The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-17
CARNEGIE HERO FUND.
Ten Awards Made In Various
Parts Of This Country
and Canada.
NEW JERSEY GIRL GETS MEDAL

NEW JEn0EI dinL uE 10 mEDAL
Virginia Man Given $1,000 to Educate
His Children Because Of the Bravery
Of His Wife, Who Lost Her Life
Trying to Save Negro Boy Other
Money Awards.
In Pittsburg on Monday the Carnegie
hero fund commission made public
the result of investigation Of large
number of cases which were supposed
to entitle the participants to recogni-
ton under the hero fund provided by
Andrew Carnegie a few years ago. Ten
awards were made for heroes in wide
ly separated parts Of this country and
Canada as follows:
Miss Maude Titus, high school girl,
sixteen years old, of Newark, N. j.,
daughter Of practicing physician, was
awarded a silver medal for life saving
on July 80, 1908. At the risk Of her
life she saved her chum, Laura v.
Reffsnyder, of East Orange, N. j., from
drowning. The two girls were on the
yacht Romance, owned by Captain
Burgess Of Boston, and were in CARGO
bay near Yarmouth, Me. A storm
forced the party to take to boats. The
one in which were Miss Titus and Miss
Reifsnyder was overturned. Miss Reif
snyder could not swim, but Miss Titus
brought her safe to shore.
Charles Crabbe of Copper's Landing
Va, is given bronze medal and 1000
to educate his children because Of the
heroism Of his wife, Abbie L., who lost
her life in trying to save negro boy.
Arthur A. Ross, hatmaker of Fox
boro, Mass, was given medal for dis
playing great presence Of mind and
saving several lives near his home. Jo-
seph R. Gillis, Nellie A. Welsh and
Mamie T. Welsh were thrown into
mill pond. Ross secured a rowboat,
which lay bottom up on the bank, and
rushed into the water with it. He
forced GiIlis to hold calmly to the die
of the boat, steadying it, while he pull
ed Mamie Welsh in by the hair and
then pulled Nellie in. Gillis became ex-
cited and upset the boat, splitting all
out Ross then had to reload the en-
tire party in the boat from water thirty
feet deep. He saved all hands. He is
twenty three years old.
William G. Bruno, aged seventeen, of
Sandusky, O., was awarded bronze
medal for saving George F. Pfanner
aged nine, from drowning on July 8,
1904.
George f. Russell, twenty-four,
shipbullder of Groton. Conn, was
awarded medal for saving the lives
of two boys on Long Island sound on
July 20, 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 distance, saving
them.
Arthur J. Gottschalk, twenty-four, Of
Lancaster, n. Y, was awarded med
al for saving the life Of Mrs. Joseph
Webster of Detroit at Berthe. Ont, on
July 6, 1904.
Wade H Plummer, aged fifteen, of
Lamar, S. G., is given bronze medal
and 5000 to help in his education. He
is the son of poor farmer On May Z,
1904, he risked his life to save com
panion from the Lynch river.
Mrs. Cora e. Davis of Cleveland was
awarded a silver medal and $1,000 to
educate her children. Her husband,
David Davis, a miner, lost his life by
going into mine to save a fellow
worker overcome by black damp.
Mrs. Margaret Cunningham, twenty
years old, of Savannah, Ga, a nurse,
was awarded a bronze medal for saw
ing the life Of Edwin w. Cubbage, Jr.,
Of that city on May %, 1905. Cubbage.
who was In the ocean, became exhaust
ed Miss Cunningham brought him to
shore.
Michael J, Doyle, thirty-one years
old, ship laborer of Quebec, was
awarded silver medal for resculng
Miss Charlotte L. Dekartner from sui
eide In the st. Lawrence river on April
%, 1904 The river was filed with
floating ice Doyle swan quite dis
lance with her though she fought him
desperately
Son Kills His Father.