The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-04-19
GALLANT MEN OF
The new YORK
FIRE DEPARTM ENT
Who Are To Be Decorated
For Their Va1or in
City Hall Park.

The Boad of Merit of the Fire De-
partment has just finished picking the
1915 official heroes from the ranks of
New York City's smoke eaters" and
on May 3 the annual bravery medals
will be awarded in City Hall Park,
Mayor Mitchell making the presenta-
tfons.
Members of the board, which con-
sists of Deputy Commissioner Weeks,
Chief Kenlon and several deputy
/ chiefsc, found it no easy task to make
the selections, for an unusually large
| plumber of heroic rescues were made
+ by f1reInen during 1915 and only ten
medals were to be given. But In
making the selections the board felt
satisfied on one point. 1t was that,
no matter who got the medals, there
would be no heartaches on the part
! Of the unnamed heroes. for the ave-
rage New York fireman would rather
crawl into a smoke filled cellar with
/ a lead Of hose and little chance of
getting out again than to march into
I City Hall Park on a sunny day and
have himself officially proclaimed a
! hero. It's queer twist in the nature
of a smoke eater,' but it's there just
the same.
! Therefore. when the ten men who
have been picked out for bravery ego
to the 'front.' to get their medals it
will not be with pompous steps, /ex-
panded chests and smiles of triumph.
The quicker it is over with the better
4 it will be for them, to their way of
| thinking.
Daniels Gets His Second
Medal for HerOiSm
The Bennett medal, the highest hon
or in the department, goes to Fireman
James T. Daniels of Truck Company
No. 26. During a fire at No. 1473
] a 26 1917 Dan-
I iels went to the fourth floor on an aer-
ial ladder rescued two women who
were trying to jump out of a window.
and then had the ladder swung over
to another window, from which a man
/ was leaning.
| Daniels was within few feet of the
! fear-crazed man when he suddenly
7 jumped out. AS he fell the fireman
leaned forward. grabbed him by the
collar and then carried him down to
safety. BY getting the Bennett medal
Daniels will become twice hero. He
already holds the Bonner medal,
awarded for saving woman and a
man from fourth-door window du-
ring a fire at No. 11S East One Hum
/ bred and Sixteenth Street. May 80.
! 1914,
Second in rank to Danie1sla a Fire
Department Hero is Frank G.. Rowe of
Truck No. Is, who this year gets the
Bonner medal. Rowe holds two hon
orab1e mentions for bravery in the
Three Deuces''f fire at No. 222 Chrys-
+ tie Street, in which twenty-five lives
were lost. and a fire at Spring street
and Mulberry street.
The Bonner medal is awarded to
him for heroism while working on a
fire in the hold of the Ward Line
steamship Yumuri on oct. Z, 1915.
Clarence Lawson, a negro stevedore,
fell thirty-dve feet into the blazing
hold Of the boat. Harry Mcconnell,
another stevedore. also fell in trying
to rescue him.
Lieut. McNichol called for volunteers
to go after the men. Rowe was the
/ into the hold by means of a wire cable.
After him went David G. Oliver, also
of Truck No. Is. Rowe. brought up
Laveson and Oliver saved Mcconnell
Two Get Medals for
Subway Fire Heroism
Oliver, for his good work in the
Yumurt fire, will get the Strong medal.
| The, famous subway fire of Jan. 6,
1915, when one person was killed, rs
sent to hospitals and 200 overcome by
smoke, developed two official Fire De-
partment heroes. They are Patrick
/ Moran of Engine Company No. 95
and Capt. John Sherlock of Truck No.
IL.
| Moran risked his life by going into
the smoke-dlled subway at Broadway
and F'iftieth street and rescuing many
Epersons- He gets the Wertheim med
al. Capt Sherlock will receive the
| Crimnins medal for similar heroic
service.
The Brooklyn Citizen medal goes to
Edward J. Hartten of Truck No. 104,
who rescued four girls and two men
/ from a window during the fire in
the Diamond Candy Company's factory
at No. 211 North Sixth street, Will
1iamsburg, on Nov. last. Clarence
"A. Walsh of Truck No. 104 gets the
Hurley medal for helping Hartten.
Francis Parks of Truck No. FL gets
the Warren-Trevor medal for rescuing
two persons from a fourth floor win
| dow at fire in a furnished room
house at No. 40 West Thirty-sixth
street, on Nov. last, and Capt. Law
renee MCGUIRE of Truck No. IL will
receive the Stephenson medal for hav-
| ing the best disciplined company in
| the department.