Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-10-30
7eo Members Of Commission
Resign on Account Of Leav-
og Pittsburgh HeadQuar-
iers Of the Foundation
SEVERAL PENSIONS FOR
DEPENDENTS ALLOWED
Sums Aggregating $1,000
Are Awarded for Education
al Purposes S28,500 to
Aid Purchase of Homes,


pittsburgh. Pa, oct. 29.-Two
members of the Carnegie hero fund
commission resigned at the fan meet
irr of the commission here today at
which awards for sixty acts of hero
ier, were announced. Alvah G. Dim
tsr former president Of the Carne-
IN steel company. and now at the
boad Of the Midvale steel corporation.
admitted his resignation as did Will
lam L. Abbott. Removal from the
INV vas the reason given by both. A
resolution ON the death of William y.
Frew. member of the commission,
Mo died here last night, was adopted.
sixty Acts of Ileroism.
sixty acts Of heroism were recoe-
rzed In the awards that were an
Dounced at the meeting of the COM
mission here today. In eight cases
silver medals were awarded, and in
dfy-tW0 cases, bronze medals
Nine Of the heroes lost their lives,
ana 20 the dependents OF six Of these,
pensions aggregaung $2,520 a year
were granted, 70 the dependents Of
one Of these and of three others who
lost their lives, sums totalling $2IG5,
10 be applied, subject to the direction
Of the commission, in various ways,
we're granted. In addition to these
money grants, in six cases sums ag-
gregating $1,000 were appropriated
for educational purposes payments
to be made as needed and approved
and in forty cases awards aggresat-
ing $2S500 We're made TO be applied
toward the purchase of homes and
TO other worthy purposes Payments
in these cases will not he made until
the beneficiary's plans for the use of
the ward have been approved by the
commission.
The awards were as follows.
Bronzc Medals.
G. Dolne Greene 80 Granite
street, New London, Conn, aged 81
for attempting TO save cyrus W.
Brown, Jr fellow student from
drowning in skating accident at
New London January T. 1914,
Wilfried II. Gross, Y, NJ. G. A..
Louisville, KY. aged SO. for the res
cue Of Josephine f. Drew, Anna
Dickson. George Jones and two chill
dren, in a runaway accident at Louis
Vile April 30. 1918.
] Charles Whitman, Bridgeport
Pa AGED rs, for the rescue of Mary
T. Hetrck, u 9-year-old girl, from
dashng in front Of a train in "A run
away accident at Bridgeport, Novem-
her 2l 1911.
Horace y. Beck, Jenkintown. Pa,
aged 80. for saving william A. Hille-
gas. a physician, from drowning at
Beach Haven, y. j., october 20, 1918,
When o launch burned.
c. Ellsworth Carlson Bill Colby
avenue, Everett, Wash. aged 10. for
saving Gail E. Bartholomew from
drowning when she fell overheard
from launch at Coupeville, Wash,
May 8 1915.
Carl l., sullivan, Canton, n. Y, aged
l3' for attempting to save Elizabeth
G, Short from drowning while wading
near dam i'm De Grasse river at
Canton, May "a. 1913. Another man
saved both the girl and sullivan
Doris u. Giles. IA Euclid avenue
Houston Tex aged "A; for saving j.
Ralph Landgrcho from electric shock
from a trolley wire at Houston, July
!, 1919.
G Elliott Conover, 4l4 Sewall ave
nue., Asbury Park, A. j.. AGED -; for
saving Ruth X. Decker from drown
ing while bathing in the ocean AT
Manasauan, n. j., June q, 1914
Jacob G. First, 1903 Twenty-fourth
avenue, Meridian, Miss. aged 52 LOT
saving Emma p, Wood and \. Harlan
Scogin from being run over by tram
al Meridian, February 3, 1914,
Bert NJ KeirseN Grcenville, Tex.
aged 43; for saving an unidentified
man from being run over by train
at Greenville, November 4, 1914.
clyde K. Meredith Monongahela,
~ AGED AZ; for saving Edith Nc
tlellan from being run over by d
Wain at Fredericktown, Pa August
a. 1914
John r. Saddler. Laurel Ridge, Ky,
eyed 49, for saving Timothy Cundiff
from suffocation in a wei at Soway'
ny July 81. 1911
Thomas !. Graham. Braddock, Pa
aged as; for saving p. Pearl Adams
and Edward b. Adams from being
2, 1912.
=, 6. Stanley Strantz, r. D. 4, Canton
ILL., ..iy ased 60: for saving Charles Yo-
yum q fellow farmer. from suffoca-
5Taoin IN a Well at Breeds, H. May a,
N, George W Cowgur r. p. ~ 1,
e@.nitesboro Tex aged 48; for saving
samuel D. Downey, a fellow-farmer'
a ,oul sultocation in a well al Theo-
0oTt, IeXa August 4. 1914.
uafoid Wilson, 1886 Carpenter
SuTeg Chicago, aged %; for saving
d.. Emory Cole from suffocation IN a
70 a Mount Washington, Nd July
William Il. Moore, 6O2 sherman
t n.y. Waco Tex. aged %: for saw
ae llliam r Parshall and an uni
pul'l ed woman from drowning IN
1908 az ""e0' ioN'' 4'P'
a. @uli g, Tews, Waukegan, H., aged
~ ior saving Wallace II. Sunderiin
w drowning when the latter's boat
VS. Nc espsized on Lake Michigan, No
'emoer 3. 1919.
water L. Pickett 100 Orange
80 80 Waltham, Mass. aged 10; for
,9.'ns Roswell w. Snow from drown
100 4 rye Beach T. H., August l9
.Nharles II Brush, Gs56 Wentworth
isHee' Chicago. Ill. aged 81. fer say.
- IVY, .%o boys from drowning August
Vha'les A Perkins, ST., 500 North