Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-01-25
Recent Occurrences of Interest
in Sweden, Norway and
Denmark.
STOCKHOLM is PROGRESSING
will Soon BE One of Best Equip
ped Cities i'm Europe in Respect
to Stree Railways.
SWEDEN.
Stockholm.

Stockholm : neWeSt railway WIS
opened for traffic Dec. %. 1t was the
line on Sibylle street. which connects
with Stureplan. 1t is an electric rail.
way and the ears are all commOdiously
and practically arranged in every re-
'Eect. In fact Stockholm is now get
ting an excellent street railway service
and will in a few years be one of the
best equipped cities in Europe in this
respect. For many years, however,
the city council fought against preju-
dices of real estate holders and had il
not been for this fact, the capital
would long ago had been provided
with a splendid electro street railway
service in all parts of the city. The
fact that the old Stockholm streets
are unusually narrow has also been a
great impeachment.
In cOmmemoration OF the Treaty of
Roskilde-which by the way was
closed $50 years ago-a large number
Of Sweden's most prominent noblemen
have started a subscription list con-
templated to rise a sufficient fund to
erect a monument in honor of Karl
Gustaf Y. In the subscription introduc-
ton ii Is stated that Sweden still has
failed to honor the memory Of one OF
her great kings and urgently requests
every patriotic Swede to respond.
Those who head the subscription list
are Count III. III. Wachtmeister. Count
G. Cederstrom and Count c. G. Won
Rosen and A. Hammaskold.
The city council has appropriated L.
300 crowns to be spent annually for in
structing the police In foreign Ian
man. 1t is generally conceded that
Stockholm has the most enlightened
police force in the world. Many OF
them speak English, French and Ger
man fiuently and scores Of them, in
fact most Of them, are college gradu-
ates. To the tourist it is therefore
very gratifying to be able to address
a policeman on a street corner in the
Swedish capital and converse with
him in any of these languages.
Among the royal persons before
whom the thought reader has per-
formed is King Oscar of Sweden. His
majesty attended a seance at Stock
holm, showed great interest in what
went on and was worried at the way
In which the thought readers Eng
fish speech was being interpreted TO
the audience. The Swedish Interpreter
was making a hash of things general
ly," which, ut least, caused the king to
/ riGa from, bfS caat ana gau sI OF ma a.,
1t for you"
The London Royal Life Saving so
ciety'S honorary medal has been
awarded to twelve Swedes, among
whom we note Colonel v. q Black,
Bernhard Burman, AXel Huffman, Il.
II. Smith, Arvid Ulrich and t.
F~restadius. Their recent exhibition in
England was declared by the British
press to be the best ever given.
The Christmas trade in Stockholm
was something far in excess of former
years and the leading merchants state
that never in history has there been
such crowds at the various shopping
booths. Stockholm has a larger Christ
mas trade than any other city in the
Scandinavian countries.
More than 100000 crowns were
sent in postal money orders from
America to Sweden last year. There
were in all l39,O3S postal money or
ders. During the year OF 1905 Ameri-
ca sent 100000 crowns more than
during the previous year.
According to last years statistics
there are 49, merchants In Sweden.
OF these 1920 are in Stockholm, 1862
In Gothenburg, 1861 i'm MaImo. 1909
In Helsingborg. etc. The remainder
belong to towns of less than 5000 in
habitants.
The government buildings on the
Helgeands-H olmen have thus far en-
tailed considerable expense. During
the ten years that the buildings have
been under course of erection. there
has been an expenditure of S,947, 307
crowns.
The new chapel at Tromsoe was de-
dictated last month by Bishop Book
man. The little chapel has been
erected at a cost of $4,000 crowns,
which was subscribed by the Tromsoe
Savings bank.
King Oscar has been rendered and
has accepted the resignation of Count
C. M. Morner, colonel OF the Royal Life
guards, and appointed in his place
Count Erik Oxenstiern.
Wilhelm Falck, who celebrated his
Both birthday a few days ago, has
donated 25,O00 crowns TO M Of Stock
holm's charitable societies.
The Sw c h consul In Reval, Herr
Granbec. o wed at Stockholm a
couple 81 I, eks ago to confer with
the fore q eoartment.
The Stoc< otn police have been pro.
vided with Smith & Wesson revolvers
and will thus maintain order after
American patterns"
An iron bridge across the Riddar'
holm's canal IL to be erected In the
near future at 4 cost Of 1900 crowns