Show I J lyy + rllJ 9tY P1 1JrC faICJrRY3flJY a r BRAVE DEEDS THAT HAVE WON CARNEGIE MEDALS i I S llJ yJIJYlllllYlJlrlldblll New York Two years ago Andrew Carnegie conceived the novel Idea of discovering and rewarding true heroism hero-Ism wherever It may occur For this purpose a hero fund commission was appointed whose preliminary labors have now been completed Deeds of daring whether by land or sea In the effort to save life have received duo recognition In this way while tho task of the commission has resulted besides In bringing together a series of little tales of human pluck endurance endur-ance and selfabnegiition tho reading of which Is bound to give an uplifting sense of some of the noblest qualities of men and women when brought face to face with the peril that at some supreme moment threatens the lives of their fellow beings Of the 01 cases of hciolsm which the commission after prolonged and careful Investigation has deemed worthy of public recognition tho following fol-lowing have been selected on account of time novel human Interest which characterizes them They tell of the courage and humanity of men women and even children In all walks of life and In every section of the United States Not every hero thus chronicled chron-icled has succeeded in the rescue that he has planned while numbers have lost their own lives in the effort to save the lives of others It forms a striking record altogether unique among human annals and may be taken as a true and lasting tribute to the selfsacrificing love of man forman for-man Maude Titus In Casco Bay near Yarmouth Me In the summer of 1904 a deed of generous gen-erous heroism was performed by a girl of 16 Maude Titus a student at the Newark X 1 high school was out en a pleasure trip in a sailing yacht with some of her friends An accident occurred In changing tho course of the yacht and the captain his niece Miss Titus and her friend Miss Relfsnjdur were thrown Into the water The captain rescued his niece by a lifeline which had been thrown to him from the boat and he himself then followed her to safety leaving Miss Titus and Miss Uelfsnyder to struggle for themselves in the waves Miss Titus was a poor swimmer and her friend was utterly helpless In the water Instead of striking out for the boat however which she could have reached with ease Miss Titus remained re-mained with the halfdrowning girl She did not attempt to swim with her but took hold of her calmed her and endeavored to hold her head above water until a boat was sent to tho rescue For this act of heroism Miss dJYIYlllCl CJlll d3C JII to atoms Hughes who was undercover under-cover saw the Imminent peril of his comrade and dashed out to save him Ho caught him as ho was about to stumble over a precipice and dragged him back over tho place where the blast was to be set off Both men were caught however within tho danger dan-ger line and both were badly hurt Hughes clothing caught fire from tho flames which enveloped the body of Owens whom he saved and for a longtime long-time he was Incapacitated from work The commission has sent him a silver medal and 250 Lucy E Ernst It was a unique deed of heroism that won for Miss Ernst of Philadelphia Philadel-phia one of the commissions silver medals Two years ago she was taking tak-ing an outing In the country with a friend Harry E Schocnut a lad of 16 The two tramped through the woods and along the side of a rocky ravine The latter gave but a poor footing to pedestrians and In jumping across a rift between two boulders Schoenut slipped and fell There was an angry whirr and rattle of sound and before ho could save himself the fangs of a rattlesnake were fastened In Schoe nuls arm Tho reptile darted back Into his hole beneath tho rock but almost al-most Instantly his victims arm began to swell and turn black Thoroughly terrified Schoenut declared that he was dvlncr and linnlnrod his comnan n m m 0 uo Ion to save herself from possible danger dan-ger Miss Ernst however tore the young mans sleeve from his arm and applying her lips to the wound wade by the rattler tried to suck out the poison This she did at Imminent peril to herself as she knew because a cut on her own Up brought her Into tho most dangerous contact with the poison Once during the operation the i intrepid girl cut a gash in Schoonuts arm to make tho blood como faster as she afterward expressed It Tho boy fainted at tho sight of his own blood and It was only by beating him in the face that Miss Ernst succeeded In reviving him and keeping him moving mov-ing Half dragging half carrying him i she finally reached a clubhouse a mile away from whore the accident happened hap-pened She carried the unconscious lad up the clubhouse steps her dress from the neck down spattered with blood and fell In a faint beside him Medical assistance was procured and Schoenuts life was saved Michael OBrien A fire broke out in a crowded tenement tene-ment at One Hundred and Tenth street and Third avenue three years ago So combustible was the material J YOONG lfPSAfELY To6HaRE i I l v F t v y fC 12 I st T w I f l I 1 IIYEEDIEoo Or 4 TNEDEfiDLY t fr PTLE6 r A WEHTTOffi REOCUC y jju p Titus has received a sliver medal The commission has also given her 1000 to assist in completing her education edu-cation Dr Titus the girls father having recently died i Richard Hughes A Dynamite Hero Is the name that has been given to Richard Hughes of Danger Pa by hte comrades com-rades An explosion of giant powder blinded Richard Owens Just as he lighted tho fuse to set off another blast Unable to find his way out of danger and with his clothing on fire Instant death seemed certain for the unfortunate man Just as soon as the park from the second fuse would reach the powder he would be blown In the building that the whole house was In flames before the firemen could reach the scene To passersby there Teemed to bo no hope fo a rescue res-cue for many of those who were Imprisoned Im-prisoned In the lt fated place for the I entrance to the house was completely I cut off by tho falling of Ignited timbers tim-bers which tilled all the hallways with debris and smoke Tho outside shell of the bulldlnc however remained Intact In-tact and on a lire escape on the fourth floor stood A mother Mrs Lies BO Kyi and her two children ImplorIng Implor-Ing help from the people in the street below Among the latter stood Michael P OHrlen a young plasterer and a near neighbor to Mrs Kyi Accustomed Accus-tomed to scale buildings under pre carious conditions OTlrlcn qalchly determined on a plan of rescue Dashing Dash-ing up the stairways of an adjoining house until ho reached tho fourth floor ho ante his way along a series of window ledges to the fire escape where Mrs Aryl 1 and her terrified children chil-dren stood From this perilous position posi-tion he passed tho latter to persons In a neighboring flat and then handed Mrs Kyi I who was unconscious from fright and the Hiiffocatlng effects of the smoke to a fireman who mounted a ladder to one of tho fourth story windows OHrlen himself nearly lost his life in tho flames and smoke and vas carried to the street by flromen Tho commission has awarded him a silver medal for his bravery I James Gilmer A race to death In a Monongahela rlvor flood was the end of two friends one of whom was trying to save tho other The waters of tho river had been swelled to giant proportions two years ago by ono of those freshets that so often occur In that part of the country In Its course the flood had torn an unwieldy barge from Its moorings Alone on board was Howard How-ard McCainey a youth who could not swim His oldtime friend James W Gilmer who had worked with him for years on a towboat saw the flying barge knew that McCarney was on It and knew too that the runaway yes sol was heading for a great dam a short distance below on tho river It meant certain death to McCaruey If some quick act was not carried out to save him Gilmer Jumped Into a skiff and raced after the barge McCarney had a long start of him and the sound of the waters foaming over tho dam reached Gilmer before ho was well under way in his little craft Ho hoped to get near enough to the barge for McCarney to jump Into tho skiff and then together they could row to the shore Dut the barge was going too swiftly In the eddying currents the skiff was too unmanageable and before he could reach him Gilmer saw his friend hurled over the rapids above the dam So appalled was heat I he-at the fate of his friend that he forgot his own safet Ho floated down to i the danger point jumped from the skiff Into the boiling flood and tho dead bodies of tho two friends went down the river side by side A bronze medal and 200 has been awarded by tho commission to Gilmers father In commemoration of Ills sons daring Harry act Moore I thought I had an even chance and thats more than the poor old follow fol-low ahead of me had That Is the way Harry E Moore a fireman of Alliance Al-liance 0 explains why he tried two years ago to run ahead of his own train and save tho life of a drunken farmer Moore was riding on the pilot of his coal train when he saw an old farmer sitting In a stupor on the track Signaling the engineer to check the speed of the train us much as possible Moore waited until he was within 75 feet of the prostrate and unconscious man and then jumped Racing as hard as he could Moore was overtaken by his own engine en-gine and knocked to one side of the track tho wheels taking off three fingers fin-gers of his left hand The fanner was killed Instantly Moore has received re-ceived a bronze medal and 500 from the Carnegie commission Wiliam Stillwell The youngest of all those selected for recognition by the commission a boy of 13 Is Willie Stillwell of Hell alre Mich Willie had never been known as a strong swimmer but when one of his playmates Ruth School craft who was more than a foot taller tall-er than he fell Into Intermediate river Willie was quick at the rescue He was wise enough not to get In the clutches of the girl but swimming by her side held her up with one arm while he swam with the other thus II ldllllit = bringing her safely to shore ThR conimlsttlon linn awarded n bronzy medal to the boy nml linn sot aside for him the sum of 2000 with which 10 will pay for nn electric engineers course lu college Edward Campbell For more than a year there was a bitter feud between two young coal minors at Buena Vlstn a little mining town on the YoiishloRhony river near Pltlsburg hut what tho trouble wan has never been made known but whether In tint mining camp or on tho rlvjur or In tho boarding house whore they both lived together t Gcorgo South null Ktl Campbell never spoke to rneh other One day about three years ago the nlnrm went out that South hart fallen Into the river at the end of n great coal chute Campbell heard the alarm and rushed tu time river There was no sign of South i whti ho knew could not swim and It was evident that tho III fated man hud I r TA0MllloPffLOUS OON iBREN u PR5SOlJ rHE CNILL44EN TbfieoMeMI NGHORING CarBORINC I I1 r I 1m M TfrfT tWffGffWSr I tWffGffWSrbeen been swept by a current under a largo 1 coal barge that was lashed to tho pier It was nil a mans life was worth to dive Into the eddy of waters that stretched before him but tearing off his coat Campbell took the risk After n 1 desperate struggle with the treacherous treacher-ous tides and diving repeatedly under the barge Campbell found his man where ho had expected wedged beneath be-neath the hull of tho vessel between some Iftwood It took all of Camp bells strength working under water to get tho limp body of his enemy to tho milface Ho succeeded finally only to find that the man for whose safety he had risked his own life and whom he had once cordially hated was dead The cominjBslon sent a bronze medal to Campbell Sadie L Crabbe Ralph Young a colored boy broke through the Ice on the Great WIcomI co river Virginia two years ago Young had strayed away from a party of skaters further up the river and ventured upon Ice that had not been tried It was a lonely section of the country and when the boy fell Into tho water his cries for help wore heard only by a white woman Mrs t Sadie L Crabbo who was walking along the bank of tho rive Seizing a plank which lay near by Mrs Crabbe endeavored to reach the struggling negro So eager was she In this attempt at-tempt to savo the colored boys life a that she ventured too far out on tho Ice which broke beneath her Young at whose piteous appeal she had taken one Htep too far evidently forgot his own plight when he saw Mrs Crabbe fall Into tho water and tried to save her Both the while woman and the colored boy however wore drowned A bronze nodal has been sent by the commission to Mm Crabbos husband In commemoration of her bravery The sum of 2000 also has been appropriated ap-propriated to be used In the education and upbringing of Mrs Crabbea children chil-dren Arthur Simon a Only 15 years of ago was Arthur 31 man and he had just learned to swim when ho rescued two girls from l I drowning In a lake near Valparaiso Ind two years ago Cue of the girls was his sister and both of them were j much older and weighed a good deal more than Arthur At an alarm given by his mother ho plunged Into the lake Neither of the girls was insight In-sight Diving to tho bottom he found them locked in each others arms Breaking them apart ho rose to the surface with them He swam to the shore which was about 40 feet away with ono girl and then came back for his sister who with her great wlght nearly dragged him to tho bottom She almost strangled tho boy several times but finally ho landed her In fi safety The commission has sent Arthur Ar-thur a bronze meant |