Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 13

I I A13 Oakland Tribuns, Sunday, May 11, 1952 eranniAL stor? Centennial VARIED EVENTS THIS WEEK Oakland Prph.et -Stewed Symphony Will ON CENTENNIAL PROGRAM Honor Mothers Tidal "Wave Panic in I Oakland's 100th Mother's Day pause, end so rapidly she hardly rifid, on a bench and left there, uncovered in the freezing cold, until the evening meeting began. will be celebrated orchestrally by the Young People's Sym "She is of the whis pered the Woodworthians. phony in the Oakland Auditorium today as their part in the city's continuing centennial pro Flora was still in trance con gram," Hotel Leamington, 12 noon. TUESDAY Alameda County Taxpayers Association Civic Banquet Hotel Claremont, 7:30 pjtl, Henry J. Taylor, national commentator, speaker, v- WEDNESDAY i Shrine Circus Runs through." May 25 Oakland Auditorium FRD3AY Drum and Drill Festival Ball Room, Moose Club (Also Saturday.) SATURDA Y-Joseph Knowland Dinner Athens Athletic Club, 6:30 pm; Playground junior Olympics Castlemont High SchooJ Track 10:30 iJA.i Armed Forces Day Lakeside Park.

Twelve events are billed on the Oakland Centennial program hiring the ensuing week. TODAY Alameda County Horseshoe Tournament Moss-wood Horseshoe Club, Moss-wood Park; third annual Northern California vBadmhv ton Tournament -Fremont High School Gymnasium, 10 iin. to midnight; Young People's Symphony Orchestra Auditorium Theater: Cham-, pionship Sailboat Regatta-Lake MerritL MONDAY Kiwanis Centennial Observance Special pro People by the hundreds were fleeing to high land. The streets of Oakland were in tumult Fearful Oaklanders and San Franciscans were selling their homes at 50 per cent loss, and running for their lives. Why? Because man named George A.

Erickson, 29 years old. had gram. dition when Mrs. Woodworth began the evening sermon. When Throughout the.

week, too. the child uncle, having learned Oakland's birthday will be re membered by dozens of clubs and of the incident; attempted to rescue he was forcibly seemed to breathe. She talked and talked and for an hour and three-quarters, in pounding, sense-dulling, repetitive discourse punctuated by shrieked "Amens" which were echoed by her converts. As time passed her words came faster and until finally there was no time for the small words, and her discourse became ari almost hystericmonologue. CASTS HER SPELL --At times she fainted, and was revived.

As she gained power over her audience, women passed out and men groveled the dirt. Hysteria piled on hysteria as the civic organizations anxious to share In this century of civic ejected by the evangelist's "spe cial officers'; and only succeeded had 'Vision and Announced as 11 Another centennial observance in removing tne enua oy return-ing later with the Oakland police PUBLIC AROUSED is planned for today too, on Lake Merfitt, where a score or more a fact that on April 14. 1890, Oakland and San Francisco would be engulfed in tidal wave sweeping inland following a devastating earthquake. Thousands believed the self- The temper of the people of of graceful sailboats will battle in the Championship Sailboat began to rise. On Wednesday.

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KIWAIANS' ROLE proclaimed prophet, end tens of 1890, Mrs. Woodworth, who knew and played upon human nature SO welL announced that the Oak. thousands half-believed him. Tomorrow, the Kiwanis Club Trifeasa fctM kf LA. D) Xfn Others nervously reserved de will hold a centennial celebra evangelist shouted her own particular brand of religion and condemned all classifying church Christians ss "hope so, land area would be destroved cision until after April 14.

A great majority scoffed. tion in a special program at in 1888, six years later. She made this simple statement Hotel Leamington at noon. On Tuesday evening, the Ala mm. guess so, maybe so Christians.

She was in Oakland, she ana tnereaiter never again her self alluded to it. meda County Taxpayers Asso At this distance, it's not easy to comprehend how an entire community of sensible adults could be overwhelmed by a sense of vague dread and creepy un 4 Among those who attended the first reunion ol the Acme Athletic Club In 1920 were deft to right) Willi Jlmxnle Shanley and Jade Kitchen. Kitchen, who is a member of the old dub's 32nd reunion committee today, was the club' famous boxing Instructor and once the heary-weight boxing champion of the Pacific Coast Picture was taken by Tribune cameraman E. A. (Doc) Rogers In Redt wood Canyon, Almost it seemed as, though.

ciation will toast Oakland at a civic banquet in 'Hotel Clare- mowing the impressionable nature of many of her converts. certainty. she "planted" the idea, confident mont Henry J. Taylor, noted commentator and economist, is to be the keynote speaker. To comprehend this, one must im that it would take root in the mind of one of them And on Wednesday, Oakland One of the greatest names in This can onlv be surmised.

Yet r--v. gets further kudos from the Shrine circus, which will be a it is certain that before too Inn. George Erickson was to have his screamed, to save its people. Listeners wept and cried aloud, and pandemonium mounted. A man fell unconscious, and the crowd pushed about him, staring.

When the pressure became intolerable, Mrs. Woodworth fell under what she called "the influence" or "the power' the strange medicine which she sold. She became rigid and was laid, outstretched, on a bench. Simultaneously, others in her audience fell under the spell, toppled to the ground. These also were under "the Influence" they had, Mrs.

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DRUM, DRILL FESTIVAL CRADLE OF CHAMPS i Survivors of Acme Athletic Oakland which was to frighten many a gullible Oaklander half On Friday and Saturday, a out of, his wits. TOMORROW! The nature of gala drum and drill festival is a centennial feature in the ballroom of the Oakland Moose Club. Club to Reunite "Prophet" Erickson's dire prophesy is revealed in full; Mr And Saturday night in the Woodworth takes a journey; and Survivinf members of the Athens Athletic Club, Joseph R. Knowland, The Tribune's pub tne cry: -rake to the hills!" resounds in Oakland streets. long -defunct Acme Athletic Club will hold their 32nd annual reunion Sunday at Pete's Rendez platform, and henceforward were lisher, will be.

guest of honor et a banquet sponsored by the Cerrito City Club vous, 334- Broadway, scene xi their athletic activities before Athens Athletic Club. Committees Named Also on Saturday, the armed the club closed its doors in 1900. understand the part played by a Mrs. Woodworth in this tragicomic chapter in Oakland's history. GIFTED EVANGELIST Woodworth, a lady.

who does not seem to- have had a given name arrived in Oakland in the torrential winter of 1889. With her was her husband, a shadowy figure about whom nothing Is known. Woodworth was an evangelist, and gifted one. The pair erected a revival tent on leased property at 12th and Washington Streets, announcing they had come to save Oakland from itself. By the third of December Oakland realized that something amazing had hit it Woodworth's sermons were unlike, any ever heard before in the city.

The evangelist was plain-faced woman of middle-age, clad always in black a black dress with a bit of white at the throat, a black shawl for her shoulders. Her hair, caught high on her head, was unprepossessing. But the contemporary press agreed that her smile was fascinatinga compelling feature which gave her power over other persons. Even so, Mrs. Woodworth does not seem to have been an ex EL CERRITO.

Mav 10. Stand. forces pays tribute to Oakland in an Armed Forces Day program' at Lakeside Park. Otto RitUer, retired Alameda recreation superintendent, will be chairman of the affair, although comparative youngster ing committees to serve Cerrito City Club for the coming year were announced todav hv Pri. Saturday too is the day of the dent Richard Beaumount They of only 70.

He was one of the Playground Junior Olympics on the track of Castlemont High true converts. During all this, the evangelist claimed that she was unconscious when under "the power" and had no control of her actions. She angrily denied that she had mesmeric powers, but some people were confident she used a form of hypnotism. "When she rose to her feet and waved her hand to and fro and asked the Audience to be seated, invariably another victim "received the power" Bierce reported. COMMERCIAL ANGLE And cynics pointed out that St Estey prices are hown below with the official U.S.

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Bossi, Louis E. Navalier. Ira V. Srtt Founded in 1883 as an athletic end bicycle riding club in the Charles LeFevre barn at Sixth end Alice Streets, the Acme' at He Didn't Forget FORT WORTH, May 10. inaries Baldwin; program, Ora one time numbered 800 members -n Bland Baker, teller at a and was famous for its number A.

Burnett; alck, C. S. Caswell membership, Louies E. Davis sergeant at arms, Frank E. Nel Fort Worth department store, has of championship cups.

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A year ago a woman passed a forged check at his window. The same woman appeared with another check this year later. Baker called police. rituals, Marcos and Davis; finance, Bossi, and entertainment, Ray Morris. 1 1 the Athens Athletic Club.

Acme boxers once won four 5 fr i out of five bouts for the ama from under "the power," a collection was taken and books sold, and hinted that the money thus obtained was Mrs. Woodworth's real interest in Oakland. As the of converts grew, so did the unbelievable ecstasy of Mrs. Woodworth's At next Thursday's meeting the club will entertain members of the El Cerrito Hirii firhnAi teur boxing championships of traordinary women in repose. when she preached, she vi baseball squad.

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Jack Kitchen, one of the reunion committee members, was one of the winners. He was Pacific Coast heavyweight champion and the club's boxing instructor. His fellow boxers called him the amateur boxing champ of the world. Otto Rittler, retired Alameda recreation superintendent. Is chairman of Acme's 32nd annual Washington location and found certone and Dominic Sandretto getting tricks.

"Mrs. Woodworth advanced to the edge of the platform and putting out her hands over the audience, she stood there are in charge of arrangements. another on the Sather Block at Market Street Station. By the end of 1889 the evangelist had gained converts with such rapidity that audiences numbered between 1500 and 2000. in absolute reported Ambrose Bierce in The Tribune on December 1889.

the rain pattering on the canvas Riots, caused by unbelievers and hoodlums, became a -regular oc Old-Style, Outfits, Olympics Act For Centennial Water Follies above i was the only sound that PHJXCO TV your reserved seat to both political conventions and "special officers' broke the painful silence. By and by the nervous members of the were selected from among the converts to police the meetings. These in their technique seem to Olympic tryouts staged In Des I i i "i Moines, la. have been strong-arm men. audience began to get uneasy, and then Mrs.

Woodworth muttered in a sepulchral voice: 'Oh Lord. In the intense silence it had an awe inspiring effect, even Sinister stories spread through An Olympics theme will be featured In the Oakland Centennial Water Follies at the Athens Athletic Club May 23-25. Students through high school age sre invited to the dress re Synchronized swimming is spectatcular and comparatively new to the water world, according to Norma Olsen, Pacific Asso Oakland because of two incidents upon the most irreverent hood at your nearest Maxwells store Downtown, GL 1-9400 Berkeley, BE 7-0305 Fruirvale, KE 4-4322, San Leandro, LO 8-3232 ciation synchronized swimming lum in the back of the tent, while it had a terrifying effect on the commissioner. hearsal at 8:13 pm. May 22.

On the afternoon of January 6, 1890, yrhen the evangelist had whipped her audience into an abandoned, almost voluptuous, demonstration, an 11 year old child. Flora Briggs, succumbed to "the power." She was placed, nervous believers. The show will open with a cen When the evangelist abruptly moved into her sermon, words jumped from her lips without Stop Lights Installed At Street Crossing A WORLD of COMFORT it v. i' fm IPIHimLCECO 17-lnch tennial revue in which numbers will be based and costumed on styles of 100 years ago. In the lily pad number, under black lights, an eerie but lovely effect will be created by 18 girls in fluorescent Costumes swimming among gigantic lily pads end flowers.

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