Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 19

CEnTEIIHIAL ST0E7 Dead Colony of Deadline for Parade Entries Is Extended Publisher to Be Honored At Dinner Joseph R. Knowland, publisher of The Tribune, will be honored for the part he played in organizing 4 the Oakland centennial celebration at a dinner at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow in the Athena Fast as Infant Oakland and executed the establishment Entry deadlines for the June 8 grand Centennial Parade has Athletic Club. neer i- Contra Costa killed near Martinez in 1855, was re-interred at Mountain View. Other pioneers include Edson Adams one of the founders of Oakland; Gov.

Stephen T. Gage; Oaklahd'i very first resident may have lived a long time healthy, climate, of course but they died in obscurity. Until Mountain View Cemetery and St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery were established late of Mountain View were many of Oakland's first citizens. Dr.

Samuel Merritt was the first president of the cemetery association and the names of such J. Paul St Sure, son of the late Federal Judee A. F. St will be the speaker of the evening. Harry W.

Spencer will leaders as Hiram Tubbs, A. M. serve as master of ceremonip. F. M.

"Borax" Smith; Antoine Chabot who gave his name to In December. 1863. the pioneers Crane, Rev. S. T.

Wells, J. A. H. W. Saunders, president of died and were duly buried, but Mayhew, J.

S. Emery, J. IE. the Athens Club, is honorary little remains to mark their de parture. i been extended to May 22, Robert Rishell, parade chairman, said today.

More than $1500 in cash prizes and trophies is expected to lure participants from throughout Northern California, Rishell asserted. l' Walter K. Knox and Glenn Warner are co-chairmen, and Hjalmer Berg is secretary of the parade. Awards will be made in the following categories: Horseless! carriage, best band. Chabot Observatory and "Lake Chabot; Walter Blair, one-time owner of Past Piedmont acreage, i.

One of the monuments, that chairman of the event W. Groeniger Jr. is general chair Whitcher, R. W. Heath, S.

E. Alden and Rev. I. H. Brayton appear as the original board of For one the man in man.

charge of the first fofficial ceme Other committee members are erected to the memory of Henry tery could neither read nor T. W. Dunlop. vice-chairman: A.vV.4a -A write and the first 10 or so D. Cogswell, founder, of the school in San Francisco, is the Edward H.

Siems, finance: Or- highest shaft in the West Fifty- ton E. Lucas, menu, seating and arrangements; Carl H. Hansen. five carloads of granite were years of the community's pass ing are uncluttered; by records, i When Oakland was a little village, in the first years of its existence, the graveyard was lo tickets. and Farl VmuvIii used in its construction.

9 printing. trustees. SALE FOR $13,000 Rev. Brayton, who owned the "vale" which became the cemetery, got $13,000 for the; acreage. Three acres of the -original parcel were sold in 1865 for the establishment of the Jewish cemetery at one corner of Mountain View.

For many yeas these were the only local cemeteries. Meetings of the Mountain View trustees were held in the Another monument, to the military or professional; best A social hour will precede the band, school; drill teams, men, cated east of Oak Street between Mountain View Cemetery Had been In. operation for 26 years when this 'picture of the entrance was taken in 1889. The road leading tc it was known then as Cemetery Road, but since had been changed to fteclmont The horse car of the Piedmont Springs Railway (at left) ran from the cemetery entrance "through grain fields and climbing hills" to Piedmont Sulphur Springs. It was a branch of the Broadway and Piedmont Railroad which ran from Seventh and Washington Streets, to 14th Street to to Piedmont Avenue and thence to the cemetery.

This photograph Is from the collection of F. B. Cullom, general manager of the Mountain View Cemetery Association. memory of Emma pioneer in the kindergarten dinner. women and miutary; marching; movement, consists of childhood 7th and 11th Streets.

SITE NEEDED Bt TOWN units, majorettes, drum and bugle From Tribune Files toys and the inscriptions: "In corps, drum corps mixed, floats, sweepstakes, comical, historical, spired apostle of Froebel she loved little children." Dusters are in order now. Tht Tribune, April 10, 1875. 10 mounted classes. old Tubbs Hotel for many years But the town grew, that site was soon needed and in 1857, the city council took up the matter of providing an official cemetery. Two offers of acreage jwere made.

The one accepted on July the address was first recorded as Brooklyn and later 'changed to East Oakland. 1 was 10 acres "at the back of From the very first. gathering, Mr. Fountain's on peralta Road. the activities of the association were recorded in a leather-bound Bordering the shore of what was Lake Peralta! in early days WOOL IS DURABLE, POROUS, INSULATIVE, L0M-WmM! THERE'S HO SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOL, ALL WOOL book of minutes, a record still; in possession of the present officers Lake Merritt now the ceme tery was between Webster Street and Alice Streets, 16th and 17th of the association.

FINANCIAL TROUBLES Streets of today. urom tne minutes it appears The property was remote from that obstinate financial difficul from any houses and it was sup ties were encountered during the cosed the location was perma first years and the trustees, as in dividuals, took it upon them 1863, the council again was pe titioned this time for permis selves to raise $zuuo in lSbo so inn to discontinue interments the work of surveying and plotting the gorunds could continue within the city limits." 'GREAT INCONVENIENCE The first recorded interment took place on July 28, 1865 Jane1 Waer, age 43, who died of jm -no iThe city fathers replied that there was no other burial ground "bilious fever in Oakland Town ship." By 1876, some 2000 had been interred or entombed at the cemetery. The history of California can and unless provisions were made "a great inconvenience would result to the citizens." Six months later, the present Mountain View Cemetery came into being.1' Meanwhile, the! town's small colony of Catholics had petitioned church authorities for aj be written from those records. SUICIDES There were those who died rII from gunshot wounds. One terse entry, May 8, 1868, says merely: Cromwell Mid -Wate-the three-season suit for three daily Bay Area church of their own, including Chinaman, death by hanging." three considerations in their pe titions: a place to worship God There were pioneers who found life intolerable and who, for al an opportunity for the children to be instructed in the faith and a Catholic cemetery where their the future, are therefore recorded as And on the'recorcfc are the results of epidemics which raged again and again dead might be buried.

PARISH ESTABLISHED during early years. There are many who helped to As a result of this petition, the parish of Immaculate Conception, commonly known i as St. build Oakland and the West. Mary's, was established in 1858 Buried at St. Mary's are the Peraltas, Governor Alvarado and others who played a role in the Fiva years Jater.i the parish founded St.

Mary'si cemetery. history of this area. One head The 42 acres forjthe cemetery temperature changes stone is sacred to the memory were purchased from Thomas Carlo Sonognini, who drowned on July 4, 1868, after saving four Mahoney, whose ranch was con idered "far in the foothills." persons (thrown in the water in a ferry boat accident. In Mountain View i rests Charles Crocker, one of the "Big The cemetery was four miles from the center of -town and appeared safe from any homesite or business development, for even the most farseeing could not envision the Oakland of to Four' who built the Central Pa cific Railroad. Nearby is tfie mausoleum of Gen.

David day. A funeral meant a days Colton, also! identified with the journey over country roads, yet "Big Four" and the Southern Pa the proud residents irequenuy made the trip to care for their cific. PIONEERS REST THERE hallowed ground. Dr. Merritt, mayor of Oakland and one of its first citizens, buried in the cemetery he helped St.

Marys' Cemetery was consecrated by Archbishop Alemany on December 8, 1863, in "impressive ceremonies." 4 The first to be Interred was a Mary Biley, Precision tailored by Cromwell, these Mid-Wale suits are wool, all wool, and the perfect weight for summer in the Bay Area. Warm 1 -ri'' enough for cool mornings and light and airy for the midday sun. designed to assure you i 1 'f warm-weather comfort without sacrificing i taste and dignity. All the popular sizes. i to establish.) Dr.

Henry Durant, first president of University California; Professor Joseph Le- laid to rest five days later. BEYOND THE LIVING conte, famed geologist and nat uralist; Nathan W. Spaulding, twice mayor of Oakland: Sen Mountain View Cemetery was established the same December on 200 adjoining acres, also in George C. Perkins, governor of the state in 1879 and a US. sena thought "it will be forever be tor for 22 years, also rest at vond tht enroachments of the Mountain' View.

living." Other figures include Gov, The cemetery wasn't set up, Washington Bartlett, who stepped apparently, for the sole benefit AW Xt- from the San Francisco mayor of Oakland. The first map shows alty into the governors chair in that it was "Plan of a Metropoli 1887; Gov. Henry H. Haight, who tan Cemetery fori the. City ol was a resident of Alameda.

ur. Jonn Marsh, famed pio San Francisco, situated in the suburb of Oakland," 1 Fred Law Olmstead, the architect who designed. Central Park, prepared the general plan. He had come west to make a report i v- I I pr ffl (S Tf 1 "XI iV on Yosemite and was brought to Oakland to lay out the cemetery. BEAUTIFUL DESIGN To this early designer goes the credit for the natural beauty of hfp 'JUj ti if1 Yv Ml the cemetery today.

It was lie who stressed making the cemetery like a park and it was his detailed plan for landscaping and for. the dispensing "unsightly barriers between their places of rest" which is responsible for the cemetery's present-day' reputation as one of the most beautiful memorial parks in the Nation. Among the men who conceived UKB YOUR TIME: JUST PAY- I Jl Ira 30 7v S3DWS Sml la COUx! So smooth it leave, you breathless I lillFBlfif wettk FmM FtWt lm yn VAIP3 FIiAIl 32S3 14TH ST. KI e3311 V0CIIA eW Mllllrl Oakland's Quality Monday noon -to nlnt. Apparel, Stort, 1530 Broadway.

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