The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-05-26
CARNEGIE BOARD
AWARDS MEDALS |. \
First Distribution From Fund
to Reward Heroic
Work.
WIDOWS Of MEN Il: GET HELP !: Il: !
Only Nine Cases Favorably Con-
sidcrcd Out Of 248The
u 1t sss Awards.
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(specinl to The Times toh) }5s
@ PlTrsB URG, PA, May 25. The Car
nogie Hero Commission, founded BY Ans
I drew Carnegie, with IN endowment OF
S. o,Goo, in April, 1ooi,t made It's fret.
awards Yesterday. or tho twenty mcni-
bers OF the commission, fifteen were
present.
Nine persons were granted medals, three
receiving silver bnes and the FIJI others
|bronzc. Three widows, whose husbands
lost their lives whilo performing heroic
actions, were given financial assistance.
one young woman receiving money for
educational Z and $1,000 we, Wss
m 4 shoe fncotry In 13rookton. Mass.
The total Of money awards wes $i2o
this number, ESQ have been refused. after
in tie scope Of the fund, 1s9 still await
granted II f IA
Sorneio the Awards. 5
Agnes strobel, d German servant, nine
teen years old, in n tit Of despondcncy,
dumped into the water at ELLIS Island
on May 49, 1901. She was carried away
rapidly by tho current. She had been
ali Innate Of the hospital, being held to
IiDe3 deported to Germany. John y. Henly,
a hospital attendant jumped into the
drowning girl, and, despite her efforts to
lprevent him, carried her safely to shore.
The commissioner awarded Healy a
August aies Rolke, tailor. Of Brooklyn.
jumped into the ocean from the Iron
Pier at conev1sland on. August 10, last
Xsa5 9a h3y hssfs SYes
man., grasped him by his clothes and
swan to ono Of the large piles which
support the PIER, e !, hed.Rolkes hehd
men in boat
IT was the opinion Of the eye-wltnes;s;es
| Of this rescue that Riley risked his life
tended to commit suicide, and tho sea
was very trea her GUS at t he e point where r,
1.-THE rescue was effected Riley received
Louis a, Bauman, Jr. seventeen years
old.ofa Rod, Pa was nwarded "a bronze
jumpod from a spring board into tho
| pond and cried for help. gauman dyed
three times for Steylck,3 ca CHI time having
to fight the lad, and finally dragged him
Lavlnia steele Iowa city, Iowa. was
awarded j, !, bronze medal, George /. %
| In December. The ice broke under Hill.
Miss Steele obtained a pole, skated out
@ W b, the ice ndeT NED
& - 'As'NA @
\ the. pole
Thoas i s MsGsnn Of f. PGrtana MIA
connecting Portland and South Port.
land. Mccain directed some boys 10
bring boat around to HIM ana dyed
around McCann's neck. Mccain swa M
With him TO the end OF a pier. The boat
reached him and the boys took sekowsky,
and drowned. Mrs. Cora 3. AIcCann.
his widow, received q bronze medal and
$500 to pay an encumbrance on her home.
Others Rewarded.
Gideon King Marshall, a carpenter. of
Springdale, Pa, lost his life BY going
/ a laborer, who had been overcome by
gas, and Tcrnand Pilette. a glass worker.
i who had tried to save him His widow
mortgage on her home.
Alexander Cameron, painter. Of On
boy, fall into the scugg River. Cameron
jumped in, caught the boy, and swan to
sho re, He was awarded silver medal
his life on July 4. during a regatta on
the Merrlmac River, at Lawrence, Mass.
Mary Genevleve Kane and Evelyn Bliss.
ae9 Y e o aMsp G hsghton hyiH
d PolicemanJ. y. Hart. ran down tho bank,
and held held their hands in the whirl-
POOL atteinpiln TO reach tho canoe
holding the body of ono of the girls.
4 Leighton.w was drowned His widow re-
1 celyed a bronze medal and 5000.
Miss Ernesttne p Atwood, student,
Of aMelrose, Mass, was bathing at North
4 Quincy. Mass, became exhausted while
swimming toward q float and sank
4 three times. Miss Atwood dlyed for
him, caught hold Of him and swan to
p the surface with his unconscious body.
4 She was awarded $500 for cduca tiona pur-
4 poses. and a silver medal. She also re-
Geived a medal from the Massachusetts
q Humane Society.
a "A cablegraln was sent to Mr.. Carnegie
yesterday by the commission, telling him
4 tails would .be sent to him by mail.