Show BOY SCOUT HERO OF TENEMENT FIRE risks his life to save two children brooklyn N Y meager details secured e with d difficulty from a modest hero bero who nho rescued two persons persona from a burning house were rounded out from accounts of three witnesses and their descriptions of the lads courageous work when scout salvatore Glan gianquinto quinto of brooklyn N Y one evening discovered a fire had broken out in the tenement house in which he be lives he be rushed to the nearest alarm box and turned in the alarm quickly returning to the house he found the flames had gained great headway in the upper part of the building the streets nearby were in a turmoil the people of the tenement horror borror stricken and hastening to get out of the burning dwelling the scout hurrying to the front door saw a tenant of the fifth floor coming down with a baby in her arms and screaming that her two other children were still in the rooms Glan gianquinto quinto rushed up the stairs and soon returned with one child again risking his life be ran up to the top floor which by this time was fully ablaze and brought down the other child just as the first engine arrived at the ilie fire the building was a total loss so reticent was the scout about speaking of his part in the rescue that it was over a month before the scoutmaster of troop heard through an outside source of the boys work when questioned the boy stated oh it anything |