FATHER KASHEANOFF RELATES
STORY OF LAWLESS RORTH
Magazine, has the following to pay
of Father Andrea P. Kwhevaroff.
Russian arch-priest, at present li
brarian for Alaska and curator of
the Historical Museum at Juneau, in
which all Alaska ns are or should b.
deeply interested:
"I started out in a hidarka—a
skin boat—-thru a terrific gale. Wa
ter froze over me as 1 paddled and
finally H became too rough to pro
ceed with that small craft. But
anchored in a cove I find one of the
Alaska Commercial Company’s seal
ing schooners. The six hunters
aboard are all overcome with drink,
so I lock them in the hold and. with
the help of my native boy. weigh the
anchor and sail on thru the storm.
It was not a pirate speaking, hut
Father Andrea P. Kashevaroff. who
was telling of hrs missionary exper
ience#? In hose long ago days before
the law came to Alaska. Word had
reached him. at the time of which he
spoke, that the natives in one of his
parishes were being debauched and
robbed by whiskey traders who had
taken advantage of hie? absence, and
it was in the manner described that
the Intrepid young priest rushed to
the reecnc of his flock.
" And when I am arrived.” he
went on. his blue eyes flashing at
those memories of thirty five years
ago. "T find that the whisky runners
havo b»n*n joined by the white scum
ot the canneries and together they
are preparing for my people a drunk
en dance orgy. ! call my Indians
together ami 1 Turbid it. They pro
mise to obey me because they know
me. Did T not find them degraded
beyond belief by the p.-rniciou*
hootch they have learned to make
after the formula given them by the
whites? Were they not all drank,
naked and starving when 1 came to
thorn—even the women and the little
children, and did I not. in the space
of three years, help them make their
village the most prosperous and tem
perate on all the coast, pnd their
school the best? Ah. of a certainty
they would obey me—but those ren
egade whites, how they hate me!
They shout:
•‘ ‘Who are you? God Almtthy?’
“ ‘No. T say. ‘but I’m His represen
tative and there’ll be no dTunken
dance in my village tonight.’
“ ‘If you don’t lay off converting
these savages, we’ll do you up!”
they yell.
" ’How?’ I ask.
“ ‘We’ll tar and feather you and
set you adrift in an open boat with
no provisions, you Russian dog—*
“ ‘Gentlemen.’ I Interrupted,
‘come into the house out of the
storm where you can make vouf
accusations in comfort! And T
step aside and indicate the open
I door of the .school house where I
I have been standing. They look at
| me astonished and then they come
[ in slowly—about thirty of them.
“ ‘Now tel! me what I am accused
" 'You are not an American citi
zen!’ ’You are not teaching Eng
lish in tho school!’ ‘You preach al
legiance to tho Czar!’ they yell.
** ‘Ah. then, how much money doe*
the United State* contribute toward
the school here?’ I ask. for you
see it is a fact that for ton yeans aft or
the purchase of Alaska the Unified
States allowed the cause of education
to languish. These men had to ad
mit that our Government was paying
nothing.
“*I am then teaching on money]
supplied by the Russian churoh.’ I
explain. I teach geography. arith
metic. reading and writing in Eng
lish. and in addition to this I teach
the Russian language. I am an Am
erican citizen, bom at Kodiak. Alas
ka. On the Fourth of July I raise
the American flag over my school
house, and my children sign in Us
honor and salute ft respectfully.
On the Fourth of July. men. you
bane up the American flag—then
what do you do? You go off and
forget about it. get drunk and beat
each other up! Now tell me. men.
honestly, who is the better ctt.lzen
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i of America? And Cho.«« men—-they
| look at me. then at one another and
| ir. the end they come one by one and
; sheko mv hand. There is no drunk
; en dance that nisht and when the
«torm is over four or them help me
sail 'the schooner back to where I
have found it. because the hunters
are not yet r«*covered from their in
Charming courtly, laughing. he
sat among the treasures of the Mus
eum at Juneau, this flghtiing priest
whose ancestors helped Alexander
Ha runoff establish a great empire for
Russia in tihis far new world, when
Washington was President of our
new United States. Born in Kodiak
four years before the transfer of
Russian America to the United
States, Father Kashevaroff has the
reputation of knowing more about
Alaska than any other man living.
Extensive study and research among
the Russian archives and thousands
of miles of travel by dog team. Tea
sel and bidarka have given him his
knowledge of Alaska, her people, her
traditions, her history and her se
crets. He can teM of a mysterious
valley where Alaska guards tier
amber and her jade. He knows of
the ancient people who roomed the1
semi-tropical vales of the Northland,
naked save for parens of bark about
theif lohis like the South Sea Island
ers of today. He has seen where1
the great Mother Basket of the
Thilinge* people lias hidden, and
where the Worm, the sacred pot
latch dish of golden tradition, is
secreted up in the Valley of the
Chfflkat*.
Father Kashevaroff was educated ;
in the Russian and the American
schools of San Fra-noiisco. His great
ambition was to be a musician and
by the time he was eighteen he had
mastered the organ, the piano and
the vidlin. He was then sent to
Sitka, the seat of the Government In j
Alaska, to assist the priests of the :
Graeco-Russian Church. The Rus
sian Church is without other music
than voices and the Father's eyes
sparkle as he tells how tie led his
choir of Indian hoyv—a choir still
remembered in the quaint old Russ
ian town.
“Ah. those wonderful vofices!'
he exclaims. h.is slender hands ges
turing. his body swaying, “they wen
like silver bells! Like the low mel
low tones of distant surfs! Like
the voices of angels! And I played
on them—ah. as the master does on
the organ! It was like heaven to
hear thorn singing the Russian Xmas I
Carols during the holy week when ,
we carry the great YuletLde atari
from house to house! To me Rus-!
sfan church music like none otheT
can touch the heart. But I also like
the opera—IJ Trovatore. Faust—”
he (hums snatches from each before
he continues: “Always when I am
dispirited I have, my -daughter Mary
play to me. I used to go down and
listen to the orchestra of Juneau.
It has been very fine, for Alaska, but
last year they had a singer—ah
Heaven—he he ha* a voice like a
ram. It is tails—-what you call jazz.
He gave me dysyepela. and I do not
go there any more."
Russian prelate are permitted to
marry. Father Kashevaroff, assist
ed by his laughter, a graduate of
the University of California, Is now
engaged in translating from Russian
Into English KttfObnikof’a marvellous
biography of Alaska’s first Russian
Govern or, Alexander Ba ran off. In
addllbion to translations the Father
I*! also author of several authorita
tive works prebaining to historical
research in hie field.
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