HEROES OF PEACE.
THE MAINTENANCE OF THEIR FAMILIES.
FUND FOUNDED BY MR CARNEGIE.
"Unite- Proas- Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received September 25th, 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 25. Mr Andrew Carnegie has given a quarter of a million, producing an income of £12,500 a year, towards the foundation of a Hero Fund in the United Kingdom, to reward heroes of peace by the maintenance of their widows and children. Mr Carnegie states: "We live in a heroic age, and are often thrilled by deeds of heroism where men and women are injured or killed in attempting to preserve or rescue their fellow beings. Theso heroes of civilisation ought to be freed from pecuniary cares resulting from their heroism." Men and women are to be treated alike under the fund. Sailors, railwaymen, nurses, doctors, police, and firemen in the British Isles, and tho waters thereof, are eligible. Trustees will administer the fund. , The King approves of the scheme. The trustees have been directed that whenever the King expresses a wish regarding a case his will shall be law. Mr Carnegie has now distributed £34,000,000.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13231, 26 September 1908, Page 9
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