The sun., 1910-06-09
GO AWAY, YOU DANISH POET
ilNkEE DOODLE. KEEP HIN
or, BlCk TO COPENHAGEN.

DeninaFks Petersen Lived Here ~
Years and ThsR ToSk q Notion 70 GO
IIOme on q VISIT Genes nack Win
s3S and 30 HeaFs and Il HAIRED Oui.
A Danish poe, who has practised the
art Of minstrelsy in America twelve years
will be taken from Fills Island to-day and
put aboard the Scandinavian American
iner Oscar II aud returned tO Copsn-
hagen. where he will 60 tr0uhadOuring
again. The Danish reporter from Ship
News who interviewed tho poet, William
Petersen. came back with the latest
translated elfusiOn Of the bard and his
final word TO America:
Danish poet came 10 town.
Like most bardS, quits unthdt,y.
And uncle samuel turned him down.
A. be was more than nifty
Yankee Doodle Keep him out
LET In every pagan.
join thc Elis island shout
Bark to CopenhAgenl
he praised your land In prose and verse.
Thus winning bread and butter.
FITS thoughts arr nos dern sight worse
Than his mad muse can utter.
Yankee Doodle ons time went
But no more nov us "nlfH-
Although quite intelligent
Bin uas more than nftyi
William writes exclusively in Danish.
but he can speak fair English and had
- high an opinion Of America when he
went home last year on = visit after
spending twelve years here, chiefly in
the neighborhOod of this city, that he
says he induced some other Danes 20
come here. He was known here as an
after dinner talker and q paid poet who
wrote chiefly for festival occasions
In the newspaper printed aboard the
Oscar II. William was alluded 20 as
-DenmArk' Petersen. and a paragraph
said he would make an address On Memo
rial Day on How IN Succeed in America
Of course that implied that you would
be allowed TO land. Most Of the 500 pas
sengers. steerage and cabin heard the
speech and liked t.
All the passengers read the hards
poem published In full In the paper
u was in the nature Of an invocation 20
all Scandinavians % see that the foot
that they pressed for the first time on the
soil Of the great W stern republic was
the hest foot they had. The hard told
them how they night conquer In the
new ANA ana that the lankeFa would he
glad tO give them the hand % fellowship
The poem wound up by asking for three
cheers for the new country.
And when we leave one another In
the glorious port % New York let Il be
with the determination n create no blem-
ish ON the fair reputation Of the Scandi-
navian Americans
And then he was told that $40 was too
little for a professional poet 20 have when
coming hack to America Tie said he
knew plenty Of people in New York who
had not that much and probably never
would BE- able IN save it and that he be-
lleyed that his services as poet and orator
at Scandinavian celebrations would en-
able him. although he was over 81. to
win a living.
lie was ordered deported because he
was likely 10 become a public charge
He took it with calm and Immediately
asked for paper % COMPOSE a few more |
lines on the land ~ the free
He decided later on the advice of
friends to ask for a rehearing u his case
on the ground that he could prove that he /
could take care Of himself The special |
board u inquiry that sat on his case and
him refused tO reopen Il and sent him
hack % WOO the muses Ne smiled and
tore up the pa per that had printed his
invocation Twelve days from now.
u the Norss god that rules the waves
80 wills Il. Denmarks Petersen will be
restored % her.