The Alaska daily empire., 1921-08-23
LECTURE BY DR.
 YOUNG DELIGHTS
 LARGE AUDIENCE
Veteran Missionary Tells Story of the Old and
 New Alaska.

FCOnQneSt ana development Ol AIdShd, as the speaker expressed it, from the late seventies down to the pres ont day, Dr. S. Hall Young, veteran missionary of the North, delivered his lecture on "The New Alaska" at the Palace Theater last night to a large crowd whose interest and apprecia- ! tion never flaggei from the intro ductory remarks by l.. D. Henderson to the flashing of the last picture. The lecture was illustrated by col ored slides of rare beauty that de picted not orly the scenic grandeur of the North but it's mining. fishing and other industries and it's plant and animal life.
 The scene of every picture thrown on the screen had been personally visited by Dr. Young, who first came to Alaska in 1878 as missionary from the Presbyterian board of home missions. Dr. Young's talents as a lecturer who knows his subject as flew men can know 1t. were strikingly shown in the simple, earnest manner in which he took his hearers from 1, the beginning of his long ministry at Wrangell in 1878, through the various gold stampedes of. the Klondike, |. Nome, Fairbanks and Iditarod and traced the development, of the Ter 1. :rltory from the wild days of the early | argonauts to the comparatively we'll |. ordered existence of today. Many ! l personal "reminiscences added flavor to the discourse? gr.
 Survival of Fittest
 In speaking of the great Klondike ! rush of 1S97-9S, in which he took q prominent part, Dr. Young paid trib ute to the hardihood and courage ! of the men and women who fought their way to the gold fields. "It was . a case of the survival of the fittest," i he declared. 'It was Gods way of | making a stronger race. There was | never a stronger. more courageous band of people than these conquer DTS in the great battle for gold 1, Dr. Young landed at Dawson Octo- Der 10 1897. and dedicated the first l' Presbyterian church }in the North on fthe following Easter Sunday Al though the church was organized as a Presbyterian institution. Dr. Young said that H. different denominations worshiped under it's roof and the first four elders were 1 Methodists. Tn those days we cared most f6r Christian fellowship and little for de pominationalism, explained Dr. Young ] f'It was the happiest and most united church in my expert ence."
 In Every Stampede
 Dr. Young followed the gold seek CTS who went down the Yukon after the creeks in the Klondike had been all staked and established churches at Eagle; Rampant and other points. He landed at Nome September 1, 1899, and in the following year saw S5,000 people in the space of two or three months pour onto the beach sands in one of the most famous stampedes in history He was at Fair banks in 1903-4. when that camp became the mecca of thousands. There he and Archdeacon Stuck of the Episcopal church formed a deep | friendship. Dr. Young spoke very feelingly of the value of the pioneer missionary work performed by the Arohdeacon.
 The pictures of animal life, par ticularly of the walrus and. polar bears. were unusually interesting The slides showing the many varie- ties of Alaskan native flowers in their natural colors made a big hit. and the speaker was applauded when he declared that nowhere in the world were the wild flowers more beautiful and plentiful than in Al aska. Agricultural scenes in the Ia mana and Matanuska valleys were shown. a&
 Predicts Farmers Stampede
 When the Government Railroad is ments to settlers are made. Dr. Young predicted a great farmers stampede to the Interior. To illus trate the size of the crops grown in Alaska and the ignorance that prevails in the States regarding the agricultural possibilities of the North, Dr. Young told an interesting story
 In the course of lecture he was giving in Cincinnati he mentioned the fact that he had seen cabbage heads in Alaska weighing B pounds apiece. After the lecture man. who was in the commission business, told him he should have taken 15 or 20 pounds off the weight to make the story sound plausible because in his ex- perience he had never handled cab bage weighing more than 20 pounds and he could not believe Alaska could beat the Ohio valley. Dr. Young told him not to take his word for it. but to write to Governor Strong and Delegate Wickersham of Alaska and ask them what they knew about Alaska cabbage. Some months later the commission man informed Dr. Young that the Governor told him he had seen a 40-pound cabbage grown in Alaska, and that Delegate Wickersham had even gone him two