Show Veteran Ends Life of Service I y j 4 c r r f f I J j j t t S 4 i w LAi WM Q S S 'S rW Freddie and Pat Stack Their Last Picture To Together Aged Horse Comes to End Of Long Life Friend of Children Dead of Senility at Hospital I Freddie one time wagon ice wagon horse who vho had lived through an attack I of pneumonia was dead Wednesday I of causes incident to age The sad eyed steed died at the Holy loly Cross hospital grounds where he had been retired on a pension Although swa swaybacked backed and wheezy Freddie was a spirited steed to the children o of the neighborhood For years they had eagerly clambered upon his back while he stood patiently patiently pa- pa before launching into his stride rhythmically swaying with dignity over the hospital grounds about half a mile mUe an hour What's more Freddie had had hadlis his lis picture in the papers He was photographed while giving his celebrated celebrated cele- cele rated imitation of a horse laugh His age was uncertain 20 or 25 years years rears but he had long ago reached the he age of senility for horses Yet he ie bore with good grace the ignominy my iny ny of pulling a lawnmower He received his remuneration each afternoon afternoon af- af as he waited at the South Temple street fence for the school kinds P. P H. H Goggin city commissioner o of parks and public property who turned Freddie over to the hospital hospital hos- hos pital always considered it a miracle that hat his faithful charger had survived survived sur sur- pneumonia Many a a. better S horse has succumbed Tho The end came quietly Despite the ministrations of a veterinary surgeon and his manager Pat Stack hospital he gave up the ghost I |