New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-11
CITY TO HONOR
FIREMEN HEROES
MayOr to Present Medals
on Fiftieth Year of
Department.

Fire Commissioner Adamson an
nounced yesterday the list of honor
men in the Fire Department for 1914.
Mayor Mitchell will present medals to
them tomorrow on the fiftieth ami
versary OF the organization OF the de-
partment Their records OF bravery
will be read by Deputy Commissioner
Weeks, chairman of the Board of Merit,
at the exercises at the tiremen's Nor
ument, Riverside Drive and Tooth
Street. The Mayor will then decorate
them.
In addition TO the awards for per-
sonal bravery in rescue work, the adj
ministration medal, for the best sug-
gestlon for improving the service, will
be given for the first time Deputy
Chief Patrick Maher will receive It..
Bronze medals will also be awarded to
each member of Engine 267 for eff
cheney in drill and evolution at the Col
iege School.
Four department medals will be pre-
scented this year. They are given to
each member of the department receiv-
ing Class A award. The Stephenson
medal for maintaining the best disci-
plned and most highly efficient COM
pany will 70 to Captain Frederick +.
Mahoney, of Engine Company 230.
The full list of honor men and their
medals follows:
Bennett aud Department msdals-Csptain Thomas
Bonner ami Department medals Fireman James
T Daniels. H. & l.. %.
sineer william j. fe,ly Engine 49,
strong Medsl-Fifeman John j. Gilien. b.
wertheim MediI-Fircman John W. Donohus.
Lns 50. RI,
man Ferdinand A. Beer. Il. 4 l. los.
hurley Medal Lieutenant James L. MeMsnu'
crimmins Medal Fireman Timothy F. OLeay.
s.c ,t,si MedsI-Capialn FreG-fiek r Ma
Aanihis ,n Medal Deputy Chief Patrick
'I AJAX College Enclcncy Medal-To each mem
Der ~ Engine 26'
Captain Smith won his honors for
saving the life of Louis Berlin in a
fire at TAI Eighth Avenue on April Il,
1911. He was helping Berlin across an
ciSht-foot areaway sixty feet above the
ground when the ladder bridging the
distance broke. Captain Smith grabbed
Berin's collar just in time, and kept
his grip, hanging head downward from
the window for several minutes until
the men of mis- company, who had been
holding him BY his left leg, could litt
10th men 10 safety.
James 7. Daniels, Of Hook and Lad
der %. will receive the Bonner and
department medals Tor guiding Mrs.
Annie Critters and John Martin along
a narrow coping to safety during 4
ii-e which destroyed the house at lis
East 10th Street OF May 30, 1914.
The Trevor Warren ard department
medals will 20 TO William j. Fealey,
engineer in COMPANY 80. In fire at
40i St. Marks Place he rescued Mrs.
Regina Weiss from q fourth floor room
uetore the hose had been put into play.
He was badly burned.
John J. Gillen, of Hook and Ladder
6. carried a seven-year-old boy down
red hot fire escape at 30 Essex street
while flames were shooting from every
window in the building. lie. VIII re-
ceive the Strong medal.
John W. Donohue will be given the
Wertheim medal for saving woman
from the top floor of house, 90 East
Fourth Street The room was IN
flames and he could make his way only
under the protection OF a stream play
ing on and over him.
Timothy +. 0Ieary, of Engine Com
medal for rescuing 4 six-months'-old
baby who lay in a blazing crib OH the
fifth floor at 2li Monroe Street. A
chance draft would have closed the
door through which the fireman erept
on his hands and knees and cut of
his escape. .-
The members of Engine $751;. Of
Queens. who will receive the college
efficiency medals are Captain william
II Quinn. Lieutenant Thomas NJ. keily'
Engineers Patrick j. Connolly and Al
exender W. Bailee. Firemen William
Crember, jr.. o. X. Junkerman. Charles
bressert. ". F. Goebel, John Torzewskil'
John O'Connor, J. A seanlon. q. j.
Rappold and Francis II. Williams,
The company had a handicap OF three
minutes in the evolutions. consisting
OF handling all sorts Of ladders !.
stretching ard connecting hose using
turret. cellar and ub.cellar pipes
shooting the lifeline and demonT't ira.
inr rescue work. Their actual TINE
was is minutes SO seconds.