ECCENTRIC ALASKA
ARTIST CREATES SOME
SENSATION IN N. Y.
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Some weeks ago Seward was con
siderably stirred up over the visit to
the town by a man named Rockwell
Kent and his son, who had spent a
couple of years alone on Fox island
in Resurrection bal. He was waiting
there for a boat to take him south.
During the time he was in that town
he broke into print several times and
gained considerable notoriety.
It seems that Seward was enter
taining an angel unaware, for Kent
is an artist who, since he hibernated
in Alaska, drew about GO pictures that
created a sensatioin. The art critic of
the New York Sun says that the pic
tures are “the most interesting event
from an American point of view this
year.” The drawings are all of a
weird style and show the melon
choly nature of the artist.
The odd thing about the career of
Mr. Kent is that as an artist he was a
failure and becoming disgusted with
the world retired to a lonely island,
where he lived the life of a hermit
and received the Inspiration for his
new series which have not only
created a sensation when exhibited in
New York, but, what is better, have
sold very readily.
In the last issue of the Literary
Digest a couple of pages are devoted
to the life and activities of the artist,
and that great paper seems to regard
the man himself as rather a joke, but
does not deny that his pictures have
made a sensation. The Digest prints
a letter written by Kent in which he
admits that he is a regular fellow and
that he burned the candle at both
ends.
Mr. Kent’s letter closes with this
tribute to Alaska: “Alaska is a fairy
land in the magic beauty of its moun
tains and waters. The virgin fresh
ness of this wilderness and its utter
isolation are a constant source of in
spiration. Remote and free from con
tact from man, our life is simplicity
itself. We work, work hard with back
and hands felling great trees. We row
across thirteen miles of treacherous
waters to the nearest town; and the
dangers of that trip and months alone
with my son, during which time I have
learned to see this wonder world and
know his heart—such things are to
me the glory of Alaska. In living
and recording these experiences I have
sensed a fresh unfolding of the mys
tery of life. I have found wisdom,
and this new wisdom must in some
degrees have won its way into my
work."
VALUE OF EXPORTS
FROM ALASKA FOR
LAST MONTH SMALL
Shipments out of the Territory of
Alaska products, excluding gold and
silver last month were valued at
$475,386, acording to»-the May re
port of the customs service.
They are:
Bones, hoofs, horns, etc .$ 50
Curios.. 675
Fish
Fresh, other than salmon . 37,299
Dried, smoked and cured . 56,792
Kippered herring . 4,113
Pickled . 5,388
Salmon, other than canned . 99,004
Clams .x. 37,878
Furs, other than seal . 15,640
Jewelry . 250
Copper .172,129
Lead . 5,075
Stone, including marble . 27,276
All other articles . 9,817
Total value Alaska produce....$475,386
Articles of growth, manufac
ture and produce of U. S.
retutned .. 73,236
Foreign merchandise . 17,688
Total value exports from
Alaska .$566,310
Included in the item “All other ar
ticles,” are manufactured furs valued
at $450, nine ounces of platinum
worth $100 an ounce, $900, and 72
ounces of pallidium valued at $8,280.
Gold bullion and ore and silver ore
from Alaska on last month’s report
is valued at $279,645. Of this shipment
$179,295 is gold bullion, shipped by
the Chichagof and Treadwell mines,
$87,106 is gold ore, the principal
shippers of which were Thane and
the Alaska-Juneau mines and $13,244
is silver, most of which was shipped
by the Kennecott, Alaska-Juneau and
Thane mines.
Aside from Seattle, to which the
majority of Alaska shipments are
made, shipments of Alaska goods wero
made to San Francisco, which im
ported salt cod and salmon; Tacoma,
which imported marble, copper, fresh
fish and salmon and Bellingham and
Anacortes which imported fish.
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INFLUENZA CASES AT
WESTWARD TOWNS ARE
REPORTED ON WANE
With an emergency hospital estab
lished on the shore at Unalaska in an
Alaska Commercial Company's house,
many of the crew of the "Unalga”
laid up with influenza and the ship’s
supply of medicine depleted, many or
phans in need of assistance, the epi
demic of infleunza has wrought havoc
in the Britsol bay country.
The worst of the epidemic at Un
alaska and Dutch Harbor seems to
have passed, according to a telegram
received by Governor Thomas Riggs,
Jr., from the commanding officer of
the Bear, which Is also in attendance
upon those who are suffering from in
fluenza. There have been no more
cases of the disease and no deaths for
several days. The total number of
deaths to date in these villages is fifty.
Most of the entire population of both
villages is still ill, according to word
received by the Governor, and the peo
ple there will need medical attention
and nourishment and food for at least
two weeks.
The orphans and the government
teachers have been housed in the
home of the United States marshal.
Those who are sick in the emergency
hospital established on the shore in
a house belonging to the Alaska Com
mercial Company, where volunteers
from the Bear have been detailed as
hospital corpsmen.
While the situation at Naknek is
well in hand at present, the conditions
at Nushagak, Koggiung and Ngashik
are not so favorable. The Vicksburg
and Marblehead will be able to relieve
the situation at these Britsol bay
point, however.
Orphans throughout this district are
in need of assistance as no one is able
to care for them for any length of
time. It has been recommended that
arrangements be made to care for
them at some home for that purpose
in the States.
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