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Through Standard Sleeping Cars from Seattle and Port
land to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Dining
and Observation Cars.
ARE YOU GOING EAST?
The cost via California is practicaly the same as on the
Northern Routes.
Call or write for information
C. M. ANDREWS, D. F. & P. A.
712 Second Avenue. SEATTLE, WASH.
SOUTHERN
PACIFIC LINES
Make It a Smokeless, Dustless,
Gasless, Trip East This Year
In addition to the cleaner conditions due to
Electrification, you’ll enjoy the comfortable
accommodations and you’ll like the little
courtesies incident to “Milwaukee” service.
Both Steamship Co.’s act as Milwaukee agents in Anchorage.
A. E. HARRIS, Traveling Passenger Agent, Juneau.
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Going East
Through Rates from Anchorage to
Eastern Destinations Are in Effect
via the
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
THE ADMIRAL LINE
To California and the South via Portland and the mag
nificent steamships “Great Northern” and “Northern
Pacific. ’ ’
y A. S. DAUTRICK .Traveling Freight and Passenger Agent, Room 18,
4,: Valentine Building.
j- T. J. MOORE, City Passenger Agent, Second and Columbia, Seattle
4 Wash.
Fast and commodious steamers sailing between Seattle, Ketchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez and Seward.
Leave Leave
Seattle Seward
Dec. 1 Mariposa .Dec. 8
Dec. 8 Alameda .Dec. 15
Dee. 16* Mariposa.Dec. 23
Dec. 24, Alameda .Dec. 31
! Leave Leave
; Seattle Seward
Jan. 1, Mariposa .Jan. 8
Jan. 8, Alameda .Jon. 15
Jan. 18. Mariposa..Jan 23
Jan. 24, Alameda.Jan. 31
1 his company reserves the right to change schedule of steamers with
out notice. Tickets on sale at up-town office, Empress Building.
J. J. LANKIN, F. B. TRACY.
Agent. General Agent.
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Sailings from Seward to I
Seattle and Alaskan Ports 1
Date Steamers I
Dec. 27.WATSON
Jan. 7 .EVANS
Jan. 17.WATSON
Sailings Seattle to Seward
10th, 20th, and 30th each Month
Sailings from Seattle to
CALIFORNIA
Mondays, Fridays & Saturdays
Steamers
President, Governor, Queen,'
Senator, Umatilla, Admiral
Schley and Admiral Dewey.
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B SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ROUTE.
|f San Francisco to Los Angeles, daijy except Sunday.
San Francisco to San Diego, Monday, Thursday and Saturday.
STEAMERS HARVARD, YALE, PRESIDENT, GOVERNOR,
jj ADMIRAL SCHLEY AND ADMIRAL DEWEY.
B Schedule Subject to Change Without Notice. ,
fj For Full Particulars, T. B. WATSON, Agent, Anchorage, Alaska.
TRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.
BISHOP ROWE
TELLS OF HIS
EXPERIENCES
The congress of bishops met n St.
Louis, Mo. some weeks since, and Bish
op Rowe was there. To a reporter of
the Post-Dispatch he told one of the
best stories of the north we ever saw
in print, and we give it. No matter
what you think about it, you will have
to confess that it is a good story:
“The hardiest man in the house of
bishops of the Episcopal convention in
session here is the Rt. Rev. Peter T.
Rowe, bishop of Alaska. He is 59
years old, and for 21 years has braved
the elements of Arctic winters in cov
ering the 600,000 square miles of his
diocese, the whole of Alaska, once ev
ery three yeai-s, on snow shoes and by
canoe, ministering to whites, Indians
and Eskimos. He is known from Sitka
to the shores of the Arctic ocean as
the ministering brother of the lonely
prospector.
“To be bishop of Alaska, Bishop
Rowe says, one must have cast iron
digestive organs. The bishop of Alas
ka frequently finds is necessary to sit
down in a blizzard to a morsel of raw
whale for luncheon, or, if hard press
ed, raw dog, in order to sustain life.
He must make forced marches over
icy wastes, with the mercury 50 to 80
degrees below zero.
“Bishop Rowe related to a Post
Dispatch reporter that a year ago last
winter he stumbled upon members of
Stefanssop’s Arctic expedition, near'
Point Barrow, Alaska, groping their
way back to civilization. The men had
been separated from the main expedi
tion and were in a pitiable plight.
“Bishop Rowe is stocky and power-;
fully built and has scant iron gray
hair and steel-blue eyes. Tears came
to his eyes as he spoke of his first j
wife, who, he said, died of loneliness 1
and anxiety for him. He has married
again, but his present wife resides in I
Seattle.
Never Got “Gold Fever.”
“Bishop Rowe was a clergyman at
Saulte Ste. Marie, Mich., when he was j
consecrated bishop of Alaska, in 1895. J
He reached Alaska two years before *
the rush of prospectors to the Klon-'
dike and was one of the first Ameri
cans to go over Chilcoot Pass, where a
snowslide killed 78 men. He was one!
of the rescuing party that helped dig
the bodies out of the snow. In all his
years in Alaska he never got the ‘gold
fever.’
“ ‘The results of that memorable
craze made other work for me,’ he
said, ‘and I never had time to get the
fever. I was at Skagway at the time.
“There was an epidemic of menin- j
gitis, and many who did not die of
that disease succumbed to shooting af
frays. During a period of two months
I conducted almost daily the funeral
of some murdered prospector or gam
bler.’
“At that time a gambler called
‘Soapy’ Smith headed a gang that in
fested the Klondike and mulcted pros
pectors. The activities of the band
grew to be such a menace that Bishop
Rowe and others organized a vigi
lance committee, which ^vas sent after
the gang. Smith was killed and oth
ers were driven out of the country.
“Bishop Rowe said his winter trips
take him 2,000 miles into the interior.
On snowshoes, in company with an In
dian guide, he follows a dog sled,
across the country, where there are
no trails, guided only by a compass
through the river valleys and over
snow-clad mountains to the remote
camps of Indians and the lonely pros
pector.
Tells of Narrowest Escape.
“His narrowest escape occurred win
ter before last, when’ he was caught in
a blizzard on the banks of the Yukon
river, with the. temperature at 5Q de
grees below zero.
“ ‘We succeeded in making the shel
ter of a mountain side,’ the bishop
said, ‘else I would not be here to tell
of it. I unleashed the dogs and they
burrowed into the snow. An Eskimo
dog knows instinctively what to do un
der such circumstances, and we did
likewise. For three days we lay bur
ied in the snow while the blast raged
overhead.
“ ‘After the fury of the storm had
abated, we scrambled out and uncov
ered the dogs. They had slept through
it all. A short distance off we found
a white man, bundled in furs, but fro
zen to death. There, on the snow
bound wastes, I read his funeral serv
ice and buried him in a grave of snow,
the rainbow’s end of many another
gold seeker.’ Pushing on, they ended
that trip at Point Barrow, where they
met Stefansson’s men.
100 Miles From a Trail.
“One fine spring day, on anothei
trip, Bishop Rowe came upon what ap
peared to be a wild man, standing on
the banks of a creek.
“ ‘We were a hundred miles from
any trail,’ he said, ‘and I wondered
what he could be about. Drawing
near, I found him to be only anothei
prospector. He apologized for having
no more than flour and a bit of tea tc
offer, upon which he had existed
through the previous winter, but de
clared that food was not the first es
sentials with gold in sight.
“ ‘At least 25 such fellows wander
out of the interior every year under
the delusion that they are rich. I
have heard them come in, poor mental
wrecks, shouting that they were richer
than Guggenheim.’
“Bishop Itowe said three of his wo
men mission workers lost their minds
in the interior camps during the past
year. He attributes such mental
lapses to lonliness.
“Provisions for his trip consist of
beans and bacon, and he gets dried
fish from the Indians and whale meat
from the Eskimos, all the roughest
kind of food. He takes news of the
world and reading matter for distri
bution, for news is the first thing
asked for by prospector, Indian and
even Eskimo.
“Bishop Rowe likes being bishop of
Alaska for the reason that it is a big
job, but fears that advancing years
will soon unfit him fgor the work. The
church in Alaska, he said, is making
great progress, having 40,000 white,
15,000 Indian and 15,000 Eskimo com
municants.”
Christmas cakes and other Christ
mas goodies at the North I’oie Bak
ery. 188 j
Phone 48-Y for car, day or night.
Wood and coal a specialty. Universal
Taxi and Transfer. 126
Grand Masquerade Carnival, New
Labor Temple, Saturday Evening, De
cember 30. Elegant prizes. 165
Wood Undertaking Co..
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PERSONAL SHOPPING BY MAIL
rf'HE items in Women’s and Chil
* dren’s Wear, and Men’s Haber
dashery, that cannot be obtained from
your home merchant may be ordered
from us, and will be sent POSTAGE
PAID to any Alaska address reached
by U. S. Mail.
During the Holiday Season, as at all
times, we shall be glad to study your
wishes in the selecting of Gifts, and in
properly packing and mailing them to
your friends. Let us send you the lat
est issue of our Mail Order News.
Address Mail Order Department "A”
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SEATTLE
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The new eating house on Fourth Avenue
Caterers to first-class trade.
Boxes for private parties.
Lunch Counter.
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M. K. MacRAE, Mgr.
The Lang Stove, born in
Alaska.
Is the Stove for Alaskans.
Body made of Armco Rust
Resisting- Iron.
Polished Cooking Surface.
Will hold fire overnight with
wood or coal.
Will burn green wood.
Ask your dealer for a Lang
Stove.
If he cannot supply you write us.
Our line is complete from the small
est camp stove to the largest hotel
range.
Any sourdough will tell you about tba
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Everything in Season and Service the Very Best.
Private Boxes for Large or Small Parties.
ONCE A PATRON ALWAYS A PATRON
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT.
TRY A “WANT” AD. IN THE TIMES FOR RESULTS.
ANNOUNCEMENT!!
THE ALASKA LABOR UNION Will Open Its
Auditorium and Main Floor Complete with
BIG DANCE
SATURDAY, DEC. 23rd
SUNDAY, DEC. 24th I
A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL J
CHRISTMAS DAY J
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