The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1912-04-19
THE CARNEGIE HERO COMMITS
SION


Mr. Andrew Carnegie established
the Carnegie hero commission in 1904.
1t was established for the purpose of
rewarding and stimulating acts of he
roism. Since it's creation the commits
sion has granted $50 awards, refused
6OS4, and there are now pending be-
fore it 1859. 1t has awarded Is gold
medals, 227 silver medals and 343
bronze medals It's pecuniary awards
have amounted to S854,S1S96, as fol-
lows: To heroes and their depend
ants, including pension payments,
S5O5. 256.90; to funds for relief of suf-
ferers from disasters, $149, 462.06; to
special purposes. S200,000.00. Mr..
Carnegie has also authorized to be
given to the Carnegie Institute, Pitts
burg, Pa, $20O,O00.00.
Since the creation of the Carnegie
hero fund in the United States, SINH
lar funds have been established by
the great philanthropist in Great
Britain and Ireland, France, Germany,
Belgium, Netherlands, Sweden, Switz-
erland, Italy, Norway and Denmark.
The hero commission has awarded
to Floridians for acts of heroism
three bronze and two silver medals,
as follows:
Bronze Medal-Ralph F. Berlin,
aged twenty-five, lumber inspector,
saved Samuel Koch, aged thirty-two,
Rabbi, and Jennie Levy, aged twenty
six, from drowning, Santa Rosa Is
land, Fla, June q, 1906. Berlin jump
ed from a dock, from which the two
had fallen, in the darkness, into Pen
sacola Bay, and, catching hold of the
rabbi, with Miss Levy clinging to
him. swan with them to nearby
launch.
Silver Medal-Amila G. Cone, aged
sixty-one, housewife, attempted to
save Evaline Smith (colored), aged
five months, from burning, Raleigh,
Fla, May 5, 1908. Rushing into a
burning cottage, through dense
smoke, to the second room from the
outside door, while embers from the
roof dropped about her, Mrs. Cone
rolled the baby from blazing bed
into the front of her Bingham skirt
and carried it outside, sustaining Sc
we're burns of the hands. The baby
died.
Silver Medal-George A. Lowry,
aged fifty-two, inventor, attempted to
save Annie L. Pollard, aged thirty
seven, from drowning, Pablo Beach,
Fla, August %, 1908. Lowry, in
weakened condition resulting from
sickness, swan out three hundred
feet into the Atlantic ocean to the
unconscious woman who was drifting
seaward, and returned, pushing her
ahead of him, to within one hundred
and fifty feet of shore, when others
gave assistance. Mrs. Pollard died
Lowry was confined to his bed for
week.
Bronze Medal-Thomas L. Marquis,
Jr., aged nineteen, student, died at
tempting to save Myrtle Lewis, aged
eighteen, from drowning, Barlow,
Fla, July 1, 1910. Marquis, in dark
ness, jumped from launch in Crook
ed Lake to the assistant of Miss Lew
is, who, while in the water, had lost
her hold ON the launch and was drift
ing away. Marquis and Miss Lewis
were seen side by side, but soon sank
in water forty feet deep and were
drowned. When their bodies were re-
covered, Miss Lewis hair was down
and her side-comb was found wedged
in Marquis belt.
Bronze Medal and $500 for Educa-
tional Purposes, as Needed-Leon
Harris, aged fifteen, student, saved
Bernard q. Johnson, aged ten, from
drowning, Pensacola, Fla, May 30,
1905. Harris jumped from moving
sailboat into Pensacola Bay, and
swan about sixty feet to Johnson,
who had fallen from another boat,
and supported him until both were
picked up.
Mr.. Carnegie is, beyond all doubt,
the most princely philanthropist the
world has ever known, and his bene-
factions run along the most humane
and beneficent lines.