Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-12-24
NORWAY.

According to Norwegian newspaper
reports CONSUL Felix S. Johnson, at
Bergen, says that the Danish United
Steamship company of Copenhagen
has, with the approval of the Trans.
Atlantic steamship companies, entered
into the Atlantic pool for line be.
tween Sweden, Norway and the Unit.
ed States, and will establish a service
OF steamers between Copenhagen
Gothenburg, Christiania, Bergen and
New York. 1t is reported that the ar.
rangements for the mutual co-opera.
ton between the Atlantic lines are
that each of the Norwegian and Swed.
ish companies take over one of the
Danish-American boats, Sweden TAX
ing oscar ILL., and Norway the "Hel.
lig Olay," and, in addition each com.
pany will build new boat. The Unit.
ed Steamship company retains the
steamers "Tietgen" and the United
States" In addition it is provided
that all three companies in common
have reserve ship. The three com.
panies will belong to the North Amer,
lean pool. and a uniform passenger
and freight rate has been agreed upon.
In making a similar report, Consul w.
Henry Robertson, at Gothenburg
quotes another Norwegian newspaper.
which states that the program for the
new shipping lines will commence on
Jan. 1, and it is asserted will enable
a steamship to be sent each week dur.
ing the seasons when necessary. The
United Steamship company's four yes
sells were sent last year eight times to
New York, carrying 11,095 emigrants
from Copenhagen, of whom 7,155 were
Danes, 1920 Swedes and Firms and
ITO Russians, while at the information
al ports, Christiania and Christian.
sand, 1910 additional emigrants EN-.
barked. Should the plan for the new
line materalize. however, 1t is consid.
cred that the one proposed by Captain
w. r. Lundgren, of Gothenburg, for a
direct Swedish-American line would
come to naught. His plan Is to build
steamers of modern type, chiefly for
passenger traffic, and capable of max.
ing at least eighteen knots an hour
and of carrying the mails from Swe-
den more quickly than at present.
William Hartcourt Palmer. of Pors-
grund, has, according to Christiania
papers, invented a new explosive.
which he claims is just as powerful as
dynamite. Mr. Palmer will visit Eng.
land and the United States in the near
future in the interests of his new In.
vention.
Alfred w. Aspelund has just com
pleted novel entitled The Artist.
1t is romance teeming with intricate
situations and will perhaps be repro
duced on the stage in Christiania after
the holidays.
The new Mexico lines steamer
Texas has just been completed at a
cost of 100000 crowns. 1t is modern
In every respect and Is one of the
finest steamers built in Norway fol
some time.
The Solstrand Hotel at Os has been
sold to Horsten Lunde for $4,000
crowns. 1t will now be submitted to
thorough repairs and will hereafter
cater to the tourist trade exclusively.
The Trondhjem orchestra was re.
Gently organized and its ruture success
already seems assured. 1t already has
thirty members and the city has estab
lished an orchestra fund of $4,000.
A new theater will be erected In
Sarpsborg in the near future at cost
of $4,000 crowns. II will be one of the
largest theaters ever built in a coun
try town in Norway.
There are about eighty Norwegian
consumptives who are spending the
winter in Spitzbergen. There they
certainly have a superabundance OF
fresh air.