A HERO FUND.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 312, 26 September 1908, Page 5

A HERO FUND.

DONATION FROM CARNEGIE MILLIONS REWARDS FOR THE RR^VEMAINTENANCE FOR THEIR FAMILIES. (py TEiipßirn--i'RBSS association—cobveigpt.) (Rcc. September 20, 9.30 p.m.) KWdpn, Septenilier 20. Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given a. quarter of a piilljon, pfoduoijig an ineqnio of £12,500 a year, towards tl|p fqundatiqn of a fforp Fund in tho United Kingdoi)!, to reward the heroes of peace, and, if necessary, tq maintain their widows and children. Mr. states! "Wo livo jn an heroic age. Wp prq often flifiljed liy depds of heroism ji) wMpll fi»pn and;wpmpn arp injured or killed in attempting to preserve life and to rescue their fellows, j These ljeroes of pivilisation ought to be freed from pecuniary pares resulting from their herqisin." Men and women will bo treated alike undor the Fund. Sailqrs, rajlyfaympn, nursosj doc-, tors, poljce, ar}d in tho Jsle? and p'liipjpyed in thp ifators thereof aro eligible. Trustees will administer the Fund. The King approves i tho scheme. Tho trustees arq th?t whenever the King expresses a wish regarding a ease, his will shall be law. Mr. Carnegie has now distributed 34 millions. THE AMERICAN HERO FUND: SOME OF ITS CONDITIONS. Caynegiq is dping ; for the N United Kingdom what' he has already done" for the bulk' of'the North American' Contippiit/ 'In April. 1804, he created a' flint} of dollars for thp henelit of the' dependents of thoso losing t.hpir' lives' in horoic effort to' save their fellqw pipp, pr' fw the heroes themselves 'if fnjured phly. Provision i ; a? also" innda far to be given in eoinmppioratipn pf herpic acts. ' " ' The ondp.wnipnt knqwn a? pprq fqnp was placed in the han<ls of q' poriiqiisijion' composed of tWeuty : pnp, perspiis, refidehts'pf Pittsburg, Pa., of 'which Gharles 1 L. Taylor is president, and F. M. Wilnipt, secretary and mpnqger •<>f the, fund. "' •' i" ■ ■' 1 fn hfj letter, to the Horo Fund' Commission, Mr. putlinpil fhe 'genera] sphenip pf the fppd flflij: "Tp p,l'ace thpsp follpwfpg pe'aepfnl vocations who have been injured in heroic pffort to save hunin'n life, in somewhat better nositiong pecuniarily than beforo, until able fo again. In case of death, tho widow and ch'iltlrpn -qr other dependents are to bo provided for "until she remarries, and tho childyen unfil tfiey i'bach a self-supporting age. For pxcoptipnal ohijdi-en, exceptional grants may be. piade fqr exceptional education. Grants of jums of money mjy also he made to heroes pr herqines as tha commission thinks advisable r-ench caiso to bo judged on its merits." The fund applies onlf to acts performed within tpe United States of Amorica. tho Dominion pf Canada, the Colony of Newfoundland, sfld the waters thereof, and such acts must have beon performed on or after April is, i?w: The 'coniinissipn hps awarded oighty-seven me(|als: fpr'ty : 3oven lirppze, thirty-fivo silver, a'fid fivo gold.' In tho medal, money has fieen gjvon'for.'disablement bjnefits nnd snepial purppspis. *1$ r dependents of heroes who lost their liyps, af(ipuiitfng tft 53,75(1 dolVafs. •" ffia commission has ' afso ft, dollars'fqr rplifif of guffprprs frqqi"d.isastp'rs: at Brpcktoh, Mass, 10,000 dpuprs, anq from' the California 'part(iqiiaf;e 54,4p.S (Ipllars.