Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1906-07-28
Recent Occurrences of interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
MATCH INDUSTRY AT TIDAHOLM
Modern Methods and More Health
full Conditions in Great Es-
adjustments.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm

Stockholm.
After some months study of the
match industry throughout Sweden,
SAYS the "Review of Reviews from
the social and moral point of view,
Mrs. X. Hasselgren, the Swedish social
reformer, contributes to the Social
| Tidskrift (Stockholm) a long descrip-
tive article from which we quote and
condense the most interesting portions.
| Most of the observations of this writer
| were made at Tidaholm, the center Of
the match industry, the product OF
| whose factories is known the world
| over. Tidaholm is the center of
well-to-do, prosperous community. The
| Vulcan Manufacturing company, OF
| that city. was established in 1868 by
| the Swedish Baron Won Essen and
employs at the present day 1000 men
and girls. which is two-thirds of the
population of the town. In the earlier
days Of it's history the enterprise was
| forced to contend with many difficult
ties It's capital was several times ex-
| hausted and the factory itself more
than once destroyed by fire. It is
| today, however. a model, up-to-date
| factory, with modern working methods
and improved machinery. The trust
| owns this and five other match manu-
| featuring concerns in different parts of
| Sweden. An analysis Of the manu-
| featuring process follows, including a
| description of the dangers from sui
| phur poisoning. In the making Of the
| match cases and sticks women and
| children are largely employed. The
| mechanical work is done by machinery.
which turns out fifty thousand daily.
| In order to keep the air as pure as
possible the working girls are placed
each one in a small separate room,
| with special fan for the eXpelling
| of the poisonous gases. The manage
ment is liberal and progressive in car
| ing for it's working people. There is
| a good library, and health and accident
insurance for the workers. The cor
poration holds real estate for sale on
| terms which extend up to fifty years
on easy payments. The disadvantages
of the business lie chiefly in the fact
that regardless Of sanitary conditions,
human strength and health must be
| eventually sacrificed in following it.
Frederick Bayer president of the in
ternational peace commission, has in
formed the Swedish Peace Association
that the worlds seventeenth peace
| congress will be held in Stockholm in
1908, if an invitation is sent to the con-
gress in Milan. An invitation has
been prepared. This will be the first
time the worlds peace congress has
ever been held in Sweden.
The second centennial of the birth
Of Karl Won Lime, the father of
botany, will be celebrated next year
on May Ii in an imposing manner.
Every Linnsan society will be invited
to attend. Everything connected with
the great botanist will be gathered
from all parts of the world and will
form subjects for lectures by the most
famous scientists.
The government experiment station,
which is engaged in making alcohol
from peat. announces. through the ex-
a half liters of alcohol can be pro-
duced from 100 Kilograms of dry peat
at an expense of about ~ cents per
liter. One liter equals 1.O567 quarts,
liquid measure, and one kilogram
equals 2.2046 pounds.
Otto Nordenskjold, the Arctic ex-
plorer has gone to Dunkirk on his
way to Tromsoe and Spitzbergen to
continue the scientific researches be-
gun by his uncle. A. E. Nordenskjold,
the discoyerer of the northeast pas
sage, twenty years ago.
Recent dispatches state that on July
II Stockholm had the most destructive
fire in eighty years. Five residence
blocks. erected not long ago in the
southern part of the city, We're burned.
The loss is estimated at 100000
crowns or $4,000.
Prince Arthur William Patrick AL
bert, the duke Of Connaught and faith
er-in-law of Prince Gustaf Adolph of
Sweden, has been appointed by King
Oscar an honorary" general in the
Swedish army
The quartermaster of the Karls-
krona regiment has ordered American
corned beef out of its supply lists. 1t
is said that the example will be fol-
lowed by other regiments.
DR.. T. V. Ostberg has been elected
to the chair of German and English
at the Nya Elementar school in Stock
holm