Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-09-04
EXCHANGE MEN IN
FIGHTING RANKS
Former Friends and Associates
Are Now Opposing Each
-.A Other

British Army Headquarters III
France, Correspondence Of the AS
sociatel Press), Sept. 2.-"We are in
sight of the trenches at last said a
private in what is known as the Stock
Exchange Battalion of Of the regi-
ments OF the New British Army. ITS
been a long pull in a hard market.
BuG we never missed getting our shil-
ling a day and our wives have got
their separation allowances regu-
larly."
There are ~privates in the Stock Elk
change Battalion who have names
we'll known in the world of finance.
Some of them :lave subscribed for
tunes to the latest war loan.
"At home I have three bathrooms
in my house and sixteen bedrooms"
said one. "Out here | am glad to
stand up in line with a towel over my
shoulder and take my turn with the
washbasin. AS for sleeping on straw
in a barn it is paradise after a hard
march. l suppose we will get these
other things, too, like everybody else
does in the trenches"
Bound to, though you have ten
thousand a year." remarked another.
Maybe you have one in your shirt,
now"
'What interests U.s." said a divi-
sional staff officer, lis not that they
are Stock Exchange men, but are tley
good soldiers?'
Many speak German as a result OF
international financial relations.
cit would be odd," said one, IF i
should be shooting at Kaufman who
is on the Eerlin Exchange. We went
to school together in Germany
Not all in the Stock Exchange bat
talon are affluant or members of the
exchange, but all were recruited
from the stock exchange district. AS
they march along a road in France,
laden with dust, the twenty-five dol
lars a week clerk and the big broker
are elbow to elbow and the observer
can not tell one from the ether.
There is another battalion compos-
ed of artists, architects, musicians,
and men of kindred callings. Many
officers have been promoted both
from the ranks of artists rifles and
the Stock Exchange battalion. Then
there are battalions Of miners, sports
men and companies from the am
factory ana groups of friends who en-
listed in a body in order to be to-
gether during the campaign.
officers who have been in the fight
ing since the retreat FROM Mons are
saying that the new army is changing
t:e whole face of life at tie front.
I'VE regulars all knew one an.
ether" one explained. "We were a
sort of family. When an officer was
killed if he were net an old pal at
least you knew who he was. The
nerves en- the casualty lists CT the
new army Will be strangers
Promotion has been rapid. Boys OF
nineteen who began as second lieuten-
ants in the new army are now first
lieutenants. There are captains who
are scarcely Of age. One officer meets
another who was a major when he
last saw him and finds that he is now
a brigadier-general or "Brig-Gen." in
army parlance.
Seeing a sign of a corps %headqrar-
tiers painted so well that it looked as
if it had been carved into the wood.
a passedby knew at once that it was
the work of a new army man who was
a professional sign painter. Be il a
lawyer, ? plumber, a bookkeeper, a
carpenter, a taller or all engineer
that is wanted one is always forth
coming from the ranks Of the new az
my. The British regular, as a rule,
knew only the trade of soldering.