The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-17

self.
He had struck an iron pipe us ne
leaped from the pier to the RESCUE ana
was badly injured. A physician vas
summoned and O'Connor and thr lads
were treated. but 1t was some time be.
fore he was out Of danger.
Perhaps the most thrilling res .r "
the year which came under the .I,er-
walton of this particular departm.u, "
the Treasury was performed boy N.na
Olsen, a nurse at Ellis Island INN "a.
ton station, when an insane Russian
girl hurled herself into the water. Yet
1t was little less spectacular thai he
work of Patrick S. Hayes, who received
a medal April 20. 1914.
Hayes Is n member OF Engine com.
pany 81. New York city. a few mouths
before this. about o'clock one evening.
while Hayes was on watch duly .u the
fireboat New Yorker, there cam, The
cry Man overheard"
He had swum only thirty feet ur 81
when he got his man, but that WI. the
least Of the trouble, for the drowning
man, supposed TO be in an agony ul
fear that he would drown, seemed mad.
dened ito think that he would be rescued
at all
Let me die" repeatedly moaneI ,h,
man.
Hayes struck the man fair in The
face in order to stun him 50 that he
would permit himself to be Rescued
Once was not sufficient, and the second
time the big fists were doubled little
harder. The third time Hayes gritted
his teeth as he determined to stun the
man. Then as he went forward with
his burden. still hardly quoted enough
not TO struggle, another fireman swan
TO them with a life preserver
The rescuers now tried to get rhe
would-be suicide to hold to the life
preserver, but he fought the two men
as fiercely as most drowning men tight
death He tried escaping them and get
ting under the water
When the three finally approached
the dock and a group Of firem, from
the New Yorker threw a line ont 70
them the rescuers securely tied 1t round
the poor fellows body, and = ladder be-
ing lowered from the fireboats sid, he
was hoisted on deck but fighting 90 the
very last.
1t is said that Hayes's conduct in this
case was unusually meritorious. because
some years before in an encounter with
certain violators of the law he had lost
the sight OF one Of his eyes, which had
deeply affected the other eye and COM
PEELED him to wear very thick lynspd
glasses, which he lost in the first strug.
gle with the man who wanted 10 die.
James ]. Skehan and Harry Tay ?,
| sergeant and patrolman respectively u
the Police Department of New York
city, were the first men honored among
| the thlrty-four receiving medals durns
| the fiscal year of 1914. Tony A0nzo
and John Edstrom looked after a Sow
| plying In the East River. About 80
| o'clock one morning Alonzo and Ed
| strom found their boat was on fin, hut
| the mooring lines had burned and she
| had drifted from the dock to tn, breast
| of the river opposite 10Th street l,flre
| the discovery was made. AlOnzu .,Iped
into the water and tried to swim
through the darkness back to shor, but
there was high tide and Skchan and
Taylor heard his cries for help.
| They ran in the direction %, the
shouts, and plunging in swan uul and
together brought the boatman safely 20
the dock, where other police officers,
having heard the cries for assistance.
now lowered a line and pulled the res
cued man on the dock.
The scow had become a torch l.Dh.ng
up and down on the water. ltl-.r0m,
unable to swim, was there in an H-ony
of wavering as To whether he mould
perish in the river or the ham,s He
heard voices on the shore and snrang
from the one place the fire hla not
reached into what he thought wHH.l be
less agonizing death.
lie had not seen Skehan and THy.or
making their way through ..'o water
toward the scow. He sank, nH' a- ne
rose the two rescuers Were ,.''. ana
Edstrom found himself safely uu lore
just as the last faint glow Il no me
ruined scow went out.
If II were in a story Of adven' 3'. mat
one young man rowing on Lon 's.ahu
Sound came TO the rescue of .f''rs'
. who had Unexpectedly fallen 4, 100 ms
, frair craft dived after him tN. ana
carried him on his shouldrr- us
twenty feet of rocks, there 10 r.- ia'e
HIM even the seasoned mirN. .".- DER
, it mere romance.
1 Ralph Hubbard of LarChm"'' IN,
. plished this and it made hau 70 US
medallist. lie Is said To hc Nrl. -.sh'
I OF build, and the man he saved a.| car.
p ried across the rocks wo,sh'. ' 'Hos'
1 two hundred pounds
August &c. about two wr'N ','e'
, ward, young Hubbard aga.a '."
4 guished himself. His father q
, yacht, and the son, with som. nue.
I was swimming around it while i. WY
trailed along in the water ,,i
:, Mamaroneck one Of IN" ."'u'
swimmers became exhausted '.' was
sinking when Hubbard swan $50 ~ "
. him, grasped hold of him a.' .na" r,
aged to get him to line tru.'- '''"
the stern OF the yacht. Ia,
The two had no sooner bee" .Hu nv
y aboard than the sailing mas ,. .' ,as
u yacht fell overheard A is ''' l'n
with many sailors, he was a pos, ."' ,Sa
mer. and his employers son. i', ,no
e second time that afternoon '"' 'hs
third time within two weeks, wen ~ ~"
= aid of a drowning man, ana s"''' , I,i
4 Fifteen minutes went by before I'' an
bard and the sailor could De p'".'