tiik orphanaok news letter
Some Past History
Many interesting events hurt* taken
place in the life of the Orphanage
family since our last issue.
Miss Hines returned to the work in
April after an absence of seven
months. Miss Mattson left in March,
and until Miss Hines arrived we were
without a matron for tne onyi. i
in June Mrn.Kirki.nrUU found it nec
essary oil Account of her health to jive
up the work Miss Hines then took
ehargeof the girls, and we were again
without, a boys' matron till Nov. when
Miss Mattson returned III the mean
time that work was done by the
three other members of the staff. We
were able however part of the time to
seeure the services of Mrs. Ella Fa
daoff, a former Orphanage girl, to as
sist in the mending.
In April Philip Olsen and John Per
rin left us. Philip secured work in
Anchorage. John went to his father
atLivengood near Fairbanks. These
two boys are greatly missed as they
were very popular with both the chil
dren and the staff. They have the
best wishes and deep interest of us all.
When Mr* Kirkendatl left she took
with her Kate Debrowolski, who went
to live with Mr*. Gregory, a former
matron here.
Herman Reft left also on the June
Watson. His destination was Boone,
la. where he has pone to enter the
Biblical College. Herman is a very
earnest Christian boy and believe*
that, he is called to prepare to preach
the Gospel. He is the first boy from
the Orphanage to take this step. We
hope many others also may decide to
devote their live* to definite Christian
work. We winh Herman every suc
cess. Weare pleased from the reports
received to learn that he in doing ex
cellent work in his studies, and is very
happy in his fellowship with the stu
dents and faculty.
The Whaler •• Carolyn Francis, "
Captain Lane, Master, worked these
waters during the past summer.
Eighty-four whales wste captured
yielding about ‘JOOO hhls. of oil The
chas'ng of whales with the swift pow
er boats is very exciting and full of
thrills, judging from she reports of
those wli" have been so fortunate as
to participate in the sport. After the
whale has been shot and killed it is
brought along side the ship The
blubber is stripped off, cut up and
tried out. The carcass is taken out to
sea and sunk.
The flesh of the whsle calves is
quite like veal. Capt L~ne was very
kind in supplying the people herea
bout with all the whale meat they
wanted. Many barrels of it weie
salted for winter use. He gave ns
many hundred poundsof whale oalf.
We corned some, but the most of it
we pot-roasted and canned. All of
which helps out a great deal in pro
viding food for our large family.
Our foreman,W.J Robertson con
ceived a plan for filling the silo with
beach grass and getting the supply
of dry hay in shorter time than it u
stially takes. He built a raft on
which he took the team to English
Bay. The mowing mcobine, rake
and wagon were taken in the big
skiff. The silage was cut, and hauled
to the beach ready for loading. Then
the team and wagon were brought