The Washington herald., 1913-04-20
carnegie HERO Commission
REWARDS 723; REFUSES 5000
New England and North Contributes Most Of HeroesTexas
Is an Exception, However-Heroism Seems to Know
Neither Age, Creed, Color, nor Sex.

There are 723 regularly attested, tabled
registered, medaled and ribboned Carnegie
heroes in the United States and a few
in Canada, mostly in the western prov
inces.
The applications or Endorsements Of 5000
persons as heroes have been refused by
the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
The applications or Endorsements OF lilo.
are pending. -
So far Is gold medals, ga silver medals,
and 4S4 bronze medals are DECORATING the
breasts of Carnegie heroes. The gold
medals are supposed to mark the FIRST
class heroes. the silver second-class. and
so on
To heroes and their dependents have
been paid s67I.o41.so in the nine years the
hero fund has been operative. The pen
sion list last year amounted to S5S,3S0.
The odd thing about the hero business
is that it seems to be like many other
products-more or less monopoiized by
New England, especially the State OF
Massachusetts,.
Massachusetts gave seventy-three he
roes to Carnegie and to America. The
New England States gave same thirty
additional heroes. New York contributed
sixty-five, Pennsylvania fifty-seven, and
New Jersey added fifty-three.
The States east of the Alleghenies and
north of the Susluehanna gave more than
one-third of all the heroes of the North
American continent. Canada offered only
twenty heroes to the fund.
Few Heroe. in Real Hcroland.
The Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast
States, where We always were led to be-
leve real manhood and heroism existed
at its best. do not seem to be greatly
given to heroic action, or if they are
have not let the Carnegie Hero Fund
Commission know about it.
The Southern States, too, are shy on
heroes File on famed Southern chivalry!
Or DO Southerners keep out OF danger?
Saving Texas. the report of the Carnegie
Hero Fund Commission is almost entire
ly void of Southerners.
Texas seems to be well stocked with
heroes who are not afraid to let the
world know just how heroic they are. At
che time about thirty Texans bounded
into heroism en- masse.
Some of their exploits were very GER
liable too. There is one of the fifteen
gold medals in Texas on the breast OF
Forest w. McNeir, contractor of Hous-
ton, who saved a fireman.
Missouri has few heroes St Louis
has three regularly attested medaled and
registered They are Patrick McAteer,
Miss Johanna Tulley, OF l129 Union Boule-
ward. June 15 1905
Miss Tulley's pony was running away
with her. McAteer caught and threw the
pony, but his skull was fractured when
he fell on a car track. He was voted
silver medal.
His widow. who lives at 6525 Minnesota
Avenue, was voted $50 a month for her
own support and IS month for each Of
her seven children until they are sixteen
years old.
Richard f. Ryan, a fireman of Engine
Company No. 5, who lives at 50l6 st.
Louis Avenue, can wear a bronze medal
If he cares to. Being modest man, he
does not care to wear any insignia OF
his bravery.
Girl on ST. Louis Gnllantry Roll.
May H.. 1907, Mr.. Ryan pulled Rolla
and Margaret Knox, four and six years
old out of the way of a speeding auto
mobile at Twenty-second Street and Cass
Avenue The machine nit and bruised