The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 22, 1944, Page 2

PAGE TWO CASUAL COATS Short coverage in handsomely tailored casuals is new, decidedly fashion and smart Full coverage in beautifully be more to the . Whichever casuals ay point, important to you it may be, you’ll find both types, in excellent qual nicely styled coats. | | | | l | | QarLITY SINCE 45.00 to 69.50 Sizes 12-40 All in by Stroock and Forst- 1007 pure wool mann, interlined . . . In winter white, gold, nat- ural, tan, black, red and brown. B M, Behrends Ca 1887 in property makes a lot of smoke but has no value when once it has as- sumed that form i The primary aim of the Building stment is to protect and con- | serve property. Inspections are made ] COMMUNICATION Editer, the Daily Alaska Empire and safety hazards are danger- | prevalent Juneau. The largest number oceur in the old pre- | gold rush wooden buildings which 1 make up the business dis- in with the sole aim to find sources OI danger, both immediate and poten- | ial. The owner is notified of any :xisting faults or deficiencies. The | necessary corrective steps are point- | d out. The governing rules, regu- | lations and ordinances are explain- ed. All of this is for the owner’s benefit as well as for the general public. Building Codes are a very essential part of civic law; without them, no property would be safe, either within itself or from adjacent exposures. Juneau's present Building Code, and | new Uniform Building Code 1t consideration by the represent the ac- cumlated experience of many cities | these buildings are construction, with- walls, In the m light out any and covered with cedar shingles Each of these items is a distinct fire hazard ame fire-stopping in the structures were erected on which through the passage time, have badly deteriorated buildings have collapsed; more in imminent danger of doing so. P() fs have decayed amd the walls e parted company with their 2 original fastenings i Many piling, of the When these conditions are coupled with faulty electrical wiring, Poorly | gver a long period of time. Juneau | i lated stoves or furnaces, and|can profit greatly from the ex- lack of proper care and mainte- | perience of others in this field. | nance, eventual trouble is certain It must be remembered that a A casual inspection will show to | Byjlding Code is only as good as anyone that all of these faults exist | the enforcement thereof. It is a re- | in Juneau. They are far t00 numer- | grettable fact that many-—probably for comfort A good fire department, blessed with a large element of luck, has been the salvation of Juneau. Any | fire in the downtown district is a potential holocaust that might very easily wipe out a major part of Juneau's business district. Unless direct and prompt action is taken to | o8 most—of present hazards in Juneau | exist because of lack of enforce- ment of existing codes. It is the firm intention of the Building Department,to enforce all of the provisions of the Building present and future, with a reasonable regard for wartime con- {itions, but always keeping in mind Code based upon the interests of Juneau a whole. In plain first (Signed) as words: Juneau comes HUGH B. ANTRIM, B\mdm;, Inspector. | (HRISTENSEN RIIES TOMORROW, CHAPEL Funeral services will be held to- morrow afternoon in the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary for Sam Christensen, Juneau pioneer. The Rev. G. Herbert Hillerman will deliver the eulogy, and Ernest Ehler will sing two selections. Interment will be in the Pioneers’ Plot of the Evergreen Cemetery Pallbearers will be Einar Arvid Anderson, Ed Berg, Ralph E. Baker, and William O. Carlson. s e o o 0 0 0 0 0 o WEATHER REPORT U. S. Weather Bureau Temp. Wednesday, Sept. In Juneau: Maximum, minimum, 47. At Airport: minimum, 43 Temp. Thursday, Sept. In Juneau: Maximum, minimum, 53. At Airport: minimum, 48. Lytte, the Rev. 20 61; Maximum, 51; 21 61; Maximum, . . . . . . . . . . . . 60; e . . ® o 0 0 0 0 0 0 o - Empire Want- a(ls bring results: remedy these items mentioned, such | the necessity to protect life and a fire may occur. A million dollars | property This protection will be BRINGING UP FATHER —— A MRS JIGGS' BROTHER | WONDER WHERE | — LEFT THAT HARMONICA | BROUGHT HOME - | ADMIRED IT VI DAY - SIR - PERHAPS HE BORROWED IT- ESTER- WUZ GONNA PRACTICE ON IT- WS> William Geddes, | Do R THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE- Juneau Pioneer, Tom Ashby, Recalls Days Of Sixty Years Ago JUNEAU, ALASKA SCHOCLBCARD IN DISCUSSION, HOT MEAL AT NOON wo weeks Juneau to send out a students to find Within the next Public Schools is questionnaire to all - men, although Jack probably beat| out how many of them want hot As Tom Ashby, Juneau resident|me by three or four hundred miles.” | school lunches served | since May 11, 1884, stands on Court Delegate To Congress rintendent A. B. Phillips said |House hill, near his home, and| Another man Tom remembers the question of whether to serve hot |looks over modern Juneau he can ! well is Capt. James Carroll of the lunches or not came up at the regu- mentally trace the growth of the | steamer “Idaho,” one of the many lar meeting of the scheol board last town step by step, for when he fficial delegates to Congress,|Night and was fully discussed | first landed 60 years ago the town Tom says, “we sent C back | The board, recognized, he said was bub & mining cawp, four $8afs | and. s ;usil, jdhe Governmert|thab tuere was ot adsquate cafe- | old didn't pay: any. attention to him.”|t2ria spacé in the Dbtk 0 1vw Fom. Ashby <wie. iy i WO | TIoY i, bl he offereq decided to send out a questionnaire he and his brother. O. W. Ashby, fo bu TR ST R TN U L e et landed in Juneau to look for lernment for $10,000,000, a profit of t’,‘»lj]’l'm"\;‘u e [‘}:““‘n“:\“;"’\m‘“ll,'::" 1’.\0“1(‘ gold prospects.” And, in the | nearly $3,000,000 ‘41\u vi‘h(' I bility of erec & 1>1r\\'.~lu'u‘ {Intervening years, he has found | chase’ pice from Russia. Then they e/ "8 0 in oo weather, somewhere payed a little his many men look for has seen the Yukon the gold that in vain and he offer. ed attention to him, I but | 0,1 the school property. R E. Robertson was not present and Nome and many other gold- And speaking A TANE MR Y. BAskbi Bhg Stt of fields. He has lived and played Ashby said, “in th i syl bt | and hunted in the greatest wil- one steamer a month and when it e R derness left on the West Coast of came in everything stopped for a } North America. Today he can sit cclebration, A runner was sent up MARY melEY “_l | {and think of all his adventures. the basin and everybody came to \ |But, more than that, he can plan town. That stcamer coming in was No pARTY SATURDAY |the next trip to Windham Bay, as good any day as the Fourth of i where he located claims 13 years July p Bosbohat N m"‘ |ago. This year, for the first time, Old 1887 Pioneer Mary Pinkley is s \W(‘; he was too ill to prospect. Tom Ashby belonged to the old | coid” or flu and can’t have. that| Juneau—Tent City 1887 Pioneers Lodge, of which there il T PtordTae 't WEISh | | I 1884 Juneau consisted of a are only a few living members to- | ine has invited about 20 of her little | Itent city on the beach, with a'cay in Juneau. The roll call is | frjends | [population of less than 300. The shoit; Lioyd Brown, Gus Winters, | | [ast year, on thé day before her | {white man’s town was located Henty Olsen, O. W. Ashby birthday, shé also had to cancel her | m re Main and Front Streets are | Ashby’s wife died in 1913, leaving party because she ¢ down it Mu d the Indians lived fu { the four children, Inez, the measl {ther down the beach in their own s, Eddie and Dorothy, alone. ' Doggone it anyway but when she village still lived in his house on gets over with the cold or flu, she | Roads out of town then werenon- rt 1se Hill, the one he and is going to g that party | | existent. Th® road to Silver Bow his brother had built in 1894. He { for tomorrow but cancelled. | | Basin was merely a trail although lives there today, now alone, ex- - — |there was more activity up there cept for visitors, some of whom TO MOVE SCHOOL then, than now. Three small mills are his grand-children and great —— and mines and “prospect holes’ 1d-children Glen Green, Superi flourished in that early day Being alone and this year unable Construction for the Indian \" 'The Treadwell mill was just be- to go prospecting, to which he long IS enroute to Noatak to supervise | ing. constructed then; the. founda- ' ago dedicated his life, has not made the moving of the school back from Hon holes- had just been: 'dng.|this tall, erect, stern-faced man | the river at that place. He will also Transportation across the channel bitter. He still smiles and chu call at other towns in that section 25 your own responsibility. If when he tells of “Salt Water Jack UER TYWITDG here. you did not own a boat you could many other old- take an Indian canoe and worked 3 CARA N[]ME On Yukon Stampede ith | In the summer of 1886, Tom B W R i am e A SKIN FRES“E"ER [ AshbyJeft Juneau. arid jolned'ithe| Quinine wasohce knowa in Burope A tier Eevath closhiiagires “Jesuit’s powder,” because the 9. |stampede into the Yukon. He went /0 - rodtiedll ib Anark. £ move all traces of soiled | by way of Dyea and Chilkoot Pass ¢ " ‘\:;‘\‘w::f‘ i sl cream with this fragrant into Northwest Territory, finding |~ 3 liquidl It refreshes your {gold along the Stewart River - ;gvbtnguuyl | The next year he went to Forty- f WATCH REPAIRING P e o Size mile and located claims on the 42 Years Experience 1 $25° $ South Fork of the Fortymile River.|fl Quick accurate air mail service ° It was a cold, bitter winter. Tom CHAS. R. OAKE R | Williams, accompanied by an In- oo g : 5 v 802 Green Bldg., Seaitle, Wash. Butler, Mauro Drug Co. dian guide, undertook to trans- v x Your Rexall Store !port mail eut to Juneau. Before | 5 ¥ Ithey reached the coast, Williams { |succumbed to the biting weather ) |and the Indian was badly frc bitten. The couple had planne hike out with the mail to Dye and then proceed down Lynn Canal | {to Juneau by Indian canoe. Goes To Nome | In 1900 Ashby went to No where he stayed, this time, for {vears before coming back home to Juneau. Even after those few years | he noticed a change in the town. | was growing larger and more | moder How different from 1884 when there had beey no official | representative of the law where the miner’s council ran| things. Judge States had been the | first Commissioner. Ashby does not remember now whether the Com missioner arrived in 1884 or in '85 Joe, Tom Prospect Joe Juneau was still in town and young Tom Ashby made his first prospecting trip with Joe, to Gla- |cier Bay; a few years later came the Chinese Riots when a boat- load of Chinese coolie labor was shipped out of Juneau and told never to come back. The Chinesc were not harmed, only scared to |death by light dynamite charges {placed on and around their dwell- ings. Thus ended the big Tread- well Corporation’s attempts to bring | |in cheap labor. | In all his years in Alaska and ilhe Yukon, Ashby says: “I only iworked for wages four summer | prospected the rest of the time. +Referring to an old friend of his, |# | “Salt Water Jack” Charles, now |nale and hearty at 82, he says “Jack and I probably packed more around Alaska than :my other, l‘m| and DADDY-DON'T BE ANGRY BECAUSE UNCLE TOOK YOLR HARMONICA - HIS. FAMILY IS VERY MUSICAL- YOU KNOW-HIS LITTLE BRING THE REFRIGERATOR - JARVIS -AND PUT IT HERE IN' FRONT — THEN MAYBE THE PIANO WILL BE SAFE- GIRL IS GOING TO TAKE PIANO LESSONS- ON By Mandarin Chow Mein and Chop Suey Just Like in Chinatown! Steaks, Chops, Fried Chicken, Dinners DINE at the SOUTH FRANKLIN STREET Juneau, Alaska (ALASKA AIRLINES BATAAN CAFE ‘While the Popular Dreamland Swing Band Serenades You! ANDY FONG, Owner and Chef FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1944 ANCHORAGE—FAIRBANKS NOME YAKUTAT — CORDOVA CONNECTIONS TO VALDEZ — KODIAK — BRISTOL BAY KUSKOKWIM Office Baranof Hotel PHORB 667 ARTHUR OSZMAN, Traffic Manager — INSURANCE | Health, Accident, Life, Annui Juvenile Educational Endowments M. B. MARTIN—Phone 53 123 Third St. P. O. Box 1641 e ————————— Hotel Juneau ; z | Thompson Optical Co. 214 Second St.—Phone 387 Lenses duplicated—Frames sold- ered+Reading Glasses $7.50 pair ~Guns repaired—New Gun Parts —Keys Made. Tanned RABBIT SKINS BUY DIRECT AND SAVE MONEY. Any quantity, immediate delivery. Write for Price List. Valcauda Fur Co. Seattle, Washington For Comfort At Lowest Rales ROOMS WITH BATH or WITHOUT BATH Most Convenient Location —THIRD AND MAIN— Owner-Mgr., Clarence Wise | 23 BUY WAR BONDS ; T i | MAKE | JUNEAU DAIRIES DELICIOUS ICE CREAM a daily habit—ask for it by name || Juneau Dairies, Inc. R Cpla NI P T e | ® Perrect comfors ® Centrally located e Splendid food and Py, B service S T R T e #cClare, o Large Rooms— | i E Mgr. all with Bath WINDOWS, DOORS, CABINETS 0. B. Williams Co. 1939 First South Seattle 4 4ALASKANS LIKE THN PNEW WASHINGTON] PO S N N ) \ N N § \ \ \ ) \ { \ 4 BOYAL CAFE OPEN ALL NIGHT We Serve: ® American Dishes THE BARANOF ALASKA'S FINEST HOTEL | Eat in the Famous | Gold Room § { ® Chop Suey Chow Mein Sweet and Sour Fried Rice | 162 So. Franklin PHONE 738 It Costs No More Phone 800 Woodiey Airways JUNEAU—— ~ ANCHORAGE Via YAKUTAT and CORDOVA Connections to ALL INTERIOR Alaska Points Lockheed Arrives Juneau 2:00 P.M. Electra Leaves Juneau 2:30 P.M. Tuesday-Friday ————————————— P —————— ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES Serving Southeast Alaska——Passengers, Mail, Express SITKA TRIP—Scheduled Daily at 9:30 A. M. Hawk An- Pel- Kim- Chicha- Inlet Hoonah goon Tenakee Todd ican shan gof Sitka Juneau s B $10 818 $10 §18 $18 818 $18 18 Sitka 18 18 10 18 18 10 10 Cmclmgol ll 10 18 10 18 10 5 10 18 10 18 10 10 18 18 18 10 10 Tenakee - 10 10 10 Angoon .. 18 18 Hoonah .. 10 Haines and Skagway—=Scheduled Daily at 9:30 A. M. Haines Skagway Juneau $18.00 $20.00 Skagway 10.00 Express Ral 0 cents per pound—Minimum Charge 60¢c Round Trip Fare: Twice One-Way Fare, less 10% SCHEDULED DAILY Ketchikan Wrangell Petersburg Juneau $45.00 $35.00 $30.00 Petersburg 30.00 10.00 , ‘Wrangell .. 20.00 Express Rate: 25¢ per pound—Minimum of $1.00 to Ketchikan Express Rate: 10¢c per pound—Minimum of 60¢ to Petersburg and Wrangell Above rates applicable when passenger traffic warrants. Schedules and Rates Subject to Change Without Notios o e ”»