New Britain herald., 1916-04-03

| done the studying for he is a pr gious worker at all times. Remembers Faces.
 Mackensen rarely forgets q nj
 or a face, and years after med
 junior officers astonishes them calling them by name when med 1 them again. Few know it, but MI ensen rivals Hindenburg in hisI innate knowledge of his native ll 1 and has travelled and studied sol ! tensively that he instantly rd nizes any given place from it's sical characteristics
 Contrary to general belief Ml ensen is the best part of a comj and lacks the repelling sternness E l which lesser men barricade ts | selves. Off and on since 1870 hel been connected with the Del 1 Head Hussars, and today is l general la suite. No officer has proachable. There are countless l on record of financial and othel l that he had rendered, though ns ] man of wealth, to men of his pany, brigade or regiment. Mackensen's early training oS l farm or country estate instilleda him a love of the open and for lI
 ing that have always stayed by Though almost 67 years old hes l never been i'll a day and Is so ss uous a worker that his youngerN E ficerS often have hard work in l ing up to the pace that he sets. His principal aversion is the sS CT, including the man who, thH not actually lodging work, likS take things easy and perhaps indulge in the creature comforN 1 too prone to laze over his afterN ! ner cigar or liqueur has not an l time of 1t. ! Doesn't Smoke. | Mackensen himself does not siN l because, according to report, oN ! occurrence in the Franco Prl8 war. He was at the time l commissioned officer in one of M I famous Black Hussar regiments ' | was entrusted with important l munications that had to be cs@ l to a neighboring staff. The tri l long, hard and dangerous, but ! portant in proportion.
 ! He arrived in time to find thu at the conclusion of 0 dinner, in a very peevish mood because 1 were no cigars on hand. | Mackensen tried to impress oDi ! officers the importance of hRS l sage, their primary thought wa 1 something to smoke and they ! ignored the despatches in askin \ whether he had any cigars with I As a matter of fact, Mackensd happen to have a number, but Il so angry at the action of his su officers in putting personal co \ above military matters that he& only did not give away his "sn # ] but never thereafter smoked hi or tolerated undue waste of ti M l this way by his later subordina | ChivaliouS As We'll. Another anecodtc of Macb ! early career is equally characu ! of the determination and the cf l which his intimates know .so we was a student at the uniyerSft l Halle, and the leader of his He and his fellow students ca ! know a talented young actres l her mother, and learned from 1 latter that the daughter was SC handicapped by the chicanery l theater manager, who not on ] pressed her every effort 10 az l but insulted and bothered he W l well. M Instead of making the mat 1 personal issue between himsel 1 the manager, as most othej l blooded young students Ynigh 1 done Mackensen was far nor l Iornatic. He assembled the 1 student body which flower went to the theater and overwl
 the actress with applaus and W
 ouets. There ensured so mud 1 vorable publicity that the m had to recede from his position
 give the actress the opportuni
 had sought
 Hardly an ex-comrade of M sen but can testify to some pc act of kindness, some help emergency that the latter has ed. It is these seldom-told of officers which the public
 ever hears that most of all disf impression that the field mars stern and forbidding and proachable.
 Mackensen's most prominent perhaps, has been his unl strong filial devotion and loya has been his custom for year writ his aged mother the first
 each Sunday morning, and or
 Years Day. So far as is knol
 has never neglected this self-i
 task as much as once, regarl
 where he has been or und
 circumstances he has had