The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-07-10
Last Tribute
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Old Pioneer
The Rev. GIasse Gives
EuIogy al Rites Of
H. 7. Tripp

A most eloquent eulogy was giver
by the Rev. John A. Glasse at the
last rites of Herman T. Trip las
Saturday afternoon conducted il
the Scottish Rite Temple. The Rev
GlaSse said:
Surely there hovers about thi:
place this afternoon, and there
shall ever hover about this place
surely there has permanently
touched our lives for good, anc
surely also in loving memory shall
e'er abide the spirit of our departed
dear one, Herman Tilden Dad
Tripp-the pioneer, worker, citizen
Mason, churchman, home-maker
friend and neighbor; who first came
to see the light of day just four
score years ago, and who, through
more than half of this time, truly
pioneered here in Alaska
God the Heavenly Father, whS
makes no mistakes, graciously
loaned him to us for ten years
more than the allotted span o.
life, and though in our narrow
vision and faulty understanding o.
life we might ask "Why?" perhaps
in His Providence, the God of al
mankind, who knows the end from
the beginning, permitted this ex-
perience because He in His infin-
lite wisdom saw reasons and values
which perhaps time alone can bring
to light.
"AS q worker he received his
training in the school of hard
knocks. in the university of prac-
tical experience; and with an al
most uncanny natural bent ano
skill he achieved for himself, by
the sheer merit of accomplish
ment, place of high regard and
standing among the men in his
profession, so that ever after there
shall inevitably be the name of
Herman Dad" Trip associated
with such places as Sumdum, Gas
tineau and the waters of Annex
Creek.
Highest Type Citizen
CAS- a citizen he was one of
the highest type. He heard and
needed the call of the electorate
so that he became a member of the
Senate in the First Territorial Leg
islature of 1913, and again as a
member of the House in 1921. Both
times he was Chairman of the
Committees on Mines and Mining
and Chairman of the Committee
on Education, Public Health and
Morals. 1t was in connection with
the Legislature of 1918 that he
graciously permitted to be intro
duced into the lower house the
bill (of which he really was the
and which he in turn
in the Senate)--that
bill which passed the Senate un-
animously, to procure the old bar
racks at Sitka, and a beginning
made for the Pioneers Home. So,
though this man may not have
his name attached to the bill,
those who know the circumstances
look to him as the father of the
bill and the prime mover in the
beginning of the Pioneers Home.
And in that same session-to
show how far-visioned and practi-
cal was this mamie presented
bill for something we are still try
ing to have accomplished - the
dredging of the Juneau bar.
HE was called as Mayor of our
City of Juneau in 1906, and served
as Councilman in 1927 and 1928;
and again, to show the foresight
of this practical man of action, it
was in his administration that our
city purchased the site later de-
veloping into what is now known
as the Juneau City Dock.
Practical Ideas
"He was member of the school
Board for six years, and there
again we see this man of practical
ideas championing the cause of
common public school education.
Into the Legislature he introduced
a memorial praying Congress to
permit the bonding of the City of
Juneau for the building of the first
modern school building, now COM
mon sight to us--the grade school
building on the hill. 1t was by his
influence that this Temple is here,
and not up there on the hill, thus
permitting the erection of the high
school building on its present site.
$50 our departed one, as citi-s
zen Of the highest type. has pio-