Show SAVED 3 MANY LIVES UNCLE SAM ABOUT TO REWARD A DOSTON REPORTER rater h Mrailf Ito t1rul etttr IMOIII unit II til Onlj 31 h N Illil Thrlllhic I ti In 1114 IImrk Ibm Cttr 1tThlt S a iy tr I a newspaper te < s I porter of 1I00ton R t hM juat rtcelved assurances from h Q Vn hlnglon that I 1 national medal for W life saving will be r given him b y the Government Mr t McNally I Is 31 yean r k tl oW and saved his nut life when ho was only 7 year old Ills carter us a professional swimmer several years ago was a brilliant one especially In long distance trials He I holds < about all the honor that the Manacliuictti Humane Society can bestow tow Ills moil sensational rescue won him a second service bar which Is I attached to the silver medal won In 1881 Mr McNally was on hli way to the North Shore beach on the afternoon of June 29 1890 lie was Handing on the platform plat-form of one of the cars and saw the fall of a boy who was knocked overboard from Wood liland bridge by the train The trains spied wa about 30 miles an hour Mr McNally jumped and struck the water a considerable distance dis-tance from where the boy whose namo was Itobert Ilogerson fell but ho reached him In limo to prevent a drowning llogcrson was so badly Injured In-jured < by the train that he dIed shortly niter being taken from time water f c a 11 I d es t b ou t I rift drown 1 e air un uuu Ing persons was In December 1881 when he Jumped from the Warren bridge to save Ilattlo ltlclinioil on Insane In-sane woman who attempted suicide Ho struck n log In tho leap and smashed In his now The blow planned him for a moment but the woman clothing buoyed her up and when his mind beeamo char he sighted her floating out toward Ibo harbor It was night The woman was of powerful power-ful frame and she fought like a wildcat wild-cat when he laid hold of her Hbo bit his right thumb to the bone and he was obliged lo use his list to iiibdiio her He swam with her to tho Navy Yard wall and brought aisUtanco to S 5 J I I 1 i J llTlm s MNALLY Hint quarter by shouting as he swam + Ho was badly cramped when helped from Ibo water and was not himself again for two or three days There Is I no record of all tho lives lie has save but he has pulled at least i I GO persons from Jeopardy J In 1881 he came near losing hu own life In I an attempt to save a party of T J 1 four whom boat had been upset by time snaih of n ferry steamer The accident acci-dent to tho boat had happened just off the Navy Yard Peter was about I fifty yards away In another boat Jumping In ho swam the distance righted tho capsized dory and helped I tho four Into 1t Ho WM so badly exhausted 1 ex-hausted that tho four whom ho helped were In turn obliged to glvo him assistance assist-ance Off Oak Island Revere lleach In i 1881 he rescued a Walden woman named Lena Campbell and worked on her for about an hour before she I 6 showed signs of life There were no physicians I at hand and the only help l r tl I he got was from some of th pleasure seekers whom ho directed In tho work of reviving the woman Ho saved two boys at Nnntasket the canto summer and late In November of that year went Into the water near Itutherford avenue Charleston for 5 year old Wllllo Stevens Tho Hoy bad sunk and Mc r Nally had to dive for him Ho saved j seven lives In 1885 Ho once engaged In a novel match t with an English I swimmer who one day t I nt Crescent Reach announced that the 4t Americans wcro no good at the gameSome 5 I game-Some of McNAllya friends who had heard tho boast said they had a man they would match against him for JSO or 01 much more as ho would like to strip for A Iloston saloonkeeper who was known some time back for his liking for everything English furnished the money for the man from the other side and a match was made i for 1100 The condition were that tho I I men should swim straight out to sea no boats to follow and tbo first to turn back to bo the loser There was a tremendous tre-mendous crowd at the beach and those who know McNallyi makeup placed their money on him McNally net the pace and a lively one It was The men were very close together and nothing a was Raid until about three miles out t when the Englishman who was falling t behind said I 1 01 say Pete Well what Is I It Where th1 bloody ell yer gain ot Liverpool Well bllmo me but yer can keep on elm gala back 9 Ieter loafed on me return aad the Kngllsh swimmer had only this excuse 01 tees up against a bloom por I poll ed stay In the water a week I I |