Evening star., 1925-01-18
ALASKAN MISSIONS
TO Be AIDED HERE
Distinguished PatroneSSes
Announced for Nah long
Party tuesday.

For the benefit of the Catholic mis-
sions in Alaska, said to be in great
need of further funds to carry on
work in the frogzen North. NAH jong
party has been planned for Tuesday
afternoon, January q, at o'clock in
the ballroom at 2400 Sixteenth
street.
A list of distinguished patronesses
is headed by Lady Isabella Howard,
wife OF the British Ambassador, ana
includes the following:
Nine. Rlano, wife of the Spanish
Ambassador; Mrs. ]. X. Robinson, Mrs.
d. D. W Stuart, Mrs. Harold Norton,
Mrs. w. Z. Montgomery, Mrs. John l.,
Hines, Mrs. B. F. Saul, Mrs. Milton
z. Allies, Mrs. Darcy Magee, MISS
Katherine Judge, Mrs. Frank O'Hara'
Mrs. ]. j. Noonan, Mrs. J. +. WOOD
ward. Mrs. J. Davis Brodhead, MIS-
Elmer Murphy, Miss Margaret Loush-
ran, Mrs. Charles Boughton wood anu
Mrs. George P. Scriven.
Father John Wander Pol, s. j., who
is in the mission work in Alaska, was
formerly located at Georgetown Uni
versity, and was well known In cain
olic circles of Washington.
The missions boarding schools are
located at three places, Holy cross
Pilgrim Hot Springs. and Akularak H.
Twenty sisters, ten brothers, ana thlr-
teen priests are engaged exclusively
in Indian work throughout Alas d.
while in the three boarding schools
400 children are fed and clothed.
why Appeal Is Made.
Need for public support of the Alas
kan missions is due this year, IT Is
explained by those in charge, because
the government has Withdrawn al
assistance" and the commissioner OIL
education has determined TO STAND
by the law that hereafter no appro-
priation whatever shall be made Tor
education in sectarian schools"
F. C. Dillon, S. j.. in writing of the
GLORY OF the church in Alaska, ex-
plains that ION account of the scat
tered conditions of the natives and
tho impossibility of training and IN
structing the children in the lnnu-
merable little villages village may
number anywhere from two to twenty
families and be from one to twenty
miles apart, and be reached by boat
four months in Summer and on foot
with a dog team to carry provisions
for eight months in Winter-our
boarding schools are an absolute ne
cessity and should rather be increased
in number and size than diminished
The tragic, heroic death of Father
Rupert, when he was trying to carry
toys and Christmas greetings to the
Eskimo children at the mission in
Nome, is said to have been a powerful
stimulus to the movement, through
out the country to support the mis-
sion.
In describing the death of Father
Rupert, Michael Williams of New
York City, sending a contribution to
the cause wrote: He left Pilgrim
Springs on December Is, hoping to
say his mass on Sunday the 18th in
Nome, but on Tuesday the 18th his
body was found guarded by his faith
full dog, blood from a wound being
frozen on his forehead, but his lips
smiling peacefully"
While responsibility for support
ing and housing the 443 persons
reHs on the provincial of the Cal
ifornia province of the Society of
Jesus, the Alaskan missions have
been placed under the protection of
the Guild of the Little Flower"
which is now endeavoring by the
nah -jong party to raise funds for
helping to carry on the general mis-
sion work in Alaska. This is in ad
dition to the annual sale which is
conducted by the Guild of the Little
Flower for the benefit OF a hospital
at Ketchikan, Alaska