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360 IV. EDUCATION AND MENTAL CULTURE IN SWEDEN.
Tourist Hut on Mt. Dundret, Gellivare.
Ätter a photo taken by the Midnight Son.
It was the construction of the two trunk lines from Stockholm to Norrland
during the course of the last few decades that first brought that northern section
of the country, embraced under the two last headings above, within reach of the
more thickly populated parts of Southern Sweden, and thereby awoke to life
an interest and enthusiasm for tours in search of recreation and scenes of
natural beauty and novelty within the bounds of Sweden itself.
The discovery of the great resources that Northern Sweden was
possessed of in this regard, and of which the majority of Swedes up
to that time had no idea whatever, gave the first impetus to the
founding of the Swedish Touring Club, which took place in 1885, the actual
originators being some students at Uppsala. In 1887, the club’s
headquarters were placed in Stockholm, and since that date the club
has been the prime mover in the opening up of Sweden as a resort for
tourists, be they Swedes or be they foreigners.
The programme this club has placed before itself is considerably more
far-reaching than those of the majority of Alpine or Touring Clubs in other
parts of the world. In the first place, the association has devoted great energy
to the task of disseminating among the dwellers in Sweden itself a knowledge of
their country and has sought to arouse people’s interest in the study of that
country’s physical features and the life of its inhabitants. To this end, the
club issues a well illustrated Annual, containing descriptions of scenes and life
in various parts, it makes a grant of money out of its fund to stimulate such
scientific research as bears upon the objects the club has in view, gives also
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