The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-11

ner boy . geilor. xoung Hans. however,
 1S1 b<n{. Hra his ambifion w1s I ssS5 4Se1 6nnous by writing H6 fsft
 no'z = Nskn 1k n his pocItet. and with that ss sss E stsrr werked his way tiirou1h ent for alugins and hoped to make sa plee TOT Himself on the stage. He trted Tor one of the theatres of Copenhageh. put Wass reflected. His talent was brought
 70 the fnofice of the king. and through nim he was placed in an advanced school at public expense. Later on his poems and stories became noted. and during hts later years he received an annuity from the sDanish. Gcvernments The people here are very fond Df him, and they tell many stories of hls simplicity and kindness. sCopo1hagenss Free Harbor. 1 came down the Kattegat on my way rom ChristtanfA to Copenhagen, passing Elsinore. where Shakespeare has laid the scenes of Hamlet Copenhagen lies on the narrow strait leading from the Baltic sea out through the Kattegat and Ska lgerrah, to the German ocean. It has a fne harbor,s and this has made it one of the .lmostl important cities of Northern Europe. t commands the straits. and has always been a great meeting place. Three years before Columbus discovered America Bishop Absalon built a castle here and lived off the trade. Since then the harbor has been widened and deep ened, and Is. now one of the best in Eu- rope. The city has established free port at a cost of s6.0oo.oo0, and there are two miles of quays at, which the largest ocean steamers can land. .Thirty-five
 thousand sailing vessels and steamers come in and go out of Copenhagen every years. and its trade extends to all parts of the world.
 The Danes are noted as sailors They command a an you will seldom strike a harbor without finding one or more Danish captains in charge of the larger vessels there. I drove out to the free port the other day. It has enormous cranes and all fa- cilities for handling goods. noticed sev-
 eral American products among the things loading and unloading. American cotton,
 petroleum and Indian corn were being taken out of vessels from New York, and
 also Minneapolis four and Chicago pork.
 There were many steamers in the har-
 bor, several from Russia, two from Nor
 way and Sweden, three from England and
 an equal number from Germany. There
 were ships from the West Indies and
 South America and also ofie about start
 ing out for Greenland.
 The Danes in Greenland.
 There is considerable trade between
 Greenland and Denmark. Greenland is
 " idrBe extent q Danish colony, and
 there are many Danes in Iceland and the
 Farce Islands. The Greenland colonies are
 chiefly on the west coast. extending
 through about 12 degrees of latitude, or something like seven hundred miles, They
 have there also a mission and trading station, and do considerable export bus- mess.
 The trade Is largely in the hands of the Danish Royal Greenland Company It is 10 Hat nd
 ernment vessels are allowed to sail in Greenland waters. According to Dem marks treaties with us the British and other people. these waters are closed to all vessels which have not the permission of the Danish government, and it is also
 necessary for travellers who wish to go
 to that part of the country to get such permission. Without a travellers has such permission he cannot enter, and this per-