Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1912-01-17
NORWAY.

Inc wireless station at Green Hat-
Dor, Spitsbergen. was opened for pub
lie correspondence Dec. II. The first
message was sent to the Kristiania
Aftenposten at cost of almost $1OO.
1t is all very interesting reading to
the public at large and some of it's
main points are as follows. The
wireless station works /. excellently.
The installation work commenced July
10 and the station was in working or
der on Sept. %. There was an aver
age OF thlrty-three workmen employed.
Altogether, 1888 working hours were
used, of which SAIL comes on unload
ing and transportation. The station
contains the dwelling house of the op-
orator, the telegraph house, three
storehouses for petroleum, a store
house for coal and wood, four bSr-
racks and the three-cornere iron
masts 100 meters apart and sixty me-
tiers high. Each mast weighs fifteen
tons and rests on glass isolation and
is held by three sets Of stays, each
containing two iron chains, also iso-
lated at top and bottom by glass iso-
lators. The powerhouse contains two
petroleum motors of the Deutz type,
each of thirty-fve horsepower, with
water cooling, air compressors, pumps
and two sixteen-kilowatt dynamos.
The foundations for these engines
weigh sixty tons BY different phen-
omena we understand that strong and
regularly varying electromagnetic
powers and currents are ct work. The
northern lights are scare and always
on the southern horizon. displaying
themselves from east to west None
have appeared to the northwest.
There are $50 persons wintering at
Spitzbergen among whom are stY wo.
men and two children, one beins only
year old. All are doing we'll Here
at Green bay are nineteen persons.
The others are at Advent bay, Kings
bay, Sassen bay, Bell sound and at
South cape. There may be some
others at other points. We hear no
thing from those living beyond Green
harbor. The ice formed at Green har
Dor on Oct. q. Drifting ice las not
been seen since the summer. The
first snowfall came on Sept. Is. Later
on colossal masses of snow have fall
en-. The lowest temperature up to
date has been 81 centigrade. The
eQuinOxial stroms were terrible. Dur.
ing the last few days. we have had
mild weather with degrees cent?.
grade, SO that the immense masses OF
snow have almost disappeared. The
ice in the harbor has also been broken
up by the storms and the harbor is
now open for navigation. We suppose
that the sea is now open all the way to
Norway. The differenuce between
day and night is hardly noticeable
Animal life is reduced to our seven
dogs, but there are traces of bears,
foxes and ptarmigans, which evidently
sneak around us in the dark. Time
passes quickly thanks to our good
houses, good varying bills of fare, .
large library, lots of work of a vari>
gated nature, electric light, an organ
and gramophone, good fellow feel
ing, good health, good humor and daily
dispatches of news from the outside
world, sent us by the director of Nor
wegian telegraphs, Mr.. Heftya
There are no difficulties in spend.
Ing a winter in the arctics under such
co'lditions.-Hermon Peterson"
This is the first telegraphic dispatch
ever received from the Arctics. Great
scientific knowledge is expected to b
gained from this new station, situated
as it is beyond all ordinary human
habitation. Weather observations win
be recorded daily and sent to the
weather bureaus all over Europe
Prof Fridtjof Nansen gave a taN
on education at q meeting OF the stu
dents society and the way he handled
the Norwegian school system was
terror to the educators and great
encouragement to those who ask Ton
more practical training in the public
schools. This great objection to the
present schools Of Norway Is, that
they monkey with too many general
tiles, making the rising generation su
perficial and poorly equipped for the
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slogan is, fewer branches, but more
thorough work.
A woman wrote the best book for the
Christmas trade. Her name IL Sigrid
Undseth. "She is just as courageous
as any man and ut the same time her
feelings are as tender as those Of any
woman. What she writes seems e
have reached perfection In the art o.
depicting human character"
Two sisters were married ct Bye
Hole. Ringerfke, Dec. IL. 1861. Ffft9
years later they we're there again and
their husbands were with them, C
that there could b . double 0elAeG
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