The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-21
DANISH WOMAN
 TO CAPTAIN BIG
 OCEAN STEAMER
Old Folk Dances Are Being Taught to American
 Teachers.

Copenhagen, Feb. ..21.-Promotion to steamer in the American service has been promised to Mrs. von sBau- ditz, Denmark's only woman sea cap tain who is now commanding avesse1 running between Russia and England.
 Mrs. von Bauditz, who is the wife of a physician, was for a long time interested in yachting as a sport and after passing an examination for a masters license she took up the sea as a procession. So adept did she
 prove herself that a local shipping company soon gave her command of one of it's largest steamers.
 Captain von Bauditz wears a nat ty uniform with square cut coat and skirt Of the same material. She is the first female captain in Denmark and she claims to be the only real fem- mine master mariner in the world.
 Several A m erican teachers are here studying the old Danish folk dances with the idea of substituting them for gymnastics in girls schools in Amer ica. In this city a big society has promotion of Danish national dances. The movement was so widespread that it attracted the attention of Americans visiting here and resulted in the visit of the American teachers, who aex- press themselves as delighted with the quaint dances.
 , The teachers complain that gymnas- tics become very tiresome and boring to girls, and they believe that the dan ces will confer all of the benefits of the gymnastics and at the same time be a great source of pleasure to the students
 Anton Rosen, a local architect has finished plans for the building which will be erected at the San Francisco Exposition from a fund collected by Danish Americans. The building will be modelled on the famous castle of T5amIetss town. Elsinore, and, like it's ahistorfca1 1sprofptype, will be situated on the sea The building will not be used to house exhibits, which will be by the Danish government, but will be used as a headquarters for Danish Americans and their friends visiting the Exposition. The structure will contain a big recital ha1l,. reception rooms and offices.
 For the official Danish exhibition a splendid site has been procured and it is planned to make the exhibit small but typical of the very best of Danish art and industry.
 pr. Carl Jacobsen, Denmark's great. art patron. just before his death con- hded to a friend that he intended to create a Danish Versailles, and the publication of the plan has led to the determination to carry out his ideas as a amemoria of his services to the ma ton. The large sum to make the plan a success will be available from the CarIsberg fund, which was instf-- tuted by Jacobsen and to which he donated many millions for the en- couragement and promotion of art in Denmark.
 ! The Versailles. Ias planned by Dr.. Jacobsen. will be erected in Freder- ick'sberg, where the beautiful castle of that name with it's extensive gall lery of art and nationaI@ historical treasures is already located. In con nection with the castle all of the skill of the landscape artist and sculptor will be called upon to create Yer sail1es Park
 An English company is planning to harness Dettifoss. one of the largest water falls in Iceland with the plan of turning it's estimated 40, 900 horse l power into an agency to extract fertil- izeE from the atmosphere.
 The engineers estimate that the falls will develop more power than the works at HardangerfJord and Oddo in