The Cordova daily times., 1915-03-26

OF FRONT ST

Is unprejudiced, to refute said state. ments. Mir. Feldmann says that the
 scheme was conceived by Leopold Schmidt, who discussed 1t with him before any action was taken. Mir. Feldmann says that he and Mir. La thop circulated the subscription list, and that it was only upon insistent urging that Mir. Hazelet agreed to act as trustee for the signers. The Town site Company approached no one to ask them to contribute and instead of doing so actually contributed S1 ,OOO % themselves. Councilman Hazelet never presented any bill on behalf of the Townsite Company on the Front street matter to the city council. He pre- sented a bill on behalf and as the agent and trustee of the signers to the subscription agreement, and he received the money as the agent of said signers and applied it to their benefit.
 In the Daily Alaskan Of March 6, 1915, appears a letter signed "A Re cord Advocate" It is uncertain who Record Advocate is as he did not have the courage to sign his own name to his letter, but as it appeared in the Daily Alaskan it must have had the endorsement of it's editor, so We will quote from the letter as follows: Heretofore when the Power Company or Townsite Company wanted any thing, Georges hypnotic smile always made the way easy. So the record shows that he had winning address. Why, didn't he even induce Council year or two ago to donate $600.OO to the Townsite Company for a crossing at the foot of B street" Consider for a moment, Mr. Citizen of Cordova, how absolutely false that statement is. The city never paid $60OO0O to the Townsite Company for the Front street crossing A man signs himself a Record Advocate and deliberately falsifies the record, for it is to be presumed that the writer had examin- ed the record before he chose his pen name. The records shows a payment of $600.00 to George c. Hazelet, trus- tee. But George c. Hazelet was trus tee for the men who signed the sub scription agreement above and as their trustee he received the money from the city. So instead of inducing the city to pay $6OO,0O to the Townslte Co. he induced the city to pay $6OOOO to Messrs. Boyle, Currier, Mickelson, Reed, Meals, Feldmann, Cannon, Simpson and others set out above
 Now, there has been so much loose talk about this $6OO.OO, that it Is only fair that the people of Cordova should know who eventually got the money. The town paid it to Geo. c. Hazelet, as trustee for the men named in the agreement, and as their trustee he used the money to pay the debts incurred by said aforementioned gentlemen in constructing Front street all of which liabilities have not yet been paid because certain of the sign CTS have failed to make good on their written agreements. This famous famous $6OOO0 was paid in full to the Arctic Lumber Co.,, as part payment for the lumber furnished by said com pany to plank the street. The money was paid to the lumber company on Dec. f, 1911. and the receipt for the payment is signed by R. R. Stewart for the lumber company, who was then of the concern.
 The money paid by the council went to pay the lumber company for the building of Front street, and certainly Front street is a public street, and the town receives some benefit there from. The adjoining property holders also receive some benefit from the of Front street and they have paid in proportion the same as the town. Now, to all fair minded people, the statement of MT. Feldmann as to how the proposition started and the circumstances connected there with, must carry conviction. The editor of the Daily Alaskan. and the writers of the various let ters that have appeared in his paper, are convicted either of being falsifers or, of that which is just as bad, sland- ering a reputable citizen without first acquainting themselves with the facts. They even go so far as to sign them selves as Record Advocates and then deliberately distort the record, and read into them things which nowhere appear therein.
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