Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-03-23

most Of the grain is up country and
that means of transport are lacking,
while others state that as soon as
the route is declared safe for navi-
cation very large shipments will be
arranged, provided there is any tom
mage available.
Inquiries have already been made
for loading from both Russian and
Rumanian ports and 40 to 80 shillings
per ton is about the rate expected to
be charged for ch~artering vessels tt
the United Kingdom or Continent
when the grain begins to move.
Since the commencement Of the
bom%bardment prices Of grain general
ly here and in the provinces havs
been distinctly easter.
Berlin, March 22.-Indicative Of the
| speed with which the Germans are
rebuilding and repairing the bridges
in France that were destroyed in az
| effort to check their advance in the
earlier days of the war, DR.. Hans Els
ele, just returned from the 'front.'
cites the case Of a bridge near -Four
mics, IT'S meters in length, which has
been restored within 25 days.
For this work was needed $50 cubic
meters Of wood that had to be fellet
and hauled from the forest, some OF j
from a considerable distance. On thu
day Of his visit to the bridge, DR.
Eisele found it lined with fir trees
in honor of the kaiser's birthday, ant
equipped with great barrels of wate1
for use In case an effort should bt
made to burn it down aRaan.
Eight guards, constntly changing
watch the structure to prevent an!
inhabitant of Fourmies from undolnE
the work of the Germans. Militar!
trains used it exclusively, as they d.
most of the territory now occupied
by Germany in France, though civil
ians with the proper passes are abb
to travel by rail. I'd
Another bridge rebuilt in UNUSUAL!
short time is that over the Tnon, nea'
Origny. This structure was destroyer
by the French in 1870, and rebuilt
only in three years. In the process
of reconstruction, it is claimed, dyna
mite chambers we're installed to per
nit Of its easy destruction again il
case of necessity. When this tool
place the gigantic blocks OF ston'
were thrown into the valley, dammin|
up the river and making a lake Q
the valley. This 230-meter-long, 20
meter-high bridge has been rebuilt il
the space Of "a days, and is nov
available for all trains.
Berlin, March 22.-Some new lights
are shed upon the personality Of thu
now famous Field Marshal o Hind
enburg in a sketch of him brought GU
by a Berlin publisher.
He was not a particularly promisint
pupil in his early school days it ap
rears. When che left his first schoo
at GlogalI$atsa 1se age of twelve to en-
ter a military school his certificate
mertirned%that he had failed to COM
up to requirements in mathematics
the branch which is regarded as espe
cially The basis of a military educa
ton. Though HnGenburg is now de
scriheG IS a man Of few words, hi
certificate at that time said that talk
ing ton much in school, was the onl,
exception 70 his otherwise god behav
Tor. His standing in Latin, German
French and geography, however, wa
just good enough to pass him, and 81
the teachers recommended him TO
promotion at the military school an
sent him on his way with Gods bless
ing"
In 1854 when The boy saw his eide
companions gowing away to the Oar
ish var he was impatient to join them
his military ambition having alread
been kndled. When about to start tw
years later to win his spurs in the wa
against Austria he wrote to his nal
ents: 1T is high time that the Hind
] epburgs again smelt gunpowder. L