The Daily Alaska empire., 1929-03-19
WORK IS DONE BY CITY
 IN PAST YEAR
City Betterments and lm- provements Review
 ed by Council

. ell has eXpenQcu III improvements ! and 0new civic institutions a total fof $l69 ,639.51, it was revealed in | the financial statement recently published. The major items in this [ sum were. the new High School building and the new City Wharf building.
 Roughly divided into the several departments the expenditures were divided as follows: High School, s110,0o0; Streets and sewer, $u,- 16351; New, City Dock, $11 ,0oo; re- i pairs to the city wharf, $1.4o2; ad- ditions to the Rire Department, s2,- ! 61565; repairs to Fire Department equipment, $45S.35. : Much Street Work More than a normal amount of street and sewer work was done . Eby Mayor Judson, who also acts as Superintendent of Public Works . during the year. Front Street, be- tween the Alaskan hotel and Win : ter & Ponds was rockfilled, and ;. fine crushed rock was added for Esurface from tho Alaskan hotel to the Alaska Juneau. In addition to this many hundreds of yards of rock were used in the normal main tenance work on streets all over town.
 I One of the most noteworthy II street improvements accomplished during the year was the filling of Shattuck Way with rock. In all Il ,532 cubic yards of coarse rock and fine rock surfacing were used on this job. The total cost of the work was $3,92088, of which amount $750 was donated by E. R. Jaeger, Thomas Hardware Company and Frye-Bruhn company. The fill material cost four cents per yard at the Alaska Juneau dump and 30 cents for hauling.
 In all during the year the Street Department placed 16,529 cubic yards of coarse crushed rock and 727 yards of fine, on the streets.
 Build Two Bridges
 This was by no means the ex- tent of the work done by that de- partment. It put Q new bridge across Gold Creek near the Home Grocery and street trestle on Kennedy street It put in $50 fleet of new decking on Wllloughby Avenue, built 120 feet of entirely Enew street on the same thorough fare, a new approach to the City Float, and new piling, caps, string CTS, decking and planking near Giovannetti's on Calhoun Avenue.
 Many new concrete and wooden sidewalks were constructed in ad- dition to the regular repairs to old walks, The total yardage of the former was 11,555 square feet, and the latter 4,80o hneal feet.
 | Among the new concrete walks constructed were. between the res idences of Charles Naghel and E. O. Guerin on Distin Avenue, around the Kirk houses on Gold and Fifth streets, in front of the Catholic Church property, from the Alaskan Hotel to I. Goldsteis..5 store, and H. Is. Graves Clothing Store to the Olympic Pool Hall both on Front Street Masonic Temple to the 1 Presbyterian Church. The total cost of this work was $4.622,28 of which the City paid one-third and the owners of adjoining property two- thirds.
 New wooden walks built were: {: Franklin Street between Elks Hall and Second Street, Franklin, be- tween Third and Fourth Streets, Gold Street between Fourth and Fifth, Sixth Street between Gold and Franklin Streets, Fifth between Gold and Franklin streets, Calhoun Avenue, between Giovanettis and the Governors Mansion, on Tenth Street between E. Street and the tide flats, a new section on East Street between Ninth and Tenth streets, a walk the entire length of Willoughby Avenue, new stairway from Main Street to the telephone exchange office, and a stairway on Park Avenue to the end of the street.
 Other Expenditures
 Other expenditures included. for schools $25.00O, not including the construction of the high school building; $8.571.1S for the Fire De- partment, including $2, 057 as a payment on the new fire truck, Is new hydrants, Il of which were in stalled; $8,5s6.30 for sewer replace ment and improvement.
 More than 1000 feet of new sew CTS were installed. Of that amount, 6,o53 feet was permanent concrete sewer pipe, the rest being wooden construction. Twenty -four inch Ipipe was used from the Gastineau Hotel to Second Street, and l2 inch from City Hall to Seventh on Main Street.
 | Other concrete sewers installed were: Ninth Street from Oscar Harris to the tide flats; Tenth Street from B Street to the outlet on- the flats: Eleventh Street from