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Show JOHN A. HEN-DRICKSON HEN-DRICKSON Writes from Norway, tells of the people, The country, and its attractions. Clulstlanla, Norway, Match 1st. Not way Is picturesque In the sum-mer, sum-mer, but somewhat cold looking In thevvintei. The Interior during the winter Is cold. Its coasts, vvheic the bulk of the people leslde, have an atmosphere at-mosphere as mild as Utah. Xoiwaj's Immense haulers of mountains, her monstrous glaciers, thousands of square miles of deep glistening snow and Ice.numbeilesswatPiralls descending descend-ing from cliffs of a thousand feet.gloi I-ous I-ous line forests covered with thick froyen layers of snow, quaint little villages of logs, seated In deep vallejs and glens skirted with evergreens and added to these the enjoyment of slelgh-rldlng, snovvshoc skating down the mountain sides, arc the tourist's winter attractions In Norway. The summer has Its tefrcshlng rains and mild climate, long dajs, mountain re-sorts.lts re-sorts.lts thousand fjords whose beauty Issald to surpass the scenery up the Rhine, her Interior fresh water lakes olive with tlsh, and with these we must not overlook her boating and bathing facilities, or the sun hi the North which at midnight resembles a ball of lire. Thousands upon thousands of people from the wot Id over visit this country In the summer season.Tho tourist season Is from the latter part of May to the close of September. In the North there Is no night during May, June or Julv, the midnight sun being visible at Hamiiierfest fiom Mar Kith to July 30. llll'UI.ATIO.V. Norway has a population or L'.iiiViOO There aie some rew foiclgners, Kng-llsh, Kng-llsh, Swede, C.ennans and Jews. Many English ghls aie inairied to Noiway bojs and vice versa. The twocouu-tiies twocouu-tiies aie friendly and do much business busi-ness togetheroutslde the niatihnonlal business. The countiv's extreme length extending as it does to the North Cape (Just tills side or the North Pole) Is 800 miles long by :W(0 miles wide at Its widest point. Its area In square miles is about the same as Utah but 0 per cent of the land can be cultivated, the remainder Is mountain forests and lakes. TIIK KINO AND K1NODOM. Norway Is a kingdom but unlike many others lias a king Jointly with another kingdom. King Oscar, "the good old man" is king or Norway and Sweden. The relationship or the two countilesaie not generally understood. It is usually believed tho peninsular Is one kingdom In every sense or the term. The racts are they are entirely separato outside or a Joint king and an Insepaiable alliance against outside attack. Each have their law making departments, statesmen, navy and ntmy, collect their icspectlvc taxes, pay their own bills and have their Own government railroads. They Jointly keep up the king's household andNorvvaj's yearly proportion Is in the neighborhood or $117,000 in American Ameri-can money. ' CAlls AND I.UIIITlNft. The expense or building rallwuvs In this country Is enormous. In that regard re-gard she is another Swltei land. Hut she has a Hue smooth, safe loaribed. There are three classes or cais and raies. The first and second aie supo-rloi supo-rloi to our American common class The stieet car seivlco in the large cities Is good. Tourist electilc cats, none bettci In Parls.Ilerllnor London. Christiana Is a city or Si'i.uoo and the ears w III cai ry jou from one end to the other for I'ic fine. Thcie aie also sub-urban sub-urban electilc Hues extending out to mountain tesoits. -MONK V IN HTIIKKT C'Alt NVSTKM. The stieet car svstems aie as a rule owned and contiolled by the municipalities. munici-palities. One of tho lines or this city is owned by a coiporatlon whose franchise fran-chise cxphes this car. Theteims of the franchise vveie such that at Its teimlnatlon, tho entire s stein be-comes be-comes the piopetty of the city. The company now deshes a lease or :to jcarson thesjstcm and aro olfeilng the city 70.000 kroner (about $18,000) per annum for such a lease. Evidently Evident-ly there Is money In Itatl'Jca rare. 1 am here reminded that Logan owns her own water system, will own below bel-ow n electilc lighting plant, and what a line tiling it would be, ir, when she has a stieet car system, it might bo owned and eontroled by the city tor the welfare of Its cltlens. Do you believe me when I say neaily all the street car sjstems or cities on the continent are owned by the icspectlve municipalities. C'I.KAMN'i:ss OK STIlKKl'h. The streets ot this count ly arc swept dally. Hundreds of men :im kept busy sweeping the stieets dining din-ing the summer and diirlngthewlnter slovollng, sweeping and liaullngsnow. At times, over loon men can be seen clearing away the snow and slush ar-torasloim. ar-torasloim. Very often men, who are out or work, arc put on the streets shnply.topiovlde tliein labor. Concluded hi our next. |
