Annual ReportThe Commission, 1916 - Heroes |
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$5 a month $500 for worthy ACT AWARD aged fourteen aged thirty-one aged twenty-one aged twenty-two Andrew Carnegie April attempting to save bank became distressed beneath the surface beneficiary boat Bronze Medal called for help Carnegie Hero Fund Charles deep water died attempting disabled drowning educa Edward eight feet feet deep feet from shore fell fifteen feet fifty feet Finance Committee forty feet further notice George George W grasped H. K. Porter helped to save Henry Hero Fund Commission hold hole horse hundred feet James January January 15 John July Medal and $500 miles an hour NAME Award October October 18 President pulled purpose as needed reached rescue revived River rope sank school-boy seized Silver Medal Smith Steffenberg suffocation swam swim thirty feet Thomas Thomas Morrison tional purposes track twenty feet twenty-five feet unconscious wadable water waded widow William William H worthy purpose
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Page 22 - All such printing, blanks, blank books, stationery and postage as may be necessary for the proper conduct of the business of the offices herein created shall be furnished by the secretary of state upon requisition for the same made by the secretary of the Bureau of labor statistics.
Page 14 - No grant is to be continued unless it be soberly and properly used, and the recipients remain respectable, wellbehaved members of the community, but the heroes and heroines are to be given a fair trial, no matter what their antecedents. Heroes deserve pardon and a fresh start. THIRD. A medal shall be given to the hero, or widow, or next of kin, which shall recite the heroic deed it commemorates, that descendants may know and be proud of their descent. The medal shall be given for the heroic act,...
Page 21 - ... miner. Said commission shall cause a record to be kept of all its proceedings. Five members of the said commission shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number than a quorum may adjourn the meetings of the commission from time to time. Meetings of the said commission other than called meetings...
Page 10 - Commission find, after allowing liberally for this, that a surplus will remain, it has power to make grants in case of accidents (preferably where a hero has appeared) to those injured. The action taken in the recent Harwick Mine accident, where Heroes Taylor and Lyle lost their lives, is an illustration. The community first raised a fund of forty thousand dollars, which was duplicated by me after waiting until the generosity of the community had full scope. Here again the Commission should be exceedingly...
Page 13 - ... fellows; such the heroes of civilization. The heroes of barbarism maimed or killed theirs. I have long felt that the heroes and those dependent upon them should be freed from pecuniary cares resulting from their heroism, and, as a fund for this purpose, I have transferred to the Commission five million dollars of First Collateral Five Per Cent. Bonds of the United States Steel Corporation, the proceeds to be used as follows : FIRST.
Page 14 - ... of faithful and heroic service. I ask from the Commission most careful guard against this danger. The medal can, of course, be offered in such cases. Whether something more can not judiciously be done, at the request of, or with the approval of, the city authorities, the Commission shall determine. I hope there can be. Fifth. The claims upon the Fund for some years can not exhaust it. After years, however, pensioners will become numerous. Should the Commission find, after allowing liberally for...
Page 3 - I do not expect to stimulate or create heroism by this fund, knowing well that heroic action is impulsive; but I do believe that if the hero is injured in his bold attempt to serve or save his fellows he and those dependent upon him should not suffer pecuniarily thereby.
Page 25 - To acts in which conclusive evidence may be obtained showing that the person performing the act, voluntarily risked his own life in saving, or attempting to save, the life of a fellow being, or who voluntarily has sacrificed himself in an heroic manner for the benefit of others.
Page 18 - ... APPROVED WATERTOWN REGULATION I Officers and duties 1 The officers of the commission shall be a president, who shall preside at all meetings, and shall, in the absence or inability of the secretary, have authority to certify to pay-rolls. 2 A secretary, who shall certify to all pay-rolls, keep the minutes of all meetings of the commission in a book provided for that purpose, and shall keep all necessary records of applicants, their examination and standing, and a complete official roster of the...
Page 15 - The field embraced by the Fund is the United States of America, the Dominion of Canada, the Colony of Newfoundland, and the waters thereof. The sea is the scene of many heroic acts.