The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1904, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 11, 1904 —————————— s« NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA BUILDING BOOM FOR DAKLAND Sixteen Hundred New Struce- the tures Credited to Fiscal Year Just Closed THE BERKELEY MARKET Dealers in College Town Realty Report a Large Number of Recent Sales| Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, July 10. fiscal year just ended hundred houses were During the sixteen ne erected in Oakland and this means that several thousand new people have Laken their regidence in the city with the intention of making their perr manent homes here. building operations has, of course, giv- en a stimulus to many other branches of indu Mills have been, and are still, rur g day and night, with a double shift of men, in an effort to meet the demand for building material homes now in course of construc- for tion One of the most important of these pents is involved in the Oak- Front Company’s plans to 1 ten acres of tide land adjacent ams wharf. The company act to the Hyde Hargis mpany for the bulk- land, which will be re- filling in sand from front. The reclaimed land upied with lumber wharves ¥ piers. A CITY IN ACTION. In spits of the usual midsummer mi- s of Dakland to pleas- nd suburban real es report a fairly good mar- many inquiries for business nce property, and all of them satisfied with the progress de during the year. William J. Lay- president of the Laymance Real Company, made the following ement concerning the present con- of this cfty and its suburbs: t t only a city in size but in Fourth of July it may be likened summer season, The of the summer rth and South, ns have been during the year nd weil < encugh pest therefore, riy epring of acti along wroughout the good street work or so much ilway construction, all stores, o judge of a city’s & period of ten' years earnings. It measures The announcement r cent met on $12.000, t was not paving magnificent evidence oOf grow nnouncement this we y the great railwi 3 with adequate ilities. The South- pany’s pew Lrelght West Oakland, will be t Missourl River. d=pot, the new Ki tional two mew ' fei the Southern Pac the Seventh-street this vear assure Oak- d transit service 1o be ¥ he United States, found 1n c IMPROVING SANTA FE TRACTS. The following is from Holcomb, Breed & Bancroft: The summer vacation period hi not_aftected in of Key Route 1 A lively interest is the heart of Grester Oakland by people now living in San Francisco, who are fast discov- ering the advantages of owning modern ar- iistic homes, costing, with 40-foot lots, $2000 to $5000. San Prancisco and with a 5-cent fare. Not only are San Franeisco people seeking to save the: selves the expense of high rents in the city buying these lots with a view of building, but idents of Oaklend are improving the y of obtaining building sites in this very desirable bome center, which will soon_be thickly built up with attractive, up-to- houses. Al street work is done by the owner of the tracts. This includes grad- ing, curbing, guttering, eewering, sidewalks and palms planted along the sidewalk line. Lot buyers do not share any part of this ex- pense and they have the certain knowledge that street work will be immediately completed and that their homes will have all the modern advantages of gas, electricity, #te. A large part of the street work is already completed and more than 100 men with teams may now be seen engaged on Santa Fe Tract No. 5, now being cpened for sale. These tracts extend from Fifty-first street to Sixty-fourth, and from the Key Route line on the west for several blocks toward the Berkeley hills. The Santa Fe Tract No. 5 comprises some sixteen blocks and parts of blocks, extending from Fifty-eighth street to Sixty-fourth, and east from the Key Route on Adeline street. This property is close to the Berkeley local train, Sgnta Fe station and Key Route sta- tion. All Key Route trains to and from Berke- ley: are mow stopping at the Fifty-fifth-street on within twenty-eight or thirty minutes of a s , the mext stop farther north being di- rectly opposite the lots of Santa Fe Tract No. 5_The A <-avenue, Grove-street and Shat- Sick-avenue electric car lines all run through ®r near the tract, enabling residents to reach the university in about fourteen minutes and o reach Fourteenth street and Broadway, Oak- land, in about twelve minutes. There are to be found all the advantages g00d_schools, mild climate, beautiful view the bay and of the Berkeley bilis. Al lots have & good elevation. Fruit and flowers may be grown all the year round. Altogether there hae not been in years such a movement of homeseekers to any locality, both from Oak- land and San Francisco, as there is to be wit- nessed every day on these Santa Fe tracts. ‘Herbert Coffin, who is with the real estate firm of 8. M. Dodge & Son, and Otis ' W. Engs, a salesman employed by Wickham Havens of the Realty Syndi- cate, left a few days ago for the Yo- semite Valley in company with J. B. Keesling, a San Francisco attorney. “They will visit all points of interest in the valley before their return. NEWCOMERS IN BERKELEY. BERKELEY, July 10.—From infor- mation that has been received by the firm of Cheney & Berry it would seem that Berkeley is about to get the bene- fit of a movement already begun among of of ’ has | the | This activity in| | RAILROAD BUYS ACRES OF LAND outhern Pacific Company Takes Steps to Increase Its Traflic cilities BONDS WATER FRONT Corporation to Add New Tracks to Third-Street Line for Its Freight Berkeley Office, San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, July 10. In order to increase its freight hand- ling facilities, which have lately be- come overtaxed on account of the big advance in the volume of freight traf- ficked through Oaikland, the Southern Pacific Company is making arrange- ments to purchase a long stretch o!. land on the water front of Berkeley, between the north and south bound- aries. The railroad has been forced to take this step so that the burden on the trackage on Third street may be relieved and it has set Its agents to work bonding all the property it may find useful in its enlarging scheme. So quietly have the agents worked that property owners did not suspect the hand of the Southern Pacific until a day or two ago when a real estate agent, through whom negotiations were being carried on tor the purchase of one piece of land, inadvertently let the cat out of the bag. The corpora- tion went ahead ealthily because it feared opposition and high prices from the property owners, but now that practically all the little deals are com- pleted, there is nothing to fear. The property owners, too, realize that it is now too late for them to interfere. The land that the Scuthern Pacific will acquire through its bonding scheme all lies west of its main line tracks on Third street in West Berkeley, stretch- ing between Addison street and Folger avenue. It is a strip that lies between the tracks and the bay and varies in width according to the indentations of the shore line.” In some places it is a block wide and ip others it is less than a hundred feét. For- this strip the Southern Pacific expects to pay something between $80,- 000 and $100,000. The money will be distributed among the following own- ers of the land: H. W. Carpentier, J. A. Heywood, Mrs. Jane Thomas, Che- ney & Berry, the Avery estate, the Grayson estate, Flora D. Jones and J. A. Boardman. When title to the property is secured the corporation will begin a series of improvements that will call for the expenditure of perhaps another $100,- 000 or more. Among other things, it will connect the track that mow runs on Second street, between Addison street and the north boundary line, with the main line on Third street. This will be a costly project that will require considerable piling and filling, as at the point where the connection will be made, between Addison street | and Allston way, the land is quite nar- row and near the bay. > The railroad has two good reasons for ‘wishing to increase its trackage in West Berkeley. The primary one is to relieve the congestion on its pres- ent trackage, but the other is almost as necessary and it is to retain the traffic diverted %o it by the big manu- facturing plants in the district. There is a soap works in West Berkeley, a furniture factory, a candy factory, a chemical works and three or four other big industries that need to be nursed along, and the Southern Pacific seeks te prevent the Santa Fe from cutting into a field that has been such a source of income for a long time. ALAMEDA SOCIAL ALAMEDA, July 10.—Principal Duncan Me- Kinnon of the Halght School has returned from a visit to Los Angeles, Pasadena and Santa Barbara. - Miss Jessie Jamieson, formerly a teacher in the local school department, became the bride of D. M. Francis at Flagstaff, Arizona, on July 4. The wedding was originally planned to take place at the home of the bride's, par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Jamieson of this city, but the groom was unable to leave his business in Arizona. Postmaster and Mrs. T. W. Leydecker will pass the remainder of this month at Waldrhue, in Sonoma County. 3 Dr. and Mrs. Walter R.-Hughes returnied last evening from an outing spent at Tolle, Placer County. ichard Stevens, formerly in the employ of the municipal electric light department, “and Mise Georgia Echenberger were married re- cently in Lake County. The bride is the daughter of Carl Echenberger of 2321 Santa Clara avenue, Miss Jerelia Bishop returned yesterday from a tour of the Yosemite Valley and left to-day for San Jose, where she will visit friends for ten days. —_—— SCIENCE TO FIGHT THE ARMY WORM PEST Farmers of Kern County Appeal to Agriculturists at the University to Help Them, & BERKELEY, July 10.—The farmers of Kern County aré sufferers from the ravages of the army worm, a little in- sect that gets its name’ from the fact that it moves in dense masses. .So de- structive are the little bugs that the farmers have appealed to the authori- ties of the agricultural department of the University of California ‘to assist in their extermination. y The worm lives off the roots of fruit trees, berry bushes and grape vines and burrows into them underground to get at the most nutritious parts. Once\ they attack a it means certain death and loss to the farmers. e First Annual Picnic. OAKLAND, July 10.—The members of Oakland Council No. 1, U. P. P. E. C., will give their first annual pic- nic at Idora Park on July 24. The committee in charge of the arrange- many people of Southern California to ! ments has prepared an interesting come to the section of the State about I programme for the occasion, including the bay. Discouraged over their losses due to the lack of water, Southern Cal- ifornians are coming north and many of them will settle in the university city. J. C. Rudplph, who recently pur- chased a home in Berkeley, says that all the south is talking about Berkeley as the ideal place for homes. : Cheney & Berry have been selling a rumber of lote and homes in the Crys- tal Springs tract, which borders on Grove street, in the neighborhood of Dwight way. The firm has sold no less than fifteen houses lately and all but 1wo of them went to newcomers. They consist mostly of five and seven room houses. Lyman Allen negotiated a number of sales in different parts of town to out- side purchasers intending to make their homes in Berkeley. Among these are: Carric E. Wilmans, eight-room house on Etna street; Nelson Kofoid, father ©of Professor Kofoid of the University dancing and athletic contests. The picnic will continue during the after- noon and evening. The members of the committee of arrangements are: Mrs. B. Primetel, Mrs, J. Freitas, Mrs. E. Switzer, Mrs. B. Vierra, Miss M. Allie, Miss Tillie Allie and Miss. May Rollins. The officers of the council @re: Mrs. L. Allie, president; Mrs. M. Perry, treasurer; Mrs. M. sec- retary. X —_— s of California, seven-room house on Etna street, $3000; Frank M. Scoonover, street; Thomas L. Vance of ta Paula, two lots at Hillegass and Russell streets, on which he intends to build; Fred Muscott, to build house on Rose street; Dr: M. D. Glidden of Stockton, six-room house, Ward and Dana treets, and C, R. instructor at Boone's Academy, house on Haste street, east of Bowditch, seven rooms. | HOPE TO FOUND GREAT SCHOOL Authorities at University Wish to Attract Men to Its Geology Department OFFERS A BIG -FIELD California Has Great Possi- bilities for Study and Re- search by the Student Berkeley Office San Francisco Calls 2148 Center Street, July 10. A determined effort is about to be made to vastly extend the work of the geological department at the Umver- sity of California and to found a grad- uate school in geology that will be the greatest in the country. President ‘Wheeler is co-operating with Dr. Joan C. Merriam, Professor .A. C. Lawson and the other members of the depart- ment to secure a school that will at- tract the attention of the world. In an announcement just published at the university it is pointed out that there is nowhere a more inviting geo- logical field than that which lies im- mediately at the gates of the uriver- sity itself. . In addition to this there is the whole phenomena of California that offers itself for study. The pos- sibilities are limitless. In paleontol- | ogy and historical geology California offers immense material for the student’ contemplating engaging in research. Almost the entire geological column from Cambrian to Quaternary is rep- resented by fossiliferous horizons and many of the more important problems relating to the geological positions and faunal relations of the State remain unsolved. The laboratories and museums of the department are well equipped for re- search and new materials and appara- tus are being added yearly. There are 20,000 specimens of minerals at the dis- posal of the student and all the rock types are represented in the petro- graphical collections. With such opportunities for research and study offered to the student. the university authorities hope to attract men from all over the country and thus to establish the graduate school uvon a firm basis. —ee———— VISITING CLERGYMEN PREACH IN OAKLAND Pulpits of Absent Pastors Are Occu- pied by a Number of Ministers Irom Elsewhere, OAKLAND, July 10.—The Rev. H. J. Vosburgh, pastor of the First Bap- tist Church, has commenced a series of three discourses on “Sympathetic Studies of Our Neighbors.” The first sermon was preached this evening, the topic being. *“The Message of Congre- gationalism.” " Following will be “The Message of Methodism” and after that “The Message of Unitarianism.” Mrs, Mabel Walker Murcell and John McEwing sang to-day at the Eighth-avenue Methodist Church. The Rev. Burton H. Jones of Rock- lin preached to-day at the Fourth Con. gregational Church. The pulpit at the First Congrega- tional Church was occupied to-day by the Rev. F. B. Knopf of Cheyenne, Wyo. The Rev. E. J. Singer preached to- day at Plymouth-avenue Congreg: tional Church. . At the First Methodist Church to- day the Rev. I. N. Halliday preached this morning and the Rev. H. W. Walz of San Francisco conducted the even- ing services. Dr. L. N. Dutton preached this even- ing at the Twenty-fourth-avenue Methodist Church. “Oakland, Her Knockers and Her Boosters,”” was the subject of the Rev. Owen Hotle’s sermon this evening at the Eighth-avenue Methodist Church. Rev. W. W. Halloway, D. D., of Dover, N. J., officiated to-day at the First Presbyterian Church. —————— GIVE RIGHT OF WAY FOR BOULEVARD ROAD Promoters of Scenic Way Secure Con- sent to Run Through Garber and Palache Estates. BERKELEY, July 10.—The boule- vard skirting the Berkeley hills, for which the people of Berkeley have been working for more than a year, is about to become a reality. Con- sent for a right of way through the property of Judge John Garber and the Palache estate has at last been se- cured, so that now the last barrier to the project has been removed. Sur- veyors started the work of marking off a road through the estates this week. The boulevard, when completed, will begin on Spruce street, run through the Scenic tract to the north gate of the university grounds back of the university buildings, along Piedmont avenue to Warring street, through the Garber and Palache es- tates into Claremont avenue, and thence to Oakland. Invents a New Trolley. OAKLAND, July 10.—John Q. Brown, assistant general manager of the Oakland Transit Company, has just been granted a patent on the new dia- mond trolley, how in use on the Key Route motor cars. Mr. Brown's inven- tion is very simple, consisting of a diamond-shaped spring frame, which is surmounted by a brass roller two feet long, the roller forming the con- tact with the overhead wire. The ad- vantage of Mr. Brown’s invention is that there is no small wheel to slip from the wire. —_—— Carpenters Install Officers. OAKLAND, July 10.—Carpenters’ Union No. 1667 installed the following newly elected officers last night: Presi- dent, F. A. Parsons; vice president, E. Stewart; recording secretary, . A, Shanno financial secretary, H. A. Stagg; treasurer, J. B. Morgan; con- ductor, A. A. Parsons; warden, T. E. Francis; trustee, J. Morris; delegates to the District Council of Carpenters— Messrs. West and Borden; delegates to Central Labor Council—Messrs, Par- sons and Mo Funeral of James Larue. OAKLAND, July 10.—The funeral of former Judge James Larue was held this afternoo: Fesidence, 1432 Thirteenth " avenme. The Rev. les T. Walkley, rector of St. Paul's Episcopal urch, of- ficiated. The services were private, Interment. was in. Mountain View Certery. . He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor.— Johnson. ~ ¥ (PID PLATS * (UEER CAPERS FACULTY MEN MOVE ABROAD DECLARES JAIL UNINHABITABLE Causes Notion Merchant toITeach'fng Forece at Univer-| Mayor Olney Talks Strongly Sell Out Stock in Trade and Seek New Sweetheart BRIDE REFUSES TO WED —_— Dispute Over Who Should Buy Trousseau Results in Preventing Marriage PRI e ALAMEDA, July 10.—Cupid and Christopher Grau, a Park-street no- tion dealer, are at outs and all be- cause the girl whom Grau secured a license to marry declined to become his bride when he refused to pay for her wedding trousseau. At least, that is the chief reason that Grau gives jwhy he it not a bridegroom, as his friends expected he would be when he secured the necessary legal permit to marry Miss Juanita Lewis. Grau still has his marriage license and to-day asserted that he would try it on another girl, and placed the fol- lowing notice in the window of his store: “Wanted—A young lady with $1000 to invest in this business. Ob- ject, matrimony if dispositions arel congenial.” i Yesterday Grau had a clearance sale of marked-down, love-scented en- velopes and paper that he decided to get rid of when Miss Lewis jnformed him that she did not wish to take his name. Before the auction Grau posted the following in a conspicuous place in his display window: 3 “‘On account of a disappointment in marriage I will sell out this entire sup- ply of June wedding paper, which T intended to use myself. Very fine for invitations, love letters and billet- deaux.” To-day Grau had but three boxes left and says that he expects a run on the store to-morrow. In speaking of his matrimonial af- fairs Grau said: “I bought a license to marry Miss Lewis, but after I had obtained it some of my enemies told her parents that I had several chil- dren in Germany. I was married once before, but my wife died, leaving me childless. Miss Lewis also wanted me to pay for her wedding dress, which 1 considered should be furnished by her parents. If she loved me as she ought a little matter like a wedding dress would not have prevented our wedding. But there is as good fish in the sea as ,was ever taken out of it, and I mean to continue fishing.” Miss Lewis asserts that she never promised Grau to marry him and_that her parents objected to the attentions he paid her. Grau is about forty-five vears of age and Miss Lewis is not yet seventeen. e DISCUSS OFFER OF ARMY POSTS Philippine Veterans Deem Invitations to Drill Chin- ese Soldiers Official Oakland Office San Francisco Call. 1016 Broadway. July 10. The Oakland boys who claim to have been offered commissions in the Chinese army in consideration of drilling Chi- nese sufficiently to put them on a foot- ing with European soldiers are won- dering how far the invitation may point to a revolution of the yellow races against the Buropeans. Ralph J. Faneuf and T. J. Thompson, both Philippine veterans, have received messages indicating that the Chinese reform party is trying to obtain the services of well-trained American sol- diers to take charge of the reorganiza- tion of the Chinese army. These young men are sturdy young Americans and they are trying to find out from what source these overtures come. If they come, even indirectly, from the Chi- nese Government, they suggest inter- national questions. The first word received in Oakland in regard to these overtures was from H. J. Kemper, secretary of the army of the Philippines. Kemper wrote to Thompson and Faneuf, telling them a company of Chinese was to be formed in Oakland and setting forth what is deemed to be the offer of the Chinese Government, that the American drill- masters should receive commissions in the Chinese army while the drilled Chi- nese should become the non-commis- sioned officers of the reorganized Chi- nese army. The young soldiers to whom this proposition has been made are trying to find out how far they may become implicated in international complications. Ralph J. Fanuef is at present em- ployed in the United States pestoffice department in Oakland. He was in the Hawaiian Islands at the outbreak of the Spanish-American war. A young man of strenuous tendencies and eager to fight for the country of his birth, he enlisted in the Tenth Pennsylvania Vol- unteers when they stopped at the isl- ands. He served through the war with credit to himself and the flag and made a record with General Bell, then a colonel. Thompson, now commander of Colonel Liscum Post of Veterans of the Spanish-American War, was connected sity of California Goes Forth to All the Climes MANY VISIT THE FAIR Heads of the Departments Accept Calls to Speak at Scientific Meetings Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, July 10. The faculty of the University of California is just now scattered all over the world. Some of its members are In Europe, some in the Orient, some In the Antipodes and no doubt at. least one could be found in every State of the Union. Since the last commence- ment the faculty has dispersed every- where, some for recreation, some for study, some to work. Of the per- sonnel of 250 instructors hardly any may be found in California, except those on outings and those teaching at the summer school. Nearly all of the heads of depart- ments will have visited the East before college reopens in August. In the cases of most of these members it 18 the St. Louis Fair that takes them away. There they have been called to the gatherings of scientists from all over the world, to take part in discus- sions or conduct meetings. Even at this late hour in the vacation men are going and In a few days there will be an exodus of twelve more of them. Among the number will be Professors George H. Howison, A. F. Lange, George Davidson, Irving Stringham, Cornelius B. Bradley, Elmer E. Brown and A. O. Leuschner. Professor S. B. Christy is already at St. Louis, looking after the exhibit of the mining colleges of the Unfted States, of which he is the superin- tendent. Dr. A. A. Noyes and Dr. W. C. Mor- gan have been in attendance upon the meeting of the American Chemical Society in Providence, R. I. Dr. Noyes is president of ‘the society and read a paper before it, as did also Dr. Mor- gan. Professor Thomas R. Bacon of the history department is on his way home from Europe, having been absent a year on leave to pursue his studies. It is expected that he will arrive soon in Berkeley, prepared to resume his work at the university. Professor William A. Setchell of the botany department is on his way home from Australia, where he has been spending some time in visits to the botanical gardens. He will complete a tour of the world when he arrives. Many of the faculty visited the Yosemite Valley this year. They adopted different modes of getting there, preferably the stage route, but often they went by foot or buckboard. Professor E. J. Wickson and a party walked in, with the assistance of a wagon and two mules. Professor Mar- tin Centner and Charles L. Biedenbach, principal of the McKinley School, walked in also. But Professor Jerome B. Landfield preferred to let the stage line take him in. Professor John Galen Howard has taken his family to the Yosemite for a trip of three weeks. They are ac- companied by Mr. and Mrs. Warren Gregory. . Professor Jacques Loeb and his fam- ily spent a two weeks' vacation at Pacific Grove, as did also Professor | and Mrs. Leon J. Richardson and Pro- fessor E. P. Lewis. UNIVERSITY EVENTS BERKELEY, July 10.—The number of regis- trations for the summer school went up to 909 to-day. This is 50 more than last year, when the total was 859. Otto W. Peterson, a member of the class of '04, has just been appointed a member of the State staff of the geological lu?«'y. Péterson has been assigned to river gaubing and will take observations at various poiits on the im- portant rivers of the State. Herman Miller of the class of 02 and a graduate of the law department at Ann Arbor, has been elected City Attorney of his native town of Visalla. Professor C. W. Shaw of the Agricultural College has sent fo the press a bulletin con- taining information that will be valuable to the olive growers of the State. Professor Shaw deals at length with two phases of this in- dustry, one of which is the centripetal method of extracting ofl from the olives and the other the discovery of a method that will prevent the formation of crystals in the oil after it has been bottled. The Young Men's and Young Women's Chris. tion_associations will distribute this week 2500 handbooks containing data that will be of interest to summer school students and fresh- men arriving for the regular session. One of the features is an article on advice by Pres- ident Wheeler. The Glee and Mandolin clubs have returned from their Eastern tour, which has occupied them since commencement. The members visited a number of cities in the Mississippi Valley and Rocky Mountain region and finally filled an engagement at the St. Louls fair. The clubs sang and played at the fair under the auspices of the California Promotion Com- mittee and created such a favorable impres- slon that their engagement was extended sev- eral days more than the original week that was programmed. The Virginia State Com- missioners were so impressed with the college entertainers that they endeavored to secure their services, but the arrangement could not be made. Receptions in honor of the clubs were given by the Illinois and Idaho Commis- sioners and the Lumberman's Club. A deficit Was incurred by the clubs, but it Is understood that it will not entail a heavy burden on the Associated Students, Dr. Saul Epstein of the class of 00 has re- turned from Zurich, Switzerland, where he took his_doctor's degree. and Chitago, where he was instructor in mathematics at the Uni- versity of Chicago for two years. He is on his vacation now and will spend some time at_the university before returning to his work. Professor W. W. Skinner of the Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Arl- zona has come to the California Agricultural College to take some special work in horticul- with the hospital service in the islands. ! ture. This is what Fanuef said to-night: “Camp Colonel Liscum of the Span- ish-American War Veterans ‘is in re- ceipt of a very peculiar communication from-Mr. Kemper at Los Angeles. This communication was originally sent to Mr. Thompson, the commander of our local camp, and then turned over to me. I do not know what it means, but it would seem that the Chinese Govern- ment is looking for American soldiers “Faculty night'’ will be observed at the Faculty Club on Tuesday night. for which oc- casion an elaborate programme has been ar- ranzed. Marsden Manson, the San Francisco engineer, will deliver a lecture Tuesday evenimg at the Students’ Observatory on ““The Distribution of Rainfall on the Continent of North America.” The public is invited. Professor A. A, Stanley of the University of Michigan and Instructor in music at the sum- mer session will lecture in Hearst Hall on ‘Wednesday night on ‘“‘Parsifal.”” Profeseor Henry Morse Stephens will speak to reorganize its army. They oflerl"‘”“ “The Capture of the Bastile as Nur- American soldiers commissions in the ! Thecsasy eient. in Hearst Hall on Chinese army, and the men they may drill in this country are to have non- commissioned vru under them.” Commander Thompson confirmed Fa- nuef’s statement. Both the veterans \are convinced that the Chinese Govern- ‘ment is seeking American soldiers:for the reorganization of its army. e Comes to Grief. OAKLAND, July 10.—Richard R. Cochran, 23 years old, snatched a watch and chain from the vest of Al- hin Chollet to-night on Seventh street, Thict, wino Fave badtie. Whne the pore who gave b, e the pair at it hammer and tongs Poli’:'a-. man McSorley came on the scene ana took Cochran into custody. Chollet recovered his jewelry. Dies From His Injuries. OAKLAND, July 10.—Oscar John- son, known also as John Wilson, died this morning at' the Receiving Hos- pital from injuries he sustained by be- ing crushed under a freight train at Emeryville yesterday. Johnson was 22 years old, a native of Sweden. He had worked at the smelting plant at Keswick before coming to ‘Oakland. The Coroner took char=ze of the case. The only American Who ever wore the Victoria Cross is living at Stough- ton, Mass. He is William Seeley, who in 1864 was aboard a British vessel &t Shimonseki, Japan, and saved the life of the captain. After Making an Inspec- tion of the City Prison ORDERS CHANGES MADE Tells Chief of Police to Submit Plans and Esti- mates for a Renovation Oakland Office Sgn Francisco Call, 1016 Broadway, July 10. “The City Prison is not fit for human | beings to live in,” declared Mayor War- ren Olney to-day after he and City Councilman B. H. Pendletop had made a thorough inspection of the jail. The Mayor was particularly impressed with the lack of facilities for proper care of [ conditions shall be made the Mayor di- rected Chief of Police Hodgkins to pro- cure estimates immediately as to the cost of recomstructing a part of the prison, with enlargement along the west side, for use until a new City Hall shall have been built. Thé Mayor found that the prison was seriously overcrowded, even in summer time, when the number of occupants is greatly under the grist of unfortunates that is turned in during the winter months. In the women's quarter the Mayor found eleven occupants, al- though the ward has barely proper ac- commodation for five personss Attention was called to the fact that five juvenile prisoners, the youngest a boy 10 years old, were confined in the regulation prison cells because there is no fit room outside of the barred holes in the wall for this class of inmates. A girl 15 years old is among these. Further investigation disclosed the inadequate sanitary arrangements. There are only two bath tubs in the jail, one dof which must accommodate fifty male prisoners. The other is for women's use. There has been no alter- ation or improvement made in the jail for many years. Mayor Olney expressed himself strong- ly concerning the conditions, byt said only temporary changes could be made pending the construction of a new City Hall and a modern prison. The Chief of Police has been instructed to turn over his plans and estimates to Councilman Pendleton, who will submit them to the City Council as soon as possible. The Mayor said: The police are doing the best they ecan under the conditions. The bullding is old and out of date. It is a disgrace to the city that such a place as this prison in its present state Should exist. Present conditions cannot be remedied in the bullding as it stands. After a careful inspection, I can see nothing to be done except to reconstruct the interfor somewhat, in order that room may be ob- tained for the women and the juveniles. By constructing a small building outside, along the west wall of the jall, some additional space for prison use may be gained. The mat- ter will be given into the hands of the City Council as soon as the estimates are made. MISS DOLBEER A VICTIM OF MELANCHOLIA By Sally Sharp. The death of Bertha Dolbeer, beauti- ful, cuitured, wealthy and loved, smote her friends a cruel blow, a blow from which they have not rallied, though the newspapers of yesterday morning bore the awful tidings to them. Nor will they fully feel the loss that has fallen upon them until there comes the bat- tered bodv of her who left them but a short time ago to mingle with the throngs in European capitals. On the day of leaving as she bade adieu to a dear friend she whispered to her, “I dread this trip. I fear it. I wish I might withdraw, but I cannot.” A change of scene had been recom- mwended for her as an alterative to her depression, which of late had been as- suming a serious persistency. Going to London, she found life there dull, and cutting short her stay she crossed to Paris, hoping the joy of the boule- vardier might enter into her soul and lift it from the depths, but the hope vanished in sleepless nights and haunt- ed days. With youth, beauty and wealth, joy was not to be lured into the darkened chambers of her soul, and sickening of the elusive chase she de- termined to return home. And it was on this homeward trip that, maddened by pain in her head and sorrow at her soul, she made the fatal leap—to rest. And who is there with aught but pity in his or her heart for the suffering soul who flung away her young life in a mad moment of pain? As a character-study, Miss Dolbeer had always been interesting to her friends. Unlike other girls from her birth, she grew to womanhood with her individuality unchanged. Truthful, frank, straightforward, economical (in spite of her $7000 of monthly income), self-reliant, phlegmatic, wholly devoid of enthusiasm, unless it be concerning athletics, in which she manifested some interest, she was a type of woman wholly unlike any other similarly situ- ated. She entertained but little for an heiress to a mililon, took small account of charities, held no very deep interest in men—that is, in the individual man— and appeared to dwell in a little dark world all within herself. It was in that little dark - world, peopled by unreal creatures, who neither spoke to her, nor loved her, nor made merry with her, that she grew silent and gloomy. Then came the sleeplessness and the pains. They always come with the peopling of the brain with unreal creatures. There are those who say that the unhappy maid drank from her mother’'s breast the substance of the unreal people— and with the growing years they took shape. Loved and honored with fine friendships, and possessed of rare beauty, there was not in life that un- purchasable thing, happiness. ‘The inanimate body, its soul ut rest, will start on its trip homeward to-mor- Tow. ’ —_—— The Better Man. “The last time I passed 'through here,” said the drummer, “your editor and the Rev. Bill Grunning were hav- ing quite "a religious discussion. I guess the editor, after all, was just as good a man as the minister. “Yer wrong thar, stranger,” replied Alkali Tke. 3 - “How do you know?" N “Y jest comé€ from editor's fun- eral.”—Philadelphia Public Ledger. women and juvenile offenders. In order | that temporary improvements in the| 2 et e — e ——— - et S et e > = BRANCH OFFICES ‘ OF THE CALL IN ALAMEDA COUNTY | | OAKLAND. | 1016 Broadway. | Telephone Main 1083. | BERKELEY. | 2148 Center Street. | Telephone North 77. . ALAMEDA. | 1435 Park Street. ! Telephone Alameda 539. | 3 L & REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. Alameda County. SATURDAY, JULY 9, John and Nellie Donnelly to Henry M. Viek- ery, lot on 8 line of Buena Vista avenue, 121.74 E of Park street, E 40 by S 100, lot 4, block B, map Golden Gate Tract, subdivided Febru- ary, 1800, Oakland; $10. James and Mary E. Henry P. Hook, undjv line of Central avenue, 50 by S 200, lots 10, 11 Kellersberger's map. Oakl John Boyle to Ann T. 8 corner of East Fouw nth street and d lot on 00 E of Broadway bioek 159, avenue, SW 00 by SE S0, block 30, East Oakland; gift Mary H. Sterling (widow) to the Remity Synd! lot 66, Piedmont Traect, Oaklamd Township; $10. H. M. and Nellie A. Maxwell to same, lot on S line of Blair avenue, 600 W of North or Verral avenue, W 180:10, S 176:3, E 185, N portion lot 6-B, part B subdivisio Bowman Tract, near Oakland, being S portion of biock B, Huntoon Tract, Pledmont, excepting from above lots ® and 10, block 10, biock B of Huntoon Tract, Oakland Township; also lots 3 7 to 12 block A and lots L to 6, block B, said last map, Oakland Town- ship; $10, Lyman and Sarah J. Allen to James Mont- gomery, lot on W line of Henry street, 200 S of Vine, S 45 by W 134.84, lot 1, subdivis a pian Sprague & Swain property of block 7 Graves & Taylor Tract, Berkeley; $10. John W. or J. W. Heans to Delia S. Heans, lot on N line of Virginia street, 40 E of Me- Gee, E 40 by N 100, portion lots 10 and 9, biocik C, Edith Tract, Berkeley; gift. Benedetto and Lena Delucchi to Charles E. Hale, lot on N line of Eagle avenue, 34:7 W of Willow street, W 34:7 by N 120, portion of 1ots 7 and 5, block 13. pian of subdivision of blocks 1. 2 and 3, 12, 13, 14 of land adja~ cent to Encinal, Alameda; $10. Carrle and A. F. Trahan to same, eame, quitclaim deed, Alameda; $10. 8. T. Gage et al. to William Frisbie Lewis, lot on SW corner of Ninth and Franklin streets, S 100 by W 75, lots 15 to 18, 88, Keilersberger's map, Oakland: $11,000. Alexander Murdock (single) to Alexander Murdock & Co. (corporation), lot on S line of Thirty-seventh street, 71 E of Market, B 34 by 8 100, portion of Plat 37, Kellersberger's map, Ranchos V. and D. Peraita, Oakland; $10. block Same to same, lot on § line of Twenty~ fourth street, 50 E of Linden, E 50, S 100.1 W 50, N 107.50, pertion lots 9 and 16, bloc! H, map survey of Northern xtension, Oak- land; $10. Same to same, lot on S line of Thirty-seve enth street, 105 E of ket, E 34 by S 100, portion of Plat Kellersberger's map, Ranchos V. and D. Peralta, Oakland; $10. Edward and O'Neill to_ Johanna O'Neill, lot 7, ton Tract Wes 120, W 41.43. S 1 1 $10. lot 7. block same, Oakland: Ludwig and Katharing Meinheit to Carl Jeschein, same, Oakland: gift D. T. and N "Arthur to R. €. and lot on W line of West -eighth, N 31 by W k 7 and 8, block F, Major Given Tract, Oakland; $10. John Couralet (singie) to Fritz and Frances No. Sehluter, map 3, Potts Tract, Hyacinth and Margaret Gil (s Pauline_Gil (single). lot on b street, 75 E of Campbell, E 25 by N 100:7, lot 19, block 499, Gibbons property, Oakland Point; also lot on N iine of Fiftesnth street. 82:3 W of Kirkham. W 50 hy N 19 lots 17 and 18, block 383, Scetchler. Traect, Oak- land; $10. Afice 'F. and Seldon G. Galbraith, ot on SE line 370 SW of Newion, lots 14-and 15, Gakland: $10. fe) to 4 ine. of Miller to Gladys' L. of Athol avenue, SW 22:6_ SE 160, N@& 3 N 139.27. being portion of lot 18, block C, Peralta Heights FEast Oakland: $10. Soren Jensen to Christine Jensen (wife), on W line of Poplar street S 27:6 by W_115, and porti Seott, 8 Lawrence and Ralph Deluchi to Ferdinand and Marie Brudlewsky, lot 16, block C, re- vised map of that portion of Brumagim Tract Iying W of Shattuck avenue, Oukland; $10. g Martha B, Cohen (wife of John) to Charles H, Booth, lot begining at intersecting line parallel with and 40 feet N from N line of Alcatraz avenue and line at right angle to sall avenue and running N from point on N line of said avenue 128.30 E from E line of Shattuck avenue, thence N 80. W to E line of Shattuck avenue, S 80.18, E to beginning, Oakland; $5. 'A. J. and Sophie M_ Snyder to E. M. Hinch, lot on S iline of Sycamore street, 45 W off Telegraph avenue, W 19:10 by S 100, Oaklandg S g.gor‘e Gray (as administrator estate of Al- bert G. Gurnett) to Harriet Carpenter (widow), all interest in lot on SE line of Fourth a 5 SW of East Sixteenth street, SW 37:6 by SE 125, East Oakland $2501. Georze T. and Mable Anna Lyon to Sarah A. Ward, lot on NE line of East Stxteenth (Monroe) street, 106 SE of Seventh avenus (Benton street), SE by NE 150, block 8, Clinton, East Oakland: $10. M and C. D. Bates Sr. and F.l ‘|' and Carrie S. Bilger to John V. Campbell, lot on NW line of Twelfth avenue, 52401 SW of East Twenty-eighth_street. 50.27. NW N S. 50.07, SE 137.04, lot 26, Templetony t Oakiand: $10. . T. and Nettie MacArthur to F. B. Yoa« kum (single), Iot 44, map 2. Glen Echo Tract, ete., Oakland Township: $10. John Polter (single) to George Sully, lot om s line of Effie street, 240 E of Dwinelle, § 40 by S 132:6, lot 7, block 8, Case Tract, Berkeley; £10. Darlot and Margaret Dessmore to Joseph J. Mason, lot on W line of Grove street, 100 NI of Ashby avenue. N 40 by W 122. bioek 10, map subdivision block 10, Central Park Tract, Berkeley: $10. Walter G. Grace and Grace C. Tibbetts ta Edith A. Wallace, lot on E line of St. Charles street, 250 § of San Antonio avenue. S 10 by E 100, quitclaim deed. Alameda: $10. Everett L. and Fannie A Reed to Margaret W. Hutton (widow). lot on § line of Encinal avente (since widened to S0 feet), 138 E of Grand street, E 45 by S 140, portion of lot 3, block G, map Oak Park. Alameda: $10. —_——e————— CALIFORNIANS AT FAIR. Citizens of Many Towns in Golden State Visit State Exposition. ST. LOUIS, July 10.—The following Californians have registered at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition: San_Franeisco—John Kleinande, V. Grothe well, J. D. Brown, W. Peterson and wite, Dr. W. H. Mayhew, F. J. McAalt. M. J. Sulli- van, O, V. Pistolest, J. W. Likens_ A. L. Jor- den. T. J. Mast and wife, T. H. Ankele and family, R. L. Radke, Ida Burkheim, D. . Bibh, B W. Marsh, D. H. Bibb Jr., L. Her- bert and wife, George Gibbs. Angeles—F. Eyingtom: M. Shanks, Mrs. Fank Byington, B. F. Ray and wife, J. W. Davis, A. G Stlce and wife, B. E. Orrence and Fasadena—F. M. Boynton, G. L. Drager, Mrs: M. A. Murrell, Mary Twyler, Otis Brown, L. A. Boynton. Sacramento—W. Lewis, B.'A. McKee, A. B. Pope, W. H. Hopkins, C. Schmidt and wife, E._Bills. Oukland—O0. A. Poulsen, W. §. Gibson, Mrs, S. B. Gibson. Miscellaneous—W. H. Stiles Mrs. E. M. El« . _N. Bigley, F. N. Wallace, . E. M. Elijott, D. Chotaser, L. -D. Chainey, Chico; B. A. Hag- den and wife, Bakersfleld. F. F. Jantzen and . Ford. Hansen. J. B. F. Callister, San Joge; T. B. Hayes and wife,’ Wilmington; E. H. Moses, Newark: F. e, C. E. Dingle, ‘Woodland: M. P. Root, A der, Red Bluft; M. Morgan, San tael. ——————— LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE SHOWS SERIOUS DECLINES LONDON, July 10.—The past week was an unsatisfactory one on. the Stock Exchange owing to the short- ness of money and continued realiza- tions. The money situation was chief- ly caused by the necessity of install- ments for large local purposes and the approaching payments on the Japan- _; loa Americans were the redeeming fea- ture, the ‘transactions showing a strong upward tendency. Kafflrs and ustralians experienced an extremely dull weak and the close of the week showed serious declines,