The Princeton union., 1909-06-17
TIDIlVCS FROM
SCANDINAVIA
News Of General Interest
from Three Countries.
TOURISTS ARE ARRIVING


for the Summer Months Stockholm
the Great Center Of Interest, Es.
peciaIly for the American and Enq.
lish Visitor.
SWEDEN.
The tourists have begun to arrive.
They come from all parts of Europe
and America and the hotels of the
country are prepared to receive the
visitors and make it pleasant for
them. While Sweden is not nearly
SO great tourist country as Norway
the tourist traffic has in that country
been increasing at marvellous rate
during the past five years. Stockholm
is great drawing card for all tour.
lists, especially the American and Eng.
llsh tourist, who never find it difficult
to get along, because English is so
generally used at all the leading no.
tells and by railway and steamship Of
hcials. There will of course be the
same large number of Swedish-Amer-
leans and they are now arriving by
the hundreds to celebrate midsummer
with the old folks. The Swedish.
American generally goes direct home
to the folks and does not do much
travelling. but while he remains in
Sweden he spends his money freely
and they are now more welcome in
Sweden than they used to be. The
Swedish-Americans are now held in
high esteem, whereas a number of
years ago they were much criticised
for using a mixture of Swedish and
English in their speech. All this is
wearing away and the Swedish-Amer-
lean is not an unwelcome guest in the
homeland any longer.
There is no gainsaying the fact that
the Swedish Anti-Emigration society
has been busy during the past two
years, but there have been no encour-
aging results. At least one cannot so
judge by the many people that con-
tinue to emigrate to foreign lands, es-
pecially to America. One of it's lec-
turers addressed not less than $4,000
persons during one year and over 12,-
600 pamphlets have been distributed.
Several stock companies have been
organized for procuring homes for
poor farmers and laborers. One Of
these companies has capital of $780,
900. The results of the agitation are
not great, because Sweden has been
suffering under a heavy financial de-
preston lately. The leaders, how
ovor 0f tho movement fool eo+;,foa
that they will succeed in the long run.
In Berlin there has been arrested a
clever swindler who seems to have
made it a special business to deal in
decorations of Scandinavian orders,
such as the North Star Order, the
Vasa Order, st. Olaf's Order, etc. He
Travelled under the name of nothing
less than Marquis Floton d'Haran-
court, moved in the very highest of
society and has decorated several
members of leading society families in
Munchen, Leipsiz and Brussels. From
a number of persons he has collected
large sums of money, promising them
Swedish court and secured them the
insignas of distinction. The Swedish
police had been endeavoring to locate
him and it was rumOred some time ago
that he had been seen in Copenhagen.
There are about 1000 carpenters on
strike at present in Sweden. 1t is the
largest carpenter strike on record and
perhaps the most foolish one. It has
been in progress now for several
weeks and all the good that it has
done has been to retard the building
industry and do injury to the carpen-
ters themselves, who cannot see that
there is nothing to be gained by a
strike of that order.
On July 1918 at the exhibition there
will be not less than $500 singers
present. It will be the greatest sing
ing festival ever held in Sweden. In
1897 there were over 1000 singers in
attendance during the memorable
days of the great sangarfest, but this
one will entirely eclipse it.
The Society of Colonial Wars of the
commonwealth of Pennsylvania has
presented a painting of the Swedish col
ony in Delaware in 1888 and the same
will soon arrive in Stockholm, where
1t will be placed in the Bergstrahl
House.
The late O. Ottesson left the larg.
est collection of eggs in Europe, which
are now in possession of the National
Museum. There are hundreds of diff
ferent varieties and there are not less
than 10000 of them.
The queen will, prior to her return
to Sweden, pay a short visit to Fran
zenbahd in Germany. She left Karls-
ruhe May % and it is expected that
she will return to Stockholm about
June 20.
A theatrical school has been started
by Emil Hillberg in Stockholm and It
is generally believed that it will prove
great success. Mr.. Hillberg is an
experienced actor and trained to the
hour in the dramatic arts.
The tax on salt has been raised
from 12 ore per kilogram to 20 ore per
klogram.