Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-04-08

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tion Of the sick, or rescue purposes,
or for the general public welfare-by
physicians, veterinarians and the like.
Though permits may be issued for
the automobile buses. Berlin, antici-
pa.es that these soon will vanish from
the streets. Already all but three
lines have been abolished, the with
drawn vehicles being used for mill
tary. purposes.
London, Apr. Tea, coffee and
soups are now offered in the ordinary
bar room in England, and many of the
saloons keep open long after the hours
when the sale of alcoholic liquors is
forbidden, offering their patrons soft
drinks of various kinds, but mostly
these three favorites, tea, coffee and
soup.
1t is generally predicted that the
English public house" of the future
will bear a closer resemblance to the
Continental cafe in it's provision of re-
freshment counters which will super
sede the bar.
The saloon keeper in many places
finds that by providing this character
of refreshment he is able to draw a
considerable amount of trade from the
cheap restaurant ard tea-room, many
men regarding the atmosphere of the
saloon as more "~clubbable" than the
more formal and pretentious restaur-
ant. Moreover beer, with the added
war duty, has become somewhat ex-
pensiye for the working man, who
finds that a pot Of tea, withunlimited
quantities of no water TO. dilution,
serves about the same purpose to the
inner man, as twice o rHthrice the same
moneys worth of beer or spirits.
Panama, April May probably
will e several changes in the engi-
neering personnel of the Canal force.
Lieut.. Albert H. Acher, u. S. A., will
retire from the position Of assistant
engineer in charge of Notifications,
which position he has held snce the de-
narture of First Lieut.. George r. Goe-
thals, u. s. A., who now is assigned
as an instructor at the United States
Military Academy, and will be- sue
|ceeded by C.fP. Darlington who has
been the assistant to Mr.. Acher On the
Atlantic fortifications.
Another change will be that of Cap
tain r. E. Wood, u. 8. A., building
quartermaster. He has been on the
|isthm,is for about nine years. 1t is un.
derstood he will retire from the army
to engage in commercial pursuits. He
will be succeeded probably by George
M. Wells, present head of the Munich
pal Engineering Division.
London, April THE old Spanish,
way Of holding the rife overhead in
firing from a trench 50 as to endanger
only the hands of the firer, a method
whach has caused foreign observers
to ridicule the fighting of cponish-
American armies and which made the
fire Of the insurrectionists SO iIsffec-
tive in the PHILIPPINE war, has been
adopted by the British army. But it
is not the h%aphazard fire, for the aim
ing is done by p%eriscope.
instructors are now employed in the
English training camps to teach this
method of firing, which requires a
new technique. These men have as
tonished sceptical officers by making
shots that would be creditable u a
~sharpshooter under the old method of
holding the eye to the sight. Just
how it is done is not explained, but it
is known that the gun is held at arms
length in the air, upside down.
Both sides are now directing a
heavy continuous fire upon each 9TH
er, and the men killed ana wounded in
the trenches are almost always struck
on the head.