The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1901-05-03
LIVES SAVED BY CHILDREN.
Deeds of HerOism Performed by Cool
Headed and Brave Hearted
Girls and 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 re-
| 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 a
northerly gale and heavy sea to a
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 a
previous occasion she stood in snow
six hours helping the life-sayers work
| the whipline of the beach apparatus.
Edith Clarke, when 16 years old,
and a pupil in convent of Oakland,
| CAL, plunged into Lake Chabot to res
cue 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 boat came to the
| rescue.
"Marie D. Parsons, of Fireplace,
Long Island, N. Y, was only ten years
old when, seeing man and a child
swept off 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 a 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 a
southwest gale and heavy sea. In
furious squat, which added impe-
tus to the gale, yawl containing
three men and 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 Whiteley, 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 a woman. Hen
ry 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 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, Md, showed he had cool
head as well as brave heart by the
rescue of his companion who had
stepped from shallow water into a
deep hole. When William seized the
drowning lad, the latter began to
struggle, and it was q toss-up wheth-
er Williams life would be sacrificed
or not. But, with great adroitness,
he, while swimming, lifted the strug-
Cling boy to tree trunk which pro-
truded into the river, and thus saved
both his companions life and his
own.
When the 0. NJ. Bond, of Oswego,
was stranded an eighth of mile out
from Rondeau, Ont, and the crew was
hanging, half persisted, 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
eNertions 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 The
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 oul
coast?