The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-31
MANY PLACES Of
INTEREST seen
President Anthem H. Lund and
Party Make a Tour OF
Europe.

After travelling twenty thousand miles
over land and water and visiting half a
dozen foreign countries, President Anthem
H. Lund, counselor to President Joseph
F Smith of she Mormon church, has re
turned to Salt Lake. On his "trip which
was begun on June , last, President LUnd
was accompanied bV Mrs I.uud and
daughter. Miss Eva Lund. and Mrs. An
drew Jensen and Miss Eva Jensen.
It had been eleven years since President
Lund was last across the Atlantic, and
he said that he thoroughly enjoyed the
Journey. The progress of the countries
visited, the wonderful extension of his
church IN foreign countries. and the warm
friendship for all American citizens in
terested and pleased him.
During the trip the party visited Canada
England, Denmark, Sweden. Norway,
Germany and France. All of the inn
pOrtant Mormon missions in these cOun-
tries were visited. and President Lund
and his family visited relatives i'm Den
mark, stopping for a time at President
Lulds birthplace at Alberg. Denmark.
where President Lund once more saw the
places which were once his Fairgrounds.
Some of these places had been rebuilt and
were strange 10 him, but some of them
were unchanged and familiar. The ma
tiOnal Danish exposition at Alberg fur
nished one of the principal places of in
terest and entertainment.
On leaving Salt Lake. President Lund
said that the party wished to see America
before going to Europe. They stopped at
Chicago. Washington. Boston and New
York On June Is President Lund ad-
dressed a conference OF Mormon elders
in New York. The birthplace of Prophet
Joseph Smith at Sharon, Vermont was
visited, and each member of the party
planted a tree on the grounds.
Received Warmly.
1--WE sailed from Montreal" said Presi-
dent Lund in telling of the continuation
of the Journey, ''in the steamer Laurentic
fof Dominion line lime l4 arriving
lin Liverpool seven days later. We We're
lfnet and warmly received at Liverpool by
president C. w Penrose OF the European
Emissions. who accompanied us for the
greater part of the remainder of our
trip.
ago we only had one house i'm the entire
European missions Now we have about
"a dozen our only headquarters were in
the famous Mormon building at - Isling-
ton Liverpool. which had been the head
quarters for fifty years Now the
HEADQUARTERS of our European mis-
-siOns are at Durham house an ideal lOca-
ton, with delightful surroundings We
held several meetings at Liverpool and
Then. accompanied By President and Mrs.
|PenrOse. We went to GrimSby and Dover
and sailed to Hamburg. From there we
went Immediately to Aarhus, a prosperous
aOn reaching Aarhus we were Joined
by President Andrew Jensen of the Dan
Ssh and Norwegian missions. The ma
at Aarhus. and on our arrival was in
full swing. The exposition was not such
an elaborate affair as some of our Ameri-
tcan eXpOsitiOns. but II was very beauu-
fuI and decidedly instructive. In the beau
; tiful exposition buildings were TO be found
samples of everything that Denmark
could produce. There were beautiful tex
tile fabrics, modern implements of every
kind, grains, eggs and Denmark's match
less butter
American Day.
I'VE were there on July 4, American day
at the exposition. and were delighted with
the show of friendliness toward the United
States. The streets of Aarhus We're hung
with the Stars and Stripes and the expo
sitiOn buildings were festOOned with
American bunting. During the morning
q cablegram Of greeting was read from
President Taft and as il was being read
we Danish-Americans made the Welkin
ring with genuine American Fourth of
July cheers of freedom. a message Of
: congratulations was also received from
King Frederick VII.
s'In the evening we attended a mag
nificent banquet given for l,Jd0 Danish
Americans. who were at the exposition.
At the banquet American and Danish
flags were intertWined. There were
speeches by the American ambassador
by Americans living in Denmark and by
Danes living in America The American
dav at the exposition well illustrates the
close friendship which exists between
Denmark and America.
I'VE spent ABOUT a week tl l1ellllidlA
and visited several parts of that inter
esting country. One Of the pleasantest
portions OF my journey was my visit to
my birthplace and childhood home at
Aiberg II was fourteen years since I
had been there before and it was the
first visit of nv wife and daughter to this
place. 1t gave me great pleasure to visit
there once more and TO point out TO my
wife and daughter the place where I used
fo pIav during NV bOyh0Od
zone of The things that impressed me
on my visit 70 Denmark was the growth
If the country When / left my birth
TIace il was a place of 5000 population.
f. is now CITY of 80 goo. When / left
denmark. Copenhagen haa l61.o00 in
habitants. 1t mas now about ialt a mill
lion The ztrban population throughout
Denmark is rapidly increasing, not SO
much through immigration as through the
natural Increase OF the native population.
When I left Denmark il was exporting
grains nov grains are being imported.
The Danes have changed from agrleui
trrisfs to daifymen. The government
keeps a strict watch on the 9uttsr in in
5usfrv. with the result that Denmark s
S,,4ter is unrivaled. In London Danish