The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
SWEDEN.

The Methodists of Sweden have
sent 100000 crowns to the famine
stricken people of India.
About 100000 crimes were commit
ted in Sweden during the year 1905.
This means that out of every sixty
three persons one is criminal
The industrial and commercial prog
ress of Sweden during the past year,
despite strikes and labor troubles, has
been considerable. AS evidence of
such progress may be mentioned the
large number of companies that have
been organized during the past few
weeks. among which are these:
The Swedish Sugar trust. with a
capital of 134.OOO.OOO crowns; the
Electric Power Company OF Stock
holm. with capital of 13.0o0.OOO
crowns: the Swedish-Argentine Trad
ing and Banking company, capitalized
at 100000 crowns: the East African
Trading company, with capital of
100000 crowns. Besides. sky
scraper. costing 100000. has Just
been started at Stockholm.
The sugar trust has received special
permission to erect ten-story, steel
framed building, with street front OF
obout 700 feet and with room for 1000
laborers. The Argentine company is
to open Offices at Buenos Ayres and
will handle large supply of Swedish
goods. The Stockholm Power COM
pany is building a power station that
is to have capacity of 13,o00,00O-
horsepower. The East African COM
pany will maintain steamship line
between Sweden and Africa and do
much to promote trade with the great
Southern continent.
The Swedish branch of the Interna-
tional Harvester company has more
than doubled it's exports of Swedish
implements to Russia. and the Swed-
ish government. in the hope of still
further promoting trade relations with
the cars empire, is contemplating
the subsidization Of steamship line
between Stockholm and Russian ports.
A Swedish correspondent has writ
ten an interesting account of the great
Northern museum at Stockholm,
which was recently formally opened
by the crown prince, as related in
these columns. 1t will be one OF the
leading "show places" of Scandinavia,
like the celebrated Thorwaldsen muse
UNI at Copenhagen, and it is we'll for
northumberland to become ia
miliar with it's history and character.
We quote from the correspondent in
question as follows:
LAS you know. this museum is one
of the finest ethnographical collections
in the world. Many, many years ago,
DIR. Arthur Hazelius began collecting
old dressers, furniture, household I'M
Elements. etc, from the different prov
inces in Sweden, mostly from the peas
ants, with the idea of preserving what
still could be saved from the life of
the passing centuries. The work he
undertook was tremendous and diff.
cult beyond words, because he had no
funds to speak of and had to beg and
caiole for all he was worth to get what
he wanted. Very often people laughed
at him for collecting such "old rub
bish,' but he was not disheartened.
He travelled all over Sweden, Norway
and Denmark and ransacked every
house from cellar to garnet. and be-
fore the Swedish people knew it he
had brought together a collection of
the wonderful examples of Swedish in
dustry and art from old times.
al first the collections were housed
in temporary hired premises. but
through the exertions of Hazelius, the
state sanctioned lottery. the pro-
leeds OF which were to be used for
erecting Il building where all the col
lcctions could be exhibited in way
worthy of them. This building. which
from an architectural point of view is
Il very fine specimen OF Swedish art.
stands at the entrance of Djurgarden.
tie great park in Stockholm. and all
the treasures collected by Hazelius
and his assistants are placed there 1t
is monument of a rare kind and any
nation might be proud of it.
THE visitor who goes there will be
able to trace the life of the Scandina.
Wan nations in their home surround
ings through the centuries up to this
day. AS the collections are now to be-
seen. YOU can. for instance study the
houses and costumes of the peasant
population in all the different Swedish
provinces. You can also see how the
upper classes lived from the beginning
OF the sixteenth century up to 1907,
there being rooms from all the differ.
ent periods. where not only the furni.
ture and the costumes are real, but
also the rooms themselves, including
floors. ceilings. walls, fireplaces, every
thing are taken from characteristic
old houses and put together here.
Such a department as that which con-
tains the textile specimens is a won
der in itself and will repay the student
who goes there to see what Swedish
peasant women could produce 200
years ago. In connection with the
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