New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-19
HEROES ARE REWARDED
Medals. Cash and Pensions Be-
slowed by Carnegie.
NOVEL FEATS OF BRAVERY
Heroism of Many Kinds Compen-
stated in Distribution of Fund
Children Remembered.

Pittsburgh, oct 1S.-Forty-seve bronze
and twelve silver medals were awarded by
tho Carnegie Hero Fund Commission at It's
fall meeting here to-day as a recognition
or beroism i'm saving human life or i'm at
tempts i'm which the life ~ the hero was
ieopardizcd Cash awards were made for
reinhursing loss, for relieving debt on
homes ami the purchase of homes, and for
educational and other worthy purposes.
amounting 10 $3.50 Pensions 20 sur
yivors agere=atng S$15 monthly were also
issued. aud to children left without parents
s. month was awarded each, to the
amount Of go monthly.
or tho rcscucs. one of the most novel
is that Of saving a man from a wild ami
NAL 90 the others. thirty are from drown
ing. five from fire. two from runawa'
teams. three from trains. sixteen from suf-
location in mine. sewer or we'll and one
each from an impending 'all and machinerv
Thirteen of The heroes lost their lives IN
the rescue work
Tie principal awards. briefly smmar-
lied, follow.
Charles z Lontiuo. silver medal and
=. 000 toward Indebtedness. Saved 70 nUm
ber OF women from fire IN New York, Orf.
=. 1905
Irving c. ParsIiug. deceased. bronze
medal to his sister. who lives ~ No '4i
East 18th street. New York. Died attempt
ing TO save Bessie Drake from drowning
Lewis A.. Spinner bronze medal and
5000 for educational purposes. Spinner,
aged ten. attempted 10 save companion
from drowning at Lockport, y. Y Jan. 80
1911
Walter T. Baker. bronze medal and [2,VC
for education Saved two girls from
drowning at Long Lake. y. -. JHly ~
1908
Alexander i. Bonner, bronze modal. $50
disabloment benefits and $1,000 :oW1rd pir'
chase Of home. Seriously mart by cdi'al r
man who fell ont Of window az Phl'lR'''
Howard T. Davis. bronze medal and Si.2'.
toward purchase Of nome. l5l@iN vullr''
rescuing child from fire al West haven
Conn March y. 1911 $500,
for purchase OF farm. Snyder. AGED MY
one "a farm foreman, rescued HhaGH lthur-
man aged siXty-nine. from nrTC' olson
at SchenckSvillc. Penn, March ., l'lI IN"
infIrfatpd animal was attacking liau-'hon
when SNYDER. al risk OF HE. apDrol'h'''
and threw his ovorcoat around lhe DisoH
head. Then both reached sa-e,t.
Charles =. Foster, bronze Me"'' 49,
S1.ulO Saved boy from drowning IL Sl'i
rim y Y. Jan. ~. 1911 .,
Anna r. sutton. bronze medal and 81 600.
Saved young woman from droWn.hS ei M
pies. y. y. Aug. @. lS.r ..-,
Cirlo Achilles bronze medal ATTEMPTED
10 save man from drowning at Tribes ii.iI'
y y. Dec. l., 1910.
4 rooortor got Charles r. Lentno out Of
bed last night 10 tel him that he had won
a silver medal and 5000 for saving ten
lives in tho four-story tenement blaze at
M r. Mulberry street Zoo the carly morn
ing Of October =. 1905. The hero is a
number. at 80 l26 Baxter street. thirty
years old and has wife and little girl
He couldn't say much for a minute or So.
10 is more than year now since MS
friends heard anything from tH" Carnegie
Commission. and Leutino had almost for
gotten about it,
The Irish Social club had been giving n
social IN White street the night before th"
fire. and Lentiuo and some Of his young
friends were bound for Chinatown after
midnight in quest NJ "A chop suey. As they
turned from Hester into Mulberry street
Icutino saw smoke coming from the hall
way at 40. Il. and stopped 10 investigate.
His friends moved on. Lentiuo found that
a lot Of barrels IN the hallway were on
fire and TO rushed up % the second floor
and kicked down the first door ne came 70
and fell inside. lie came out with Maria
Sharo. fourteen years old. i'm his arms.
To suatched her from her bedroom choked
with smoke. Iu running down stairs his
coat caught fire.
- do
when he started back by the front fire es-
cape This time he dragged the mother AMI
father Of the girl out while his compau-
ions We're turning in the alarm. Before the
engines arrived Lentiuo had awakened
seven Of the Garlic family on the third
floor and got them I'm safety 10 the fire es-
canes. The little children were droppe ]
out Of ,he low windows and caught by men
on the sidewalk.
Before daybreak the dramen and police
had removed thirteen bodies from the
ruins. The fire marshals investigation
showed that the blaze was of incendiary
origin. About d year after t.e fire Mich
olas Ferranti. Of 30. 1888 Holland avenue.
The Bronx. one of Lentino's companions
VINO helped catch the falling children.
began making application to the Carnegie
commission for a medal FOR Lentino.
irving g. Paulding. an electrical en-
rineor. OF so J46 Fifth avenue, was with A
sailing party on Pinks Pond. near Pous B.
keepsie. ON August .. 1910. when sudden
soYall upset the craft. and Miss Bessi
Drake. eighteen years old Of New Ham
hurg y. T.. went down. Paulding reached
her side. but was drawn under twice by
bor struggles. Two were drowned, but
paulding managed 90 save Miss Drake.