New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1908-06-03
4 CHARGERS SCHOOL
Where Horses Are to Be Trained
In Cavalry Tactics.
TEST OF THREE-YEAR-0LDs

Best Trainers Will Be Employed at
Remount Station to Be Established
| at Fort Reno, Okla, to Break In
Steeds For United States Army-No
| Rough Handling Allowed.
A kindergarten school for army
horses, a general training post for the
cavalry service, is an experiment to
| be tried out by the United States gov
eminent. Herds of three year-old horses
| gathered from all parts of the land.
unbroken to bride, saddle or harness,
are to be shipped to old Fort Reno and
/ given lessons in what to do This
is the order OF j. B. Aleshire. quarter
master general of the United States
army.
| Instead of a general military post.
| picturesque old Fort Reno is to be
| made 'remount station" place
| where new mounts will be provided
for cavalrymen. says an Ell Reno CORE
| spondent of the Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
1t is proposed to turn out more than
LOCO head of horses and mules each
| year ready for the military. The cav
alrymen who have been stationed at
the fort have gone to other posts, and
just as soon as stables can be built the
horse school will open. By July l the
three-year-olds are expected to be on
the reservation, and the tanning will
begin. England and France have re-
mount stations, but Uncle Sam has
never attempted them before. If the
one at Fort Reno proves a success it
is probable that all horses and mules
IN the United States will hereafter go
through their course in school before
graduating into regular army life.
"a horse usually lasts about seven
years in the service" said Captain
Letcher Hardeman who is at Fort
Reno arranging for the opening of
the school. "a mule is good for ten
years. The contractors who have fur
nlshed the army horses have been buy
ing them between the ages Of four and
eight years. Our experiment will be
with three-year-olds.
"There'll be no broncho busters here.
We don't care for any man who would
mount three-year-old, sock a pair of
roWels into it's side and fight it until
it's broken in spirit and broken in
heart. That kind of breaking may do
on the plains, but it won't do for the
United States army. A good cavalry
horse must have cavalryman's spirit.
Nor will the cayalrymen themselves do
the breaking. This work will be in the
hands Of civilians, under the supervi-
sion of army officers.
The best trainers we can find will
be employed. After the horses have
been broken cavalrymen will teach
i them the game of war. No animal is
to be roughly handled Kind treatment
goes long way with a horse in cult
waiting good disposition.
eve believe there Is economy in q
remount station. Not only will we get
a better, more desira BILE lot OF horses,
but by taking them as three-year-olds
we viii get from one to five years
more service from them than when we
took them four to eight years old
They may be bought cheaper too. A
rebellious, unwilling horse can almost
disrupt cavalry movement, and the
sooner 1t has I. C.'-inspected. con-
demned-branded on its side the bet
ter off that troop of cavalry is"
Captain Hardeman says that not a
great many horses are condemned for
y1ciousness, but occasionally one entire
~ unfit for use is got rid of.
I About sixty men will be employed at
the Fort Reno station, and they expect
! to break in 800 or 900 head of horses
and from 300 to 400 head of mules each
year. The old barracks at Fort Reno
have practically been abandoned for
! months. The fort is on d reservation
over which bands Of Cheyenne and
Arapahoe Indians still rove, but they
commit no depredations. The Darling
ton agency is just few miles distant,
and Lo is careful that he does nothing
which might prevent him from draw
ing his quarterly pay. He remembers,
!, too, the Indian police, mounted on fast
ponies, who feel the Importance of
their blue uniforms and brass buttons.
Captain Hardeman recently finished
checking up the supplies which have
been stored in the old fort and has
shipped them away to other depots.
! Only few caretakers are now at the
post. and their chief duty lies in wan
dering about the deserted barracks.
waiting for the new sta bles to be built
and the horses to come. Lively times
/; are expected then
Scent In Ribbon Bows.