The Seward gateway daily edition, and the Alaska weekly post., 1919-04-11
Gentlemen of the Seward City Council and Citizens:--

Council and Citizens:-
 The coming fiscal year promises many perpleXing questions, for your consideration and final action in solv- ing, for the advancement and better ment of business, and social conditions of our city.
 Briefly allow me to call your at tention, at this time, to few of the most important.
 The Glacier Stream, Lowell Creek, is a menace to property; and, perhaps life. Also, to the future prosperity of Seward, causing worry of mind, and unsettled property values. Delay is dangerous, in this case. Unless thls stream is permanently controlled an other period of floods and high water is liable to damage the business and residential districts to such an eXtens that the property loss alone will be far greater than the cost of perma' nent improvements, which will for ever control this cratic and turblent. stream.
 For number of years the City of Seward, by it's various councils, has expended each year in rebuilding the bridges destructed by flood, and in other ways, to straighten the stream, removing boulders, etc., to pay the in- tereSt on bonded indebtedness, large enough for a permanent improvement of this stream. It is your duty to de- wise ways and means to take care cf this question, to expend the money necessary, to prepare estimates sur veys, and maps, of the different met hods advanced for such an improve ment, and finally adopt some plan to be presented for the ratification oI our citizens, so that they may have q clear and comprehensive view of the contemplated improvements, and can act, with intelligence, when the time comes to ratify the action of this council. I would urge that this body give prompt attention to this much needed work.
 Another matter of great import ance, at this time, to the business in- terestS and future growth of Seward, is providing some kind of dock or float for the use of fishing and small boats.
 The towns on this Alaska coast that have given free dockage, free water, and otherwise encouraged the mosquito fleet, have profited in many ways on the investment by stimulat- ing trade all seasons of the year, and have also increased their population by fishermen and others making per manent homes for their families in such communities. It is fact, not to be denied, that those towns, supported by fishing population, are the most prosperous in Alaska to-day.
 Wealth is in the Sea, divert some of this flow of money toward Sewara.
 The Alaska Legislature is passing an act to assist and encourage the establishment of public libraries at various places in Alaska. Seward, al- though foremost with good schools, churches and high class of citizen ship. has been most negligent in pro- viding a public library for the use of pupils attending school, and the public generally. No crosS-road town in the states is without this aid to advance. ment, and education. A sum set aside each year toward this end, and with aid from the territorial government, will achieve lasting benefit to the community, and the establishment of a public library. An ordinance should be passed creating Library Board with power to prescribe rules and re-