The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1909-07-22
TID|VcS FROM
SCANDINAVIA
News Of General Interest
from Three Countries.
STOCKHOLM LIVING HIGH.

STOCKHOLM LIVING HIGH
City Is Deserted in Summer Time by
All Who Can Afford to Leave-Rents
and Taxes Unreasonably High with
No Signs Of Any Change in the Stu.
alton - Even Tourists Complain
About the Excessive Prices Charged
at the Hotels.
SWEDEN.
Talking about an expensive city to
live in, Stockholm certainly caps the
climax. In no European city are the
daily living expenses so high as they
are in the Swedish capital. Rents,
heat and light will consume over one
fifth of the income of stockholm fami.
lies who exist on an income of 1,500
crowns a year. Rents and taxes are
unreasonably high and there does not
seem to be any change in the situa-
ton either. Stockholm is deserted in
summer by all who can afford it and
many find that they can live cheaper
in the smaller suburban towns, SO
there are hundreds of middle class
folks who have given up their apart.
ments in the city for good, and moved
out into the small villages surrounding
the capital. Even tourists are com.
planning about the high prices at the
hotels and they find that they can
travel far cheaper in Denmark and
Germany for instance than in Sweden.
This is an unfortunate condition of af.
fairs and the country must needs suf.
fer from it.
A new scheme has been introduced
by a Swedish insurance company,
which is certainly unique. It appears
that many poor people are afraid of
lnsuring their lives for fear that they
may not be able to keep up the pay.
ments. A Swedish insurance company
has therefore hit upon the plan of
minimizing this fear by giving each in
sured a savings bank of peculiar con.
struction. It is made in such a way
that one may keep it going like a
watch by dropping into it ten ore "a
little more than two cents) every day
If SO much day is missed the ma.
chinery stops. The coin acts as a sort
OF key, and every coin put in is reg
istered. It is supposed that the in
sured will not feel the burden of the
insurance so much when the premiums
are paid in daily driblets of less than
three cents each. The experiment has
not been fairly tried as yet, but insur.
ance officials seem to think that it will
work very satisfactorily.
Needless to say the Gar of Russia
was we'll received in Stockholm. al.
though there was less show and pomp,
owing to the fact that the Russian
cars life is in continual danger. The
streets were lined with soldiers and
during the few hours that he spent in
stockholm he was certainly as closely
watched as he had even been in all
his life. The Swedish authorities saw
to it that the detective and espionage
system was complete during the cars
visit and it would have been difficult
indeed to have done the car any bodi.
~ harm. The car is reported to have
been exceedingly well pleased with his
visit to Stockholm and as a token OF
MS appreciation he donated 10000
crowns to the poor of the city.
The seats in the first and second
class passenger coaches on the state
railways will soon be numbered. and
when passenger buys ticket he will
receive numbered tag, which entities
him to certain seat The same in.
novatlon will be made on the Nor.
wegian and Danish lines connected
with the Swedish lines in southern
Sweden.
1t sounds strange enough, but it is
reported on good authority that the
next consignment of Swedish postage
stamps put on the market will be made
and engraved in Vienna The en-.
gravers in Sweden ought, it would
seem, reach out for this business II
would undoubtedly pay them to make
an effort to get it.
A party of German philanthropists
visited Stockholm the other day for
the purpose of familiarizing them.
selves with the methods EMPLOYED in
Swedish cities for the care of the moor
what to do with the real poor is a
problem which stares every European
capital in the face.
Captain A. schweitzer, who was gen.
eral secretary of the last international
press congress, has during the past
Few days been guest Of the stock.
holm Press club. He will also nav a
visit to Christiania and Copenhagen.
Japan is using the Swedish system
In her lighthouses and has now intr,,.
duced this system generally along al,
her coasts. They are now introducinr
the Lux system along the Korean coast
and report excellent success with it.
Mustafa Chekib Bey, formerly Turk
ish commissioner in Sofa, has been
appointed Turkish minister RI Smoaa,,