Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1902 — Prince Carl to Visit Vs. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Prince Carl to Visit Vs.

(Special Letter.)

WO of the sons of King -Oscar of Sweden, Prince Carl and Prince Eugene, will soon visit the United States, and Prince Carl will be accompanied by his wife, Princess Ingeborg,

one of the stateliest and prettiest women of Europe, and the daughter of the Crown Prince of Denmark, and also a niece of Queen Alexandra of Great Britain. Prince Eugene is an artist, particularly noted as a landscape painter. The young princes are the idols of the Swedish people, -and like their father, King Oscar, democratic and genial in their "manner. Prince Carl has received the pet name as theJ’Blue Dragoon,**. oh account of his blue uniform and gigantic stature. The visit has been rumored for some time as a probability, and it was only recently that it was decided on definitely. The time chosen for the visit will probably be next spring or early summer. John Anderson, publisher of the Chicago Skandlnaven, has just been honored by the Norwegian government with the decoration of the Order of St. Olaf. Only one other American, C. A. Thorp, Chicago, has been honored in this way. Mr. Anderson is a native of Voss, Norway, and when a child went to Chicago with his father. He has been highly successful with his paper, and is one of the most popular Nor-weglan-Americans in the city. The Order of St. Olaf is one of the most distinguished decorations in Scandinavia. Mr. Anderson will receive gold cross of the first grade of the order. Dr. Sven Hedin, who has been exploring Thibet and the Gobi desert for the last twelve months, has reached Ladakh, Cashmere, on his return to civilization. Dr. Sven Hedin is an eminent Swe--dlsh scientist, and one of the most

•daring and successful explorers In Europe. He left Kashgar, in Chinese Turkestan, on his perilous journey to mysterious Thibet nearly two years ago, backed In his expedition by the sympathy and financial help of King Oscar 11., who is his personal friend and patron. The avowed design of the traveler was to return to Europe early this-year, but his journey to the source of the Indus was evidently not so simple a matter as he had at first believed. His former trip to the undiscovered Orient was rich in geographic fruits, but the learned would anticipate greater results from his present remarkable investigations.

PRINCE CARL OF SWEDEN