Show T TAFT APPROVES MEDAL DESIGN w WASHINGTON ASHINGTON Nov 23 23 President T ft yeste yesterday day approved tho choice of the e fine arts c commission for the design of a gold old medal to be presented to o Capt A. A H. H Rostron of the Cunard liner Huor Carpathia ia for his he heroic Be services in saving the survivors survivors- of ot the tho Titanic dis ait aster r. r The Tho accepted desi n was W tho work of John Flanagan of ot New York City and was on one of 01 more than a score sub sub- to the tho commission It bears on one side sido a b relief has head bead of Captain Rostron encircled by the words To T TArthur Arthur Henry Rostron Tho The thanks of congress on ess for heroically saving ocean passengers of tho the Titanic in mid mid- On tho the reverse r-everso appears a relief bas showing two male figures in a lifeboat casting a a. lino to a a. man just about to sink benea beneath h the tho sea On this Side also appears th tho dato dat of there the tho re rescue cuc IS 15 15 1912 The mOdal medal will win bo be presented to Captain Cap Cap- tain Rostron Bostron by President Taft Tart on ons s some m date i in hi the near fut future r |