New Britain herald., 1915-10-20

gan, I am calling it a war ration, and has caught on fife. We take a cer- tain portion of mcat--good first-class meat and no poor stuff-and add portion of rice, a portion of onions, a portion of carrots, with seasoning, that you see makes a fine Irish stew. but as I say over here we call it war ration.'
 And what do you think?" he went on. "We put up that stew in one pound tin cans, and after they eat the Irish stew they're going to use the tin cans for hanI grenades. Now that's fact, and that's where our goods appealed to these military peo- pie the most-the double use they could get out of them-first as a war ration and then as a hand grenade and that's what closed the contract Told in Seriousness. This was told in all seriousness and
 was not a story of 'the road" so that there is every reason to expect that Irish stew made in America will soon be nourishing allied troops and after ward serving them as a receptacle for explosive to offset liquid fire, asphy- xiating gas and other deadly cOntri- vances
 The group of American travelling
 men had consid Grably inlarged while ,, this talk was going on and one of the newcomers remarked:
 five got something that beats your Irish stew, but those people at the London War office wouldn't adopt it."
 Wad of PIiable Metal.
 He drew from his pocket a wad of pliable metal that gradually unfolded itself into the form of perfect glove. It was made Of minute links of steel, much as ladies' link purse is made, so that the linked~steel glove fitted to the hand was flexible to all it's move ments
 Have you noticed" he explained, that the wounded India troops in the streets of London invariably have their right hand in a sling. That iS because the Indian fighter, when he rushes a German trench, grabs the German bayonets as they're thrust at him, and when the bayonet is Jerked 1 back it cut an ugly double-ed wounds in the Indians hand. That's why half the Indian troops are in | hospitals with wounded hands. Standing in Own Light. Now it was to meet just such a 1 condition and keep the Indian on the 1 firing line that we got up this steel | linked glove. With that on his hand an Indian can jump in a trench and grab a bayonet, with no danger of a | wounded hand. But somehow those | War Office people wouldn't see it; 1 they're standing in their own light 1 for every one of those gloves would | have kept an Indian soldier at the l front"
 It appears to be the consensus of 1 opinion among the commercial men that it is very hard to do business with the average European official
 First the bureau systems make an endless amount of circumlocution and | red tape, and it is difficult to find who is the official who has the real decision. And after that the | travellers say that hide-bound conser-
 vatism stands in the way of the adop-
 ton of anything outside of old,
 well-understood models, many of
 which are out of date. They tell many i strange experiences in their efforts to , reach the right people,
 Introduction Necessary.
 T was told" said one of the trav-
 elers, that an introduction from
 prominent people was necessary to
 get you any attention. One firm ad-
 Vertised in London that they could
 furnish the right kind of introduce
 tions. I looked them up and found
 they were house agents. Then I
 heard that the Duke of - could
 give the sort of letter required. Sc
 l managed to see him, and told him | in Ll t0 +N1
 customer when we saw one, and l was so anxious to see what Brit
 lsh customer looked like that I would be willing to spend thousand dol . lars to have one introduced to me The Duke said he would be glad tC introduce the very man who had the llnal signing of contracts for my linz or goods and he would bring him tt me in two days. I waited anxiousIy the second day, but he did not come
 ana nave been waiting ever since But the Duke can do it if he wants to
 there is no doubt"
 Another representative of an eX : tenslve American industry related tn, . following experience,
 $3o6 Artillery Harness. An artillery harness for sj, horses is being furnished to one 0 the belligerent governments for S35ti
 The contract was first let as a who'll
 to an American agent at that ne price. But as the agent was not il , the harness business-this being onl one of many war contracts-he sub , let it to another contractor who mad a speciality in horses but not in har ness, so that he in turn sub-let tn } | contract to us. Now I was able t go to these government people an, say to them that I would furnish thi six-horse artillery harness at $318 in
 stead of 1856, and also would giv