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Show j CARNEGIE'S HEROES' FUND ' Carnegie's latest project for the distribution dis-tribution of his surplus millions, - the heroes'. fund, is a move in the right di lection, and, in the humble judgment of one who t is not likely to ever have reason to lay claim to any of it, is better bet-ter calculated to inspire ' ordinary, everyday humanity with exalted, unselfish' un-selfish' ideals than i thousand marble edifii.es filled with the unhealthy mass of luve born fiction that makes up the bulk of popular libraries. That there abundance of material to. ret;p the benefit of this fund is apparent ap-parent to every reader of the daily palters. pa-lters. There is that modest hero of Chicago who only last week rescued ci.s'it helpless Women and children during dur-ing a lire by walking across a long, narrow ledge just wid" enough to hold one foot in front of another seventy-five seventy-five feet above the ground and, carrying carry-ing the fire-entrapped victims one at a time to .safety. It was a splendid deed and was possible to this gallant fellow- only because in his youth some twenty yours ago he had followed the perilous occupation of rigger. Now ho is enguged in the peaceful business of running a saloon, but the iron nerve acquired in his dan?erou trade still stood him in good stead, and. backed by a brave, iiiiscllish heart, ii saved , eight lives in the extremity of mortal peril. This heroic deed deserves the first medal and its bearer should be the dean of the' new Legion of Honor just instituted in-stituted by Air. Carnegie. New Century. |
