Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, September 27, 1903, Page 36

®opyright, 1903, by F¥Frank G. Carpenter.) TOCKHOLM, Sept 14, (Special C‘orrespondence of The Bee.)— How would you like a first-class telephone at a dollar a month? That is what they have in Stocke holm. There are two telephone companies here, one belonging to the government and the other owned by a syndicate of Germans, Nelther company charges more than $10 a year per dwelling and this charge includea a radius of forty miles about Stockholm. It gives you 400 conversations a year and for a few dollars more the serviee Is uniimited, Business houses pay only $2 and gome only $20. The government service covers all Bweden, It has 56,000 subscribers, of whom 9,600 are in Stockholm. The German serve fce has 33,000 'phones, and both companics have public pay 'phones on almost every street corner I like the street tclephones, They stand alone on tle corners or in the parks looking llke sentry boxes walled with glass ch has slots for small ccins and in each is printed the rates for Stcckhelm and all Bweden. You can have a five-minute talk with anyone in Stockholm or within a radius of forty miles outside of it for 2% eents, or to any part of Sweden for 7 cents.” There are telephones in the restaurants, some of the tables having electric connce- tion, Huppose you are eating there ard want to send a message home or to ask a question of someone another part of tte country. All you do ig to crook your finger and the w 'r brings a ‘phone to yo.r table and you talk awny I have a telephone in my room at the ho- tel, and this I8 the ¢ with every guest her The ‘phone has a switch, so made that by turning it I huve connection with the office and bell Loy rd so that on re- verging I am in connec n with the ce: tral station, and can b all Sweden ¢nd Norway to my ear at a moment's no.ice. Txe * helly girls” hore v government of ficials, for the gevernm it runs the tele- plones They are ver polite, and vou don't have to ring more than once, They pronouncs the word “hcllo” as though it ware gpelt “raloc,” with h ace nt on h» last syl'able, and they rever tell you the Iine is busy when it is n t. At present all the wires In Stockholm are b irg placed in urderground concuits, ard altog:ther th» lres arve expensively ¢ nstructcd. Not wi hstanding this t(h> c¢owpanies make money and pay dividends at a 2%-ccnt rato, The Swedes are opening up new iron ter- ritcry ror h of the Arade i cle. Aw v u» In the region of long days ani | ngz nights they have discovered mountrics of ir n and are building a railroad to connect th m with the sea. They are Inp rting Ameri- can machizery (o get out th: cre, and I am not sure but that America . cars wil cir y it to the ports. The rcad rars from the gulf of Bothnla, in 8waden, (o the hirbor of Ofoten, on the Norwegi n coast of the Atlantic. The latter harbor is free fr fce the year around, Along this road are encrmous d po its of excellent ore, Cne of the je.ks i3 817 feet high and it is all ‘ron. Ther: :re o'her de posits nearby a mile in lerg h ond f.omn 10 to 180 feet (hick.: In all there are about 233, 000,000 tons of ore now In 8'g' t, and :ome o it .Is .very fine. The iron moun'abhs of Gelllivare are also in northorn Swedcn Thelr mines are of great extint and the ore is iich, There is a gocd chance for a st | teost here, Not a big one 1 k> the I'nt d S'ates Steel company, but a little on» of a mil fon or 80, which would pay larg: dvide ds, 1 refer to gett ng the ownerstip of tle Dan m New Swede Some =] Curious Features GCOTHENBUT SWEDEN'S iron known of the week on side of the blade and with Theodore Roose- velt's autograph on the other side made at Eskilstuna, It is a little manufac- Lake Malar, , working under an agreement charcoal, and ship it all over the world in ore is 8o fine Shefiield of Sweden, turing town Stockholm. ¢ and engine works and is famous for {ts fine steel inlaid with gold. I dropped into our legation here the o'her that it sglls 00 a tcn when othr izoa is worth only Dannemora bring twice as much just as well. in one of the com- control the outpt “We have the only iron of its kind in the he would be ptarmigan shcoting and » American minister is the He can hit the fleetest bird on the office of the legation phies of former hunts in the establishments use it, and they would buy it if we charged double the price.” This is probably true. makes the best and the bhest nails for riveting there was not a United States that ape of wild the best drawn Thirty-five Speaking of hunting, Norway and Sweden shooting grounds jurton Harrison pald 1,000 kronen, or 26 minister to Sweden steamship a Swedish shoot elk, but found that the e owned by private parties, who did not care to rent them. the crown woods without the royal permis- such that the bow turned around not shoot in was broken or s Dannemora iron is famous for mak- advertised in the papers, offering to pay a President McKinley shaied big price for the right to hunt during the season on any good estate, but received no IPinally an American forest own- ing fine razors Danrewora I am to!d that President satisfactory answer. here asked one of the wealthy keeps the White House supplied with such ers to allow Mr. Harrison the privile He does not send knlve friendship; hopes will cement tween him and the president. , for knives that he would grant it for two weeks for the cordial relations be- At any rate, President Roosevelt, and the president uses THE FALLS OF TRALLHATTEN, SEATORT. There should be good hunting in Scandie navia. This country has some of the best forests of the continent., It is frequently called the lumber yard of Europe. About 41 per cent of the dry land is covered with trees, The best are in the north, where there are fine pine and spruce, and where thousands of lumbermen go out to cut logs every winter. There are many streams and the trees are cut and hauled to the banks of the waterways and floated down when the snow melts, At the mouths of the rivers are some of the largest sawmills of the world, Here tha logs are sawed into boards and other lum- ber and shipped across the Baltic and down through the Atlantic. The export of lum- ber runs high into the millions of dollars a year, There are public forests which yield $18,000,000 worth and there are also private syndicates which do a large business. In all, Sweden has a thousand saw and plan- ing mills; it has 320 furniture factories and 22 woodworking factor'es of other kinds, It does a big wood pulp business and its exports of wood and timber alone amount to $25,000,000 a year. A big business is being done here now in school houses, hunting lodges and small frame dwellings. There are enormous mills just outside Stockholm which make nothing else. They have designs after which houses arc made to order. They are shipped away, in pleces, knocked down to Africa, South America, Australia and England. This trade is increasing, and I am told the ex- porters expect to do a big business in such houses if we begin work on the Panama canal. When that canal first started tha laborers were furnished houses from Maine. The Swedes claim that they can put up a better and cheaper hcuse than the Americans, and they expect to be a com= petitor for the business of Panama. Sweden has been buying some American locomotives within the past few years. They are heavier than the Swedish engines, and ave, T am told, liked very well. I have ridden over gome of the trunk lines of this country in the past few days. The roads are well bulit and the scenery along them reminds one of the lumber regions of the United States. Many of the roads are through” great woods filled with ferns. The ground is carpeted with ferns, and the sil- ver trunks of the birch trees rise out of beds of emerald green. There are many rocks of all shapes. The air is moist and the moss grows in the crevices of the rocks; here it is green; there silver gray, and in other places almost sky blue, Leaving the cities, you pass many little towns, go in and out of the forests, now crossing little farming regions with big barns and little log cabins. Many of the log cabins are built with the logs perpen- dicular instead of Lorizontal, as with us. Bome such houses are tiled Instead of shin. gled. Sweden has now about 7,000 miles of rafl- road, 2,000 of which are owned by the gove ernment. The railroads make money and pay dividends, notwithstanding that their fares are lower than ours. All trains hs e three classes, first, second and third. ' he first class rate is 214 cents a mile, the sec- end class about 1% cents a mile, the third elass only 3§ cent. The first class is lux- urious, the second is comfortable and the third is furnished with bare wooden benches. There {s much travel, especially on the trunk lines—to Christiania and Gothene berg, the chlef port of 8weden on the North sea The latter line is through a more thickly (Continued from Page Twelve,) -