THE GLEAM
JUNEAU, ALASKA
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1916
VOL. I, NO. 8
- COUNCIL STUDIES
ARCHITECTURE
At the special meeting of the
Council last Tuesday afternoon at
which the plans of Architect Thomas
and the school question in general
were discussed, the Council and all
citizens present felt that the two
hours were usefully spent.
Mr. Thomas, in his effort to build
for Juneau a school which shall
meet the requirements of the in
creasing population and at the same
time keeping within the cost of
the bond issue has submitted to the
Council valuable plans as well as
many practical suggestions.
The pattern of the building is as
beautiful as the price will allow,
and the class room, gymnasium, as
sembly room, retiring rooms, are all
wonderfully arranged and lighted and
as well as practically available.
The fan system of heating will be
installed so that all the warm air
which the children breathe will be
as pure as warm air can be. It is,
so to speak, freshly heated each
moment and as it radiates through
the rooms, it meets the require
ments of the breathing children and
at the same time dries the damp
wraps of the children in the cloak
rooms.
The assembly room is to have a
stage and will seat five hundred
people comfortably and the ‘‘gym”
downstairs will be equipped with
all the new athletic appurtenances.
In order to give the children of
Juneau the benefit of a manual train
ing school, plans have matured to
use the material of the old building
to construct a department for that
particular class of work on another
part of the school grounds.
The entire p’ans of Architect Thom
as and Mayor Stewart seem to be
approved and unless some member
of the school board or of the Coun
cil bucks at the last moment, the
school, despite all reports to the con
trary, may become a living, breath
ing thing of life.
Outside of the Council and the
newspaper contingent there were no
representatives from any of the city’s
civic organizations. The Civic Im
provement Department of the Wo
man’s Club was conspicuous for its
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APPOINTMENT OF
WM. HOLZHEIMER
The appointment of William Holz
heimer as Assistant U. S. District
Attorney to succeed D. Noll, at Ket
chikan, is singularly, almost poet
ically appropriate.
Coming as it does from the little
bunch of expatriated Seattleites who
are running the Democratic politics
of Southeastern Alaska, something
of the kind has been foreseen for
some months.
Having failed in Idaho, having
failed in Seattle, his aggressively
offensive personality was deemed
just the force needed by the politi
cal clique whose centers are in the
Court House, and in the office of
the Empire. So about a year ago
they brought him to Juneau. Before
he was a legal voter he was a dele
gate to the “hand-picked” convention
of last May. By skillful advertising,
he so pushed himself into public
notice that he got the profitable
handling of the funds of the Li
quor Dealers’ Association last fall
for campaign purposes. He became
so active in Democratic politics as
to pull off at least one fight and
several near-fights.
As a reward for Uiese valuable ser
vices, he was slated for the position
of Mr. Reagan, but the W. C. T. U.
protested, and Mr. Smiser was not
as emendable to suggestions as he
should have been.
But Mr. Holzheimer was unable
to earn a living from his “lucrative
practice” and the machine just had
to do something for him. So Mr.
Noll’s sudden departure for parts
unknown came as a double God-send.
it at once relieved a Mtuation
grown somewhat tense, and made an
opening for Mr. Holtzheimer at the
public crib. Mr. Smiser as a good
party man did not prove untractable
to the demands made upon him, and
it is only just to hm to assume
that he knows as little of the true
inwardness of the move, as he did
why Mr. Noll was given to him as an
inheritance. He may be wiser after
a while.
In the meantime, The Gleam ex
tends congratulations to everybody
except the public. We congratulate
Mr. Holzheimer especially on the
good stuff he succeeded in getting
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THE DISTINCTION
OF ANNIE JONES
Little Annie Jones has been fined
two thousand dollars.
Why Annie Jones has been thus
bruised by the mailed fist of the
loosely bandaged goddess, is as Maw
rus Perlmuter used to say, some
thing else again. That wherefore
is a more or less irritating interro
gation point in Gastineau minds.
O certainly, she was fined because
she was found guilty, and the war
rant never stirred until a complaint,
couched in the stilted language of
the statute, had been duly filed. To
be sure. But that was the occasion
rather than the cause. But in the
first place, all of us know that the
statutes were passed longer ago
than last Thanksgiving; even the
most kindly credulous are unable to
believe that the existence of the
statute was a secret kept from the
Court House until something more
than a fortnight ago, and even those
who think that all that glitters is
gold, and that the fair luna is fash
ioned of a verdant limberger, cannot
feel entirely sure that the statute
was intended to apply only to those
who are short of stature and Swede
by birth.
Yet, it the poorest marksman in
the marshal’s office, filled his coat
pockets with rocks, climbed the
stairs of Annie’s Manhattan, he could,
if he was careful, drop out of Annie’s
second story window every one of
the missies on nearby roofs under
which offenses twin sister to the one
for which Annie Jones was fined two
thousand dollars, are all in a night’s
work.
It has not been longer than the
quarter of a decade since a well
meaning citizen, who was raising a
family within the environs of the
Manhattan, was indignantly rebuked,
driven out of court and harra-sed
with a bill for costs by the same
commissioner who fine I Annie Jones
two thousand dollars, for tendering,
through the prosecuting attorney,
evidence which would have convict
ed a more favored female of one
of the numerous classes of offenses
which have given to Lower Front
street the epithet of Tenderloin.
Congresses and Legislatures can
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