The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-03-31

or Juneau WOulQ pc COIIlplcIt Il pioneer Juneau businessman Charles GoldStein were not mentioned - a furrier now known the world over, who began his career as furrier in Juneau over a half century ago, and who today as fired with ambi- tion as ever, at II years is planning a more modern building to replace the one consumed last year by fire, and fur business that will match the scale of his long held dreams to make Juneau prominent city in the world of fur.
 Goldstein announced recently ne will undertake construction thls summer of a reinforced concrete and steel building five stories high at the corner of Second and Seward where fire razed the old GoldStem Building a little over year ago.
 Ultra Modern Building
 This new building, to embody most of the accepted modern ma terials of architectural building, such as glass blocks and trim, will be designed to give space to five business establishments on the ground floor Upper floors will be devoted to apartments and office space.
 Ard incidentally, seeing elevator plans on the blueprints, one recalls that the recently burned Goldstein Building, built in 1914, housed the first elevator in Alaska.
 But most important of all to Goldstein in this new building IS the realization of something he has worked for and dreamed of since before the Klondike-his own fur manufacturing plant.
 To Manufacture
 In a manufacturing" sense, the term as here app.led means that Goldsten will devote an entire floor in the building to the work of fur processors, cutters, dyers and fin ishers.
 Between eight and Is persons will be engaged in these exacting arts, and will turn out fur garments to order and to stock order on large scale that will give Juneau and Al aska the first such business in it's history.
 Since the middle of the 18th cen- tury, when the Russians came over to Alaskan waters for sea otter, furs have been bought and sold in Alaska, but beyond that have net gone into greater preparation for the channels of commerce, leav- ing the processing and handling to workmen of Los Angeles, St. Louis, New York, New Jersey, London, Paris and other centers in the fur world
 Place in Fur World
 If Goldsteins plans materialize as intended, Juneau will not occu- py just another" spot in the worlds fur picture, but will be possibly one of the most significant in the field.
 Having decided to launch him. self into the costly business of pro- cessing furs and branching out from his buying, wholesaling and re- tailing trade, Goldstein must needs broaden the scope of his buying ac- tivities and go farther afield.
 All of Alaska and a good deal of northern Canada has been Charles Goldsteins immediate buying field heretofore, although to round out his fur brokerage with all the pop ular furs of the day he occasion ally has sallied into markets of the States.
 To Widen Field
 Now, with processing of furS in the immediate future, Goldstein and his associates D l a n to buy inten- sively in the Yukon Territory and British Columbia as well as in more northerly Canadian fur areas and Alaska.
 To care for his heavy purchases of fur, Goldstein will incorporate into his new building a large cold storage for public storage of furs as well as his own.
 Goldstein bases his belief in this large scale enterprise on a convic- tion that too many middlemen take the profit in fur" and believes that with his own buying organiza- tion and his own processing plant he will be able to market heavily throughout the nation on a mail order plan of direct from the woods and farms to you"
 Goldstein will have his former To- cation for his retail store and en- deavor to make it even more a fur "show-place' for visiting tourists.
 Juneau Pioneer
 On the threshold of this newest industry of the Capital City, it is interesting to note that Goldstein has spent his entire business ca- reer in Juneau.
 Born in London and coming out to California in 1882 with his par ents, Goldstein spent three years of his boyhood there before coming north to Juneau with his father, entering business with him in a general merchandise and fur store at the corner of Second and Frank