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TEN HEROES REWARDED
Seven Men and Three Women Sc.
lected by Carnegie Commission.
New Jersey School Girl Heads the List
All Receive Medals and Some
q Gift of Money.

Pittsburg. Pa.-The Carnegie Hero
Fund Commission met and made the
first awards under the provisions stipu-
lated by Andrew Carnegie in creating
the trust. Ten persons were named as
benefciaries Of the fund. The features
of the initial awards are these:
No beneficiary is pensioned, although
the scheme provides that pensions may
be awarded. One award is for bravery
in a mine disaster. Nine awards are
for heroism on the water. there being
none for bravery at fires. Three women
are honored. one the widow of a hero.
Only one award is in favor of q dead
hero. One man receives a reward be-
cause of the heroiSm Of his wife, who
lost her life.
In gathering the data for the awards
George T. Camp, secretary and special
agent of the commission. travelled 12,-
0OO miles and looked into fifty cases,
forty of which were rejected. The ten
cases suggested to the commission
were passed on unanimously.
The awards were made to persons
and for reasons as follows:
MISS MAUDE TITUS, a high school
| girl. sixteen years old, Of Newark. N.
j., daughter of a practicing physician,
| was awarded q silver medal for life
saving on July 80, 1908. At the risk
of her life she saved her chum, Laura
V. Reifsnyder, of East Orange, N. j..
from drowning. The two girls were
on the yacht Romance, owned by Cap
tain Burgess, Of Boston, and were in
Casco Bay, nea Yarmouth, Me. A
storm forced the party to take to boats.
The n in which were Miss Titus and
Miss Reifsnyder was overturned.
Miss Reifsnyder could not swim, but
Miss Titus brought her safe to shore.
ARTHUR A. ROSS, a hatmaker, Of
Foxboro. Mass, was given a bronze
| medal for displaying great presence of
mind and saving several lives near
his home. Joseph R. Gillis, Nellie A.
Walsh and Mamie T. Walsh were
thrown into a mill pond. Ross secured
a rowboat, which lay bottom up on
the bank, and rushed into the water
with it. He forced ellis to hold
calmly to the die of the boat, s%teadying
it while he pulled Mamie Walsh in by
the hair and then pulled Nellie in.
ellis became excited and upset the
boat, splitting ali out. Ross then had to
reload the entire party in the boat from
water thirty feet deep. He saved all
hands. He is twenty-three years old.
CHARLES CRABBE, Of Copper'S
Landing, Va, is given a bronze medal
and $1,000 to educate his children, be-
cause of the heroism of his wife, Abbie
L., who lost her life in trying to save
a negro boy.
WILLIAM C. BRUNE, aged seven
teen, of Sandusky. Ohio, was awarded
a bronze medal for saving George F.
Pfanner, aged nine, from drowning on
July 8. 1904.
GEORGE F. RUSSELL, twenty-four,
q s%hipbuilder, of Groton, Conn.,, was
awarded a medal for saving the lives
of two boys on Long Island Sound on
July %, 1904. A thirty-mile wind was
blowing and the water was sixty feet
deep. Russell jumped from a small
launch. The boys caught him with the
death hold, but he managed to swim
with them quite a distance, saving
them.
ARTHUR ]. GOTTSCHALK, TWEEN
ty-four, Lancaster, N. Y, was awarded
a medal for saving the life of Mrs.
Joseph Webster, of Detroit, Mich, at
BERTHE. Ontario, on July 6, 1904.
WADE II. PLUMMER, aged fifteen,
of Lamar, S. c.. was given q bronze
medal and 5000 to help in his education,
He is the son Of a poor farmer. On
May Z, 1904, he risked his life to save
a companion from the Lynch River.
MRS. CORA E. DAVIS, of Cleve-
land, Ohio, was awarded a silver medal
and $1,000 to educate her children. Her
husband, David Davis, a miner, lost
his life by going into a mine to save
a fellow-worker overcome by black
damp.
MISS MARGARET CUNNINGHAM,
twenty years old. of Savannah, Ga, a
nurse, was awarded q bronze medal for
saving the life Of Edwin W. Cubbage,
Jr.. of that city, on May &c, 1905: Cub
bage. who was in the ocean. became
exhausted. Miss Cunningham brought
him to shore.
MICHAEL J. DOYLE, thirty-one
years old, a ship laborer of Quebec,
was awarded a silver medal for rescu-
ing Miss Charlotte L. Dekartner from
suicide in the st. Lawrence River. on
April %, 1904. The river was filled
with floating ice. Doyle swan quite
a distance with her, though she fought
him desperately.