The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-04-03

| IdSt y duced to a present average of $20 a month for the season. It vii steadily grow less as concrete re places wooden sidewalks.
 Tn the past six years, most 0 Front Street has been paved. A ney City dock and warehouse hay been constructed. Floats have beel rebuilt and enlarged, and the ap breaches strengthened.
 1 "Tile sewers have replaced tn, old, unsanitary wooden boxes ant cesspools eliminated. In this i'm provement We services 26 houses il various parts of the city that ha( from one to five cesspools in theil yards, some of them open witt children sailing toy boats in them There is today no place in the cit. except the Scatter tract that can not have immediate connection tt an uptodate tile sewer.
 Front Street Project
 "One of the biggest street i'm. provement projects ever carried ou by the City transformed Fron Street from the Alaskan Hotel tt the City Dock from a plank struc. ture over tidelands to a rock filled paved thoroughfare, and from tht City Dock to the Alaska Juneau il was rock-filled and gravel sur. faced. It formerly cost $3,O00 pel year to maintain that street alone Today the cost is negligible. Before the permanent street was laid, con. crete sewers were installed.
 The cost of this project was $40,. 1000. It was inaugurated at the in. stigation of local business men owners of property abutting tht street. On May IA, 1929, Commit. tee, composed of l. Goldstein, c Goldstein, J. J. Connors, Roberr Simpson and G. H. Walmsley. ap. peared before the City Council anc loffered for the property owners tt advance the City Government tn. necessary funds to defray costs O. this work, to be refunded in annua payments. Their offer was accepted and the work was done. All pay. ments on this indebtedness wert Icompleted during the year just ex. lpiring.
 Much ROck-Filling Done
 "In addition to filling From Street with rock, the city has fillec the street between the California Grocery and George Bros, leading to the Pacific Coast Coal Com. Ipany's dock; the alleyway betweer Thomas Hardware Company ane the Gastineau Grocery to the same dock (which cut insurance 30 pc, cent on adjacent buildings); the lower end of Seward Street between tJuneau Young Hardware Company and the New York Exchange; the foot of Main Street; and the bet ter part of Ninth Street.
 The total yardage in these iobs would fill one-half of Willoughby Avenue. I see no reason why the street itself cannot be filled in the same manner during the next five years by the same methods we have used, doing a portion of it each year.
 Kept Up Fire Department
 We have doubled the efficiency of the mechanical equipment of the Fire Department, buying a new and modern truck at a cost ot $7,200, which is completely paid for. We have increased the amount of Serviceable hose to 400O feet.
 There has also been installed many new hydrants, mostly in the Casey-Shattuck Addition. In CO., operation with the Alaska Juneau and the Juneau Water Company
 
 the salt water mains have been ex- tended from the Alaska Juneau power house to the City Dock. The Alaska Juneau furnished some ot the hydrants, the water company the pipe. and the city did the work and furnished the remainder oi the hydrants.
 Better Than Sinking Fund 'In my opinion these improve ments, which have made Juneau one of Alaska's outstanding towns in the past six years, are better fol the community than the creation of a sinking fund would have been TrxI