Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-04-16
ANDREW cARNEG|E'S
GREATEST GIFT.
crates 3, 900 900 Fund for Benefit
Of Depepdeutsof Those Who Lose
Their Lives Saving Others.
MEDALS ALSO ARE PROVIDED.
ls 10 be Known as the "flero
roud Powers Of Commission
70 Handle Well Defined

p,,.hlrr. April l5.-Andrew Carne-
- created a fund OF $o,OOO,OOO for
hsrs6t "of the dependents OF those
w W. thcir lives in heroic effort TO save
EsiN Yellow men. or for the heroes
lNrsslyes II injured only" Provision
!. siso made for medals 10 be given IN
SSmemoration Of heroic acts.
V ~ endowment Is to be known as the
~ and" and consists OF s5,0ODOUO
.s W collateral per cent bond of the
. gg.p,od states Steel corporation The
p ~ is nlaced in the hands OF COM
uS.ion composed of the following gen.
tenen'
charles /. Taylor. chairman; Edward
" Anderson, Edmund Blackburn, Ed
,'s1S NJ Bigelow Joseph NJ. Duiiing-
m aS william +. Frew, Rev J. Holland,
E t,S, r. Jackson, Thomas Lynch
, gb,res { Mellor, Il. N. Miller, Thomas
Vorrlson Frederick G. Perkins, Robert
1,.sirn n. KIRK Porter, James II.
ia IA Y l. Scaife, william Scott, w.
II Stevenson. +. NJ, Wilmot, secretary
y Tbs commission held its first meet
loo here today and made known the
nroiert The scheme was conceived by
Tt Carnegie immediately after the
garNick mine disaster when he sum
ronsd 10 New York Charles l., Taylor
arSF NJ. Wilmot, manager Of the An
S,sv Carnegie relief fund, TO discuss
s,tb them plans for the relief OF the
,Ssrers nom this catastrophe, On this
ercaslon Mr.. Carnegie announced TO
vsssrs TAYLOR and Wilmot his inten.
,1on Ia endow a fund for heroes, out.
Inca his plans and asked that they
consider the project and write him re-
safdIng H. making such suggestions
ana giving such instructions as might
ocur 10 them. This they did, and on
March IL. iust before his departure for
Europe, NJ. Carnegie forwarded a let
,sr 10 Mr.. Taylor announcing his plan,
,na stating that the certificate OF the
hands had been placed IN his hands.
IN letter to the hero fund commits
dion Mr.. Carnegie outlined the general
shsme Of the fund which, in his own
words Is TO place those following
peaceful yocatlons, who have been In
nred IN heroic effort TO save human
iG in somewhat better positions pc"
dbarily than before. until again able
n work. In case of death, the widow
aud children or other dependents TO be
proylded for-the widow until she Is re.
married.. and the children until they
zach as self-supporting age. For eX'
cptonal children, exceptional grants
nay be made for education. Grants OF
sums Of money may also be made to
heroes or heroines, as the committee
thpks adyisable-each case to be
Judged on It's merits
It is provided that no grant Is to be
continued unless IL be soberly and pro-
prly used and the recipients remain re-
.ptCtable well behaved members of the
community.
A meda shall be given to the hero's
widow or next Of kin which shall re-
cite the heroic deed II commentaries,
The medal shah be given for the
heroic act even IL the doer be unin.
hred. and also sum Of money, should
The commission deem such gift adyis'
abe.
Mr. Carnegie warns the commission
agalnst the danger of interference or
conflict with the pension funds for mu.
nldpal employees that exist In many
GILES, and urges II to act IN harmony
Win such funds. This, as Is the case
Win all the details Of the funds ad.
nlnsiratlon, is left to the commission,
The claims upon the fund for some
years cannot exhaust II. After years,
however pensioners will become more
numerous, Should the commission find,
after allowing literally for this, that a
surplus Will remain, II has power to
gake grants I'm case of accidents (pre-
NaOy Where hero has appeared)
10 those injured.
loreseelng the probability that cities
end employers on this continent Will ul.
uhaley be- placed under similar condi-
NCIs 70 those Of British, German and
oller European states, and required to
provide against accidents 80 the em-
poyes The commission is empowered TO-
" tNo-thirds vote, devote any sur
liuS mat may accrue TO the relief OF
,aoe IN want, caused by no fault Of
,thtr own.
me ned embraced by the fund Is
wy United states and Canada and the
waters thereof The sea is the scene
y many heroic acts" says Mr. Car.
ngles letler and no action Is more
,ast0le than that Of doctors and nurses
numbering their services In the case
I epldemicS Railroad employees are
ImarEble tQr heroism. All these and
flhllar cases are embraced. When
sYer herolsm Is displayed by man or
s 'Ullall N saving. human life, the fund
HE usual provision for reports and
af9uotings Is made, and IL is directed
WAY a. T0ll of the heroes and heroines
p pittsburg ." Wv
loe commission has full power to SELL
NST@t or rtinyest all funds.
loe Wish of the commission Is TO nut
ms beneficial results OF the fund in
Sessuon at the earliest possible mo.