Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 184

4 'SV'-t-t 0Vhfl.UA 1 WwJtuMT 4U faul i lt WW vo; -tfii Au0" -w ItWfaOltfafwj itwMMMMMtl fcAitm IP; Continued from Page 29 er years she resided in Alameda and in Oakland. A private funeral service was held at the Albert Brown Mortuary in Oakland for the immediate family. Later the casket will be inj. terred in Cypress Lawn Cemetery in San Francisco, where her husband is buried. She leaves 13 great grandchildren, all of whom have the distinction of being eighth generation yaiaisisistsiEa.iaiaiHJisim 1 A- -r; rTrrf Mm osi eu EHl E3 ME! 03 -EOSB EH EE30H E3H5; OiflEHEHgQEHEHtHEm 01 Enigma Solved A NYONE not thoroughly convinced that theres a bit of the detective in the serious BJEfflEHEElEaPJEHlT HGSlEHflSMEHJ MiI3ET3irj: 1 A historian (by avocation or otherwise) should take a look at the current issue of the California Historical Society Quarterly (March, 1969) and study the historical speculation Jack J.

Studer presents in his solution to the enigma that has shrouded the first map of Oakland for more than 100 years. Jack Studer is a lecturer in electrical engineering at the University of California in Berkeley, but an admitted historian by avocation and a good one! At least, the circumstantial evidence he comes up with In his search' for a Portois map of Costra Costa, convinces this juror that there is no such thing in existence. Contra Costa, of course, was the first name by which Oakland was known, back- in the days when 'V 1. 0 0 0 15 sv 0 Mu pMt by cowtbsy ttM Bancroft Library Julius Kellersberger, pioneer surveyor, created this first complete map of Oakland in 1852 in his Complete Map of Oakland of 1852. from filing Portois map? asks Then Studer.

Then he answers: He the Portois Map of Contra Costa and are stilT searching for if, Stu- der affirms at the start of his report. J. N. Bowman, onetime historian of the Archives of the Secretary of State at Sacramento, was one who searched; He concluded the Portois map was never filed in the town, county or state offices, even though Pierre Portois testified that he gave the original map (made in 1852) to Carpentier. Carpentier may have met Portois on the boat on the way from or to San Francisco.

Portois, as a builder, showed interest in what was going on in Contra Costa. Carpentier may have asked him if he could come up with a map, trans-fering Kellersbergers staked out survey to paper. Portois must have accepted. Carpentier would feed him any necessary information obtained from Kellersberger. Carpentiers rush was to win incorporation for the town from the Legislature before Vicente Peraltas title was confirmed by the United States.

Why did Carpentier refrain Broadway was Main Street. The villain in the study if villain there must be is again Horace W. Carpenter, who held title to the Oakland waterfront for more years than our city fathers care to count. It all begins with Oaklands own Act of Incorporation approved by Governor John Bigler on May 4, 1852. In that legal paper is a description of the towns boundaries as represented on Partois map of Contra Costa on file in the office of the Secretary of State The Act of Incorporation was a paper drawn up by none other than Carpentier.

Many people have searched for must have been well aware that Portois may have made assumptions or mistakes which would come to light after Kellersbergers map became available. This would have been harmful to Carpentiers interests. He kept the Portois map for reference only as long as it was of some use selling land. He must have destroyed it later, which would explain why that map cannot be found anywhere, says Studer. Kellersbergers Complete Map must have been finished in September of 1852 because, as Studer says, it is mentioned in the deed entries starting in October, 1852.

The word complete on the Kellersberger map hints that the Portois earlier map was anything but complete. THE KNAVE iHE contention is that Julius Kellersberger was the surveyor who really planned and surveyed the site of (present day downtown) Oakland, resulting 1 1 1 1 I I tNEVQAUERNa iyji lit-miSHMI WL iViup iMmiWfVniy wtll? 'Wilii (KMJ0 3DH I PWMM upon plWgt af OS. cat Mw Im knowa late far Gleaming, lifetime ceramic 4 tile brings new life to your kitchen. New decorator colors new stain resistant grbut-r-new do-it-yourself method that is easy and saves you at least 50even more! Come see selection and free demonstration. Free use of tools! hrtamt fa Ait vLm boa fa rapald pan paynMn at Inlmtt only, a MW llclnt may bo btwod.

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