Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 17

5U1 hfl VOL. CXXXIV- OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA. SUNDAY. JANUARY 19, 1941 NO.

19 i 7 change attitude is a realization that there is reading public of the 18th centurv. Thev nto- OVERNOR OLSONS decision to em- ploy a lobbyist to serve the interest of the administration during the cur- r. X- fi. rent session of the State Legislature there is in the administration of unemploy-is stimulating a variety of comment ment relief. Most of the board members have in Sacramento and elsewhere.

Some observers reached the conclusion there is as much are trying to convince themselves and others danger in building a political machine around that the Governor has had a change of heart alcoholic beverage control as there is in attempt-and no longer feels that bitter animosity which ing to use the SRA for politics. The program the notice brought to mind. Thus Carlos White, reading here something concerning the early Congregational minister, W. C. Ppnd, is moved to reminiscence and suggestion.

"A rich view of early history could be discovered in connection with the West Oakland Congregational Church, known in the 1880's as the Goss St. Congregational Churchaway down in 'The It was sometimes called the Second Congregational Church of Oakland. In the 1880's the pastor was Rev. John Frear, father of the first United States Governor of the Hawaiian Islands. E.

E. later 'was president or member of the Oakland Board of Education was Sunday school superintendent, and my father, assistant superintendent. In those years Rev. John Frear left West Oakland and went to the Hawaiian Islands as a missionary, taking his family, of course, with him. Later followed the revolution on the islands, he annexation to the United States, and the appointment of of his sons, Walter Ftear, I believe, first American" Governor.

The'Frear children were educated in the Oakland schools. The Wolcott just about as much political grief mixed in with the administration of Hquor enforcement 4aws that the majority is now willing to consider would provide for a separate liquor enforcement commission, appointive but controlled by Senate confirmation. They would also require shifting, of new tax collecting duties to the Board of Equalization, thus maintaining that body as one of the important functions of State Government. While the board is willing to go for some such program, there still remains the task of selling the idea to the members of the legislature. It promises to be one of the major issues of the present session.

John Reed of Sausalito Of course the place now known as Marin County was first settled by the Indians and was named after a great chief (and has nothing jo do with The Mexican Govern- ment then had its part in the story. E. D. Holden, of Alameda, has given quite a bit of his time to the story oi tne county across so let us go oac wim mm xou wuu aa -usiuiicui, wui uuim nccu, speaking settler in Mann, qame-to this coast. Reed located on the Sausalito Rancho and built a small shanty maybe, or even evidently, the first house built in the Township of Sausalito.

While waiting1 for his land grant, he built a boat and ferried passengers across the Bay to San "Undoubtedly," says Holden, "the Reed ferry was the first to ply between Sausalito and San Francisco. For several years he jiyed at the Ranch0 though he, never ac- quired a title to tne land, ne ootamea from the Mexican Government a grant to Rancho Corte de Madera del Presidio and con- sequently changed his home to the new loca- tkm (which was east of th creek), Qn old in(jian shellmound near Millwood, Captain Reed erected an adobe norne) 18 Dy 30i in a secd home he' used timbers sawed at his own miIL This pioneer mill, and the first erist mill later of Richmond, was responsible for the infliction of the goober designation. For some reason unknown to the writer, the papers necessary for the establishment of the new postoffice had to pass through the hands of the postmaster at the Trinity County seat. R. W.

Cuff, in whose home the new office was to be housed, went to Weaverville to confer with the postmaster there regarding official procedure. One matter "that had not been decided was a name for the postal depot that was to serve the ranchers on and L.pad Bluff to Fortuna. Cuff suggested a name the Christian name of his wife, which I have forgotten. Paulsen, sitting in. his office eating peanuts (one.

of his favorite diversions), remarked, "Why not call it Peanut?" Cuff scouted the idea that the postal authorities would handicap a postoffice with such a name, but the Weaverville postmaster stood firm, remarking, "Peanut is at least different." When the signed authority came back from postal headquarters, officials had. accepted the name suggested- by Paulsen and "Peanut" it is to day. sen told me later that he believed Cuff had never fully forgiven him for fastening such an insignificant name to his pet postoffice. Wade Wilson, Sonoma. Those Ancient Milk Shrines Remember back to the days when the milkman peddled his wares in bulk, tand folks who thought of his convenience provided a little receiving station near the back door, something on the order of the, preseivt rural mail box? Not all of us called these staticTTSshrine's," but some did, and with the approval of history, A circumstance caused Mary Goodrich to think and read on the subject, and we'll let her tell the, story: "In, California 'bookstore where tourist trade is given consideration I was startled to find an idealized photograph of a milk shrine, new1 and shiny and ready Tfor postal travel Thephotographer's conception of the ancient shrine was curious three or four Shelves held together by finished lumber at back and On the shelves were cups of a modern sapling fence framed the rear line.

The trees that formed the background failed to make a convincing representation of the early day shrine It was palpably" a commercial thought to further brisk postcard sales. It did not fail of its purpose bought several bift the conception did not ring true. The introduction of bottles as milk containers is within the memory of? inostof us, and in much less than half a century ago we were receiving milk in covered crocks from dcliverymen who poured the allotted" quantities from cans that traveled with their residue from our back porches to that of our neighbors. Bottles followed. But the post card, however insincere, did incite research that is amazingly interesting, for even the era of the shrine was a development, an improvement, if you will, from a cruder, earlier form.

It stood in some sheltered and convenient where families left, not their empty bottles, as the pictured card suggests, but householders' tin bucket, flagon, jug; or possibly the which was once familiar as beer containers. in Marin County, were erected and operated his request and supplied information. Per-by John Reed in 1834. A short time later he haps, as a postscript, we can add names of a vided a means of escape from the social and political problems of the hour; they widened the mental horizon and they extended the empire to include fabulous lands in an unknown sea. But the importance of these journals lies not only in their influence on the romantic writers of the 19th century; they are part of the tradition of Hakluyt and Purchas, and they are thrilling reading in themselves.

Cook's greatest achievement wafc his discovery of -the east coast of. Australia on his first yoy age; the most interesting of his journals is that which deals with his third and last voyage, which contains many vivid descriptions of native life in the South Seas. James Cook was born at Marton, Yorkshire, on October 27, 1728, and had his first experience at sea as an, apprentice on a Baltic merchantman. In 1755 he entered the Royal Navy, and, four years later, as master of the Solebay, surveyed the St. Lawrence Rive.

Mter a thrilling experience as a marine st, yor of Newfoundland, he was put in charge a an expedition for astnv-nomical and geographical -search in the South Seas. He visited Tahiti che Society Islands, New Zealand and Aust) Jia, and returned to England with enthusiastic reports of new empire in the Pacific. To settle the argument over the existence or non-existing of an Antarc "1V- tic continent, Cook set out on a second expedi- tkm fa the Easter Isand the Marquesas, Friendly Islands and tne ew Hebrides On his return he was made post captain, and was the recipient of many honors. Cook's third and, last voyage had as its objective the search for a northwest passage. He left port on June 25, 1776, and, after many difficulties, reached the Alaskan coast.

Months of exploration failed to locate -any trace of a route to the Atlantic, and Cook set sail for more tranquil waters. He was greeted as a god by the natives of Hawaii, antl, for a time, accepted the adulation of the Then a quarrel, (and Captain Cook was slain by ari angry chief." Snmp Olr. Hnmn Mpmnripc viu. VUUip meillOHes Until he other versions The Knave will consider the story of the naming Of Igo and Ono closed at the same time extending thanks to some three dozen persons who answered few persons who lived in the camps something of the life that Mrs. Margaret Ar Walsh) Shea, who was in Ono in as a child of ten, says there were tey dwelling houses in Ono at that time but two hotels flourished.

"One owned by G. A. Powers (his (laughter, Mrs. Mary Powers McCoy of 115 So. 12th Street, San Jjse, might be able to give interesting inform ition.) The other was run by people named McCormack.

The general store by Boyd; blacksmith shop by Wilder Son; saloon by Henry L. M. Abbott. Abbott marrieH a young lady from Igo at this time and died about a year later. A son of Wilder, the blacksmith, his wife were killed near Redding in an automobile accident about a year ago.

The village was between two hills and the dance hall and school house were on 'one of them. During that tew montnsoiscnooi there were three teachers: H. Creighton of Olive E. Lord of Redding, and I thin Miss Amelia tsoya or neaamg was u. third.

She was later Shasta County school Tl.lJ! J.1 superintendent. The surrounaing country naa many nice homes, crew well there. Apples, berries and fruits I remember seeing apple nests-tilled with wild ouck eggs. -ne women all carried eees home in their Another time with other "children I was wading a near-by creek when five or six turtles floated down stream. lost no time in giving them the right of, way.

Some names from there that I have In an old autograph album jare: Phpebe Gillson, Eda Voss, Everett McGrew, Dora Dexter, Elsa Kidder (a teacher in Red- ding), Vina Samples, Estella Couey and Edith Taylor." a -wis nvn A The Knave: In the Oakland Tribune of De- cember 1st last, you had an interesting story regarding the town of Likely, Modoc County, wmcn article concluded with reierence to the naming of Peanut postoffice, in Trinity County. appears that you obtained your information the naming 0j jpeanut Irom Kichard Joe Russell, professor of physical geography at Louisiana State University who, in all proba- bility, obtamed his-supposed facts from some- who had heard story second or third. hand and was a little confused. In the account published, the postmaster, or one of his cromes, vj im i-. a vAn i fin ivcu given ticuii.

Aui uic pcL-unai name of "Peanut." The fact is that A. L. Paul- sen, postmaster at Weaverville at that time and he displayed in vicious assaults upon legisla- tive representatives in general during the last mpaign. Others believe he has just turned practical, and sees the value of employing somebody to keep in touch with the administration's legislative program and help it along its course. The fact that he has named former Assemblyman Elmer Lore to undertake the job has softened much of the criticism.

Members of both Assembly and the Senate have confidence in Lore's integrity, and most of them welcome the opportunity which will be afforded to receive quick and accurate information concerning the administration's program and policy. As to whether Lore should be called a lobbyist or a legislative representative, the distinction is one of attitude rather than fact. The ques- tion brings to mind an incident in the Bridges deportation trial on Angel Island. The erudite Dean Landis of Harvard University, puzzled by frequent use of the term "Goon Squad" in con- nection witnjurisaicuonai union i one laDor icaaer ior a me xiaiiiv ivyiy me committee." Lore will remain a legislative representative so long as he performs as a liaison officer between his employer, the Governor, and the the Legislature, giving Information and advice to both on the subject of pending legislation. He will become a lobbyist in the worst sense the minute he begins 1 4U-, to turn administration neat on memoeis ui mc Legislature.

That he is paid out of public funds supplied by taxpayers has nothing to do with dhe issue. LeCrisldtive DiCfllity When visitors begin crowding into the capitol after the constitutional recess and the legisla- ture is in full swing, one of the main attractions for sightseers, has always been the Assembly in session. Word has been spread up ana aown the State that the Assembly chamber is the big show. There you will find action, drama, humor and comedy that rivals any of the big tent shows. But there is a definite move to curb all of that, and if certain leaders have their way," the re modeled Assembly will compete with the Senate in dull decorum and sttiny jp make tne Dusinchs ui Vlnd no play.

I am told that comely Assembly to make the business of law maKing-aii wu1B stenographers nave already received their instructions to stop loitering on the Assembly floor, and to refrain from smoking while they are taking dictation. The penalty is lmmeai-w dismissal. And new rules will apply to the momWs themselves. There will be no propping of feet on the desks, and the Assemblymen are requested to refrain from calling acrossthe chamber "hey, Bill, puncn iae red light for me," when one member wants his seat mate to record his adverse vote on a measure. Informality of address during debate will also be banned, according to the plan, and the formula now demands a dignified approach such as, "will the gentleman from Alameda vield to'the gentleman from San Fran- Cisco." That is the program that is scheduled but it is just -on oraer.

i ti aij inr-o Mil-it tnat. there will ever be any senous aiieuk Most of the members- have had too much fun ml mivprt in wiinxne wuib. k- -r ran settle down to work when they have to, but they have always enjoyed those carefree interludes which have permitted intermittent nonnine of firecrackers, munching of popcorn and peanuts, and a liberal scattering, of jokes in i ax 4ftA. in with the serious debate. There are many wno hold the thought that if dignity moves into the Assembly, the romance of legislation will fly ut the window.

Changes in the Wind is a reorganization move of different calibre, however, which is gaming a foothold aitnouen win not De Drougnt aooui wixnoui 1 li Ml J. 1. 1 1 i. 1 A. somexmne oi a row.

nasio ao wunine owe Board of Eaualization. During the 1939 session, Governor Olson proposed to remove alcoholic liquor control from thejjoard and place it in the hands of a new commission to oe created oy -i0 the Legislature. It was opposed because, the plan called for delivery of the new commission mto the hands of the Olson Administration, and there was a fear it would be used for political Durposes. Equalization board members opposed the Olson1 program, but I am told a maionty of the board is now willing to consider a plan which would eliminate liquor control from their it iuHsdiction provided there are proper safe- rri tf kuaru.3. J.iiey wcnit piuictuuii iux picscxu cm- ploves in the department who have served ioyalljr during the past years.

Reason for the on of t.h mm 0f br y. uti died. Object in building the mills, was to obtain lumber, food and fuel for his personal needs. The lumber mill was a saw sash, driven fey water power It was located in the ravine about a half mile southwest of the Reed ranch nouse Some of the miU timber3 remain in rmavhe not todav but ud until a half dozen years ago). To complete the grist milk.

Reed purchased basalt stones from the Russians at Fort Ross. The bottom burr was two feet, eight in diameter and eight inches thick. Horse power was used. Ihe beCO-ld bettler The second settler in the township was Captain W. A.

Richardson, an Englishman who came to Sausalito in .1836, receiving a grant from the Mexican Government in '1838 (ten years before gold). Mill Valley proper was in Richardson's territory, but it was by John Reed the old mill was built. The Mill Valley lands of Richardson, some 14,000. seres, passed to the Throckmorton, th ence to the Mt Tamapais Land and Water who opened tho urns oc tmjmcito Tn 1RRQ tn hrinrf the family lived not far away from the church. Ed or yNed, has.

been prorninent in ihe laundry business; Louise is the wife of City Engineer Frickstadt, and Allan achieved fame in medical work in connection with the Rockefeller Foundation, 'studying yellow fever in Brazil and Africa. He has recently returned to Oakland. I believe there is a great deal in the memories of old-timers that should be preserved permanently in the columns of the Knave." They Dubbed Him 'Skinflint' Anyone, who knows his Sacramento is aware of the many reminders that are there to the memory of William Land, the one-time bellhop and porter who amassed a fortune and gave a large part of it to the city who knew him little and understood him less. Harry Ba'g-Jey, for the Bee of Sacramento, has been, reviewing the story for a present am giving you a tempting bit containing the highlights, and suggest, if you" wish more, you get the January 11 edition of the Bee. "Miser, some dubbed him Casual acquaintances, careful to call him mister to his face, in defer-.

ence to his wealth, sneered covertly after they passed him on the streets, and pictured in their minds how they would spend his money if they but had it. A strange man, a lonesome man, sensitive and; aloof, was William Land, and only a handful of carefully chosen friends self-sufficiency and indifference to public opinion with which he protected himself against the world's rebuffs. William Land arrive in Sacramento in 1860, a youth without funds. When he died on December 31, 1911, he left an estate of more than $1,500,000, all of which he accumulated in Sacramento. There were two princely bequests.

The first and largest gave $250,000 to the city of Sacramento to be used in the establishment of a city park. The second, a bequest of $200,000, for Sacramento's indigent was dedicated as a memorial fund to the memory of Ann Land, the philanthropist's mother. The latter bequest, wisely administered under a unique plan, which characterizes the Ann Land Memorial. Commission as one of the world's most efficient charitable agencies, has grown since its inception until th capital sum amounts to approximately $225,000. Year after year, since 1914, when the commission was established, the revenue from i the Ann Land Memorial Fund has purchased food, -fuel, shelter and clothing for at least 80Q0 families who found themselves trapped in the pincers of TheAnn Land Memorial Fund has brightened the lives and lightened the burdens of men, women and children who needed helpand the William Land Park, although still in a state of development, has afforded recreation to countless youngsters and adults of Sac ramento A Belated Experiment Out here in ihe West where Sunday is as free and easy as any other, day it is a little difficult to understand sophisticated New York and its occasional blue laws.

One of these old laws was repealed recently and now it is possible to see a stage presentation on Sunday. To make this possible it was necessary not only to amend the State law but to come to an agreement with managers and stage workers. The Sunday closing law came into being back in the day when P. T. Barnum and other, showmen were operating museums.

When vaudeville came along and ran smack into the law, shrewd operators found'a loophole in "concerts," so for one day a week the varieties took On a sort of pseudo-religious character; the motion pictures, however, to town on Sundays and their biggest crowds. The lawmakers of tl.2 Sunday closing laws did not conceive of rnct' i pictures In their philosophy. Then when -hibition was repealed, liquor was avaikV Sunday and the managers, of dramatic deckled to get. Till! IT story within limits of memories, the only build- cider made at the Wheelock home. I recall sylvania and the British Museum, wno, on a ings Mill Valley were a small dwelling house a she says, 'when six or tour of investigation to prove the ways of early and a cow shed.

At the time location' of Jhe seven families walked up the hill back of the peoples, unearthed a temple near the aneient-townsite was not determined. M. K. O'Shaugh- blacksmith shop and on the top were dozens city of Ur, in Chaldea. Proofs of the houses J'Jjqjj AwaV Back "Early morning prougni Ducxet ana ju8 owners to the shrine for milk, so Important to life for" thousands of decades.

Its value was recognized 5000 years ago, as has been demonstrated by scientists of the University of Penn- ana implements, tne an, an. wc hones of the investigators, and far under tne a nm earth they came upon an aneieni, iempwwiiuo walls were rich in friezes. One such wall was of a dark, asphalt-like background on which were depicted animals, cows with their young. Two tiny calves were standing in a stall, and temple servants were milking, while other valves were feeding beside them. Another frieze showed other servants straining the milk in dontainers, and near by the first steps in butter and cheese making was showni This knowledge was familiar to primitive man, though Jane Dale" has Written of a traditional belief that cheese- making came into their experience purely by accident.

neir legena nas ii inai, u. Arab horseman, compelled to mane mug lourney. carried a sxin Dag mai, ueiu the journey in such a quantity that it curdled before he had used it all. Yet he found sustenance from its use in that form, and thus the first cheemaking came about It is a far cry to and' pasteurization, but evolution takes time and adopts its, methods." Vimn the. fin VtllLllllli.ll llA Ui li-1 WW vt nituA TMonrinn a npr v.ii ur iiirii iil xjci uic iwiovc i.iv,vww 2'-" the past and there are tnose wno xeu mm a du 1 i 11 more tm the subject, or of other things which nessv.

citv entrineer-of San Francisco fame, sur- 'A cai. wai maP May 1890. The. barn near the railroad yards was the first station. Mill Valley became s6 attractive that before any real building began picnickers and campers occupied many the lots, among those being.

F. Bostwick and Charles F. Runyon Theykep1t faith in nlacp. lived there and saw it erow. The first pretentious residence was built by Alonzo coffin.

Other home builders were Dr, Barlsan, mv.r Rtanfnrd Mr. Marcus and tcoV. TTsctianH iotianrf was the cromoter nc Hint nf th land rnmnanv. ana ha namerf Town arid OllU v-. for a raiw Eastland.

uut neonle persisted in calling it Mill Val- fue th "mill" nt John VppA carries on r- 14 iiii.iiii.i.iii ii i fii-rtW nnd final hnnklpt in the Book Club California's series on "Pacific "Th- Death of C'antain Cook." taken from Volume III nf "Cook's Vovaees." first published London in 1784." It is desicned and printed the Eucalyptus Press of Mills College. Earle Welier, wno contriDUtes vne ioiewuiu, teiia itt i i i j.i a.it- "Everv account of discovery and adventure of in on one the Pacific iwas eagerly devoured by the.