The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 19, 1904, Page 4

< £ HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, AMONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1904. «NEWS OF THE COUNTY OF ALAMEDA ———— GOES T0 JAIL [ SATS MOTHER FOR A WAGER R AWAGER STOLE A CIRL John E. Frandt Loses Bet;Abduction Charge Is Laid He Can Elude sthe Police| Against Mrs. A. Wood by | After Taking Hose Reel! Father of Missing ('hild% Bt | -~ ! HIS ESCAPADE IS (‘()'S'I‘I,\" WOMAN TAKES GIRL Companions Desert Friend Male Companion Prevents a When Patrolman Has )Ian! Relative From Recovering! in Custody for Larceny| Little One in the Flight, e | neisco Call, Oakland Office San Franciseo Call, 1016 Broadway, Sept. 18. Right froni under the eyes of father, | { aunts and cousin little Margaret Wood, | /|7 years old, was stolen this afternoon ! yat 4 o'clock from her home, 1307 Sixth| avenue, by Mrs. Alice Wood, her moth- | er, the divorced wife of the father,! Jacob Wood, who holds the legal cus-| tody of the abducted child. Such was | smplaint lodged by Wood with the | Oakland Office San 1016 Broad' 2 wager Frandt, an el rests in Prison with a charge of petty 1 registered against his name. Frandt was arrested at 3:30 o'clock at this morning Ninth street and Brosdway by P eman Tillotson with fifty feet of two-inch hose in his pos-| session. He had taken it from the Southern Pacific Company’s station at | Seventh street and Broadway. | Frandt declares that he meant to do Wood, who conducts a manicur- | shment, was accompanied by ho fought off the deter- | g est s ! a young man, w mne wrong, t he had an idea that he | could win a Let made with some roy rent efforts of Mrs. J. C. Tyrrell, an| stering friex The wager demande 1t of the child. | that Frandt uld carry off the reel of Wood, her companion and the| hose n the station and suc- . the latter crying and begging to be | cessful at home, were followed by Miss V.| It was nothin . said the | Tyrrell, another of the startled family electricia the joke’s on| but the trio disappeared at Fifth av me now,” ; added. | nue and Eighteenth street. At the moment of the invasion little | rgaret was near the front door and seized by Mrs. Wood. Mrs. Tyrrell, | It was not a joke that the policeman saw in the prank, if prank it be. The patrolman saw c a case of larceny and he acted ordingly. pite | aroused by the cries, rushed out, but Frandt's protestations that he was a|was roughly grabbed by the mah, who Tespect L ess man. None of the | shouted: prisoner’s com?x 1 went the res-| “You can’t have the girl. is getting her rights. 1 made vain search in the vicin- © the abductors were last seen niece, Miss Tyrrell. He declared he would swear to a complaint to-mor- | row for his former wife's arrest. Wood was granted a divorce and cus- tody of his son and daughter, this after | a warm contest. According to the de»i cree of divorce Mrs. Wood was permit- | ted to see her children once a month. | Wood says there never has been any | acle thrown in the way of his former spouse when she desired to visit ® | her offspring. i Her action to-dar seemed peculiar, | for the mother has made apnlication vul | the Superior Court for a modification | cue. He was b i off to jail and his burden was recorded as evidence on the | charge of theft — e——— ai BAPTIST PASTOR TALKS | ON RELIGIOUS OUTLOOK Rev. H. J. Vosburgh Gives Results of | Observations During Two Months' Tour of Country AKLAND. er J. Vesburgh 3aptist Church the his | s the sub- | this s the the Sin and § The discc of American tition is set for next Friday. | | Wood had intended to resist the effort | to take the children from him on the ground that the mother did not have| proper accommodations for them. | at City problems en and Hell of Science” | wa subject of a discourse de- | vere afternon at the First S Lt = ),,,Hhv,,, urch by Professor Jay G. | YOM KIPPUR 1§ OBSERVED g Rodger of the University Union of BY HEBREW CONGREGATION Califernia The Rev. J. Schneider, pastor of the | Jewish Day of Atonement TImpres- Corman Methoedist Church, has re- sively Commemorated in Sermon turned from the conference which was by Rabbi Friedlander. held in Los Angeles. The pastor has| AKLAND, Sept. 18.—The obser- been reappointed to his charge for an- | o, 0 " 'y on! Kippur, the Jewish day other year of atonement, began this evening and The Rev. Sidney L. Gulick of Matsu- | yiy; continue until 7:30 p. m. to-mor- yama pan, delivered an address this | L o Divine service was held to-night evening at the First Congregational | .+ 1. synagogue of the First Hebrew Church on “The Attitude of New | ,.oregation of Oakland, the cere- Japan Toward Christianity.’ [ mosion B Sonduncted by ' Ravbi Model Children and Their Parents™ was the subject of a sermon preached this evening by the Rev. E. E. Baker, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. Children of the Centennial Presby- terian Church Sunday-school held reliy day exercises this evening. “The Posibilities of the Next Hun- @red Days” were discussed to-day by the Rev. Dwight E. Potter, pastor of the Union Presbyterian Church. The Rev. E. R. Hermiston gave an address to-day to the Sunday-school at the Tenth-avenue Baptist Church. .. WILL GIVE GRAND BALL ON THANKSGIVING EVE | Marcus Friedlander. He delivered an | eloquent sermon, taking as his subject “Spiritual Awakening.” e Service will be held to-morrow at 9 a. m., special service by the choir at 10 o’clock, memorial servige at 10:45 and the closing sermon by the rabbi at 11:30. ——————————— Berlinsky Had to Wait. BERKELEY, Sept. 18. — Captain Berlinsky and.a company of other of- ficers from the dismantled Russian auxiliary cruiser Lena attended the university concert this afternoon at the Greek Theater. The Russians at- tempted to leave the amphitheater during one of the numbers. A rule of the unive. .ty forbids such a move- ment toward egress by the lower exits Celebrate Its Forty-Fourth An- while music is in progress. Captain niversary in Great Style. Berlinsky did not know the rule. The OAKLAND, Sept. 18.—The members | Bate tenders, being no respecters of of Company A, Fifth Regiment, N.|Persons, halted the visiting party and G. C., have begun preparations for | compelled them to stand until the their forty-fourth annual ball, which | number had been concluded. Then will be held at Armory Hall, on|the barred way was opened and the Twelfth street, on Thanksgiving eve. | Visitors departed more or less im- The decoration committee has al- | Pressed, it is said, with the quiet dig- ready arranged for the adornment of | Dity of democracy as exemplified at the hall and it promises something | the great Berkeley institution. mnusual in the way of decorations. T Fifteen hundred electric lights of va-| 10%¢S Money to Mean Beggar. 1 vill be tril OAKLAND, Bept. 18.—Edward o haat, whie g s Morris, residing at 1761 Goss street, rated lost $5 last night because he was m'“n -oNPL Tt e benevolent enough to heed the appeal The ball will be strictly invitational | Of @ Street wayfarer for money. The and only enough invitations will be | Stranger accosted Morris at midnight fssued to fill the large hall, insuring | near City Hall Park and asked for ecomfort to all who attend. The ar-| 26 cents. Morris, in looking for the rangements for the *ball are in the|coin, drew a gold piece out of his hands of the following committee: pocket. The applicant for alms Lieutenant Petersen snatched the money -from - Morris’ . Poulter. Mgirman), | 1and and fled. The police were noti- C. N. Winiund, A. Boas, aod E. 3. Berqvest, Artiies: . b | 0% g ates C. A. Wood, F. T. Brown, e R AR AT * Weelier, 3. Wigie snt B, Alexander Memorial Services. . OAKLAND, Sept. 18. — Memorial services for the late S. T. Alexander, the Hawailan sugar planter, who died in Africa while touring the world, Establish ‘were held this afternoon at the First Here in Con- | Gongregational Church, of which Mr. junction With Operations to Be | jexander had been an active member Begun in Magnesite District. for many years. The Rev. Charles R. OAKLAND, Sept. 18.—As a sub-cor- | Brown, pastor of the church, and the of the company now having | Rev. J. K. McLean, the former pastor, eontrol of the magnesite district in the | delivered addresses. Company A, National Guard, Will ———— [NCORPORATE CARBONIC GAS COMPANY —_— 3 bilis back of Livermore, the United e e e Carbonic Gas Company filed articles of Greek Theater Echoes Music. the County Clerk BERKELEY, Sept. 18.—The half company, basing its | hour of music in the Greek Theater the development of | at the University of California yester- the | day attracted 3000 people, who greatly El 2 s Thomas RickaMl, President | the history of the scheme will be fully | city hall, $100,000; school improvements, | ace. WILL SUBNIT BOND SCHEME of 'Town Board, Promises to Revive the Proposition NEED HALF A MILLION Items of Disbursement Willl Be Voted on. Separately.! Improvements Proposed i i —e—— | Derkeley Office San Francisco Call, | 2148 Center Street, Sept. 18. ~ Within a month the electors of Berkeley will go to the polls and vute! on a proposition to bond the city tcrl $517,000 for certain improvements. Thomas Rickard, president of the Board of Trustees, believes that the time is now ripe for a revival of the bending scheme and announces that he will bring the matter up at the next meet- ing of the board.' As the Trustees ars, known to favor the bonds the proposi- tion is expected to go through with a rush, so that it may be submitted to the people upon a day not more than a month distant. “It is time to revive the bonding questi ' President Rickard declares. ‘A meeting will be designated at which reviewed and immediate steps taken to set a date for the election. I believe that the bonds will be carried almost unanimously, for 1 have not yet heard of any opposition to the issue.” The bonding scheme has been in abeyance for six months. A committee of representative citizens discussed the various items for the proposed issue and recommended that the following amounts should be raised: Street im- provements, $7000; storm sewer con- struction, $160,000; city wharf, $50,000; $125,000; public parks, $20,000; manual training equipment, $20,000; fire depart- ment improvements, $35,000, making a total of $517,000. The items will be voted on separately, so that the im- provements now deemed necessary may be rejected if the voters so prefer. ——— CHILEANS CELEBRATE THEIR INDEPENDENCE Last night the General Society of Chileans in the city gave an elaborate concert and ball at Eintracht Hall be- fore a crowd that entirely filled the building. The entertainment was in commemoration of the anniversary of the independence of Chile, that oc- curred ninety-four years ago. In the long programme that filled the evening there were many good num- bers. After the opening overture came the grand march of the society to the platform, followed by an address by Senor C. F. de Berna, who was in turn succeeded by the Chilean Consul, Senor E. Mejia. Among the vocal selections of the evening solos by Senora Lucie Fichter and the selections rendered by the chorus were notably good. Yesterday morning divine services were held at the Church of Guadalupe, Broadway, near Mason street, in dual celebration of the independence of Mex- ico and Chile. The Rev. Father San- tandren and Father Figols were the celebrants of the mass, that was at- tended by the Mexican and Chilean Consuls, together with many repre- sentatives of other South American governments. On October 6 a Spanish concert will be given at Union Square Hall as a benefit for the Church of Guadalupe. ———— PERSONAL. Dr. A. B. Stevens of Watertown, N. Y., is at the Grand. 1 Dr. and Mrs. H. W. Fenner of Tuc- son are staying at the Palace. Myron Hunt, a well-known architect of Los Angeles, is at the St. Francis. John D. Guthrie of the United States Forestry Bureau is it the Occidental. George A. Bartlett, a mining man of Tonopah, and wife are at the Pal- A. R. Sprague, one of Sacramento’s prominent business men, is at the Palace. - D. S. Rosenbaum, a banker of Stockton, and wife are at the St. Francis. Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Fisher of Boston, who are on their bridal tour, are guests at the St. Francis, J. F. Fugazi, Pacific Coast agent of several French steamship lines, has re- turned from a séveral months' visit abroad. Prince de Bearn, who is attached to the French embassy. at Washington, arrived here yesterday and is regis- tered at the St. Francis. —————— Irish Volunteers’ Picnle. A delightful time was had at Shell Mound Park yesterday, where the twelfth annual picnic of Company A, Irish Volunteers, was the drawing card. Company A Is an auxiliary to the Knights of the Red Branch, and as such, at all times commands the close attention of those members of the Irish race in San Francisco who hold to the belief that some day Ire- land will be free from English rule. With a fine day, an attractive pro- ‘Wind Too Light for Model Yachts. The wind was too-light to of any racing at Spreckels terday and the regular nant races were called of the members of the Model Yacht Club had and when the wind came up the afternoon some fair sport was Joyed. ¥ Mr. Martenstein e By scow yesterday, but the conditi ‘were. not time was and ought to prove fast. J. Bran-. | near Bay street. Several days ago the| TEWISH FAST DEATH CLAIMS [FACTS ABOUT BRIDLELECT, LAY BUYING O1KLAND HOIES Miss Emma Vorrath Passes|Cost of the Sather Tract and|Real Estate Dealers Find - Away After Making Ready for Wedding Celebration Price at Whieh It Is Being Sold to Oakland NEW HOME IN WAITING |CRITICS ARE ANSWERED Young | Woman Succumbs Mayor Olney Anticipates At-| Alameda Firms Unable to After Brief Illness l)espitei tack in Speech Delivered | the Best of Medical Aid i on Last Friday Night s ALAMEDA, Sept. 18.—With her wed-! Oakland Office, San Franeisco Call, ding day but a month off, Miss Emma ! 1016 Broadwey, Sept. 18. C. Vorrath died yesterday and her| The expected attack upon the bonds funeral will be held to-morrow after-, has come almost upon the eve of the noon. The chief mourner will be Fred election. It has come with the state- Lubben, her betrothed. Alameda Re-|ment that the land proposed to be sold bekah Lodge No. 107 and Piedmont|for the main park is being offered to Parlor No. 87, Native Daughters of the | the city at a price that is too high. As- Golden West, will conduct the last rites ! sessor Dalton’s figures of assessment at Odd Fellows’ Hall in this city. and some mysterious “they” and “the Miss Vorrath’s engagement was|People who are opposed” are quoted in known to most of her friends, and ar-| Support of the attack. rangements were well under way for The real facts are that this attack has been taken to several if not all of the marriage. The man to whem she had promised her heart and hand was | the papers that circulate in and about fitting up a home on Railrcad avenue, ! O2kland, and those who have the bond issue at heart have sbeen expecting bride-elect was taken sick, and not-| withstanding the hest efforts of the| physicians she succumbed to heart dis- | ease. 3 Mise Vorrath, who was born in San Francisco and was the daughter of the its way into print befere the election. So much has this been expected that Mayor Omey made an attempt to fore- stall it in his address before the Swed- ish-American Club on Friday night. late Henry Vorrath, had resided in| The Mayor said there was something Alameda since childhcod. { of the kind in the wind and he wanted . to say that the land in question had been offered to the city by the Realty Syndicate at exactly what they had paid for it, with 6 per cent added for their investment. He believed that the land was being offered at a fair price and one that would be deemed low in the market. Edwin Stearns, secretary of the Oak- land Board of Trade and president of the Oakland Progress Federation, said to-day: 1 regret the attack upon any feature of the S OBSERVED Devout Worshipers Gather ] bond issue, and I do not believe that this one at the NAZOLUES AN [ has any foundation. Mayor Olney has de- | & 3 % }f‘ red ]vubl‘c‘. H;:l th fld was being se- ) prviee | © at what the Reaity S; icate paid for it, Join' in Solenmn Service| Sl by syndeats puit s £ | | thing by other gentlemen who would hardly tell an untruth for the amount involved, and who say that the syndicate will lose the Yom Kippur, the most sacred day in the Jewish calendar, was ushered in with solemn services in all the syna- gogues of the city last evening by the intoning of “Kol Nidre,”” a petition for release from -all invoiuntary faults or €ins that may have been committed during the year. The usual evening service was then recited and eloquent sermons were de- | livered by the rabbis before large and devout congregations. Israel will be engaged in devotional amount of taxes paid upon the land since its purchase. 1 believe this statement, for the people who are making the ‘sale to the city hava put one hundred times the amount in- volved in this transaction into' Oakland and ere hardly in o tion to falsify for the al- leged excess of actual value of the land. Frank J. Woodward, purchased the tract in question for the Realty Syndicate, said: This tract was bought by me, and stood in my name for awhile. The facts that can be substantiated by the records are that the land was purchasefl for $250,000, that the Hiberuia lank of San Francisco sent experts to value the land, who fixcd the price in the market as £400,000, _and that report the bank exercises until sundown this evening, | jo.nia $175.000. The city s gettiag the tract and during the whole twenty-four | for $300,000. —_——————— GUATEMALA'S RULER IS SEEKING PEACE hours the congregation do not partake of food or drink. All the synagogues were draped in white and the choirs generally were augmented and rendered the traditfonal airs which are associated with the sol- emn day. Rabbi Voorsanger in his sermon at| Temple Emanu-El said: We of the household of Israel are not grovel- ing in the dust before our Father in Heaven. We always approach him with a degree of confidence that expresses our relationship of children to him. Neither do we consider that we must make oursclves miserable during our present life 50 as to gain God's friendship after we are deal. We are practical and intellizent people, who look upon the relations between curseives and God the same as we study the conditicns of human paternity, This_one day is set apart for the empha of such thoughts as may not readily occur to us_at any other time. We need this atonement >ven to remind us that we are only men and women. We forget this often enough in our arrogance and inso- lence gererated by our little capacity to achieve littls things—that is. little compered with the things achieved by God. Rabbi Nieto delivered a profound ser- mon at Sherith Israel, taking for his text, “Good and upright is the Lord; therefore will he teach sinners in the way.” (Psalms, xxv:8). The rabbi said that man’s conception of God is always consequent upon the degree of civiliza- tion and the enlightenment to which he has attained. God, he said, is not a man of war, nor the strict task master inflicting punishment for error, nor the partisan God warring for his friends, but the kind and beneficent influence which not only allures to goodness, but directs all men in the path that leads to holiness. There were services at the Geary- street Temple, conducted by Rabbi M. 8. Levy; Bush-street Temple, Rabbi B. Kaplan; Russ-street Synagogue,: Rabbi H. Samuelson, .and in Franklin Hall, Fillmore street, Rabbi Isidore Myers conducted a service and preached to a great assemblage of worshipers. Rabbi Myers will conduct an all-day service to-day in Franklin Hall and will preach a sermon at 3 o'clock this afternoon. PREPHGTIA VP T SPENCER VAN SYCKLE TRIES TO END HER LIFE Swallows Carbolic Acid Because Hus- band Remained Away From Home Bishop William Ford Nichols con- Until Early Morning Hours. firmed a class last evening at St. +Mrs. Anita Van Syckle, an employe | Stephen's Church. The sacred edi- at the Chytes, attempted to kill her- fice was filled and the service was self at her residence, 7% Elizabeth | throughout deeply impressive. A full street, at 2 o'clock yesterday morning | choir s.ng the beautiful hymns and by swallowing a quantity of carbolic | the rector, the Rev. E. Bradley, con- acid. lductod the service. The cause of her wishing to die was ‘While the congregation sang - a that her huspand had remained out|hymn the class approached the chan- late. He returned, however, in time to | cel and Bishop Nichols began the prevent her from swallowing all the | ceremony of confirmation, after which contents of the bottle. in summoning the ambulance from !the class, his subject being “Confirma- the Emergency Hospital, to which | tion, the Source of Truth.” place she was removed. The prompt The confirmed were Mrs. Sallie application of the stomach pump by | Price, Mrs. Minnie Forman, Mrs. M. Dr. W. A. Stevens saved the woman’s | A. Harmansen, Mrs. Anna E. Green- life. well, Miss Elizabeth A. Herrick, Miss President Cabrera Issnes a Resound- ing Proclamation of Amnesty to All His Political Foes. President Estrada Cabrera of Guate- mala is endeavoring to unite the dif- ferent political factions of that com- monly turbulent Central American republic. His latest move in this di- rection is the issuance of an amnesty proclamation, copies of which have been received in this city by many Guatemalans who have not been in favor with the home administration and were forced to seek refuge in the United States. The manifesto opens with a statement that the electoral campaign is at an end and that the people of Guatemala have seen fit to intrust to Cabrera another period of administrative power. The document then proceeds as follows: Not with Jlattering promises, but with posi- tive deeds, | desire to inaugurate the forth- coming_corstitutional period. It is my ardent wish that ail Guatemalans, whatever may be their political creed, shall return to the bosom of the fatherland, where, as long as they re- spect the institutions and contribute to the meint-nance of public order, they will not only be protected by the sacred aegis of the law, but will also receive the supgort which every progreesive government is bound to afford to citizens who, devoting themselves to honest toll, hring clements of wealth to the country while at the sam: time being the architects of _their own fortunes. Be ail Guatemalans welcome home to thelr native sofl and, forzetting petty resentments, It us all laber for our motto, in order, by ing efforts, to assure a bright future ermals, a land prolific alike In natural regources and in nmoble and generous hearts. That under (he aegis of peace w2 may at- tain_these, my cheristed ideals and earnest aspirations, is the sole wish of your fellow citizen and fri MANUEL ESTRADA CABRERA. A formal amnesty decree, counter- signed by the Minisfer of the Interior and Justice, Juan J. Argueta, is at- tached to the President's proclama- tion. \ ——— e — BISHOP NICHOLS CONFIRMS ASS AT ST. STEPHEN'S \ MRS. : Beautifel Hymns Are Sung by Full Choir an?! Entire veremony Is Imoressive. that something of the kind would find | the man who | | ' | | He lost no time | he delivered an eloquent address. to I 2 I S 1 2l &l = > l HUNDREDS SEEK ' | s omesd | l ALAMEDA COUNTY ‘ | OAKLAND. 1016 Broadway. Telephone Main 1083. BERKELEY. Difticulty in :S‘upplyingf | LT e ! Wants of the Newcomers ALAMEDA. s SO | 1435 Park Sireet. l Telephone Alameda 539. — REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS. b DEMAND FOR COTTAGES - | i Alameda County. Provide Accommodations SATURDAY. SEFTEMBER 17 = German Savings and Loan Society to O. D, (tiv an = n N ) . est, 117 for Prospective Tenants|ars oo fne of Tooust st 78 R S TIREG cific Homestead, Oakland: $10. Mary A. Hadden (single) to W. K. Viekery, lot on NE lne of Summit avenue at intersec- tion of line between lots 20 30, thence NE 29. SE 234.18, SW aleng SE line of Glen Eeho Tract to aforesaid dividing line between lots 20 and 30, NW 224.91, portion subdifvision 1, in lot 29, map 3, Glen Echo Tract, ete., Oukiand; aleo lot on SE line of Summit avenue at inter- section with line dividing lots 29 a 30, thence SW 15, SE to SE boundary line of said lot 30, NE 15.33, NW 1o butmise. porticn ; $10. and Amy C. Gouraud (G- lig) to Claremont Country Club, lots 36, 37 and 35 and 48, Rockridge, Oakland To'nohlp:&hfl. Charles E. and Emma May Batdorf to Wil- Ham J. Yates, lot on S line of Parker strest, 32716 W of Grove avenue, W 45 by 3 130, portion lot 4, block G, map Crystal Spring Tract, Berkeley; $10. Peter G. and Georgina Anderson to Rudolf H. Hindsgaul, lots 25 and 26, block C, msp Christian track, Berkeley: $10. Robert B. and Ella Moorehead to Lawretice J. and Emma L. Haggerty, lot beginning 100 W from SW corner of Shattuck avenue add Russell street, W 100 by S 36.42, lot 15, bidck B, Adeline Tract. Berkeley (deed given to cor- rect 974 D. 109); $10. Reaity Syndicate (corporation) to Ellfote B. Davis and Robert H. Van Sant, lot on NE corner of Bancroft way and Catherine strest, E 155 by N 100, lots 13, 14 and portion of Tots portion plat Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1016 Broadway, Sept. 18. Although 1600 new dwellings have been erected in "this city during the last twelve months, local real estate, dealers say they have lately expe- rienced great difficulty in providing | houses and flats for newcomers who desire to buy or rent homes in Oak- land. In some localities it is almost impossibje either to buy or rent, the houses recently erected having been taken even before completed. This is| true both of cottages or houses built. to be sold, and dwellings and flats erected for the purpose of renting. This demand for homes has not been the result of old residents of Oak- land moving from one part of the city to another, for even when the de- mand was heaviest there have been but few houses advertised for sale ! H = ’zf“‘x'r']':yf"'u%‘m“ or for rent. The increased demand| ba icks to Hjalmar Kehlet, lots 3 and'$. | block 7. portion Tract B, Berkeley Land and 18 the result of a steady influx of new | block 7 vertion Tract B, Berkeley Lant S°C residents coming from the East and | op map I M w;m-..;m Boot and Shoe Com- er cities alifornia. ‘A | pany Tract, Berkeley; $10. Jreu _other gitom B A twen E Faanie C. and Edwin L. Sargeant to Mattie considerable number of these new- comers are San Franciscans who have been attracted to this side of the bay by superior climatic conditions and other natural advantages. £ . lot on N lipe of 12437 E of Stanford avenue, B sertion of lots 3 and 4, block’ A Herkeley: $10. : Storck (widow) to Cheistian Hoff, W corner of Bristol and Ssventh streets, 5, block 85, tract B, Berke- TALKS OF RECENT GROWTH. | wn Improvement Assoclationm, | Berkeley; $10. e Frank J. Woodward, president of Claude Nathaniel Berry a ra M. (or . a son Berry) to married), the Oakland Real Estate Dealers’ As- | Sara Mason Berry) to Henry Brooks sociation, said to-day: lot on E line of Shattuck avenue, 120.20 N of Ashby-avenue, N S0. E 119.81, 8 80, W 124.64, We have at present more prespective pur- chasers for properties in this city than we can eid to J. H. Wood, subdivision 8 of 23, map subdivision of block 25, Berkeley - $10, mes B. Barber, er, lot 15, bloek and Shoe Company’s $29. A. S Tiake, 668, Peralta Home- ts 23 and 24, biock C. Adeline Trae:, Berke- possibly supply, and many of these people are from out of town points. In the recent real te auctions held in Oal d more than o of the purchasers have been from Francisco and other cities in California and | from the East More than half the offices in the new Union Savings Bank building have already been re- served and some of these have been renmted to professional x 21, men_from points as far distant as the State of Maine. All these fadts indi- | cate that many of the people now seeking homes and business locations in Oakland have been attracted to this city by its natural ad- vantages. The Oakland Water Front Company has begun the work of reclaiming a ten-acre tract of tide land just east of Adams wharf and south of First street. The property' has a frontage of 1500 feet on the north side of the | estuary, along which a bulkhead will be constructed at a cost of $25,000. As soon as the bulkhead and flll are completed the property will be leased to a large lumber company for yards and docks. A contract has just been lef by W. Morgan to A. Scott for the erection of a modern apartment-house at the corner of Nineteenth and Franklin streets, the cost to be $19,000. The new Emeryville hotel, which is being erected on Park avenue, near of Dalton street map Rock Istand wife, lot on § Herzog, E 30 Tract, Oakiand; $10. Lora Katrica Lund (single) to Antonje Gun- ter (widow), all interest in Ilct on N cormer of Webster street or Pledmont avenue and Booth street, NE 100 by NW 125, lot 6 -block 12, pian Howe' Tract, Oakland: $10. Josephine Smith (single) and A Willlam H. Armstrong to Myrtle Valerga, on N line of Fifty-elghth street, Racine, W 70 by N 165, being W 70 f 17. map portion Brumagim Tract east of Sk tuck avenue, Oakiand; $10. Berkeley Development Compady to May S. Cooper, lot 11, block E, Hopkins Terrace, map No. 2, Berkeley: $10. Jerome C. and Almeda A. Ford to Rosa F. Torrey, lot on NW line of Claremont av 284.38 §W of intersection with 8 line of San Pablo, by S. Lehman of Point street, SW 215.19, SE 78, NE 155.68, 3 Richmond, is nearly completed. The . portion plat A lersberger's map Ranchos V. and D. Peralta, Berkeley: $100. outside work has been finished and the Realty Syndicate to Kate Hartley (wife of plasterers are now engaged on the Edwin), lot 8, block 10, McGee Tract, portion 'he s contains forty | plat 67, ete., Rerkeley; $10. interior. The structure contains X ¥ DJ.m" g gk e PP R rooms. Four large stores occupy the | =T 14 Slock C. Berry-Bangs Tract, ete., Berkeley, deed and agreement: $10. Jerome C. and Almeda A. Ford to Elvira M. Stacey-Martin, lot on SW corner of Webster strest and Claremont avenue, W 15582 8 2069, NE 238.36, portion plat 75, Kellersher- ger's map, Ranchos V. and D, Peralta, Berke- ley; $1€. ground fleor. DEMAND IN ALAMEDA. ALAMEDA, Sept. 18.—There is a lull in the local real estate market which is attributed by some of the dealers to the quietness that usually exists during a national political cam- paign. Building is not so lively as it has been, but the demand for modern cottages continues in excess of the supply. Here is what some of the frms have been doing and the way they view the situation: Charles Adams & Co.—We have made three sales within the last few weeks. We disposed of a cottage on Pacific avenue to a Mr. King and an- other on Fifth street to a Mr. Gimbel. ‘We also negotiated the transfer of a large lot on Encinal avenue, near Oak street, on which we plan to erect three cottages next month. The houses will each have five rooms and be fitted up in modern style. We are also com- pleting a colonial cottage on Bay street, near Railroad avenue. Rent- ing has been good with us and we could rent many cottages if we had them at our disposal. Hally & Co. will this week move into their elegant new office at 2315 Santa Clara avenue. This firm is branching out and hereafter Leo Robbins will be associated with it as salesman. The firm recently completed a cottage on Lriggs avenue for Samuel Grummett. William Dufour & Co. negotiated the transfer of a cottage and lot on Clinton avenue, near Park street, be- longing to the John Young estate. This firm has just completed a six-room cottage at Encinal avenue and Willow street for Mrs. Sara Roundy. Frank N. Dodd of the Alameda B —— CHOKES TO DEATH ON PIECE OF BEEFSTEAK Chicago Blacksmith Is Killed at Sup- per Table as Result of Meat Lodg- ing in Windpipe. CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—Gustave Pla- lick choked to death this evening on a piece of beefsteak. Plalick was a blacksmith and boarded at the home of Gustave Rutz. This evening he sat down to supper with the family. Sud- denly Plalick began coughing and choking. “What's the matter?” asked Rutz. Plalick did not answer and members of the family thought it was merely a coughing spell and continued eating their meal. Plalick coughed and choked more violently than ever, and suddenly sprang up from the table with a look of agony in his eyes. “Run for the doctor,” shouted Ruts to one of his children, then he began to thump the choking man violently on the back in the hope of dislodging whatever was in his throat. His ef- forts were fruitless, as Plalick fe]l to the floor unconscious and died the next instant. The Coroner held a post-mortem examination and found a large .piece of meat lodged near the windpipe. Pt fault to find with the realty market. He is preparing to do considerable building next month and says that'if he had twenty modern cottages he Land Company—One noticeable fea- | would quickly find tenants for them ture of the realty business at present | aj], is the number of old houses that srel being rémodeled and improved in up- VERTISEMEN to-date style. When a substantial old ‘ A i JE residence is thus improved it is easier to rent it. There are many inquiries i i o rent it Thers are many inquiries) For Any Skin Disease pect soon to erect several ‘large ralx-l use dences if deals we have on hand are put through: William Hamond Jr. of Hammond & Hammond—While transfers and | building are quieter now than for some time, our firm is kept busy an- ;s:u_:semrnr; wlc. lll;"ny . 15 absolute! m Sold by leading druggists.