Digital Bob Archive

8 December 1978 issue

JANUARY 11, 1894-A lot at the northwest corner of Sixth and Seward Streets, containing a cabin, has been purchased by J. Montgomery Davis from Tom Foran for $50. Mr. Davis intends fixing up the cabin for rental purposes.

JANUARY 8, 1913-Winter & Pond have just put in a stereoptican projector in the second story of their business house on Main Street at the head of Front and every night Alaska and other views are shown on a large screen formed by a window. Hereafter Juneauites will be able to get the election returns on this screen as fast as they are received. Other features are expected to be added to advertise Alaska and its attractions for visitors.

SEPTEMBER 12, 1913-The Garside Building, at the northwest corner of Third and Seward Streets, is now well along toward completion and will be leased by the new Juneau Furniture Company, organized by John P. Benson and Wallis S. George. The building has two stories and measures 74 by 46 feet. (Note: After the furniture company failed, the building was rented twice as the territorial capitol and in 1923 was purchased by the Territory of Alaska. It became known as the Territorial Building and torn down just before the construction of the Court Building.)

SEPTEMBER 13, 1913-By the end of work today the concrete will have all been poured in the first story of Juneau?s new City Hall at Fourth and Main Streets. Active work started just four weeks ago and is under the supervision of City Engineer B. D. Blakeslee.

FEBRUARY 13, 1914-Members of the Alaska Native Brotherhood of Juneau and Douglas met last night in the Auk Village schoolhouse in Juneau and voted to unite in one camp which will be known as Juneau Camp No. 4. The camp starts with a membership of 31. Officers are Frank Mercer, president; James Watson, vice president; Henry Phillips, corresponding secretary; Seward Kunz, financial secretary; Elias Katanook, recording secretary, and Charles Willis,
treasurer. The Lodge Council members are Frank Hubbard, Joseph Collier and George Paul.

MARCH 10, 1914-A contract has been let to local contractors George R. Dull and G. Halverson for the erection of a two story apartment building on Calhoun Avenue near 9th Street for John Reck. Plans for the building were drawn by Architect C. W. Winstedt.

JULY 8, 1914-The Protective Order of Caribou is the title of a new fraternity that has just come into being in Juneau. Articles of incorporation have been filed with Secretary of Alaska Charles E. Davidson by Leon E. Woods, Oscar E. Henischke and James F. Meeker, who are the organization?s board of directors.

DECEMBER 8, 1914-The biggest air compressor ever shipped to Alaska arrived on the freighter Meteor last week for the Alaska-Juneau Mine. This morning the Humphries Transfer Company hitched all of its horses and some borrowed ones in a team to move the 56-ton Ingersoll-Rand machine to Last Chance Basin. It has the capacity to operated 40 machine drills.

JANUARY 19, 1917-J. P. Anderson, who built the greenhouse at the U. S. agricultural experiment station at Sitka and has operated it for the past three years, has arrived in Juneau and will build and operate a large private greenhouse. He has secured a location in the Seatter Tract on the outskirts of the city and plans a building with 5,000 square feet of glass.

NOVEMBER 24, 1922-A former Gastineau Channel ferry boat has again changed hands. The 81-foot Flosie was built for the Juneau Ferry and Navigation Company in 1898 and served on the channel for some years. After Fort William H. Seward was built near Haines, the Army bought the steam-powered vessel for use as a tender and renamed her the Peterson. now she has been sold by the Army to the Wilson & Sylvester Sawmill Company at Wrangell and will tow logs and lumber barges for that firm. (Note: Still later the Peterson became the Adeline Foss of the Foss Launch & Tug Company.)

MAY 2, 1924-Severing a connection of many years duration, Harry I. Lucas yesterday resigned as assistant cashier of the B. M. Behrends Bank and will assume active managements of the Juneau Motors Company, in which he and William Neiderhauser are associated together. Juneau Motors succeeds Marshall & Newman as local Ford agents and also has the Paige and Paige-Jewett agency for all of Alaska. The firm now occupies quarters on Front Street below the Alaskan Hotel but a new building is being constructed by it on some of the Pacific Coast Company?s waterfront property at the foot of Main Street.

MAY 2, 1929-Juneau needs a new place for mooring small boats. The city?s lease on the site now occupied by the City Float terminates in another year and the Alaska-Juneau Mine, which owns the site, plans to build a powder dock there. This will leave no place for mooring small boats except the very small Upper City Float near the cold storage. Mayor Tom Judson told the Chamber of Commerce that he has examined some other possibilities, including the flats at the mouth of Gold Creek which might be dredged for a boat harbor.

JUNE 18, 1932-The New York Times and New York Herald Tribune have both run editorials urging that Admiralty Island be placed in National Park status for the preservation of the brown bear. This course has been urged by John M. Holzworth who organized the National Association of Wildlife Conservationists.