Morris tribune., 1910-05-20
TIDINGS FROM
SCANDINAVIA
Interesting News From Sweden,
Norway and Denmark
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ROOSEVELT VISITS STOCKHOLM

Intense Interest Displayed by All
Glasses of People in the Swedish
CapitaI-Bjornson Funeral at Chris
tiania Attended by imposing Cere-
monies-RooseveIt Royalty Enter.
tanned During Stay in Copenhagen.
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Intense interest was displayed by all
classes of people in Theodore Roose-
velt's visit to Stockholm last week and
he was received and feted like king
The American colony welcomed him
most heartily and delegations from
prominent literary philosophical and
musical societies we're on hand to well
come him and do him the highest hon
ors. Stockholm was lavishly decorated
in his honor and one of the chief fea-
lures of the decorative scheme was
a huge arch erected at the entrance
of Fredsgatan, a short distance from
the railway station. The aldermen of
the city voted the decoration of sew
era1 public streets and buildings and
thousands of people crowded the cafes,
restaurants and parks.
Upon arrival at the Stockholm Cen
tral station the Roosevelt party was
received by American Minister Graves
and the attaches of the American lega-
tion. The Swedish government was
represented by Baron Trolle, the for
eign minister, and several other high
officials, while General Varberg, the
governor of Stockholm, was present to
extend the municipal greetings. The
Roosevelt party rode in the royal car
riages. to the royal palace, where they
were entertained at luncheon. The
way led through the beautiful Strand
vagen, the fashionable promenade in
Stockholm, and through other streets
which were gaily decorated for the
occasion. Colonel Roosevelt found
. much to interest him in the royal pal
ace, a stately edifice built in the Sew
enteenth century and little remodeled
since then. It is beautifully situated
at the head of the lake and it's chief
approach is from Lyons hill, opposite
the North bridge The crown prince
and crown princess occupy one pOr-
tion of the palace and the king and
queen the other. Of especial interest
to Colonel Roosevelt and his son was
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a part of one of the upper floors of
the palace. This room is filled with
trophies of the hunt collected by King
Gustaf, who is great lover of outdoor
sport. There are hundreds of deer
heads, bears, moose and crOcOdiles.
Though the duration of their stay
was exceedingly brief in Stockholm
the Roosevelt party found time to visit
many places of interest in and about
the city. They inspected the North
ern museum, which is famous through
out Europe Visits were paid to the
principal government buildings, all of
which are spacious and many exceed
ingly beautiful Colonel Roosevelt and
son also paid a visit to Skansen, the
great open air museum, and here he
listened to the Stockholm male chorus,
which had gathered there to sing in
his honor The ex-president was en-
thusiastic over the singing and ex-
claimed that it was the most mag
nificent chorus singing that he had
heard in ali his life.
The Swedish-American society gave
it's annual dinner on the evening Of
April 8. The festivities were held at
the Radius restaurant, which had
been lavishly decorated for the occa-
sion Editor Won Koch delivered an
animated address entitled America
and the Immigrants" which was illus
trated by means of stereOptican
views Madame Bally Hogberg rem
dered some Swedish folk songs and
quartette sang some American songs.
King Gustaf has left Cape Martin
for Nice, where he will be treated by
Professor Schweringen, who was at
one time Bismarck,s physician. From
there the king will journey to Vienna
The king, according to all reports
does not appear to be in the most de
irable health and some little anxiety
is apparent in many quarters.
At the beginning of the present yea1
the state church of Sweden was
served by 2,767 ordained clergymen
This makes one clergyman to about
1000 inhabitants. But it must be re-
membered that there are clergymen in
Sweden who do not belong to the state
church and that there are inhabitants
that have separated from it.
According to a Stockholm paper
there were sixty-fve Mormon agents
engaged in proselyting work in differ
ent parts of Sweden last year. They
visited 1T5,0O0 Swedish families, held
over 10000 religious meetings, sold
and gave away $4,000 Mormon books
besides distributing 277, 1852 pamphlets.
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