mn, nm) min 1111/7 7) time, that il pot get not Kill us. 1 held ght them hymus ail tid did we coun aw: NY BISHOP PETER TRIMBLE ROWE. they fCopiriget. 1915, by the New York Herald Co. All HEY know him well, lin color u good bishop, from the! of exposure southern: coast to Bering and Sea and north across the snow Yukon to the Eskimo vil- ¢ven the lages. oF Ask Bishop, Nome, Servi mpm we Fights reserved.) tau prayers, aml { alsa then ill we AE never have gotten away inf hatd had depend on 'pulling our mprossed xan s a result of bis many winters Hnprossed wer He is a man been sl to travel over the mn day tha 4 strong we wuys ander surveillage wor be has grogter distances Ihdians, white man éan, with a little pard a a sled : riunatg ¥. however the 'Sticks in the ye strock As d gone you know," summer mn soon as the spri broke we lg and built We boat, it agywhere from info cang in mining camp Indian at setilér's cabin myte roadhiouse, if they know the Peter, Trimble Rowe, missionary and his fellow éxplor of w of 'rotestant Episcopal Ch { and the Il smile at 40 absurd a ues: dragged all their ontfit and tion. { upon sleds. These were attached to rope Perhaps, if have put your query; harness one of the settlers, he will tell] jt a wastes or the Bishop, 450 in time straight black! with any horse. question able pri! "Give us the same traiiing an . evllent task, as primitive felled Slag hont eut the trees and made an ex- or to village, way race. can beat them at their own g In initial labors, dogs to carry his provisions, or re which was not at all an easy ame.' hefore he the Bisl the provisi to nse the most ding from th not broken name WAS NECOSSALy onl The finished also on ou his need bish- met of bn oh trees ice was boat, the w 4 when m over we our and so we fit that and dragged the snow. "When paddled, and when the dragged our boat out It was bitter work, you older ross the sfiowy the shoulders. hard," acknowledged it was hard work: gleds, Jcould worn over pretty "Yes, we cawe to open water we © you was . ice closed in to wok up the momntaivs to the trail ovor which has we 1 Wl and sleddad. and when night eame we were always too tired to do anythi but ¢ those gain that 1 palied pounds on feel we could go. time and we could use going, bint about had as' fast as where the way to you have just come, came P stmmer heen beaten between ng iy be Was easy then w wl into our sleeping bags, "But it was the boat that saved us last with the supposition . that supernatural. One was before the Klondike : when we had decided we must go Trom Then we had no roads. no " | i IS, hor an »nrenient stopping place {the cap We slipped our boat into the rails, nor any of p 5 = places] { 4 { on a tributs of the Yukon and + v water for the night. We had to make our} . t. My companion mad " & 2 : fol i oc 4 1 de ready own trails. Some of the trails now : adille off 11 1 with ' oo A 1 las) 2 & 0 Al oi and Stoo i Amy ni if } I Maskalioin, are those that I made when I first P : the better i S : 1in one hand and my gun in the other. went into that country. Sometimes I} and vin- ' x Sticks saw us, and they had rifles which {ye re vent alone upon my trips until my extermination : théy had gotten from the Hudson Bay even the Indians remon- Lm id | Company--the very lovg ones which the strated. ey said:-- . y 2 mpany used to have made ol purpose place pW o 'Suppose you go lame, something ha Pa ¥ . - bury place where afte rward gold : 11 Yoo' so that 'the pile of furs, which must be ered, but there wast't a sign t nothing save you. ho heaped as high as the gon in order to be m: what it was. a 1dmit it was true. Nothing : . in ihe! . . considered an equivalent, should 'be asi on t Yukon until could have saved me, off in those wastes. 4 scattered Q large as possible. tives in' the interior. nO "For a, moment it one a great dea 1 be f But killing with sproces, and il} dismiss your with the explanation: 'He made that the finds, He ramped aeress bere all alone! ¢ man came " "During | worked Fold| different from Bishop; "that was discovered. is We the first the Alaska two years thai | things entively Present." said canyons at! rapids. had to j water in no maps o the was were : rstiol trail 'Lefore the the in connection from conditic we. were day when there other white evel this way They discovered to Were eoming. bank. until place we would make an extraordinary as- during y of we sembly, those men to whom his into €x- ciglite years as a missions to all who go that way, but Bishop Rowe has pointed o Indians, the white 1, gambling they hardest their lieptenants \ hostile savage fictive, ye | friends wnt upon and i will miners, and dance from the labor; Lin mv andering the gold by the seeking "During this first trip I de wrung hard su in n hall had land pen. then of . » gamblers victiins we ca F towns with their after a while Id gave my promise that alone again. peaceful natives, of simplicity ; settlers from . Ts 3 anid all These, When I take a companion it is usually wi his children. To these, bé has min: Indian an Eskimo. We : : wisions. of course Ye 'neans vak- istered with tolerance and understanding; Provisions, of cours » Some. neans of ma abd with a stirdy disregard for his own INE shelter, and suowshoes for different safety and comfort that has won him the| conditions of snow. We use snowshoes aduntivation of rough men who themselves ay long as ourselves when oe (soft, and when it is harder, # in is Wo dang small fivongh all the camps; hikdlike in their was a question wo 3 wou never go ® whether we should our not \ o% in the interior an ery country of creeds, lives or not. long t 3 ' a or lane decided on Besides Tl become iS 'covering them rif éveryvl cut the rope that tied our goodby in Chinook. which from them, them hal and so that there ;31¢ friondly and altozet! Wizz rorel of. sur erashing through the terward . the Ind Kidied. uum white men who took that trail. The government fey f the 1 those my le sre boat, called a schools and hospi hostile, and we zt away sion stations n the snow is leaviug schon's not seem to know the meaning of fear OF al = ¢ New York fo vention © of Uhureh there use of ious he ciirchinen whe triennial General Con €T1St, Episcopal. tricks which it "was necessary to learn labors put the amd geil OLE without touching them with the hands 1f adjust th the The amount of Space the snow- the ontire United Shoes tremendously. My ate s a decidedly adventure Yoried from two to fifty tiles a-day) And yet nore than once! Mave made fifty miles when I was trivel- were ans trivels r the hoes are used. One of the the gentlenpss Protestant nadian anged a nat i vy how rshoe; : Are none whose in! Was how to snowshoes ou as a lesson, "ly ey stopped and hostile r fool had disehar, danger shop Rowe. ive heen hese (rips was bean we travell tr toward > the i re Lo 1 in circunst or the hands are used to bacon and then . bear, sour Carin We often worked for thirty honrs w W( ave) Bering again 1 gers would freeze. that ¥ hardship moose, ese and rabbits o% bis can be covered on as Ala ga Lop in ska, with territory thout rote Lileh Slates fo waver, oe large es stopping, then lai 4s 8 little as possi turned to the ec oils bisiness loge. been offered an e settled bit he has always elected to Hislop Rowe has post to fill, in a more of the har lest Alissionary \ as eg ding with the « Of course, with the conntry, Sled to haul it was a different matter. AT 37 HE IS "YO remain the! One § things about tak-{ : . Bishop of Alaska. Through 08 the trail in the winter is the necessity | ENJAMIN FRANKLIN MBLVIN wild ways Alaska has come to compara. Of Keeping an eye open for fuel. Often B errce YOUNG DAVIS, who, by tive pedoe aml order, aml much ofythe diel you are tired enough to drop rou special - dispensation, received - the, better condition of things w ich prev ails |MUSt Keep on for hours until you find ajlectures. in the law' school of the Univer- there to-day ig traceable to the labors of [Spot w here there is fuel. It is necessary sity of Georgia without having had pre-! the Risliop aud his helpers. In every dis: 10 carry fuel 1g the Arctic coset, and) vious training in any accredited school, bs wict: of Alaska, Aleutian 1}. | blabber and oi ard takes, On other trails] the father of his first son, after having! awd, there is now a missionary statio qe are sure to find fuel if we are Dptient {been a grandfather for two years. He is} and of the highly eiv-{in the seaitNy © believed to be, at thirty-seven, the youngest | lived the present dar] "It wae' often hundreds of miles be- grandfather in the United States of two, | we will tell you that when he! tween the human habitations when we Feats" claim to title, makes his round to the mission stations! first started to take tie trail. In mg, Davie hasibad several daughrers. The! uowadays there ave almost always trails first trip [ Started: fronr the southern Mest ne has been married for three made on which to travel with Bis] coast and went north 500 miles. . Fhe Years, and' i$ the mother of a bor two) lags amd sleds, wid it is a rarity rether cosst Indians gave us: trouble. § They Years og. The, latest addition ta th orced to make alhad scen white mien before. buf they | Davis family, who has been named Rowe catip in the snow becabse there is/ didn't want us to go into the intesior,| Fullilove, after'the Mayor of Athens, Ga., vo cabin in which one may take shelter, |becanse they wanted all the country for and the Davis family physician, is two Bishop Rowe bas a kind, plain, every. themselves, No white man had gone) {years younger than his nephew, day suet of wanner, a democratic simplie-! into. the interior before. But we got! "Young" Davis. as he is generally ity of address. It is cliaracteristic of him away from them and traveiied for Lup. KNOWN 'Was one of twelve children, Ws that n the interviewer called at thei dreds of miles until we came toa xei- [Ther havitig been married. three timbs.| Tousen which he is stag while in! tlement oe Stick Iodians. They also! His Father who is eighty als years old) New Yorkfthe Bishop Dimse If opened the! were hostil They wanted our food and! {and living at he veteran 'of the! { would rg killed us for it as they die pw. The Hates harhg ta perc} | some white men who came later had follo during that war, be called. fahiif "The only way to. stave off death at! bis son after Bim, with some embellish. 1 came: {Bigir haads was to pretend that 1 was aliments of Bis orn: One alight travei fae © see a more, shaman. or weditioe men. My Lr fact as numerous as sturdy man (han the Alaskan Bishop. | | traveller, who was at that ti Iie" Black - eyes sparkle with routhfu]! man, assumed the role of lit Womble apirit. | There is vers tittle gray in his! per and wade his devotions so jl bbaek hair and his skin is bronge aud si obsequicusly that the Sti sive the 1s an indication conditions shop 1 than otherwise to be | zh whe duor, i * The servaut did not cemie at uuce." 3 he explained, "and I beard the ring" so DESIR 20 row with regularity mill Davis' initials are inlsooh found that be could not snp the ge gt bis : las Rock = ull siris--on lis wi Davis wasax a Boy a whee I mille he: Went to' Atri es Meere child At She hie of Agveiecy x : In peiton Iles. i 1 u vvenines "and at dala i deep Rig ic Ne sliestii: wuliar gu our e hoat had mn danger to rk the op of ahead. Those passed was discov- show We kept going north e to th since among north hristiar rt des and 1 Then we would get out and go along the what sort bad places on the Yukon are well known now between the The| time that we first paddled there aud! present day the canyous and rapids! have proved death traps to many m th ng BF. ML P.Y. DAVIS. OF ATHENS. GA. was murried fo Miss Anne Smith. The srsiedpati tive hie is Earned Solibaved nation before tie begrd td vial RA (AE wR BEL 2 to; The Bishop in spite of his g We Built a Circle of Fire. haul my lonely provisions, without seeing even ah Indian.' But it was pretty | travelling for hundreds of miles | "What was the biggest fight you ever had in work 7' the course of your asked the interviewer. missionary manner has seen some fighting skan travels, and he had to think ment before he said, with remi ent flash in his black eyes :-- "Well, I think the most thrilling Kindly Als re his wl for mo a I believe usual for travellers t« wolves Alaska, understand why had h {cries of the wolves for some time. ing sends quite the same shiver through the average human being.' We made halt as soon as possible, and immediately built a circle of fire for our protection from the animals which we knew hot trail. Inside pla man beings, but with wolves; that it is not attacked though 1 cannot "On this too be by in al evening we rd the 1 as on e this le we and u our ed provisions, faving an exit, cir Ww dogs ourselves, of course, throngh which r. we could escape to make a last stand ad they rushed going well rity came ran we vel veut them We hi mi taking this bold ac shoot quickly, hoirever, hink of ont 1 make the ammunition hat every sho ould wolves come li ght of t t could get where we g em we threw hrands from family i the from time to time.! of increased, and hel soon found shaving was as inadequate! 18s working in a cotton mill 'when it came 20 rearing and edoecating so many young j&Itls. The graudson then came to the Jhome--making Davis probably the young- test grandfather in Pe United States at ithe age of thirty-fivé--to be followed two 'years later by another little babe of his {oWwn--a son--younger than the grand- : child. cost ving The legal profession seemed to offer a field for the gratification of the ambition of Davis as well as affording a Better living for his family. He begom the | study of law two years age--after the | little grandson came to the home. He! | read law in the offices of his young friends who had entered that professici: {He attended all the courts regularly -- from those of the Mayor and the Jus taf the Peace to the Superior and, fed leral tribals. Through the Kihdly of- fice of friends he was finally enabled to thke-.the lectures in the univers faw sch = Nev other weeks a with Davis staid for exam of examiners, wher the direetion of fhe Superior # 'eurt "Be Bb IW tied! A pumiler of pi Ants, ={ mad bows in ex- perience we ever had was not with hu- Noth- were the picked just right of positian As te pieces, them each one comrades tore him and devoured the dead members of their ferocious appetite was sated last the remnant of t k through the shall forget that scene of snow e pack tu went bac woo stretching luminated in ever A gures moving with ti those stinking f the straight black spruce tre are better tra we almost always find some still leave the beaten pa no 38° ¢ 1 the ountry \ retic and go a away A 60 and a, nigl soft "bed, and wh boug and you, y "Did amp terviewer. "1 wis the first new camps," 1S, bu after in most of the said the Bishop, "an ile, 1 mister > wher ever a eagmp was opened on out wean ing the side of the United States of Amer {ica, Istarted a mission, and in some place 4 started hospitxis When I visited (camp 1 was received with the g jeourtesy. The men of the camp came t meet me and we talked over what gouli be dome for the benefit of all ebueerne that is, what could them in the circumstance At first ther, twas little dissipation and the men were of a fibe, hardy class. Like all the real pioneers to a new couptry, they were strong, brave and able. But as sc as the camps became rich the seenbs were ful "The men gambled and drahk, They did worse things. About the only or hadn't wis murder. There was very little ishooting. But the gambling and the dance {halls were wild, When the men went wrong I tried to talk to them. and they took it very well I | them splendid fellows, atep into a camp gin to talk to men, well educated young college men, many Almost always they likable men Of 1 of the men'who came as those aho came to prey uj resi 3 the Church do jTE Wt Olen many 1" would fire sad and. find them chaps, group of vere COuUTse, am speaking "(all received me well everywhere, knew that whatever 1 did for reform wus dene open! y. and. aboveboard. Hatke part. T beliave, bee jeent aroused by our w {nis dante lals in Alaska gambling Le Sul A Riley song wisible for this, wad 1 Today, in places ' gente and the fire at them, then when they were in|don't want to take use of the senti-| ione. there are|three industrial schools. And I a. and un public say tha: tonrse,, the govers- we whulda't Lé able to Lave Fi E but deal to any credit an ity i! ve had a do with i "One believe ol z the as the There vow, {they Sodpx' the was and at along ull Ee vin they, Hee Collis 1 hown oily bos led decided crowd coms | saine one with 'the fest he kept bis head led the marshal" 1 sparkicd in the neryy "and pulled gun. Lot 'enemi But ev t him ell an i kil Wis a miment ed, ut thoug you said there "raul auch shoo * questions] the tha 1a twinkie some of nuch." said 1 tenants used the hr v £ to See #Mdething C8 ¢ juil ar Sitka" got quite a number BE When 1 weat to the and distribute vending see (hese men. 1 contd | to provise that after they * up a legitimate ferent Hyves, hint they { ie { Smith's in cp 2! it to hold services {ded toy ded oy m in jail la } il matter 1 never get the used to showed their Whenever J to the men liking held a service tures the head. perfect Ines nee they immediately batted hig over iusisted unon the ot OUtagions. beiped to Ther uf thelr veins ley were grateful. One they said to we was, 'Well "iis what tell it ix Dishop, thes ve never understood it hefupe. "Nowadays, dde "we have plenty of gout clubs far the be so that they ean Always figd. : nate amusement dod en : They weren't bad boys, ut like ths darkviss seinehon fake to go 3 bad if there isn't a sything whe ts These clubrooms which we have n are something like the Young Christian Assobiations. We ha | twentr-eight missions, six lio cond 4 rades an you us yE, some leg ionsiin, country if it were pot Tor the | TRary work in-Alseke."