Pin Reports Exaggerated
"On the whole. I think the re
ports printed by newspapers in the
Jtates about the influenza epi
^mic were exaggerated. Both Mr.
McDonnell and myself were kept
busy sending wires to our offices
and families assuring them we
were all right. Numbers of the
Eskimos were taken ill but those
who died were mostly far advanced
in years. Mr. Hobson, the only
white person who died while we
were there, was well over seventy,”
Mr. Tower said. "There are only
about eight white persons in Point
Bar-row, induing Mr. Brauer, Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley Morgan, Dr. and
Mrs. Henry Greist, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Daugherty, Miss Stauffer,
and Hobson, who died. Mr. McDon
nell and myself brought the white
population to eleven,” he said.
Mr. Brauer. who recently passed
through Juneau on his way north
1 from the States, is a well known
trader and formerly engaged in
the whale business, Mr. Morgan is
the radio operator and U. S. Com
missioner, Mrs. Morgan is metor
ologist, Dr. Gricst is a Presbyter
ian missionary, the Daughertys re
cently went into Barrow to take
charge of the school and Miss
Stauffer is the Government nurse.
V'ast Icy Waste
Point Barrow, which years ago
was an important whaling station,
s located in the midst of an icy
vr.ste and from the air, the coun
try surrounding it looks like thou
sands of miles of blank white, with
the shore line barely visible, Mr.
Tower said. The midnight sun
makes hunting possible as long as
hunters, guides and dogs can keep
icing in the severe temperature.
