The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 26, 1906, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CA MONDAY, MARCH 26, 1906. ‘NEWS OF THE COUNTIES ABOUT THE BAY. CITY TRUSTEES [RECORDS PROVE NDER A LASH, CROWTH OF CITY Clergvman Scores Members | More Than Two Thousand JOSEPH MELLD LAID AT REST Friends Pay Last Respects| to Vietim of the Bullet Fired by A. L. McDonald SLAYER HAS NO FEAR Wife of Horseman Pays Visit to County Jail and Cheers Him With Words of Hope i ey Albert in Mello, unty Cc WE victim McDonald’'s —_————— POSTMASTER HONORED BY BERKELEY MASONS Prominent Men of College Town Gather at Ban- quet Board. 25.—Prominent many of the Alameda County orth Berkeley last was presented , who raised C. Mar- during the profes- De Koven ENGINEER TO LECTURE OX CONDUIT SYSTEM | San Francisco Man Will Dis cuss Subject at the University. lecture upon t system s to L Stutt, a consult- 2 ty of San Fran- the Geary street the members ssoclation at the y night, will be uti- agitation in matter of under- tric street rail- nd additional inter- lecture on the t's BROADWAY WIDENING. KLAND, March The City in committee of the whole will ion tomorrow might widening of Broadway, set to its junction venue. A petition of s who favor the project rred to the Council by the Works, with the ree- that the proposed widen- public benefit provided e was included. The desire that Broadway be less than ten feet at the y Playter block. y and the lessees e block, the First Na- ik, opposing the project. ———— SEARCH FOR THIEVES. ELEY, March 25.—Two clever who use & rowboat on the bay £ hides at West being sought by the po- and Berkeley. Six hides y this couple from Grayson night. The men suspect- o have recently stolen slaughter house in ounty, and disposed anasse & Block's tannery keley. The police are hing for James King and James who are believed to have the rowboat equipm which is used to m kfl thelr “g away” easy after the stolen from the slaughter the bay et e e TRUSTY ESCAPES SAFELY. 25. — egraph wner OAKLAND, March 25.—James Scott, a trusty at the City Prison, who escaped Saturday, has not been found. Scott was helping the City Hall janitor, when he took advantage of the janitor's tem- ary absence and fled from the build- €. He had served half of a six months' sentence for begging. WILL LECTURE ON KOREA —Oskiand, 25 —Robert W. Ritchie, former corre— dent in Japen and Korea, will give a lec- tomorrow evening before the Ebell So- y on “Korea, the Ghost of the Orfent.” material the lecture was collected for ‘elesra) wear the native costume Of & “YRng- " or Koresn gentieman, he remains of | last night | | Prentiss N. Gray, E. | | { | BERKELEY'S DEBATING TEAM ANNOUNCED BY JUDGES. A. Eisner and M. E. Harrison to Meet Stanford Men. h | FORNIA TEAM THAT HAS DEEN S8 i P TANFORD 1N THS INTERCOLLEGIATE DEPATE ON FOOTBALL. 25 10 MEST THE THREE MEN BERKELEY, March 25.—The three debaters who will uphold the prestige of the blue and gold in the intercol- legiate debate with Stanford next | month were selected last night by the | judges who have sat through the tryouts at Stiles’ Hall, the chosen ones being | Prentiss N. Gray, E. A. Eisner and M. E. Harrison. The alternate will be W. | 8. Andrews. The judges who awarded the honors to these college men were | Professor Martin Flaherty, Robert Mec- | Williams and Leon Martin, all of whom | have won high rank as college debaters | in the past. | The debate is to be held at Stanford |on April 28. The subject is calculated to have more than ordinary interest for | collegians, having to do with | ball—Its Effect Upon University Ideals.” | 1t is regarded as perhaps the liveliest | and most up-to-date subject for debate that has been sbumitted for many | years. | Prentiss Gray is regarded as peculiar- |1y well qualified to speak with effect | upon this topic, because of his experi- ence as a football star. He is president of the Associated Students and is ac- counted a skilled debater. Eisner is a junior, who won the Car- not medal this year. Harrison is a sophomore, who as a freshman made | the intercollegiate team last year. He | is editor of the Blue and Gold for 1907. BOWERS MAKES N0 APOLOGIES Alameda Councilman Takes | the Stand That He Was Not in Error in What He Said ALAMEDA, March 25.—"I have no apol- 0gy to make to the ministers or church made at the meeting of the City Trustees last Monday night touching upon grab- bags and other games of chance that are conducted in Sunday-schools and church,” said City Trustee Willlam M. Bowers today. This statement was made in reply to an article published in the Church News yes- terday, written by the Rev. Frank S. Brush of the First Presbyterian Church, in which the author asserted that Mr. Bowers should apologize to the citizens of Alameda for his words or resign his office. “I was elected not to represent the | church element alone,” continued Mr. Bowers, “but I was elected to represent | all elements, and to represent them hon- estly and fairly. That is what I have tried to do and that is what I mean to do. I believe in morality as well as any other ) law-abiding resident. I do regret, how- | ever, that I paid any attention to the re- | marks of the Rev. Mr. Brush at the meet- | ing Monday night, as he was clearly out of order when he spoke. I do not wish to enter into any controversy on this mat- ter, but if forced to do so I feel that I will be well able to present my side of the case, and present it clearly. e —————— TOWN OF SELMA WILL VOTE AGAIN ON LIQUOR QUESTION Temperance People Hope to Keep the Saloons Out of Thelir City. SELMA, March 2.—S8elma voted itself “dry” two years ago. On April 9 there will be & friendly contest to determine if the present policy is popular with the people, a prohibition ticket having been placed in the field to be voted on on that day. It is generally conceded that the “drys” will win out. Two Trustees will be elected and the three hold-over Trus- SOCIALIST LE tees will be pl-d'od to the present policy |25.—Austin saloon business from (o8 Sociallem of excluding the the town members of Alameda for the remarks I | MEN REHEARSE FOR SYMPHONIES Professor Wolle Insures Re- sults by Having Play- ers Do Much Practicing BERKELEY, March 25.—Unusual care and attention are being given by Pro- fessor J. Fred Wolle at the university for the fourth symphony concert, which is to be provided in the Greek Theater next Thursday afternoon. Never before in California have sym- phony programmes been so thoroughly rehearsed as this year. Dr. J. Fred Wolle, professor of music in the Uni- versity of California, conductor for the | series, meets the members of the uni- | versity orchestra for two hours on Tues- day, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday mornings of each week. This means that the programme for each concert is re- hearsed for two hours on eight different days. The effect is shown in the extra- ordinary improvement in the efficiency of the orchestra at the third symphony concert as compared with the two pre- ceding, rehearsal for which had numbered but four and five, as compared with seven for the last and eight for the next concert and those to follow. This diligent toil on the part of Pro- fessor Wolle and the enthusiastic com- pany of the seventy best professional muscilans in San Francisco who make up the university orchestra has as its reward in unity of effect, delicacy of color and rich throughout in shading. The programme of the next symphony concert will begin with two movements from the delightful old military sym- phony by Haydn—the Allegretto and Menuetto. These numbers will be par- ticularly agreeable as representing sym- phony music of the older and simpler sort. Then will come the overture to ‘“Corfo- lanus,” by Beethoven; and for every lover of music a Beethoven number is meat and drink. This will be followed by the overture t6 Mendelssohn’s “Midsummer Night's Dream,” delicately lovely and melodious; and then in splendid contrast to all that has gone before that magnifi- cent creation of Tschaikowsky's passion- ate genius, the Symphonic Pathetique. The four movements of this symphony are: Adagio—Allegro non troppe; Allegro con grazla; Allegro molte vivace; finale: adaglo lJamentoso. Like each of the sym- | phony concerts in the Greek Theater ‘naxt Thursday will ingJude one Wagner Ynumber——the beautiful prelude to *Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg.” The in- troduction to the third act of ‘“Die Melstersinger” was one of the most ap- preciated numbers in the programme of the first symphony concert and the play- ing of the overture will be gmost heartily welcome to the thousands who gather in the Greek Theater for each of the sym- phony concerts. YOUNG BURGLARS Amzmm.—mo- lev, March 25.—A trio of youthful bui headed by Albert Murphy, a member notorious Jim Crow gang of murderers, was arrested late tonight and (’Jlllgd with enter- , 8 China- ing the fruit -mn of Quong man, on Dwight The_other two boys Were Edwin O Sather and James B Smith, Each of the prisoners is about 16 years of age. ———— e WILL LECTURE ON SOCIALISM.—Berke- }ey Hl{ch 25.—The ?W. {. 'flfll Wl B‘]"" 2 tare, Tomorrow evening. a Fa e “Morai and Spitiar Signicance ot (‘ll.\m" The hfllll’fl 'ul be \In“l' the di- jon of the Social of -t\ldenu of the University of ml!mim ————— —Oakland, March unm tmuht b hall, “lm“g htdlfl'h‘wg'. con- muwhnflualch WHITAKER STANDS B HIS GUNS PastorWhom the Grand Jury Criticised Tells in Ser- mon of Law Breaking and Immorality in Oakland MEMBERS OF FLOCK GATHER EVIDENCE Visit Sinful Places and the Alleged Pulpit Sensation- alism Is Found to Be Based on Deplorable Facts —g OAKLAND, Mar¢h %.—Emulating the examples of the Rev. P. C. MacFarlane of the First Christian Church of Alameda and of the Rev. 8. D. Hutsinpiller of the First Methodist Church of San Jose, the Rev. Robert Whitaker, pastor of the Twenty-third Avenue Baptist Church of this city, last night set about gathering evidence to prove that his charges of the illegal selling of liquor after midnight and of other evils in Oakland are not pul- pit sensationalism. Instead of going him- self to collect this evidence, however, Mr. Whitaker intrusted the mission to two trusted members of his congregation and the latter last night made a tour of the red light district of Oakland. As a result of their investigation the minister today reiterated his charges that there were open violations of the law in Oakland. In a statement from the pulpit to the members of uis congregation Mr. ‘Whitaker said: Although I have no desire to do the work of a detective, or a prosecutor, and believe that such work belongs properly to those who are engaged and paid to administer public affairs, meaning the Chief of Police, the Police Com- mission, the City Council, the Grand Jury and other officials of the city and the county, and though my war is not primarily with those who are the publicans and sinners of our day, gince I have more sympathy with them than I have with the pharisees who protect them and profit by them, nevertheless I thought it my duty last night to send out two trusted men to investigate the conditions at 462 Fifth street, in the immediate neighborhood of the room where the Grand Jury meets. It was reported to me that on these prem- ises, which, contrary to law, are leased for im- ‘moral purposes. liquor could be bought “‘at any old time,” although the place has no license from either the city or county. This I found o be true, for my witnesses were entertained for nearly an hour by the women Wwho there make a trade of sin, and three times during the hour had liquor served them, for which $1 was paid each time, This all happened after 12 o'clock last night, as I have the witnesses to prove, 1If the Grand Jury must needs come to Twenty-third avenue for witnesses as to the lawlessness which is rempant immediately under their noses I shall be glad to furnish them in this instance with the names of the men who did this service for me. They are not detectives, but members of my own church. I will give them also the name of the woman who keeps the infamous resort, both the name under which she is commonly known and her married name; also the name of one of the clerks of the Superior Court, with whom she has been living in illicit intercourse, and the place where they have thelr rooms. Possibly the people of Oakland would like to know whether this woman's fllicit inter- course with an officer of our Superior Court has anything to do with the fact that lquor can be bought there without difficulty after the hour when even lice: places are sup- posed to be cloged, and whether that is the reason why the wealthy woman who leases this place for evil purposes is not indicted ac- cording to law. If the Police Commisslon, the City Council and the Grand Jury will close this place, and then solemnly assure Oakland that all further talk of graft Is merely pulpit sensationalism, 1 may sacrifice my feelings again and go out of my way far enough to eupply them with a little more evidence, involving some of our more respectable sinners. Mr. Whitaker added that he was not greatly interested in the running down of ‘minor offenders against the law, but rather hoped to awaken the people of Oakland to a sense of their responsibility for official negligence which allows these violations of the law and to arouse them to deal with the source of civic corruption and lawlessness. In reply to the resolu- tions of the Grand Jury, adopted after Mr. Whitaker had appeared before that body, the clergyman read a statement of his position prepared in the form of reso- lutions. In these resolutions Mr. Whitaker con- tends that it is the business of public of- ficlals to see that public affairs are ad- ministered honestly, economically and ef- ficiently, and that in the event of failure in this the very salary drawn by such of- ficials is graft. He avers that the affairs of the city of Oakland and the county of Alameda are not so administered, and cited the cases of the late County Treas. urer Clift and McMullan, alleged exces: sive charges for public printing, and al- leged neglect of public affairs for pri- vate business by prominent and well paid officials, FLOWERS T0 ADORN - TENEMENT WINDOWS Free Plant Distribution to the Poor of New York City. Special Dispateh to The Call. NEW YORK, March 2.—Five hundred window boxes are in process of manu- facture and 500 families are to be made happy this summer with boxes filled with flowers. The New York City branch of the National Plant, Flower and Fruit Guild has started its warm weather work and this is one of the most important features of it. The orders have been sent in early, that they may be completed be- fore the rush season begins, and by the last of April or first of May 500 boxes filled with flowers will be in place in as many tenement house windows. Boxes thirty-one inches long are made to fit the tenement house windows. They have no drainage holes and are war- ranted positively not to drip. All are filled with the same kind of plants—hardy ones, that will grow with the slightest encouragement and under adverse cir- cumstances. There are three or four geraniums, two English ivies and one other vine in each. Every natlonality in New Ycrk. except- ing only Chinese and Japanese, was given window boxes last night. This summer Chinese are to be included and if any one knows a Japanese mission or settlement through which Japanese may be reached they can have them, too. ————— Electric fishes, exposed to the action of radium., have heen found to ldse their electric power completely, and to suffer in health. —————————— An engineer declares that 50,000 peo- now do with machinery thn work of 1,000,000 persons a few years ago. PIONEER'S CAREER ENDS . AT RIPE AGE AMOS ROBERTS, PIONEER, WHOSE FUNERAL WILL BE HELD IN OAKLAND TODAY. HE ki S e e L Amos Roberts Passes Away After Life of Activity. OAKLAND, March 25,—The funeral of Amos Roberts, California pioneer and man of affairs, tomorrow afternoon will mark the close of one of the most unique and picturesque careers in the history of this Btate. It will be held at the family resi- dence, 1219 Grove street, at 2:30 o'clock, and the Rev. Charles R. Brown, pastor of the First Congregational Church, will of- ficlate. Interment will be in Mountain View Cemetery. Amos Roberts was one of the few re- maining pioneers who made the early his- tory of California. He was born in Ban- gor, Me., seventy-seven years ago, and ‘when a lad of 10 years reverses in the family fortunes forced him to make his own way in the world. He worked his way through the one academy at Bangor, doing chores on a neighboring farm and teaching writing during the long summer and winter vacations. In 1852 the gold excitement brought him to California. He came by the way of Panama and he was one of the 1010 passengers on the Great Northern, that was wrecked at Acapulco that year. The passengers were landed with difficulty, but many died of yellow fever during the two months that they ‘waited for succor. Finally a schooner ob- served their signals of distress and took the survivors to San Francisco. Arriving in California, Roberts engaged in mining for a time and made sufficlent money to buy a hotel in Sacramento. He ‘was a boniface for only six days when the disastrous fire of 1852 deprived him of his property. Tle went to Colusa and for ten years engaged in mercantile pursuits. Later he moved to Vacaville, where he was elected and served a term as Sheriff of Solano County during the troublous times of the early '70's. At Benicia and Sufsun he became known as a breeder of fine sheep, that were sought for by breed- ers throughout the United States and Eu- rope. In 1876 he gave up the sheep indus- try and came to Oakland, where he had lived ever since. Several times Roberts acquired fortunes, that were lost in speculations. He was a member of the well-known firm of brok- ers, Berry, Wolfskill & Roberts. Fulton G. Berry, now of Fresno, was one of the members of this firm, and E. W. Wolf~ skill of the Bapk of Winters, now a Gov- ernment contractor in the Philippines, was another. Mr. Roberts delighted to tell how one week he was rated as a mil- lionaire and the next he could not secure a position as driver for a grocer’s deliv- ery wagon. About that time he opened and conducted the Roberts House, at Ninth and Washington streets, but specu- lation in real estate removed the neces- sity for that sort of drudgery. When he died he was in comfortable financial cir- cumstances. ‘While a clerk at Colusa in 1859 Roberts married Misg Martha Cooper, the young- est daughter of Major Stephen Cooper, whose train of prairie schooners was a part of the famed Donner party. After crossing the continent in 1846 Major Coop- er and Donner disagreed regarding the route, and the members of the Donner party decided to go to Oregon. Despite the warning of Major Cooper that a storm ‘was impending, the Donner party went to the northward, toward a body of water now known as Donner Lake. The next day the Donner party became snowbound and entered upon the innumerable suffer- ings that are now a part of history. Major Cooper's train came on to California without mishap, and the next year, 1847, they gave the first Fourth of July cele- bration ever given in California. It was a dinner at Yountville, Napa County, and one of Cooper’s daughters, who afterward became the wife of John Wolfskill, made a flag on which was inscribed, ““California is ours as long as the stars remain.” An Englishman in the party threatened to shoot down the flag, and was tersely told by Major Cooper, who was a descendant of John Hancock and a kinsman of Daniel Boone and Kit Carson, and had seen ser- vice with Fremont, that his head would follow the flag. There was no shooting. The deceased leaves a widow, Mrs. Mar- tha Cooper Roberts; two children, Emma L. Roberts, a well-known artist, and Frank A. Roberts, and a granddaughter, Miss Lizzie Roberts Rich. Two sisters in Bangor, Me., and a brother, Issac Roberts of Hanford, Cal., also survive him. U, LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. gl Sunday, Stmr Breakwater, Johnson, Coos Bay. Bark Y. Bcott, hence 14th for Honolulu; returned on® account gallant mast cagried away, o main top FOREIGN PORTS. VICTORIA—Arrived Mar 25 ot eric, trom Mukilteo; NOF strar Titanie homea ISLAND PORT. HONOLULU-—Arrived Mar 25— Cambrian and Flora, from — e March 25, 55 houre: foom ships of Board Who Voted to Permits for New Buildings Transfer Saloon License| in Oakland Issued in a Year ATTACKS SLOT DEVICE Declares Machines Are Be- ing Operated in Defiance of the Laws of the State ALAMEDA, March 25.—In the pre- lude to his sermon at the First Chris- tian Church tonight the Rev. P. C. Macfarlane dwelt upon the action taken by the City Trustees in transterring the license of the Melwood saloon while the place was in trouble In the court; the stand taken by the municipal legis- lators oy the slot machine evil, and the remarks made by City Trustee W. M. Bowers relative to grabbags and games of chance in churches and Sunday- schools. In the course of his talk, Mac~ farlane said: The people of the entire city of Alameda are taking a keen interest in recent developments with regard to a prospective municipal house— cleaning, and it is not only ftting but right that the puipit should make some sort of in- terpretation of the events of the Wweek. The Mcnday night last indicated that a majority of the City Trustees will be solidly against the enforcement of our present saloon regu- lations. is seen in the transfer of the license of the Melwood salcon while 1(s proprietor rested under a charge of gross violation of the Tegulations under which the city permitted him to piy his business. employe {s undergoing prosecu for these violations, and by every principle of right and justice that saloon license should not have been' transterred to another, but in the event of the conviction of the barkeeper, Benjamin, should be summarily revoked. LICENSE 1S JUGGLED, Fearing such action a plot was hatohed to get the license into other hapds, and three of ewe Clty Trostess, Mosk wers, Probst Boehmer. assisted in getting the privi- Joke ocas ot danger. All honor to President Gorham and - City Trustes Forderer, tacit assent to ihe iranater had fiest been given when they did not understand what license was invoived, that they peremptorily refused to be parties to such a betrayal of the people who clecud them. At least one of the City Trustees who voted for the transfer eince explained that he was pledged to vote for it, and understood that all five of the City Trustees were going to vote for it, and that he does not care to go before the people as standing for a den of vice. The in- ierence from his remarks is that he will be true to his pledges to the people of Alameda rather than to any political bosses in future, and that he will siand for the city ordinances. It should be borne in mind by all that there is no campaign for prohibition belng waged, but the peopie are simply taking the City Trustees at their word. They have in- sisted that we had well regulated saloons in Alameda und that any saloon-keeper that did not obey the laws would be made to suffer for it. Now it has been openly demonstrated that the saloong are not obeying the laws and the City Trustees are called upon to make g their pledges. Instead three of them forswear the people and come to the rescue of a founder- ing_saloon-keeper. e chief comfort to be extracted from the vote of last Monday night is that it draws the line clearly. Men have been elected to the Board of City Trustees on the pledge of the people that they would enforce the laws: at the same time they have omtmy played into the hands of the enemy of good govern- ment and therefore - the enemy Now they are out in the open. knows where they stood on the Melwood sa- Toon proposition and it will be particular pleas: ure to the men who are waging the present campalgn to bring other issues up to them on which they will have to definitely put them- selves on record. SLOT MACHINE ISSUE UP. The motion to repeal the slot machine license will result in just such an lissue. This license is in deflance of section 33 of the Penal Code of the State; slot machines themselves are in defiance of the State law. They will be driven from Alameda whether the license is repealed or not; but it was believed that it was only fair to give the City Trustees an opportunity to correct any mistakes they have made in the past and the vote on the motion to re- peal will be taken at the next meeting of the City Trustees. It will show clearly whether our City Trustees are going to line up with the law breakers or do thelr duty as law enforcers. Already two men, Messrs. Gorham and For- derer, have declared themselyes unmistakably in favor of law and order; and already one man on the Board of City Trustees has uttered a wicked slander upon the churches and Sun- day-schools of the city. Six days have elapsed and he has uttered no retraction or apology that has reached the public eve. This utter- ance was so petulant and hysterical that I re- frain from mention of the name in the belief that the man's better self has already repented and will presently make public admission of his error. In fact, it should be borne in mind that no one of the recalcitrant City Trustees has yet gone so far that he cannot with honor correct his mistakes and come down firmly on the side of right, and I expect at least ome and possibly two of them to do this emphat- ically, The people of Alameda are a good peo- ple; their confidence has been rudely betrayed, and they know it, and are going to be very firm with their betrayers. SENTIMENT IS SANE. How sane and pure is the public sentiment on this question was clearly set forth by the examination of talesmen in the Kochendorfer case. There was a venire of seventy-five men, at least fifty of whom were examined. In the examination of the talesmen there was ex- almost a unanimous sentiment of ab- horrence for violations of the saloon regula- tions. While a number pleaded to be excused on the that they were friendly to the defendant and could not give the people a fair trial, the very plea which they made revealed their bellef that their friend had broken the laws. Citizens left their busii for two days waited In attendance upon) the trial u:a thm were few expressions cl impatience. In the demeanor of most of them was apparent a 4'- termination to see the law enforced and our city rid of the particular evils complained at no matter of what sacrifice of time n.nd trouble. The fact that three men upon the jury were found willing to stand for acquittal upon a ground so slight that the mime other men could see no ground there to stand upon at all, and thus defeat justice for a time, is cause for disappointment, but not for despair. The second trial will doubtlessly result in a convietion/ and in the meantime we have started a new roll of honor in our city and at its head appear the names of the nine jurors who voted for the convietion of the man who permitted two minor girls and their dissolute companions to loiter in the salcon of which he was in charge. I want to repeat to you the names of those jurors—Messrs. Gott, Hauch, Hildreth, Houck, Taylor. Relfe. Kline, Trofii .n: 'flohr'tnl. They are good citizens. Go out of your way tomarrow to to Your approval of their action, T oM —_———— SECRET SERVICE AGENTS INVESTIGATING LYNCHING Members of Ml-.- ob That Hanged Negro Johnson Fear Prosecution. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., March 25— Chattanooga is in suspense over the Johnson lynching case and the people most Interested are awaiting with much anxiety the first move of the Fed- eral authorities. It Is said that four secret service men have been here two da¥s quietly obtaining information, but s0 far no action has been taken against either the county officials or the mem- bers of the mob. time to the work of preventing disor- He says he will meet Federal Sherift Shipp is now giving his 'Mhl DEALERS KEPT BUSY Several Large Sales of Ala- meda County Property Are Reported for Last Week OAKLAND, March 25.—That Oakland is rapidly forging to the front rank among the cities of the West is proved beyond question by the records of the bullding inspectors for the last twelve months. On April 13, 1905, Building Inspector Towle recorded the first permit issued for a building within the city limits of Oak- land and since that date 233 permits have been issued for new buildings. More than half of these permits have been issued { for the erection of cottages and the rest were for business and manufacturing structures, large residences, outbuildings and alterations. Secretary Fawcett of the Board of Pub- lic Works is now compiling the first an- nual statement of the building operations in Oakland and this shows that permits were issued for the erection of i3 cot- tages in the last year. The total num- ber of other residence structures has not yet been compiled, but it is believed that they will number about 300, making a grand total of more than 1700 dwellings built in this ecity in the last year. Prominent real estate men estimate that at least one-half of these new dwellings have been secured by newcomers to Oak- land, which would mean the addition of more than 800 families to this community, or an increase of approximately 4000 peo- ple in the population of Oakland in the last twelve months. The publishers of the Oakland city directory for 1906 esti- mated the population of Oakland at about 100,000 people and if this is correct it is safe to predict that at the end of the present year Oakland will contain the homes of 150,000 persons. The continuous rain of the last week has interfered to some extent with the operations of the local real estate mar- ket, but in spite of this many small sales have been recorded. For the week end- ing last Thursday evening the records of the County Recorder showed that 757 transfers of Alameda County property ‘were filed, an average of 122 each day. Among the larger sales of the week were the transfer of the old Houghton home at Thirteenth and Jackson streets to E. A. Bushnell, the sale of a lot om the southeast corner of Twelfth and Oak streets by Mrs. Pauline Ench to C. F. Renz of Lake County for $15,000, the pur- chase of a lot fronting on Broadway, Telegraph avenue and Seventeenth street by J. S. Meyers from P. Donohue of San Francisco for 325,000 and the sale of the goer block bounded by Broadway, Web- ster, Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth streets to Samuel Jacoby of San Francisco by A, 8. Macdonald and C. B. Gould. The growth of Berkeley, Alameda and Fruitvale has in the last few months been fully equal to that of this city and what a year ago were almost uninhabited districts are now thickly settled and built up with pretty cottages and large dwellings. One of the largest sales of Berkeley property closed in many years was recorded last week, this being the transfer of the El Granda block at Telegraph avenue and Dwight way to Charles R, Bishop of San Francisqo. The sale was made through the offices of Mason & McDuffle and the price paid for the block was $125,000. Another large deal in Berkeley real es- tate was the purchase of a lot and two dwellings on University avenue from Mrs. Letitia J. Acheson. The property was bought by Francis Ferrier for a client and the purchase price was $30,000. Alameda and Fruitvale dealers report no unusually large sales for the last week, but all say that they have been kept very busy supplying the continuous de- mand for cottages and larger dwellings. Crown & Lewis, Inc., a newly organized real estate firm of this city, report the sale last week of a large tract of Fruit- vale property to a firm of Eastern capi- talists, who will at once subdivide and place it on the market. The price paid for the tract was $30,000. They also sold a large tract near Mills College to local purchasers for $75,000. They also report the sale of a piece of unimproved property in South Berkeley and a lot near Tele- graph avenue and Twenty-second street, the price paid in each case being $12.000. David Craig, a well-Known real estate operator of Berkeley, has just purchased an interest in the firm of Smith & Co. at Dwight way. ADVERTISEMENTS. Keep Your Nerve It is nerve energy that runs the organs of your body. The sto battery is the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord, and from this battery nerve force is sent out through the system of nerves. 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