The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-21
VIKINGS ONCE MORE
TO SAIL UP SEINE
Young NorWegians to Celebrate
Millennial Of Hugliek's In
vasion Of Normandy.
DOMESTICS FORM UNION
Girls of Three Scandinavian Ma
tions Present Demands to Bet
ter Conditions.
DoMEsTICs FORM UNION
BY EEIC GRUNDMARK.
al Cable to The Tribune.

SPECIAL Cable To The Tribune.
COPENHAGEN. May 2o.-There is L
be another Morse invasion OF France. !!
is TO be in a regular Viking see dragon
ard in regular Viking style.
1t was Just thousand years ago that
King Husliek and his vikings landed on
the shores OF Normandy and took that
prIncipalIty for their own. thereby very
materially affecting the history OF the
world.
4 party OF Norwegian students have
had an exact replica OF Hugeiks's ) ship
built AT Bergen aud they propose to row
II. just as their Viking ancestors did.
from Bergen TO Roucn They will prob
ably follow the ancient kings course also
up the Seine to Paris
Denmark, Sweden and Norway grc
threatened with a. novel strike. Tho ser
want girls Of tho Scandinavian countries
First. the abolition Of any form OF work
between the hours OF p. III, and I a. m
second, extra payment for work done
between these times, third, ono afternoon
q week free, an entire day every second
Sunday and a minimum holiday Of two
weeks every year. wages TO be paid as
usual; fourth, gradual increase OF wages
in accordance With services rendered .
NTH servants rooms must be sunit and
warm.
The struggle has become so serious thai
a general meeting Of housewife has been
called 10 take place at Stockholm, when
it Is expected that most Scandinavian
towns Will send delegates TO discuss the
strike.
Or. Frdtiof Nansen, the famous Arctic
explorer has no patience with the crti
cism OF his fellow countryman. Captain
Raold Amundsen. in seeking to reach the
South pole. In somewhat elaborate de-
fense of Amundsen he says;
"Amundsen's position was as follows;
After Cooks and Peary's return the in
terest for his North Polar expedition
ceased: the support he had been promised
drawn. and the Norwegian parliament re-
fused 70 give him the additional grant
required. No other resources were left
II nothing were done the money Of his
therefore either 10 give up the whole un-
dertaking, on the preparation Of which
he had spent some years OF his life, or
TO do something tended to rouse the in
terest OF the public al large In order to
put himself in a position Ia raise the
money still wanting. He chose the lat
ter course. and fearing that we might
advise him not to go to the Antarctic, and
considering II his duty 10 take the re-
sponsibility on himself alone, he decided
not 10 tell any of US who had assisted him
with the preparations for the North Polar
expedition about his new decision. And
in this ne was perhaps right. AS for my
self, [ must admit that II | had known
Of his plan beforehand | might possibly
nave warned MN against gong SOCln
for fear that 1t would be too hard strain
upon a man first to go on trying South
Polar expedition and then straight away
10 drift voyage across the North Polar
hasin calculated to last at least five OF
six years. 7 have never heard OF any
plan approaching IT, and although my
opinion Is that Amundsen, il anybody, Is
the very man to carry out such gigantic
task, l should not have cared to have
taken the responsibility OF encoura gine
him
"As regards the question whether
Amundsen had right to enter into a
field of research which had already beer
the territory of the exploration OF others
am certain that the president Of the
Royal Geographical society expressed the
feeling OF the British ma tlon when he
said that no explorer obtains any vested
right merely by exploration and that al
foreign competition on the Antarctic con
tinent should be welcomed wherever il
appeared. This is In full accordance with
the canon OF the scientific world univer-
sally organized In all scientific research" "