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...experiment was founded on the Alaskan one at the advice of its originator, the Rev. Dr. Sheldon Jockson. He began work in the early eighty's. I had no idea that what he was introducing could be anything more than a philanthropy. Altogether 1280 reindeer were imported into Alaska in twenty years. There are now considerably over 200,000 animals in a hundred herds. The meat is now selling at a higher price than beef, having worked its own way up as a desirable article of diet. The valuation of the skins cannot help increasing. The Chief of the United...
...whole history of the vision of those who began the reindeer industry in Alaska shows that they only erred in having no idea as to its possibilities. Labrador is the nearest port of America to Europe. It is 1600 miles distant from Ireland. Its coast is easy of approach in the summer, there being no sand banks, and all its innumerable harbors having deep water. Sir William MacGreggor and I collected speciments of its flora and sent them to Kew, England, for a report on their ability to support reindeer; the report was absolutely favorable. Everyone who knows Labrador, knows...
...meat-feeeding country for the world has a very strong claim on the attention of philanthropists who are spending enormous sums in hospitals and efforts to combat the results of poverty and want in less fortunate parts of the world. I am convinced that Dr. Sheldon Jackson of Alaska will be remembered through the ages not only for the theology that he taught in Alaska, but unquestionably for his establishment of the reindeer industry of Alaska. The efforts of the Rockefeller Foundations to repair the diseases through hospitals and to prevent diseases like hookworm have not one fota of justification...
...were yesterday oppointed to special positions in connection with the Class Day exercises. Winthrop Hall owell Churchill of Milton was elected treasurer; Justin Hanley Dempsey, of Boston was put in charge of the Senior Spread, with Duncan Forbes Thayer, of Lancaster, as his assistant; Henry Wadsworth Clark, of Ketchikan, Alaska, was made Master of the College Yard for Class Day; Philip Elder Wilson, of East Gloucester, was placed in charge of the arrangements in connection with Sanders Theatre and Appleton Chapel; and Morris Duane, of Philadelphia, Pa., was given the supervision of the Stadium exercises...
Henry Whitcomb Clark of Ketchikan, Alaska...