Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-11-20
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Interesting Notes From Across the
Ocean.
HAPPENINGS "a IN THE FAIHERLAyD,

Principal Events That Have Occurred
IN the Old Countries About the
North Sea Within a week
OF So Just Past. .@>. 49,.
DENMARK.
The late Carl Frederik Tietgen was UNI
quest1onably the greatest financial genius
or denmark in the nineteenth century. He
was born at Odense, In 1929, and at the
age OF twenty went to Manchester. Eng
land, where he learned his trade. manu-
1acturer, to perfection But he also learned
the English language and studied the
banking business before he returned to
denmark and settled as a wholesale mer-
chant In Copenhagen. He could easily
see tnat the banking business Of Den
marx. was based on absurd principles, and
IN 1904 ne started the Copenhagen Private
oahk, which date marks an era in the
business life of Denmark. Realizing the
advantage of combines, he next organ
ized the United Steamship Company, by
consolidating several small rival concerns.
IN 1870 he organized the Great Northern
Telegraph Company, which spans whole
comments and is the greatest product of
MS genius. Shortly afterwards he or
ganized the Burmeister & Vain Iron
& manufacturing Company. which is by far
the strongest concern of its kind in Scan
d1navia. employing several thousand men.
q BESIDES the above, Mr.. Tietgen also or
sanlzed "The Brewing Company" the
sugar manufacturing companies, the Swift
zer Salvage Company and the Tuborg fac
torres. The "hard times in the seventies
tested the skill of the man who had
Aaunched all these gigantic enterprises,
out ne proved himself equal to the emer-
gency and steered clear Of every danger.
Inc good times of the eighties found
MIN ready for new ventures. among
which may be mentioned the Thingvalla
steamship Company, the Danish spirit
factories, the Fakse lime quarries, the
Copenhagen Telephone Company, the
Strandveien Steam Sheet Car Company,
the United breweries the paper mills and
the Gedser & Ribe Railway. "From the
close of the eighties, Tietgen shone in
full splendor. From his holy of holies in
the office of the private bank at the ex-
change he guides business enterprises rep
resenting $S0,00O0OO" ITO the COM
mercial development of Denmark, Tietgen
is the personification Of the private initi-
ative, of the great. violent centraliza-
ton"
Herman Bang. noted author, has writ
ten an enconium on the career of the late
c. F. Tietgen. the great financier. Part
of the tribute to the great departed is
submitted chiefly on account of its beau
ty from a literary point of view: &c. F.
Tietgen is dead. The first man of the
land is dead. He lowered far above us
all; above all those who smear colors on
a canvass with brush; whose fingers be-
come gray from meddling with clay; who
dig and act; who deal in politics from inn
to Inn and talk up vantage ground for
themselves. or build 1t up by writing line
upon line; who put one letter to another
until they get books in which there is
nothing-he lowered above them all. And
after the days of Dalgas there is only
one solitary man whose name should be
mentioned in the same breath his.
For Tietsen, Dalgas and Georg Brandes
restored, the fatherland. When
his strong brain became tired from wide
thoughts, and he had to leave his work
he went away almost a poor man. The
gigantic enterprises which he had Gre
ated had to grant him an annuity that
he might end his days in the manner to
which he had been accustomed. Money
in itself for himself had never entered
the plans of this man; to him his enter
prises and his achievements were all. In
life. and as "a man, Tietgen, of course,
was unique. He carried his mask and de-
spised men as one who knows them
When they differed with him he did not
conceal his contumely When they were
in need he helped them, but cody and like
one who knows that none is really
thankful. When they fawned before him
he despised them, and when the few that
really knew who he was appreciated him,
he looked upon it as matter of course,
without feeling any joy. I am no
friend of statues. But to Tietgen statue
ought to be raised. 1t should not be a
picture of the man. This would be too
little. It ought to be the figure of man
symbolizing will-power and genius. And
we and those who follow us ought to
learn from the statue what may be ac-
complished by a man of action-even In
the smallest country. The great
est in the land Is dead. Without the
hope of ever reaching him, those who
follow him must build farther on that
which he created by dint Of his power
and genius"
T.. SWEDEN ~
The Gefle Typographical Union has 70
members. At recent meeting, which
was attended by "a members, a resolu-
ton was passed to the effect that the
union join the Social Democratic party,
The vote was 16 to 8. 4
q tree had fallen across the railway
track at a curve between Vadstena and
Fogelsta. The engineer did not notice the
tree in time, and the engine and several
cars jumped the tree without missing the
track. - ~% -
The gold medals that are to accom-
pany the Nobel prizes will not be ready
this year: They are to be made by Erik
Iindberg,. of Paris. = Ss.5ssaa$ :tt% :. I
"A farmer hauled hog in a box to
Tomelilla 81 and sold it. Then he cele-
brated the deal by good spree. In fact,
he became so boisterous that his friends
were afraid of the police. But<they were
equal to the occasion. They picked up
the jolly man, put him into the box where
his hog rode to town, and drove him
home. NJ st I. ..>3 55s