Show IHlA VEllY REWARDED michul brady of the new york fire do D pirt part ment win wins the bernott medil yew york sun the man whom the fire commissioners named on SA last as the winner ili of the bennett medal for 1886 for bravery in in raving life is is michael brady ot of engino engine 34 first grado grade fireman lie ile ie is an irishman b birth but c came a m e to this thid country when hen lie was very young after being educated od in our public schools w bools lie became a and followed this calling until oct 16 1873 m when lien ho lie was appointed a fi fireman reman ile has served with four different engine companies and vt with ith one hook and ladder co company iio 10 followed a truck for atwon avio years a and then at his own on request was trane trans berred again to the ilia angino service lie has been with engine I 1 asino jl 34 tor for two years eare in appearance mr brody brady is i tall and slender of a well kult knit and muscular build pleasing f face are etc clear ar direct diw t ee eye and bandy randy hair and ana munis tache I 1 lie ie 40 years of age though lie seems ten years atre younger the achievement which of all bradys daring feats p particularly recommended him as the recipient of the tredal was the tile sugg g of the tile lia life of gustat gustav set Sili Authaler on december Decon ber 22 1836 the engine had fund juet jua returned from a midnight fire and the men were barely asleep when hen they ft called to the tile buram of a tenement at no 0 o 2 west thirty ti 11 rd street it mas about eix six 0 c k in the morning brada engine arrived airston the ho lie was aa driving and before lie e ilia the hydrant lie bailit sight of a man hanging by lua ilia arma arms from a window on the fourth floor dense smoke was 9 from the tile window and a eliotte I 1 docta O 0 of aarin ff flame m e enveloped the upper frame fraine wook ook N 0 ladder company had yet arrived tim owing the reins reins into the hands of another brady leaped from hie his scat seat and ran for the ho hae n carnage carriage which was just approaching lie ile seized a 14 foot scaling acalin ec alin ladder from the side of 0 the tender and made for tho the building 1 the he ladder was a single stick of wood with nith russ cross bare bars and a hook of iron at one end fixing fixin tins title hook in the tile of the ural first story window he lie mounted broke in the window with his hard rubber hat h it threw a leg leac across roee the tile full sill to support himself huns cit rained raised the 10 ladder to the story mounted it agin aaen supported up arted himself by one log while b he MIMI hooked the tile ladder in in the tile L atory above and so climbed up the he N er on uco of the iba building till he ile cou could I 1 tt throw row ill his s arms about lie the frightened and nearly suffocated inan lie descended deec ended aa lie he had gone up caff caffell tho the olat inanimate nin mait A bm arod below greeted tile last applause step with a tremendous burst qt 0 brady also himself 1 at the belt line car stabled eta die fire lifting ur unaided aided a whole family of fl tt ra ono one by onto oneto the roof af if their b I 1 shanty et anty and lou lowering tring them to the i street on A the other eide ho ile ie is a member of the exhibition cl clasa ass a COT corps 0 of f twenty two of tho the best beat editn ta ers 0 ot the city who dhow show distinguished greats I 1 what hat new york firemen can do with the acaling scaling ladder I 1 I 1 I 1 1 lok r e |