The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-08
70 SING At 1HE CORONATION.
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10 Norwegian day. and there was no bitter
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r pm l.nrru ~ Norway ard everybody aboard
Iluvrf and wanted to begin the coronati on
., auratIon before leaving this country.
Three cheers for Haakon," shouted an
NwrrIcauiled Norwegian, forgetting for
the moment all about his bread acres in the
Nu-thwe-t, and the cheers were led by
rapt Rphman Jansen, who has been a
steamship skipper on the Great Lakes for
twenty-five years and hasn't been back to
the Scandinavian part OF the world in all
that time,
The lake captain and his wife were the
happiest couple On board yesterday, and
when the captain wasn't cheering he was
taking Norwegian history to all who would
stop to listen.
Just one year ago to-day, he exclaimed,
the Storthing declared that We were free
and that Oscar was no longer our King.
We couldn't have had a more appropriate
day for beginning this homebound voyage.
DO you know, children" continued this
viking to a group of Norwegian young
men and women that he happened to bump
into on the promenade deck, what all this
means? Do you know that your father
land hasn't been really free since 1887,
when Haakon VI. ceased to be King and
ua t,pita6 with Dannnrkp IN Won don't
you ought to know it. Before we sight
Copenhagen every one of you Is going to
know all about it from Harold the Fair
haired down to 1887. You can forget all
Do you realize that the Great Dome Church
where we are going Is over 800 years old
and that your country's kings used TO be
crowned under that dome, inst as Haakon,
Haakon VII. is going to be?"
Then the captain joined Mrs. Jansen,
who was leading a group Of singers in har-
moniously declaring their undying love for
Norway and Norway's W King.
Altogether there were 800 N~orwegians.
aboard and about half that number OF
Swedes, The 800 singers were under the
leadership of +. H. Gade, Norway's Consul
General at Chicago. Mr.. Gade's father was
u Norwegian and for twenty-five years this
country's consular representative at Chris
woman, Mr., Gade is a Yale man and is
the Mayor of Lake Forest, one Of the resi-
dental suburbs of Chicago.
As the representative of all the Norwe-
gians in the United States Mr.. Gade will
present to King Haakon a parchment copy
Of the coronation hymn that the Americans
will sing at the Great Dome.
There Is a prelude composed by Odin
Renning of Milwaukee entitled a Greeting
From the Norsemen in America,,' This fol-
lows the hymn itself, the words of which
were written by the Rev. j. d. Bothne of
Hitterdal, MINI, and the music by Alfred
Paulsen Of Chicago. q.
The whole spirit Of the hymn, said Mr..
runGe Diet kjeudte k~ongenavn," which
translated is Let over the whole earth
r .ound the well known king name"
For weeks and weeks the Norwegian
singers have been rehearsing that hymn in
their home towns, but they would not sing
It Yesterday in public on the ship or on the
pier. They were saving it, they said. for
the King.
The singers, who had arrived in New York
the, day, before, marched to the pier in a
body led by a band and waving their Nor
wegian flags. The ship was an hour and a
half late in getting away, but that only
meant ninety minutes more OF singing and
saving good-by, and nobody cared. or
time it was done exclusively by those on
shore who couldn't go to the coronation.
There probably wasn't a person in that
whole ships company who wasn't going on
u holiday Journey, intending to return,
That's the remarkable part of it, Ok
planned A, E. Johnson, the agent of the
line. There never was such a shipload to
leave this port, They all deserve first cabin
even il there isn't room for them, and they're
all coming back to America
When the lines were finally cast Off the
ships hand started in again on the Nor
wegian hymn, the singers took a fresh start
and from both vessel and pier arose the fine
old "Jal vi elsker dette ladet' eyes, we
love this land of ours").
The voyagers hope to reach Christiania
by June II, which is the birthday Of Henrik
Wergeland, and if they do they will decorate
the poets monument with American flags.
the ship is late they will celebrate the
birthday on board.
The Swedes aboard the United States are
also bound for a national festival, even If
they are not going to a coronation. The
great annual fair at Norrkoping, one of the
Swedish ports, is being held this month,
and this year, for the first time inthe history
ofthat exposition, one day has been set apart
as American day. DIR. job A. Enander OF
Wisconsin is to be the orator Of the day.
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