The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-12-26
ANNUAL REPORT IS MADE TODAY
 ON YEARS WORK
Chamber of Commerce Had Busy Year and Ex-
 perienced Large Growth


 the history of the Chamber of Con- merce, and coincidentally, it experi- enced it's most prosperous year, said report covering the period, made to the Chamber today by H. L. Faulkner, retiring President Its membership grew to 238, the larg- est number it ever has had, and its finances for the year were $5,- 203.36.
 The report, however, was not concerned mainly with finances which were treated in separate report by former Secretary Frank A Boyle and a supplementary state ment by Acting Secretary H. G. Walmsley. MT. Faulkner dealt with the activities of the Chamber. ! Text of Report
 The text of the report follows in full:
 "At this last meeting of the Chamber to be held in the Year ! 1929, the Executive c o m m it te e deems it to be it's duty to submit brief report of the Chambers work during the year, together with such recommendation and sugges- tions for the completion of unfin- , ished business as may be helpful to | the new committee and the Cham 1 ber during the year 1930.
 "The Constitution of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce provides that The objects of the Chamber shall be to promote the general welfare of Juneau and the vicinity and to take such other action as may seem expedient and wise on matters of interest to the wAole Territory
 "The scope of the Chambers work therefore is quite broad, and during the years which have passed since the constitution was adopted the officers and members have stead fastly and diligently labored in the interests of Juneau and the whole Territory, and they have undertak- en and mapped out program Of progress, and built up the mem- bership and increased the interest in that work so that when the present Board came into office a year ago it was not difficult to fol- low along the paths already blazed and the work of the present Board was frightened by the work of its predecessors.
 "The activities of the Chamber in the year 1929 have been varied owing to the provisions of the Chambers constitution and to the duties and functions which the Chamber has assumed and which the community has come to look Iupon as part of it's work.
 "A complete record of the Cham ber's work for the year is kept 1T Idetail by the Secretary, and in this brief report we shall not attempt to cover everything done, but we shall mention only those things which the Board considers are oi first importance and those prob- Items which are still in process oi solution.
 City Float
 "The most important m a te which was pending before tho Chamber when this Board assumed office was the matter of providing adequate float space for gas boats This matter has been before the Chamber for some time. AS you al know, the public floats near ths Alaska Juneau rock dump Wert installed under contract entered , into between the City and the Alas ka-Juneau Mining Company. Tho term of this contract expires 1T ; 1880, and in the Spring of 1928 the officials of the Alaska-June Company had notified the City and Chamber of Commerce that ithe contract could not be renewed and that float space would have to be provided elsewhere. "The Executive Committee, as' sisted by MT. Gardner, took tht , matter up with the officials of tht Alaska Juneau Company, the City Council and Major Elliott, chair man of the Alaska Road Commis. sion and representative of the Riv- . CTS and Barbors Board, and ar arrangements were made to contin' ue the use of the space north ol the rock dump breakwater, ant : plans have been completed for tht construction of a new set of float! which will provide sufficient ac' , commodations for all gas boat using public floats.
 "The Chambers part in this worl was to assist the City Council, ant while the undertaking is the Cit. Councils. we feel that the Chambel did render valuable assistance a the time it was needed. How