The Washington herald., 1913-04-20

4 him So badly he was laid up eleven days.
Mr.. Ryan did not seek a medal but
his friends urged his case on the Hero
Fund Commission He says he is not q
hero. but admits he is glad he has the
! medal to hand to his children.
Jewel H Reed, a seventeen-year-old
girl is st. Louis third and last contribu-
| ton to the Carnegie hero list. Miss
Reed died In an attempt to save Pauline
Hermans and Laura Pulvermacher from
being burned to death
The fire cut her off, and all three
women were burned to death. A silver
medal was given to her family in COM
memoration of her heroism.
In some cases heroes have been made
| by wholesale. In one especial case eight
heroes, six of them bearing the name OF
Smith, won gold medals and $4,000 in
cash.
| This is the largest and, financially
speaking. the most profitable job OF hero
! ism the report of the Hero Fund Com
mission mentions.
February u. 1907, the schooner Elsie.
with the six Smiths-John w. tmaster),
A. W., G. E., III. L.. Earl A., and Louis
E.-and two Littlefields-John M. and
Edgar-as crew, put twelve miles to sea
in a thirty-five-mile gale and rescued
eight persons from a raft that had been
put off the steamer Larchmont outside
DlOCh
Cash Given for Education.
For this Master John w. Smith, fifty
three years OLD, got gold medal and
$4,000: A. w. Smith, a gold medal and
Smith. a gold medal and $1,000 to educate
his son; Harry L. Smith, a gold medal
and $1,000; Earl A. Smith, a gold medal
and 5000 for the education of his son.
and Louis G. Smith, nineteen years old,
a gold medal and $1,000.
John NJ Littlefeld got gold medal
and 81 900 to educate his son. while Edgar
Littlefeld, who was thirty-five years old
and had six children, got a gold medal
and 5000 to educate his progeny.
Sea rescues by groups Of men seem to
appeal to the commission more than sin
gle acts of heroism. For a rescue OF
fifty-two persons from the steamer Cher
okee, which was ashore off Atlantic City,
n. j., January IA. 1906 Capt. Mark Casio.
of the schooner Alberta, earned a gold
medal and $500. 5000 of which was for
the education of his son and 1850 to
pay Capt. Casto's debts.
Six men who went with Capt Casio
got silver medals and $500 each. The
rescue profited the rescuers $3.50.
Another organized rescue which paid
large dividends was that Of Jacob Flyter.
a laborer tunneling under the Milwaukee
River April 10. 1906. Harris j. Giddings.
captain OF the city freboat, got gold
medal and $500; Laurence A. Hanlcn.
assistant captain. silver medal and
s., 500 and Peter Lancaster, captain OF
the Fire Department, a gold medal and
s1,5oo
The report of the Fund Commission
does not go into any great detail OF de-
scription about the acts Of bravery re-
corded and rewarded, but from the rec
ord the most appealing and striking
dds of heroism were done by woman
and boy Of eleven.
This Rescue Most Noble.
And all the reward they got was
silver medal in the case of the woman
and a silver medal and 1000 in the case
of the boy.
Mrs. Marie v. B. Langdon, twenty
years old, Of Taluma. Wash, January
f. 1907, saved, unassisted, the lives OF
three persons and attempted to save the
life of a fourth in a snowstorm. 1t IL
a tale that causes the blood to thrill as
no other in the 723 does.
With the thermometer IA degrees below
zero and the snow six feet=deep, Mrs.
Langdon, without snowshoes, on hearing
cries for help, went 500 feet from her
home, found Mrs. jacques and two OF
her children only party clothed, who had
fled from their burning home.
Mrs Langdon relieved the stricken
woman of her baby, Estella, one year
old, and. followed by the mother, carried
the infant to her home
Mrs. Langdon then returned and res
cued the boy, Henry, two years old, and
carried him back to her house She then
struggled back through the deep snow, |
still without snowshoes. to Gertrude
jacques, four years old. whom the mother
had been compelled to abandon after |
having wrapped her in the only skirt she
wore.
Mrs. Langdon took the child up, but
after carrying her half way to her house |
she found the girl was dead. She vast
compelled to abandon the body, and
barely had strength enough to reach
home herself.
The recital of the bare facts of this |
heroic rescue is enough to thrill the
blood of the coolest OF hearts. A lone |
woman of twenty making four trips in |
the intense cold, darkness, and deep |
snow, in saving three persons and prac- |
tically saving four, excels that OF the |