Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-10-21
AMERICAN AGENT
NOW A FAMILIAR
FIGURE ABROAD
An Sorts Of Travelling Men
Busy Reaching or Trying
n Reach BeIIigerent Gov
enne0t'S Buying Officials,


paris oct 3-The American agent
I'm "a the lure OF war contracts
fha exceptional demand for
s american goods IN an lines. is becom-
nrs of the most familiar figures
oC London. Paris and the other war
INITIALS of Europe He is taking the
Mace of the American pleasure tour
who has almost disappeared from
me scene and the channel boats, the
st hotels and the boulevards now
have a goodly quota of Americans
..rinr their stories and relating their
i,test experiences i'm dealing with Of
Gsisls over war supplies. They are
~ thc audacious and adventurous
tyne and prepared on short notice to
AK In round millions on a contract
for horses, guns, munitions, or sup
Mics Of any kind,
Two Of the new type of war con-
tractors CHANGED to meet at the Grand
Hotel the other day, and after the
nsual greetings and Inquiries about
home. one Of them asked the other
what is your line?'
Canned goods
"Doing any business 2'
ZINE. lust closed a big contract
with the military people for war ra-
aWhat kind Of war ration?"
Irish stew "War Ration
"Well. we call ii an Irish stew In
America. but over here since the war
began ] am calling it a war ration,
ana It has caught on fine. We take
certain portion of meat-goOd first
class meat and no poor stuff--and add
portion of rice, a portion Of onions,
portion of carrots. with seasoning,
that you see make a fine Irish stew,
hut as say over here we call 1t a war
ration
And what do you think ?" he went
on 1--WE put up that stew in one
pound tin cans. ana after they eat the
Irish stew they're going to use the
tin cans for hand grenades. Now that
sa fact, and that's where our goods
appealed to these military people the
most-the double use they could get
out of them-first as a war ration end
then as a hand grenade. and that s
what closed the contract
This was told in all seriousness and
was net a story of the road, so that
there is every reason to expect that
Irish stew made in America will be
nourishing allied troops and after
ward serving them as a receptacle for
explosives TO offset liquid fire, as
phyNating gas and other deadly con-
triyances.
Metal Link Gloves.
The group Of American travelling
men had considerably enlarged while
this talk was going on, and one Of the
newcomers remarked
I've got something that beats your
Irish stew, but those people at the
London war office wouldn't adopt it,
He drew from his pocket wad OF
pIiable metal that gradually unfolded
itself into the form Of a perfect glove
II was made of minute links of steel
much as a ladies Link purse is made, Sc
that the linked-steel glove fitted &c
the hand and was flexible 10 all its
movements
Have you noticed" he explained
that the wounded Indian troops "
the streets Of London invariably have
their right hand in a sling. That !!
because the Indian fighter, when h'
PUSHES German trench, grabs The
German bayonets as they're thrust a
him. and when the bayonet is 1erkeC
back it cuts an ugly double-edge(
wound in the Indians hand. That
why half the Indian troops are in hos
pitfalls with wounded hands.
Now it was to meet just such
condition and keep the Indian on thu
firing line that We got up this steel
linked glove With that on his han'
an Indian can jump in a trench an
grab a bayonet, with no danger Of
wounded hand But somehow thos
war office people wouldn't see it. the
are standing in their own light, 70
every one Of those gloves would hav
Kept an indian soldier at the front
10 appears to he the consensus o
opinion among the commercial me-
that it is very hard to do bushes
with the average European officia
FIRST the bureau systems make al
endless amount of circumlocution an
red tape, and it is difficult to find on
who is the official who has the rea
decision, And after that the travel
erS say that hide bound conservatism
stands in the way of the adoption o
anything outside Of old well-under
stood models, many Of which are GU
OF date. They tell many strange eN
periences in their efforts to reach tn
right people.
Many Forms of Graft
was told said one of the tray