Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-06-28
LITTLE DENMARK.

People Jog Along In Quiet, Lazy
Manner.
A. Nielsen Danish importer ofgrain,
-four and feed, and who is, incidentally,
correspondent for The Nationaltiedende,
the leading newspaper Of Copenhagen.
is registered to-day at the st. Charles Ho-
tel.
Although Denmark is an agricultural
country and it's climate Is remarkably
warm for that northern latitude, 1t does
not raise bpeadstuffs in sufficient quantity
to meet the demands for home consump-
tion. For two years Mr.Nielsen has
made headquarters in New York, arrang-
ing with American millers for exports of
-four to Denmark. In Toledo today
he called at the offices Of the Northwest
ern and National Milling Companies.
"We get some flour for export from
Toledo" said Mr.. Nielsen, "but Of course
the greater part of it goes from Minneap-
oils"
While in this country Mr.. Nielsen has
acquired working knowledge of the in
tricacies of English and he speaks the Ian
guage quite fiuently. A number of his
American letters, containing both i'm
pressions OF the country and news notes.
have appeared in The Nationaltiedende.
This afternoon he left Toledo for st. Louis
and New Orleans, and expects to sail for
his native land soon.
"Copenhagen on the i-land of Zee,
land" said he, ''is city of about halt a
million inhabitants. Here is located the
seat ofthe Kingdoms government, rs well
as the great University of Copenhagen.
Education is so general in this little coun.
try the area ofwhich is about one quarter
that of the State of Ohio, that the percent.
age of literacy among the people is prob
ably greater than that ofthe United States.
with population of about half mil
lion, Copenhagen has more daily news
papers than cities ofequal size in the Unit
ed States. There are about fifteen news
papers, some of which issue two or three
editions daily, in the city. However the
papers are much smaller than those Of
the United States usually having but four
pages which seems very small compared
with the newspapers Of New York, or
even Toledo. The daily circulation OF
The Nationaltiedende is remarkably
laree-about l2O, 900 copies. As Aarhuus.
having a population of 5O,OOO, il the only
other large city in the country, the Copen.
hagen papers are national, rather than
strictly local, publications, and 60 to all
parts of the little country. They have
their corps of local reporters, and tele-
graphic service is furnished by the Ritzau
Bureau much as the Associated Press fur
nishes news to American papers.
"In Denmark "a week is good wages
for laboring man. He can live comfort
ably upon that wage and bring up a large
family of children. Four dollars week
to the Danish laborer mea much more
than 81. so q day to the American laborer,
because the cost Of living is comparatively
little. Skilled workmen are paid 81 t.
81 .25 day, which affords ample means.
Provisions are cheap and at the best hotels
rooms may be had by transients for 60
cents day, American money.
"We have no multi. millionaires in
Denmark a, you have in America; Meth.
ar have we the awful examples Of power
ty which your country furnishes, and our
people are we'll satisfied with the govern
ment of the Lutheran kingdom."-Tole-
do Blade.