ART and NEEDLE Work
DESIGNING and
STAMPING
” The Shop for Gentlewomen ”
Mrs. Albert Berry
317 Seward Street :: Juneau
KING AND ERICSON
ARE REAL MAD
The most significant incident in
the controversy over the proposed
purchase of the water system oc
curred at the Council Meeting on
last Friday night, when Councilman
King reprimanded the Mayor for giv
ing publicity to the facts which so
strongly favored the purchse.
The Council Chamber was crowd
ed with leading citizens who were
there to urge the acceptance of Mr.
Lewis’s offer. Three members of
the last council were there in per
son to tell the council that they real
ized their mistake in not accepting
Khe plant last year and to advise
that body to profit by their accept
ing the plant at the doubled price,
and a fourth ex-councilman sent a
message to the same effect.
Well known men had expressed
themselves in language so emphatic
that Councilmen King and Ericson
sulked under wrhat they believed to
be an imputation of their weakness
of intellect.
“I want to say,” said Councilman
King to the Mayor after the crowd
had departed, a majority of the coun
cil—King and Eriscon still sulking—
having practically agreed on an in
tention to take back the flat refusal
to consider the project, and give it
the consideration which its import
ance merited. “I want to say that
your conduct in giving the public
the facts and figures was reprehen
sible. It has resulted in getting me
called a fool here tonight.”
“Reprehensible,” responded the
Mayor. “I want to say that there
ought to be more of it. In order to
reach the people, you’ve got to use
>the newspapers. If you think it is
reprehensible, make the most of it.”
Perkins, of The Empire, stepped
forward as a peace maker, and
in gentle accents, reminded Council
man King that he had gone to King
and offered him whatever space that
he wanted, to answer the Mayor’s
report.
Mr. Greenbaum
and the Postmaster
Greenbaum has lodged a complaint
with United States District Attorney
Smiser against Postmaster Brad
ford’s extending me publicity of mail
order houses.
In the complaint which Greenbaum
has made, and for which he hopes
to have the postmaster removed, the
merchant complains that the official
has made a practice of giving away
catalogues to persons to whom they
were not addressed, which tends to
extend the business of the mail or
der houses.
To a representative of this paper,
Postmaster Bradford said that the
extent of his sinning was to give to
persons who asked for them copies
of the catalogues which had been ad
dressed to individuals who had left
town after requesting the postoffice
to forward their first class matter
and to give their second class mat
ter over to who ever might care for
it.
“I know of no postal law or regula
tion,” continued Postmaster Bradford,
which this practice violates, nor do I
know why it should be considered
to be against good policy. We give
away in this manner not more than
14 or 15 catalogues in a month, we
haven’t near enough to supply the
demand.”
Greenbaum says that the practice
is an injury to him and ether local
merchants.
“Oh, I am not talking about that,”
snapped Councilman King, impatient
ly, ‘‘I’m talking about the conduct
of the Mayor in printing that report
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FAMISHED FELINES AT
FEMMER AND RITTERS
“The harmless, necessary cat,”
with her kittens, and other cats,
just as necessary and just as harm
less, in the eatery of Femmer &
Ritter, cost that enterprising firm
a case of milk every week, besides
a meat bill.
Jake Paradise, who, with good care
and loving kindness, sheperds this
feline flock, says that the mainten
ence of *' ~eats is not a matter of
weakness on the part of the dock
owners, but a matter of good busi
ness judgment. “Experience has
shown,” says Mr. Paradise, that it
costs less to feed cats than to feed
rats and mice. There is a great
deal of grain stored from time to
time on the dock, and the firm
found, before they instituted the
cats, that these animals gnaw large
holes into the pockets of grain hand
lers.
“The firm has found by exper
ience,” says Paradise, “that there is
nothing in the theory that the hun
gry cat is the better mouser. That
cat is the best hunter which is the
best fed.” So the Femmer and
Ritter cats get the American stand
ard of living.
The price of champagne is going
down, here in Juneau, and the price
of potatoes going up. Potatoes may
be more of a luxury than champagne
before the winter is ever.