Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1911-08-09
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CAMILLA SVERIGE
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Auelg Tie Farmers Of YES
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terQ0tland and Sualand.
Hvetlanda, Smaland, Sweden, July
%, 1911.
Editor Willmar Tribune:
We arrived here all well and have
not missed a meal nor lost nights
sleep since we left home. My COM
panion, Mr.. Swan Anderson, the jew
eler of Willmar, is feeling a great
deal better. The ailment from which
he was suffering at home seems to
have left him. -
A brief review of our travels may
be of interest to our friends at Will
mar. We left Minneapolis June 18th
at 8 p. m. We left Chicago at II p.
m. the following day over the Grand
Trunk railroad. The country east Of
Chicago doesn't appear any better
than does our own Kandiyohi Conu-
ty lands and farther east in Pennsyl-
vania the lands do not look very
good. Here we passed a number of
ly went on at New Yorketaoinetao
coal mining districts. We arrived at
New York on the 14th at 9 a. m. We
Immediately went on board Of the
large ship, Mauritania. There were
over 5000 people on board. $50 of
these are required to take care Of the
ship. It requires $50 coal shovelers
to keep the fire going under the boil
ers. This boat is 796 feet long and
lis one Of the fastest ships on the
sea. 1t plows 36 feet deep in the
water. At the stern of the boat the
water is churned by the large propel-
lers so it resembles a large waterfall
The speed Of the ship is as fast as a
railroad train.
1t was a fine day and the scenery
as We passed Ellis Island and Coney
Island was certainly fine. We made
$50 miles on that day. On the 18th
we had fine weather, had a good time
and became acquainted with a num-
Der of people. We made 566 miles
that day. The ship was crowded with
passengers SO that there were about
IS people sleeping on the floor and
on the decks. The fine weather con-
tinued on the 10Th and the boat made
$40 miles. A good breeze sprung up
OH the 18th, but still the Mauretania
made $50 miles. On Sunday, the
18th, there were q number of serv-
ices on board, some in Swedish, Eng
lish and Norwegian, There was a lot
Of music and singing. The weather
was rough, but the boat made $40
miles. On the 10Th the ship was met
by some birds in the morning, which
was an indication of not being far
from land. Soon we saw the coast
of Ireland and met a stream of sea
gulls flying around the boat to- pick
up scraps thrown out from the ship.
We made a stop there and lot Of
passengers landed on smaller boats.
The ship made $50 miles that day,
and came into Liverpool. On the Goth
we left ship, passed thru the custom
house, where all our baggage was in
spected. Here We lost some of our
good company that We had while 60
ing over the ocean, as we were going
to Gothenburg and others were going
to Malm0 and we were to take diff
ferent boats over the North Sea.
We boarded the railroad train at
Liverpool at 8 p. m. and crossed over
England to Hull and boarded the
ship Calypso, which carried about
$50 passengers. At 5 p. m. on the
21st, we saw the English fleet from
Hull, consisting of about 100 steam
ships. On the 22nd we came into the
harbor Of Gothenberg. First you see
the island Of big rocks on which were
the Marconi telegraph stations and
light houses. Inside Of the harbor
We saw lot Of boats and war ships.
AS We came near the pier, the pass
engers on board sang "Du Gamla, Du
Fria, Du Fjallh6ga Nord," and "Vart
Land, Vart Land" and before we
landed I went up on the deck and
called out for everybody to give three
cheers for old Sweden. This was
done with spirit by everyone. A Nor
wegian minister on board came up to
me and thanked me for having done
so. There were a number of people
to meet the boat waving their white
handkerchiefs. We were not asked
to open our satchels here as in Eng
land. The custom inspector was a
we'll dressed policeman. We found
Gothenberg to be a very fine city.
We stopped at Hembygdens hotel.
Here We had fine room and bed for
1875 crowns. In a restaurant in the
city We had two eggs, butter, two
kinds Of bread and two cups of COT
fee, all for 40 ore, very little more
than ten cents. The bread certainly
was the finest We had ever eaten. On
May 23rd. We took the train for Yes
terpctland. peffinp off at Rronas Wo