Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-07-26
NEWS OF SCANDINAVIA
Recent Occurrences Of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
MATCH INDUSTRY AT TIDAHoLM
Modern Methods ard More Health
full Conditions in Great Es-
adjustments.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

Stock holm.
After some months study of the
match industry throughout Sweden.
says the Review of Reviews" from
the social and moral point Of Tiew,
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 a
well-to-do, prosperous community. The
Vulcan Manufacturing company, of
that city. was established i'm 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 its 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. 1t is
today, however, 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 small separate room,
with special fan for the expelling
Of the poisonous gases. The manage
ment is liberal and progressive in car
ing for its working people. There is
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 i'm 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 he celebrated next year
on May Is in an imposing manner.
Every Linnean society will be invited
to attend. Everything connected with
the great botanist will he 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 I'm making alcohol
from peat, announces through the ex-
pert. Victor Frestadius. that six and
half liters Of alcohol can be pro-
duced from 100 Kilograms OF dry peat
at an expense of about Th cents per
liter. One liter equals 1.O567 quarts.
liquid measure and one kilogram
equals 2.2O46 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. f. Nordenskjold.
the discoverer 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, were 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 Karis-
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.
DIR. r. v. Ostberg has been elected
to the chair Of German and English
at the Nya Elementar school in Stock
bolm.