Evening star., 1927-01-26
STUDBy, WAR HERO.
PLACED IN MUSEUM
Mascot of Connecticut Men in
France Heavily Loaded
With Decorations.

When they blew assembly" he
answered the call manfuily, and when
taps" sounded for him-he answered
that summons too. as a hero would.
Now. with a World War behind him,
he is to take up his final watch at
/ his last post, the museum or lhe
National Red Cross headquarters here.
He is Stubby. famous dog mascot OF
the 102d Infantry of Connecticut,
who died a year ago next month after
winning scores of military decorations
for his deeds in the trenches ana out
of them during 18 months of the
World Wars stiffest fighting.
Stubby will go on duty next MONDAY
to stand guard over other war tfo-
phies in the little museum in the paSe-
mont Of the Red Cross Building on
Seventeenth street. With hlm IN thS
glass case that is being made especial
lv for him will be placed his book, a
diary of writings and photographs OF
his war record and his various actlVl-
ties. complied for him by }. Robert
Conrov. his corporal owner IN the sefV-
ice. and who is now secretary TO Ftepfe
sentative =. Hart Fem OF connecticut
The sturdy little body. mounted now
AS Stubbv was in life, will wear piotlu
IL his famous little blanket mace loi
him in August, 1918, by ffeli.I :,
women, and since weighted ooWl VII
his medals and service cheVrons--atl''
a wound stripe.
Mounted by ID. c. Expert.
Whom he died last March, IN
Washington, where he lived thlouSl,
his old age with his war lord ana
master, Mr.. Conroy gave him TO
William l.. Brown, chief taXldermiSt
of the Smithsonian Institution, LOT
perpetuation. Mr.. Brown has mount
ed the little fellow and Wlthlh the
plaster cast that serves him as
body. the ashes of his cremeated re-
mains have been encaSed in an arr
tight metal container. And So the
only part of Stubby that is not with
him in his long trick is the blood ne
poured out on a field in the Toul
sector in March, 1918, Wheh ne
stopped piece of shrapnel.
The city of Hartford, Conn, wanted
him because it was in that state tnat
he enlisted in the Army When piS
section of it trooped into the I 1ale
Bowl, where Stubby made ms nome
as a stray dog in the summer %
1917. Boston wanted him, perhaps
hacause he looks something like a
Boston bull. But Mr.. Conroy feIt
that Stubby. as a national dog, should
be placed in a national museum.
IT remained for Mrs. Irene Given
wilson Kilner, curator of the Red
Cross Museum here, to file the win,
ming claim. Stubby liked the Red
Cross, he had sought haven IN It's
huts more than once, and the Red
Cross was kind to his wounded master
-Stubby would have chosen the Red
Cross Museum himself! And so, after
a little influence here and there ana
the idea gathering momentum as IL
rolled along from Senator to Repre-
sentative and out again among the
people. Stubby was designated to the
national headquarters museum or the
relief organization he loved.
Struggled Aboard Ship.
Stubby had to be smuggled aboard
the transport Minnesota, which sailed
from Newport News. In France, after
voyage that felled nearly all his
buddies with NAL de mer, and which
he craftily escaped, Stubby was
smuggled ashore, but once there, he
was able to get down to the legiti-
mate business of nascoting again.
Through the camps of France and
up to the line with his outfit trotted
Stubby. In the trenches he used the
discretion of any soldier and when
shell fire got pretty thick the pup
would seek a dugout like any of them
who could.
In the trenches, Stubby was a troop
dog; he played no favorites and he
was loved by every man he met. Con-
sequently when times were bad and
his particular group of buddies with
whom he went to war were separated
or missing for a period, other buddies
fed him and cared for him. When
the huddled stretcher bearers tumbled
into trenches with wounded men.
Stubby took it upon himself to admin
lister to the wounded in his own pe-
culiar way. He'd cuddle up near
them, slept with them and watched
them.
Saved Life of Soldier.
On at least one occasion he saved
a mans life, when he scurried into a
dugout just before a gas attack and
reused sleeping Sergt. John j. Cur
tin, who donned a. mask. Only once
did he suffer any real i'll effects from
gas, and then he recovered remark
ably we'll
One day in the Toul sector when
firing had almost ceased Stubby took
an excursion into no-man's land
Shrapnel burst % feet behind him and
he got piece of the metal. Tender
care, though, soon brought him back
in the line.
When his master was lying in a
hospital--base hospital 81 in Paris
Stubby was admitted over all rules
His behavior in the hospital won for
him a place in every medico's heart
When the armistice was signed
Stubby was smuggled aboard a re-
.urn ship. Back in America, the
little pup led all the American Legion
parades his legs could carry him to,
but in his later years he had to slow
up--he was about IA years old when
he died He was made a life member
Of the Red Cross, Y. NJ. c. A. and the
American Legion, he was presented to
President Coolidge and he was dec
grated by Gen. Pershing. In the
war, he fetched himself a German