Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-08-18

asked recently by a newspaper cor
respondent what Norway makes out
of her tourists he estimated that they
leave about 100000 crowns in the
country every year. The hotels and
inns, not to mention the restaurants
and the cafes, are the ones who are
making the biggest money out of the
tourist traffic. The keeper of the mod
est little mountain inn finds the sum-
mer tourist to be the best and most
valuable friend that he can get. The
mountain inns and hotels of Norway
attract thousands of English, German
and American tourists, who desire to
find quiet nook to fish and rest.
Mountain trout are abundant and
those who love to fish can certainly
have their craving for this sport COM
pletely satisfied. Even in winter Nor
way is beginning to attract tourists.
Many consumptives, too, come to Nor
way to breathe the fresh, pure air of
the fiords and mountains and the ski
tournaments and ski sports have also
attracted many hundreds of foreign
visitors during later years. So, taking
it all through, the tourist traffic is one
of the most valuable assets that Nor
way has and everything is being done
to increase it from year to year.
Norwegian students by the hundreds
have been seeking employment in the
country districts this summer. They
are in nearly all cases willing to work
Tor their board and they are doing
this more for the purpose of building
up their health than anything else.
A good many students find this a most
profitable way of spending the sum-
mer and they are able to return to the
college or university when the fall
term starts in much better condition
than if they were to have spent their
time in the cities. The open air fad
is increasing and it happens to be one
of those fads which apparently is re-
sulting in bringing about good deal
of good for those concerned.
Once in a while one will see an art
icle in a Norwegian paper which au-
gurs well for the future so far as
again attempting to cement better re-
lationS between the two countries,
Sweden and Norway There recently
appeared such an article in the "Kys-
ten," which suggests that a Norwe-
gian commercial union be started and
urging cooperation between Sweden
and Norway in keeping up regular
steamship traffic. The paper argues
that the two together can operate a
much greater number of lines than by
working separately. The Christiania
Morgenbladet has endorsed the propo-
sition and will no doubt put in some
strong arguments for it.
Emperor William has offered the
Norwegian people, through King Haa-
kon, to erect a statue over Fridtjof the
Brave as remuneration for the gen.
erous way in which he (the EMPEROR
has been received every time that he
has visited Norway. AS a place for
the monument the emperor has sug-
gested high prominence at Fran
mas, in the Sgnefiord, in the vicinity
of Fridtjof the Braves grave. King
Haakon has thanked the emperor on
behalf of the Norwegian people To
Professor Unger has been entrusted
the task of drawing up the plans for
a suitable monument
This year is a banner year for fish
ing, says a correspondent of one of
the leading Christiania papers. Not
for many seasons has such an enor-
nous quantity of "torsk" been taken.
In Finmarken 14S,OOO,0O0 pounds have
been taken and this is certainly the
largest catch on record. The herring
fisheries in the North sea have also
proven extremely profitable and fish
ermen in general have been making
good money.
DR.. Jorgen Brunchorst, scientist
and politician, has been appointed
Norway's minister to Stockholm,
Sweden. The Christiania papers APP
prove his appointment, all declar-
ing that he will make a splendid rep
resentative for Norway in the Swedish
capital
The Norwegian historians have had
meeting in Bergen recently 1T
was lucky thing" says Editor LANCE
of the Scandal (Chicago), that His
torian Sars did not attend the meet
ing for he weighs, you know, a trifie
more than all the rest"