Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 19

I' i A ElATFQJ EL ES vol cxlv; OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1946 NO. 7 Howard, Alf Clement, George Wheaton and that some ado is being made up there by a now that' I was out of danger but I remember atonce, useful, picturesque and lively. As a irfi county central committees of major parties due to meet Tuesday night for the biennial organisa tional session, sentiment appeared to have crystalized in recent days in favor of retention of the incumbent chairmen of both units. Several potentiaL-candidates for the Republican chairmanship are said to have drawn out and left a clear field for Charles Wade Snook. On the Democratic side, the con- sensus appears to be that.

Monroe Friedman, who was named earlier this year when Patrick W. resigned in order to become a Congressional candidate, is entitled to a TT TTT. A oen waaswortn. me minstrel first part had interlocutor with Wheaton, J. J.

Archibald and F. P. Howard as Bones and Alex Rosborough, Wadsworth and Harry Knowles as The Rosborough brothers and J. Haynes subsequently provided a bit in the olio as Musical Mokes," and Bert Wadsworth also stepped out of blackface and undertook to do a magic turn in which he promised that "Hindoo jugglery' would be quite surpassed, W. Ev.Bond was the press agent for the affair and being a canny fellow, he secured in advance a couple of newspaper quotes.

The critic of this symbolized in the undulatic emendations and hilaric solemnousness of the chaotic choruses. the cal suggestive of unscathed anguish, or exotic en- iuuKr tenure, ne view, we are tow, paper, anonymous at the time, really turned him-was expressed by William Hollander, an active self loose: Tne toneful utterness so sweetly xamniimn. L. 1 3 i who aosmoseov ipsq xacto, nine Uae, lachrynlae parrot was perched on the handlebars. Miss flat minor, of wfld watery weird, waxy win- Crisler, incidentally, was authority on the his- ningness and s(crnful sonorification in the meta- tory of those parts where the.

whiskers grew, morphinal march and tremendous trifling of 1 -gluTesf. Concerning Antoinette Perry the photosphbnc' male, "require attentive 3 auripular audition for ample appreciation." The Theatergoers, particularly those who inter-critic of The Wave, also anonymous, Was slightly ested themselves in the activities of the Theater that I was still going at a pretty good clip when I reached themilL" James W. Grace Retires Announcement of the retirement of James W. Grace after 23 years as industrial commissioner of the Western Pacifirailroad and 40 years in the railroad business, recalls to mind some interesting facts concerning his life. He was born in 1874 in -the famous Mountain House hotel, near what is now Brush Creek forestry station, not far from OrovUle.

His mother, vrraa lUlics Km9 tna I.oee nvIA a rroC0 company with Iher parents and undes whb, In 185Vttey drove 6W head of Arkansas cattle from the Ozark Mountains across the Western a iv-j. States to Oregon, and then south via Beckworth t7 Tr.ii Pass and Buck Valley to Wyandotte. Butte, tj- Dow-v rM County. His father, Robert Patrick Grace, rr 4 rxrl was a native of Toronto who came West via- T-u toco kLii-' the Isthmus in 1862 to work as a hydraulic miner at Rich Bar in the Feather River Canyon and at Spanish Ranch in Plumas County. Shortly after their marriage, the parents of Grace, acquired the Mountain House hotel property.

Thishostlery was on the pioneerroad between Oroville and Quincy. At times. Grace has recalled, there were 40 to 50 teams to be taken care of. these being used to haul the TZl MarysviUe and Oroville in the Sacramento Val- i ley and the mines of Plumas and Sierra counties. n( The famous Black Bart, stage holdup operator, x.l t- tt 1 wai a guest at the Mountain House several times.

and at oie time made his escape from the sheriff by lowering himseU on a rope made of blanket strips from a second-story room. Grace got his teacher's certificate at the age of 19 and in 1897 became principal of the Oroville Grammar School In 1906 he entered the railroad business. Stubbs of plear, lake Following up on a story of "Clear Lake Pioneers," Fred Saunders tells me of John L. Stubbs, the last to carry on the name of Stubbs of Lower Lake and Clear Lake Oaks. Like his father, John, Saunders says Stubbs was a 4'chip, of the old block," was heavy set and possessed a initiative and business acumen.

dersiJfThe fact df the Bank; mine Jbe Ww w- .1 I I i campaigner had been mentioned for the chairmanship and who immediately deferred to favor of Friedman and profered his support Because thatsituation more 'attention has been directed to the appointments each com mittee will make as soon as it is organized. The Democrats, having lost out in the State senaV torial and three Assembly district races in Alameda County, and having no candidate in another of the Assembly districts, mustname five appointee delegates to the State convention of their party, and, in addilion, must choose three additional county central committee members in order to bring the body up to the required statutory On the other hand, the Republicans, having -elected a full county committee and having either nominee or holdover delegates for the State senatorial and five Assembly spots will be confronted only with the choice of ope appointee delegate representing an Assembly District in which they did not run a candidate. Although the prospects are that the county chairmanships here will remaui unchanged, that situation, of course, will not obtain as far as the State chairmanships are concerned. Under the election code, the top party office must rotate each biennium between the northern and southern sections of the State, which means that the Republican chairman will come from Northern California and theDemocratic chairmanship will shift to Southern California when the State central committees meet at Sacramento on July 21; Among possible contenders for the Republican post, the most vigorous cam paign is being waged by backers of Arthur W. Carlson, former Alameda County assemblyman who now resides- Contra CosTi Countyrbiit a nan dozen ptner names are being mentioned.

Wuliam Keichel, ox Oakland, now State, vice-chairman, former acting national committeeman land one of the first to be considered, has let it Ji)e known that -he is not seeking the; office. Among the, others who have been mentioned in various quarters are William Troyerof Santa Cruz, past president of the California Repub- have (nftaencd John to enter, the Van. derit. University of Nevada claim that whiskers which reach a length of 42 inches deserve a medaL Such growth sav the old-timers up Virginny way, are mere stubbles, any school bov beini? able to raise them before he takes his first shave. There was Zach Wjlcox remember of Carson City, a fellow who in 1882 had beard ambitions' and sprouted a crop 11 feet, eight inches long.

Even so, he failed to win a prize at Sacramento, for a stranger from South' Dakota wandered in, whiskers under his arm, and beat Zach by two fti TWcn-Mtr nart the time: it is related. Zach wore his beard rolled up and stuffed into a sack tied around his neck, a method which made for better locomotion and discouraged birds with eves for nesting places. Zach cut quite a figure riding his bicycle through the streets, particularly when Miss Clara Crisler's Wing read with a sense of personal regret last week of the death of Antoinette Perry, an actress, who became one of the stage's most dis tinguished directors. Miss Perry, a Denver woman, had a sort of Cinderella existence in the theater. Trained as a singer, she made, her stage debut as an actress in Chicago in 1905 when fcho anndarM wHVi Va latA VTilHafn Mnrris as Mrs Tem TelegraiIL Some nn a ntaccinn ci, time later, on a professional courtesy pass, she attended David Warfield's performance of 'The Music Master" in New York.

The canny War-field caught sight of her in a stage box and promptly send word that he'd like a chat The consequence was that she eventually replaced Frances Starr in the play and remained with him in "The Grand Army Man." In 1909 she married Frank W. Fruehaff, a financial man, and retired. After his death in 1922, she remained in retirement for a couple of years and then returned to the theater for a role in Zona Gale's "Mr. Pitt," produced by Brock Pember-ton. This brought about a producer-director assbciatiori that reached its -highest point in at wbrrbfllhg dire tionf ipembertonV IThe Magnificent Heel when death claimed her at 58 and the theater one ffi(Jst km T5s DtU Far be it from the mind of the Knave to start again the eternal argument concerning panthers With a warning that this is no announcement of open season for panther-screaming stories, 111 let Mr.

Grant have his say The perennial debate is of interest to me for two reasons-one amusing, the other near tragic I have nothing to add to the argument, except a per sonal experience founded upon presumptive and circumstantial evidence only, but which places me on the side of those who believe that California panthers do scream, wheir they feel like it, and that their screams are positively blood curdling, when heard at night in the deep woods. In 1880 my parents "brought me together with my brother two sisters from Carlin, levada, where we had lived for eight years, down to beautiful and wonderful California, 4hd to a home in the western part of Sonoma County, and in the virgin redwood forest, which at that time was literally filled with wild game: rabbits, quail, squirrels, pigeons, ducks, deer and an occasional lynx and panther. We had been there about a year before my mother, would consent to let me take the big double-barreled shotgun out hunting. I was then about 10 years of age. When about 21, and knowing the wild life of the region by sight and sound, I was on my way, late tone night, to the sawmill where I was workmg and which was about three miles from our home, last mile of the walk wasthrough dense timber and a very rough country.

I was pass- ing a Place where the road ran along the side oi a moumain aeep gvucu oeiuw wueu suddenly a most awful and unearthly scream rent the just near and belowme. Up to that moment I had no fear whatever not even believed the assurance 'that with the woods gaxne; arid rnany pigs, sheep and cattle on the farms of the region, a panther would not attack a human being unless molested. But -when that terrible scream bellowed forth on the still night air right near me, I turned and ran for my life, putting everything I had into my: trained stout legs. I ran some little distance before I came-to myself, stopped and listened. it denied several minmps 'heiore the.

crv sounded again. This time it; was again just below me but farther awayl I turned now and ran back the other way, still with all the speed I could command, even when scared. Agahl I stopped and listened. This time the cry was fainter and far behind me. I knew military station it was abandoned on September shape, and are to be restored and present to Calfornians, who would know their State betier, one more opportunity, to pick up some history! along with their touring.

The of Commerce at Bakersfield will tell you how tcj reach the place. i i And Time Marches On Contra Costa County's residential bogma patteif of common knowledge for several years, p.elu' ano a ff mon VaUey to DanvOle. Newreal es- Hf. ff nmtP grader are pushing back into rolling i jiujinil A.i 1 3 W-dotted hills that heretofore have supported Rattle and' sheep smce Contra Costa's earliest i davs-The old-timers and the new residents j. jf there either sit tight or take advantage their place in hallowed ground to the demands of city folks seeking suburban homes.

Sotne of ih( families of the county had private buiai grounds for the departed members. These cemeteries are disappearing one by one. One itf th most recent to anake way for progress was that of the Flournoy family, near Dan- cjilfo 5nma ureolra ion en nnierln tVtat it mierisA general the ftouoy cemetery bec.une f.i.. -a part "of a large new subdivision. Disturbed fD-ii.

afr haU 'a century of rest were the remams of Thpmas Flournoy and six othir members 'of the Cemeterv fT-i 7Ju to Alamo Cemetery 1 -ZLZZ the, is the old house built by Thnas Flournoy. A son, Shelby, "jonly sur-. yiviig member of thefamily still Uving in SanT Rambn has a house across the road. Th elder Flournoy came to the county in 1855 'frofcoj Santa Clara County where he. had farmed fqrsfive years after crossing the plains.

Losing histjwife of three years to the rigors of the Ne-iyaa desert, the older Flournoy in 1854 married tLaentie Kifer. The Flournoys settled on a SOlic16 sitexand continued their farming and stolk raising, probably little dreaming of the da Jr when colored pennants would flutter in th breeze and graveled roads would wind v1 ow- Biasea out xpr aesirmg J. A. i A. 1 Tr WA MwiC tVlkV.

lightening Ride Writes Carrie Pratt Elwell' (Mrs. F. of was quite interested in Eph Musick' jtaty'of his walk from Waldo to Crescent City, fa the late 90's I was theroffidal court reporter lot Del Norte County, a sby girl and young for Lthejob. I had visited my family in Alameda returning to Crescent City via Grants jPasV-the same route traveled by Mr. Musick.

Was the only passenger and when the stage reached Waldo found a shabby hotel without a woman in the place, just a lot of rough-looking ineru My room had no lock, and the old buud-ng creaked with every footstep; bedbugs, crawled over me and bit me until I was frantic.1 did not sleep a wink and when the stage pulled out the next day I.was so overcome with Iweiriness that I fell asleep onthe front seat of the stage and was. about to fall out when the finder caught The wholeexperience was faigiitening and was I glad tp reach Crescent Cit-fw Frbm Old Schoolbooks Sixteen presidents have occupied the White House since Deane C. DeGraff of San Francisco, fwho'i retired as general auditor of the Western Pacific Railroad Company on June 30, was born in village of County, Mitliigan, near the Ohio border, on December 5, 1168. Mile posts mj his long and success; il Icafeer Graduation in J883 from Michi iMiHiary Academy, then located at1 Orcld Xakp; first job as a desk in" the mechanical department of the Union Pacific, Denver, 1838 employment by the Oregon Short Line at Salt Lake City as Mght-of-way agent in the nineering department, 1896; then to the Rio KJrande Western in 1898, holding various posi- tion in the transportation and accounting 'Ueoartments: next wtpm Parif? Francisco as W.VWr: nr1 pacific. Mi; DeGraff attributes his sue- essn fulfilling responsibilities; involvinrmfl- of dollars over the years, rto elementary principles that were ground into him at a period the "three R's" dominated, and to homely, pracfical trainrngmbookkeeprngm his father's fcounjtry store.

His early school facilities were 1 ihbsafforded by an ungraded two-room school. lHis extbooks were the old-timers, including Zander's Readers, a series comparable to the jfatnous McGuffey books, Sander's Speller, Reed jKellogg's Grammar, Colton's Geography, arid Stoddard's Arithmetic, also Stoddard's Men- Arithmetic -THE KNAVE lican Assembly, Worth Brown, an active mem- of white men. When the small child arrived and their screaming or silence, but some pres-Jber of that organization; Charles Barnum, of there, there rere two white girls in the town ent testimony from "Edwin H. Smith has enough Eureka, and Herbert Hanley, chairman of the and of incident and color to give it place on its own. more laconic He also, wrote his review in show andjobserved with becom advance of the ing simplicity and frankness, 'The admission fee is preposterous, and the whole affair a money-making scheme." Downieville Pioneer He saw Juanita, the Spanish girl who was hanged at Downieville, and the man she killed.

And he was a in a number of California settlements. the fact that some high points in the story of William H. Wright of Nevada City, who die4 recently at 94, are preserved for the records bjf a daughter, Mrs. Leo Charmant is to be thanked. 'She furnished notes to Edmund Kmyon of Grass Valley and it is from her account we quote: Wright's, father was struck by the gold fever and with his parents he came to California in 1853 via the.

Isthmus of Panama, which they crossed by mule back over imjddy trails. His mother carried him in her arms md at night they slept in bulLhides, suspended between two came' ta 'Sohopathen toSacrarnento; Ktiy i.oot uxywwh vuie aaa irom waejy mmeuaci, over the Heimessy Pass Road there fol-. lowed well-wdrn mule trails to Goodyears Bar and on to Downieville the then boomtown of 1 1 -1- 1 the 'tincup where they found a wide open town and English sailors, Mexicans, Spaniards, Canucks and Indians and all types second white boy in the city. Downieville was then a town of teits, cabins and adobe huts, Wilharh Henjry Wright knew Major Downey well, also John Mackey, Major Hungerford and his Mrs. Bryant, who married John Mackey.

Major Hungerford taught Wright to play the drums, and it was the beginning of a long musical: career." ii Remembered Juanita According to various remarks made by William Henry Wright at times, he remembered seeing the body of the Spanish girl, Juanita, in Downieville and the man she killed removed from the old cemetery in the center of the com munity, and saw tnem buried in the present cemetery. The old cemetery was mined, and used for. buildings. As a boy of 9 years, he was made a member of E. Clampus Vitus order and used to help his father many times fire the old cannon 4Downievttle whiclr was usedor political or patriotic purposes.

It was dangerous to load according to his notes; but his father was not afraid of it Later it killed two men and was then discarded. Wright was in Downieville when the. first Chinese came to the city and heremembered the first stage. When he was about It he returned to New York City and Michigan and remained there a year. They crossed by Nicaragua both ways and settled on return in the'Moraga VaUey and lived at Lafay- ette.

Later ithey returned to Downieville and i 4V 4V 4 ui- itrnii. hit a eii laiiicxi i in rr li i 1 iii tm aia 1 1 Writrht lra TTato Rnrtlr nn -r; rXwZT "dpd lifVtnPr RaiK-Qads anA Whiskers? nailTOaOS ana WniSKerS. When the railroad strike hit the country, the old Virginia 'and Truckee line never so much as quit huffing and puffing and was one; of the few railroads in the United States thatjdid not vary its schedule in the slightest degree. Gov-, ernment'seizureand the President's request that all stay, on the job were recognized by both HiKiucus aiMi uaumien. fts one pui we won't lay down on the job, no matter what happens.

We are Nevadans and Americans." It is an old line, a historic one and a short one, but its traditions are long and well preserved, Speaking of: Nevada, and Virginia City, the Knavt has noted in tht revived San Francisco county central. committee. Had Attorney General Robert W. Kenny managed to win the Democratic gubernatorial nomina- tion, the choice of a State chairman for that party would have been simple. Kenny was reportedly all-out for JameS Roosevelt When Kenny was buried the Warren landslide, some party leaders came up with a suggestion that the attorney general, who now resides in San Francisco but plans to remove to Los Angeles and return' to private law practice on the.

expiration of his term, should be given the State However, since there is serious legal question as to whether the attorney. general could qualify under the circumstances, southern Democrats are putting forward a variety of other possible candidates, including Rollm chairman of the Los Angeles Kviuuy centtaii omnuiiee, Assemoiyman Alfred Robertson, the Democratic floor leader, Assemblyman Albert Dekker, who did not seek re-election, William Moseley former speaker of the Assembly, and Thomas Ford, former congressman. Joe Rosborough Reminisces 'm -0m' mm' and study mine igineering Suhur mnllv vat first vrnrlrAri fnr joans mine, mciaemauy was. ursi worxea xor sulphur, but when cinnibar appeared' in appreciable amounts the sulphur was no considered and the mining went full blast for quicksilver. The old Guadalupe quicksilver mine was first opened up in the year 1856.

It is about 11 miles south of San Jose and not far from the Almaden mine. John. Stubbs and Hugh Davie reopened the Guadalupe mine in 1900 under the name of the New Century Min- ing Company. Thy did very well and through the World War I made a great deal of money, At the end of the war Stubbs sold his interest in the mine and' went back to his ranch in JLake County, where he raised Wheat, barley, hay; and a large amount of stock. Although much of the 6000 acres of land he had at his disposal! was mountainous, he had considerable acreage of leVel land suitable for various purposes.

Hfe set out sizable almond and walnut groves and later a prune orchard. In recent years he had built a conditioning plant where4 his products were prepared for the market. While Stubbs orchard and groves were growing he had a much lajrger project developing in the townsite of Clear Iake Oaks. Great impetus was given the town's growth when a State highway was put through, connecting Clear Lake Oaks with Lucerne, Lakeport, Upper Lake and then on to the Redwood Highway. On the other end Clear Lake Oaks was connected with Williams and Sacramento.

Five miles out of town this same road. branches off in a to Lower Lake, town and Calistoga." Middle- Fort Tejon Down in Kern County there is interest in the restoration of all the buildings at historic Ft Tejon that it may have its rightful place in the coming centennial observances: Mhe)ld fort stands as of pioneer days tod 4 wx oupvxauiT wwiuS to give toe outstanding landmark more of its original semblance. Fort Tejon was established in 1854 and was at one time the headquarters of Gen. John Fremont. It was a place of refuge and protection for settlers in titaes when the Indians were given to periods of hostility, During 1853six-horse stages ran from San Fran- cisco'to SL Louis in 23 days, and it was then that Fort Tejon became a station on the Butter- field Overland Mail Route, a center of bustle and a gathering place for men of good, evil and middling purposes.

With its dash of the mili- tary, its bustle of stage traffic, and its attrac- tions for men who wandered in from afar it events, memories of which cannot be allowed to Wormed, that a tennial group in Kern; under the chairrnahship 1 1 i II I 1 In the trunk of nearly every citizen over the age of 6 there are treasures that recall with pleasure old days and old times, and occasionally these are shared with the Knave so that others may have their memories pleasantly jogged. Thus, Joseph Rosborough, whose brother, Alex, I is a regular contributor to these columns, rams lUp recenuy copy ox eogram pre- 11 promotion in 1921 as general auditor. Mr. DeGraff has had 58 years of railroad fservlce: 38 of which hive-ben with thp sain ae on May. Day, 1891.

The show was called "In Darkest Oakland" and was the joint effort of the Jack- son Streets Minstrels and the Alice Street Quar- I tette Club. Many names of the participants will strike pleasant B. H. Wyman, instance, was the manager while H. Wads- worthy functioned in a triple capacity, as assist- nt manager, treasurer and stage manager; Les- 1 and voice culture was in the joint hands of H.

H. Haight and Oi Shafter Howard. Sam Bell McKee lent his talents to the mechanical effects. Scattered through the program, in various capacities, were such notables as Harry Adams, A. S.

McDonald, Ed Vincent, J. W. Tompkins, Karl i.