The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 13, 1895, Page 10

A i 10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 1895 LATEST DRKLAND NEWS Defaulter Lambert Will Be Released on Bonds This Morning. HE MAY PLEAD INSANITY. The Elks Will Erect a Monument to Their Dead—A New News- paper. Walter Lambert, the defaulting Police Court clerk, was turned over by Chief of Police fer to Sheriff White yesterday & 1 the time he w aken to y Jail until the jail closed for ht he was visited by an almost con- | tream of people, who came to assistance. he said he would fore the court, but later d and sent for Attorney | ly in defend himself 1 ed his m Lambert’s bonds were fixed at $3000 by J dictment was brou in the amoant named. 1 to be found, as his mother ready at once to go on his bond. An- | ty was found in John Breen at 960 Washington str of the hour when the go on the bond, it | ast night, and | t liberty until | this morn Lambert y that he e which ,and says that books he will and show a1y, and frox < those'who were pre that his de - be wreck, nd other n opin- pelled to m. unless the called on him and ure of which they r d to make ige Greene at the time the in- | | fr train last night for their future home in Virginia City. Notes. Professor Frank Soule, head of the civil engineering department at the university, will deliver a lecture on modern engineer- ing at the Mechanics’. Library, San Fran- cisco, this evening. Professor and Mrs. W. B. Rising gavea very pleasant reception last evening at their home to a large number of students and others. A committee of arrangements for the commencement ball has been appointed, consisting of Luther H. Green, George W. Gibbs, Louis Honig, Miss Nellie Mott and Miss Mary Olney. Magee and Gage, the winners of the U. C.-Stanford tennis tournament last Saturday will not play in the next contest, to take Flnce the last of this month, on ac- count of Gage having sprained his ankle. A new brass band has been organized in Berkeley by the members of Peralta Camp, ‘Woodmen of the World. u ALAMEDA. ‘Work has been commenced on Harrison avenue preparatory to laying down the tracks of the California Railway extension from Fruitvale to Alameda. Several hun- dred rails have been placed along the banks of the canai It will be standard gauge, and it is the intention of the rail- road company to use it at first as a steam road. The rails, however, have all been drilled for the reception of connecting wires, and with a small amount of work the line can be changed into an electric About 500 feet of the double track was laid yesterday and the work will be | completed in about three weeks. The building of this branch line is the outgrowth of the proposed transcontinen- tal road, which it is said the Santa Fe had | under consideration. The Board of Super- ors granted te Herman Krusi three o a franchise to construct and steam railroad along Harrison a The San Francisco Bridge Com- pany never completed the construetion of the railway for which the franchise called, and about a year ago the Grand Jury tock steps toward a revocation of the franchise. The new branch will in varjous ways benefit the city. The district tapped is very productive and fertile and will make ightage to this eity y accessible. Made a Good Haul. The office of the Street Superintendent was burglarized on March 29 and the sum | of §370 taken from a drawer. The door was secured by a Yale lock and the thief ained entrance by means of a_duplicate The burglary has been kept very quiet in the hope that the burglars might be caught. Another reason was the natu- ral disinclination on the part of the Super- intendent and his clerk, Miss Morse, to let the public know of the ioss, which they feared might suggest carel ess. The money was stolen while Miss Morse was at The Diamonds Found. ale, a ythe- it Bl a te, was driving @ missed her purs \ 0ssession ¢ fe. the Broad that he had had them for six months p: > them from Mason ted that he should withholding them to their owner. niormed of the lled upon to tell sm, over to their advertised. monds, but to him by he had kept tham n atterney. He refused ther information on the on the ground that his present had instructed him to keep silent. Wiil Erect a Monument. Qakland’s branch of the er of Elks | began the erec § gnificent monu- ment at Mountain View Cemetery day. A great piece of ony exhibition at the Midwinter nated to the order a peds monument and a life-sized _bronze elk wi be cast to surmount it. The monument will s d in the center of the Elks’ plat in the buryir ound. When the statue is tion an E ' reunion and I be held, at which v six Grand Lodge of the United States participate. Outdoor Grounds. The Oakland Turn Verein has secured grounds athletics. and in a few days the arcction of the most approved apparatus and best accommodation pos- nced. n the block bounded by Second and Third streets, arly fitted for suck.a pur- cle track and cinder path the features, and classes of irls, boys and men will be taught regu- [arly during several days of each week. Convicted at Last. Shoo Yuen, a Chinese lottery - dealer, whose long zal battle with the local authoriti st the city much money, came to g e Police Court yesterday, h trial resulted ina con attorney when his sev tion. Yuen was arrested by Officer W liam McCloud, who is a prominent ¢ date for ( of Police, abs and thon evidence a strong 1 ged to secure a disagree- ment of the jury in six trials. He will be sentenced to-day. New Newspaper.] Councilman J. M. Bassett will soon launch a new daily n aper which will be Populistic in polities % wrill support the present administration in its efforts toward municipal reform. It is said that members of the Merchants' Exchange will assist in the enterprise. The Siiver Statue in’ Oakland. The Montana silver statue of Ada Rehan, from the World’s r in Chicago, will be at the Lace House, Twelfth ington streets, Oakland, from pril 15, to April 27. Going to Los Angeles. Chief Lawton of the Fire Department leaves to-day for Los Angeles, where he will attend the annual session of the fire chiefs of the coast from 15th to 20th April. BERKELEY. Strenuous efforts are being made by the students of botany at the university to re- tain, for part of the year, the services of Professor . L. Greene, who intends leav- ing for the East this summer to take charge of the botanical depertment of the Washington University. A petition has been prepared by them and sent to President Kellogg. A portion of the petition reads thus: We appreciate the fact that Professor Greene isone of the oldest of the botan in the United States and that he is recognized as the leading systematist among them, and that he is looked upon &s &n authority by botanists _of countries other than our own. And especially we feel that no one else has a knowledge of our Western flora in any way approaching his, and that o one is so well qualified to acquaint us with it as he. What will be the outcome of the petition will not be known until the next meeting of the board of regents, as they have al- ready passed on his resignation. Wedding Bells. | The wedding of Rev. Hugh Dobbins, postor of the Presbyterian Church in Vir- inia City, Nev., and Miss Roberta T. loyd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Lloyd of Berkeley, took place in_the First Presbyterian Church on Thursday even- ing. A large party of friends gathered at the church to witness the ceremony, and after the wedding repaired to the home of the bride, where a go\mciful supper had been provided. The attendance at the ceremony was the largest that has been present at any wed- ding in Berkeley for many months past. The bride and groom left on the late HE SWINDLES - CHINESE lunch. and she promptly raised the sum | and paid it into the treasury, so that no loss results except to herself. She first | reported the loss to the Superintendent, | who called the police into action, but no success has yet resulted from their efforts to apprehend the thief. Nothing but money was taken.and no trace was left upon which to fasten a clew. An Additional Substitute. Postmaster Stoddard has received a com- mission from the department at Washing- ton ailowing an additional substitute letter-carrier. Heretofore the Alameda office had but one substitute and seven carriers. Mr. Stoddard yesterday ap- pointed John H. Floyd to the place. Services Postponed. The citizens’ committee appointed to ar- range Lincoln memorial services for to- morrow have been unable to procure speakers for that occasion owing to prior engagements. There will be no services. Cavrrorxia peaches and nectarines sold for high prices recently at Covent Garden, London. Now our English cousins realize what delicious short cake is, supplied as they are with Price’s Baking Powder and ambrosial fruit from the land of the set- ting sun. Securing Advertisements for a Fictitious Direc- tory. How a Shrewd Oaklander Unlaw- fully Increases His Income. Alexander P. Dunbar, “hailing from Edinburgh town,” has for some time been securi names in Oakland for a Chinese directory, which is sup- posed to. contain the address of every neathen in the United States, Honolulu, Kamchatka, Mars and a few of the out- lying planets. He carries with him asa bait for the unwary a volume of porten- tous dimensions that contains Chinese names and addresses. Ten years ago a di- rectory of the San Francisco Chinese was printed. It was about the size of an ordinary hymnbook, and as it did not pay no second edition was issued. Mr. Dun- bar's book is simply three or four copies of that old work bound together. For each name which the Scotchman se- cures for his directory he assesses its pos- sessor $2, and as the volume is never printed the amounts collected are all profit. Lately, however, he has become dissatis- fied with this tariff for revenue only, and to increase his income has devised the scheme of obtaining advertisements for his fictitious publication. Up to date be has secured a score or more of contracts. Most of the victims are Chinese, but included in the list are one or two reputable American firms, and at least one prominent banking- house, Having secured the contracts Dunbar has the advertisements set up in an Oakland job print‘mfi office and perhaps a dozen copies struck off. They were printed four to the page—ostensibly as they are to ap- Ecar 1 the directory, and armed with these e makes his collections. Among the firms which have suffered at Dunbar's hands are the Lun Ti Company, Wing Fat & Co., the K'm Lung Company, Quong Fat & Co., Fung Hai & Co., Hop Lee & Co., and numerous others, all of San Francisco. A half page advertisement for Welch & Co., importers and commission merchants of San Francisco, has been put in type and a half dozen copies of an ad- vertisement of the same size for the Bank of California have been printed. It isnot known, however, whether Dunbar suc- ceeded in victimizing the bank or whether he had the “ad” printed justto help him defraud others, Mr. Dunbar represents himself vari- ously as the agent of the *Pacific Directory Company,” the “Western States Directory Company,” the “Chinese Directory Com- pany,” and several others. He has no office and no one seems to know where he resides. He possesses a general letter of introduction to Chinese merchants which purports to bear the signature of the Chi- nese Consul-General. Those who know him say that he tried his directory game in New York City, but it was frustrated by the Chinese Consul there. That diplomat pronounced the letter of introduction a forgery and swore to a warrant for Dun- bar’s arrest on a felony charge. e An Enormous Saving Is made by the young man who buys his fine dress suits of Roos Bros.,, who are agents for Brokaw Bros. and Rogers, Peet & Co. of New York. e S A ¥orger Sentenced. W. L. Eppinger, convicted of passing a forged check on the Bank of British Columbia. was vesterday sentenced to fourteen years’ impris- onment in the penitentiary by Judge Wi 3 MODEL SIGNAL SYSTEMS, Devélopment of Oakland’s Fire Alarm and Police Patrol. ELFCTRIC STREET-LIGHT COST. Ingenious Method Employed of Keeping a Check on a Street- Light Contractor. Besides clinging to the time-worn dis- tinction of being the Athens of the Pacific, Oakland sets up a claim to superiority over all other cities in California in the matter of the application of electricity to munici- pal uses. As to the former, other cities are running Oakland so close a race that the assumed distinction may now be classed as doubtful; but the latter may, perhaps, be allowed. With two minor exceptions, electricity has been applied as the motive power to all of its street railroads. Of these two excep- tions, one is operated exclusively by cable, the other by cable or electricity, optionally. Seattle, San Jose, Los Angeles and Sacra- mento adapted electricity to street rail- roading at an earlier date than Oakland, bul none of them have since made such ex- traordinary developments in this direction as that city. The first electric railroad constructed in Oakland was finished less than five yearsago. Now itisliterally grid- ironed with electric street railroads, which reach out into the suburbs in all directions. There are at ieast fifty miles of well- equipped electric railroads running in and out of Oakland at the present time, fur- nishing rapid means of traunsit to and from the thriving towns and villages clustering around it. But thcse electric street rail- roads have been developed by private en- terprise and are merely subject to munici- pal police jurisdiction by virtue of the franchises which the municipality granted their incorporators. Few cities in the country are better equipped than Oakland now is in the mat- ter of electric street-lighting or which pos- sesses a more perfect fire alarm and police patrol telegraph system. These are adapta- tions of electricity to public uses which have been developed solely through the patronage or the direct enterprise of the municipality itself. Street-lighting and the policing of the city for xie protection of its inhabitants | and their property against the depreda- tions of thieves and the ravages of fire are so intimately associated in Oakland that the supervision of both has been entrusted to the same ofticer—to George Carleton, city electrician. The lighting of the public streets is done under contract by the Oak- land Gas, Light and Heat Company, but the city electrician is responsible for the systematic location of the lights, and he is required to see that the contractis faithfully execu The are at present 482,000 candle-power (nominal) electric arc lights burning every night in Oakland, illuminating the greater portion of the twelve square miles of terri- tory embraced within its boundaries. The gas lamp has almost become “a light of 3 It sheds its feeble rays only ying districts to which the elec- tric-light circuits have not yet been e tended, but every year witnesses a mate- rial diminution in’'its numbers. and in the caurse of another year or two the gas lamp will be a thing of the past in Oakland. Of course such a_system of street light- ing costs money. It cost the city formerly for street lighting with gas less than $30,- ay During the fiscal year 1889-50 it cost $33 29 for a combination of gas and electric lighting. The expense of street lighting during the calendar year of 1894 was $64,898 31 for electric arc lights and §5818 74 for gas lamps. Miscellaneous expenses brought the same total of the cost of street lighting last year to $70,- 88 , or over double what the service cost four years before. But it should not be overlooked that the city gets in return a hundred-fold more light for its money than it did formerly. / The system of the electrical department of Oakland is worth describing in some detail, because it is generally recognized throughout the country as a model worthy of imitation by other municipalities, all of which is evidenced by the volume of in- quiring correspondence concerning it re- ceived from abroad. The mechanical arrangement of it is presented in minia- ture in the office of the City Electrician in the form of two maps of the city hangin, on opposite walls of the room. One o them illustrates the Fire and Police Patrol telegraph systems, which are in a measure combined d the other shows the elec- tric light lines in detail. The former are owned in the major part by the munici- pality; the latter are the property of the Oakland Gas, Light and Heat Company, which corporation has the contract for street lighting. Both “systems have, however, been de- veloped by the city electrician. The two maps constitute a complete record of the work. ‘““They also constitute,’”” explained Electrician Carleton, “parts of my system of bookkeeping.” Each map shows every wire, pole, box (fire alarm or police patrol signal or telephone), and_electric light as actually stretched and located in each sys- tem and every pole is marked and num- bered so that its ownership and relation to either system can be at once identified. Fire alarm circuits are shown by red strings, blue strings indicate the police patrol tele- graph wires, Every pole in these systems and every light in the electric light circuit is represented by a brass rail, the head of which is colored to indicate its ownership. Yellow tops belong to the Electric Light Company, white tops to the telephone company, black tops to the PostaFTele- raph Company, and red tops to the city, %‘he location of the various call boxes and telephone stations in the systems are in- dicated by differently colored tags and red pyramids mark the location of the several engine-houses. The city’s lots are num- bered and mdexed accordingly on the map. If anything happens to any pole the cit electrician knows just where to dispatc! the repairer assoon as the number 1s re- ported to Bim. : The police patrol telegraph system is one of the most perfect in_the country. It has taken ten years to bring it up to its present state of perfection. Many of the appliances attached to it are Electrician Carleton’s own inventions and are used ex- clusively in Oakland. Oakland, it may be said, was the third city in the United States to adopt the police patrol system. Chicago was the first to adopt it; then came Phila- delphia; Oakland followed, and then Bos- ton, the Athens of the East, fell in line. Almost every city in the country has it now. San Krancisco copied its police pa- trol system in a measure from Oakland. The system is a_wonderfully useful ad- junct to the police service. If it were wiped out of exisience the police force would have to be doubled at once. Two patrol wagons are attached to the service, which perform the functions of hospital ambulances as well as conveyances for the transportation of prisoners arrested by the patrolmen. The police patrol telegraph and its wagon relieve the patrolmen of the necessity of leaving their beats at any time while on duty. No matter where on his beat a patrolman may be when he re- uires assistance, heis near to a police signal or telephone box, and can promptly send in an alarm or report verbally his wants. The city is thusalways ‘“under cover.” 5 The electric light map on the wall of the city electrician’s office also shows the posi- tion of every electric light wire and pole used in the service of lighting the_city. The poles are numbered and the color of the tag accompanying each one indicates the yearin which the pole was erectea and the light established there. It shows, stherefore, the annual Yro ression of the system, The lights arelaid out, as near as the topography of the ground and the lay- ing out of the streets will allow, on a regu- lar system of alternate blocks. 'In this way every part of the city will in time receive :}ne same share of illumination at night- ime. The numbering of the electric lights also answers another purpose. It gives the city. electrician an opportunity of keeping tal on the electric light contractor. S$ome- times an electric light will get outof order, and the neighborhood will remain in dark- | ngsz :hroug a part or through all of the night. Before Carleton invented a check the street-lighting contractor got the benefit of these light delinquencies, and the Council had to stand the growling of eomplaining citizens. That is all done away with now. If any light goes out now before the moon rises or the dawn breaks the street-light contractors pay the penalty,a pro rata being deducted from their monthly bill. Tab is kept on the electric lights by the police patrolman. Every patrolman on the police force is served each month with a small memorandum_book in which he enters the delinquencies of the electric month, in accordance with the printed in- structions containéd therein. ~These in- structions are issued by the Chief of Police. They direct the patrolman to familiarize himself with the light schedule of the month, which is also printed on another page. This schedule shows the hour at which the arc lights are to be turned on and the time set for their extingnishment. The patrolman must record the time when any light on his beat goesout when it ought to be burning, ana t%w length of the schedule time during which it remains extinguished. These patrolmen’s reports are all sent to the city electrician at the end of the month and he computes the number of hours in the aggregate, and that is in due season charged against the street-licht contractor and deducted from his bill. The lights are reported by numbers and the record on the city electrician’s map shows the location at a glance. There can be no disputing such a tab, and the electric light company accepts it without a challenge. It is the means of saving many hundreds of dollars annually to the city. Everything about the various electrical systems serving the municipality has been arranged so methodically that the expense of running the department of the city electrician, which includes the care and repair of the fire alarm and police patrol systems as well as the supervision of the street lighting, is very trifling. The total annual cost for maintenance is under $6000. The working force consists of only four men—the city electrician, one battery- man and two linemen. All of the ap- paratus in the central station of the fire- alarm system, as well as that of the police- patrol telegraph at the central police station, is automatic and self-registéring. The apparatus needs no attention, there- fore, except to test from time to time for the detection of fauits and to avoid de- rangements. Most of the time of the work- ing force is employed in ordinary line repairing and in the extension of the cir- cuits, which is coincident of course with the growth of the city. The perfection and efficiency of both the police patrol and tire alarm systems are best illustrated, per- haps, by the infrequency amounting to practically the total absence of false alarms. THE WATER-FRONT CASES J. M. Bassett Tells Why the Railroad Wants Them Reopened. Would the Supreme Court Declde In Favor of the Corpo- ration? The railroad’s latest move in the water- front matter excites much local interest, and interested local persons are endeavor- ing to learn just what it means. The water front cases, it will be remem- bered, were thrown out of the Supreme Court because that body held that it had no original jurisdiction in the matter. It had, however, decided before the papers were filed that it had such jurisdiction. “The Supreme Court dodged the issue,” said J. M. Bassett, sometimes known as “0ld Pard,” yesterday. ‘The court wanted to decide 1n favor of the railroad, but it could not do so without overruling all previous decisions in such cases. Naturallv it did not want to do this, and therefore the point of ‘no original jurisdic- tion’ was brought up. “It is thought by the lawyers, because of that decision, that the Supreme Court would decide in favor of the railroad if the matter came before it in the usual channel through the lower courts. This attempt of the railroads to reopen the case is simply another of its tricks. It is full of tricks anyway and will bear watching. ““You notice that lately there has been a great outery raised against Justice Field. That 1s raised by the railroad because it knows that he would not decide in its fa- vor in this matter. Field wrote the Chica- go water-front decision and would, of course, render a similar decision in this case. ———————— All the world loves a lover. Every good liver loves the woman who uses Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder. e e — IN THE COURTS. New Suits and Proceedings Before the Probate Judges. Frank A. Bogart, husband of the late Nettie J. Bogart, has petitioned for letters of administration over her estate, valued at $2500. Letters of administration over the estate of John Jones were prayed for yesterday by Joseph M. Jones, the estate being val- ued at $10,000. The next of kin are the widow and son, the petitioner. Richard Purcell has petitioned the Pro- bate Court for letters of administration over the estate of Alice Morrisey, who died November 15, 1894, leaving property valued at $2000. The next of kin is said to be one Patrick Connolly and petitioner appears as his friend. Thomas B. Valentine has sued Theodosia Farquharson and Charles D. Farquharson for breach of contract in refusing to com- plete purchase of land in Satter City for M' , and plaintiff claims as assignee of one Alpers, the assignee of the veader of said lands, that he has been damaged in the sum of §333 34. L. H. Boggs as assignee in the matter of E. 8. Fowler, an insolvent debtor, bas sued H. H. Mahan to recover goods or their value, $3200, with $500 damages. The alle- gation is that Fowler being insolvent as- signed to Mahan the goods in question with a view of defrauding his creditors. Mary L. Crunnagle, a niece of the late Annie Morris Collis, has filed a contest of the alleged will of her aunt. The prolx.:erty consists of a house and lot in_San Fran- cisco yielding $50 per month. The contest will be made on the usual grounds of in- formality of execution, mental incompe- tence and the fraud of Mary Fennon, a sister of deceased, and_one of the benefici- aries under the will. Pending contest Ed- ward Fennon petitions to appointed special administrator. Another Torpedo Boat. Irving M. Scott said yesterday afternoon that {from fnformation he had received he was con- fident that the Union Tron Works wonld build one of the torpedo boats for which bids were filed in February. This would give San Fran- cisco one battleship and two torpedo boats. Ask Aid, If you are troubled with malaria, constipation, biliousness, kidney trouble or dyspepsis, of Hos- tetter’s Stomach Bitters, and it will be speedily forthcoming. Nervousness, loss of appetite and sleep, and o 10ss of vigor, are a!so remedied by this #estorative. Physicians of eminence indorse it, & ‘valuable confirmation of the verdict of the people and the press. Take it regularly, lights on his beat during each night of the | DAKLAND AS A TERMINAL, What the People Are Willing to Do to Secure the Valley Road. THE ROUTES MOST FAVORED. Lavish Promises of Assistance and Support From Property- Owners. All Oakland is enthusiastic over the prospect of‘ becoming the terminal of the San Joaquin Valley road. In business circles it is the prominent subject of dis- cussion. On the street corner it takes first rank with the curbstone orator, and even in the privacy of the pretty, pictur- esque Oakland homes the head of the family will lay down his paper to tell of the progress of the work of the terminal committee. This terminal committee is perhaps more directly than any other body the cause of all this agitation in the east- shore city. It iscomposed of some of the most representative men in the town, and each one is an energetic worker in the cause of the new road. Forming the committee are W. R. Davis, F. Delger, E. A. Heron, E. H. Pardee, W. V. Witcher, James Moffitt, Charles D. Pierce and W. J. Dingee. The situation in Oakland is at present one of uncertainty. There has been no definite proposition submitted to the peog'\e as yet, and so far the subscriptions made have been based entirely upon mere expectations and not upon any under- standing with the new road. In spite of this uncertainty, however, the terminal committee has already received signatures which représent $216,000, and the members of the committee are confident that as soon as they can submit a definite proposi- | tion to the citizens, there will be no trouble in raising this to $350,000 or even more. Secretary W. V. Witcher said: There have been no particular efforts made Ex-Mayor W. R. Davis. | { { | reach tide-water. Oakland is peculiarly situated. It is a fact not generally known, but none the less true, that by far the greater portion of the space inclosed within the city limits is under water. The western line of the city scuds along the waters of the bay just outside of the old coal-wharves, out beyond the broad-gauge mole, and from there it continues to the north and west until it meets the northern boundary of the city, almost due north and about two miles from Goat lsland. To the east the city limits extend back about four miles, and it is quite possible tor the road to come in from the east, cut across the southeastern corner of the city and come along the south shore of the es- tuary. F 2 Without the restraining clause previ- ously mentioned this would bring the line into Oakland far enough and long enough to warrant the collection of the subscrip- tions, but Alameda would in that case se- cure the terminus, and the Oaklanders would have their subscriptions to pay for the shadow and not the substance of the prosperity to be brought by the new road. By the extra clause, however, such a thing as merely passing through without stopping will be impossible, the road will have to come through the city propernan,d will have to meet tidewater on the city’s sheres. 1t is generally understood by the people most interested in the project, that the road will come to Martinez anyway. From that city to Walnut Creek, a little town on a creek of the same name, and situ- ated a few miles to the north and east of Oakland, there is a clear flat run, which railroaders say will draw the line to the little town on'the stream; it is from there, consequently, that all routes into the city, which are at present considered feasible, begin. Of these routes into the city there are four. One of these comes from the north by San Pablo Creek and along the general line of the California and Nevada Railroad. The others come from the east. 7 The line from the north is considered the best, both as to grade and practicabil- ity. From the town of Walnut Creek it would run over to the west to San Pablo Creek, and then following the San Pablo down Halleck street to A, down A to Wood and along Wood parallel to the bay shore. The residents in the northern portion of the city, and in Temescal and Berkeley, naturally favor this route above all others, and they stand ready to bid high for it when the time comes. The managers of the new road, should it decide to acquire the right of way over the Californiaand Nevada road, or to parallel it, will not be allowed to build its pier diagonally east from where the present railroad ends. Two of the other routes come in from the east, from Laundry Farm. Before reaching the “farm,” Iving on this side of the hills, they run down from Walnut Creek to the line of the old Salt Lake road survey. At Laundry Farm, however, one route branches off toward the west and north. It keeps to the foothillsand crosses Indian Gulch just above Trestle Glen, then through the Sather property, crossing the foothills of Piedmont and the lower part of the Blair ranch, and then into the city by way of Fortieth street. This route is not looked on with much favor, however, because of the many curves necessary around the foothills. The other branch from Laundry Farm is much more feasible and is much more soughit for by the property-owners along its path. This branch runs directly down from Laundry Farm to the intersection of Fruitvale avenue and Fourteenth street, and from there through OQakland by way of three or five streets. A fourth route comes in by way of San Leandro, reaching that point from Walnut Creek by following the openings of the stream down to the San Leandro country, or down by way of Corral Hollow, near Livermore, and Crow Canyon, just this side by the committee in the last two or three weeks, for we have no definite promise to make to the citizens whom we call upon. The people want more information than we can possibly give them. They ask where the road s going to run, when it will be completed and what it will cost, and we are not in any posi- tion to answer them. We do not eyen know how much the directors of the valley road will want from this city, and of course until we ean give information on these points we cannot hope to proceed very rapidly. We already have subscribed nearly $220.000 and every cent of it hus been given frecly and with the best of good will. You see here we have the subscription list fixed handily and each one of us has one. The pledge is here at the top, and it is exactly the same as that signed by people in piaces other than Oakland, with this exception: this paragraph is inserted so as to insure to the people of Oakland the actual presence of the terminus of the new road. The paragraph read as follows: The subjoined subscriptions are made upon the express condition that said railroad com- pany shall, before collecting upon this sub- scription listand within six months from_the date hereof, agree that within two years from date hereof it will constructand operate and thereafter maintain the western terminus of the tracks of its main through line within the ‘W. V. Witcher, Secretary Oakland Ter- minal Committee. city of Oakland, above the line of ordinary high tide, south of the original northern charter line of said city and westof the old embarcadero of San Antonio, and extending thence to the navigable water—otherwise these subscriptions to be null and void. Mr. Witcher then continued : By this clause the terminus of the road will have to be located in the actual city of Onk- land—otherwise the subscriptionsare not bind- ing. There was some opposition to this clause, and some men refused to subscribe because of its presence, but we took them lists upon which this clause been crossed out and they re- fused to sign them,so you can see just what their complaint amounted to. The subscriptions so far have all been in comparatively small amounts. We have one for 15,000 and one for $10,000, but the rest run much lower than this. If it were here as it was in Stockton,where & definite proposition ‘was made to the ipeovle and they went to work to carry it out, it would not take us long to secure at least $50,000 more, and that, too, witgout the least trouble. Numbers of our subseribers have said that when the project is in definite shape, they will, if the circum- stances call for it, double their subscription. The people are all enthusiastic and they will do anything in reason to secure the terminus to this city, 3 : W. E. Dargie, editor and proprietor of the Oakland Tribune, corroborated in every detail the words of Mr. Witcher. He said: Oakland is alive to the importance of this %\lxention and will do-ellin its power to help the enterprise along. We can easily raise from $50,000 to $100,000 more, for all the people are in favor of the new road. They will give & John A. Britton, Secretary of the Oak- land Gas, Light and Heat Company. of Haywards. In the vicinity of the route by these latter places there are extensive coal mines, and for the sake of having the road near to them the mine-owners are willing to make almost any sacrifices. They = have made a promise already to furnish the new road with coal at a perpetual price of $2a ton, which is much less than the price of the coal fur- nished to the Southem Pacific, and they have also promised to make daily ship- ments of at least 2000 tons. There is still another route, not much talked of as yet, however, which would lead the road from the Walnut Creek coun- try about due southwest, up Redwood Canyon and then by tunnels into Jack Hays Canyon, reaching Oakland by way of Piedmont. Ex-Mayor W. R. Davis, who has personally gone over all these routes, believes this to be an excellent route in. There are many more of the business men who are enthusiastic on the valley road, but all are now hanging back to see what course the directors of the road will take. Should they decide not to have the ter- minal on this side of the bay Oakland’s sub- scriptions will never turn_to_ the chink of coin, but if they decide to bring the road to tidewater within the limits of the city all Oakland will turn out, and what is wanted her people will give, e e Tll'l%:irnt English Derby was run on May 784. right of way through the streets, and will sub- scribe for stock and put up money to helr the road through the clty. T think there is 1o doubt but that Oakland will be made the ter- minal point, but some of the large stockhold- ershave extensive tracts of land in the Santa Clara Valley, and they may on that account want the road to go through San Jose. But Oakiand will not be ignored. I am sur. of that. It is the natural terminus for lines com- ing from the East, and there are too many peo- {le here to put aside. Here is the best grade and he most teéasible route. In two years we can have two ferry lines, each doing as well as the present one, and the natural increase of busi- ness will make them still more valuable after that. Let the vnllex road people make the peo- ple of this city a definite proposition and they will meet it. Already into the race for {olden signa- tures of public-minded people has crept a discussion as to how the road]can come into the city, and by what route it will See that ==TAG? You'll find one like that (only smaller) on every “MANTELL" Cigar. 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