DUKE OF WELLINGTON ON TIN AND IRON KETTLES.
® writer of "Sub Rosa," in the Daily News and Leader" (L-ondon) includes in that column some remarks upon the marvellous amount of interest the Duke of Wellington was wont to taiie in such small details as the use, by his men, of kettles made of iron or of tm. The letter, written to General Uraurord, is so long that it would fill the greater part of a. column with close print. The lirst sentence, says the writer of the column, shows what it was that was occupying the mind of this most careful of commanders: "My Dear General,—l have been for some time very anxious respecting a part of what forms the subject of your fetter of the 26th—I mean camp
And then Wellington goes on to deal with the controversy -that then raged between the two schools of thoughtUe champions of tho tin and of the iron kettles. Wellington had evidently been mentaUy wrestling with this Z biem, and he shows his open and candid disposition m this remark at the out-
"There is much to be said on both sides of the question respecting the description of kettle which . . poldieS ought to have, and as the iron kettle 5 the best for cooking and lasts longest and moreover as the use of that descnption . of kettle requires the employment of fewer men in cookinothe choice between them resolves itself mto this_ point which is most likely to v of ata, t t'?P" OMi ' !r " 8,1
Here wo have a recognition of the fon vS W V ?ny k6t - tle is better th2 non. out Wellington is car-'ful to admit that much may be said on both sides of the question. Speaking as a man of vast experience, and as ono who was 'always 011 the snot" and who saw everything for himself,". Wellington winds up his careful survey of the whole matter in this wav:
" Upon the whole, therefore; I prefer the iron kettles to tho tin for general purposes; but I have 110 objection to try the latter in some of our best_ regiments in order to see how the experiment may answer/'
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11217, 24 October 1914, Page 1
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