The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-17
PROMINENT MEN
 PRAISE CAREER
 ALASKA BISHOP
Church Publication Devotes Much Space to Life and
 Work of Bishop Rowe.

published by the Domestic and For. eign Missionary Socety the the Pro testant Episcopal Church including the front page cover and frontis. piece were devoted to Bishop P T. Rowe of Alaska, and his work Tn this Territory They include leading ar ticles by Gov. Thomas Riggs, of Al, aska, Bishop Futile, Bishop Sumner, Archdeacon Stuck. John w. Wood D. Thomas Jenkins, and Rev. Eustace P. Ziegler, and 35 illustrations, includ. ing two portraits of Bishop Rowe. two portraits of Archdeacon Stuck, One portrait each of Gov. Riggs Rev John w. Chapman, Rev. Thomas Jen kins. Rev. w. A. Ward, Rev. F. E. Drake, and Deaconess Sabine.
 The first page contains a portrait of the Bishop in his Yukon travelling clothes, heavy sweater, corduroy trousers, German socks, pacs anG headgear and gloves to match. with snowshoes ready for use. The frontis- piece is an excellent likeness of the Bihop. One of the portraits of Arch deacon Stuck in is his winter cos tune, including parcka.
 The article by Gov Riggs treats Of Bishop NRowe-As an Alaskan Sees Him" The article follows:
 The first time I saw Bishop Rowe was at Sheep Camp in the spring of 1898 during the great Klondike gold rush. Together with other argonauts I was heading over the Chilkool Pass for the rich gold diggings which had set the world on fire. Just. to the right of the trail running through the motley camp stood tiny tent and in front of the tent stood a tall lean, powerful man of about forty years of age, of swarthy skin with jet black hair and keen black eyes. He was dressed in conventional iron tier garb of yellow mackinaw He carried an axe and as we stopped ne spit on calloused hands and. with the unconscious grace of the woods man, put clean cut after clean cut into the log of fire wood he haG carried from the forest The man was Peter Trimble Rowe, the newly appointed Bishop of Alaska He did not talk like a Bishop. In fact you couldn't have told him from any Of the rest of us rough-necks. He smok- ed a vile pipe filled with vile to bacco, and when we slipped a cos and swore, he seemed to know ex- actly what we meant. l have some times suspected the Bishop of wish ing to lay aside his cloth and tell some people exactly what he thinks of them in the vernacuar of the country.
 He conducted services Sunday at Sheep Camp. If I remember rightly, the "bar-keep" stopped the sale of liquor for about an hour and broke up the gambling so that the Bishop might have the use of his big tent. The "bar-keep" and the Bishop knew each other pretty well from the lower country. He called him Jim"
 Now there is one thing about the Bishops sermons which makes hit in the North, and that is one never knows from him whether he is an Episcopalian, Roman Catholic, a Presbyterian or Methodist. His sermons are direct and to the point, fitted to a frontier people, with char lty and good will to all. Here again suspect the Bishop. I believe he would rather preach to a crowd of than to well--dreSsed cathedral congregation. When Bishop Rowe first came to Alaska there were no churches of consequence. but there were dance halls and bar rooms and it was here that he could come into personal contact with the people he wanted to reach He did reach them Now-and many an old timer sighs there are no dance halls and bar rooms and there are lots of churches
 There are more good humored stories told on Bishop Rowe than OH any other man in Alaska. Nothing SC shows popularity as a story without sting. One in particular in Alaska is classic. When asked if true the Bishop shakes his head and re fuses to commit himself. It is this
 Spring was coming. The trail from Forty Mile to Circle was overflowed along the Yukon. The Bishop had had hard day; he and his dogs were all in Down the trail came another dog musher. and, as is the custom. they stopped either to talk a few minutes or to break up the in evitable dog fight How is the trail back of you?" asked the Bishop It's the - - --!! -
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