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...affairs of kidnapping, information concerning the whereabouts of Handsome Daniel II, is both obscure and veiled by equivocal voices. He is here, he is there, he is everywhere--and his absconders are not to be found. News dispatches circulate the report that all Yale bewails the loss of her mascot, and that copious tears flow from the eyes of undergraduates as they reenter their Gothic cloisters empty of hand. No single student at Yale will rest peacefully until the pup is returned...
Against such a background Walter Wellman became the talk of two continents when in 1910 he attempted to fly from Atlantic City to Europe in the rebuilt America, with a crew of five and a mascot kitten. The America had a bag 228 ft. long filled with hydrogen generated from sulphuric acid and iron filings. She carried a long control car, the keel of which was a cylindrical fuel tank. From it were suspended a lifeboat and a long cable trailing a cluster of 30 hollow steel cylinders. This last device, called an "equilibrator," was supposed to touch the water...
...other unit of cavalry infantry, or artillery. Gradually, the mule became associated, in the minds of the people, with the doughboys: "As stubborn as an Army mule" became a popular slogan. So it wasn't strange that the West Point cadets, when they were looking around for a mascot, chose the mule...
Much of the romance leaves the mascot, however, when we discover each game brings a different representative. While the traditional Army Mule munches his fodder down on the Hudson, local dandies of the species, vie for the honor of performing in the Stadium. This week, it is reported, Emma, who has spent a tedious life hauling garbage in Boston streets, and the only mule in the city, was all brushed and rested in expectation of a sure appointment, when her hopes were dashed by the choice of a younger mule from Fort Devens...
With discipline relaxed the pilots amused themselves like college footballers on the eve of a Big Game. One restless fellow laid hold of Marco, the squadron's donkey mascot, painted zebra stripes on him. Others held a mock election for the recipient of an ivory plaque carved with the figure of an eagle clutching the Italian flag in its mouth. The plaque had been sent by a girl in Rome to "the pilot who has no sweetheart." The pilots elected Lieut. Cadringheri, and all autographed a picture of one of the squadron's seaplanes to send...