Digital Bob Archive

SEPTEMBER 23, 1896-The Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company is building a residence for Superintendent Robert Duncan, Jr. It will undoubtedly be the finest residence in Alaska; the cost is to be $15,000.

The Bowery Saloon, in charge of Dave Pipe, is now open for business.

SEPTEMBER 30, 1896-Miss Belinda Mulroney, in charge of the McDouglas & Southwick branch here, left on the City of Topeka to take a position as Stewardess on a trans-Pacific liner.

The People?s Wharf Company is building an incline tramway at the south end of its coal bunkers to be utilized in filling the bunkers with coal. A steam hoist will be installed to pull the cars to the top of the incline.

OCTOBER 3, 1896-The Alaska Electric Light & Power Company is receiving its new steam engine on the Al-ki. It is a McEwen tandem compound engine and should assure lights all winter. R. Livingston has a contract to furnish the company with 100 cords of wood for fuel.

The installation of a steam heating plant has been completed at St. Ann?s Hospital. The three-story main building, measuring 80 by 80 feet, has a total of 37 rooms, large and small, including the reception parlor, dining room, chapel, dispensary, the wards and private rooms. About 15 patients are now being cared for at the hospital.

OCTOBER 7, 1896-Mrs. R. W. Elliot has been succeeded by Mrs. W. T. Iliff as librarian at the Juneau Free Library and Reading Room which is open to the public in the Murry Building on Second Street. A feature of the facility is the baths which may be had there by either ladies or gentlemen. Membership in the library entitles the members to free baths. Others pay 25? for each bath. Memberships are $5 a year, $3 for half a year and $2 for three months.