The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1901-05-03
LIVES SAVED BY CHILDREN.

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DEEDS Of Heroisn Perfor1nel ~ CSs1
Headed ana Brave Hearted
Girls ana Boys. ~
In . paper in st. Nicholas, On "Life'
Savers, Old and Young Gustav
Kobbe tells Of the remarkable doings
Of half dozen young boys and girls.
among those not connected with
the government service who have 70
ceived medals for saving or aiding
to save life are number much young.
er than the average age Of this stu.
dent crew. One of the first girls thus
honored was Edith Morgan, Of Ham
lin, Mich, who endeavored with her
father and brothers to row in Q
northerly gale and heavy sea to .
vessel capsized three miles out. When
the boat was forced back, Edith aid
ed in clearing a track through logs
and driftwood for the surfboat, which
had meanwhile been summoned, and
also helped launch the boat. On
previous occasion she stood in snow
six hours helping the Hfe-savers work
the whipline of the beach apparatus.
edith Clarke, when 16 years old,
and a pupil in a convent of Oakland,
CAL, plunged into Lake Chabot to res
cue q companion who, in wading on
the treacherous margin, had disap'
peared in 60 feet of water. Edith
seized the unconscious girl, and, keep
ing her head above water with one
arm, padded with the other, and
trod water until q boat came to the
rescue.
"Marie D, Parsons, Of Fireplace,
Long Island, N. Y, was only ten years
old when, seeing a man and child
swept of pleasure boat by the
boom, and observing that the child
chung to the man so that the latter
could make no Roadway, she sprang
into q small boat and reached the
spot just in time to save these two
lives.
"Maud King, when only 10 years
old, saved three lives off Castle Pick
ney, the lighthouse depot in Charles
ton harbor. At the time there was
southwest gale and heavy sea. In
a furious squall, which added impe-
tus to the gale, yawl containing
three men and a boy was capsized.
The boy managed to swim ashore;
but two men got only as far as the
piles of the wharf. There they hung,
too exhausted to climb up, while the
third man, unable to swim, chung to
the yawl. Maud, notwithstanding her
mothers protests, prepared, unaided,
to launch a small boat in the bolster
Gus sea. But she was joined by her
aunt, Mrs. Mary Whitley, and, togeth-
er, this brave girl and her aunt rescued
the imperiled men.
Frederick Kernochan, when only
ten years old, sprang into the Nave
sink river and rescued woman. Hem
~ F. Page, of Schenevus, N. Y, is
also one of the lads who at ten years
of age have been honored with life.
saving medals. Fully dressed, he
plunged into q mill pond and saved
| one of his playmates who had sud-
denly found himself in deep water.
William B. Miller, 10 years old, Of
Elkton. Nd, showed he had cool
head as we'll as a brave heart by the
rescue of his companion who had
stepped from shallow water into q
deep hole. When William seized the
drowning lad, the latter began to
| struggle, and it was toss-up wheth-
| er Williams life would be sacrificed
or not. But, with great adroitness.
he, while swimming, lifted the strug-
Cling boy to a tree trunk which pro-
| truded into the river, and thus saved
| both his companions life and his
own.
When the o. NJ. Bond, Of Oswego,
was stranded an eighth of mile out
from Rondeau, Ont, and the crew was
hanging, half perished, in the rigging,
Walter Claus, lad who lived upon a
farm not far away, made four trips
out to the wreck through the raging
sea in a small boat, and by his own
exertions saved the entire crew.
These young rescuers were inspired
by the noble impulse to risk their
lives for the lives of others. Their
exploits awaken not only the graft.
tude of those whom they saved, but
the admiration of all to whom knowl'
edge of their heroism may come. Tho
age of chivalry has by no means gone
by; for what can be more truly
chivalrous than the deeds Of these
young heroes and heroines of our
coast?
Origin Of Blanket.
'Now an enterprising burgess OF
Bristol began to introduce into Bris'
toll new manufacture, which eventu.
ally gave him q name and immortal
lied his fame. Thomas, henceforth