New Britain herald., 1927-01-12

" at a service baseball game.
 the front TOW shouted, Make him a top sergeant" and this is how the old fellow who died last Sunday came by his chcvrons.
 Though Jiggs had attained the ripe old age of 8, pretty high in the kingdom of dogdom, since specimen of the bull rarely if ever live be- yond 10 years, his death, neverthe- less, was considered premature by marines who were in close contact with him; for they figured that old Jiggs was one of those institutions might be, go on forever.
 800 Marines In Mourning.
 500 marines at Quantico are in mourning for Jiggs. This is not the full quota usually stationed at this post. Otherwise there would be $500 of his buddies mourning his loss down there tonight. At the time Jiggs decided to shake the earthly cares off his shoulders, most of the men who had grown attached to him were away from the old bailiwick; 2500 of them were doing duty throughout the 4S states guard ing the mails; another batch was ploughing it sway through the Gulf stream going 10 Nicaragua where there are momentous happenings; still another complement was on the high seas headed for the tropical posts in South America and out of the-way stations in China. All ma rine posts and ships were notified by radio of Jiggs' death.
 Old Jiggs was a buddy to almost every man at Quantico, especially the sergeants, and more especially the top kicks. He was quite a so- ciable cuss. Every night he made the rounds-an old rounder. He started at one end of the post and went to the other, visiting all his old cronics spending five or six minutes with each: If he failed to show up at any given time, there was anX- iety on the part of the men and a search for Jiggs. This all came un- der the head of routine, in a way, and was what might be known as the private life of Sergeant Major Jiggs His public career was what seemed to interest him most; he was more at home with the multitudes- a dog among men and women.
 Wherever he went Jiggs attracted attention. He accompanied the marine baseball and football teams on all their journeys, north, east, south and west. He cheered for them, pulled for them, parked heavily over their victories, grit his teeth in the face of their defeat. It was said of Jiggs that he had fine sense of intuition; that he knew in stinctively when the team, baseball or football, was going to win or lose. Members of the football team swear that whenever a touchdown was about to be scored old Jiggs imme- diately began to chew on bench; that ho divined the impending score even before spectators, officials or participants knew what was coming.
 There is an old side line bench that does duty in the biggest ath- letic stadium in Washington and one end of this has been completely chewed off by Jiggs. It is the bench that did duty when the Marines wal loped the army in football to the tune of 27-7. AS soon as touch- downs started coming, or were on their way, Jiggs began chewing the bench.
 Full Rcgalia In Public
 Tn all his public appearances, Jiggs was in full regalia. He wore with pride his chevrons of a sergeant ma jor, the highest rank held by a non- Down at Quantico, there is an official service record book, which was closed with a final entry today, wherein is inscribed all of Jigg's mill itary record. There was kept en- tries of his travels. and the allow ances and pay duly accorded him as q cog in the great machinery of the marines.
 When Jiggs travelled. he went Tn state. Always, on trains where there was an overnight jump, he rode in the Pullman cars. His sleeping quarters were in the smoker where usually the grinning Georges shake down the scat and turn it into cot for their own comfort: but one look at Jiggs and any self-respecting porter always made a nasty exit from the smoker and usually was never seen until the train reached it's des- tination or Jiggs got off. Conse- ouently, whenever the officers and men of Quantico travelled with Jiggs they were always minus the services of a Pullman porter.
 With his service cap. tipped rak- ishly over his right eye, the brilliant brass of his collar shined to the