Morris tribune., 1911-05-05
T|DINCS FROM
SCANDINAVIA
Interesting News From Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
REACHES SNTIETH BIRTHDAY

Prominent Swedish Manufacturer Re
membered by His EmpIoyes-Praise
for Professor Sven OftedahI, Nor
Wegian-American Teacher, Who Died
Acknowledgements Shows Denmark
to Be Very DenseIy Populated.
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August Schmitz, the founder of the
great wooden and cotton mills at Furu.
lund, Malmo, has celebrated his six
| tieth birthday. His employees had pre-
pared and signed an address to- him,
| thanking him for what he had done
| for them and the community A sill
yer bowl accompanied the address.
gust Schmitz handed him an address
of thanks in the form of poem writ
ten by Mrs. Ingrid Berg. From the
board of directors of the company
which is formally running the mills
he received two colossal urns of pure
silver. Representatives from several
business concerns and great num-
Der of individuals called on Mr..
SchmitZ during the day to pay him
their respects. He is a Catholic, and
his contributions to charitable insti-
tutions have been very liberal. Bishop
Bitter of. Stockholm sent him a let
ter telling him that the head of the
Catholic church had pronounced the
Apostolic benediction upon him and
his mother, who is ninetytwo years
old. Late in the day a telegram was
received from the pope, announcing
that a special blessing had been pro-
nounced upon August Schmitz and his
house. II:
The Swedish Lutheran church in
London was dedicated on Feb. 20.
Bishop Rhode of Sweden had been ap-
pointed to perform the dedicatory act
in the place of Archbishop Ekman,
whose health would not allow him to
undertake the journey. Bishop Rhode
was assisted by two Swedish minis
tiers of London and several others
from outlying districts The bishops
of Salisbury and St. Adams were also
present and sat one on each side of
the altar. A number of other dignita-
ries of London and Sweden were pres
ent and occupied prominent seats in
front. The services were deeply i'm
pressive. ~
There is going to be new city hall
in Stockholm, according to latest re-
ports. The" city council of Stockholm
resolved to build one by vote of 67
to "a. The vote was not. taken until
Franckel and Wallenberg, two wealthy
Stockholm bankers, announced their
willingness to contribute $4,000
each to the cost Graham Bros. had
already promised to put in elevators
free of charge. The cost Of the eleva-
tors will be about $4,000. The two
members of the city council who are
each contributing the aforesaid
amount are apparently doing their full
duty as city fathers ~-.s
The Swedish-American society held
its annual meeting in Stockholm re-
Gently with w. F. Dahlstrom presid-
in. Director o. Assar read paper
entitled: From the Atlantic Seaboard
to the Pacific Ocean," The paper was
illustrated by means of a lot of stere-
optican pictures and was very instruc-
tive throughout. Director Assar made
a trip to the United States some years
ago and while there gathered lot of
exceedingly interesting material,
which he is now using to good ad-
vantage in Sweden.
In the course of the last few years
it has been proved that large quaint
ties of valuable minerals are to be
found in the Arctic regions. On
Greenland's south coast copper mines
have been worked for a long time and
last year big mines were discovered
in Spitzbergen. Now a dispatch has
been received announcing that rich
copper strata have been found on
Vestmannd island, near the south
coast of Iceland, and that mining will
be started as soon as possible.
So called Swedish "spisbread" is
very popular abroad and the other day
C. w. Schumacher & Co.. bakers. sent
a consignment of this bread to the
steamship Vale, which will use the
Swedish product on German South
polar expedition which will start out
soon The bread is packed in her.
metically sealed packages and is un-
usually nourishing.
In little country like Sweden it
is noteworthy fact that not less than
$1,000 men saw actual service in the
Swedish army last year. The United
States has recently modified an army
of 10000 men on the Mexican from
tier and that, in little Sweden even,
would be considered a ridiculously