New-York tribune., 1919-01-12
old HINDENBURG
FIXED FOR Lift
Ex-Cerman Artillery Hon,
Booked for New Hamp.
shire Farm
WHINNIES AT SENTRY BOX
But Landwehr Guard Doesn't Com.
Out With Carrot-Good
as Pack Carrier

How to get one chestnut horse, weigh.
1850 pounds, back to New Hampshire is the
problem that is giving one machine gun bat.
talon as much thought as is the question
Of when that battalion is going to return.
Somehow-it can't be figured out just now
that horse must be in the line when the bat.
talon marches through the streets of Con.
cord or Manchester on its triumphant re-
turn.
For Old Hindenburg = what are name
and nationality and sex when it comes to
naming a horse has been on the roll of
tbs outfit now for two months; ne has gone
into battle with it; he has eaten when times
were good and rations plentiful, hay as well
as corned willie, and hungered the same as
the men when the ration carts and supply
trucks fell behind in the advance Manv
machine gun man remembers Old linden
burg's back as a sanctuary at time when
he feared he would have to fall out because
Of foot WEAKNESS.
Hindenburg never crossed the Atlantic
He lived on the other side of the Rhine for
the greater part of his young horse life.
and he Joined the battalion wholly by ac
cident on one of those thrilling days when
the German army was moving back through
the Argonne and the new armies of Amer
lea were pressing on.
Hindenburg Comes to Life
Dead horses are thick on every battlefield
road, but New Hampshire farmer, touched
by the sight of miles of animal wastage
felt thrill of genuine sorrow when he saw
two huge horses lying side by side in their
traces in front of German artillery lin
ber. He mechanically kicked at the near
est hoof and then up rose Hindenburg,
floundering with the weight of the harness
that linked him to the wagon pole and the
dead horse on the other side. A high ex-
plosive fragment had stopped the other
horse, but Old Hindenburg had not been
touched
Hindenburg- they chrstened him on the
spot-had no objections at all to Joining the
Battalion. He proved his worth right away
when they loaded on his platform-like back
a half dozen heavy packs. Like the we'll
'rslned horse he was, he simply fell into
the column and went plodding along An
officer, growing curious, expressed some
doubts as to the legality of Hindenburgs
requirement, but Hindenburg's farmer
friend explained the difficulty away.
"He just followed US, sir" said the New
Hampshire boy.
No Chance for ArtilIerymen
Wherever the machine gunners went. Hin
denburg went, too. Days of shelling and
fearful nights of moving in the darkness
found the big chestnut horse ALWAYS ready
TO carry wounded man to an aid post or
to give lift to three or four wearied or
spent soldiers. If they could, the battalion
would vote D. S. c. to the big horse and
they have always been watchful lest some
avaricious artillery outfit take him away
Yes, sir, we're going to take Hindenbure
back with u.s. said the New Hampshire
boy. who had just come out of the hospital,
the shell wound in his back healed perfectly.
"As fast as this train will take me, Pm going
back to the outfit, and | know III find him
waiting for me. I want to give him home
for life back on the old farm