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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-10-17
ARMY AND NAVY t1EROES-tOW THEY WON THEIR MI

Ten officers of the army and navy of
the United States are the posscssorS of
gold and silver medals, bestowed upon
them by the government IN recognition
Of extraordinary heroism In the saving
Of people from death by drowning,
These aro tho hardest earned, and there
fore the most highly priced, Of all
decorations given by the nation. In
every instance the degree Of daring
exhibited must have been altogether out
of the ordinary, The act of heroiSm
must haTo been attended with great
risk TO the life of the rescuer. This
is demanded as a condition for the
award of even u silver medal; but.
where gold one is given, the deed
must have been Of the highest order
Of bravery.
Of such character was the act Of
Ensign buclen \ ouug (now captain in
tho navy), who. IN 1878. was young
stcr on board of the Sloop. p.of-war Huron.
On the night of November 25 in that
yoar, the weather being very foul the
vessel, while running down the Atlantic
coast toward Norfolk. was wrecked on
Cape Hatteras. She struck and went
ashore in the midst of bowling gale.
As she lay OFF the beach, kccled over
and Hooded by furious seas, IL became
evident that the only chance left 10
tho survivors, clugiug already half.
dead To the shattered wreck. was 10
get line from the ship 10 tho shore.
Already uany of the crew aud several
of the officers had been swept away
and drowned
In this dreadful emergency Ensign
loung and n seaman named Antoine
Williams undertook 10 carry line
ashore. II proved too short. But they,
after frighttul struggle with the
surf, gained the land, and at once.
though exhausted and wounded and bat
Tered by fragments of wreckage cncoun,
tered while swimming, fell 60 the work
~ hauling some of their comrades out
of the. breakers. In this wav thcv
saved four.
Shoeless, and with legs bruised and
cur, Young then ran along the beach
Tor a distance Of three miles 10 =
closed Iitc saving station. Having
broken the door in, no secured rnpeg
ana other apparatus for the relief Of
ms shlpmates, and, returning with thcm
10 the scene of the disaster. rescurd
u number, He received a gold medal
from the government-a token Of roc.
ognltion especially appropriate. for tho
reason that already on two previous oc.
casions be had saved lives at. sea.
In its way, the deed of another
Sonng naval officer. Ensign Lowell X.
reynolds, who likewise holds y GOLD
.nedai was quite as remarkable. On
me 2+th day of November. 1879. tbc
Hlted States frigate Constitution was
Elne under elose-rce
l sails I'm iLa
1lc-nlIy ot the Azores. in a storm
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ashore. Both were apparently dead,
but were rcsuscitatcd.
Captain William \. Blow. .Jr., oh
tanned n silver medal for rcscuiDg a
man who had been capslZed III a boat
in rough sea. about a mile from Fort
sheridan, III, This happened on the
tenth day of October, 1891. Blow, at
that time a IIeutcuant. saw the man
clinging TO the boat off shore. Pro.
curing a slHtf, which was so leaky
that ii could hardly be kept afloat he
managed with much difficulty 10 reach
tho poor fellow and. getting him
aboard. at utmost peril of his own life,
succeeded in fetching him to land.
Another army officer. Captain God
frey II. Macdonald. was first lieu.
tenant Of cavalry in 1892, when. Oh the
night of the fourteenth day Of August,
he l"aPed from the ferrvboat Atlantic
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J7sS and another in 1890. which for
some time ran as regular passenger
boat between Philadelphia and Bur
iln9ton, with q speed of eight miles
an hour. But poor Fitch had been
born under an unIucky star. First he
had been abused by brutal father
and brother, aud then had come the
heartbreaks of an unfortunate mar
7iage, a long period of wandering and
remorse, the sufferings at Valley Forge
and the loss Of his money in "A venture
ending IN an Indian massacre.
Tho state of New York had granted
him the sole and exclusive right TO
navigate its waters oy steam twenty
two years before Fulton had produced
his Clcrmont, and four other states bad
done likewise, while he held also the
exclusive right 10 thus navigate the
Mississippi and Ohio rivers. His PhIIa
delphia venture having been successful
nc had finished the Perseverance for
freight and passenger service on the
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BIG CONTROVERSIES LIKE THE PEARY- COOK HAVE
BEEN OPENED By OUR EVERY EPOCH MAKER

Mississippi. and this was about to bc
delivered when his unlucky star shone
forth again, for there blew up n storm
which so damaged the new craft that
1T could not be made available before
the expiration of the default clause of
his patent. Next he went TO France.
but, arriving i'm the midst of the revo,
eeilons with the American consul at
l. Orient.
Fitch Driven to Suicide.
After several months in London he
turned up again in France 30 penpiless
that he had to work his passage back
60 America as common sailor. Tnen
ne made his way TO some property
whlch he had III Kentucky. only 10 find
II IN the possession of others: but still
undaunted, he went TO New York and
IN 1906 operated. on the Collect pond,
IN the metropolis. steamboat made
out of ships Yawl. Two wears later
he committed suicide III Bardstown, Ky.
According 10 this unhappy man s
partisans, our consul Mt L'Orient. with
whom Fitch, left his plans and spccifi.
cations during his visit to London.
loaned these drawings and papers TO
Robert Fulton. then in Paris, and Full
ton kept them for several months. But
further misfortune rendered il i'm.
possible for Fitch s friends to fight
for his rights. The original patent
which the United states government
granted him for his steamboat invcn.
tion in l79l was DESTROYED by u fire.
Fuss Over Telegraph Honors.
Then came the controversy over tho
invention of Itbc telegraph Morse.
who got the popular credit for the dis
covcry, was constantly reminded that
Joseph Henry (aftcrward head Of tho
Smithsonian Institution bad teIc.
graphcd through Il mile of wire six
years before. \ more troublesome rival
set up against Morse BY his critics
however, was Alfred Vail. a Jersey
man. who. after determining to become
Il Presbyterian parson, had fallen IN
with Morse and become his partner
Nall devoted. many of the practical
parts of the first telegraph system. that
between Baltimore and Washiug;o on.
and it was claimed for him that he
invented tho finger KEY aud the prnc
heal Improvements in the original
Morse Instruments that became valuable
i'm commercial tclegraphy; also that the
essential features Of the telegraph were
solely the work of Professor Henry and
Vail together, those invented by Morse
having been eliminated. ii was fur
ther held that but for the partnership
might easily have set up claims That
would have upset the validity of
Morse S patents. Thus, while Morse
for wears was ENJOYING the glory for
having invented thc telegraph, Vail =
friends always fostcrcd resentment
over what they considered the neglect
Of their modest hero.
Bell-Drawbaugh Telephone War
Better remembered is the Bell Draw
baugh controversy over the invention
of the telephone Alexander Graham
Boil, hailed everywhere as tho inventor.
had for some years been rcapipg the
profits of the invention when there
intmdcd upon tho stage of events a
Pennsylvania mechanic. Daniel Draw.
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seaboard eventually covered by our
thirteen original states. This discovery
by Verrazano was thus made eighty
five years before that of Hudson. On
his return to Franco he wrote of his
report to the emperor, July s of tho
same year. after which he was. like
Hudson, swallowed up in mystery, One
account has it that during subsc
quent voyage of exploration he was
killed by Indians in Newfoundland,
while according to another he was cap.
tured on the southern coast of Spain
and executed as privateer at Pico,
where he was known as Juan Florln
The Verrazano Hudson controversy
has been wagcd with bitterness even
within recent years, and number Of
learned gentlemen have pitched into
tho fracas, giving one shell of the oys-
ter 10 Nerrazano, the other shell TO
Hudson. and the meat TO Esteban Go
me2, the Portuguese pilot who after
descrting Magellan iu the straits off
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coverer of Manhattan island, there are
many historians who seriously dispute
his claim TO this honor. If an alleged
report which Giovanni dc Verraznno
made 10 his royal patron. Francis /. OF
France, is true-and IL is now com
monty believed authentic-the isle now
containing the American metropolis
should have celebrated it's tercenten-
nial in 1924 instead OF IN this year Of
our Lord. According 10 that report
this Nerfanzano-who like Columbus.
Amerigo. and perhaps Cabot, was an
Italian by birth-sailed north along
the mainland of North America. from
Cape Hatteras 20 Newfoundland. and
in the spring of 1924 entered the bay
of New York. This letter gives The
earliest descriptions OF any part of the
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which had already lasted nearly
week. Not long after daybreak her
lookout discovered, six miles TO the
west, a vessel which aftcrward proved
10 be the Austrian bark Olivo, Her
colors were At half-mast, and she was
flying a signal for immediate assist
ance. The frigate approached az near
as she safely could, and hove TO, there
upon lowering small whalcboat,
which. with six men and young Rey.
nolds I'm command, got clear with much
difficulty and danger. They found the
bark leaking. her rudder gone, and
her crew worn out by -days' labor
at the pumps. IL WAS not pOss bic TO
board her, but four mon werc rescued
by skllltul management, tho boat lying
under her lee quarter and picking up
tho poor fellows after they had jumped
overheard, They were safely delivered
on the frigate 10y means Of life lines,
and Reynolds then went back again
to the bark, picking up five more of
! the clght men remaining.
All of this took a great deal of time.
and darkness began 10 fall. To mako
another trip seemed foolhardy, but
Reynolds insisted upon doing so, be-
cause he feared the bark might break
up or sink during the night. He took
the three remaining men off, and then,
wishing TO destroy the vessel, lest she
become danger 10 navigation, swan
70 her and set her on fire in two places
| Then he swan back TO the boat. and
returned TO the Constitution, two hours
after nlghtfall.
The perlOus adventure closed with
hosting the boat full Of men to tho
quaret dayItS. Just as, hooked 10 the
falls. n left the water, il was dashed
against the frgate'S side and stove
| fore aud aft nearly throwing all hands
into the ocean. The brave Young OIL
! cor came within IN acc of being
! crushed between tho boat and the ship,
hut was hauled tn safety Just i'm time,
| everybody being safe aboard minute
later.
Mai. Alfred NJ. Palmer. L. s. A., was
only n second lieutenant in 1873. when,
! being stationed mt Angel island in San
| Francisco bay, he performed the act
of hcroism which won him A silver
medal from the government \ private
soldier, Austin Grady, with his little
son. Benjamin. was fishing from n
/ wharf on tho island. he date being
! August IN, when the boy fell over
| board. The father. though unable 10
swim, jumped after him. and both were
! swept out by the strong tide Palmer,
! though some hundreds Of Yards away.
/ learned what had happened. and has,
! tened 10 the scene, throwing of his
/ coat as he raT, Icaping into the wa.
! ter. he grabbed the struggling soldier
and boy, and, after desperate efforts
managed TO push them into shoal wa
! ter. Whercupon be threw his arms
J around them aud literally lugged them
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baugh, bearing with him a crude tele-
phone consisting of glass tumbler. a
tin can and other contraptions elee.
trically connected. With this con
trivnnce Drawbauch claimed TO have
carried on conversation over several
hundred feet of wire about 1872. be-
fore the date of Bell s patent. The
mechanic brought suit and brought a
score Of persons into court To testify
that they had either heard OF their
nelghbOr : telephone or had actually
used II within the period claimed.
Moreover. it was demonstrated in court
that speech could readily be transmitted
through the apparatus. although only
in AN imperfect WAY. Drawhauch
claimed TO have been too poor at the
time 10 take ont the necessary patents.
but Bell showed that his would be rival
had raised the funds 10 apply for pat.
cnts OF later devices far less important
and that he had been in commuuica.
ton during these wears with men who
would have gladly advanced the money
TO complete nm invention of such great
promise. The case hung on for several
years, bat was finally won by Pro
fcssor Bell
Then Elisha GRAY, the inventor OF
the tcIautograph and Of many other
wonderful things. brought suit against
Professor Bell. claiming that the latter
had, bv accident, or fraud. derived n
knowledge of what was contained In n
caveat filed by GRAY before Bell had
applied for his first patent GRAY
charged that an examiner at the patcn.
office had Leaked ard told Bell
whai GRAY was doing and how he did
II. l:uf Professor Bell finally won this
cnsr IN ISSs.
some Later Cases.
F'rcshcr siil in the public memory is
the SamLson.Schlev controversy. that
teTTIIc storm whose prcmonitorv rum
hlngs were heard IN congress and
throughout tho land. until it broke upon
the publication of Maclav's s history. -
branding Schlcy us a "caitiff poliroou
and coward, The court uf inquiry
composed Of three men. two Of whom
found Schlcy guilty Of vacciilaiion.
lack of enterprise and disohedence.
but the third of whom-Dewcy bimsclf
praised Schley for promptness aud
efficiency. is we'll remembered. az are
Secretary Long 5 approval Of the ma.
Jorlty report congress s refusal of the
usual vote of thanks 10 sampson, aud
Sampson s death probably from a bro
ken heart
And now. Immediately preceding the
outbreak Of the Pearv. Cook war, we
have the beginning Of the Wright Cur.
lisS controversy over inventions en-
bodied in the most successful aero.
planes now propelled through the air.
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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future. for us 10 go out to the street
corners and shrek our propaganda aJ
the passcrby. We have but 10 plead
our cause without raising our voice 10
those men and women who arc not with
us. We can always assume that they
arc not wilfully ignorant o. what
woman suffrage should mean. We want
them 10 appreciate the fact that
Throughout; this country the strongest
sutfTagiSis are those women who de-
vote their best energies towards the
developing of their children in order
10 make them citizens worthy of our
great country.
'sWe do think that as an organization
we have = right To demand an expires
sion Of opinion from the candidates IL
this coming election We prefer tp
leave politics alone until our sex IS
sharing tho responsibility with the
other sex. ] feel that the main reason
for suffrage is community of interest
between the sexes. 1t is not in any
sense = fight for right. but tho logical
evolution Of justice. The Equal Fran
chise society wishes 10 establish plat
form upon which such speakers IS
Bishop McVicar OF Rhode Island. Mr.
Everett Colby, aud perhaps MIR, Narllu
W. LiftlctoD, will express their belief
in suffrage, and for that reason we have
leased the Garden thcatcr and arranged
our course.
eve wish To enlist that part of the
community, rcga ardless Of Sex or creed,
who will cooperate with ms because
of their LOYALTY to their country, Among
the DIost recent additions to our mem
borship ore such women aS Mrs. Viii
liam Schiefflin. Mrs. Milton Barger,
Mrs. Rudolph Schirmer, Mrs. Archibald
Alexander. Mrs Everett Colby. Mrs.
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Miss Spence, Mrs. Paul Morton. Miss
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Patagonia, undertook some exploration
for the emperor. Charles V. In 1925,
according TO his partisans. this Gomez
made the real discovery of Manhattan
island.
Fulton's Pursuing Nemesis.
Fulton was always pursued by his
Nemesis, the shade of John Fitch, the
Yankee matchmaker, gunsmith. veteran
of Valley Forge, surveyor and inventor.
who, after being branded as insane be-
cause of his proposition 20 build n gov
ernment steamboat. made to the con
tinentai congress in 17SG. had ran n
siXty-ton steamboat ON the Delaware
in 1877, TO the delight of the members
of the constitutional convention. In
deed, Fulton knew that Fitch had
launched still larger steamboat in
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reached him hy swimming, The rescue
being accomplished (to quote the Off.
cial language with cXtrauTdinary
eNcrtion and much danger
On the third dav of January, 1900.
tho government tug ResoIute was sunk
in Boston harbor by collision with an
other tug called the Swartara, Two
of the passengers OH the Resoluie were
very stout lady, weighing over 200
pounds, and Captain (now ColoueD +.
=. Brown, u, :. A. She promptly pro.
cecdcd to drown, but was rescued, with
extraordinary difficulty. by Captain
Brown. who managed To hold her no
until another boat camo along and took
them aboard. A gold medal was be
stowod in recognition Of his hcrolSm.
Ono Of The most popular voung lieu
tenants in the navy is j. Is. Taussig.
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the other tried TO help him. aud both
were on ihc point Of drowning. Mack
all jumped in and saved them.
Following the example Of other ua-
tions, our government occasionally be
slows such medals for life saving Upon
foreigners. But mp 10 date the only
ones who have received them arc Leu
tenant Friedrich Won Abcndroth ana
MidShipmau Heinrich Auckcr Of the
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BY
RENE BACHE

imperial German navy, who. 10 the bar
Dor of New Orleans, January 10, 1907,
'bravelY leaped from the German
SieampShip Stein aud swan 10 tho res
cue Of an apprentice seaman who had
fallen overheard. -
So far as officers of our own army
aud navy are concerned. the ten above.
mentioned are the only ones to whom
such medals have been given.
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in New York harbor. to rescue man
who had fallen overheard. The night
was very dark and the current exceed.
iugly swift, so that tho deed (to quote
the official language Of the letter a.
companying the gold medal afterwards
bcstOwcd) was one of extraordina.~ -
hcroism and daring Happily, it wa.
successful, Macdonald keeping the mat
afloat until a life line could be thrown
On tho evening of January IS, tS93,
man and his wife were crossing the
ice between Jersey City and Bedloe g
island, IN New York harbor. 1t was
nearly dark, and the performance was
more than ordinarily foolish After a
Bit they came 10 IN air holo, and
promptly fell through into the water
Neither could swim. OF course, they
cried for help; and luckily q young
ID. Webster. heard them. With the Mt
own life he managed 20 pull them out
the ice bending and almost giving
way as he crawled over it toward them
One might think that he deserved. n
gold medal, but the one he got WAS OF
silver.
Captain 2, j. Lowe. Jr., was sec
end lieutenant In 1890. when. on the
fourteenth day OF May. be earned sill.
yer medal by helping TO rescue a scout
with whom his command was crossing
the swiftly flowing Pccos river in
Texas. The man fell overheard. and
bad already sunk twice when Lowe
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Morse-Vail War Over the Telegraph
Bell -Drawbaugh Battle Over the
Telephone Sampson -Schley Squab-
BILE, and now Curtiss- Wright Mix. Up
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The Columbus Vespucci Wrangle
Over Our Very Discovery = The
Hudson Verrazano Dispute : Fitch
the Nemesis of Fulton.
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On the second day Of August, in the
same year. gold mcdai-the last
granted by the government up 10 date
was won by Lieutenant Samuel T.
Macltall of the ltb L. :. infantry. 1t
WAS on the island Of Mindanao, in The
Philippines, and two soldiers in Mack
ell s command were attempting TO cross
the Malabang river. One got the cramp,
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Rell-Drawbaugh Telephone War

Better remembered is the Bell Draw
baugh controversy over the invention
of the telephone. Alexander Graham
Boil, hailed everywhere as the inventor.
had for some years been rcapipg the
profits of The invention when there
intrudcd upon tho stage Of events a
Pennsylvania mechanic Daniel Draw.
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In 1902 he was an ensign on board of
one of our warshlps in the harbor of
Yokohama. 1t was the month of April
tho twenty. seventh TO be precise. \
shipmate fell overheard. and he went
after him, saving his life. and thereby
earning u silver medal.
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Local news on last page.
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Council Held No Session.

Holiday time seems to keep even
the alderman busy. It was impos-
slble to secure quorum at the meet
ing last night. Among those in
waiting for council to convene were
Aldermen Smart, Gould, Bisiar and
Shannon, Clerk Ma1oy, City Attor-
ney Gibbons and Special United
States Officer Larson.
The telephone was in constant
use in order to ascertain the
whereabouts OF the missing alder
men. The reports received about
some of them were that they were
out shopping with their wives.
At 9 o'clock a motion was made
by Shannon and seconded by
Smart to adjourn.
A request was made by Special
Officer Larson to wait few minutes
for Chief Knox, who. was sent on
a mission to bring in another
alderman. They waited ten MIN
utes, but no alderman appeared
and then adjourned until s O'Clock
Tuesday evening, December 21st.