THE ORPHANAGE NEWS LETTER.
THE KODIAK
BAPTIST ORPHANAGE
Mrs. James McWhinnir,
Superintendent of Alaska Work
510 Tremoct Temple, Boston, Mass.
The Workers, on salary, are
Curtis P. Coe, Supt., S. A. Cold well,
Ass’t. Supt., Miss Elizabeth Craumer.
The Purpose of the Orphanage is
to provide a Christian home and
training for destitute children.
The Records show that 64 males
and 64 females (total 128) have been
received, 39 males and 39 females
discharged ( by completion of time
and by death ), 25 males and 25 fe
males now enrolled.
Forty-six Converts nave .been
immersed and received in the church.
The Support is provided by The
Woman’s American Baptist Home
Mission Society which expends here
$7500.00 a year. It is hoped that the
Contributions marked “Alaska”
will eventually suffice. Therefore,
Every Sunday-school and every
young people’s society of New Eng
land is urged to make an annual con
tribution. Help from all sources
is gratefully accepted. This is the
Only Baptist mission home for
Alaskan children.
Send all contributions to
Miss Gertrude L. t vis, Treas.
510 Tremont Temple, l oston, Mass.
WEATHER REPORT
MAY.
Maximum temperature 58
Minimum ” 26
Mean maximum ” 47
Mean minimum ” 39 58
Precipitation, inches, 6 07
Snow fall,
Number of ilays, clear 1, partly
cloudy 16, cloudy 14, rain or snow 17
M. L>. Snodgrass, Vol.Observer.
covered with very thin transput:.it;;
skin anil gives them sufficient light
inside for work. In the winter do
stove or any other heating device is
used for it is an almost air tight
compartment. A small door one zud
a half by two and a half feet, opens
into a tunnel the same size, four 01
five feet loug which leads from the
jupan to the barabara.
This compartment serves for twc
purposes: a bed room and sometime!
as a bath room, it takes but a ft»
minutes to get the bedding out. lieat
up some good sized round roclu
ill the barabaia red hot and earn
them into one corner of the jupan.
root baskets for buckets for hot wale:
and cold, a dugout wooden tray tor
a washbasin ana a brush of bead)
grass roots for switching and a little
water thrown on the rocks and von
have a fine place to roast a goose in.
It is suffocating hot but the u.itivo
relish it all the more.
Now about the place, 1 have men
tioned above that in 1855 the ResidS
Company made up their mind '
change the ice iudustry from Sitka,
where it was first started, but the
climate there being rather milder
than here they trausfered the plat:
to Wood Island. First of all, the
company brought all the native)
together and helped them to bui,;
their barabaras in two rows, six It
a row and at each one a small stor
ing house that stood about five fee
from the gruuiul on four posts when
Alautes generally keep provision!
such as; dried hsh, berries in whalt
oil aud other things.
To take a look at snch a villa#
nowdays would be quite a ncve'lt]
for a new comer.
Then the wharf was built m the
same place where part of the pr cc
oue stands, the upper iukc was i be.