The Wrangell sentinel., 1937-06-04
Bishop Rowe Plans Air
 Trip Remote Regions

Bishop Rowe took passage on .he Northland Monday for Sitka, after a four-days stay in Wrangell. While here he was engaged in a full program Of activities connected with st. Philips Episcopal church. He held Communion, baptismal and confirmation services, met with tue various boards of the church and with the board of control for Bishop Rowe General Hospital
 At the hospital tea Sunday after noon held Tn observance of national hospital day, he was honor guest and again at the Chamber of Com meree luncheon Monday, besides re- ceIving many home invitations.
 The bishop is making a good re- coyery from a siege of influenza suffered last winter which brought Tn a trail of other physical woes for time He looks well although in answer to a greeting from an old time friend he said with the char aeteristic twinkle: I'm all right put the house 1 live in is beginning to feel the weather" He acknow- ledged that his 8O-year-old house" had served him well, nevertheless.
 Visiting Ketchikan enroute To Wrangell, the bishops itinerary north includes visits at Sitka. Jun eau, Cordoya, Valdez, Seward. An chorage and Nenana on the way 10 Fairbanks.
 Plane Trip Contemplated
 The trip he IS contemplating at- ter arriving at Fairbanks, although he may not be able to make it, is a plane trip to Anvik. Barrow, Dem arcation Point and the MackenNe river.
 On the Fourth of July Anvik will celebrate it's fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the mission by Oc- tavius Barker, who made the long trip from California. The mission has never been closed.
 Anyik. stated the bishop, is diff ferent from other Indian villages in that it was the last line of Eski- mos and the natives, while Indian, are diItereat from other Indians and have many Eskimo characteristics.
 The framework of their perman- ent sod homes utilized bones of whale although they salYaged tim bers from ship wreeks floating on the river. At the time the white man arrived they were cutting the sod with tools made of flint, jade and @nalebone and used whalebone to cut snow for building temporary Ig- -Jo5 TOT the night, a form of shelter frequently built by Bishop Rowe in the early days of his missionary work in the Arctic, when caught on che trail by winter storms.
 Archdeacon out on leave
 On his flight to Point Barrow tue bishop will visit KiValina, Point Lay and Tigara, at which point Archdeacon Goodman will be picked up and taken across the width of AL aska to Mackenzie river on his way to Edmonton and a years leave ouI- side granted after spending twelve years at the bleak mission of Tigd "a south of Barrow.
 On the way to the Mackenzie a stop will be made at DemarcatiOn Point, 300 miles from the Macken- zie on the Alaska side. The Eskimos at this point live in almost complete isolation and what Christianity they have has come through the church of England mission at Shingle Point in Canada, a distance too far under transportation difficulties to admit contact between the two villages eX- cept at long intervals.
 The air trip contemplated by the bishop will take a week if good weather is encountered and the plane is not grounded by fogs. Without the plane two years would be required to traverse the vast dis tances between these points.
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