Digital Bob Archive

5 January 1979 issue

MAY 6, 1893-Juneau?s favorite baker whose name is Ting Tu Wee but is known here as China Joe, and Ah Gee, cook for Superintendent Duncan at Treadwell, were both registered yesterday before Commissioner Hoyt in accordance with the requirements of the Chinese Registration Law, or Geary bill. This provides that all Chinese laborers who are not registered by May 5, 1893, shall be deported. Joe is an old-timer in the Cassiar and Alaska, having been in America for 28 years. Gee was born in San Francisco 22 years ago. These are the only Chinese in Southeastern Alaska save those employed in the canneries.

OCTOBER 8, 1913-Improvements to the plant of the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company are now complete. New machinery includes an Allis-Chalmers steam turbo-generator weighing 41 tons. This raises the plant capacity from 200 to 1,500 kilowatts. Cost of the improvements was $65,000. The plant is not being run to capacity as only about 300 kilowatts of power is used in Juneau at this time of year.

NOVEMBER 22, 1913-The new Juneau City Hall is now being occupied although dedication ceremonies will not be held until sometime next month. The upper floor of the building has been turned over to the School Board for classroom space and classes will start there on the 24th. The City Council will hold its next meeting in the new Council Chambers on the first floor, and fire fighting apparatus is expected to be moved to the north end of the new building within a few days.

FEBRUARY 14, 1914-The Winter & Pond Company has opened an arts and crafts shop next to the Pacific Coast Steamship Company office at the foot of Main Street. Albert Berry will have charge of the shop. He has had extensive experience in New York art centers as a designer and in the production of metal craft objects. The shop will feature hand wrought vases, candelabra, andirons and other objects in native Alaska copper, silver and ivory as well as brass and bronze.

APRIL 22, 1914-The stock and fixtures of the Douglas Candy Kitchen are being moved to Juneau today aboard the ferry Lone Fisherman. The business will open in Juneau on the lower floor of the Opera House building on Seward Street. it is operated by Messrs. Hide and Kriest.

FEBRUARY 12, 1917-Roy Jenson and Jess Jesson, owners and managers of the Washington Fish Company of Seattle, arrived in Juneau on a recent streamer and are investigating the local field with a view to establishing buying station here. Mr. Jenson stated that a buyer for the company was recently placed at Ketchikan.

MAY 17, 1924-The purchase of 150 young trees for planting along Juneau streets was authorized by the City Council last night. They will be planted on Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Streets between Main and Franklin Streets, and on Main, Seward and Franklin Streets from Fourth to Sixth. There will be 74 mountain ash and 75 balm of gilead trees. This is said to be the first serious effort by the city to beautify the streets.

MAY 4, 1919-Practically all of the legislators and the greater portion of the population of Juneau attended the Legislative Ball, given last night at the Arctic Brotherhood Hall by members of the legislature for the citizens of Juneau to mark the end of the session. Dancing was from 9 to 1 and the hall was colorfully decorated with Japanese lanterns.

MARCH 1, 1931-Discontinuance of the immediate future of that portion of their local establishment known as the Leader Department Store was announced today by George Bros. through Thomas L. George, senior member of the firm. George Bros. will continue to operate the grocery business on Front Street at Ferry Way.

JUNE 16, 1931-A Douglas resident, Hugh Douglas Gray, is a member of the graduating class at the U. S. Navy Academy. Both his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Felix Gray, were present for the ceremonies. Gray is resigning from the Navy, however, because of an eye injury received during a wrestling match last year.

JANUARY 5, 1932-At a U. S. Marshal?s sale here, K. Taatikainen of Sitka has purchased the 50-foot fishing boat Pelican on his bid of $3,000 cash. The vessel was built at Seattle in 1929 and has a 44-horsepower diesel engine. It was seized from is owner, Ernest Rognan, on the grounds that he is an alien and had concealed that fact when he documented the craft. (Note: The town of Pelican was named for the vessel in 1938.)

MAY 19, 1932-R. R. Herman and H M. Hollmann have leased the corner store space in the Valentine Building at Front and Seward Streets and will move there Juneau Drug Company into it about June 30. Carl Jacobson, whose jewelry store has occupied the corner, will move it several doors up Seward Street to the Winn Building. The corner was originally occupied by the Emery Valentine Jewelry Store.

JULY 16, 1934-Two Army observation planes landed at the new Juneau emergency landing field on the Mendenhall flats at 4:30 p.m., 40 minutes after leaving Skagway. These are the first planes to use the field since work began on it last week. Piloted by Captain E. B. Mobzien and Captain Ross G. Hoyt, the planes are being used for an inspection trip and the pilots inspected the Juneau field which will be used later in the summer by a flight of 10 Martin Bombers.