Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 January 1919 — EMULATES HORATIUS OF OLD [ARTICLE]

EMULATES HORATIUS OF OLD

Chaplain Holds the Bridge as Bravely as Did Captain. Cleveland, O. —“Horatius at the Bridge” had nothing on Rev. James-M. Hanley of Cleveland, chaplain of a regiment in France. According to stories drifting back from the front, the chaplain was wounded while holding a bridge the Huns sought to take. As it is related here by friends of the former priest, a captain and a few soldiers were detailed to hold the bridge against heavy odds. The captain said it couldn’t be done without more men. “Why, I can hold that bridge with a club,” Hanley is said to have declared. “Then do it,” the captain answered as he hurried off for re-enforcements. The soldiers, inspired by the action of the chaplain, rallied around him and held the contested bridge until the captain returned with more men and made the bridge safe, ~