Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1907-03-07
CONTINUED from last week. J

lOOnt1nued from last week.
In the evening we gave another
we'll attended concert and the writer
bid all his relatives a reluctant fare
well.
July 18th we spent in Christian
sund, thriving fishing town built
on three storm beaten islands. A
remarkable feature here is beau
tiful park, the soil for which was
literally brought by the boat-load
from the mainland and strewn upon
the barren rocks. Another feature
was the large proportion of maiden
ladies of uncertain age Who prone
naded the park walks and public
thoroughfares all day long, the ma
jority of them goodlooking and
stylishly dressed. This was az
counted for by the fact that the
male population was either en-
gagged in the hazardous task of gain
ing livelihood out on the raging
deep and too busy to get married,
or had emigrated to America. The
concert here was given in q church,
a circumstance we all dreaded, as
we were compelled to play music
of solemn and heavy nature, the
church authorities declining to per-
init music in lighter vein to be
rendered in these eiifices. Here
also we climbed to the top of a
high tower from which a magni-
ficeDt view was had of the sea, the
islands and the mainlsnd.
Friday, the 18th, was devoted to
taking in the numerous points of
interest in the quaint old city of
Moldc. The place is known as the
rose garden of Norway. The CHI
mate here in the summer is delight
full and flowers grow in riotous pro-
fusion and intoxicating fragrance.
The local singing society here
treated us to an al fresco luncheon
in the garden surrounding the chief
hotel. In the afternoon we CLIMBED
the mountain back of the town to
the height of several hundred feet
and bchcld one of the most en-
trancing sights that the eye can ever
behold on this earth. Our concert
here was also given in church,
one of Norway's oldest and most
historic, the entire altar background
of which is occupied by what is
proclaimed by tourists and globe
trottcrs as the most marvelously
realistic religious painting in all
Europe. In the evening of this
same day we gave a concert al
Aalesund, the fishing village which
was completely destroyed by fire
three years ago, and for the relief
of which thousands of dollars were
subscribed among the Norweigans Of
this country. The city is being re.
built on modern plan, substantial
brick and cement structures taking
place of the old inflammablc woodcr
ones. Many of the streets anc
sites for the new buildings are
here dynamited out of the solic
rock which forms the coast line
We gave our first concert here il
opera house and during the inter
mission the mayor, on behalf of the
town, presented to the band beau
tiful cast of the famous marble bus
of the great Norwegian dramatist
lbsen, executed by the Norwegian
American sculptor, Fjelde. Thi:
palce is great favorite with the
Kaiser Wilhelm, and while we
were there he bought pretty little
island out in the harbor on which
he expected to build a palatial sum
mer villa. Quite a number of his
man-of-wars-men attended the con.
cert, and when we struck up FLAP
Ply Heine, - as an encore, they forgo
their discipline tossed their caps il
the air and shouted their approval.
The following day, the 14th, wa:
supposed to be an off day with us
but somebody planned a trip into
Geiranger Fiord, one of those indie.
scribably beautiful arms of the sea
extending for miles inland between
perpendicular cliffs rising hundred:
and sometimes thousands of feet
The stupendous depth, the unri
vailed color and the perfect placid
1ty OF the water, unruffled by ever
a ripple except that made by oui
little steamer, added to the majestic
grandeur of the verdurc clad cliffs
down which, at frequent intervals
shimnering ribbons of silvery
whitencss from the eternal snow:
far above merrily find their way
only TO be forever lost in the silen
waters of the ford below, leaves ar
impression in the mind of the be