Morris tribune., 1910-04-08
IIDINCS FROM
SCANDINAVIA
Interesting News From Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
FIVE HUNDRED REMAIN IDLE

Only Small Percentage of Striking
Street Car Employees of Stockholm
Taken Back - Norwegian Writer
Tells an Interesting Bjornson Story.
Commander Peary Expected to Ad-
dress University of Copenhagen.
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Only about 800 of the men employed
by the Northern Street Railway com
pany in Stockholm have been taken
back to work. There are, therefore,
about 500 former employees of the
company who are without employment
at present and indications are that
| they will not be taken back to work
| by the company. The Anti-Emigration
| society has been trying to do some
! thing for these men and their families
and few of them have been settled
on small farms, which they will be
| given chance to buy after a while if
they succeed in making good. This
is the first time that the Anti-Emigra-
| tion society has been in a position to
do any particular good for the work
| 1ngmen and even in the aforemen-
toned cases it is largely and purely an
| experiment.
1t appears thus far no place for the
stadium has been selected for the
Olympian games, which are to be
| held in Stockholm in 1912. Of course
there is plenty of time yet to make a
selection, but it is too important a
matter to drag along. The committee
did select Idrottsparken for this pur-
pose and for a time the question was
supposed to have been definitely set
tied. Still this selection proved to be
mistake, for the Gymnastic Central
institute advances the claim that the
proprietors of Idrottsparken have al
ready rented the grounds for other
purposes. In the fall of 1907 the in
stitute entered into an agreement with
the proprietors to build a gymnastic
institute on that ground for $67 ,000
A significant phase of the campaign
against tuberculosis in Sweden is the
establishment by various industrial
concerns of sanatoria for tuberculOus
workmen from their own factories.
The Vulcan Match company, the
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Sandviken Hardware company, the
Erickson Telephone company and the
Stora Kopparber company are among
those who maintain such institutions,
each accommodating from fifteen to
thirty patients. At these sanatoria
the workmen are received fir, and
their families may be admitted for a
small charge.
A London paper recently printed the
unauthenticated report that Dowager
Queen Sofia of Sweden would spend
the remainder of her days in England.
There is, Of course, no foundation to
this whatever She will return to !
Stockholm during the latter part of !.
May or in the early part of June and |
shortly after her arrival she will move !
to Ulriksdal, which is her favorite j
place for the summers.
Stockholm is busy preparing to give /
a proper reception to Colonel ROOse- !
welt, who is expected to arrive some .
time in May. That Stockholm will be /
in gala attire is needless to state. The .
American ex-president will be given
rousing reception and one which he
will not soon forget.
Princess Maria is at present So
journing in Rome. An Italian paper
says that she is one of the most beau
beauty outranks that of the crown
princess of Roumanta.
There are not less than 100000 wo-
men in Sweden who have the name of
Maria. There is consequently Maria
day, which is annually proving a great
boon to florists and confectionery
stores.
Crown Princess Gustave Adolph of
Sweden, formerly Princess Margaret
of Connaught, gave birth to a daugh-
ter March 28 Other children are Gus
tave Adolph, born in 1906, and Sivgard,
a year younger.
There are at present about 10000
foreigners in Sweden. Among these
the Germans are in the majority.