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A THE XXAMIITCK. SAX FKAXCISCO: SUNDAY MORNING. JUNE 19, 1892, 10 OAKLAND AND SUBURBAN EDITION. THE COfiVERTEDMILUONAIRE The Rich Salvation Army" Man Will Save Cazadero Forests, STICKING IffiSJN TOPS, 4 Queer Mixture of Languages in Alameda County Names. II PASSENGERS RIDE FREE, An Old Law That Controls Railroad Management in Oakland.

MISS FLORENCES NEW BUG- The Heiress of the Blythe Estate to Marry Fritz Hinckley. THE ENGAGEMENT HAS BEEN KNOWN TO THE FAMILIES FOR SOME TIME. he turned the horses, but so sharply that Mrs. Langhorn was thrown out and severely Injured. Because Khattuck la a Mason.

A check for (10 drawn in favor of D. H. Holmes purporting to be signed by ex-Mayor F. K. Shattuck was presented yesterday at the First National Bank ot Oakland, and paid.

The check was presented by P. Christensen, a saloon-keeper, and when the check was pronounced a forgery Mr. Christensen Immediately redeemed it. He explained that the paper had been given him by the man in whose favor it was drawn. Holmes was Introduced to the saloon-keeper by a young man by the name of Kinley.

Holmes aaid tbat he had coma from Los Angeles, and was a Mason in distress. The Masons of Oakland, he said, were going to assist him. When the check from Mr. Shattuck was presented to the saloon-keeper, and he was asked to cash it he suspected no wrong. Holmes lives in San Francisco.

the validity of the transfer to Carpenter in 1852. Tho first train ran over the tracks in 1863, and a strange train it was in comparison with the engines and cars now in use. The engine was built at Oakland Point, and seemed to consist principally of a boiler on a flat car. James Batehelder was the first engineer. The road was extended in 1 8 65 to Larue's wharf at San Antonio, near the foot of Thirteenth avenue.

While the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad Company was running its queer train once au hour through Oakland, trains of the San Francisco, Alameda and Haywards road, of which A. A. Cohen was manager, were running through Alameda. In 1865 Cohen became manager of the Oakland road, as well as the Alameda road, and at the same time the Western Paciflo Railroad Company, which was incorporated in 1863, began to be prominent and the construction of the Central Paciflo Railroad across the mountains seemed assured. The Central Pacific in 1867 absorbed the stock of the Western Pacific, but retained the corporate existence of the latter.

In 1868 the Western Pacific obtained a franchise to build railroads in First street and Fifth street Afterward it asked the privilege to use Third street instead of Fifth street, but the request was denied and no road was ever built in Fifth street THE SALE TO THE BIO CORPORATION. In the year following, 1869, the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad Company sold out to the Western Pacific, which was radically tho same as the Central Pacific, later years, when tha Southern Pacific Railroad was built, the Central Pacific became a leased line of the Southern Paciflo Company of Kentucky, and hence the control by Mr. Huntington's big corporation of the local railroad in Oakland. The franchise for the use of Seventh street, however, has never been changed. Every car of the local trains contains a notice to passengers that the company is not permitted by law to carry passengers for hire within the corporate limits of Oakland, but at the same time is not compelled to carry them without charge; therefore that all except through passengers, bound to or from places outside of the city are trespassers and the company is not responsible for any injury that may happen to them while they are on the trains or getting on and off.

The prohibition from charging fare for passengers traveling from station to station in Oakland is not contained in the franchise. It bad even earlier existence than the franchise. An Act of the Legislature of May 20, 1861, provides for the incorporation and management of railroads, and under its general provisions the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad Company was incorporated. The concluding paragraph of the Act is quoted: WITH MORE COMPETITION, WHAT? ProriJttt, however, the provisions of this section shall not apply to any street railway now constructed or hereafter to be constructed in any ot the incorporated cities of this State; nor shall any railroad company who shall avail themselves of the provisions of this section ever use their road for strict railroad purposes or for the purpose of carrying passengers for a consideration from one point to another in the same city; nor Khali any city or town donate any public square, or any land set apart, to the use of any one company and, Proouitd, further, that nothing In this section contained shall be deemed to apply to the city of Sacramento within the corporate limits thereof. As the San Francisco and Oakland Rail BOHEMIAN CAMP MAY BE A SITE FOR RELIGIOUS MEETINCS.

The Banks of Austin Creek May Resound to Hymns Instead of the Song of the Owl The Millionaire Owner and His Wife Who Devote Their Lives to Good Works The Beulah Community. George Montgomery attended midsummer Jinks of the Bohemian Club until he waa converted. Mr. Montgomery did not cease attending jinks because he deemed the association thereat destructive to genius, or even disastrous to morals, but devoting himself to tha work of God in the path pointed out to him, hecut loose all connections with worldly pleasures, among which he counted tha companionships of club life. The midsummer high jinks, ceremonies held in the open air, for several years have been held in a great grove of redwoods on the banks of Austin creek, near Cazadero.

Mr. Montgomery might have viewed tha picturesque camp with the peculiar interest of a proprietor, for the great grove and the lands around it, in all some 1,800 acres, were and are his property. Now Mr. Montgomery and his intellectual and gracious wife, formerly Miss Carrie Judd, are earnest members of the Salvation Army and their minds are bent on philanthropio work through mediaother than men's dubs. The disposition of the valuable and beautiful tract of timber land about Cazadero ia therefore a subject discussed with interest alike by the men who were Mr.

Montgomery's companions when he was "of tha world," and by those upon whom his present benefactions and company are bestowed. Mr. Montgomery has not determined definitely what to do with the Cazadero tract. But he has reached one decision that will glorify him in the minds of all who appreciate the redwoods of California for something else than the feet of lumber that may be cut from them. He will not permit tha destruction of the trees.

CAMP MEETINGS ON THE JINKS GROUND. "Our plans about Cazadero are yet in embryo," said Mrs. Montgomery yesterday at her home in Beulah. "We have not made our plans, and therefore I cannot say definitely. In all our business affairs, as well as in other affairs, we reach our conclusions only after prayer.

Both of us have seen the direct answers to prayer. I was cured of illness of the spine from which I suffered for more than two years by prayer. My husband was cured of diabetes by prayer. We pray over all our affairs and our prayers are answered. We have considered making use of the Cazadero property for a great camp meeting ground.

At present the property ia hired by Mr. Burns, but the five years' lease will expire before long and then wa may do as we please with the property. If we should fulfill our plan to devote it to camp meetings we should permit any evangelical Christian people to make use of tha property. The grounds would not be for the Salvation Army merely, but for use of any body of evangelical Christians that might desire to use it for a season of services in the woods. There are many places among the groves suitable for meeting purposes, and many camps might be conducted at the same time.

The jinks ground of tha Bohemian club camp is a finer amphitheatre of trees even than the famous pine grove at Old Orchard, Me. The places called tha dining room and the kitchen of the olub are also suitable places for large gatherings under the trees. The celebrated Christian resort at Ocean Grove, N. is something of tha kind of place, as to arrangement and control, that we might make of the Cazadero Eroperty if this plan is carried out, but as I ave said, we have not yet made any decision." A CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY. Beulah, the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Montgomery, is a tract of beautiful rolling land in the hills not far from Mills Seminary. All the land has been formally dedicated to God, at the ceremony of consecration tha Rev. Dr. Easton of San Francisco haying officiated.

The owners are building up a little Christian community about them. Not far distant is the site of the Home of Rest for officers of the Salvation Army who may be sick or disabled. The building is not finished, and a rented house is at present used for the feeble officors. The Rescue Home for Girls is also located at Beulah, and Mrs. Montgomery gives particular and affectionate attention to the women whom she calls her fallen sisters.

Then the Montgomery's have land for sale, but the deeds contain very rigid conditions. Beulah is to be strictly a temperance town, and tha deeds so nominate. A model community is that to be built up around Beulah station on the California Railway, trains of which run between Fruit Vale and Laundry Farm, a community of earnest Christians full of zeal for the cause to which this millionaire and his wife are giving their lives and their property. Perhaps Cazadero may be the center ot another such a community, but whether that or no the giant redwoods are to be saved and perhaps Mr. Montgomery may carry out the fancy he expressed soma years ago of having the railroad trains pass through one of the big trees just as stage coaches to the Mariposa big trees pasa through the trunk of one of the great red woods of that grove.

A Fierce Fight for Money. Catherine Boogar, who Is suing her husband for divorce, yesterday filed an application la Oakland for almony amounting to $150 month, and alRO $500 costs of court and $1,000 attorney's fees. This is but the first move for money in the Boogar divorce case, which will be one of the most bitterly contested oases ever tried iu Alameda county. 3Q ualities: HTE. JOUVIH of labor and care should not be dissipated by prodigal and careless hands.

The San Lorenzo grant to Sergeant Soto, named from the creek that was its northern boundary, naturally pave the Spanish of St Lawrence to the little town of which the nabobs now are H. YV. and W. E. Meek, sons of the late William Meek, who purchased the fairest acres in the San Lorenzo rancho from the widow of the grantee.

Runcho San Leandro, the Estudillo grant, also had a name similar with that of a bounding stream, and naturally the town took the name of the rancho. The Estudillo family has lost its great estate, though it has bequeathed its came to a quaint old tavern. THE GENESIS OF NIGOEH CORNERS. Many times has the town of lrvington received a dubbing. A colored man named Davis was one of the first to make a home place at the crossing of the roads, and from him came the first name of "Nigger Corners." This was expressive but not elegant, and as white settlers occupied the lands they objected to the name.

Then Washington Corners came to be the designation, and then Irving and lrvington. Any of the three names was a direction for some time, but the old settlers called the place simply "The Corners," and they led no one astray. The people of the town, annoyed by the variety of its nomenclature, assembled one night and voted to call their abode lrvington, and no change has been made since that time. The poetic may think that Palomares was named because it was a trysting place for wild doves paloma being Spanish for dove. That is sentiment, but not fact The name comes from a man's surname.

Old Ignacio Palomares lived there so many years ago that no one can tell the number seventy- five or a hundred, the people say. His name lives and a good-sounding name it is but the barbarians are already calling it Jfaimyra Half way between San Leandro and Oak land, in olden times, was the half-way house called Yoakum's Ferry, because old man Yoakum had a house in the neighborhood. Now all about Yoakum's Ferry are town lots for sale on the installment plan. St Anthony's Church retained the English of the name given to the old town of ban Antonio, where bull fights and fiestas were held in the fifties. A modern Oakland politician may have heard of San Antonio, but he will not be sure where it is located.

San Antonio is now East Oakland. The little settlements called Clinton and Brooklyn by the New Jersey and New York people who early came to California are also lost in East Oakland, though the names are conserved by two stations on the local railroad. MIXING CP THE TREES The name Alameda means a row of poplars, and naming a stream, now called Alameda creek, by a common though inharmonious mingling of Spanish and wild western English was the first use of the name in the county that subsequently took its title from the stream. The city of Alameda gained its name from the same source. The peninsula on which Alameda is situated was commonly called the Alameda Encinal.

As alameda means a row of poplars and encinal alive oak grove, the herding of the two into one title is an incongruity equal to any lot Gringos have ever committed. For the names Dublin and Limerick the late John W. Dougherty, a Mississippi man of Irish descent, is responsible. Purely Indian is Te mescal. The name signifies a sweathouse, one having been located at the place where the town north of Oakland is now situate.

There the In dians, for the sake of their health, were accustomed to take a rude Turkish bath in the hut built for the sweating bath. A great fight was waged Quite recently In Washington over the name of Golden Gate. Klinkner, the man with the pink donkeys and the monkeys, who owns more property in the'neighborhood than any one ise, was determined that tne name should be Klinknerville, but the influence with the Postoffice Department of a Senator's wife Prevented this outrage and gave to the amlet its present name. Lorin, now a part of Berkeley, was also a name bestowed by the baptizer of the postal service. North of Berkeley M.

B. Curtis, "Sam'l of Posen," has the name of the original owner of all Oakland, Alameda and Brooklyn townships, and Peralta is not to be lost to memorv. BECAUSE OF A PROPHETIC POEM. When Dr. Henry Durant selected the lope opposite the Golden Gate for the site of the State University, and he and Dr.

Horace Bushneli and others were thinking of a name, some one spoke of the verses of the Irish prelate, to whom Pope ascribed every virtue under heaven," the scholar and gentleman who, intent upon planting arts and learning in America, wrote the lines so often quoted that they are seldom quoted aright: Westward the course of empire takes Us way; The four first acts already past A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's noblest offspring is the last. These kindly savants saw in the future the fulfillment of the prophecy of the Bishon of Cloyneon the very spot they had selected and hence gave the name of the town to the man who had made it The moderns, the Dresent moderns, am bent on tearing away from their associa tions some ot the names that should be firmly rootod. Near Livermore are some mineral springs which the Spaniards called Agua de Vida water of life. Now a modern demolisher of poetry, Mendenhall by name, owns the property, and he has sublimated his personal pride by changing Agua de Vida to MendenhaU's Springs, aim jroi uiuruur uws noi Deen committed. Aguacanente means stmDlv hot water but Agua Caliente sounds differently from no.

water, xet me site ot the springs near the great ranch that Leland Stanford gave to his brother Josiah, now deceased, and near the summer haven of the poetical coadjutor of Chris Buckley, Sam Rainey, is now called Warm Springs, and Agua Caliente is lost forever. CONCERNING EXTRA DEPUTIES. ramie Basinets Affected by the Recent Decision of the Hupreme Court. Ths Alameda county officers are no nearer a solution of the recent trouble over the appoint ment or eitra deputies tban they were several months ago. In an effort to get some Informa tion District Attorney Reed bas written the following letter to the Attorney General.

The answer will Interest not only Alameda countv Dunne wnoie state: Dtar Sir: At the last meeting of oar Board of Supervisors the Assessor of this county made an application lor lour extra deputies to com pleta the assessment roll of the county of Alameda, under Sections 3694 and 3193 of tha Political Code of this State. The board referred the application to me, with the understanding that I was to refer the matter to you for your written opinion as to the powers of the board to grant these deputies and also as to ths authority of the Treasurer to cay the same. I also desire to have your opinion as to the power of the Board of Supervisors to allow the County Clerk extra deputies onder the provisions 01 section ma of the Poll Code, for the purpose of making i new urrn negiBier. 1 also des re Tour wrltun opinion upon subdivision 36 of section 25 ot the County Government Act as to whether or no uouer mai sunamsion the Board of SuDer- visors can authorize the District Attorney to appoint an Assistant District A ttnrnMD Anil whether or not the County Treasurer can pay the salary of such assistants. I understand that you have already passed upon the first two of tba propositions above auhmittod, but we desire, for the benefit of ths officers of this county, your written opinion, so that the same may oe tiled in the records ot the county.

An early reply will greatly oblige, as matters down here are in a very bad shape, and we hardly run toe business of the county under the recent deoisionof the Supreme Court liEOBGB W. KEBD. NO CHANCES TO LOSE. Oakland Bookmakers Making Use of Their Short Time. The Largest Crowd Ever Gathered In tha Poolrooms One Plunger by at Few Beta Changed tha Odds on Locohatchee.

The report of the Suburban Handicap was received in the Oakland pool rooms by the largest crowd that has assembled there since the pool game moved across the bay. The poolrooms have not been making money as fast as the proprietors expected, but the opening of the legitimate racing season has had the effect of increasing the attendance, and consequently the profits. But the bookies are not giving any great chances to the plungers. They have but a little while to remain in Oakland, and they are making hay while the sun shines. They are cutting down the odds and increasing their profits all they can for the limited time that they have to stay.

Neverthelesa the attendance at the rooms during the great race yesterday afternoon was unusual. The rooms were packed with a perspiring, smoking, wriggling mass of people most of whom were trying some kind of a ''shot" at the great race that they all believed could not and would not be "thrown." BETTING ON AX OUTSIDER. The odds given were very slight, and differed even from the racetrack odds, being arranged for the safety of the "bookies." Montana was the favorite all along, the odds given running from two to one to three to one. Nearly all the gamblers played Montana, for the great Garrison was on her. She was regarded as a California horse, but this fact had little to do with the betting, for sentiment and patriotism do not count for much in the po olroom.

Some few played Raceland on his past record, and there were somo who said that they had private advices from the track that Major Domo was the great horse, and bad done wonders at private trials. There was a slight stir Friday night when some one put $400 on Locohatchee at odds of 8 to 1 to win and 3 to 1 for place. This betting scared the bookies" and they immediately cut down the odds on the hoards to 6 to 1 to win and 8 to 5 for place, even though the track odds did not change. But even this change did not seem to aeter the reckless plunger, and $400 more was put up at the reduced odds. The "bookies" were frightened.

Rumors began to fly that the reckless one was not a plunger, but the agent for an Eastern man who was placing this money with private information at his back. A panic set in and tne 'hookies" ran the odds on Liocohatchee down to 8 to 1 to win and 1 even for place, though the track odds went from to 1 to 10 to 1, and finally settled at the original figure, 8 to 1. THE NEWS OF MONTANA'S VICTORT. The race was long delayed and the rest less mass of people, that had bardly room to stand in much less move, smoked ana perspired. The bell rang and a great sigh of reliel went up irora uie cruwu iu uie room.

It was only a moment, ior provew to be an unimportant race at Oloster. There was more shifting and wriggling and the bell rang out again. Thev're off at Coney Island," drawled the monotonous voice of Charles Kingsley. There was one final wriggle, and the people settled down, and an intense silence fell upon the room, broken only by the occasional click of the telegraph instrument Pessara in the lead, Major uomo second. Russell repeated the monotonous voice from the little box in the rear.

Pessara and liussell were Dottt "long-enders," or not regarded as possible winners, and the backers of Montana breathed hard. Still they had faith in the Garrison finishes" that made their jockey so famous. Maior Domo at the hair, uusseii second. Tournament third," repeated the voice mechanically. Still no sign irom jNioniana.

'Major Domo in the stretch by five lengths, Montana second, Lamplighter third." The man who had the private advices from Major Domo started a faint cheer, but was speedily choaked off. Everybody was waiting for "the final announcement The bell rang again. "Montana winsl Major Domo gets the place-" There was a big cheer and the pool-rooms rapidly emptied. Both Kingsley and Whitehead opened books on this race, this being the only double set of books opened in the Oakland pool-rooms for a long while. There was about $5,000 bet in the Oakland rooms on this race, but, because of the small odds, the "bookies" made some money even though the favorite did win.

FOR California. We are the Sole Agents for this FAMOUS GLOVE riLOVESE WTTTTrriTiTJTT THE ONLY HIb. ESTABLISHED GANTS SPANISH, INDIAN, ENCLISH PROPRIETY. AND IM- CoinblnlDK One Name Row of kBd Grove or Llva Oaks Bobbing Old Associations of tba Soft (Spanish Title! Tbmt Belong to Them -Railroad and Postal Sponsors. Contra Costa was the original name of a little settlement on the bank of the estuary of San Antonio, a cluster of bouses on the grant to Uon Luis Maria Peralta, the most magnificent estate ever owned by one man In California.

The difference between Contra Costa and Oakland, between San Antonio and Brooklyn, is the difference between the Spanish and the American style of nomenclature. Contra Costa became Oakland by a little Act of the Legislature, passed way back in 1852, wben Benicia was the State capital, just two years after California became a part of the Union of American States. Had the people of the settlement had the opportunity of selecting a name they never would have chosen Oakland. Contra Costa was euphonious; it was suggestive of the situation of the town; it was reminiscent of the old Spanish settlers it was Indicative of the prominence of the place in the big county of Contra Costa. If the original name had been maintained Alameda county of the present might have been Contra Costa county, and at the division Martinez, or San Pablo, or Alvarado, or Pacheco, might have been the name given to the northern section.

But Oakland suited the man who officiated at the christening, and his influence was ail-powerful witt) the Legislature, hence Oakland became the name, and the people who live within the jurisdiction covered by that name have grown accustomed to it and seem not to regard with envy peopie who may head their letters with soft Hispanian names, such as Sacramento, Los Angeles, Los Gatos. San Francisco, San Rafael, Merced or Rio Vista. In fact, some people, lost to the sense of intrinsic charm of words, seem proud of the very name of Oakland. THE GEXSRAL'S SAME MISSPELLED. Notwithstanding the bad example in designating its principal town, Alameda county has been fairly fortunate In retaining the musical names bestowed by those of the southern land, whose ease and sloth have been crowded out by the vigor and shrewdness of the greedy Saxon.

Intermingling means surer conquest to the Spaniard or the Mexican than force of arms. At the very entrance to Alameda county from San Joaquin is Altamont, "the high mountain," named because of its elevation in the Liver more hills, 600 or 600 feet above tide water. Soon after the railroad made and ruined towns a settlement near Altamont called Midway was a promising hamlet because it was important to the railroad, but now the trains do not even stop. Livermore valley and the town of Liver-more gained a name from the first white settler, Robert Livermore, an Englishman, whose descendants still live on the fertile plain. Pleasanton became Pleasanton because of the patriotic pleasure of John W.

Kottinger, one of the early settlers in the Livermore valley, who married a daughter of Juan P. Bernal. The general impression that the name was given with a boom purpose of calling by its very name attention to the town as a charming location abundantly endowed with climate is a mistake. Pleasanton is not a contraction of pleasant town. Mr.

Kottinger, who is still alive, though very ill and feeble, was so much impressed with the gallant deeds during the civil war of General Alfred Pleasonton that he changed the name from its original designation, Alisal, meaning a sycamore grove, to the sounding surname of the cavalry commander. In transferring the name from man to town an error mas made in spelling. The General's name was Pleasonton; the name of the town is Pleasanton. THE BAD LOSS OF A LETTER. No change has been permitted in the spelling of the name Sunol, but the Yankee tongues have changed the common pronunciation from the drawling Soonyol, with the final long, to a quickly-sounded S'nol, dropping altogether the sound.

The name is that of the grantee of the great ranch of which Sunol was the central point Antonio Mana Sunol, the first of the California Sunols, was a native of Spain, and for a time was Spanish Consul at San Francisco. He lived at San Jose before he was given a principality in Alameda county, and his family, having followed the usual course of the Spaniards who inherited great wealth in lands, have lost what they had, and one son not long ago returned to San Jose to live. Niles plain, short Niles the town that has greater local pride and a poorer name than any other in the county, received iu baptism from the name-dispenser of the railroad company. The other officers of the railroad so arrange connections of trains at this Junction that it is known as the town spelled with five letters, one letter for every hour that a passenger has to wait for a train. The old Spanish mission in the county is Mission San Jose, where great celebrations are held on the 19th of April, St.

Joseph's Day. The people have robbed some of the name, just as some of the triests robbed the place of some of its glory by cutting uuwu Ktuvo vi uuve ixees ior nrewood. To suit the economy of the Americans the town is designated simply as "The Mission." No Spaniard had any part in naming Cen-terville, and the man who did curse the prettily situated town is dead, but his evil deed remain after him. THE MODEST MB. SMITH.

The genius of some notable in the South facino (joast Railway was taxed when Newark received iu title. The attempt of me rauruau managers lomaKe a town there ty marvelous advertising (including the publication of the Newark Enterprise, of which Senator F. J. Moffitt was editor is too recent to be historical. Henry U.

bmith, a pioneer of 1845, the iirai uicoiur ui mu legislature from Alameda county, was too sensible to name the place ol His abode bmithville or Smith-burg. He called it Alvarado. aftr rin. ernor Juan B. Alvarado, who died not many years ago in Contra Costa countv.

Peterson was the name of the first settler at Mount why the place should be Mount Lden its appearance does not indicate ana nistory tails to tell. Eden is a historic name. Once there was a Garden of Eden, noted more for snakes than anything else, and perhaps the Eden part of the name comes from the garden. But whereby the mount became the precedent of Eden is a mystery. Perhaps Peterson bad lofty aspirations and made a mountain out of a little mound that is scarce a uurt on the band nature.

But Mount Eden it became, and the Postoffice Department made the name permanent. No one speaks of the town of Havward All who have occasion to speak of the place celebrated for chicken with white sauce and engagements made in summer to be broken in winter, call it Haywards, with the final a prominently articulated. Yet Havward is the right name. The sponsor of the town was William Hayward, who died a few years ago, and tried to sew up b. is la is that what bad cost him years A HERITACE OF A ROAD ABSORBED BY THCENTRAL PACIFIC.

Tba Franchise for tba Use or Seventh Street Will Not Expire Until 1911 The Quickening Effect or Competing; Electric Railroads in the Suburbs on tha Great Southern Paciflo Company. A little narrow-gauge railroad that once worked its way into Oakland in spite ot the fiercest opposition from the Southern Pacific Company and its local political agents, Stephen T. Gage and the late Henry Vroo-man, was the first competitor for the Oakland traffic to the big corporation that then was a resident of California but subsequently changed its habitat to Kentucky. When James G. Fair bought out the interest of his partners of the bonanza Arm in the narrow-gauge railroad he also bought the street railroads in Broadway south of Fourteenth street, in Telegraph avenue, in San Pablo avenue and in Twelfth street from Broadway to East Oakland.

He turned the old horse-car railroad in San Pablo avenue and Broadway into a cable road, and made such threatening gestures railroad matters and local politics that the Southern Paciflo Company bought his steam railroad for a million more than it cost him, and also bought his street railroads and his fine block of land fronting on Fourteenth street, between Broadway and Franklin street That competition being silenced the Southern Paciflo Company settled down to peaceable enjoyment of the profits from the property acquired from Fair, the best money-maker of the whole coterie of California and Nevada millionaires. But Oakland is not what it used to be. While the Southern Pacific Company has been running old horse cars on Telegraph avenue and Twelfth street new railroad builders have constructed an electrio road to Berkeley and are constructing two electric roads from Central Oakland to East Oakland. While the trains of the Southern Pacific Company have been passing the outskirts of San Leandro and Haywards, local capitalists have built aa electric railroad, passing straight through the center of each of these growing towns. THE SEVENTH STREET ROAD.

These new railroads mean serious compe tition for the Kentucky corporation, and the company, after a season of placid contemplation, has perceived the difference in its receipts, present or prospective. It is now changing the old horse-car route in Telegraph avenue and the connecting steam dummy road from Temescal to Berkeley into a fine electric road. It has made recent additions to the train service between Oak land pier and Haywards. It will bo compelled soon to change the horse-car route to East Oakland to an electrio road or else lose all the traffic. For several years prices of property have been disturbed and the peace of mind of owners of real estate agitated by continual reports of changes in the route of the local trains of the broad-gauge route through Oakland.

President Huntington is inclined to favor a sub surface road in Seventh treet. Charles F. Crocker bas spoken fa vorably of returning to the plan of years ago when passengers were conveyed by boat without change between ban Francisco and the foot of Broadway, Oakland. Senator Stanford has not been able so far to divert his attention from affairs of state to think out a plan of operating the railroad in Oakland since the company retired from politics. Many people in and out or tne railroad.

company have suggested withdrawing altogether the local trains from Seventh street and constructing a cable or electrio road on that street from the bay shore to East Oakland. They have said this change might be made soon because the franchise of the company for the use of Seventh. street is about to expire. This statement is readily made, but not so easily proved. It cannot be proved at all in fact, for it is not true.

An examination of the franchise requires a search back into the records of Oakland to a time when passengers traveled to and from San Francisco by the creek route, and the time occupied in making the trip depended on the state of the tide and the desire of the skipper to shoot ducks on the way. THE FIRST RAILROAD. On May 20, 1861, the Legislature passed an act granting to Hodmond Gibbons, William Hillegass, H. E. Cole, Samuel Wood, Joseph Black and George Goss the right to build a railroad through the city of Oakland trom tne estuary (oetween uentral Oakland and East Oakland) to a place on the bay front nearest to Yerba Buena Island, and also to build from the shore to the island a bridge or mole, and to operate a ferry between the island and San Francisco.

Soonarter this date the City Council of Oakland granted by ordinance to the San 'rancisco ana ualiland Kauroad, in which Goss, Black and others were interested, a franchise to build and operate a railroad in Seventh streot from the estuary (between Central Oakland and East Oakland) to Mar ket street, and from Market street in a straight line to the bay. That is the franchise under which the trains are now running Seventh street It was granted November 21. 1861. for a period of fifty years, and therefore will not expire until November 21, 1911, nineteen years hence. The franchise is silent as to the kind of railroad to be constructed, and of course contains no reference to a cable road, for in 1861 cable roads were not used lor carrying passengers.

The franchise does not name the streets west of Market street on which the trains should run, because at that time the streets were not opened. When the road was constructed owners of property gave to the company a strip 40 feet wide for a right of way irora Market street to the bay. Hence the railroad owns its right of way west of Market street. As the town grew along the line of the railroad streets were laid out and property -owners deeded to the city strips along the railroad right ol way for the purpose of making a street in constructing tne road a curve was. made at Market street in order that the tracks to a convenient point on the bay shore should be straight When the streets were laid out they were made parallel to the track ana that is the reason streets east of Market street are not in the same direc tion as streets west of Market street THE APPROACH Of THE CENTRAL PACIFIC.

In East Oakland the railroad company owns the land it occupies, hence the only pan oi i-evenin street witnin the railroad tracks that is city property is from Market street to the trestle bridcre leading- to East Oakland, unless the use of the right-of-way or a puuuo street nas converted it into highway for all time. Incidentally this same franchise throws side light on the question of ownership of the water front. It granted the company 500 feet of water front and in spite of the objections of the people who claimed the whole water front of Oakland under the deed to H. W. Carpentier in 1852, Mayor P.

M. Davis signed the deed eivinir the coirmanv the 500 feet of water front This act shows that the city in 1861 did not acknowledge Mrs. Hinckley, Mother of the Prospective Bridegroom, Charmed With Ills Choice Miss Blythe's Family Alao Greatly Pleased Some Things About the Prospective Bride and Bar Fortune. Florence Blythe is engaged again. This time the fortunate young man is Frederick M.

Hinckley, whose father is the senior partner in the firm of Hinckley, Spiers Hayes. Fritz," as all bis friends call him, is a young man twenty-two years old. He is the younger of two brothers, both of whom are great favorites in Oakland society. It was while Mist Blythe waa engaged to J. W.

Keyes, the young attorney, that Mr. Hinckley first met her at the Macdonalds' house in San Francisco. The mutual attachment seemed coincident with introduction, but the young gentleman said nothing about it until after the rupture of the engagement with Mr. Keyes. Then young Hinckley lost no time in pressing his suit, and in a short while succeeded in persuading the prospective heiress to wear a ring that he purchased for her.

Possibly it was because the met Hinck ley that Miss Blythe was so ready to end the engagement with Mr. Keyes. But those who pretend to know something of it say that the real reason for the enstrangement was because Keyes expressed himself too MISS FLORENCE BLYTHE. From a photograph taken in 1891. freely to inquirers.

At any rate it was very soon after the fact of the engagement was printed that it was broken off. It is said that while Miss Blythe's rela tives were not displeased with her first choice of a husband, they are more than satisfied with Mr. Hinckley, and the family of the prospective groom have no word to say in criticism of the selection he has made. THE BETROTHAL ACKNOWLEDGED, Mrs. Hinckley, the mother of the pros pective groom, was rather chagrined yes terday when sne learned tnat tne engage ment had become public property.

I have been so afraid it would get in the papers," she said. But my son has been engaged for quite a long while. We are all very much charmed witn Miss Hiyine. She is bright, accomplished and I think very pretty. She is just as modest as can be, too.

I hope, though, the wedding will not take place for some time. They are both very young and can easily wait Be side, 1 do not want to lose my ooy. i am sure that they will make an excellent couple. I told Miss Blythe when I first met her that couia congratulate ner, oecause i knew all about my son. They are devoted to each other." Mr.

Hinckley was for a number of years connected with the California Insurance Company, but upon its absorption by the Firemen's Fund Company his place naturally was abolished. He is soon, however, to enter the office of another company. He lives with his parents in Fruit Vale. For several years Florence Blythe has been the most notable woman in California, young or old. The attention of the publio was directed toward hor at the very beginning of her contest for the millions left by the late Thomas H.

Blythe, and it has never been withdrawn. From a child she grew to young womanhood under the glare of publicity. During tho trial of the case the sympathy of the people was with her, and Judge Coffey made a popular decision when ho declared that she was entitled to the entire estate of her father. Almost the first question asked her when the Court made her an heiress was whom she was going to marry. IX NO HASTE TO WED.

She told everybody then that she was in no hurry for a husband. She spoke sensibly about marriage, saying that she was too young at that time to think seriously! of such a thing as marriage. Besides she wanted to complete her studies, and had no time to devote to idle dreams of lovers and engagement rings. But it was not long before rumors began to be circulated concerning the attentions that were being paid her. At first it was said that she intended to marry a young man whom she bad met during a vacation trip to Lake country.

No sooner was that denied by both parties, than her engagement to young Mr. Keyes, whom she met at her aunt's house in San Anselmo, took place. That was of but short duration. Miss Blythe is Just past her eighteenth birthday, which was celebrated at her home at San Anselmo by a party to which a number of her friends were invited as well as the attorneys who made such a successful fiirht in the courts. That fight is not over yet, because some of the contesting heirs took an appea to the Supreme Court So that it will be some time before Miss Blythe knows surely whether she will have the millions left by her father.

In the mean time the has a fine allowance. She is still living at San An selmo with Mrs. Perry. Bought From the Central Paciflo. The Fruitvale Land Company was Incorpor ated yesterday In Oakland.

The capital stock Is 1 300.000, divided into 3,000 shares of tha par value of 9100 each. The subscribers are w. J. Dingee, floo.OOO: W. Q.

Henshaw, 5 Austin. 70.000: Walter E. Heatie, Sl.YOOO and F. W. Henshaw, J15.000.

The subscribers to the stock are the purchasers from the Central Pacific Company of a tract of eighty acres near Melrose, which is now to be old in subdivisions. Met One Injury In Avoiding Another. Mrs. E. L.

Lang-horn of Alameda yesterday avoided one disaster only to meet another. She waatn a carriage driven by Benjamin Piper that was about to cross the Alameda local track when a train for Ban Francisco was seen approaching. Piper did not notice the train until It almost struck the carriage. Than IP road Company and its successors and assigns are bound by this law, the Southern Paciflo Company cannot build any street railroad in Seventh street and cannot charge fare from passengers traveling from station to station in Oakland tor nineteen years unless the company should abandon tne steam railroad on seventh. street and apply for a new franchise granting privileges not accorded by the old law and the old franchises.

Whether any change be made in the Seventh-street line the Southern Pacific Company has had a wonderful quickening, and is working hard to retain its suburban traffic, and this quickening comes from active competition with little electrio roads. II bigger competition comes tne advan tages to Oakland may be correspondingly bigger. UNSTEADY FROM LIQUOR. Morrison's Drunkenness Caused Ills Pistol-Hand to Waver. Enooii P.

Morrison, the colored shoemaker who tried to kill two girls in the Oakland local train Friday evenicg and then shot himself, saved the police and the courts some trouble by bis last act, and threw the Investigation of the affair into the hands of the Coroner. But even Coroner Evers had little to do, for the story of the shooting and the cause were easily told. Ths Coroner took on Friday night the deposi tions of Josephine and Tillie Jones, the two girls who were shot. They told the official the same story that they told the Examiner, and it is evident that Morrison fired the shots be cause of jealousy and alcoholic inSammation. The inquest was held yesterday alternoon.

The depositions of the two girls were prose ted and the testimony of Policeman Scan lan and one other witness of the killing was given orally. W. C. Morrison, the brother of the deceased, said that his brother was a hard drinker, and had not seemed in right mind tor a year or more. The verdict was simply suicide.

Both of the Jones women will recover. The wounds are Blight, merely flesh wounds. Though the shots were fired almost in the faces of the women, the hand of the one who directed their course was so unsteady mat ne aid not accomplish wuat he intended. Tlllle Jones bad in bor hand at the time a bag of oranges and a package of writing paper. She held these up in front of her when the firing began, and one bullet was sent through the package of paper and the bag of oranges and struck her in the breast.

The muzzle of the pistol was so close to the package ot paper at the lime that tne wrappings were ournt ana the powder marks are plainly visible. Morrison was well known around Oakland, not only among the neeroes but among white men who travel up and down Broadway. He was arrested not long ago, in company witn young Ainsworth, for fast driving and cruelty to animals. He was always somewhat of a snorting character, beinir fond of horses and mild gambling. He was generally dressed very well, though after a hard Bpree he would look dilaDidated.

His brother, who is a carpet layer, says that he bas taken care of him for two years or more. I have tried to get him to brace up and go work," said he, but he oould not or would not to do it- It is understood that Morrison was on a spee Friday morning, and it was while be was drunk that be did the shooting. A barkeeper of a Fourth-street saloon says that Morrison waa in his plaoe on Friday morning under the influence or liquor, QUIET ON THE FRONT. Mo Warlike Demonstrations at tha Oak land Seats of War. Peaoe was prevalent yesterday oa the Oakland water front There waa not move made by any of the combatants.

At the Davie wharf men were at work usual, and the Fortln wharf presented its usual busy acene. The Southern Paciflo Company's plie driver, which began work on Friday night had done only a little work, and it did not inter fere with the work at Kortln's wharf, ao it was permitted to remain. The tide prevented any blowing up ot piles, and ao the best of a bad bargain was made and the piles remained. Dnors Opened tor the Wrong Prisoner, William Hennessy yesterday walked out of the Alameda County Jail with eighty seven days of his sentence yet to serve. He was sen tenced to serve ninety days for disturbing the pace, and had served three days when 8.

T. Dillon's sentence for vagrancy expired. Hennessy in some way shaved off his mustache, stole Dillon's clothes, and wben tha jailer called "Dillon," Hennessy walked out The escape was not uiscoverea until union oesaa to com. 1 slain that ha should be released. GENUINE DE $2.23 JOUVIH I334-.

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