The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-24
Prizes
Are Awardeddby the American
Red Cross Society for
Heroic Work.

WASHINGTON, d. C., Aug. ~
Announcement has just been made by
the national headquarters of the
American Red Cross IN this city Of the
names OF those who are entitled 10
prizes for exceptionally skllif6i first
aid work rendered during the last
year.
6,About year ago q gentleman. who
does not desire his name to be made
public, presented to the Red Cross a
special endowment of 5000, to he
known as the William Howard Taft
Fund. the income from which is to be
devoted aanuslly to prizes for first
aid work a. a competitions among the
railroad men of the country. -Four
prizes with medals are awarded an
nualiy. The only applicant for prize
money from this fund for work done
during 1911 was Mr.. Christian D.
Fisher, 1871 Park Boulevard, Cam
den, n. j., an employee OF the Penn
sylvania railroad shops. Mr.. Fisher
was awarded the first prize OF $50,
having treated total oflslxteen cases
during the year.
The Red Cross. from Its own funds,
also gives similar prizes to irst-atd
men other than those employed by
railroads. The winner OF the first
prize OF $50 in this class is Mr.. John
Brown, mine foreman Pennsylvania
Goa colmpany, Pittston. Pa. who rem
dered very excellent service to three
men who were burned. and otherwise.
badly injured by an explosion of gas
in the Hoyt Shaft on January 10,
1911. In an affidavit made by the
resident physician at Pittston hospital
relative to the manner in which the
injuries of these men were treated, it
Is stated: 1T would hardly have
been possible for any physician I'M
der the most favorable conditions 10
have accomplished better work
and take pleasure ins testifyiRg to
the value and efficiency of the work
in these three particular cases."
Mr.. James Gibson, an employee Of
the ,Berwind4White Coal Company, Of
WTndber, Pa. was the successful con-
testant for the second prize of SOS,
having rendered first-aid treatment in
sldflfuI manner to Frank .Koniski,
who, on October 8, 1911, while load
ing coal. was injured by the roof fall
ing upon him. He sustained COM
pound fracture of the left leg, com
minuted fracture OF the right leg in
volVing the knee, fracture OF the right
shoulder blade and a bad sprain of
the back. The success of this first
aid treatment was assured by the
prompt action of the mdn rendering
1t. The fall occurred at i O'Clock. It
took fifteen or twenty minutes to dig
the injured man from the debris and
only fifteen minutes to render first
aid and put the injured man in proper
shape to be carried out of the mine,
where an ambulance was waiting toI
carry him to a hospital, the ambu
lance having been called by tele-
phone.
The third prize of SIS and fourth
prize of $40 were divided equally be-
tween Messrs. Thomas M. Robertson
and Fred Causer, also employed ny
the Berwin-white Company. These
men rendered tirst-aid treatment to
Alonzo Yonker, Who on May IT, 1911,
fell from stack to concrete floor,
distance of over twenty-five feet.
The injuries in this case consisted IF
a compound fracture of the lower jaw
front teeth knocked out, broken knee
cap and general Commissions. A physi-
clan arriving fifteen minutes after the
accident, after examining the injured
man, stated that the work of the Red
Cross men could not have been lT-
proved,
To be eligible to any of the above
prizes applicants must be members of
nrst-aia classes organized under the
auspices of the american Red Cross.