The Daily Alaska empire., 1930-08-16


 coming The Juneau Water Com pany, R. < F. (Dick) Lewis, began service in 1886 with Phillip Star as manager. In 1893, the Alaska Electric Light Company began the business operated today by the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company. In the same year, Bach and Webster began the installation of the Juneau and Douglas Tele- phone Company's system that now covers .Gastineau Channel.
 James Winn opened the Opera House in 1887 and there Juneau was amused and entertained for many years. It stood where the Vim Hat Shop now is. There George Snow and John T. Spickett staged good shows and between times, dance hall girls furnished entertainment.
 The Louvre was another house of entertainment that was noted throughout the length and breadth of the land. To it came actors and actresses who in later years starred on Broadway. There were Marjorie Rambeau, Al Jolson, Nina Gleason, Billy Gleason and James Gleason. The latter welded a Doug las girl.
 Importation of liquor was pro- hibited, but after it was landed there was no law against it's sale. Rum runners of the pioneer days were as willy and, if half of the tales of the old days can be credit ed, as successful as their modern prototypes Thus the saloon was here and, as in older as well as later camps, the gathering places of the population which was mostly masculine. And even the family entrance was not unknown to early Juneau.
 Local Governments
 Miners government was the first form under which the pioneer gold camp operated. It was succeeded by Federal authority in 1885, when Henry States of Oregon was made United States Commissioner for Ju- neau. Judge States made this his home for many years and died re- gently in Sitka.
 The courthouse" which stood on the site of the present court house, was on more than one oc- casion the scene of festivity, the bon ton of the town turning the floor of the hall of justice into a ballroom where young and old trod to stately measures.
 Dan Kennedy, one of the first. if not the first, night watchman here, acted as kind of marshal and ran his own jail in his own inimitable way. Many prisoner has been turned out in the morn ing with the admonition: If you're not back by six o'clock, I'll lock you out" Dan rang the curfew and chased kids with pretended fierce ness that fooled none of them. He is still remembered by many young men and women of today. He died in Juneau number of years ago. James, his second son. was the first white boy born in Juneau. He now has shoe store in Anchorage and his daughter, Mrs. James G. Truitt, resides here.
 First City Council
 AS soon as such action was au- thorized by Congress, Juneau elected it's first City Council in 1900. It took office June 30, 1900. On it were Lockie MacKinnon, member of the present City Council, B. M. Behrends, Judge A. K. Delaney G. F. Forrest, J. F. .Malony, c. w. Young, and Sam Blum. Judge De- fancy was first mayor of Juneau. J. J. Beattie was first City As- sessor, Nathaniel Green first City Clerk, T. J. Donohoe, now of Dono- hoe and Dimond, of Cordova, was the first City Attorney, w. s. Staley City Marshal, Judge H. H. Folsom, City Police Judge, G. w. arside, Street Commissioner, Charles Price, Henry Shattuck and