Deputy Chief Ahearn Barred from Being Chief
As the result of physical disability incurred in the performance of his duty, Deputy Chief Thomas J. Ahearn, of the New York fire department, may be retired on full pay. He is a candidate for fire chief to succeed ex-Chief Croker but in taking his civil service examination it developed that he partially lost his hearing while attempting to save a child from a burning building in Rivington street in 1894. This defect, according to physicians who examined him. is sufficient to bar him from competition. That he might not go unrewarded, James Creelman, president of the Municipal Civil Service Commission, wrote this letter to Mayor Gaynor:
"New York, June 29, 1911.
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