stevens and Phelps, who had been in the water between five and ten minutes. He supported them and trod water. Miss Stevens soon slipped from his grasp and was drowned, and Phelps became unconscious. Shepard was becoming numb, but he supported Phelps with one hand and swam until planks were laid on the ice and other men assisted him. Phelps revived.

792 Mary F. Groninger, aged thirty, housewife, attempted to Bronze Medal and save Augustus P. Cooper, aged eleven, from drowning, 35 1,000 for a Aberdeen, Ohio, July 5, 1912. Cooper, who could not swim, worthy purpose, got into water over his depth in the Ohio River; and Mrs. as needed. Groninger, who was fully dressed and could not swim, immed iately waded to his assistance. When she was in water to her armpits, she caught Cooper's hand, and he attempted to grab her head. As she turned to go to the bank with Cooper, she got into water over her depth and went beneath the surface. She released Cooper, and he drifted away. Mrs. Groninger went beneath the surface about four times before a man arrived and swam out and got her. The man then swam out and got Cooper, who suffered no ill effects from his exper'snce.

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793 Lemuel M. Purcell, aged thirty-eight, engine foreman, Bronze Medal and saved Sadie L., Thelma B., and Ona L. Prose, aged twenty $1,000 for a seven, four, and one, respectively, from being run over by a worthy purpose, train, Reno, Nev., November 2, 1908. Mrs. Prose was as needed. pushing a baby-carriage containing the children across a railroad track, and the front wheels of the carriage became blocked against a rail. Purcell jumped from the car at the front end of a train which was approaching her at a speed of four or five miles an hour, and ran twenty-six feet between the rails ahead of it to the group on the track. He grabbed Mrs. Prose with one arm and the carriage with the other and stepped forward with them; but just as he was about to take another step, the train struck him, knocking all to the ground outside the rail. Some part of the truck pushed Purcell slightly as he lay. None was seriously injured. The train stopped fifty or sixty feet beyond the point of rescue.

794 Edwin F. Symons, aged twenty-six, electrician, saved Bronze Medal and Mary A. Maxwell, aged nine, from drowning, Sloatsburg, $1,000 for a N. Y., December 10, 1911. Miss Maxwell, who could not worthy purpose, swim, was walking on the ice on Allen's Pond; and the ice as needed. broke and she fell into water over six feet deep eighteen feet from the bank. She threw her arms on the ice and called for help. Symons reached the scene; and after failing to pull her out by means of a rope, he waded a few feet and swam to Miss Maxwell, breaking the ice before him. He grabbed Miss Maxwell and swam toward the bank with her; but he made little progress,and each time he attempted to push Miss Maxwell, he went beneath the surface. When half-way to the bank, his strength was nearly spent, and he left Miss Maxwell and swam to the bank alone. He was nearly ex hausted, and he was helped from the water. After being at the bank a moment, Symons saw Miss Maxwell beneath the surface ten feet from the bank. He plunged into the water, swam to her, and took her to the bank; and she was revived.

Thomas H. Griffin, aged thirty-four, farmer, saved Buck Bronze Medal and Williams, aged twenty-two, farm-hand, from suffocation, $1,000 for a Moody, Texas, September 1, 1908. Williams and a young worthy purpose, brother of Griffin were overcome by carbon dioxide at the as needed. bottom of a well forty-eight feet deep; and after two white men and two negroes had refused to descend to get them, and despite warnings of the owner of the well, Griffin hooked a rope around his leg and had himself lowered. When he reached the bottom, he hooked the rope around Williams; and those above raised him. When the rope was again lowered, Griffin hooked it around his brother and remained at the bottom until the rope was again lowered. He was hoisted with the rope argund his leg as it had been before. The two young men were revived in about an hour and thirty minutes.

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796 Tolbert F. Beck, aged thirty-seven, farmer, saved Ernest Bronze Medal and E. Twitty, aged fifteen, farmer, from drowning, Caddo Mills, $1,000 for a Texas, August 3, 1912. Beck, Twitty, and two others were worthy purpose, swimming with the current in the flood-waters of Brushy as needed. Creek. Twitty wishing to rest was about to catch a piece of drift, and he almost touched a snake. This unnerved him, and Beck helped him to reach the side of a mass of driftwood lodged around a tree where the water was eighteen feet deep. Twitty failed to secure a hold, and the current carried him under the mass. Beck immediately released his hold and let down under the driftwood. He touched Twitty almost at once and attempted to push him upward, but Twitty's feet were caught in the tree. Beck let himself down lower and resting his feet on some part of the tree succeeded in pushing Twitty to the surface at the side of the drift. Beck did not reach the surface until a half minute later, his feet having become entangled in the branches.

797 Frank A. Kunes, aged fifty-one, salesman, saved Lemuel Bronze Medal and Clark, aged sixty-four, well-digger, from suffocation, Beech $1,000 for a Creek, Pa., July 10, 1911. Clark was overcome by gas at the worthy purpose, bottom of a well twenty-four feet deep. A young man who as needed. had no thought of personal danger descended, but in a moment he called for some one to come to aid him. Kunes slid down a rope eight feet long to the top of a ladder in the well and then descended it to Clark. He had scarcely reached Clark before the young man, who began to be affected by the gas, started up the ladder and left the well. Kunes tied a rope around Clarke with considerable difficulty and started up the ladder; but fearing the rope was not properly fastened, he went back and re-tied it. He climbed quickly to the top of the ladder and called to be taken out at once. A rope with a knot at the end was lowered to him,and he took hold of it tightly and then lost consciousness. He was raised and grasped by the arms and pulled out. Clark was then drawn up. After an hour they were revived. Thirty minutes later Kunes's heart-action became bad and he nearly died. He was disabled forty-nine days.

798 Charles M. Thompson, aged twenty-five, pipe-line fore Bronze Medal and man, attempted to rescue Clara E. and Elizabeth E. Downs, $1,000 toward aged forty and three, respectively, from a runaway, Temple, purchase of a Texas, November 24, 1911. The horse which Mrs. Downs was home. driving got beyond her control and broke into a hard gallop. Thompson ran into the street as the horse approached him and grasped the bridle with one hand and a shaft with the other. The horse reared and struck Thompson's head, render ing him unconscious; and he fell to the ground, the buggy running over him. Two of his ribs were broken, and he was otherwise injured.

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Willard H. Kelsey, aged eighteen,farm-hand,attempted to Bronze Medal and save Herbert Beattie, aged forty-seven, farmer, from an $1,000 t o ward enraged bull, Bellona, N. Y., September 29, 1912. Beattie purchase of a was attacked by the bull, and lay helpless while the animal farm. struck him repeatedly at the stomach and chest with one of its shortened and blunt horns. Kelsey, who had run rapidly to the scene and was somewhat winded, grabbed a dung-fork and attacked the bull, thrusting the tines into its neck near the shoulder. He jumped back, and before he could raise the fork to thrust again, the bull sprang at him and knocked him ten feet. It returned to the attack before Kelsey could get to his feet and knocked him down. He grabbed a ring in the animal's nose and held its nose close to his side so that it could not strike him. Then assistance arrived and Kelsey escaped, only slightly bruised. Beattie died within a few minutes.

800 Roy W. Hubbard, aged twenty-nine, foreman (gas com Bronze Medal and pany), attempted to save Peter Peterson, aged forty-six, $1,000 to be repairman (gas line), from suffocation, Butte, Mont., applied t o w a r d January 27, 1913. Peterson descended into a gas-main pit, the liquidation of wearing a respirator which did not fit properly because of his his debts. mustache. He had been in the pit less than two minutes when he stopped work to adjust the respirator, and a moment later Hubbard, who was at the surface, discovered that Peterson was overcome by gas. He called for a rope, and then without waiting for one to be brought, lowered himself into the pit, which was six feet deep. He went to the opposite end of the pit and carried Peterson eight feet to the opening. While attempting to lift Peterson and push him through the opening, he was overcome. He fell to the floor with Peterson on top of him, but both were taken out within a few minutes by means of ropes and were revived.

801 John H. Ammons, aged thirty-three, ‘ teamster, died Bronze Medal and helping to save Mellie M. Hughes, aged nineteen, from drown $40 a month for ing, Zwolle, La., July 4, 1912. Mrs. Hughes, who could not support of widow, swim, and her husband were wading in Sabine River; and during her life, or they got into water seven feet deep, sixty feet from the bank. untilsheremarries, Hughes tried to swim to the bank with his wife, but he could with $5 a month make no headway across the current; and Ammons, fully additional for each dressed, waded and swam to them from the bank. He grasped of four children Mrs. Hughes's hand and swam eight feet with her out of the until each reaches strongest part of the current, and then becoming distressed, age of sixteen. released his hold and was drowned. Hughes got his wife to the bank in safety.

Valentine F. Frederick, aged twenty-four, iceman, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Herman C. Winterhalder, aged forty-three, $40 a month for iceman, from drowning, Meriden, Conn., February 28, 1913. support of widow, Frederick and Winterhalder were fishing through the ice on during her life, or Beaver Lake, and the ice broke and Winterhalder fell into untilsheremarries, water seven feet deep eighty feet from the bank. He went with $5 a month beneath the surface, but came up and clung to the ice. additional for her Frederick, who could not swim and knew the ice was rotten, daughter until she approached the hole with a rope; but when he was six feet from reaches age of Winterhalder, he broke through the ice and was drowned. sixteen. Winterhalder was later saved by means of a boat.

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803 Nelson A. Andrews, aged thirty-three, engineer, died Bronze Medal to attempting to save Valentine F. Frederick from drowning, father. Meriden, Conn., February 28, 1913. (See Award No. 802.) Andrews ran over a quarter of a mile to the scene, and with a companion crossed the ice toward Frederick. As he neared the hole, he crawled and then lay flat and worked his way to the edge of the hole, holding to the hand of his companion, who also lay on the ice. While he was reaching for Frederick, as the latter sank the last time, the ice broke; and he, also, fell into the water near Frederick and was drowned.

804 James J. Lynch, aged nineteen, factory-hand, died attempt Bronze Medal and ing to save Charles R. Benford, aged nineteen, student, from $1,000 to step drowning, Providence, R. 1., July 5,1912. Benford, a poor mother, as needed. swimmer, while bathing in Woonasquatucket River, got into water over his depth twenty feet from the bank and went beneath the surface. Lynch, who could not swim, was stand ing in shallow water near him and waded to within reach of him. When Benford came up, Lynch put his hands on Benford's shoulder, and immediately both went beneath the surface. They came up clutching each other and then were drowned.

805 Edwin R. Hulett, aged twenty-one, boatman, died attempt- Bronze Medal and ing to save Wilbur G. Dial, aged twenty-two, laborer, from $1,000 to father, drowning, Valley City, 11l., May 30, 1913. Dial, who could as needed. not swim, fell into deep water from a moving barge on the 11linois River, and Hulett dived after him. Hulett swam ten feet and grasped a life-preserver which had been cast toward Dial, and after swimming about ten feet more, extended it to Dial, who was struggling at the surface. Dial reached over the life-preserver and grasped Hulett with both hands. Both sank and were drowned. Morris Berger, aged twenty-two, barber, helped to save Bronze Medal and Theodore R. Patton, aged eleven, and died attempting to save $100 to father, as Hyman Abel, aged nine, from drowning, New York, N. Y., needed. December 31, 1912. Patton and Abel broke through the ice on Indian Lake in Crotona Park twenty feet from the bank; and Berger and a companion approached them from the opposite bank, crossing one hundred forty-five feet of thin ice. Berger grasped Patton and pulled him partly out of the water, and then the ice broke, and all fell into the water. Berger's companion crawled up on the ice, and Berger pushed Patton up so that he could grasp Patton and pull him out of the water. Berger then turned toward Abel, who grabbed him around the neck. Both went beneath the surface and were drowned.

807 Frank C. Brojer, Jr., aged sixteen, helped to save Theodore Bronze Medal and R. Patton from drowning, New York, N. Y., December 31, $2,000 for educa; 1912. (See Award No. 806.) Brojer accompanied Berger tional purposes, across the ice, and after he had broken through the ice and had as needed. climbed out of the hole, he pulled Patton from the water when Berger pushed him up.

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808 Albert H. Buckalew, aged twenty-two, painter, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Augusta K. Kelly, aged five, from drown $1,000 to father, ing, Bordentown, N. J., July 31, 1913. Augusta fell from a as needed. bridge into Crosswicks Creek one hundred feet from the nearest bank where the water was over six feet deep; and when Buckalew was attracted to the scene, he took off his outer clothes and dived from the bridge into the water near her. He grasped her and swam fifty feet in a current of five miles an hour and then faintly called for help. Another man jumped into the water and relieved Buckalew of the child, who was saved. Buckalew sank and did not reappear. His body was recovered an hour later.

809 John V. Rice, Jr., aged forty-two, inventor and mechanical Bronze Medal. engineer, saved Augusta K. Kelly and attempted to save Albert H. Buckalew from drowning, Bordentown, N. J., July 31, 1913. (See Award No. 808.) When Buckalew called for help, Rice, fully dressed, jumped from the bridge and swam fifty feet to Buckalew and relieved him of Augusta. He put Buckalew's hand on his (Rice's) shoulder and swam toward the bank, but Buckalew soon released his hold and sank. Rice, unaware that Buckalew was not with him, reached the bank in safety with Augusta.

810 Lynn F. Wilcox, aged twenty-three, farmer, attempted to Bronze Medal and save Leroy A. Keller, aged twenty-two, farmer, from suffoca $1,000 for a tion, Pennant, Sask., December 1, 1911. Keller, standing on worthy purpose, a bolt stuck through the end of a cable, was being raised from as needed. the bottom of a well in which dynamite had recently been exploded, and was overcome by smoke and fumes and fell to the bottom. The well was seventy feet deep. Wilcox had himself lowered, standing on the bolt; and when he reached the bottom, he attempted to secure Keller with a rope. He felt himself becoming weak and thought that he was about to be overcome. Believing that he had Keller secured, he called to be raised. He was semiconscious when he reached the surface; and he was taken from the cable by force, as he clung to it so tightly. He was revived. Another man attempted to save Keller, but both were suffocated. 811 John W. Augustine, aged twenty-four, farmer, died Silver Medal to attempting to save Leroy A. Keller from suffocation, Pennant, father. Sask., December 1, 1911. (See Award No. 810.) Augustine reached the well while Wilcox was being hoisted and learned of the accident. He had himself lowered, although there was but one man to render assistance. When he reached the bottom, Augustine sat on the bolt astride the cable; and having grasped Keller, he held him until he had been raised about fifty feet; then he dropped him. Augustine was somewhat excited when he reached the surface. A minute later, after a rope had been tied around his body and wrapped around the cable, he was lowered a second time. He frequently assured the man at the surface that he was all right; but when he had been at the bottom only a few seconds, he was overcome; and when the cable was hoisted, Augustine was not on the bolt. The dead bodies of the two men were secured the following day, and it was found that the rope had been tied to Keller.

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812 Daniel J. Casley, aged thirty-three, mechanic, saved Silver Medal. Albert G. Brose, aged thirty-four, farmer, from suffocation, Ryder, N. D., December 16, 1910. Brose was overcome by dynamite smoke in a well twenty-five feet deep; and after other men had refused to enter the well, Casley had himself lowered on a rope. The well was but eighteen inches in diameter, and he had to throw his shoulders forward in order to enter it. Brose was wedged at the bottom, and Casley could not raise his head; and feeling the need of fresh air, he had himself hoisted to the surface. Others again refused to enter the well, and Casley had himself lowered a second time. With considerable difficulty he raised Brose's head and worked a noose around Brose's neck. He was then hoisted to the surface. Brose was carefully drawn up and revived.

813 Ruth N. Dimock, aged fifteen, student, helped to save Silver Medal and Frederick L. Humphrey, aged eleven, from drowning, Batavia, $2,000 for educa N. Y., August 8, 1911. Humphrey got into water over his tional purposes, depth at a point eighty-five feet from the shore of Silver Lake; as needed. and Miss Dimock, although somewhat tired, immediately went to his assistance. Wading part of the way, she then swam fifteen feet and extended her hand to him. Humphrey grabbed her hand, pulled himself close to her, and grasping her shoulder with both hands, forced her beneath the surface. She endeavored to swim, but could make no progress although Humphrey was being supportedto some extent by her. A man put out in a boat and got Humphrey as he was sinking. He then raised Miss Dimock to the surface with an oar and pulled her into the boat. She was hysterical and nearly exhausted but suffered no injury.

814 Columbus F. Johnson, aged thirty, butcher, saved R. Silver Medal and Oscar Patterson, aged twenty-two, farm-hand, from suffoca $1,000 toward tion, Crawford, Texas, August 20, 1912. Patterson was purchase of a overcome by fumes in a well in which a heavy charge of farm. blasting-powder had been set off but a few minutes before. Although Patterson's employer refused to enter the well and warned Johnson not to do so, Johnson grasped the well rope and slid seventeen feet to the bottom where he tied the rope around Patterson's body. He then quickly climbed the rope to the surface, and Patterson was hoisted. Patterson was revived in about an hour.

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815 Jay F. Hammond, aged thirty, farmer, attempted to save Silver Medal and W. Jarvis Gleason, aged eighty-three, farmer, from burning, $1,000 for a Harford, N. Y., June 26, 1911. Hammond was wakened at worthy purpose, night to find a fire raging at the head of a stairway in an as needed. adjoining room. He grabbed his child and went through the room to the stairs, calling to Gleason to follow. Hammond stooped to avoid the flames at the stairs, but the child's night clothes were scorched as he passed. When he reached the first floor, he left the child, and wearing only an undershirt, ran up the stairs for Gleason, whom he found standing at the head of the stairway in a dazed condition. Gleason's night shirt had been entirely consumed, and the upper part of his body was in the flames. Hammond stepped into the flames toward Gleason, and his undershirt was burned off his body. He grasped Gleason and pulled him down one step, and then Gleason became helpless and sat on the stairs. The heat became so intense that Hammond, after making unsuccessful attempts to push Gleason down the stairs, left him and stumbled to the bottom. Hammond left the house, and a son of Gleason pulled his father down the steps, being burned while doing so. Gleason died within a few hours. Hammond was disabled nearly two months.

Marion J. Case, aged fifty-one, laborer, saved Thomas Silver Medal and Heath, aged forty-one, well-digger, from suffocation, Louisville, $1,000 for a lll., May 22, 1911. Heath was overcome by dynamite fumes worthy purpose, at the bottom of a well twenty-two feet deep; and after two as needed. men had refused to descend to tie a rope around him, Case said he would go although he was easily affected by foul air and knew that Heath had been in the well not more than five minutes when he was overcome. He held to a rope and stood with one foot in the noose and was lowered to the bottom. He looped the rope around Heath,and men at the top raised him to the surface. Case felt weak and smothered, and leaned against the side of the well about a minute until the rope was again lowered. He looped the rope around his body and put his foot in a noose and was hoisted. He was affected by the fumes and was disabled three days. Heath did not recover consciousness for several hours.

817 Helen (1. York, aged twenty-two, librarian, saved Roy W. Silver Medal and Holtman, aged twenty-one, knitter, from drowning, Milford, $1,000 for a Conn., July 21, 1912. Holtman was swimming in Long Island worthy purpose. Sound at a time when waves five feet high were running. as needed. When he was one hundred feet from shore where the water was over six feet deep, he became distressed and went beneath the surface. One after the other, two men swam to him; but when he struggled with them,they broke away and left him. Miss York had followed one of the men; and when she reached Holtman,she was surprised to find that the two men were swimming away from him. She got behind him and pushed him as she swam toward shore. Holtman went beneath the surface at times and swallowed much water, and as they ap proached shore, he became almost unconscious. When twenty feet from shore,he grasped an oar which was extended to him; and Miss York sank down in shallow water, exhausted. She was assisted from the water.

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Arthur Lockett (colored), aged thirty-three, fireman, saved Silver Medal and Claude H. Potter, aged three, from being run over by a train, $1,000 for a Jefferson, Ga., May 9, 1912. Lockett was in the cab of a worthy purpose, locomotive running twenty-five miles an hour, and his as needed. attention was attracted by a scream from the engineer. He saw Claude on the track one hundred fifty feet ahead of the locomotive; and although the locomotive was swaying under an emergency application of the brakes, he ran along the running board, jumped to the steam-chest, thence to the bumper-timber, and when the pilot was less than ten feet from Claude, jumped to the track in front of the locomotive, which was then running eight or nine miles an hour. He fell forward as he struck the ground and grabbed Claude as he fell. With two strong quick jerks, he threw himself and the child off the track to safety. The locomotive was stopped when the pilot was thirty-five feet beyond the point of rescue.

819 Oliver A. Bray, aged twenty-two, bank clerk, saved Silver Medal and Lewis J. Wagner, aged fourteen, school-boy, from drowning, $1,000 for a LeMars, Iowa, March 28, 1912. Wagner fell into the ice worthy purpose, cold waters of Floyd River, which was at flood-stage and as needed. flowing rapidly, and was thirty-five feet from the bank where the water was twelve feet deep. Bray dived from the bank and swam toward him. Bray reached Wagner without diffi culty, but he could make but little headway toward the bank with him, and they drifted with the current. Bray began to feel numb; and Wagner, who was growing more frightened, attempted to climb up on Bray's back; and both went beneath the surface. They became separated; and while Bray swam vigorously to reach the surface, a whirling current carried him to a point where he could stand in shallow water. He was somewhat dazed; but seeing Wagner lying in the water ten feet away, he waded to him and lifted him to his feet. Wagner was semiconscious, but he soon revived.

820 Walter Bradley, aged twenty-seven, switchman, saved Silver Medal and Frank Mack, aged six, from being run over by a train, Waco, $1,000 for a Texas, October 26, 1912. Frank was crawling on the track on worthy purpose, a bridge fifty feet above the bed of Brazos River, when a as needed. locomotive, running three or four miles an hour, backed a Pullman-car on the bridge. Bradley was on the end of the car; and believing that the train could not be quickly stopped because of difficulty in signaling the engineer, he clung to a hand-rail with one hand and stood on the bottom step with one foot while he swung around the end of the car and grabbed Frank. He swung Frank off the track, and in a moment his free foot struck a girder and his other foot slipped from the step. Hanging by one hand, with his feet below the ties, he held the child until the train was brought to a stop seventy feet from the point of rescue. Frank was uninjured, but Bradley was disabled six days because of muscular strain.

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821 M. Vincent deP. O'Brien, aged twenty-one, student, Silver Medal to died attempting to save Thomas F. Ryan, aged twenty-one, mother. student, from drowning, Kingston, N. J., February 12, 1913. Ryan broke through thin ice on Carnegie Lake thirty feet from safe ice and three hundred feet from shore where the water was over six feet deep; and when he attempted to get out of the water, the ice broke in his grasp. O'Brien skated toward him, but Ryan warned him back,and O'Brien skated to the bank and got a plank, with which he again approached Ryan. When he was thirty feet from Ryan, the ice broke and O'Brien fell into the water, losing the plank. He was unable to regain the plank and soon threw himself back in the water and sank, apparently seized by cramp. His body was recovered the following day. Ryan was drawn from the water by others, who used a rope.

822 Jules Deauman, Jr., aged fourteen, school-boy, died‘ Silver Medal and attempting to save Garland Deauman, aged eight, from $20 a month for drowning, Troup, Texas, February 17, 1912. The boys were support of father, in a boat forty feet from the bank of a pond, and Garland, during his life. who was a poor swimmer, fell overboard into very cold water ten feet deep. When Jules was unsuccessful in efforts to paddle the boat to Garland, he jumped into the water and swam twelve feet to him. He grasped Garland and tried to swim to the bank with him, but could make no progress. Both were drowned.

823 R. Frederick Dayton, aged twenty-nine, farmer, died Silver Medal and saving William Kilpatrick, aged thirty-three, farmer, from $25 a month for suffocation, Viking, Alta., May 8, 1912. Six hours after support of widow, having burnt kerosene-soaked chips in a well, Kilpatrick during her life, descended to make repairs; and after he had worked fifteen o r u n t i l s h e minutes, he was overcome and fell to the bottom where he lay remarries. in water about twenty-four inches deep. A man at the surface summoned Dayton, who ran nine hundred feet, partly over plowed land, to the scene. Dayton knew of the chips and oil having been burned in the well, and remarked about Kilpatrick's foolishness in entering the well under the circum stances. He had himself lowered into the well with a rope around his leg although he had suffered from grippe for several days. His wife and the man who had summoned him were the only persons at hand to render assistance. Dayton tied a rope securely around Kilpatrick, and the man at the top began to hoist Kilpatrick. Having been in the well three minutes, Dayton called somewhat excitedly to be drawn up. Those at the surface intended to hoist Dayton first, but in their excitement they hoisted Kilpatrick first. When they were hoisting Dayton, the rope slipped off his leg, and he fell to the bottom. He was dead when taken from the well several hours later. Kilpatrick revived.

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824: Maurice Buckley, aged seventy-three, crossing watchman, Silver Medal and died saving Byron V. and Mary E. Bohnstedt, aged thirteen $30 a month for and ten, respectively, from being run over by a train, Olney, support of widow, lll., September 26, 1912. Byron and Mary started to cross a during her life, track on which, unnoticed by them, two locomotives coupled or until she re together were backing toward them at a speed of fifteen miles marries. an hour. Buckley, who was southeast of them, saw their danger and walked toward them, waving his arms. The children saw him and stepped back just in time to escape being struck, but Buckley was struck and died of his injuries within two hours.

James N. Stringer, aged fifty-four, carpenter, died Silver Medal and attempting to save John T. Hamilton, aged thirty-two, $25 a month for carpenter, from electric shock, Cleburne, Texas, March 22, support of widow, 1912. As Hamilton walked along a street in the dark, he during her life, came into contact with a broken wire through which a current o r u n t i l s h e of thirty-nine hundred volts of electricity was passing. He remarries, with $5 fell to the ground, unconscious, with the wire beneath him. a month addition After a companion had made three unsuccessful efforts to al for each of two push the wire from under Hamilton with a crutch, Stringer children until each took the crutch and endeavored to pull the wire from beneath reaches age of Hamilton; but the wire slipped along the crutch, touched his sixteen. hand, and killed him instantly. Hamilton was dead when the current was cut off.

James Jack, Jr., aged twenty-nine, motorman (mine), Silver Medal and died attempting to save Michael Gallant and Martin Gula, $50 a month for aged thirty-four and forty-six, respectively, miners, from a support of widow, runaway train, St. Benedict, Pa., April 19, 1913. Jack was during her life, operating a motor-locomotive which was pushing eight cars o r u n t i l s h e in a mine entry. The trolley-pole broke and the train remarries, with $5 began to coast back down a ten-per-cent. grade, toward a month addition points where he had left cars and where he knew men were al for her daughter likely to be working. Jack's brakeman jumped and called to until she reaches Jack to do the same; but Jack, having applied the brake, age of sixteen. remained on the locomotive ringing the bell and whistling until the locomotive, after having coasted six hundred feet, struck a car the men were switching. Jack was caught in the wreckage and sustained injuries from which he died several hours later. Gallant was badly injured and was disabled two or three months, but Gula escaped injury.

827 Charles W. Zimmerman, aged forty-six, barber, sustained Silver Medal and fatal injuries attempting to save an indeterminate person, or $50 a month for persons, from a runway, Lewistown Junction, Pa., December support of widow, 12, 1912. Zimmerman ran after a runaway horse, which was during her life, going at a rapid gait toward a building from which school o r u n t i l s h e children were being dismissed. He reached for the bridle, remarries, with $5 but the horse trampled on him, and he fell under the wheels of amonthadditional the wagon to which the horse was hitched, sustaining injuries for her daughter which resulted in his death four days later. until she reaches age of sixteen.

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828 John J. F. Sheehan, aged forty-two, teamster, died saving Silver Medal and Anna, Lillian, Margaret, and Mary Jones, aged eleven, seven, $50 a month for four, and three, respectively, from a runaway, Albany, N. Y., support of widow, August 27, 1912. The children were playing in the street; during her life, and a team of horses, drawing a wagon and having no driver, o r u n t i l s h e became frightened and galloped toward them as fast as they remarries, with $5 could go. Sheehan ran diagonally toward the horses from the a month addition sidewalk and grasped a line near the bit and exerted his al for each of two strength to stop the horses. The horse he held fell on him children until each thirty feet from the children, and he received injuries fro reaches age of which he died an hour later. ‘ sixteen.

829 Ambrose A. Mettler, aged fifty-two, grocer and milk Silver Medal and dealer, died saving Horace S. Andrus, aged seventy-six, $55 a month for insurance solicitor, from electric shock, Sunbury, Pa., August support of widow, 29, 1912. Andrus had stopped to speak to Mettler, who was during her life, in a wagon beside a pole bearing high-power wires. One of the o r u n t i l s h e wires had broken and was hanging down alongside the pole. remarries, with $5 Andrus came in contact with the wire and was shocked. He a month addition caught hold of the wire and was instantly rendered uncon al for her daughter scious. Mettler immediately sprang from the wagon and until she reaches grabbed the wire. He was whirled around and thrown to the age of sixteen. ground, the wire being jerked out of Andrus's grasp. Mettler lay with the wire in his hand and died before he could be freed. Andrus recovered.

830 Everett 0. Walcott, aged twenty-six, oil-tank loader, died Silver Medal and helping to save George C. Brown, aged thirty-two, oil-tank $50 a month for repairman, from suffocation, Lawrenceville, Ill., June 5, 1912. support of widow, Brown entered an empty tank-car to look for a leak, and was during her life, almost immediately overcome by gas. Several men were o r u n t i l s h e attracted to the scene, and Walcott, knowing the nature of the remarries, with $5 accident, entered a manhole fifteen inches in diameter and a month addition descended a ladder to the bottom of the tank eight feet below. al for each of three Another man followed him closely, and they started to lift children until each Brown, but Walcott was almost immediately affected by the reaches age of gas. Before he could climb the ladder, he was overcome; and sixteen. ' although he was taken out within a few minutes, he could not be revived. Brown was taken out by others and was revived.

831 Owen S. Ramsey, aged thirty-three, pipe-fitter, helped to Silver Medal and save George C. Brown and attempted to save Everett 0. $1,000 for a Walcott, from suffocation, Lawrenceville, Ill., June 5, 1912. worthy purpose, (See Award No. 830.) Ramsey closely followed Walcott into as needed. the tank; and when Walcott was overcome, he left Brown and started to aid Walcott; but being affected by the gas, he climbed the ladder and was assisted out of the tank. He lay on the tank several minutes while another man attempted to fasten a wire around Brown, and then again descended into the tank. He fastened the wire around Brown and ascended in a weakened condition, and Brown was then drawn up.

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Wiley C. James, aged twenty-seven, foreman of car Silver Medal and painters, helped to save George C. Brown, from suffocation, $1,000 for a Lawrenceville, 1ll., June 5, 1912. (See Awards Nos. 830 and worthy purpose , 831.) James ran a thousand feet to the tank; and after seeing as needed. two men at the bottom, he immediately descended into it after Ramsey was assisted out. He ascertained that neither man was caught in pipes along the bottom and then ascended and procured a wire with which he again descended. He had lifted Brown and was attempting to place the wire around him when he suddenly became blind and felt strangled. He climbed the ladder and was assisted from the tank. He recovered in a short time.

833 Noah Hood, aged twenty-nine, pumper, attempted to save Silver Medal and Everett 0. Walcott, from suffocation, Lawrenceville, Ill., $1 , 000 for a June 5, 1912. (See Award No. 830.) Hood reached the tank worthy purpose , as Brown was being taken from it; and when he learned of as needed. Walcott's condition, he immediately descended with the wire although he had just run five hundred feet. He was placing the wire around Walcott when he suddenly became blind and weak. He climbed part way up the ladder and then became unconscious. Men above caught his hands and drew him from the tank, and he soon revived.

834 James Bennie, aged fifty-one, miner, helped to save Silver Medal and Andrew Bogus, aged twenty-nine, shot firer, and assisted $1 ,000 for a in an attempt to save Edward \Nyatt, aged forty-one, shot worthy purpose , firer, from suffocation, Gilchrist, Ill., November 22, 1909. as needed. Bogus and Wyatt were in a mine when an explosion occurred, which extinguished their lights, damaged the ventilating system, and made useless one of two hoisting cages. Ten minutes after the accident, Bennie, with a lamp in his cap, descended steps in a section of the air-shaft, followed by two officials of the mine. When he was fifteen feet from the bottom, he found the steps gone; and he dropped, in darkness, to the bottom. The other men followed him, and they walked about two hundred eighty-five feet through smoke-filled entries and then found Bogus and Wyatt. The former was delirious, and the latter was unconscious. While one man remained with Wyatt, Bennie and the other walked on toward the hoisting-shaft with Bogus, a distance of over four hundred twenty-five feet. The smoke grew denser, and after a time Bennie proceeded alone. When he felt that he was being overcome by gas, he stooped close to the floor until he felt somewhat revived and then made his way back to Bogus and the other man. He again went forward alone, reached the shaft, and called to have a cage lowered. He did not wait for the cage but returned and helped get Bogus to the shaft. After the three had been hoisted, Bennie again descended and went with other men to where Wyatt and the other man had been left. The air in the mine was then better, and all left in safety. Bogus recovered, but Wyatt died three days later of pneumonia, brought on by the inhalation of smoke or gas.

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835 Thomas J. Mills, aged fifty-three, manager (mine), helped Bronze Medal and to save Andrew Bogus and assisted in an attempt to save $1,000 for a Edward Wyatt, from suffocation, Gilchrist, lll., November 22, worthy purpose, 1909. (See Award No. 834.) Mills assisted Bennie in getting as needed. \B‘pgus to the surface and then went with the other men to get yatt.

836 Philip Gell, aged sixty-three, general superintendent (mine), Bronze Medal. helped to save Andrew Bogus and assisted in an attempt to save Edward Wyatt from suffocation, Gilchrist, lll., November 22, 1909. (See Award No. 834.) Cell entered the mine with Bennie and Mills and remained with Wyatt while the others took Bogus to the surface and returned with other men.

837 William G. Wills, aged sixty-two, farmer, helped to Silver Medal in rescue Thomas Ashcraft (colored), aged seventeen, farm-hand, $1,000 for a from a cave-in in a well, Tyler, Texas, April 16, 1912. Ashcraft worthy purpose, was working in a well sixty-five feet deep, when a large as needed. quantity of sand caved from the top, carrying with it a curb made of boards eight feet long. Some of the boards broke, and others stuck with their ends buried in the sand. Ashcraft was partly covered by sand and was unable to free himself. After three sons of Wills and the owner of the well had refused to enter the well, Wills said he would go. His sons and daughters begged him not to go, but he had himself lowered in darkness. He sat astride a stick at the end of the well-rope and was tied to the rope. Wills grasped the ends of two boards and, as those above slowly hoisted him, pulled them from the sand and carried them to the surface. During a period of an hour and thirty minutes he made seven trips to the surface with boards, and during that time no one in the crowd that gathered would consent to relieve him. When Wills became too tired to continue his efforts, another white man agreed to enter the well to remove the sand. He worked in the well forty minutes, and then a negro went down and worked a few minutes. As no one else would go, Wills went again; and later, after the other white man had again worked in the well, Wills made another descent simply to examine Ashcraft. Another negro completed the work. When Ashcraft was hoisted to the surface, he was found to be uninjured. He had not been unconscious at any time while in the well. The following morning when a slight pressure was applied, a large quantity of sand slipped into the well.

S. Rance Gregory, aged twenty-six, farmer and well-digger, Bronze Medal and helped to rescue Thomas Ashcraft from a cave-in in a $1 ,000 for a well, Tyler, Texas, April 16, 1912. (See Award No. 837.) worthy purpose. Gregory reached the well while Wills was taking boards to the as needed. surface, and after a time he relieved Wills. While he was in the well he sent up kegs of sand, which he scooped up with a small shovel. After an unknown negro and Wills had taken turns in the well, Gregory was again lowered and worked about twenty minutes.

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839 Beecher Roberts (colored), aged seventeen, farm-hand, Bronze Medal and helped to rescue Thomas Ashcraft from a cave-in in a well, $500 for a Tyler, Texas, April 16, 1912. (See Award No. 837.) Roberts worthy purpose, reached the well after Wills and Gregory had been working in as needed. it for some time;and when he was asked to do so, he immediately had himself lowered. He scraped some sand from around Ashcraft's leg and then tied the rope to Ashcraft. Another rope was lowered to Roberts, and both men were drawn out.

840 Charles N. Wright, aged thirty-eight, merchant, helped to Gold Medal and save R. Augustus Baty, aged twenty-six, carpenter, from an $2,000 to be impending fatal fall, Highlands, N. C., May 14, 1911. Baty applied t o t h e fell from the summit of Whiteside Mountain, at Fool's Rock, liquidation of his rolled one hundred fifty feet down an almost-vertical cliff, and debts. lodged against a small bush two inches from the brink of a precipice two thousand feet deep. He lay, injured and uncon scious, with one arm and one leg hanging over the brink. Wright and a companion descended a vertical ledge fifteen feet deep to the sloping cliff, and then, crawling slowly, zigzagged down the face of the cliff. There was little vegetation other than patches of slippery moss, except near the base of the cliff where rhododendron bushes formed a hedge; but for fifteen feet at one side of Baty and five feet on the other side there were no bushes. The only handholds or footholds were ridges and hollows not more than an inch in height or depth. Wright's wife saw him descending the cliff and began to scream. He was nearly unnerved but continued to a bush six feet above Baty. He let his feet down to a tiny ledge two feet above the brink and then stooped and grasped Baty's coat collar. Baty gave a sudden jerk which frightened Wright badly, but he retained his hold. Baty became quiet when Wright threatened him. Wright drew Baty up, grasped the bush above him, and, wrapping his legs around the bush, drew Baty up to a place of comparative safety and then took him five feet to the hedge east of them. Wright and his companion then took Baty, who was delirious, fifteen feet across the bare face of the cliff, within eighteen inches of the brink, to the hedge east of the open space. Another man had reached that point, and he assisted to get Baty to the foot of the vertical ledge at the summit, from which point he was hoisted by means of a line. He recovered. It had taken Wright and his companion two hours and thirty minutes to effect the rescue.

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Silver Medal and I 841 William L. Dillard, aged thirty-three, liveryman, helped to save R. Augustus Baty from an impending fatal fall, $2,000 for a Highlands, N. C., May 14, 1911. (See Award No. 840.) worthy purpose, Dillard followed Wright part way down the cliff and then lost as needed. his nerve, and Wright assisted him a few steps to a place of safety. In a few minutes he continued to the end of the hedge at the open'space, where he stayed until Wright had gotten Baty to the hedge opposite him. Being urged by Wright, he crossed over and assisted to get Baty across the open space and up the cliff.

A. Cleveland Werner, aged twenty-eight, brakeman, saved Bronze Medal and an unidentified child from being run over by a train, Phelan, $1,000 for a Texas, June 20, 1913. Werner was on top of a coal-car at the worthy purpose, front end of a heavy train, when he saw a child about three as needed. years old astride a rail in front of the train. He and another brakeman gave emergency signals to have the train stopped, and the air was applied. As the speed was not reduced quickly, Werner climbed down steps at the side of the car, swung around the end of the car, and when he was about twenty feet from the child, jumped to the track between the rails. At that time the train was running six to eight miles an hour. Werner ran diagonally across the track, grabbed the child without stopping, and cleared the track just as the front end of the train passed him. The train was brought to a stop with the front end one hundred forty feet beyond the point of rescue.

Frank 0. Brake, aged thirty-six, brakeman, saved Alta M. Bronze Medal and Vaught, aged thirteen, from being run over by a train, Paris, $1,000 for a 11l., July 22, 1911. Miss Vaught was crossing a railroad track worthy purpose, apparently without noticing a train which was approaching at as needed. a speed of ten or twelve miles an hour less than one hundred feet from her. The engineer reversed the engine and applied the air. Brake was sitting on the pilot of the locomotive; and when the locomotive was fifty feet from Miss Vaught, he slid down and stood with one foot on a narrow step at the bottom of the pilot, holding to a rod with one hand. With his free arm he grabbed Miss Vaught and lifted her from the track. As he did so her body struck his hip and her head struck his jaw, but he retained his hold. He drew himself up on the rod with Miss Vaught, and although she struggled and caused him to slide along the rod, he held her until the train stopped seventy five feet beyond the point of rescue. Miss Vaught was not injured.

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Kash Strong, aged twenty-six, farm hand, attempted to Bronze Medal and save William and Ona Burden, aged five and three, respectively, $1 ,000 for a from burning, Muir, Ky., januaryZ, 1911. The children were worthy purpose, alone in their home when it caught fire. Strong ran to the as needed. house and broke open a door, and dense smoke poured forth. He crawled into the room and across to a bed, and then, finding no one on the bed, returned to the open air. He ran around the house and entered a room which was filled with smoke and intensely hot. The ceiling was blazing and there were spots of fire on the walls. He crawled across the room to a red-hot stove, and found William near it in a corner. He carried the child out of the house and immediately re-entered the room to look for Ona. He crawled to the stove and then returned to the door for air. After taking one or two breaths, he crawled around two sides of the room and found Ona behind a door. By that time the walls were ablaze and strips of burning paper hung from the ceiling nearly to the floor. Strong dragged Ona outside, and within a minute afterward the roof fell. Both children were badly burned and died that night. Strong's hair was singed and the back of his neck was blistered.

E. Donald Ryan, aged twelve, school-boy, attempted to Bronze Medal and save Harland A. C. Lehnigk, aged twelve, school-boy, from $1,000 for educa drowning, Oshkosh, Wis., December 1, 1911. Lehnigk, a good tional purposes: swimmer, broke through thin ice three hundred feet from the as needed. bank of Lake Winnebago where the water was seven feet deep. Although he had been warned that the ice was not safe, Ryan, a poor swimmer, skated to the hole from a place of safety. He knelt at the side of the hole and leaned toward Lehnigk, but the ice broke and he, too, fell into the water. Ryan was saved by another boy, but Lehnigk was drowned.

Paul J. Zentner, aged twelve, school-boy, saved E. Donald Bronze Medal and Ryan from drowning, Oshkosh, Wis., December 1, 1911. (See $1,000 for educa Award No. 845.) Zentner, a poor swimmer, saw Ryan fall into tional purposes, the water; and although he knew that there was thin ice at the as needed. scene, he skated to the hole from a place of safety. He knelt and seized one of Ryan's wrists with both hands and with a quick strong pull drew Ryan up on the ice. He then told Lehnigk, who was clinging to the ice at the opposite side of the hole, to come within his reach. Lehnigk attempted to do so, but he sank and was drowned. Zentner and Ryan left the ice in safety.

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847 William Kerr, aged thirty-seven, second mate, saved John Bronze Medal and Magee, aged twenty-seven, quartermaster, from drowning, $1,000 t o Ward Skagway, Alas., November 26, 1909. Magee fell into Lynn purchase of a Canal while boarding a vessel at night. Kerr, who was very home. heavily dressed, and others ran to the deck. Although the temperature was four degrees below zero and a strong north wind was blowing, Kerr slid down a line at the side without removing any of his clothes and jumped into the water twenty-five feet below the deck. He held to the end of the line as he swam fifteen feet to Magee. He swam back to the side of the vessel with Magee and held to the line while men on board prepared to help him. In endeavoring to lower a ladder, they dropped it, and it struck Kerr a glancing blow on the head. His hand was getting numb from cold, and he called to the men to hurry. A second line was thrown to him, and he tied it around Magee, and Magee was hoisted. The line was then lowered to Kerr, and he was hoisted and given attention. Magee recovered. Three men without covering on their hands who assisted in hoisting Magee and Kerr had fingers frost-bitten.

848 Francesco Corsaro, aged thirty-six, barber, saved Matthew Bronze Medal and Leonard, aged forty-six, policeman, from assassination, Clymer, $75 a month Pa., November 13, 1913. Leonard was attacked by three during his life. foreigners. As they struggled, one of the foreigners tried to get Leonard's revolver, but Leonard prevented him and fired a shot which went wild. Leonard fell to the ground, and all the foreigners beat and kicked him. Leonard fired another shot, which struck one of the men, who left the scene. Leonard called for help, and Corsaro, who had heard the shots, ran from his place of business as another foreigner ran away from Leonard. The third foreigner was kneeling on Leonard, beating him on the head. Corsaro ran to them, grasped the foreigner, and pulled him from Leonard, and he ran away. Leonard jumped to his feet and fired a shot, which struck Corsaro in the neck and injured his spinal cord. A moment later Leonard recognized Corsaro. Corsaro is permanently disabled.

Stewart L. McClelland, aged twenty-six, miner, died Bronze Medal to attempting to save Leo Dore, aged eighteen, messenger, from sister. drowning, South Porcupine, Ont., May 29, 1911. Dore and a sister were in a canoe on Porcupine Creek, and the canoe upset and threw them into deep cold water twenty-five feet from the bank. The girl grasped the canoe, but Dore, who could not swim, struggled some distance from it. McClelland heard their cries and ran two hundred fifty feet through dense brush to the creek. He plunged into the water and swam toward Dore. When he reached him, both went beneath the surface, and were drowned.

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850 I. William Turk, aged twenty, farmer and woodsman, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Gustav E. Kujala, aged twenty-two, farmer $500 to father, and woodsman, from drowning, Toivola, Mich., June 15, 1913. as needed. Kujala, who was learning to swim, got into deep water thirty feet from the bank of Weber's Lake and went beneath the surface. Turk and a companion, the only ones present who could swim, started toward him from the bank. Turk's companion soon turned back, but Turk continued to Kujala, and both disappeared beneath the surface together and were drowned.

851 Raymond R. E. Piret, aged eighteen, clerk, died attempting Bronze Medal and to save Edward Adams, aged seventeen, ofi'ice boy, from $1,000 to mother, drowning, Brooklyn, N. Y., June 16, 1913.‘ Piret, Adams, and as needed. two other boys were bathing in Jamaica Bay. When Piret and Adams were together about ten feet from shore, Adams suddenly went beneath the surface in a hole where the water was over six feet deep. When Adams's head appeared, Piret grabbed some part of Adams's body but lost his hold almost immediately. When Adams again came up, Piret grabbed the upper part of his body; and Adams grabbed Piret with both arms and pulled him beneath the surface. One of the other boys then swam within a few feet of them prepared to render help, but neither came to the surface. Both were drowned.

852 Eugene W. Rife, aged twenty-three, shoe-cutter, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save George R. Gordon, aged twenty-eight, hod $1,000 to father, carrier, from drowning, Hanover, Pa., July 7, 1912. Gordon, as needed. who could not swim, got into deep water twenty feet from the bank of a hole in a quarry and went beneath the surface. Rife sprang into the water and swam to Gordon. When Gordon came up, he grabbed Rife around the waist and pulled him beneath the surface. They struggled together for about five minutes, and then both were drowned.

853 Thomas J. Jensen, aged thirty-seven, farmer, sustained Bronze Medal and fatal injuries rescuing two unidentified women from a runaway, $30 a month for Westfield, Mass., July 10, 1913. The women were in an support of father uncovered buggy, and their horse bolted and galloped along or mother, during the street at a speed of twelve or fifteen miles an hour. Jensen the life of either. ran into the street, climbed upon the back of the buggy, and, leaning over the seat, grasped the lines. Just as he did so, one of the front wheels struck a curb, his foot slipped, and his leg went between the spokes of a wheel. He was whirled around with the wheel several times as the horse continued to run. Other men stopped the horse within a short distance. Jensen died three days later of injuries which he received. The women were not injured.

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854 Giuseppe S. V. E. Del Vecchio, aged twenty-two, mason, Bronze Medal and died attempting to save Carlo Riccitelli, aged twenty, polisher, $25 a month for from drowning, East Haven, Conn., July 20, 1913. Riccitelli support of widow, became distressed while swimming in Coe's Creek eight feet during her life, or from the bank where the water was about six feet deep and until she re called for help. Del Vecchio immediately swam to him and marries, with $5 a grasped his hand. They struggled but became separated; month additional then Del Vecchio sank and was drowned. Riccitelli was aided for each of two to safety by others. children until each reaches age of sixteen.

Harry L. Biggs, aged twenty-eight, miner and laborer, died Bronze Medal to attempting to save Guy W. Dotson, aged thirty-five, miner, former widow and from suffocation, Douds Leando,_Iowa, June 12, 1909. Dotson $200, as needed, lay unconscious at the bottom of a shaft thirty feet deep, and $25 a month having been overcome following a powder blast. Biggs, who during her life, had seen him fall, asked to be lowered to him. He waited with $5 a month impatiently while a badly-tangled rope was tied around him additional for each and then was lowered in a bucket. While going down, he of three children removed the rope from around his body; and when he reached until each reaches the bottom, he got out of the bucket and stooped to tie the age of sixteen. rope around Dotson. As he did so, he was overcome and fell on top of Dotson. Both were dead when taken out about fifteen minutes later.

856 Winfred C. Flinn, aged thirty-one, machinist, died saving Bronze Medal and Rachel S. Dallas, aged twenty, from drowning, Orchard Lake, $45 a month for Mich., July 6, 1913. Mrs. Dallas, a poor swimmer, got into support of widow, deep water in Orchard Lake one hundred thirty feet from the during her life, or bank and went beneath the surface. Two men went to her until she re aid in turn, but when she grabbed them and pulled them marries. beneath the surface, they left her and swam a few feet to wadable water. Flinn swam twenty-five feet to her and reached her as she was going beneath the surface. He seemed to grasp her in some way, and both went beneath the surface. A moment later Mrs. Dallas reappeared; and after remaining stationary a few seconds, she moved about five feet toward the bank, as though shoved from below. Flinn's head appeared behind her, and then he sank and was drowned. Other men took Mrs. Dallas, who was unconscious, to the bank, and she was revived.

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857 George W. Brew, aged forty-three, switchman, died Bronze Medal and attempting to save Mary I. Herbert, from drowning, Chicago, $50 a month for 11l., June 19, 1913. Mrs. Herbert was with her husband and support of widow, others in a launch on the Chicago River, and the launch upset during her life, or and all were thrown into deep water where the speed of the u nt i1 she re current was five miles an hour. When Mrs. Herbert had marries. drifted a considerable distance and was about one hundred feet from either bank, Brew ran several hundred feet to the water's edge, removing his clothes as he ran. He was warm from his work. He dived and swam to a point near Mrs. Herbert; then he turned and swam toward the bank. He showed signs of distress and swam more slowly. When he had nearly reached the bank, he slowly sank and was drowned. Mrs. Herbert was drowned.

8558 Bernard F. McMahon, aged twenty-four, pumper, assisted Silver Medal and in an attempt to save Everett 0. Walcott from suffocation, $1,000 f o r a Lawrenceville, 11l., June 5, 1912. (See Award No. 833.) worthy purpose, McMahon, who had run four hundred feet to the tank, de as needed. scended into it after Hood was drawn out. He knew what had caused the accident. He tied the wire around Walcott and pulled on the wire as he climbed a ladder to leave the tank. Men above also pulled on the wire, and Walcott was taken from the tank. but he could not be revived.

Gordon T. Granger, aged twenty-one, foreman (gas Silver Medal and compressor plant), saved Francis E. Vetter, aged twenty-two, $2,000 for educa pipe-fitter, from suffocation, Bayonne, N. J., January 9, 1913. tional purposes, Vetter was overcome by propane in a tank ten feet deep, and as needed. Granger was called to the tank by a helper, who told him what had happened. Although Granger was familiar with the gas, he did not wait for men whom he had told to bring a rope, but dropped into the tank through a manhole fifteen inches in diameter. He lifted Vetter from the bottom of the tank, where the gas was densest, and supported him until a rope was brought. When the rope was lowered, he tied it around Vetter and told men on the tank to hurry as he was being ‘ affected by the gas. Some delay occurred in getting Vetter through the manhole, and Granger was overcome by the gas. Another man descended and tied a rope around Granger, who was drawn up and revived. Vetter also was revived.

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860 Edward A. Dalton, aged twenty-three, assistant still-man, Bronze Medal and saved Gordon T. Granger from suffocation, Bayonne, N. J., $1,000 for a January 9, 1913. (See Award No. 859.) Dalton knew that worthy purpose, there was gas in the tank and was familiar with the nature of as needed. it. After another man had refused to descend to get Granger, Dalton tied one end of the rope around himself, and taking the other end with him, lowered himself through the manhole and dropped to the bottom. Men above held the middle of the rope, and Dalton raised Granger and tied the rope around him. Granger was drawn up; and then Dalton, who had become semiconscious, was drawn up. Dalton soon recovered.

J. Wesley Manning, aged seventeen, school-boy, died Silver Medal to helping to save James W. Davis, aged twenty-four, railroad father and $500 to conductor, and Edward R. Hall, aged twenty-five, brakeman, be applied to the from drowning, Shenandoah, Va., April 15, 1913. Davis and liquidation of his Hall with two companions attempted to cross the Shenandoah debts. River in a boat. The river was swollen by heavy rains, and their boat was swamped. One of the occupants swam to the bank, and another was drowned. Davis and Hall were carried toward a dam about one thousand feet down-stream. Manning and a companion went to the rescue in a rowboat, having only a paddle and a pole with which to manage the boat. They reached Davis and pulled him into the boat, and were within reach of Hall ten feet above the dam when he went beneath the surface. Hall and the boat were carried over the dam, and the boat was upset. Hall grabbed it and held to it until rescued by a man in a boat a quarter of a mile below the dam. Davis swam eight hundred feet and reached the bank. Manning swam eleven hundred feet, diagonally toward the bank, and then sank and was drowned.

Johnson B. Rothgeb, aged fifteen, waiter, helped to save Silver Medal and James W. Davis and Edward R. Hall from drowning, $1,000 for a Shenandoah, Va., April 15, 1913. (See Award No. 861.) worthy purpose, Rothgeb accompanied Manning to the rescue and aided in as needed. getting Davis into the boat. After the boat was upset, Rothgeb swam eight hundred feet and reached the bank.

John W. Day, aged forty-three, farmer and dairyman, died Silver Medal and attempting to save Robert H. Clark, aged thirty-four, from $30 a month for burning, Oak Hill, La., April 12, 1913. Day's home caught support of widow, fire at night; and dressed only in night-clothes, he rushed into during her life, or a smoke-filled room adjacent to Clark's to save Clark, who until she re was partly paralyzed. Although his wife called to him to come marries. out, he made no response. Clark's cries could be heard for some little time, but nothing was heard from Day. The frame work of the house fell, and the building was consumed. It was found that, through Day's efforts, Clark had been able to leave his room and enter the one Day had entered, where both had been burned to death.

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864 Luther B. Weaver, aged thirty-five, proprietor of dye-house, Silver Medal and died attempting to save George Mabern (colored), aged twenty- $40 a month for five, cleaner and assistant dyer, from burning, Dallas, Texas, support of widow, July 15, 1912. Mabern was working in a room near various during her life, or vessels containing gasoline when an explosion occurred, and he u nt il sh e re fell or was knocked to the floor. Weaver ran from a place of marries, with $5 a safety in another room and had reached the door leading to the month additional room in which Mabern lay, when there was another explosion, for each of two which was terrific. He did not hesitate, but, with his clothing c h i l d re n until on fire and surrounded by flames, ran a couple of steps to each reaches age Mabern. He dragged Mabern, whose clothing was on fire, of sixteen. into another room out of the path of the flames. Mabern then crawled to the street, but both died of their burns within two days.

865 Myron E. Judd, aged thirty-five, clerk, died attempting to Silver Medal and save Angelo Peluso, aged forty-five, plumber, from suffocation, $45 a month for Cleveland, Ohio, July 14, 1913. Peluso entered a manhole in support of widow, which was an odorless gas, and was almost immediately over during her life, or come. Judd was told of the accident, and he ran to the man until she re hole and immediately started to descend a ladder in it. He marries with $5 a was ordered out, being told that there was gas in the sewer. month additional Within a very brief time he again descended followed by a for each of four man who had reached the manhole with a coil of rope. Judd children, until reached the bottom of the manhole but was overcome almost each reaches age immediately. The other man was overcome before he reached of sixteen. the bottom, and he fell beside Judd and Peluso. All were dead when taken out an hour later by men who wore oxygen helmets.

Michael Juhas, aged thirty-seven, laborer, died assisting Bronze Medal and in an attempt to save Angelo Peluso from suffocation, $45 a month for Cleveland, Ohio, July 14, 1913. (See Award No. 865.) Juhas, support of widow, carrying a coil of rope, arrived at the manhole while Judd was during her life, or standing at the top after having been part way down. He u ntil she re followed Judd into the manhole and was overcome when he was marries, with $5 a about two feet from the bottom. month additional for each of four children, until each reaches age of sixteen.

867 George Wilkie, aged fifty-two, grocer, died attempting to Silver Medal and save James Eaid, aged sixty-six, laborer, from being run over $50 a month for by a train, Brown City, Mich., June 28, 1912. Eaid, who support of widow, appeared not to notice a passenger-train approaching about during her life, or one hundred fifty feet from him, stopped between the rails in u ntil she re- front of the train; and Wilkie, who saw his danger, sprang marries. upon the track and grabbed his shoulder. As he did so, the pilot of the locomotive struck them. One of Eaid's feet was cutoff, and Wilkie was killed.

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868 Frank Rance, aged thirty-nine, chauffeur, sustained fatal Silver Medal and injuries attempting to save Mary C. and Regina G. Cryan, $50 a month for aged thirty-seven and three, respectively, from burning, New support of widow, York, N. Y., December 10, 1912. Mrs. Cryan and Regina during her life, or were in apartments on the third floor over a stable, when fire until she re broke out in the hay-loft and dense smoke poured up the stair marries, with $5 a way. Mrs. Cryan took Regina to a window at the front of the month additional building and cried for help. Rance was on the opposite side of 'for her daughter the street. He entered the building; and after the fire was until she reaches under control, Rance was found in a room on the third floor, age of sixteen. unconscious. He regained consciousness, but died the third day following of pneumonia brought on by inhaling smoke. Mrs. Cryan dropped Regina into a blanket and remained at the window herself until firemen reached her with ladders.

869 John D. Artley, aged thirty-two, clerk, died attempting to Silver Medal and save Ralph E. Knouse, aged thirty-one, pharmacist, from $55 a month for drowning, Wrightsville Beach, N. C., May 31, 1913. Knouse, support of widow, a good swimmer, was caught by an undertow in the Atlantic during her life, or Ocean and carried to a point two hundred fifty feet from shore; until she re and Artley, an expert swimmer, left shallow water and-swam marries, with $5 a to Knouse. Knouse placed his hand on Artley's shoulder, and month additional Artley swam about thirty feet with him, and then suddenly for her son until went beneath the surface. He did not come up, and when his he reaches age of body was recovered a few minutes later, it was found that he sixteen. had died of paralysis of the heart. Knouse was saved by a life-guard.

870 Philip R. Krummel, aged thirty-eight, stableman (mine), Silver Medal and died attempting to save William Benn, aged twenty-eight, and $50 a month for Edward P. Jones, aged twenty-three, shot firers, from suffoca support of widow, tion, Peoria, Ill., January 15, 1913. Benn and Jones were during her life, or engaged in setting off shots in an entry of a mine; an until she re explosion followed a shot, and the ventilating system was marries, with $5 a practically destroyed. A short time later Krummel left a month additional place of safety in the mine; and although warned not to proceed for each of three farther into the mine because of the dangerous conditions children, until obtaining, he started toward the point where Benn and Jones each reaches age were known to have been. A companion followed him, of sixteen. reluctantly, urging_Krummel to turn back. They passed through dense smoke and gas, and when they had gone over a ' thousand feet, Krummel reeled slightly. He soon staggered and fell. His companion aided him to his feet, and they returned a short distance; then Krummel fell again, and became unconcious. His companion was then too weak to drag him, and he returned to their starting-place and telephoned for assistance. Krummel was taken out several hours later, but he was dead. Benn and Jones were dead when found.

871 Samuel Reid, aged twenty-seven, driver (mine), assisted Bronze Medal and in an attempt to save William Benn and Edward P. Jones , $1,000 for a from suffocation, Peoria, 11l., January 15, 1913. (See Award worthy purpose. No. 870.) Reid accompanied Krummel. as needed.

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Award Award NAME No. NAME No.

Achille, Cirlo ...... ‘ 488 Bell, Rowland F ...... 511 Adams, E. Ralph ...... 354 Benbow, E. Thompson ...... 654 Adams, Elias B ...... 760 Benefito, Eugene L ...... 555 Adriance, John, Jr ...... 342 Bennett, Ward W ...... 203 Allen, Daniel F ...... 569 Bennie, James ...... 834 Allen, Joseph T. F ...... 773 Benson, Marcus E ...... 490 Allen, Walter O ...... 282 Benton, Frank R ...... 559 Ames, Earl A ...... 205 Berg, Frank F ...... 183 Ammons, John H ...... 801 Berger, Morris ...... 806 Anderson, Augustus C ...... 520 Berlin, Ralph F...... 108 Anderson, Sub A ...... 659 Berry, Henry R ...... 298 Andrews, Nelson A ...... 803 Bertrand, Cornelius H ...... 330 Appleby, Albert J ...... 471 Bibby, P. John ...... 131 Archibald, James H ...... 229 Biber, Edward A ...... 176 Arnholdt, Adolph ...... 236 Biggs, Harry L ...... 855 Arthur, William J ...... 733 Black, Mary G ...... 79 Artley, John D . . . . v ...... 869 Blanchard, M. Woodhull ...... 543 Atkinson, Robert A ...... 694 Blank, Henry S ...... 598 Atwood, Ernestine F ...... 5 Blaylock, James W ...... 634 Auerbach, Malcolm C ...... 84 Blitch, George A ...... 652 Augustine, John W ...... 811 Blood, Alan St. C ...... 397 Bockwich, Thomas B ...... 83 Babcock, Frederick A ...... 535 Boettcher, Theodore ...... 78 Backus, Robert ...... 304 Boggess, Ernest E ...... 704 Baker, Walter E ...... 509 Bonner, AlexanderJ ...... 507 Baker, William H ...... 190 Bopp, Adam J ...... 404 Bales, James A ...... 650 Borovsky, Stephen ...... 302 Banfield, Peter C ...... 550 Bosko, John, Jr ...... 224 Bargas, Magdaleno ...... 715 Bouchie, Frederick ...... 22 Barnes, Alonzo ...... 276 Bower, Fleming C ...... 398 Barnes, Charles E ...... 241 Bradley, Walter ...... 820 Barr, Carroll ...... 204 Bragan, Thomas ...... _ ...... 335 Barth, Otto ...... 279 Brake, Archie P ...... 356 Bashlin, Carrie ...... 589 Brake, Frank O ...... 843 Batts, Joseph H ...... 172 Bray, Oliver A ...... 819 Baumann, Louis A., Jr ...... ~ . . . 1 Breen, William J ...... 103 Baur, Robert C ...... 266 Brennan, James ...... 439 Bauserman, Claude ...... 513 Brew, George W ...... 857 Baxter, Clarence G ...... 369 Bright, JohnJ ...... 133 Bayles, B. Franklin ...... 355 Brigman, Lemuel R ...... 170 Bayless, William F.. .' ...... 308 Brojer, Frank C., Jr ...... 807 Bayne, Thomas H ...... 790 Bromley, Anna O ...... 445 Bearhs, Charles F ...... 277 Brooke, John T ...... 756 Beattie, Neal W ...... 225 Brown, H. Guy ...... 622 Beaumont, Frank ...... 711 Brown, ohn T ...... 524 Beck, Oswald G ...... 762 Brown, ary R ...... 412 Beck, Tolbert F ...... 796 Brown, Robert ...... 678 Beebe, Horace W ...... 782 Brune, William C ...... 16 Belangie, Michael L ...... 531 Bruya, Louis J ...... 503

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Award Award NAME No‘ 1 NAME No \ ‘Ii , . Bryson, Stewart...... 1 489 ‘ Conley, John ...... 1 572 Buchner, Oren G ...... 574 Conlon, James L ...... 525 Buckalew, Albert H ...... 808 Connelly, Bernard D ...... 344 Buckley, Maurice ...... 824 Conroy, John F ...... 286 Buley, William G ...... 292 Conroy, Thomas ...... 171 Bundy, ohn ...... 421 Conway, T. Edgar ...... 602 Burba, orge F ...... 322 Cook, John E ...... 563 Burel, Basker N ...... 777 Coon, Erford H ...... 447 Burge, Henry W ...... 689 Cornell, Herbert R ...... 755 Burkhalter, Louis G ...... 672 Corsaro, Francesco ...... 848 Burnes, Hugh ...... 486 Cosgrove, Charles H ...... 216 Burns, John C ...... 120 ' Cotter, William H ...... 187 Burns, Thomas H ...... 92 Cottle, Benjamin J ...... 467 Burr, Rollin H ...... 135 Covell, Charles L ...... 712 Crabbe, Sadie L ...... 14 Cahill, Thomas P ...... 731 Crafton, Alvin M ...... 736 Caler, G. Frank ...... 606 Crolius, Edwin A ...... 182 Cameron, Alexander ...... 8 Cross, William A ...... 178 Cameron, John A ...... 291 Cunningham, Anne M ...... 15 Campbell, Duncan J ...... 329 Current, Edgar A ...... 512 Campbell, Edward H ...... 44 Curry, Henry M., Jr ...... 90 Campbell, Patrick H ...... 505 Curtin, Daniel J ...... 41 Canfield, Robert H ...... 122 Caniff, ThomasJ ...... 321 Daily, Rolan ...... 143 Carney, Roy W ...... 753 Dalton, Edward A ...... 860 Carr, C. Henry ...... 710 Darst, William A ...... 52 Carrier, Florus W ...... 142 Davies, Margaret I ...... 337 Carroll, John F ...... 188 Davis, Archibald H., Jr ...... 537 Carruthers, John ...... 248 Davis, Charles G ...... 751 Caruso, Giuseppe ...... 588 Davis, Daniel ...... 10 Case, Marion J ...... 816 Davis, George E ...... 167 Casey, Patrick ...... 300 Davis, Howard I ...... 506 Casler, Jacob C ...... 192 Davis, Lafayette L ...... 686 Casley, Daniel J ...... 812 Dawson, William E ...... 546 Casley, William A ...... 274 Day, John W ...... 863 Casto, Mark ...... 20 Dayton, R. Frederick ...... 823 Catto, Keith A ...... 174 Dean, Peter ...... 231 Cavett, William C ...... 601 Deauman, Jules, Jr...... 822 Cheverie, Mark ...... 592 Delo, John M ...... 39 Childers, Paul...... 145 Del Vecchio, Giuseppe S. V. E. . . . 854 Christ, Arthur T ...... 448 Demyan, Martin ...... 407 Christenbury, Thomas M ...... 482 Dennis, Silas M. E ...... 144 Church, Irving W ...... 55 De Santis, Francis P ...... 358 Clark, Robert ...... 419 De Sherbininy Samuel M ...... _ . . 48 Clarke, Linwood E ...... 296 Devers, Andrew ...... 527 Clarke, Sheldon V ...... 741 Dillard, William ...... 841 Clevenger, Marion ...... 148 Dillinger, Jonathan ...... 269 Coast, Marjorie E ...... 163 Dimock, Ruth N ...... 813 Coffey, Alva B ...... 396 Diville, William C ...... 585 Coldren, Raymond I ...... 621 Dobson, Thomas R ...... _ . . 370 Cole, Alfred D ...... 614 Donlon, Michael ...... 316 Cole, George H ...... 222 Donovan, Jeremiah M ...... 64 Coles, Ivah J ...... 160 Donovan, William T ...... 139 Collier, James F ...... 469 Doucette, Louis A ...... 553 Collins, Peter J ...... 244 Dowling, Robert ...... 295 Combs, Rufus K ...... 59 Downing, Herman W ...... 481 Cone, Amila G ...... 264 Doyle, JamesJ ...... 642

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Award Award NAME NO‘ NAME No.

Doyle, Michael A ...... 12 Frederick, Valentine F ...... 802 Doyle, Thomas O ...... 611 Freeman, John W ...... 645 Duffy, Michael J ...... 317 Friel, Joseph M ...... 748 Duncan, Nathan ...... 638 Funck, Carlton H ...... 140 Dunlap, Jesse ...... 383 Dunlea, Nora V ...... 477 Gagnon, Alphonse N ...... 597 Durgin, Victor M ...... 449 Gallagher, Thomas F.. .’ ...... 593 Gates, Lynn A ...... 441 Eaglebarger, Hershal E ...... 198 Gell, Phili ...... 836 Eastman, Rollo W ...... 207 Generals, artha ...... 339 Easton, William A ...... 617 George, Benjamin J ...... 392 Eaton, William H ...... 166 Gibbons, Thomas J ...... 662 Eddy, George ...... 426 Gibson, Alvah H ...... 752 Edwards, Lucy G ...... 767 Gibson, Elbert W ...... 219 Edwards, William H ...... 443 Giddings, Harris G ...... 61 Edwards, William M ...... 310 Gilman, Newell S ...... 136 Eichele, Adam...... 583 Gilmer, James W ...... 37 ‘Elder, Leonard M ...... 523 Gilmour, William, Jr ...... 137 Ely, John W ...... 259 Gismondi, Michael ...... 27 Empey, Guy F ...... 433 Gisondi, Cosimo ...... 542 Ernst, Lucy E ...... 34 Godman, James V ...... 60 Erwin, Thomas W ...... 646 Goebel, Frederick ...... 173 Evans, Charles B ...... 387 Goldman, James B ...... 235 Evans, G. Grey ...... 556 Gooley, Thomas L ...... 605 Gottschalk, Arthur J...... 17 Falter, John ...... 250 Grabruck, Emil F ...... 636 Falvey, Charles F ...... 474 Grady, John A ...... 328 Farrell, Gabriel, Jr ...... 111 Grady, Joseph ...... 118 Farrell, James T ...... 112 Graham, John R ...... 468 Faulkner, Frank ...... 533 Granger, Gordon T ...... 859 Feeney, James ...... 696 Grant, George A ...... 141 Fees, Roy A ...... 451 Graves, Clifford V ...... 156 F inney, Peter W. H ...... 758 Gray, Elbert ...... 778 Fisk, Lynn B ...... 442 Greely, Daniel P ...... 218 Fitzgerald, Cornelius ...... 607 Gregersen, Nels ...... 21 Fitzpatrick, Patrick H ...... 257 Gregory, Fenton S. . _...... 87 Fizer, H. Frank ...... 685 Gregory, S. Rance ...... 838 Flanigan, James M ...... 388 Greiner, Marion ...... 656 Flatt, Albert E ...... 151 Gridley, John L ...... 599 Fleming, Andrew E ...... 510 Griffin, G. Harold ...... 395 Fleming, Thomas ...... 406 Griffin, Louise G ...... 478 Flinn, Winfred C ...... 856 Griffin, Thomas H ...... 795 Flood, John ...... 424 Grigor, Edith M ...... 332 Florence, Arvey N ...... 663 Groenevelt, C. Gustav ...... 405 Ford, James ...... 681 Groninger, Mary F ...... 792 Ford, Regina A ...... 768 Guenther, Frederick L ...... 281 Ford, William ...... 680 Guildoo, Albert ...... 290 Formby, Lillamae ...... 728 ‘ Formento, Dominick ...... 415 Haase, Joseph R ...... 570 Forrest, Frank ...... 353 Hagemann, John V ...... 703 Forsyth, James A ...... 227 Hagerman, William H ...... 413 Foss, Frederick E ...... 299 Haight, Charles W ...... 119 Foster, Charles A ...... 496 Hailes, J. C. Fremont ...... 457 Frain, Jeremiah ...... 727 Hall, Frances E ...... 258 Frain, John W ...... 197 Hammond, Charles W ...... 314 Fraser, Alexander ...... 541 Hammond, Jay F ...... 815 Frasier, J. Floyd ...... 742 Hanker, Frederick H ...... 110

207 lNDEX— Continued

NAME Award NO. ' NAME Award No‘

Hanlon, Lawrence A ...... 62 Hyatt, Dora ...... 769 Hansen, Charles A. g ...... 6g; Hyland, Marion A ...... 483 Hanson, August H...... 1 Hargett, EdwaAd W., Sr ...... 626 Isenbergl Joseph K - - - - - ~ - - - ~ ~ ~ - - 687 Harris, James ...... 6 [ack James r 826 Harris' Leon ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ‘ 105 Jackson, L-eviJ...... 551 Harris,Harris, WilliamThomas PA ...... 359 70 ~ames'Wile acobs Gurle YC C ------' - - ' ' ' -- 832788 Haviland,Harwood, OliverGeorge K A ...... 626158 -amis(;n- men 'er;s S {,M' W ‘Y ~ - ~------~~ -- ~' -- -~ -- -~ ~~ -' -- 184195 Haynes, Charles L ...... 80 - ensen' homas'] ' ' ‘ ' ' ‘ ' ‘ ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 853 Hazlett, Thomas N ...... 608 ~ Ohnso‘n Albert F‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ‘ 540 Heagerty' Tlmothy E ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' 29 ~ ohnson: ColumbusF: . . 814 geaj' Lutgel-JJ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' 16; Johnson, Eugene C ...... 168 Heg y’ J% ‘:1 ' ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' 126 Johnson, LewisJ ...... 26 Hgingzeg' larger-2:1) ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' 253 _ ohnson, Sgmllel A ...... 242 Hemphlll George E ------349 ~Zfifiiifceifg‘2‘ii‘tfi 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ' Z35 Herlihy, Joseph P ...... - . . . 590 ~ ones I Parks ' 430 Herrrnan, Thomas A ...... 206 ~ Ones' P'aul r ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' 547 Herwlg, Henry ...... 251 _ oughin, Phi ip D _ _ _ _ _ . ~ _ ‘ _ ‘ _ _ . _ 532 Hesse, HerbertJ ...... 377 o ce Newton W 628 Hibbard, Carl J ...... 278 ~ ugd 'Mymn E - - ' - - - ~ - - ~ - - ~ ~ - , 865 Higgins, Jarnes ...... 675 :Iuhag Michael ' _ I ~ ~ - _ _ ' -- 866 Hlgglns,_Wllliam J ...... 114 ' ' ' ‘ ' ' ' ' ' ' ' J Hiles, Biddle ...... 639 Kaczmarek, Thomas _ ‘ _ _ ‘ ______‘ 214 Hill. John B - - - ~ ------. ------107 Kanaly, Alfred B ...... l 536 HPld-S, Raymond H - - - ~ - - - - ~ - - - - - 159 Karberg, Cecil R ...... 709 Hlser. Claude M ------600 Karr, Fred B ...... 436 Hiser, Frederick ...... 210 Kelly' Henry A _ _ _ _ _ ' ______554 Hofi'mann, William M ...... 581 Kelly' Matthew Jh- _ _ _ I _ _ _ _ I _ _ _ _ D 319 Hogstad. Clara- . -_ ------575 Kelly, Patrick 5 . . - ...... 552 Holdrldge. Franklm H ------~ - - - 202 Kelsey, Willard H ...... 799 Hollfmd, Joseph T ~ - - - - ~ - ~ ------740 Kennard, Harry F ...... 289 Hollmgworth, Bertram N ------623 Kennedy, John F ...... 246 Holmes,_Chester W ...... 613 Kennedy, Wimam T - - _ _ I - _ - - I - _ _ 438 Holmqulst, Axal - r ------r ------25 Kerr, William ...... 847 Home!" Theodore H ------~ - - - - ~ ~ 284 Kester, Carroll M ...... 476 Hood, Noah - . . - ~ ------~ - - - ~ - - - - 833 Kevorkian, Iram ...... 746 Hoose, Florence ...... 134 Killikeny, Sarah H _ _ _ _ _ ‘ _ _ _ I I . ‘ _ I 233 Horan. Andrew J - - r r ------529 Kilroe, Frederick E ...... 403 Horton, Cline ...... 65 King' Bernard C _ I _ _ l _ _ _ I _ _ I _ _ _ _ _ 734 Houlihan, James J - ' r ------~ - - 243 King, W. Ross ...... 771 Householder, Harry Z ...... 371 Knopf' George V ______338 Houser, Ira S ...... 367 Koonz' John A _ _ . Q ______I I _ _ - _ 262 Howard, Daniel B ...... 444 Krieger‘ Saul M _ _ - _ _ ‘ ' _ l _ _ . _ _ _ _ _ 580 Howard, William T ...... 690 Krummel, Philip R _ - - _ - _ _ _ _ _ - _ - _ 870 ’ Howe, William R~ - -' - - r - ~ - ~ ------562 Kuhr, Charles A ...... 497 Hubbard, ROY W - - - - ~ ------~ - ~ 800 Kunes, Frank A ...... 797 gugifies, Elchfillfd X - - - - r - - ~ - - - - ~ - 6i? Kuphal, Henry E ...... 544 Hulett, Us 05. Edwin 0Y R- - .- -. -. -. -. -. -. -. -. -. -. -. -. -. .- -. 805 Ku y k enda ll, A b ner L ...... 23 0

Hunsaker, Lena B ...... 609 Lacroix, Adolph ...... 189 Hunter, James ...... 632 La Croix, George F ...... 127 Huntley, Thomas ...... g. . . 393 Laird, William ...... 493 Hutchins, T. William ...... '. . . . . 673 Lamade, Louis ...... 165 Hutton, William B ...... 643 LaMarche,'John L ...... r. . 640

208 INDEX—Continued

Award Awa-d NAB/IE No‘ ‘ NAME NO

Lamb, Judson H ...... 179 i McCrory, Charles F. P ...... 331 Lancaster, Peter ...... 63 ; McCue, George E ...... 294 Langdon, Marie V. B ...... 209 I McDaniel, William H ...... 660 Langhammer, Anthony J ...... 326 MacDonald, Hector L ...... 558 Langsdale, Benjamin F ...... 664 McDowell, Allen W ...... 718 Large, Moses C ...... 789 McFarland, James L ...... 382 Larsen, Klaus L ...... 658 McGee, Irvin R ...... 268 Lautenschlager, Lehmann D ...... 263 McGowan, Daniel W’ ...... 379 Law, I. Newton ...... 648 McGown, Thomas ...... 129 Lawrence, Thomas ...... 115 McGrath, Edward A ...... 147 Lebus, Clemmie C ...... 312 McGuire, Arthur L ...... 783 Ledbetter, James D ...... 374 McIntosh, Hiram W ...... 411 Leighton, SeymourJ ...... 7 McIntosh, Norman ...... 591 Leland, William F ...... 557 vMcKinney, R. Pauline ...... 770 Lemmon, John ...... 786 McLuckie, Andrew ...... 416 Lentino, Charles F ...... 538 McMahon, Bernard F ...... 858 Leonard, Charles R ...... 181 McMahon, Patrick ...... 693 Lewis, Amanson, Jr ...... 273 McMichael, James C ...... 272 Lewis, Doris E ...... 720 McNally, Therese S ...... 40 Lewis, Isaac, Jr.. .~ ...... 414 McNee, Thelma M ...... 146 Lilly, Charles R ...... 725 McNeir, Forest W ...... 637 Lindsay, Boyce ...... 472 McPheters, Wallace 0 ...... 58 Lindsey, Kenneth L ...... 618 McQueeney, Eleanor F ...... 479 Little, Howard E ...... 775 McReaken, Arthur E. . : ...... 635 Little, J. Louis ...... 677 McSweeney, William ...... 566 Little, James C ...... 679 McVey, Wallace G ...... 475 Littlefield, Edgar ...... 102 Madden, Michael J ...... 530 Littlefield, Jeremiah M ...... 101 Madden, Timothy J ...... 287 Loadman, Edward ...... 455 Maher, Thomas F ...... 106 Lockard, Leo J ...... 692 Maher, Thomas F ...... 629 Lockett, Arthur ...... 818 Maneval, Fred L ...... 644 Lockwood, Roy ...... 460 Mangan, Martin F ...... 526 Logan, ames V ...... 434 Manges, James V ...... 604 Logan, obert McD., Jr ...... 667 Manlove, Russell L ...... 519 London, James O ...... 744 Mann, William F ...... 595 Longmire, Vaughn V...... 380 Manning, J. Wesley ...... 861 Looney, Wylie ...... 365 Mardiss, Lance H ...... 684 Lowry, George A ...... 309 Marquis, Thomas L., Jr ...... 517 Luce, Alexis B ...... 340 Marrinan, James W ...... 324 Lugen, N. Peter ...... 473 Marsh, Pierce D ...... 260 Lukins, James ...... 75 Marshall, Charles E ...... 545 Lurty, Robert J ...... 368 Marshall, Gideon K ...... 2 Lux, Marion R ...... 199 Martin, H. Burdette ...... 624 Lynch, James J. . .- ...... 804 Martin, James T ...... 375 Lyon, Rachel E ...... 211 Martins, Elmer R ...... 561 Lyons, Clarence W ...... 343 Mason, George S ...... 180 Mason, James T ...... 427 McAnally, W. Benjamin ...... 385 Masser, Harry L ...... 429 McAteer, Patrick ...... 213 Matthews, Abraham T ...... 500 McBride, John ...... 701 Maxey, Ralph E ...... 729 McCabe, Charles R., Jr...... 435 May, Raymond A ...... 221 McCann, Thomas H ...... 6 Meek, Robert M ...... 616 McCarthy, Justin J ...... 373 Melson, Jessie K ...... _ ...... 86 McClelland, Stewart L ...... 849 Merrick, John ...... 391 MacConnell, Edward S ...... 238 Mettler, Ambrose A ...... 829 McCoy, Henry P ...... 386 Metzler, Sydney ...... 716 McCoy, LeRoy ...... 57 Meyer, Charles F ...... 252

209 IN DEX—Continued

Award Award NAME No- NAME No.

Meyers, Minnie L ...... 208 Owen, Canzada M ...... 579 Miller, Alvin J ...... 691 Park, Francis E ...... 676 Miller, Frederick W ...... 255 Parkinson, W. Sterrett ...... 668 Miller, I. Wood ...... : ...... 402 Parks, John M ...... 56 Miller, James A ...... 717 Parks, Samuel N ...... 641 Miller, Jerome ...... 431 Partridge, Lincoln J ...... 212 Mills, Thomas J ...... 835 Patterson, Jesse E ...... 333 Missett, William H. A ...... 128 Paul, Eli ...... 682 Mitchell, Herbert L ...... 313 Paul, George H ...... 653 Modlo, Jacob ...... 528 Paulding, Irving G ...... 518 Moon, Charles B ...... 466 Perri, Michele ...... 587 Moore, Harry E ...... 38 Perry, Rodney A ...... 705 Moore, Henry S ...... 576 Petruccelli, Guiseppe ...... 360 Moran, Thomas W ...... 456 Petzel, Herman J ...... 72 Morgan, Austin M ...... 713 Phifer, Lyndon B ...... 85 Morgan, Dennis P ...... 688 Phillips, David ...... 732 Morrell, Percy E ...... _ ...... 577 Pickett, Charles H. J ...... 515 Morrice, Frederick W ...... 502 Picroski, Josephine ...... 610 Morris, John ...... 94 Pinazza, Giovanni B ...... 410 Morrison, HomerJ ...... 138 Piret, Raymond R. E. . .' ...... 851 ' Morton, Alexander, Sr ...... 504 Pittsley, David ...... 215 Mott, Louis O ...... 784 Plantz, Elsie C ...... 54 Moynihan, Humphrey J ...... 336 Plowman, Samuel J ...... 594 Muir, George K ...... 428 Plummer, Philo G ...... 200 Mullins, Thomas M ...... 161 Plummer, Wade H ...... 11 Munnings, William J ...... 573 Poell, George H ...... 71 Murbach, Walter H ...... 35 Pope, Clarence J ...... 89 Murdock, John ...... 491 Powers, Delia R ...... 548 Murley, William P ...... 719 Powers, Walter W ...... 612 Murray, Edward ...... 47 Prather, William H ...... 702 Murray, Murdoch ...... 534 Pregenzer, Philip C ...... 104 Presley, Clark H ...... 578 Nasser, Samuel ...... 730 Price, Edmund M ...... 384 Neff, William F ...... 492 Pruitt, James ...... 631 Nelsen, Marius ...... _ . 23 Purcell, Lemuel M ...... 793 Nelson, Nels J ...... _ . 150 Nelson, Nels P ...... 113 Raif, Ignatius J ...... 315 Newlin, Edwin S ...... 722 Ramsey, Owen S ...... 831 Nichols, Elliott D., Jr ...... 737 Rance, Frank ...... 868 Nightingale, John T ...... 619 Ranson, John R ...... 394 Nokes, Leo H ...... 67 Rasmussen, Edward T ...... 514 Noll, Edward W ...... 351 Rattenbury, Bertha ...... 305 Norberg, J. Alexander ...... 417 Raymond, C. Bert ...... 670 Norman, William A ...... 568 Raymond, William ...... 132 Nourse, Morris A ...... 68 Record, Nathan ...... 649 Reed, Jewel H ...... 81 Oberst, Adam A ...... 707 Reeder, Ralph H ...... 297 O'Brien, M. Vincent deP ...... 821 Reid, Samuel ...... 871 O'Brien, Michael P ...... 32 Reidy, Patrick J ...... 749 O'Connor, Patrick ...... 265 Reidy, William J ...... ' . . . 724 Oliver, Kenneth R ...... 743 Reynolds, James ...... 739 O'Loughlin, Michael ...... 674 Reynolds, Myron L ...... 560 Omner, Frank ...... 245 Rheinfrank, William J ...... 196 Orlemanski, Stanislaus ...... 750 Rice, John V., Jr ...... 809 Orr, William M ...... 738 Richards, A. Albert ...... 366 Ortiz, Lorenzo ...... 714 Riddle, Lawrence E ...... 763 Osborn, Randolph ...... 461 Riehle, William ...... 630

210 INDEX—Continued

Award Award NAME NO. NAME No.

Rife, Eugene W ...... 852 1 Simmons, John H ...... 625 Riley, John J ...... 4 Simon, Arthur ...... 49 Riley, Joseph A ...... 345 Simpson, Albert W ...... 154 Riley, William J ...... 157 Simpson, Robert W ...... 30 Risvold, Lars O ...... 521 Simson, William B ...... 480 Roberts, Beecher ...... 839 Six, Wallace W ...... 464 Roberts, George I ...... 228 Skinner, Francis C ...... 234 Robeza, Joseph, Jr ...... 487 Slear, Walter S ...... 185 Robinson, J. Archie ...... 655 Small, Lulu J ...... 267 Robson, Matthew D ...... 364 Smith, A. Eugene ...... 362 Roller, Erwin J ...... 175 Smith, Albert W ...... 96 Rose, James M ...... 627 Smith, Arthur ...... 153 Roser, Elias ...... 378 Smith, Charles A ...... 501 Ross, Arthur A ...... 19 Smith, Earl A ...... 99 Rothgeb, Johnson B ...... 862 Smith, F. Kent ...... 452 Runner, Clinton B ...... 498 Smith, Francis T ...... 320 Rushford, Park S ...... 462 Smith, George E ...... 97 Russell, George F ...... 18 Smith, George W ...... 757 Ryan, E. Donald ...... 845 Smith, Harry L ...... 98 Ryan, Richard E ...... 149 Smith, James L ...... 401 Ryman, Lawrence B ...... 372 ‘Smith, John W ...... 95 Smith, Louis E ...... 100 Saltamah ...... 232 Smith, Nelson V ...... 123 Sampson, James W ...... 603 - Smith, Walter A ...... 671 Sapp, Ithamer C ...... 306 Snare, George W. T ...... 698 Sasso, Michael ...... 31 Snyder, Clifford W ...... 53 Saunders, Edward S ...... 582 Snyder, H. Clay ...... 787 Sayle, William F ...... 285 Snyder, James M ...... 499 Schaller, Rosa P ...... 117 Speir, James ...... 420 Schanewerk, Henry J ...... 661 - Spencer, Earl B ...... 82 Schiller, Henry J ...... 50 Spinner, Lewis A ...... 516 Schlageter, Joseph, Jr ...... 695 Stallworth, Mack ...... 564 Schmuck, Oliver L ...... 88 Stanyon, Caroline ...... 121 Schneider, Bernhard, Sr ...... 565 Stapp, Helen L ...... 201 Schneider, William A ...... 177 Stappenbeck. Charles ...... 240 Scholl, Louis C . . - ...... 699 Steele, Lavinia ...... 9 Schultz, August ...... 220 Stefanelli, Vincenzo ...... 361 Schwendinger, John ...... 239 Stephens, Winston B ...... 130 Scott, Olen M ...... 772 Stephenson, Robert H. D., Sr. . . . . 615 Scureman, John C ...... 249 Stewart, Francis G ...... 318 Sears, Floria A ...... 453 Stewart, Henry ...... 418 Seccombe, Stanley G ...... 584 Stewart, Jesse C ...... 311 Seeley, Watson M ...... 450 Stillwell, William G ...... 51 Seevers, Harry G ...... 283 Stokes, Richard S: ...... 683 Semmes, J. Malcolm, Jr ...... 620 Stokes, W. Roy ...... 723 Semon, E. Gertrude ...... I 745 Stowe, Samuel M ...... 69 Sennott, John N ...... 766 Stringer, James N ...... 825 Sharpsteen, Gertrude ...... 399 Strong, Kash ...... 844 Shaw, G. James ...... 508 Stuchel, Newton ...... 36 Shaw, William H ...... 539 Suess, Max ...... 217 Shear, Ira P ...... 169 Sutton, Anna E ...... 495 Shearer, Alexander E ...... 735 Swain, Charles V ...... 549 Sheehan, John J. F ...... 828 Sweeney, Arthur J ...... 237 Shepard, J. Ray - ...... 791 Sweet, Albert K ...... 288 Shorman, Edgar H ...... 726 Sweet, Walter C ...... 408 Shute, Joseph M ...... 24 Swenson, Charles A ...... 46 Sies, Frederick W ...... 346 Swett, Edward ...... 275

211 INDEX—Continued

Award ‘ Award NAME No. NAME No.

Swortley, Reuben P ...... 437 Weckbecker, Henry E ...... 254‘ Sykes, Frank H ...... 765 Weiher, Frederick W ...... 256 Symons, Edwin F ...... 794 Weik, Frank B ...... 325 Szabrinski, John ...... 422 weiss, Charles ...... 109 Taylor, Ray M ------446 Welch, eist, John C. Frederick A ...... 785341 Taylor, Thomas F - ~ ------D 116 Weld, Charles W...... 327 Tcn-y, Frank H ------~ - - ~ - ~ - 293 Werner, A. Cleveland ...... 842 Thomas' Charles - - - - ~ ' ~ ' - ' . - ~ - - ~ 759 Wesley, August ...... 485 Thomas Oscar H ------a - 323 - West, Challen A ...... 665 Thompson, (‘harks M ------798 Wetton, Samuel A ...... 571 Thompson, Clarence M ~ ------' ' - - 307 Wetzel, Claude V ...... 463 Thompson, Harry D ------~ - - 303 Whaley, Florence A ...... 223 Thompson. John H - - - - - . - . - . a - - - 376 Whelan, David ...... 484 Thornley, Arthur A - - - - ~ ------432 White, Ol-ll’l G ...... 34s Tibbs, David R ------a - - - - ~ - - 409 White, atrick ...... 781 Titus, Maude A . . . . - ~ ------~ - - 13 Wilber, John J ...... 633 Tomlinson, Harley ------. ------~ 352 Wilcox, Lynn F ...... 810 Tournier, Claude M - - a a ------776 Wild, William J ...... 45 Townsell, Noldon ------. - - - ~ - - - '-- 779 Wilkie, George ...... 867 Traglw. Pascal L . ------280 Williams, Calvin C ...... 458 Trevor, Mares Y ------162 Williams, George B ...... 33 Troescher. Robert L - - - ' - - - - ~ - ~ - - 301 Williams, George H.- ...... 93 Trust. George A - - - - . ------363 Williams, Richard c ...... 459 Turk, I. William ...... 850 wiliiamsy Russell M _ ‘ _ _ _ _ _ . _ . _ _ _ 470 Upmn' Kmg - - - ~ ' - ~ - - ~ - - ~ ~ ' ' ~ - ~ - D 586 Wiliiams,Wil iams, WilliamWilliam N.H., r ...... 522193 Van Dakar' John F I ______I _ I _ _ 567 Wil iamson,‘Pat_rick F ...... _ . . 350 Van Deventer, Willard P...... l 155 Wlllits, Benjanlln F ...... 74 Van Hise, Samuel B _ _ _ _ ' ______I 152 Wills, Wllliam G ...... 837 Van Nostrand, Clarence ...... 700 Wflson, Jesse A ------a - 400 Van ()rman' Byron p ______381 Wilson, John C ...... 226 Vincent, Ray V ______- _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ I 271 Wlnn, Lochlin M ...... 125 ] Wohl, Gustav ...... 91 Wade, Martin D ...... 747 Wolfe, John G ...... 669 Wagner, Carl F ...... 357 Wolff, William L ...... 42 Wagner, Henry ...... 764 Woods, Halley M ...... 270 Wagner, Luther H ...... 73 Woods, Robert C ...... 440 Waite, Charles ...... 423 Wright, Charles N ...... 840 Waite, Walter ...... 425 Wright, Curtis C ...... 596 Walcott, Everett 0 ...... 830 Wycuff, Thomas O ...... 465 Walker, Elijah A...... 651 Walker, J. G. Stewart ...... 261 Yates, Bert T ...... 774 Walker, John G ...... t ...... 494 York, Helen G ...... 817 Walker, Percy ...... 697 Young, John H ...... 66 Wallace, Walter B ...... 706 Young, Olaf A . _ ...... 191 Walsh, Matthew ...... 334 Young, Robert W ...... 347 Walsh, Michael E ...... 780 Walsh, Patrick F ...... 389 Zangerle, John ...... 247 Walsh, William ...... - . . . 194 Zeiner, Albert ...... 721 Warren, Carl B ...... 708 Zengen, Frederick W ...... 454 Waterman, David ...... 124 Zentner, Paul J ...... 846 Watkins, William ...... 28 Zick, Herman ...... 77 Weaver, Luther B ...... 864 Zimmerman, Charles W ...... 827 Webster, William W ...... 754

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DISASTERS ON ACCOUNT OF WHICH CONTRIBUTIONS HAVE BEEN MADE TO FUNDS RAISED FOR THE RELIEF OF SUFFERERS Since the establishment of the Fund to and including January Slst, l9l4

AND THE AMOUNT GRANTED IN EACH CASE

No. DISASTER ' AMOUNT

1 Grover Factory Disaster. On March 20, 1905, a boiler in the factory of R. B. Grover & Co., at Brocton, Mass., exploded, wrecking the building. The debris immediately took fire, and, as a result, fifty-eight lives were lost and one ' hundred fifty persons injured. $10,000.00

2 California Earthquake Disaster. On April 18, 1906, the country along the California coast was visited by an earth quake which was followed, in San Francisco, by a conflagration, which destroyed property valued at many millions of dollars, and involved the loss of upwards of two hundred lives. 54,462.06

3 Monongah Mines Disaster. On December 6, 1907, at Monongah, W. Va., an explosion occurred in Mine No. 6 and Mine No. 8 of the Fairmont Coal Company, which resulted in the death of three hundred sixty-one employees. 35,000.00

4 Darr Mine Disaster. On December 19, 1907, at Jacobs Creek, Pa., an explosion occurred in the Darr Mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company, which resulted in the death of two hundred thirty-eight employees. 25,000.00

5 Lick Branch Mine Disaster. On December 29, 1908, at Switchback, W. Va., an explosion occurred in the Lick Branch Mine of the Pocahontas Consolidated Collieries Company, Inc., which resulted in the death of fifty-one employees, and on January 12, 1909, another explosion occurred in the same mine, in which sixty-one lives were lost, making a total of one hundred seventeen within two weeks. 10,000.00

6 McCurtain Mine Disaster. On March 20, 1912, at McCurtain, Okla., an explosion occurred in Mine No. 2 of the San Bois Coal Company, which resulted in the death of seventy-three employees. 15,000.00

7 Jed Mine Disaster. On March 26, 1912, at Jed, W. Va., an explosion occurred in the Jed Mine of the jed Coal & Coke Company, which resulted in the death of eighty-two employees. 10,000.00

8 Ohio and Indiana Flood Disasters. In March, 1913, the worst floods in their history visited Ohio and Indiana, causing enormous property damage and the loss of approxi- mately three hundred lives. 10,000.00

213_ SPECIAL PURPOSES ON ACCOUNT OF WHICH APPROPRIATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE IN ACCORDANCE WITH PROVISIONS CONTAINED IN SIXTH SECTION OF DEED OF TRUST Since the establishment of the Fund to and including January 3lst, l9l4

AND THE AMOUNT SET APART IN EACH CASE

No. PURPOSE AMOUNT

1 The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa., for use of Carnegie Technical Schools to be applied for the equipment and maintenance of the School of Apprentices and Journeymen, and the Margaret Morrison Carnegie School for Women. I $100,000.00

N The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa., for use of Carnegie Technical Schools to be applied for the equipment and maintenance of the School of Applied Industries and the Margaret Morrison Carnegie School for Women. $100,000.00

RECAPITULATION

MEDAL AWARDS

Gold ...... - ...... - . . . 16 Silver ...... - . . . . . l ...... - . . .. 330 Bronze . . . . . _ ...... - ...... 525 871

PECUNIARY AWARDS To Heroes and their dependents, including pension payments (Pensions in force January 3lst, 1914, $72,660 per annum) $ 855,685.54 To Funds for relief of sufferers from disasters ...... 169,462.06 To Special Purposes ...... - ...... 200,000.00 Total ...... - ...... - ...... $1,225,147.60

214 DATES ON WHICH AWARDS WERE MADE

Acts of Heroism Numbers Date 1 to 9 ...... May 24, 1905 10 to 19 ...... October 16, 1905 20 to 26 ...... January 31, 1906 27 to 47 . . . . _ ...... May 16, 1906 48 to 63 ...... October 17, 1906 64 to 81 ...... January 16, 1907 82 to 102 ...... May 15, 1907 103 to 126 ...... October 18, 1907 127 to 142 ...... January 15, 1908 143 to 172 ...... May 20, 1908 173 to 220 ...... ; ...... October 21, 1908 221 to 246 ...... January 20, 1909 247 to 269 ...... May 3, 1909 270 to 319 ...... November 3, 1909 320 to 336 ...... January 19, 1910 337 to 368 ...... May 4, 1910 369 to 426 ...... October 31, 1910 427 to 452 ...... January 18, 1911 453 to 487 ...... May 1, 1911 488 to 546 ...... October 18, 1911 547 to 583 ...... January 17, 1912 584 to 638 ...... April 26, 1912 639 to 698 ...... November 1, 1912 699 to 723 ...... January 15, 1913 724 to 764 ...... April 25, 1913 765 to 841 ...... October 31, 1913 842 to 871 ...... January 21, 1914

Disasters 1 ...... May 24, 1905 2 ...... May 16, 1906 3 ...... December 23, 1907 4 ...... May 20, 1908 5 ...... May 3, 1909 6 and 7 ...... November 1, 1912 8 ...... '...... April 25, 1913

Special Purposes 1 ...... May 4, 1910 2 ...... January 17, 1912

215 STATISTICS OF CASES CONSIDERED BY THE COMMISSION SINCE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE FUND TO JANUARY 3lst, 1914

Granted ...... 871 Refused ...... 10145 Pending ...... 1499

Total. . v ...... 12515

KINDRED FUNDS Since the creation of the Carnegie Hero Fund of America, similar Funds have been established by Mr. Carnegie in Great Britain and Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Norway, and Denmark. METHOD OF DISTRIBUTION OF PECUNIARY AWARDS

Pecuniary awards are divided into three classes: Death Benefits, Disablement Benefits, and Betterment Benefits; and the last-named class has the following seven sub- divisions: Business Establishment, Educational Expense, Health Restoration, Home Purchase, Indebtedness Liquidation, Living Expense, and Miscellaneous. Aids.

Awards are paid in two ways: namely, in regular monthly installments, as pensions, continuing over an indefinite period; and in irregular installments or in one sum, according to the nature of the need, to be applied to specific purposes. Death Benefits are paid in cases in which the rescuer loses his life as the result of his act, to the dependents of deceased rescuers who have sustained pecuniary losses by the rescuers' deaths and who are in need of assistance. Widows receiving pensions are required to certify at the close of each month whether or not they have remarried, whether or not their children are living with them and are dependent upon them, and whether or not the children have attended school regularly. The certificate has to be sworn to before a notary and attested by him. Once a year, or oftener, a Special Agent—a trained investigator in the employ of the Commission—is sent to investigate what kind of a life the widow is leading, whether she is paying her bills, what kind of care she is taking of her children, etc., etc. Dependents other than widows receiving Death Benefit awards receive them as pensions the same as widows or in stated payments for a limited period, and in some one of the Betterment Benefit forms. Disablement Benefits are paid to rescuers who have sustained pecuniary losses as the result of injuries received in the performance of their acts and who need assistance.‘ Beneficiaries receiving Disablement Benefits are supervised in a manner similar to those receiving Death Benefits. Betterment Benefits are paid in cases in which no losses have been suffered as the result of the act. The object in granting this class of awards is to improve the condition in life of the beneficiary in a permanent way.

In a Business Establishment case, the beneficiary must submit a detailed scheme of the enterprise in which he proposes to engage. His scheme is carefully considered, and his statements are thoroughly substantiated either by a Special Agent or through other reliable sources; and if there seems a reasonable chance of success for his scheme, the amount of his award requested is sent him with instructions that the money must be used for the purpose requested, as outlined, and no other.

Educational Expense awards are made to enable the beneficiary to acquire a higher education, which he otherwise would not have been able to acquire; to finish a secondary school course which he had been compelled to abandon; to take a technical or trade school course; or to study the fine arts. Great care is exercised to see that a student takes up the course to which he is best fitted, and that he enters a school which is well equipped to teach the course. After the school has been decided upon, the student must file a detailed estimate of his expenses for the approaching term on a form designed for the purpose.

217 The estimate is carefully scrutinized, and the amount that is deemed necessary for the term is sent him. .At the end of each month, on a printed form, he must render a full statement of his expenses, which is carefully examined before being approved. As often as the student's marks are made up, the school furnishes a report showing the student's standing; and if his marks are not what they should be, the student's attention is brought to his poor showing, and he is urged to do better. In a Health Restoration case, before an amount is paid, arrangements are made to have the beneficiary examined by a specialist of standing to learn, first, precisely the beneficiary's condition; and second, what is best to do for him. If it seems likely that the beneficiary can be cured, he may go either to a sanitarium, or a hospital, for a course of treatment, or remain at home and receive attention, whichever seems the better plan. If the disease isincurable, the beneficiary is made as comfortable as possible, either in an institution or at home.

A beneficiary desiring to use his Home Purchase award is required to submit his plans in detail. He must give the size and location of the lot; the size and kind of house; the price; the terms of purchase; and the amount of the mortgage, if any, he will have to carry on the property. His plans are carefully considered to see whether they are practical and economical, and whether there is a reasonable chance of his carrying them through successfully. If his plans seem feasible, an investigation is made, generally through a banker of standing in his community, to ascertain whether the property is well located and not liable to soon depreciate in value, whether it is adapted to the needs of the bene ficiary, and whether it is worth the price asked. Almost invariably bankers have been found willing to obtain and furnish the information desired and thus help to protect the interests of the beneficiary and assist the Commission, for which grateful acknowledgment is here made. If, from the report upon the property, the soundness of the beneficiary's plans is confirmed, his proposition is approved, subject to the title to the property being found to be good. When a satisfactory report on the title is furnished, the amount of the award that is needed is paid. In substance, the same plan is followed if the beneficiary wishes to purchase a farm instead of a house and lot.

In Indebtedness Liquidation cases, payments are made to lift mortgages or to settle floating indebtedness in order to relieve the beneficiary of a burden and give him a fresh start. The beneficiary is required to furnish certified itemized statements from his credit ors, and to explain under what circumstances the debts were contracted and remain unpaid. Payment of an award of this class depends upon whether the amounts alleged to be due are just debts, whether the debts were incurred under proper circumstances, and whether it is to the best interest of the beneficiary at the time to liquidate them.

Living Expense awards are made to rescuers who are in need of assistance and who are old and unable to properly support themselves without help. They are usually paid as pensions. Miscellaneous Aids covers all other forms of Betterment Benefit payments which are not sufliciently distinct in character to classify otherwise. In no case is a beneficiary paid the amount of his award to be used for such purposes as he may choose to use it without any restrictions. In every case there must be a need for the money, and the beneficiary must submit in detail a proposition for its use which must receive approval before the money is paid.

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I914 OFFICERS Chas. L. Taylor, President W. J. Holland, Vice President J. H. Reed, Treasurer F. M. Wilmot, Secretary and Manager c. B. Ebersol, .s. E. Weir, A ssistant Manager A ssistant Treasurer

STANDING COMMITTEES AUDIT COMMITTEE _ W. L. Scaife, Chairman Edward M. Bigelow H. H. McClintic . A. C. Dinkey W. H. Stevenson

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

W. J. Holland, Chairman Thomas S. Arbuthnot Frederick C. Perkins \V. W. Blackburn W. L. Scaife Ralph M. Dravo W. H. Stevenson Thomas Morrison F. M. Wilmot

FINANCE COMMITTEE W. N. Frew, Chairman Wm. L. Abbott Frederick C. Perkins R. A. Franks J. H. Reed

MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE H. K. Porter, Chairman Taylor Allderdice Ralph M. Dravo Jos. Bufl-ington Thos. Lynch

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