Bismarck daily tribune., 1915-10-14
KNIGHTS Of GRIP .
INVADING EUROPE
American Travelling Men Sup
plant Tourists in France
and England.

T, and England.
Paris, Oct. 13.-Tne American
agent, drawn by the lure of war con
tracts and the exceptional demand
for American goods in all Lines, is he
coming one of the most familiar fig
nres of London, Paris and the other
war capitals of Europe. He is taking
the place of the American pleasure
tourist, who has almost disappeared
from the scene, and the channel boats
the great hotels and the 'boulevards
now have a goodly quota of A.neri
cans telling their stories and relating
their latest experiences N dealing
with officials over war supplies. They
are of the audacious and adventurous
type and prepared on short notice to
talk in round millions on a contract
for horses, guns. munitions, or sup
plies of any kind. -e.
Two of the new type of war con-
tractors chanced to meet at the Grand
hotel the other day, and, after the
usual greetings and inquiries about
what is your liner -,s
Canned goods" en-. 4
Doing any Ibusiness?'
"Fine; just closed big contract
with the military people Tor a war "a.
tion."
What kind of war ration?'
SWELL we call it Irish stew. in
America, but over here, since the war
began, l am calling it war ration,
and it has caught on fine VIE take a
certain portion Of meat-good firs';.
class meat and no poor stuff-and add
a portion of rice, a portion of onions,
portion Of carrots, with seasoning,
that you see makes a fine Irish stew,
but as say over here we call it a war
ration 2
"And what do you think?". he went
on. 1--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 hand grenades.
Now, that's a 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 war
ration and then as a hand grenade,
and that's what closed the contract" !"
This was told in seriousness and
was not a story Of "the road" so
that there is every reason to expect
that Mlsh stew made in America will
soon be nourishing allied troops and
afterward serving them as a .recep-
taole for explosives to Offset liquid
fire, asphyxiating gas ard other dead.
ly contrivances.
The group of American traveling
men had considerably enlarged while
this tank was going on, and one Of the
newcomers remarked: ,,s.
''1'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
pliable metal that gradually uniolded
itself into the form of a 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 and was flexible to all its
movements.
Have you noticed" he explained,
that the wounded India troops in the
streets of Lordon invariably i!iave
their right hand in sling? That is
because the Indian fighter, when he
rushes German trench, grabs the
German bayonets as they're thrust at
lim. and when the |bayonet is jerked
back it cuts an ugly dcuble-edged
wound in the Indians hand That's 3
why. half the Indian troops are in
hospitals with wounded hands.
"Now, it was to meet just such a
condition and keep the Indian on the
firing line that we got up ti.is steel
linked glove. With that on his hand
an Indian can jump in a trench and