The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-13
FOR FAMINE RELIEF
Concert to Be Given at Chamber Of
Commerce sunday-Ch
to See Building.
Letter From Norway Shows That
Even the Favored Districts
Have Suffered.

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Have Suffered.
| Circulars have been sent out by the local
! famine fund committee requesting all pas
| tors to announce from their pulpits Sun
! day morning the concert to be given Sun
4 day afternoon at the Chamber Of Com
merce for the benefit of the famine suffer-
I ers This concert under the auspices of
The j ournal will include a splendid
4 rendering of the Swedish national hymn
! by the full choral strength Of the Orpheus
Singing Society. The solo part has been
assigned to K. 0. Ekman. An elaborate
| instrumental program will be interpreted
by the Journal Newsboys' band. The
admission fee of rs cents for the concert
will permit visitors to examine all parts
of the chamber. including those regions
from which the public is usually excluded.
| Minnea politans proud of their city as the
greatest primary wheat market will be
enabled to survey for the first time at
close range all the apparatus Of the finest
! trading room in am grain exchange.
| Orpheus Singing society members who
will take part in the program are as fol-
1 lows: Director, Professor J. Victor Berg
! quist; first tenors, John Bjorkman, Charles
Berg. Olaf Bjorkman, Olof Englund Fred
| Saborn; second tenors, Robert Holmen,
Carl Onstrand. Axel Anderson, Axel Back
dahl, Carl Bjorkman, William Gedeborg;
! first BASES. x. 0. Ekman, Victor Nilsson,
Norman Thone, Fred Lewis second
BASES, G.. A. Sandberg. John Walln, Ivor
Peterson, L. G. Verne, Richard Wallin,
Ernest Berguqits. Alfred Larson.
journal Newsboys' Band.
/ The Minneapolis Journals Newsboys'
band will play select program Of twelve
numbers. Professor G. c. Heintzeman,
leader of the band. has arranged one Of
| the most attractive programs which the
band has vet sdiscoursed. The program
| follows:
Selection. Chimes Of Normandy. .Planquette
selection. srgomaste e huder
4 March. ..Our United Emblem. ........ Brown
Rondo Miiitare Fanfare " 49,. Bohm
Selection. Romance Of Athlone'' ....... .olcott
cornet solo. The Holy City''........... Adams
March March: Our .n,, Director" Bigelow
fatroi, 'IuardsmanN ................. Losey
/ Other States in Line.
! c. A. Smith, vice president of the local
famine fund committee, has been noti-
fled that the governors of Kansas and Ne
braska have followed the example of Gov
ernor Van SAINT. They have organized a
j systematic canvass of the two states to
secure contributions for the famine suf-
| ferers -. - b .'.,l'~.
The Minneapolis firemen and policemen
: have begun to sell tickets for the benefit
performances at the Bijou theater week
after next. Such tickets are to be ex.
!, changed at the box office, and half of the
price paid will be given by Manager Theo.
dore Hays to the famine fund.
Even the resources of the more pros.
porous regions of Sweden and Norway
have been limited this year by the unfa
. ,nYo cf fln~o
able to do comparatively little towards re
lieving the stricken provinces of the north
> This situation is made clear in a lette
received by a prominent local miller from
O.. Westgaard Of Loiten, Norway. MI
. Westgaard complains of bad crops al
: though the famine regions is confined t.
, the north, and he lives far to the south
about eighty miles north Of Christiania.
- A Letter from Norway.
The letter reads: -:
A Dear Amerikens: The great importer
Of flour and corn from America are /
. blessing for our people this year. Tn
). crops have been very miserable all owe
$ the country. I am living in the best par
of the country, where we have good soil
Il In Hedemarken, here around the LAX
Mjosen, we call it the heart of the coun
: try; but even here we have very, YER
. poor crops. The first part of the summe
Z Il
. wet and cold; the crop did not ripen an
? the frost came as early as in August an
destroyed everything. After harvestin
! there was rain for a long time and tn
crop did not come in house before, partl
spoiled. The snow was also urlusuall
early. The snow covered the crop an
i potatoes for ten weeks here in Hedemar
9 ken; then we had nice weather again an
! got the crop in house so the crop her
q is not worth much Of anything and j
d many other places not worth anything a
9 all, and if Norway did not have the grea
n imports especially from America, the pee
y pie would have to starve. There are pee
pie living here who can tell about the ter
e rible time in 1910, 1872, 1914, when peopl
: starved. People In Norway made brea
y of bark of the trees or moss and goo
s. many other things did they try to eat
8 as to keep alive, but a great many diet
n The poor living and the years of bar
/ bread are spoken of with dread. The Sc
IS was blocked because of English war an
a Norway was "a poor, poor province pe
" longing to Denmark. ..tE,,
-..This unfortunate. unfruitful year hs
: caused a great emigration from all par
y Of the country. l believe nearly or abol
L 20. 900 people have left for America tn
year mostly young folk. must say
is very sad to think Of, a little land liz
this. The whole strength Of the matte
|. leaves us We gave them educatlo
The common schools here are about ;
: good as the government can afford" Ever!
body is obliged to send their children
:. school. If they are poor that they ha'
r no clothes nor anything to eat, the dine
j ent communities are obliged to get the
4 these things, which often makes the tax
&c pretty high and So when they are hx'
e and grown up they leave the country al
r 60 to your great land:
$ "As sad as it is, am glad these YOU
a folk 90 over to YOU not because they
e. find the pure gold and luck, but tn
rd learn to be more independent men a.
. women and they learn that time IS mon
on and many other practical things. We
70 grind In a mill which opens our eyes a
~ cultivates rs greatly, an advantage for
en- all and especially to- the. few who cor
- back here.
ne HEBREWS ARE INTERESTED
tn s-.---.-,.."2.'.s &esvs---ss-r
IS May Take Steps to Relieve starvi1
Russian Jews