New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-10
Officers of 14th Infantry
Risked Lives to Save
Drowning Comrades.
MAJOR DUFFY QUITS
THE 69TH REGIMENT
Retires After 81 Years of Con.
tinuOus Service-Tournament
Plans To Be Made.

Captain William r. Jackson, reg
mental sdjutsnt; Sergeant John Cuth-
bert and First Sergeant William g.
Keegsn, OF Company X. Fourteenth In
fantry. y. c. y. Y, were awarded
state medals for vslor last night by
Najor General John T. Organ. com
handing the National Guard, az re-
view in the armory in Brooklyn. Ger
tifcates OF honorable mention were
presented 20 Frs. Lieutenant John {.
Hardy, Of Company L, and Sergeant
Peter VI. Depp, Of Company K.
These FIVE men 1sked their lives IN
waving drowning comrades in Sprout
Creek. Fishkill Plains. during military
maneuvres there last summer. The
men were fording the creek. which was
twelve feet deep in the middle. fact
unknown 20 the men 81 the time.
Captain Jackson from the bank res
cued Private Tutt!, who had sunk 70
the bottom. Sergeant cuthbert Jumped
into the water with 81 his equipment
on and rescued Private Fsltman. and
then returned and rescued Private
storch. Later he swan up stream and
helped Captain Jackson rescue TuttL
Sergeant Keeghn rescued Private Me
Keen, who was drowning, and In this
work was aided BY Lieutenant Hardy
and Sergeant Depp. who also tried 70
save Private ODonnell. who was
drowned.
Men Praised for Bravery.
General Organ, in presenting the
medals and certificates, praised the
men for "the cool and effective man
ner in which they performed their
acts" and held them UP sc examples.
The General also pointed out the NOR
ale and discipline In the regiment
which the brave acts had brought TO
light. and praised its war service.
Major John L. Duffy. second senior
major OF the Sixty-ninth Regiment Of
the National Guard Of New York, and
among the best known officers in the
state, has resigned after nearly
tventy-one years OF continuous service,
which included nine months with the
Sixty-ninth New York Volunteers dur
ing the Spanish war. ss captain.
Major Duffy, who has resigned BE-
cause Of the growing demands on bis
time, IL son Of former Colonel Ed
ward Duffy OF the Sixty-nintb Reg
nent, and is tenth senior major among
the 100 in the active service o. the
national guard. He first Joined tbs
regiment at a private in Company g,
on June 10, 1895, and was later pro.
NOTED first sergeant and second lieu.
tenant He was made captain in 1895.
and major in 1904. Major Duffy he's
served or the First Brigade EAsmin'
ing Board for Officers, and has been
ninth. During the manouvres ~
Fishkill Plains last summer the major
nearly lost his life curing a sham bat
VIC pF olhhtNb 30 - ''N'''f ~
20 his head.
Appointment. OF oficer'.
Tn. following have just been al
nointed second lieutenants IN the or
CARNATIONS given after their respec,
I've names: William II. Warren and
Jo.eph II. Nichols, Ninth Coast Artil;;
lerv, Henry ". j. Cox, Secono Iield
Artillery. Battery y; Robert W. Bow,
man. Company {, First Infantry ana
Augustus II. Harvey, Company -
TWentv.third Infantry. Second Leu
tenant James p. Cooke has been rfoo-
moted first Lieutenant Company "
Twentv-third Infantry. Captain Ben.
amin Van Rsden, Battery D, FIRST
Field Artillery, he's been appointed q
battalion sdju,ant. First Lieutenant
Joserh Koen, Company ], l"elitn II
fantry. has been appointed q bat'slioh
adjutant. o, Allan :
Reagan issued 81 order Yesterday d.,
rect'ng the officer OF national euSrd
commands in greater New YORK %
meet at the Seventy-Hrst Regimen,
Amor. Thirty-Fourth Street and
PARK Avenue, or Wednesday evening,
/ March 10, 10 discuss plans for tne
/ forthcoming military and naval tour
nament az Sheepshesd Bay.