Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 144

The Knave CM; oo 3 ll 3 3 mm mm mm iiirnii' Photo from ttio collection of Lovil L. SMa Jr. Erected in 1873, the Summit House on slopes of Mt. Diablo burned to the ground in 1901. DON'T BE WITHOUT HOT WATER! Call your nearest Wards Store for fast installation.

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It wasn't until two days later that anyone was sure of Wilson's reelection. Famous Diablo THE name and much of Mt. Diablo's, fame comes from Spanish soldiers frustrated and defeated while chasing Indians in 1806. It wasn't until 1851 that Americans came along and put the mountain -with the evil name to work. Samuel D.

King, first U.S. Surveyor-General for California, arrived here that year (1851) and established Mt. Diablo as the center for base and meridian lines in mapping central California. All of this and much more will come to life again next Thursday evening when the Contra Costa County Historical Society stages its regular dinner meeting at the Concord Inn with Justice A. F.

Bray presiding. Address of the evening will be given by State Geologist Oliver Bowen of Walnut Creek. The title of his talk will be "Historic Diablo and the River." Louis Stein will present pictures of the mountain taken from his collection and the collection of Dr. John Winkley. Reservations for the 9:30 p.m.

dinner meeting can be made by contacting James B. Jory, Box 190, Martinez. IN JULY of 1851 King and his assistants secured horses, mules and an assortment of vehicles at Benicia to carry supplies. Five men were also employed. They crossed the Carquinez Strait and followed up Walnut Creek eight miles, climbed part way up Diablo and camped for the night.

The next day they left the horses in camp and climbed to he top. On a rock at the mountain top they drilled a bqle six inches square and nine Inches deep and set up a 28-foot flag staff with a nine by four foot flag. With this task completed they returned to the valley and surveyed a block around the beginning near the home of Jose Amador near Dublin; continuing east 12 miles, then north, west and south to the starting point. Dr. Winkley, editor of the historical society's monthly bulletin, tells us that the predecessor of State Geologist Oliver Bowen who will speak Tuesday night was Dr.

Olaf P. Jenkins, a former teacher of Moores Hill College in Indiana. Jenkins organized the science department at the onetime Indiana school now located in Evans ville. Later he was called to Indiana University by David Starr Jordon. When Dn Jordon was called west in 1890 by Leland Stanford to organize Stanford University he brought Oliver Jenkins along with him as well as several other Indiana professors.

"Indiana University felt robbed," Dr. Winkley comments. One of the early establishments on the pioneer roads up ML Diablo was the old Summit House erected 1 10-YEAR GUARANTEE You o' isoiw hator fro tf tank foils duo todsftc tivo moUriolft or workmanship during first yoart? You got now kootor mt 30 of 15-YEAR GUARANTEE Ym Bt a nvw hotr rm il tank fails du to afactiva matonoli or workman thtp during fcrat 7't row. Yav 9t nw fcatr at 50 of Cwrrnt prk A Kootvr fail in tost Half at Sth yar Last 7 for pay 50 plus 5 for socn succovd-ng yar. You pay in ffalLojtion charges only aftar first in 1873.

It stood at the junction of the north and south roads. The inn was destroyed by fire in 1901. Schooldays IT WAS in August of 1900 that Edna Joste Parry entered the Clawson School in Oakland for First Grade classes. "I well remember the way the rooms were draped in heavy black crepe at the time of the assassination of President William McKinley in September of 1901. In those days Clawson School was completely in--" tegrated.

Oub class had two colored pupils, one a boy and the other a brilliant girl named Gladys Chandler. We could walk down Street to the Southern Pacific station, cross the railroad tracks and stroll out on a fine beach. It was excellent wading. We had to transfer to Durant School for the Seventh Grade, where S.G.S. Dunbar was in complete command.

I know there must be many old-timers who recall being whacked on the legs with his bamboo cane for some infringement of yard rules. The parade suits, flags and torchlights for the Pondinky Club were kept in-- our basement on Filbert Street and I can remember how much effort was put into the parade at the time George C. Pardee ran for Governor of California. My father, Teddy Joste, a naturalized citizen from England, held classes in our home for other Englishmen with whom he came in contact in those early days of 1900. Citizenship classes, they now call them.

Our attendance helped us in our history classes in later years. There was always a map near at hand when father read the evening Tribune by kerosene lamp, so we had geography lessons as well. I I have often wondered who was responsible for the firing of the cannon in the old City Hall plaza that wrecked the Taft Pennoyer windows at 14th and Broadway. In fact, all the store windows along 14th Street right down to Washington Street were broken. It was quite a prank for a Fourth of July celebration.

I wonder how many Oaklanders can remember the green bandstand at the plaza where the band performed on Friday nights. We would all sit around in our buggies and wagons, the horses tied to a rail around the plaza." -THE KNAVE 10 foroochsve-cooding; yoar if tank foils during fho lost 5 yoat Yov pay installation chargos only .1. i. mm mmm. i I offer f.l I III fTz) II Til uw "STILL NOT TOO- LATE' FOR WARDS TO INSTALL A NEW HEATING SYSTEM IN YOUR HOME.

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