Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-06-06
IN The SCANDINAVIAN NORTH
Gleanings of Important NetUs From the Press Of
NoruUay SlOeden and Denmark.
BY oDLAND.
BY MARTIN w. oDLAND.
NORWAY.

way faces sailor famine. The ship
owners find It impossible to secure
all the sailors they need and have
been compelled to employ English and
Scotch seamen at London and Glas-
gov. There are two good reasons for
this scarcity of Norwegian tars. The
wages are too low to attract the young
men, because of the general increase
| in wages throughout the Kingdom, and
| there is no longer such romance and
adventure connected with life on the
sea as in the days of the great sail
ships The propeller and other mod
ern inventions have done away with
all this and the Viking blood of the
young men is no longer stirred when
seafaring is talked about. The wages
offered by Norwegian ship owners
have already been raised from As to 60
and 70 crowns per month and the indi-
cations are that they will soar still
higher.
The principal reason for the raise in
wages throughout the kingdom is
found in the unprecedented develop.
| ment of the country. Factories are
being started in most of the cities; ;
| the farmers are adopting new ideas
i'm agriculture and greatly increasing
the producing power of their land, and
capital has awakened to- the possibil-
| fly of making as profitable investments
in Norway as in any other country
The storthing has done much to help
| along the adoption of scientific ideas
In agriculture by it's liberal appropria-
lions to the agricultural colleges or
schools of agronomy.
| An immense industry is to be estab-
Hshed this year at Odda, Hardanger,
for the manufacture of calcium-car-
bide; cyanide and kindred mineral
products. From 2O,0O0,O00 to- 100000
600 crowns will be invested in the en-
| terprise and SO many men will be Civ
en- employment that it is, expected
that the little village of Odda, now
having population of only 500, will
in a year be busy city of 1000 or
! 5000. Electric power will be used in
the great factory, being transmitted
from one of the nearby falls.
A great athletic tournament has'been
| in progress at Hamar the past week.
King Haakon was present at the open
| ing and delivered an address. Between
forty and fifty turner societies in vari
Gus parts of the kingdom are repre-
sented by athletes, and the number OF
- oh iva in
tents and follow military customs dur
| ing their stay. 1t is believed that this
| tournament will take rank as the best
one ever held, both as: regards the rec
ords made and the interest manifested
| The Akerhaugen Cooperative Soci
ETY. of Telemarken has received Pc
cIuiar communication from a man in
Minneapolis, who RENTS 81. with the
| explanation that he owes the society
| so ore (coins, worth half-farthing)
and that this debt has rested heavily
on his conscience. AS no record OF
such a debt was found, the officers OF
the society turned the 81. over to char
tty.
The Christiania Commercial associa
tion has decided to issue a small daily
newspaper after July L.
The bark 'JJrania," owned by Bjarne
Void of Christiania, was wrecked OIL
Portor. 1t was bound for Plymouth
with Joseph Peterson as captain.
The galley John" of Selvik, and the
steamer "Orion" of Drammen, oollidec
near the former place. The galley
sank, carrying to his grave the skip
per. a man of seventy, who was the
only soul on board.
A correspondent from London to the
| Bergen Times writes that DIR. Sonar
Zach. chief of the Scandinavian tourist
bureau, stated in a recent interview
that Norway will be the destination O.
larger number of travellers mex
summer than ever before. The notes
are making great preparations to re
ceive the tourists, and larger mum
Der of Norwegians are going into tne
tourist hotel business than has peer
the case heretofore. In the past
large percentage of the tourist hote
nronrieors have been foreigners, ant
the people of the country nave no
reaped the advantages from the traV
elers that they ought to have done:
|
The king and queen have presented
1 900 crowns to the school, or training
| shin. Erickson There are now MT!
bows ON board receiving instruction.
The well known arctic explorer
Theodore Lerner, starts in July VIII
an expedition from the northmost pom
of Spitsbergen for the purpose OF max
/ ing magnetic and meteorological ex
| plorations
The Norwegian Society for the ties
cue of Shipwrecked Persons; MADE al
/ especially fine record during the pas
wear The vessels that crulsed IN &C
cordance with the plans, adopted at tn
last general assembly rescued no less
than 80 lives, 25 boats, ships, an'
assisted and piloted 93S boats and
ships.
Seventeenth of May celebration
were held in most Of the towns OF MOI
way this year. The attendance wa
I large and the interest and enthusiasm
very great.