The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-30
GREETINGS FOR
LUND STUDENTS
WARM WELCOME FOR SINGERS
AT ODIM CLUB.
.Nonarrival This Morning of Part
of the Singers Prevented a Demon
stration at the Ole Bull Monument
in Loring Park - All Now In the
City.

Hearty was the welcome given by
the men of the northland today to
| the students of Lund university. It
was like a Homecoming for the Swed-
I ish singers to get among their coun-
trymen in Minneapolis. The welcome
on their arrival this morning was
warm in itself, but as compared with
the almost shabby treatment received
in st. Louis, where the students sang
at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition,
It was absolutely hot.
The cordial reception at the Odin
club at the breakfast table and the
strong fellow feeling at being alone
once more among Swedish speaking
men SO intensified the peculiar umbre
in their voices that the impromptu
thru the veins Of their hearers and
caused an celebrating, wild thrill Of
the nerves. TT makes our singing
clubs here sound like thirty cents
said a loyal member Of the most popu-
lar local male singing club.
1T is not unlikely, gentlemen" said
DR.. Alfred Berg, the director, as the
students stood for three short, sharp
! cheers for their hosts, that our con-
cert here tonight will not be less ex-
cellent than those we have given in
other cities
Representatives of the Orpheus,
Odin, Commercial and Public Service
band met the Sioux City train over
the Omaha road this morning. The
| guests, headed by Dr. Alfred Berg
| and Herr John Forsell, the soloist,
| were taken in carriages to the Odin
club, in the Evanston building. After
| a general reception the members of
the Lund Sangforening sat down to
breakfast. G. B. Gunderson, presi-
dent of the club, was host and had
ordered prepared the favorite dishes
of the singers. At the right of Carl
Hickman, president Of the Orpheus
club, sat G. A. Smith and DR.. Berg.
| At his left John Forsell and Congress-
man John Lind. Other Minneapolis
men who were asked to break bread
with the guests and members Of the
Orpheus Singing society were Claude
Madden, the director; DR.. Knut
Hoegh, N. O. Werner, Rev. DR.. Stone,
Rev DR.. Carl J. Petri Swan ]. Turn
blad, Hjalmar Nelson, A. &. Skoog
and liver Kirkgaard Of Racine, Wis,
| Copies of the special Lund university
edition Of the Svenska Foikets It'd
ming were distributed.
| After breakfast automobiles took
the singers thru town. Among the
| points specially visited were the Ole
| Bull monument in Loring park and
| the Swedish-Americ National bank,
the only Swedish financial institution
! Of the city. N. O. Werner, the pred-
| dent, left Lund university thirty-six
years ago. Once a singer himself, he
! took pride in showing the sons Of his
classmates the bank.
| On return to the club, luncheon
was served and the students rested
IN preparation for the concert tonight
at the armory. Twenty-four Of the
students arrived this afternoon, miss
ing the local entertainment Of the
morning entirely. Thirty only arrived
on the first train. A demonstration
at the Ole Bull statue was expected,
and several had gathered at the park
expecting to hear the national song.
Delay in starting and the absence Of
half the club spoiled the program.
The Odin club was gaily decorated
with Scandinavian and American col
ors for the day and the armory is in
the hands Of the decorators for the
concert tonight, which bids fair to be
| a brilliant event. The singers leave
| in the morning for Duluth. Mime
! apolis headquarters have been estab-
| lished at the West hotel.
Herr John Forsell, who has visited
| Minneapolis before, was glad to be
here again. It was mainly thru his
fundamentally that Miss Osborn
went to Sweden to prepare for her
debut in the royal opera. She was
about to make her first public appear
ance when he left home.