The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-07-03
IN FIR NORTHllND
Important Events IN Sweden,
Norway and Denmark.
BRIEFS FROM OLD COUNTRY
Interesting ltems From The Three
Great Kingdoms Of the North &C.
Isctsd for scsndlnavians and
Their Descendants.
BY MARTIN W. oDLAND.


Norway.
Telelaget, the society Of Telemark-
ings in America, will at its annual
meeting this month. take up the Ques-
ton of starting movement to erect Q
monument In honor OF Aasmund OLAF
son Wine on the campus of Park Re-
gion Lurther college, situated at Fer
gus Falls. Minnesota. The monument
will take the form of life-size statue
Of the great poet. erected on huge
pedestal. and will cost between $4,000
and $1,000. The statue will be re-
PLEA Of the statue to be erected at
Skien. the principal city Of Telemar-
ken. Norway. where vinje was born.
1t will be work Of real art. executed
by Gustav Vigeland or Utsond. the
famous Morse sculptors. and will be
equal, II not superior. to any statue
hitherto erected by Norwegians OF
America In honor of great Norsemen.
A. A. Trovaten. president Of Tele-
laget, and Torkel Oftelie, the Sagas-
kriver, are two of the enthusiastic ad-
vocates of the proposed vinje statue.
and there is little doubt but that the
society will reach favorable decision,
as Vinje is the idol Of all Telemark-
ings of America, and it is certain that
the money can be raised. 1t Is pecu-
liarly appropriate that the statue
should be erected at Fergus Falls. as
that city is becoming one Of the CEN
tiers of Morse culture in the northwest
and it was near Fergus Falls that Olaf
o. Wine, the poets only brother. lived
for over thirty years, and several OF
his descendants reside at or near the
city.
1t is reported from Stavanger that
Alfred Ellenberg Salvesen. a Morse en-
sinser in China. has recently been
awarded the decoration of the Chinese
order Chiao-Ho by President Yuan
Shi Kai. Salvesen Is the son of Cap
tain Salvesen of Time and 1t thirty
one years old. He was educated in
Germany as electrical engineer and
studied wireless telegraphy. A couple
Of years ago he was sent by the Tele-
funken company to China to make
wireless installations there. Since his
arrival there he has erected a great
many stations, on ships and on land,
and at Marking he established a
school for the instruction Of Chinese
officers In wireless telegraphy. He
has had over 100 officers as his pupils,
who are now distributed all over
China. It is In recognition of his serv-
ices in the wireless field that the
Chinese government has awarded him
the recent honors. Until recently Sal
vesen has been In the service Of the
Telefunken company. but now he has
entered the service of the Chinese gov.
eminent.
A Christiania news report says that
decorations of the order of st. Olaf
have recently been awarded to Mrs,
Fredrikke Marie Qvam, who was made
knight of the first class, and Trygve
| Gran, who was made knight Of the
second class. Mrs. CYAN was the or
| ganizer in 1896 of the Norwegian Wo.
mans Sanitation society and has rem.
dered her country great service In i'm.
proving hygienic conditions through.
| out the land. Lieutenant Gran Is the
Morse military aviator who last July
80 few across the North sea from
Peterhead, Scotland, to the Jaederen
coast Of Norway. thereby setting the
worlds record of $50 kilometers for
continuous fight over water.
Another expedition to the Yenesi
river region of Siberia will be fitted
out In Norway this summer. For sew
eral years past such an expedition hai
been sent forth from Norway every
summer and much valuable informa
ton concerning the inhabitants of that
region has been gathered. Two years
ago the distinguished Doctor Nanser
accompanied the expedition. 1t Ia ex
pected that this years expedition will
be even more successful than any o.
its predecessors. the conditions beini
exceptionally favorable. so It Is said
The ice situation Is better known ant
the new wireless stations established
by the Russian government will b
Of great assistance.
| Miss Abbott, wealthy American
lady, who has been spending part o
each year in Norway, has provided II
her win that upon her death her will
at Balholm shall become the propert,
Of the Red Cross society. However
\ II must not be used a. = hospital an
therefore about the only use the &c
ciety can make Of It will to as plac
Of recreation for nurses.