Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 91

FIRE DEPARTMENT ONE OF BEST IN WEST Installation of High Pressure Salt Water System Adds to Efficiency of Force and Protects Entire Business and Commercial District of Oakland; JSoted for visavnne ana urgaruzuuu, HE Fire Department of Oakland is recognized GATLIN INSTITUTE. ordered, and in this has been included two automobile wagons to carry hose to be used in connection with the high pressure system. The purchase of more apparatus has been authorized by the city council, and will add materially to the efficiency of the department. aa one of the most efficient in the West, ana shows, for a city of the size of Oakland, a record of the smallest percentage of loss of any department in California. In the year 1910 the total loss from fire was Continued from preceding page.

I Four New Fire Houses. Four new houses, in various portions of the city, have also been authorized, and one of these has already been completed. The new fire houses, each of which cost approximately $13,000. are as follows: Thirteenth uvenue and Hopkins street, now nearlng completion. Fifty-sixth and Dover street.

Just completed. Elmhurst house, contract just let. Magnolia street and Thirty-fourth, ordinance authorizing just passed to print by council. The council has also decided to place the four downtown houses on a permanent basis, abandoning the unsatisfactory half-pay system for these departments, which are so much in use. This will add to the fire fighting strength of the business portion of the city, and will minimize the possibility of a big conflagration getting beyond the control of the department.

In connection with the improvements being planned, the most important Is the installation of the new fire and police telegraph and telephone system, with its central station in the now house at Thirteenth and Oak streets and an underground conduit and aerial system of telephone and telegraph ire3 connecting all boxes and fire houses in the city. This will mean a change from the present automatic to a manual system, which will make the system' much more efficient and satisfactory. The cost of the new system including the new building is approximately $80,000, provided for in the recent bond issue. About thirty men have been added to the department In the past year, making tho total force 208. Fire, Marshal Ball is assisted in the conduct of the department by two assistant fire chiefs, G.

M. McDonald and Sam Short, and by District Chief W. n. MeGrath. When it is realized that Oakland has a total area of 57.7 square miles, and that property in Oakland has an assessed valuation of J126.110.200, this record is remarkable.

The force numbers but .108 men, and but few of are on full pay, the department not having been permanentlzed. The efficiency of the department is credited to Fire Marshal N. A. Pall, who is recognized as one of the greatest fire fighters on the Pacific Coast. The force Is well disciplined and is organized and systematized to the highest efficiency.

The greatest improvement in the past year was the Installation of the high pressure salt water system with the big pumping station on Lake Merritt and the fire boat plug at the Webster street wharf on the estuary. The high pressure system protects the entire business and commercial district of the city, and the big salt water mains are capable of a force of 2500 gallons a minute. With the aid of a fire boat at the plug at Webster street, the capacity is more than doubled. Fire Boats to Be On Call. An arrangement has been entered into with the city of San Francisco whereby the two San Francisco fire boats are on tall for the Oakland department on sending a givetf signal to the department across the- bay, and in case of need In a large fire the two boats can be here in less than forty minutes, increasing the capacity of the Oakland system two-fold, pumping water Into the mains from two directions and assisting materially in fighting the flames.

San Francisco courteously extended this service Oakland In consideration of th yeoman service done by Oakland in sheltering the refugees from that city at the time of the dire disaster of 1906. The Oakland high pressure system costs in the neighborhood of $150,000, and includes the laying of big mains and Installation of hydrants throughout the business section of the city, in addition to the installation of the pumping station on Lake Merritt. It extends from the pumping station on the lake to Washington and Fourteenth streets, down Washington to Second street; on Second from Oak to Market streets, up Franklin street to Fourteenth street again. It covers two blocks to each side of all streets In which mains are laid. 1 A large amount of flrw fighting apparatus has been Phone Oakland 645 C.

Ed. JJzafovague, Prop. stay." you say. "Well." said the manager, 'many others have come and gone who are known only to me, whose names shall never be known, unless they give express permission to be used for references, -where doubting persons will not believe we accomplish what we promise." "I have half a mind to stay, but I will suffer terribly when drink is taken from me in my condition. "If you are feeling that bad.

you shall have a drinji at oneo, and as often as you ring for it during your stay, but I am quite sure you will want no liquor after our medicine begins to take effect." "Here is our doctor. Let him tell you something of our treatment while I go to the office to goodbye to one of our departing guests." "Doctor." said the visitor. "I am terribly in fear of the needle." "My dear man," answered the doctor, "we don know the use of the hypodermic in this institution. Ours is a system containing no cumulative, deleterious, sex-destroying drugs; there isn't anything in it to poison the system. The Gatlin treatment drives every vestige of alcoholic poison from the system, leaving it clean and healthy free from abnormal functional conditions.

With the disappearance of the alcoholic poison, craving and the physical necessity for liquor disappear with it, that the effects of liquor drinking leave immediately with the cause, and the drunkard is as the day he was born aj far as liquor is concerned restored in mind and body, with all the chances of success, and achievement before him that any sane man with good judgment has." "This sounds splendid. But I don't see how it can be done in three 'days. "More than three days' time would oe superfluous and wasted. The public has heretofore been educated into the belief that to effect a cure for alcoholism it necessarily requires anywhere from 28 to 42 days and that hypodermic injections of powerful drugs into the system are essential. In this age of progres.dven.ess it is not at all wonderful that a discovery should be made of a formula to cure the liquor habit in three days any more than that other modern wonders have been accomplished.

Old methods must be replaced by new. If you are at all skeptical about our being able to effect a cure in three days, as we claim, please remember that during the ten years wo have been administering this wonderful treatment we have thousands of cures to our credit. Three days are plenty of time in which to cure the liquor habit when it is treated right. That is my contract to cure in threc days or make no charge for treatment." "If I had my money with me I would stay." "Never mind your money. Send to your people to have it here on your third day of treatment.

The treatment is taken at our expense if it fails to effect a cure in three days. We only require that you give the necessary assurance of your ability to pay our fees when you are satisfied at the end of the third day of treatment, pleased and more than pleased, with the cure effected." "Then I will stay." Four days later the mail carrier delivered the following letter: Oakland, January 12, 1911. Gatlin Institute, Golden State Avenue, San Francisco, California. Dear Sirs: After toying with the time-worn "stunt" of swearing off January 1, as usual, failed in my resolutions, and realizing the crying heed of my discontinuance of liquor In any form, I was persuaded, against my will, to try your treatment. After spending three (3) really pleasant days with you I have tested myself in every way, shape and form to see if we had beaten the old vile craving and, thank God, we with, and the dear wife and I offer our prayers to heaven each night for your future success and hope you will be able to give that treatment, this miraculous boon to mankind, to thousands of others.

Sincerely, (Signed) JOHN DOE, Oakland, Cal. Iffyou are at all interested, dear reader, the Gatlin Institute will be pleased to show you through its home at 1428 Golden Gate avenue, or mail you its illustrated booklets explaining its treatment in full. Dashaway Stables 370 ELEVENTH BET. FRAN KLIN WEBSTElt Special attention given to hacks and coupes for parties, weddings, funerals, etc Line of Teams of the James Henneberry Drayage Company, Largest Concern of its Kind in Oakland. Promotion work carried on by Alameda county 1 1 .1 1L Jtt 1 4 ft A A A V.

It THE OAKLAND FREE MARKET. uujrjug liio ii8CU year jlu-iv, vy mcix.ua ut wie wyyai- i tion fund, cost nearly $10,000. I 4 D. W. BATCHELOR Penngrove, Cal.

The greatest poultry in the world is in and round Petaluma, and in his district i. situated the owns of Penngrove and 3otati, both in Sonoma jounty, and within less than a half hour's drive of 1 --rC 1 -r 1 ff t' i- La-j i I Petaluma. fv this issue a full page pic- the land for sale in the above mentioned section, and that those interested in the purchase of property that will bring handsome returns on a small investment are referred to Mr. D. 1 W.

Batchelor of Penn- grove. Mr. Batchelor has had seventeen years' experience The high cost of living has a bad enemy in the Oakland Free Market At this market the freshest of vegetables, meats, fruits, are sold direct to the public from the grower and there is no middle man to share a profit. The Oakland Free Market Is housed in a handsome brick building at the corner of Wasl ington and Fifth streets. The building was constructed at great expense, especially, for market purposes, and is one of the cleanest and most sanitary markets in America.

The market has always been under the direct su- pervision of Mr. J. Pantokey, who is, perhaps, the most thorough man in this part of the state in this line of business. Mr. Pantosky has built up a reputation for the market, for selling only the best of goods.

Mr. Pantoskey guarantees all goods to be the best, he personally seeing to it that all game, poultry, fish, meats and produce are inspected before they are offered to the public. Mr. Pantoskey says he would consider it a great favor if patrons of the market would tell him of any dissatisfaction on the part of employes or goods that may be bought at the market. in the poultry raising and real estate business of Sonoma county, and is the best posted and most reliable broker up there.

He takes, a personal interest in every client he sells to, and assists them in every way possible. His references are of the highest" order and his success has undoubtedly been due to his honesty and square dealing..