FIRE DEPT. ACQUIRES A HERO
Niagara Falls, N. Y.—The appointment of Edward Wilson, of 262 Third street, as captain of the Third street firehall to fill the vacancy made by the death of Dennis Dinan, has been approved by the City Council. City Manager Edwin J. Fort, who made the appointment, said that Mr. Wilson stood at the head of the civil service list established by a recent examination with a rating of 91 1/2 per cent. Before being appointed to the Falls city fire department he was employed by the Lockport Paper company at its Falls plant, which has since been taken over by the Certainteed Products company. His record while on the department has been excellent. While an employee of th old paper company at its upriver plant Wilson performed a feat of heroism in saving two young men and two young women from the Niagara river that brought him prominently before the public. This was in 1907 and a motorboat in which the party was riding late at night became stalled in the upper river at a point about opposite the paper company’s plant and was drifting rapidly downstream.
At great danger to himself Wilson went out in a rowboat and got the boat and passengers safely to shore.
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