The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1899-08-09
THE BABY CAVALRY HORG.u 5. s. BOSTON ARRIVES.
AND THE WAR WORN BATTLE
STEED
Equine Transport Tacoma Has a Six
Days Old Colt and a 2S Year Old
Troop Horse Aboard.

There is a colt six days old, born at
sea, on board the ship Tacoma, and a
veteran cavalry horse of 2S years, who
is making his first sea vayage.
The ship Tacoma, with 20l cavalry
horses aboard bound for Manila to help
in the problem of benevolent assimila-
tion," arrived this morning IL days from
San Francisco This is the Tacoma S
third trip to Honolulu bringing army
animals and her second to Manila. She
left San Francisco at ) o'clock in the
afternoon of July 27th with pol horses
of the Fourth cavalry, from Yellow
stone Park. One died on the voyage,
and a colt, a pretty little filly, as gem
tie and playful as kitten, was born
August 3. The dam is handsome, fine
ly bred mare, belonging to Captain
Wilder of the Fourth cavalry. The colt
has been made a great pet of by the
soldiers and crew on the vessel
The veteran cavalry horse of 2S years,
came down from the Yellowstone Park
in the lot and in spite of his years he
was brought along, as he is still good
serviceabe animal intelligent and
spirited. He is just now suffering from
pneumonia but is better and it is be-
lieved will recover. Before he was TAX
en- sick, he used to display the greatest
and almost a human interest in the lit
| tie colt
!
came to his death from too much sand
as the past morten showed. When the
! horses were brought from the Yellow
| stone Park they were turned loose or
! the Preside to become acclimated &c
! sea level they having come from an
| altitude of several thousand feet. 1t /:
| supposed that the salt in the sand of the
| beach led them to eat it. At any rate
| several of the horses suffered consid.
! eraby from the amount of sand they
| ate, and the post mortem on the one
that died showed thirty pounds of sand
| in his intestines.
| The horses have all stood the trip very
well, all things considered. Thirty-fiv,
of the horses have been under the veter
| inarys care, their disorders ranging
from colics and cuts due to falling
| down, to influenza and pneumonia.
One of the horses has shown sucl
| good temper and amiability that he Il
allowed many liberties. He does no
fight the other horses or even eat thei
feed, and when he gets tried he sit
| down on his launches, rests his chin ol
the manger and goes to sleep.
The horses are being unloaded an,
will be given, a rest of a week or te
days before proceeding.
The Tacoma is chartered from th
/, Alaska Packers Association by tn
Government, the charter price, it il
said, is 5000 day. She is still in com
mand, of Captain c. Peterson, who ha
been commander since the first trip
: Captain G. o. Cress of the Fourth cav
airy is the military officer in charge
: There is a detachment of thirty-eigh
/ soldiers of the Fourth cavalry abOar
to take care of the horses. DR.. II.
t Mccullough is the surgeon and there
! a hospital steward.
The horses are in charge of five far
riers under the direction of w. l.. Wi
hanson, NJ. d. ", a graduate of Nc
Killop Veterinary College, Chicago, an
a veterinary practitioner of San Fran
, cisco. He takes the greatest interest
, his charges and keeps as full and detail
ed history of each case that require
his services as is kept in hospitals fc
humankind.