New-York tribune., 1909-05-04
M MEDALS FOR % HEROES
HONOR TWO NEW YORKERS
Carnegie Fund Commission IN
ROunceS 4zcmds an Pittsbmg.

Pittsburg May 3.-The Carnegie Hero Fund Com
mission at its regular quarterly meeting here to-
day made awards TO twenty-three persons in diff
ferent parts of this country, including in
New York City for deeds of heroism considered
since the last meeting. The awards consist of
sixteen bronze and seven silver medals. $4,000 in
cash and annuities amounting to S25 month
Among the awards are the following:
Mrs. Lulu ]. Small, of New York City gets sill
Yer medal On September II, 1907, at Sea Gate.
y. Y, Mrs. Small rescued from drowning
women, one Of whom good swimmer, but
was handicapped by the other who could swim
and had gone beyond her depth. Mrs Small had
rib fractured by kicks from of the women she
rescued
Charles F. Meyer. of New York City gets
bronze medal and 500 for disablement benefits.
On April 5, 1903, Misses Rosalnd and Bessie Nor
IT'S were entangled in the wreckage Of an auto
mobile, which had been struck by a surface car at
Columbus avenue and 18th street and crushed
against pillar of the elevated railway. With
ten-gallon tank of gasoline about to be ignited
Meyer rescued of the girls and was about to
release the other when a Slight explosion hurled
him to the street He rushed back and aided in
the rescue of the other girl just the tank
ploded, completely wrecking the machine.
Frances E. Hail. aged fourteen years, q school
girl of Canandaigua n. Y, gets bronze medal
and 5000 for educational purposes. Miss Hall
saved Miss Nellie Rathbun. of Canandaigua, from
drowning on August 30 1908, after the latter had
entered beyond her depth in Canandaigua Lake.
bronze medal and $500 to liquidate mortgage, for
rescuing Timothy Maloney. aged sixty years, from
drowning after Maloney had been swept over a dam
in Honeoye Creek
Harriet L. O'Connor, of Southampton, Mass.
widow of Patrick O'Conuor, gets silver medal and
SO a month until she remarries, with s. month
additional for each child under sixteen years old
Patrick O'Connor lost his life in attempt to save
two boys who had broken through the ice while
skating He let go his hold on man who had a
rope in order let the the two boys
John Carruthers of West Newton, Penn. gets
bronze medal and SOo to be applied TO the purchase
Of a home Carruthers. who ia a Baltimore & Ohio
engineer, saw a boy of two years crawling across
the track in front Of his train. Leaving the engine
in charge of his fireman, he went through his CAP
window and to the pilot. where he seized the boy'
Sae r. Dillinger, of Pottsville. Penn, wido" OF
Jonathan Diinger. gets a silver medal and 500 4
month until she remarries, with s. a month addi-
ional for her daughter until the latter IS sixteen
years old Jonathan Dillinger on January % l$E'
rushed In front Of a moving train at Pottsto"h'
Penn and showed Mrs. Mary +. Gruf. siXty-nFe
wears old and slightly deaf, from the tracks. bil-
lnger was killed
Elizabeth f. MCGEE. OF Hoskinsvlle. ONO mot'e'
Of Irwin r MCGEE. gets silver medal ~" 10 Iqul-
date a mortgage and s25 a month until she remar-
ries. Irwin r. McGee suffocated in wen
into which he had volunteered TO go when others
refused to rescue Willis L. Leonard. who was over
r,,rcne p. .Heinze. Of Cleveland. captain in the
Salvation Army gets a bronze medal captain
TIeinze rescued Miss Dena NJ. Schmidt also ot 'ne
Salvation Army from drowning at Beu'ah Beach
Lake Erie.
Pierce d. Marsh. Of Weston. W Va, gets SILVER
medal and $1,000 TO pay p mortgage for preventing
a possible wreck on the Baltimore Ohio Railroad
He backed a qassenger train. Of which he was ensl-
neer away from a freight train which had broken
loose at the top Of a grade
The commission also appropriated $4,000 to the
relief fund for the relatives OF the III victims OF
tho two mine explosions at the Lick branch mine
~ the Pocahontas Consolidated Galleries Company
at sW,Itchback. W. Va, on December ~ ISVo' ana
January y. 1909.