The Alaska daily empire., 1913-11-22
ADVANCE GUARDS OF FEDERALS AND REELS CLASH
NEW CITY HALL
 IS NOW OCCUPIED
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until some time next month or until after every little detail is finished, But in the meantime the building is to be used. The upper floors have already been turned over to the school board and the branches of the Juneau schools that are to occupy those rooms have already moved in and will com mence their work in the new quarters next Monday. The city council at last nights meeting decided that the next meeting of the council would al so be held in the council chambers of the new building. The fire apparatus will probably also be housed in the new structure within the next few days. All that the police department is waiting for is the steel doors for the concrete cells when the jail will also be put to use.
 The new city hall is considered one of the best buildings in Juneau. With the exception of contracting for the clustering, painting, heating and plumbing, everything has been done by day labor under the direction of City Engineer B. D. Blakeslee. The plans were drawn by Architect Rich ard Wulzen The structure is S4x40 feet, two stories and basement It occupies the city property at the cor ner of Fourth and Main streets. A four-fOot area separates the building on the west side from the adjoining property It is set back ten feet from the Fourth street end; six feet from the Main street sidewalk and has an aleyway six feet wide running along the South end.
 The entire basement is built of sol i'd concrete walls sixteen inches thick, This floor contains the quarters for the police department, including one cell for women prisoners, seven for lnen. and large corridor and kit chen The jails are solid concrete, in- cluding the ceilings. Steels doors are now being finished. The heating plant fuel rooms and storage for the street department is also provided for on this floor. The jail is reached from the alley along the south end which is paved with concrete.
 The main entrance to the building leads from Main street in the center of the structure. It is reached by con- crete stairs leading from the parking strip left inside the sidewalk on either side of a concrete landing which is the floor of neat porticO The main entrance opens into a broad hall seg- regating the building iRto two almost equal parts. Turning to the left from the hall the council chambers are en- countered and also two offices, one for the city engineer and the other for the city clerk and magistrate. A door opens on the right from the main hall that leads to the fire department. The main entrance to the fire depart ment, however, is from the Fourth street front and is in the center through large doors that will permit the passage of fire apparatus with or without horses. Here will be estab- lished the central station of the new Gamewell fire alarm system that is be- ing installed for Juneau.
 The upper floors of the building are reached by broad, easy stairs leading from the main corridor of the build ing. The stairs land in large hall crossing the building in the center from which cloak rooms and toilets are accessible.
 On the left or south side a large aud itorium has been constructed for va rious uses that it may be put to. On the right, the north side has been de signed as quarters for the Juneau fire department. The plumbing has been put in with the view of providing baths and other comforts for the fire laddies.
 This floor has, as already stated been given over to the temporary use of the Juneau school board. The aud itorium has been divided into two rooms for the high school with an ap- proximate seating capacity for 70. The ! firemen's quarters has been divided | into two rooms one of which will be occupied by the fifth grade and the other by the eighth grade.- There will at present be about fifty pupils in | these rooms. The cloak room has been | fitted up as a recitation room and the council chamber will also be used as recitation room.
 The erection of this building was de- termined upon at a special meeting of the council held at the close of a reg ular session on August 15. The next day City Engineer Blakeslee com menced tearing down the old jail building and on August 19 commenced excavating for the foundation. The ex- cavating was finished in about a week and the forms set for the walls. Con- crete pouring commenced September 8. Then there was wait of several