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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 102

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Oakland Tribunei
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DafelanD DECEMBER, 1, JL929 ilEIEimOT KNOLL BRElNER TELLS In Tudor Hall The spacious lounge of the new apartment structure at Madison and1 Lake streets. Oliver Kehrlein is the owner; landscaping is by The Drbmore Apartments OUUIITII IMSE-LESS This structure has just been completed at 5850 Birch Court, by J. Sexton, the owrfer. It consists of three and four-room units equipped with genuine Frigidaire, Spark gas ranges and Marshall Stearns-wall beds. Steam heat is supplied from a full automatic Wayne oil burnim system.

Arthur Cobbledick, and furniture in from Berman SHOWS EM MEETING NEW HOT FUEL SUNDAY FURNACES MEN 1 1NEW DROMQRE APARTMENTS -HDr-pnuDi ETcn -Ml UUIVII LL I LUV Oakland Merchant Home Fairway Estates Adjoining Dealers Association Ileatl 1 '-nnn Three and Four RoofnUnita Are Displayed Many Features. Tells of Savings In Use Golf Course Offers Choice Locations. From Conference' On Latest Styles. of Appliances. ts zsr- s-h The Oak Knoll Land Corpora The Eastbay cities are now being Standards may be set by which the American public will be able tlon report much favorable com -ment on the progress made and the to furnish Its homes In good taste, served with a fuel gas considerably higher in heat control than that character of the development work to a degree greater than was pos being dona In Oak Knoll.

The nlble heretofore, according to Louis 1 11 I lVHAJ company reports: which was supplied last winter, according to a statement by H. O. Lathrop, secretary of the Furnace Dealers' Association of Alameda the home already built a F. Breuner, who has returned from Chicago, where he attended a national conference. The conference raJrly rood idea can be sained ot how the property will look after 'j hJ i 1 'XI was sponsored by the National County, Ino.

Lathrop states: The completion of the new Dromore apartments, located at 5850 Birch Court, is announced by J. Sexton, the owner and builder. The location, though only a half block from College avenue, is of a residential character, and the structure adjoins the beautiful tree clad Perry estate. Birch street itself is a unique thoroughfare in that it is parked with large silver birch, which give a pleasing perspective. A description of the new building feads: I "The house comprises three and four-room units and is The inclusion ot a minimum of five closets in every unit is a feature.

Furniture News Bureau, a subsid lhe gas we are now ualnsr con It la entirely built up. The the Improvement la uch as to give the beat possible setting iary of the National-Retail Furnl. tains 62 T. Brtlsh thermal vt wfrtehv-Breunwr "tmttflT as against a former content lor tne nomes. Is past president, and the National mmmmm mn nnmm of 650 B.

T. This gives a definite saving in gas fuel costs. "-v Ktate, the latent unit Association ot Furniture Breuner said: "Writers and ed which will be reflected in this winter's" bills, due to the fact that less gas wlH be burned to supply a or Oak Knoll to be placed on the imsrket, la naturally receiving much attention. Limited In extent and 'immediately adjoining the club itors of several well-known maga zines met with leading manufacturers and retailers of home furnish given amount of heat. The gas now in use can be economically burned In all gas appliances without house and golf course of the Oak Knoll Country Club, Fairway Es ings, In an effort to make America's homes more beautiful.

changing the size of orifices. How Home 60 men and women at ever, when the Pacific Oas and I mm ,1 i Electric company starts the serv- tended the meeting. The discussion made it clear that the points of difference between the furniture men and the authorities on decora ice next year with straight natural gas the orifices will have to be tate offers some of the choicest property obtainable In Oak Knoll. Kales in this unit are moat satisfactory and several purchasers are planning immediate home building, or will start construction In the spring. "Kapld progress is being made In the erection the Spanish model hanged.

However, the change will Other conveniences are genuine Frigidaire, Spark Ltd Top gas ranges and Marshall' Stearns wall beds. Steam heating and hot-water systems are provided, and operate automatically from Wayne oil burning equipment. There la a bedroom in each apartment and the four-room units include dining" room as well. "In the finish decoration textured plaster is used In 'the main corridors end carefully selected wallpapers in the rooms. The woodwork is Philippine mahogany.

Lighting; fixtures, by Voorhees ft Maschlo, are of arv attraotlve tion were essentially unimportant, and that all of them were working toward the same end. CLEANER MEMNEW DEVICES KEEPINO PACE. "I was especially struck," Breu be of a minor nature. SAVING IX COST. "When the high heat content gas is eventually turned into the mains, the saving in fuel costs will be pronounced and, couple with advantages in other directions, will tend to popuarlze gas for heating.

In 'Chapel 06 lEHimes' Coco palms brought here from Santa Barbara are thriving in the garden aisles of the "Chapel of the Chimes," in the California Memorial Columbarium on Piedmont avenue. ner continued, "with the fact that California is keeping pace with the foremost thought In the nation. It appears that styles which are noma lining dujjc oy tne company In Fairway Estates. This home will demonstrate the type of architecture that will prevail In Fairway Estates. Only Spanish or Mediterranean architectural types will be permitted In Fairway Estates, so a to be In keeping with the clubhouse, and to- make Fairway Ks-tritfs and the club property an architectural unit.

TAKE 'TROPHY AT. TUDOR HALL evolved strike the eastern seaboard and the west coast at about the same tlms. iv TTZM The easterners denied that Such advantages Include cleanliness as fuel, automatic operation, and. the elimination of effort in removing burned fuel from the furnace. "Qas-flrexLsfurnaces installed by the members of this association are guaranteed to operate properly and to heat adequately.

Our Installa Fifth avenue Is the only style center, and pointed to California as Tudor Hall. Oakland's latest ad For the first time In four years, Seattle's latest telephone direc ditlon to Its apartment house struc a place where they may obtain tory contains 6000 more tures, is-meeting with the approval valuable Information. tions pass an. additional Inspection Among delegates to "tho confer than the one published six months and appreciation of visitors it Is re- to that of city Inspectors, and are oerore. ence whom Breuner met were; lwrted.

The management states: pattern. "Transportation facilities are offered on College avenue, a half block distant, to both Oakland and Berkeley, and the Ban Francisco bay trains stop at Claremont and College avemies, two and a half blocks away. The Rock Ridge shopping district, with Its excellent stores, theater, is a short walk." Public Inspection Is invited today by the builder. Blanche Byrne-Opens Beauty S'uo Here the perpetual trophy awarded by the Eureka Vacuum Cleaner Co. to the district completing greatest number of come to Oakland, It Is announced.

V. r. Klein, field sales manager In thla district. Mrs. Katrine Hooper.

House Bea "Located on the shores of Lake U- bivcii RumaiilBV uxn wujwi jyjassures correction or replacement P'ToT-ny faulty Installation without tlful: Miss' Catherine Clayberge Merrltt, with spacious gardens and Woman's Homo Companion; Mrs. sound-proof devices, the structure Lois Palmer, Ladles' Home Jour cost to the owner. "Information as to the proper offers all the advantages of an individual residence. nal; 'Mrs. Mary Davis Olllles, Mc- reports that October sales here exceeded by a considerable margin Call's Magazine; Mrs.

Nell How- 'Every detail has beert carefully method and the necessary equipment to adequately heat any home rylce offered by. our asso studied to rcrteve the tenant of in- ard Enlop, JMctorlnl uiu Mra.J Re-inforcing Steel for the TUDOR HALL APTS. Furnished and Installed bf McGrath lhpsrecorded' Jjou4LijejSan Kran- onvenienca. a tilt J-ielen HulwJ -i "Special facilities consist of Miss Priscllla Whlloy House and ITT staff were guests of the Ban Fran electric dishwashers, a solarium Garden, and Mrs. Chrlntln Hol- cisco sales organization at a din mi I r- Xil lr Kb on the roof, private garages at tho I brook, Better Homes and Gardens.

ciation to the generaKpubllc without charge." Offices of the Furnace Dealers' Association arn maintained in the Builders' at liobart and "Bftinrr-witrtii; ner here recently. loot or tne elevator, a cooperative A MB. 000 permit Was Issued to Symotl Dros. Work on 354 HOBART ST. CL encourt 7400 commissary which sells staple groceries, gas, oil, etc.

"Ajiiiilim ntH ii.ru leasing roplilly both furnished and unfurnished, and may be Viewed. Mrs. M. Hughes is hostess." Largest Wrecking Job M. Mllbach for the construction of a three-story, forty-two room apartment house on tho east side of Carroll street, 60 feet north of East Twenty-second stroot.

Blanche Byrne, formerly1 with' Taft Pennoyer has opened the Paris Beauty, liajon In the new building; at 516 Eighteenth street, it is announced. The salon consists of three rooms on the second floor, equipped with the latest apparatus, It is stated. W. K. Strickland "will build a two-itory, seven-room dwelling at Acacia street, for C.

N. 'White. What Is sold tn be tho largest Kastbay wrecking contract of the Furniture fur the apurtment was selected from Beriuun's, and the year was awHrded to Hymon Broth-frm Wrpflrinu rnintmnv In razlnff Coco Palms Planted In Columbarium A oarlond of Cocos palms was brought from Santa Barbara and planted In the "Chapel of the Chimes" of tho California Memorial -'Columbarium on Piedmont artistic JiiiiUHcaping, effects were die entire block bounded by created by Arthur Cobbledlck. Twelfth, Thirteenth, Alice ftnd Among cruftsrnen who have been TUDOR HALL on Lake Merritt 'atrpptR tuTiv nld The building permit was for especially commended for their marks are tllHuppeHrin'g as crew part in the coiiHtnictlon apeTRa i'a avenue, reports Lawrence K. Aldore, of fifty -men and eight trucks are clearing (JiIm blotk, which Is the clflo Klevntor Kiiulpment com r- 1 1 if! ii PHJiy, tho HlKiiey Tile company, the slto of the ripw 'OnJsbjJitJi poHtofflcn, manager of the Columbarium under whowe direction the work was done.

comment, Jloora ea(d; "Many Hardeners predicted that Mi'tii'iith Htet'l conipnny, una the Used by Good Builders Acconimg nv-rT. Kymnn. tun work will lio coniplcted within 30 days ta im 1 rr i iris 't-w. these palms would not crow In our and the contract rails for the removal of 30 dwellliiKS. i Wrecking W'phIim'H Itoofln conipunv.

Tudor hnll Is locntd at the corner of Lakeside drive and Madison streets, a few liil'iutcs' walk from llio business district. I W' HI HJ WM CO nf EMI E.Nj'C climate. The health of those tall trees, which now border t)ip gar- den aisles tin tho Chanel of the, vpernllnns are now well under wuy, th lujnlier and debris being removed by newly opened driveways Roller Skating Rink on Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. Ptrnilipin lint iwiinllv Chimes, was Insured in whiter by running laterals, stenm heut system in.i'onure't'n tunnels nearby. racially prepari-d It .4.

rt To Be Erected Here completed wrecking the site for the new Nears-Jtoebuck building on soil was brought from the Ielta regions, ground pent and coal dust belnn added. In sunny weather, the aiiartz-fused glass in the high Telegraph evenue and are now completing two Hmnller jobs on Annoum-envent Is made that a modern roller skating-rink will be erected near the corner of Telegraph avenue and Fifty-fifth Twcntletli street near Webster. pany, The cot ot the von- I Coif OmtO OUfth A Wayne oil burner In Phones in Use lure win be approximately It Is stated. AlbeiwFrolierg bus prepared tlio plans for Ilia cathedral windows brings In "the ultra-violet or health rays. The trees have thrown out newt leaves and are thriving remarkably.

"Many other semi-tropical plants rubber and kentias are doltif; well under these conditions. The graceful plumes of the eoeos paling prove a beautiful background for the Oothlo traceries of this little cathedraJ." 1 Instruction In use. of the telephone has been undertaken by several London senior schools. RESOURCES MILLIONS Appliance Company Leases Building Neon Appliances, of America, has leased a building at 1256 Sixty-fifth Emeryville, f'iillfornlfi ranks fourth In Hip United States for the number of telephones In inn. Hell Telephone rornpany offlolula announced today.

The three leading; states for telephone usage are New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania, in the order given. Florida Is the only state which showed a ratio of Incrense greater I IT 7 8fm'T? A': 7 Appraisals and Selling Conferences than California from 1022 to 1927 Conducting if series of appraisal In J927 California wss operating and selling, conferences Under di total of phones and of rertlon of the appraisal division and the regional vice-presidents of these the Bell system controlled 1,019,223. The independents con the California Real Estate asso trolled 186,248. elation. Arthur J.

Mertzke and A. where itwlll engage In tho business of manufacturing Neon letters. Neon tubing, traveling signs, etc. All the materials necessary in the manufacture of this firm's signs, with the exception of glass, will be purchased locally. The Oakland plant will serve the entire world, -The officer! are John O.

Matthias, president and treasurer; William I'VT. Whltton, eecretary, and H. S. Batchelder, manager. John Berge of the national asso always gwes satisfaction Silent Economical Fully Automatic Let- um demonstrate the efficiency of this truly wonderful burner.

Opinio Oil Burner Hill Stoops Distributor 4214 Broadway HU mboldt 1993 Executive Committee elation of real estate boards will visit California early in the year, Named for Show Berge recently conducted a series of sales conferences among The executive committee for the the California real estate boards, California Land Show to be held with William E. Herren. next March under the auspices of the Los AngelesJRealty Board, consists of the follawlng- members, according to announcement of Edward H. Bnym, general manager: Kdwln ClHart, agricultural sub- ARTHUR COBBLEDICK Ji LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT oUfioyT. FOR TUDOR HALL APARTMENTS iWblr Opening Today GAS ig CMade in Oakland.

Used all over the i world! divider, general chairman; Frank H. Brooks, past president Los An Keles Realty Board; E. K. Bowen, THE N. J.

Cordnry, Wni. U. Harrison, Olenn D. Wlllamnn, state secretary I 1602 Webster St. HOlliday 6559 I California Tteal Estate association, and Dr.

Geo. P. Clements. The local real estate board mem I i 1 bers of the state association are appointing committees to serve on DROMORE APTS. 5850 Birch Court Beautiful Modern county cooperation and I II I Resigns to Take Apartment Building Secretaryship A The First Requirement of the Discriminating ff Tenant is Genuine '5 FRIGIDAIRE 4 af 11 Frank C.

Colrldge, for the past five years director of real estate education for the California Real Estate association and University of Southern California, has re FURNITURE for ilie TUDOR HALL APTS. ielecicd from BERMAN'S 1531 Clay St. HOlliJay58t8 LOWEST BUILDING AND LOAN RATES IN CALIFORNIA EASY REPAYMENT PROMPT SERVICE GENEROUS LOANS Large sums available for immediate advances Ttediantfiri 3 and 4 rooms, unfitfn. $52.50 to $62.50 Steam Heat Hot IValer Frigidaire signed to become executive secretary of the California association of Insurance Agents, with headquar ters in San Francisco. He will be succeeded In the real estate education work by Clifford I i I I A I CORPORATION af A mci Tt 1...

-rT QC44 V. Burr. Close to all transportation urt uniuuvvav ULicntuHU 7stt 'a 4 Builders Hardware REFINANCE NOW AT A BIG SAVING 65 -Foot Tree For Christmas Placed in Store ARTISTIC TILE WORK for the Tudor Halls ApU. by the RIGNEY TILE COMPANY 3012 Harrison St. GLcncourt 514 gives, clean quick En at Radiant ieat lite sunthine good for human bodies.

The Ridi-antfire supplants the lack of sun ehine we get on duD, winter days. Have one installed in your fireplace. Strike a match quickly the Radiant rc takes away the chilL It's fine for convenient heat in the living room or bedroom. No bother or fun. Cott about 2c in hour to operate.

Bums the cheaper new gi fuel. The Radi-antfire comes in many sites and period design to harmonise with any decorative scheme. WeH install one in your fireplace for 1 down. for the DROMORE APTS. from B.

SIMON HARDWARE CO. 7tK and Broadway 2 LAketide 7816 wwu PAINTING i Mi 'a a 9a triune rixiures W. Siv full details and courteous consideration to inttrcstcd prop-. rty owntrs and brokers. Wt do not require bor-" rowers to place savings with us or to purchase membership shares.

RlCIFIC STATES CinVTC uLllU3 COMPA.W 174? BROADWAY, OAKLAND Mct opp. Crsnt, San Frsncitco jt360 Aihlon Wsy, Berkeley A HUGE Christmas tree, 6) feet hifji and weighing. 46 hundred pounds, has just been instilled in B. F. Schlesinger Son.

The peak of the. tree reaches high into the dome ol the store. Forty men were required to carry the tree inio the store, it is "Mated, and six men spent more than 24 hours decorating the tree with 700 lights and 250 large tojs. Harry E. Car? supervised the (election and rutting of the tree, bringing it from Sonoma county on a truck and trailer.

The tree ill remain in the store until the day after Christ-mas. On Christmas Fve the employee of Slilcsingrr'i will hold a OirJcfmm pflriv finder tlte Tree. 7- 1 Wallpapers for the DROMORE APTS. from CHRIS NELSON Pain ell paper 2259 E. 14th St ELEVA TOR EQUIPMENT of moil modern type and highest efficiency for the TUDOR HALL APARTMENTS PACIFIC ELEVATOR AND EQUIPMENT CO.

Sl San Francijco' FOR THE DROMORE ly Blomgren Bros. Painter and Decorators 1927 RUSSELL ST. for the DROMORE APTS. VOORHEES MASCHIO Electric Light Fixtures 4121 BROADWAY '4 Facitic Gas and Eutywc Company nt4'Oprrld MWfce tfteMMT fRuiirale 0156 THornmll llbt PERKEI.KY 'A I.

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