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WILL|AMSPORT
HERO CETSAWARD
Given Medal and $4,000 For
Saving Stranger.
MANY TO PENNSYlv lvANIANS
Carnegie Commission Makes Forty
one Awards, Two of Them Being to
Women.

Pittsburgh, Pa, April 26.--The Car.
negie hero fund commission made an.
nouncement of forty-one awards. TWO
women are among the elected.
The oldest hero is Martin D. Wade,
of Bradford, Pa. He is fifty-seven and
saved a fifteen-year-old boy from be-
ing run over by train. The youngest
hero is r. Kenneth Oliver, of Tampico,
Ill. He is eleven years old and saved
a seven-year-old girl from being run
over by train.
Sheldon v. Clarke. of Williamsport,
Pa, is granted a bronze medal and
$4,000 as needed for educational pur-
poses. Clarke, seventeen years old,
a student, saved J. Byron Duke, also
seventeen years old, and student
from drowning at Williamsport, June
3, 1912 Duke became distressed in the
West Branch of the Susquehanna
river when 225 feet from the bank,
where the water was between five and
seven feet deep. Clarke, stranger to
him, Immediately dived from the base
of bridge pier, swan 100 feet and
then put his arm under him. He sup
ported Duke and drifted with the cur
rent until they were picked up by men
in a boat The boys We're nearly ex-
hausted
Other awards made in Pennsylvania
by the commission were as follows:
jeremiah F'rain, bronze medal and
$1,000 toward liquidating mortgage on
his property. Frain saved Charles l..
Davis from suffocation at Rankin, Po,
on June 21, 1907.
Thomas P. Cahill, bronze medal and
$1,000, as needed. Cahill saved Isabella
Mandel, three years old, from being
run over by a street car in Pittsburgh
on April 81, 1912.
David Phillips. bronze medal and
$1,000, as needed Phillips, mine fire
boss, saved Martin A. Wright, seventy
nine years old, from being run over
by train at Snowden, Pa, on June II,
1912.
William j. Arthur, bronze medal and
$1,000, as needed. Arthur saved Benja-
min J. Vetrone from drowning at Erie,
Pa, on Aug. 25, 1912.
Bernard c. King, bronze medal and
$1,000, as needed. King, clerk, saved
Ralph c. Brown, a boy, from drown
ing at Warren, Pa. on Dec. 2S, 1912.
Joseph T. Holland, bronze medal and
$4,000, as needed. for educational pur-
poses. Holland, nineteen years old, at
tempted to save Hazen M. Murray,
aged nineteen, from drowning at Erie,
Pa, on Aug. 21, 1912.
James O. London, deceased, bronze
medal to widow and pension of $55
month, with S. month additional for
each of four children. London died at
tempting to save Harry R. Hicks, aged
eleven years, from drowning at Ma
honing, Pa, on June 80, 1912.
Martin D. Wade, silver medal and
$1,000, as needed. Wade, railroad
flagman, attempted to save Raymond
WI Ryan, a school boy, from being
run over by train at Mount Alton,
Pa, on March 2, 1912.
Joseph M. Friel, silver medal and
$1,000, as needed. Friel, twenty-four
years old, brakeman, saved Agnes
E. Walsh, seventeen, from being run
over by a train at Riverton, Pa, on
Oct. 25, 1912.
Stanislaus Orlemanski, silver medal
and $1,000 toward liquidating his in
debtedness. Orlemanski, a crossing
watchman, attempted to save an uni
Identified man from being run over by
train at Erie, Pa, on July "a, 1912.
Alexander Johnson, deceased, silver
medal to widow and pension of SIS
month, with SIS month additional
for her son. Johnson died attempting
to save Sylvester L. Hines, rigger, and
Frederick Meyer, twenty-six, rigger's
helper, from suffocation at Etna, Pa,
on June II, 1912.
Oswald G. Beck, deceased, silver
medal to widow and pension of $55 a
month, with IS month additional for
her daughter until she reaches the age
of sixteen. Beck, a pipe filter, died as
the result of attempting to save Alex
ander Johnston from suffocation at
Etna, Pa, on June IL, 1912.
Lawrence E. Riddle, silver medal.
Riddle saved Frederick Meyer and at.
tempted to save Oswald G.. Beck and
Alexander Johnston from suffocation
at Etna, Pa, on June IL, 1912.
Henry Wagner, silver medal and
$1,000, as needed. Wagner, trestle
foreman, saved Lawrence E. Riddle
from Suffocation at Etna, Pa, June II,