WHEREAS, the Board of Fire Commissioners, composed of the following gentlemen, to wit, Colin M. Boyd, John W. McDonald, Joseph Marshall, Frank T. Edwards and George T. Bohen, at a meeting of said Commissioners held on the 15th day of December, 1898, received a communication from the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, D. T. Sullivan, calling the attention of the Commissioners to the fact that no record is kept by the Trustees of the "Scannell Medal Fund," of which he is a member, of the names of the recipients of the Scannell Medal, nor is any record made or kept of the names of other members of the Fire Department who may perform acts of bravery while in the discharge of their duty, and therein suggesting and recommending that a Roll of Honor should be established for the inscription of the names of the recipients of the Scannell, or other special medal for bravery, and of others who may perform acts of valor deserving public recognition whose names may be ordered inscribed thereon by the Board of Fire Commissioners, and WHEREAS, the secretary was at said meeting instructed to have prepared a suitable Roll of Honor in accordance therewith, therefore, be it Resolved, that the names of each member of the Fire Department who has already been awarded a Scannell medal, and also the date of presentation, and a short synopsis of the act performed by each be, and they are hereby ordered, inscribed thereon. Be it furtherColin M. Boyd President, Board of Fire Commissioners December 15, 1898 |