Alaska by Fred W. Temple

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 3, 1911

Alaska

By Fred W. Temple

WE meet men here from all the walks of life, from the highest to the very lowest. Graduates from the best colleges may often be found with a shaggy growth of whiskers and dressed in oil-skins. One never knows whom one is meeting. Often wealthy men are attracted to the care-free atmosphere of Alaska during the summer, and throwing off all style and form, plunge into a beach-comber’s life.

The boat I am now running is built on especially seaworthy lines, and with it I hope to do a more active, serviceable work than I could have done otherwise. It is my plan to make the boat a little floating mission, and carry a large variety of books, Bibles, and papers in various languages; a stereopticon for Biblical and temperance work; a small folding camp-organ for short services at the isolated stations and camps; a sewing-machine with which assistance can be given to poor mothers who are deprived of this useful household agent; and an emergency medical cabinet for first-aid work.

FRED W. TEMPLE.