Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 15

THURSDAT EVENING MAT 5, 1932 VOLUNTEER PIONEER RECALLS DAYS OF FIREMEN rvunif nrinTPn UAdolph Spreckels, A. R. Glahninl, OAKLAND'S PRIDE Hiram w. Johnson, Mark L. Re- BUCKETS qua, Paul Klelber, Mortimer AH tU Historic Old SurryhneHome Has Vanished Fleishacker, Herbert Flelshacker, hara and Louise Shestek.

The preference that, business leaders are showing for Healfl trained assistants is indeed a tribute to the thoroughness with which students rs trained at this 69- year-old institution. i J. H. King, Fred D. Parr, R.

Stan HID EH M.JIMU ley Dollar, Viola Smith, E. T. Earl. Marion Hiatt, Alice Pu- HERE IN 1902 IN 10 DAYS BY CITY'S 'FIST George J. Surryhne; 9222 street, Oakland pioneer, should be happy today but he-isnt.

He's 69 years old on this, Oakland's eightieth birthday, and he ought to be, rejoicing. By T. B. BRIDGES Manager, Ilcalcl College To think that any one business education Institution here in California has been responsible for the business training of approximately But this morning; bright and'. 'It Might Have Been Different If We Had Had Says Lloyd I Thirty years ago the district, now known as Lawton and Broadway, was much in the country'.

The Rockrldge district as a- residential community was unthought of, when in J902 Antbna Campomenosi founded the Red Gate Fariji Jjatr'y, Starting in a small way with a herd of of fine the fine milk and cream brought increased business, which caused a continual growth la size of herds and facilities for serving the district, ac-rnirdinif tn CnmnnmptioRi 3 0 0.000 men and women from firm of SwanNon-l'hl Co. H. C. Swanion to conttnn but stock muit be reduced IIS.OOO.OO to facilitate the transfer early, he decided he'd go along and get a photograph of the -ojd home at Cedar and Short streets, where he was born, and where three of his brothers and a sisoer were also born. The old home was brought I Xmi Jsfe4: I I i I mU ill WQH3; Hi I flll Biill Wi There was a time when Oakland luciucn ui uui intra Willi VUCKVIH llilllly I around the Horn by a windjammer Need for newer and.

better quar seems almost 1 -c 1 le. However, in i ng iin the enroll mehts at Heald College since its founding in 1863, the total comes i th i a very few of the 300,000 mark. ters-was felt, and a new dairy was erected at 452 Clifton street. The new establishment was named Floor Varnish. Per qt.

606 Kalsomine (white). Pound Qt Wallpaper Cleaner. Per can Wallpaper Paste. Per pound 96 Floor Wax. Regular 75c.

Now ........356 Imported Wallpaper. Roll 156 to 506 30-Inch Patterns. 56 to 256 Tapestries ..56 to "06 Bedroom .46 to 156 Living 56 to 206 Kitchen 36 to 106 86 to 86 Varnlsh-TUcs. .156 to 256 House Paint, Reg. $3.00.

Gallon $1.95 White Enamel, hlgh-grado. Gallon $2.50 Floor Enamel, $2.25 Flat White. Gallon. Utility House Paint. Gullon $1.34 Interior Varnish.

Gallon $1.00 Sandpaper. 3 sheets 5 Gold Paint. 120 gallon. 156 Household Enamel. 132 gallon ...156 Sllklline Gloss Enamel.

Gallon Nu Car Auto Black. 1720 (tallon ....15 in '49, carried "knocked down" on the vessel's deck. It was built in Michigan, of rustic lumber, and Surryhne's father, Edward Surryhne. and mother, were mighty proud of that house when they had it all built. For seven or eight years, Sur and did a good job' of It, too.

according to George A. Lloyd, president-elect 'of the Veteran Firemen's association, This week, because of Oakland's eightieth "birthday celebration, Lloyd and his associates of: the association rounded up old photographs and records of the time jFernwood Ranch Dairy, by which name it is Known xoaay. Fernwood Ranch Dairy features Grade A Raw Milk, as distributors for Stornetta and Sonsr At the ryhne hadn't been past the old house, as he has been living in an Pacific Slope Dairy Show, 1931, other-part of the city. wnen me Ducnet origaae was up they took gold medals fop milk, -He drove his auto to the curb, grabbed his camera and Jumped out, all ready to click the Dotn oerore ana arter pasteurizing. Hardly a day goes by but what some alumnus drops In or writes land's finest.

"I don't know just how we would have handled a ten or fif-'teen story building with buckets." sajd Lloyd todsfy. "But that wasn't problem to worry about In that The old home had vanished. SWIMMING STUNT WINS JOB AUBURN, N. Yi It was just 'a T. BRIDGES.

And all Surryhne knows is that some unknown persons pulloU the historic place down some time or to tell of stunt when'-Fxank Beacham, elec SWANSON-UHL CO. riONKEIt WALLFAPKR AND PAINT DEALERS 375 12th Street, Oakland Phone LAkeside 8230 FREE DELIVERY Oakland's eightieth birthday started a train' of reminiscences among members "of the Veteran Firemen's association, many of whom recall the days of 187Q when this firehouse at Fifth and Washington was the pride of the cityl and the department. The photo is one of a number gathered into a department gallery, showing how the volunteers used to "gallop" to a fire. other anyway, it Isn't any tric company, meter render, swam across each of the Finger lakes In succession. But it turned but to be practical when he received an his or her business success, Records of Heald graduates show that many have achieved positions of outstanding importance, in virtually, every type of business.

Most prominent among the alumni are. Which explains why Surryhne's sixty-ninth today. is appointment a3--prjnanent life guard at Fair Haven Beach. tingea wun saaness. F.

and M. Savings Bank Finance Bulwark 40 Years teen-Ktory bulldirlgs. The first after much effort, won an appropriation of $800 from. the city council to compete and' furnish an engine house with a hand-drawn, man-powered pump and one reeled hose cart. At the town grew, Lloyd said, more modern equipment followed, with new volunteer fire companies and a horse-drawn steam punjper.

There -were only three sources of water for the department in those days cisterns on Broadway at Second, Third and Fourth streets'. A bell In the city hall firehouse called, the volunteers. "This, a few years later, gave plae to the steam whistle at the company's plant, which continued in use until 1911. Horses replaced the volunteers who "ran" the first fire reels to the blaze, and were In turn dusted by motor-driven apparatus. cashier and secretary of the bank, succeeding James C.

McKee, who had" died in tetober, The preseti't officers and directors are as follows: Edson F. Ad ami, president; George S. Mere dith, vice-president: F. C. Mar have been tens, vice-president and cashier; U.

C.Read, assistant cashier; John Campe, assistant cashier; and Ed-son F. Adams, Charles D. Bates, W. C. Jurgens, R.

A. Leet, F. C. Martens, George S. Meredith and A.

G. Ta8heira, directoin. In June, 1910, the bank moved That was. the "break- Operating for 40 years under the same charter, the, Farmers and Merchants Savings bank, tftfeiftfi' and Franklin Htreets, has Increased its prestige, manifold, according to tieorge S. Meredith, vice-president.

Mklfl The flibt uificers and directors of the pioneer bank in April, '1892 were as follows: Kdson F. Adams, president; Charles E. James C. McKee, secretary and cashier, and Kdson F. Adams, S.

Farrelly, John Charles Adams, II. Pitcher, Samuel Bell McKee, VV. II. Taylor, H. F.

Gordon, F. 13, Osgood JLIharles ISilnier, A. lichaf V. II. Bailey, directors.

Jjeorge S. Meredith was elected assistant cashier und assistant secretary in December, in which capacity he served until January 13, 1903, when he was elected hofaiiuA thft mntnr-rfrlvAli. nnnnm- from its original office ut. 1103 Broadway to Its new bankluilding on the southeast corner of Frank the serving lin and Tnirteentn streets, it a sayings bank, conservative at a times and one that requires 'all of the business of the bank to be un dr the direct supervision and' con tus as often as not balked, either at starting or on the way o' Ihe fire. "It was freely predicted that the fire department would never func-.

tlon without horses," he said. But complete motorization cunie" in 1917. Jlembers of the Veteran Kire-jiien's association are: Frank C. Merrltt (chairman), I.loyd. George Planer, W.

E. Bullock, S. M. Short, George JanB-aeii, F. J.

Sandy, D. A. O'Brien, F. Gurlner, Elliott Whitehead, C. K.

P. Cook, Bert Hone, l'j, F. Baker, Caesar Sotfrero, II'. J. Mullen, J.

F. Dacha, Al Fink, MfFeeley, Willium trol of Its officers. Growth of Big Oakland Furniture House Traced Furniture Needs j. r-'r of the East Bay Since 1875 William Ktulz, A. Biambronl; L.

Iloffninn and J. J. Jtulgrew. I KULBKRG By ALLEN nlng ail the work was performed by H. K.

Jackson or under Ws per Wild Steeds In Oakland in the year 188!) a small firm which has since grown Into one of ths largest retu'll institutions In California. '-This concern was known as lhA Phir-fifTA f'lnrlr pnmnanv and sonal supervision. As the firm grew, additional help was needed and his brother came out from the easttq assist him. Department was ju tided and conducted by H. managers and buyers -for the various- departments came later, the first of them F.

L. who Ik tv. jacKsun, i ueumig -jureiy in small home furnishings. The eterl- still with the A. j.

Nathan was next engaged to take charge 1 ft v- quickly recognized by 1 the public of the rugs, drapes and bedding department, which occupied a corner of the mezannlne floor about as ana me new concern proeperea. ii outgrew store after another until about 1894' It located on the north side of Fourteenth Btreet, between Broadway and Franlilln streets, In what was for those days rather spuclo.ua, quarters, lowevoit, in the course- of two years, vheri that proved Inadeaunte. the firm "-'-again was large as the entrance area of the present store. It may be Interesting to note at this time that this same department still under Nathan's managernent, occupies an entire floor of 25,300 square feet about Wild horses roamed the," lnts And the hills around Oakland, half, a million years ago. Somewhere around fhat time, one such prehistoric horse down and -died on what today Is upper Grand avenue.

i The fossilized jawbone of thlw duly authenticated by ex. prrtK. 'may Be 'seen during Oakland's eightieth birthday-, week, at th Oakland museum. Tula specimen "was discovered burled'' 40, beloW the surface of 'the the upper Grand avenue section. City Birthday Observed by Club Oakland's eightieth" birthday was observed last night by "the North in' -fttW i.

u. amp" twenty times the area of Mr. Jack compelled to move, this time to son's first store. The great 4ire that destroyed San Francisco in 1906 materially af Twelfth' street, between Clay ana Washington. At the same time the name of the firm was changed and was1 thereafter known as the Jackson Furniture company.

Again th firm was compelled to' enlarge its quarters and wax fortunate enough to secure the store fected the growth of this young firm. The morning after the fire, Jackson personally visited bedding, mattress and spring manu mm STYLES CHANGE! Just as the reproduction of a Jackson advertise-' ment of 1906 displayed the newest styles of that day, so do the Jackson advertisements of today. Read them. Built on a policy of the best and newest in household equipment, at consistently lower prices, this company is proud of the position it holds in the Eastbay. aZ facturers in astbay cities and secured their entire output to relieve the distress of the many refugees frorn -SarFrancisoo who came to the side of, the bay seeking shelter selling at regular prices to in tha rear, fronting on tMevenm and -was-mofthe first large retail establishments running Developments asso'clatiorH with a at which Henry Maloon, pioneer resident, and Lloyd TJownsend, were the principal speakers.

Pupils of the Emerson, school appeared in, and dance. Open forum was held, A tribute was paid to the memory of- the former of the organization, the late. Edmund L. Vander Kalllen. from one sweet 10 Gradually more departments were added.

rugs, draperies, in fact everything desirable in a complete home furnishing-establishment. Along with the growth of the establishment, there naturally followed, an Increase in personnel, "hlle lit the begin- fs .00 51 OAKLAND HAS GROWN, SO HAS JACKSON FUR those who could pay giving to those who could not pay. This humane act of Jackson's wife, really the foundation stone for the tremendous growth the concern Joyed. two years later they -had. again entire-lyj outgrown their quarter CJack-son then entered Into an agreement with Cas.

Heesman, then one of the leading clothing merchants in Oakland, to erect for the Jackson Furniture company a modern, com-m-idious, up-to-date building at Clay, Thirteenth tnd Fourteenth streets. It Is Interesting to note that at the opening of this new six-story building, with a frontage of 115 feet, that there was only, two other business houses-on Clay street. One was the- Taft nd Pennoyer, who had i moved the year before from Fourteenth arra to the corner of Fourteenth and Clay streets. The 'other was the Pacific Gas Electric whose office building occupied the corner- at Thirteenth and Clay streets. This building was later'torn down and a -new one erected In Its place, housipg the i Jackson Furniture company and covering" over i acres of floor-space, making it one of the largest and most attractive home furnishing stores on the entire Paciflo coast, whiih enviable position, it still occupies.

NITURE COMPANY! In many homes, both yesterday and 1 13 i today, Jackson furniture or other articles of home furnishings fibm. Jackson's are to be found, closely interwoven in the life of Oakland. We have been serving the people of the Eastbay over a period of 56 years. We are proud to be a part of Oakland, for the growth of this city has been our growth as well. rl In I i Since! 895 SALO.MONSON "Piontet Bicycle Man" Polytechnic College of Engineering aiid Polytechnic College 13th and, Madison Oakland Old-Time Friends 'i'im''lfiirtfc'80tl'-Aiuirrrry of Our City The Pg)yVehrne College rejolees in th faet that after 34' years It -calnlook back on the years that have gone and say we have al'geed -fight, vrt have kept.

the faith. Ire Oakland an- to be congratulated. We are living in a great at a time, -We- have seen-Oakland grow and prosper. Our march can, be. interrupted but tempbrarfly and our vtrue lies ahead In the abundance of life, health, happiness -and prosperity.

-Come on, ye timid and faltering ones have cour- age, faith i.nd i would we do in this, world of ours W'erf it not for the dreamt ahead?" already coming true, vy'e once dreamed of having in Oakland's great Harbor a new- City Halla great Municipal Has faithfully served, the bicycle needsof Oakland and the East Bay. This it Bicycle Stason and ve offer', a number, of Special Bargains. Come in today. All standard make's. i.

C. F. Salomonson Phone HI ghgate 855t 172 Twelfth Street" OaiclanjJ, Calif. i- Playgrounds a Municipal Water Supply Clay, 13th and 14th Ocldnnd Great; Manufacturing Concerns Fine- Schools, Churches and We now have all' these and many 'more good things, and othts are coming- We are sitting on top of the earth, if only we could appreciate it. The Polytechnic College will' maintain eourtes Summer in ell -theiourie in- Engineering, as well as ipecial courtet in Commerce.

-Sinography' and Bitiineis Administration. vi.W.Eu GIBSON President a W. I. WOODS; Itcgistrar' 7".