Copenhagen

EN ROUTE FOR COPENHAGEN.

play ing and bu ild ing their castles in the sand, basket-chairs and tents where visitors are resting and enjoying the sea air in com fort and shelter, and last but not least, the green bathing- m achines and the swarm of bathers in the blue sea with its w hite-crested waves. Fano Nordsobad, tho rough ly up to date in all its a rran g e ­ m ents, has already an acknow ledged repu tation, and in all p robability a g reat future before it, as being, on the whole, the best of all the North Sea watering-places.

ESBJERG. E s b j e r g , less than 30 years ago a barren, heathery slope, has developed with quite American rapidity into a comparatively large town of 13.000 inhabitants, with as­ phalted streets and other m o ­

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dern comforts. It has a physiognom y of its own, which can hardly be called Danish, being rather a curious m ixture of the newest of the new with relics of the oldest period of the tow n ’s existence. At a short distance from a fine new harbour, from which Danish farm produce is exported to E ngland, stands a railway-station which is no th ing but a droll addition to the little w ooden shed that sufficed for travellers when Esbjerg was in its em bryo state. W alking th rough the town, one sees large factories and elegant private houses beside small hovels or sites not yet built upon. One gets the general impression that E sbjerg has been built hurry-skurry, w ithout any plan or sense of beauty; one house has been put up in order to give shelter to the artisans wo rking at another, and so on. T hough from a municipal point of view bu t a village, it is in reality a busy tow n , whose inhabitants think of nothing bu t m aking g reat coups and earning large sums — all in no time. The rapid developm ent of Esbjerg can be best illustrated

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