Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-22
A CORDIAL GREETING
Accorded to the Oriental Congress by
the City of Stockholm.
VICTIMS OF EAGER CURIOSITY.
No Official American Delegate Present on
the Occasion.
TAKING TEA WITH The ROYAL FAMILY

CORRESPONDENCE THE DIsPATCH.I
STOCKHOLM, September 6.-"Salve r'
was the greeting spelled out in blazing gas
jets which met the members of the Oriental
Congress as they landed in Malmo, the first
entrance to Sweden, whose King and people
are showing a royal hospitality which seems
absolutely to have no limits. We were
hardly prepared for the sensation which
our arrival had created at Malmo, for the
whole population turned out into the streets
and packed the approaches to the station in
such a way that it was a hand-to-hand fight
to get through the masses of people, and
once there the most forcible Oriental remi-
niscence was of the Tower of Babel, as the
night air resounded with an assortment of
most of the mouern languages, and the
polyglot company got possession of its
effects and made its way to the special train
for Stockholm.
As we came slowly into Stockholm on
Saturday noon, we found the approaches
lined with flags, and an orderly mass of
school children waved us welcome from the
steps Of a large public school, and gave
cheers for the Orientalists. The crowds here
were larger than at Malmo They filed the
station, packed the square outside, climbed
on carriages and horseblocks and gazed
through opera-glasses from surrounding
roofs and balconies. hope that they were
rewarded for their waiting, for one couldn't
help feeling that, like WOrdsworth's gazers
through the telescope, they had vague look
of dissatisfaction with the phenomenon, and
it can hardly be said that the company
which came out of the train after its all
night ride was brilliant looking one.
At any rate popular interest has not de-
clined, Tor all day Sunday the crowd stood be-
fore the Grand Hotel watching all who came
and went. Our Moorish and Arabian dele
gates carried off most of the honors of the
pOpulace, which became a good deal of a
burden, as they could not stir outside the
hotel without being followed by crowds of
people. AS L was buying some stationery
the other morning 1 was little surprised
at seeing the shop girl suddenly throw down |
the paper which she had in her hand, and |
rush into the back apartments to bring out |
the whole household to the street.
A POPULAR GENTLEMAN.
The cause of this was one of our Moors, |
sttired in ali the glory of his white bur-
moose, attended by two policemen and fol- |
lowed by voluntary bodyguard of about |
300. The opening of the Congress by the
King in state took place on Monday noon
in the Riddarhuset, the palace of the
the Swedish nobility, in which the Estate
of the Mobiles held its meetings in the DAYS
of the old regime. 1t is an imposing build
ing, with its peculiarly built roof, adorned
with statues and with Latin inscriptions in
tall letters running around the frieze.
Great preparations had already been made
to put this historic structure in order for its
guests.
The moth-eaten cloth hangings of the last
century were replaced by new ones, and in
front OF the building was set up a line of
standards, topped with sphinxes, and bear
ing the shields and flags of all nations rep
resented in the gathering-among them the
Stars and Stripes were conspicuous. Over