The Cordova daily times., 1921-02-01
PRAISE WORK
 BISHOP ROWE
 IN TERRITORY

Thirty four pages of recent is- sue of the Spirit of the Missions, published by the Domestic and For. eign Missionary Society of the Pro- testant Episcopal church including the front page cover and frontpiece were devoted to Bishop P T. Rowe of Alaska, and his work in this terri tory. They include leading articles by Gov. Thomas Riggs of Alaska, Bishop Futile. Bishop Sumner, Archdeacon Stuck, John w. Wood. D. c. L., Rev. John w. Chapman, Rev. Thomas Jen- kins, and Rev. Eustace P. Ziegler, and 35 illustrations, including two portraits of Bishop Rowe, two DOT traits of Archdeacon Stuck. One portrait each of Gov. Riggs, Rev. John W. Chapman. Rev, Thomas Jenkins, Rev. w. A. Ward. Rev F. B. Drake and Deaconess Sabine.
 The first page contains portrait of the bishop in his Yukon travelling clothes. heavy sweater corduroy trousers, German socks, pacs and headgear and gloves to match, with snowshoes ready for use, The frontis- piece is an excellent likeness of the bishop. One of the portraits of Archdeacon Stuck in his winter cos tune, including parka.
 The article by Gov. Riggs treats of Bishop Rowe-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 was heading over the Chilkoot Pass for the rich gold diggings which had set the world on fire. Just to the right of the trail running through a motley camp stood a 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 frontier garb of yellow mackinaw. He carried an axe and as we stopped he spit on caloused hands and, with the unconscious grace of the woods man, put clean cut after clean cut into the log of fire wood he had carried from the forest. The man was Peter Trimble Rowe, the newly appointed bishop of Alaska. He did not look like a bishop and he did not talk like a bishop. In fact you couldn't have told him from any of the rest of us roughnecks. He smoked a vile pipe filled with vile tobacco, and when we slipped cog and swore, he seemed to know ex- actly what we meant. I 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 vernacular 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 a hit III the north, and rnat is one never ALLOWS from nm whether he Is all nplscopanan, Roman Cathonc, a rlesbyLerIan or a Methodist. His sermons are direct and to the point IICIeu to frontier people, with char iUy and good will to all. Here again | suspect the bishop. 1 believe he would rather preach to a crowd oI mneIs in a dance hall or bar room than to a well-dressed cathedral con g4egatIon When Bishop Rowe first came to Alaska there were no churches of consequence, but there were danCehalls and bar rooms and t 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 signs there are no dance halls and bar