The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1916-01-13
NORWAY,

NORWAY.
The steamship Oscar II, with the
Ford peace party, arrived at Christi
ania December Is. No official or other
reception was accorded the peace
party and only newspaper men board
ed the vessel upon it's arrival The at
t1tude Of the Norwegian press is I'M.
doubleday influenced by unfavorable
reports received through English
sources. The Norwegian people are
more friendly, but disappointed be-.
cause there are not more persons of
prominence in the delegation. In the
evening members Of the Ford peace
party spoke before the Norwegian Stu.
dent union in Christiania. The Ameri.
can minister, Alliery G. Schmedeman,
and the rector Of the university were
IN the audience which crowded the
hall. The Minister'S Peace society,
under the leadership Of Rev. N. B,
Thvedt, formerly of Minneapolis, greet
ed the delegates The larger Norwe.
glan peace organizations have held
aloof. According to the Christiania
newspapers, the only prominent Nor.
Wegian pac1ist interested is former
Secretary LANCE of The Hague Inter.
national Peace society. Louis P. Loeb.
ner, who spoke for Ford, announced
that the complete delegation for the
peace congress would include the
Americans and all Dutch representa-.
tives who chose to attend, and ten
Norwegians, ten Swedes, ten Danes,
ten Spanish and ten Swiss peace ad.
vocates. Their expenses will be paid
by Ford. Five Norwegian newspaper
men Joined the party at Christiansand
They said Norwegian Socialists were
sympathetic, but had made no arrange.
ments for an official reception. "You
have our sympathy" said the spokes.
man for the Norwegian newspaper
men in greeting the American CORE.
spondents. A violent alteration arose
from attempts to give the Norwegian
reporters the news. "Insurgents" in
the peace party admitted the truth of
reports of dissensions. The Ford reg.
ulars'' told the Norwegians these re.
ports had been grossly exaggerated.
and attempted to give them a more ia
vorable impression.
One strong electric power company
after another has been organized ir
Norway during the last few months
In former years foreigners often fur
nished a large part of the capital fol-
such enterprises. Now the great wal
has made it IMPOSSIBLE to borrow
money from the rich nations of Eu
rope. But money is piling up so fas'
in Norway that the people of the coun.
try seem to be able to go on with tho
development of the waterpower Of the
country by means of domestic capital
At the present time the waterfalls O,
the western part of the country seen
to be the most attractive. The streams
are not large in that part Of the coun.
try, but even a small creek can per
form large amount of work when i
has falls of several hundred feet. Th<
new improvements of this kind II
western Norway will cost about S14,.
100000, and five or six new cities will!
soon spring up faster than on the Da
kota prairies.
Prices on all sorts Of paper in Nor.
way have gone up 80 to 40 per cent
and are still on the increase Some
sorts cannot be manufactured by the
Norwegian paper mills, as, for in.
stance, blue paper, for want of blue
dyestuff, which usually is supplied by
Germany. The central valleys in Nor
way are great lumber districts, much
like northern Minnesota The princi.
pal trees are pine and evergreen and,
thanks to the numerous cellulose and
paper mills which have been built in
the last Is or 20 years, the value O,
the woods has increased considerably.
So many foreign factories had to stop
because Of the war prices on the prod.
ucts from the Norwegian plants have
gone UPON cellulose from $40 a ton
before the war to $40 a ton now.
Now that private parties have al,
ready raised $4,000 for a university
in Bergen it is taken for granted that
the national government will be in
favor of such an institution. Trond-
hjem, the third largest city, has tho ma
tiona1 school of technology, which in
some respects completes with the uni.
versity in Christiania. It is therefore
only natural that Bergen, the second
largest city, is anxious to build up an
educational institution of high rank.
Private parties have also raised $50.
700 for commercial high school In
Bargen.
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