Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-08-18

America, the majority or whom arrive
In comfortable steamers from Eng
land and Germany, and along the
principal routes of travel numerous
hotels have been built, some of watch,
like Stalheim's hotel. Nos; Rivikte's
hotel at Balholm and Grand hotel,
Mode, have become quite famous
The tourist season in Norway begins
IN May and lasts -four months. About
5000 travellers arrive by the regular
steamers from abroad and some 5000
In large yachting steanrcrs or float
ing hotels" az they are called. Only
u minority come in their private
yachts The greater number are Brit
ishers and Germans, but the influx
of Americans is increasing every year.
The principal routes of travel are:
1, Bergen TO Trondhjem, North Cape
and back to Mode, thence TO Nord-
ford, Balholm, G~udbangen, Stalheim.
Nos, back to Bergen. thence to Har-
danger, Telemarken to Christiania. :.
Bergen, Mode, Ron0fall, Gudbranps-
dial TO Christiania or returning either
through Telemarken. OF via Molde
dtiu lhlOtAubItm w ,hi VI
Stockholm. The length OF time spent
by each traveller in Norway during
the tourist season has been computed
at twenty days, and the average ex-
penditures twenty kroner 1890 per
day. In addition to this about 1900
600 crowns ($402,000) including rental
for trout steamers and salmon fishing,
o. nnnnallu maid hy thu Anglia Mr.
wegian Fishermen's association, num-
bering about 80 members. but at least
as many fishermen not belonging to
the said association come TO Norway
every year to fish and shoot. IL Is
generally estimated that the foreign
tourists annually eXpend a sum or
money i'm Norway amounting to TO-
100000 crowns go. 6S0,00OD. There are
about twenty associations. whose OBJ
ject IL is TO and facilitate
travelling. The most important OF
these is the Norwegian Tourist Club
at Christiania, Of which association
many Americans and Englishmen are
members. 1t publishes a very inter-
esting year book and enjoys a high
reputation.
Nine. Michelet, the wife of the we'll
known educator, Professor Miclielet,
delivered a lecture on Moral Condi-
tions In Norway before the Woman's
International congress, which recently
convened In Berlin. Her lecture was
not, TO say the least, complimentary 10
Norwegian morality, and her lecture
hac thnpnfnra haan onyarnlv erftiaiGnI
In the Norwegian press. Her arraign-
ment OF conditions In Christiania
compelled her to admit that her
information was based ON falsiied
statistics.
A special dispatch from Vardo,
dated August 3. states that the
Frithjof, having on board the Ziegler
relief expedition, which arrived to
Nardo August 4 after an unsuccessful
attempt TO reach the Ziegler Arctic
expedition steamer America, left port
on August . for Franz Josef land with
coal for the America.
Jens Lying, editor and publisher OF
The Norden, In Melbourne, Australia,
has published a book about the
htdiIuibhN AaiIS VI huShuilus III lOoi
there were in Australia 1880 Nor
wegians and Swedes, and 5000 Danes.
or this entire number only about 200
are women
Emperor William allowed himself to
be photographed several times during
his recent visit 10 Aalesund. He
donated 1000 crowns to the new
orphanage in that city.
The Viking Club of London has
published a translation OF an old Nor
wegian Shetland Epic. The book con
tains also a criticism of the Hildina
sa "a.
Queen Sofia is spending the month
at ~Skinnarbol. She will return TO
Stockholm during the latter part OF
September.
Thomas Krag, the author, will this
fall publish n novel entitled 'Cunnar
Kjeld. the Minister'S Daughter"