Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-09-17
AMONG THE FJORDS
And Glaciers in Land of the Mid
night Sun.
Interesting Interview With Hon. J. Manchester
Haynes On His Trip.

Haynes On His Trip.
Hon. J. Manchester Haynes, who re-
turned q few days ago from Europe, was
seen Saturday, and finally consented to be
interviewed briefly on some of the most in
teresting features of his trip. quite portion
of which was through parts of the country
that the average American tourist does not
visit.
Mr.. Haynes is a very busy man with all
the different interests that divide his atten-
ton and engross his time. His invariable
accessibility, however, leads people to think
that he always has time at bis disposal.
But a JOURNAL interviewer found that
his was not trifling task and not un-
til Saturday when he met Mr.. Haynes leav-
ing the bank did he secure the opportunity
desired.
81 presume all you want is for me to say
enjoyed the trip exceedingly and close
with brief list of some of the places Wis
tied, remarked Mr. haynes.
This was not what the interviewer want
ed, but an account told with as much detail
as Mr.. Haynes would and as entertainingly
as is his wont, and the reporter so intimat-
ed.
81 sailed from New York, May 81, for
Hamburg" said Mr.. Haynes, "and from
Hamburg went directly to Berlin and to
Dresden. / met my daughters, Marion
and Hope, at Dresden" The Misses
Haynes have been in. Berlin, Miss Hope at
school, and Miss Haynes studying music
and the languages, the past year.
"From Dresden" continued Mr.. Haynes,
1--WE went together to Kiel, to witness the
German regatta. We also saw the young
Prince Adelbert commissioned in the Ger
man navy. This took place on the parade
grounds, in the presence of very large
and distinguished audience. The Emperor
of Germany and the Empress were present,
also Prince Henry, the brother of the
Emperor, who is at the head of the Ger
man navy, and his wife, the Princess
Henry.
I'VE were present and saw the imperial
family and large number of the naval
officers at the tennis tournament on the
grounds of the Naval Academy"
"From Kiel we went to Copenhagen,
which is very fine and beautiful city
We left Copenhagen for Elsinore, the
scene of "Hamlet," and from there crossed
to Sweden and to Gottenborg. From there
we went by steamer along the coast Of
Sweden, touching at several points and
through the beautiful Christiania ford to
Christiania, the capital of Norway, where
among other things of interest we saw the
Viking ship which was exhumed after being
buried in the sands over Thousand years.
From Christiania we went by rail to
Lake Miorsen, crossed that water by
steamer and thence by rail to TrondhJem,
famous for the beauty of its location and
its celebrated ancient cathedral"
"At Trondhjem we took steamer for the
North Cape in the Land of the Midnight
Sun. The second day out we crossed the
Arctic Circle and thence cruised on inside
waters through numerous fjords with wind
ing passages among lofty mountains of in
describable shapes covered with snow at
their SUBMITS from which descended on
every hand innumerable waterfalls with &C.
oil ntn
the sea.
"For six days Of beautiful clear and mild
weather the sun did not descend below the
horizon, but after approaching to within
three or four degrees commenced to ascend
again towards the zenith, describing an
ellipse in the northern sky.
AT Tromso we left the ship and went in
land to visit settlement of Lapps, half
nomadic tribe, who live by hunting and
fishing and herding of numerous reindeer
several hundred of which we saw. Later
we saw the wild reindeer feeding among
the cliffs in the mountains. These animals
seemed to be the same species as the carl
bou of Maine except that they are not as
large, probably owing TO the food supply
not being as good in Norway as in Maine
Several stuffed specimens which saw OF
the elk which seems to be our Maine moose
we're inferior in size to the moose OF Maine
1--WE reached the North Cape, July g.
having sailed from Trondhjem the sth. we
assembled the cliff, which points due north
into the Arctic sea, and from this elevated
position saw the midnight sun.
AT its highest point above the hor'zoo'
apparently as far above as it would be here
in the summer time at 4 or o'clock IN the
afternoon. The North Cape at this POM
is II degrees, 10 minutes. The same lati
tude crosses Greenland through the center