Show OLD FIRE DOG IS PENSIONED pet that followed engines engine on every call Is spending his HI declining years year at summer retort resort brooklyn N I 1 dearing bearing the marks marh ot of many wounds received in honorable service mi vice and having passed the age aga limit at which retirement la is compulsory pul sory Bory mack the erstwhile mascot at brooklyn rooklyn Il fire headquarters has been retired on a pension and la in passing hla his declining years at a hotel on shelter island ti I 1 where he la Is disproving the adae that an old dog cannot be taught new tricks mack has ban become a buff of the shelter island fire department but cannot find enough exercise in the task to keep in physical condition instead of running to a fire a dozen times a day as he bo did when at the brooklyn fire headquarters mack now I 1 fr lucky it if he be has a call to a fire once a month when tho the time han ban heavily he amuses visitors at the hotel by running 1 up a ladder with the agility of A fireman when warren schneider tho the brooklyn fireman who wat waa counted as an macks macka best beat friend sent bent him to the hotel schneider said eald lie be did not believe mack would live a month so BO far away from fire headquarters but michael made a bet with schneider that not only the mascot bould live but that ho be was not too old to learn a now new trick mark mack has fulfilled the prediction henry Walt walther ber proprietor ot of the hotel writes to schneider that mack Is 1 a big favorite with the visitors ho has bag taught the th tire dug dog to extinguish lighted cigars and cigarettes thrown on the hotel veranda and to play dead and chase a ball with the children mack had many escapes from death when be h was waa running with the brooklyn firemen once he be was waa run ran over by the chiefs wagon and a policeman was about to end life hla agony when I 1 firemen interfered and saved hla his life many times he be has been kicked by the horses but always recovered under prompt surgical treatment |