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'aCXDAY Daklann oionne 3 OKIE 11,1 BUBBLES SE Ill BOX. lU Dairies Follow Rat Colonics On City Maps TO BE TOLD OF IN U. C. PAPER HER URGED GRAY SUPPORTS ASSESSMENT FOR I PRESSURE PL1S U. ofC.

to Teach HouTto Forget Self That the bugbear of elf-consciousness in' attempts of anybody to appear at ease on a platform WT place, any time, Is to be eliminated, la the declaration of Miss Jean Mao-mlllan, whose course In public speak lng Is announced by the University of California extension division for those interested in Oakland. Hiss Macmlllan's class begins next Thursday, October 27. at 7 p. in lt Hotel Oakland. The first session of the course will open to the public (Cnntribiiti-d hv Oakland Plohevrs.

57). ClIIWTOWN EARLY DAYS 15y illiam E. Mote MEMOHML-PUN If your house, Mr. Oakland Citizen, bears no street number, If you haye BERKELEY, Oct. 22.

Its frontispiece a. co-ed puffing away at a cigarette, the "Pelican," campus comio in vou ever think of Pays toys, jno mail box or if the mall box you Lare using la located Inconveniently, "you will In all likelihood hear about monthly, spread Its wings today. the 'time when Chinatown as located on 1'uurteenth between ''W'ashlrife-ton and Clay? At this was the northerly limit of the ettj, and this tettle-ni'-nl was sure some Chinatown. It from Uncle Sam through his postal Miss Mary Yost to Describe Endowment at Lunch Next Saturday. Unfair to Charge the Cost to Those System Won't Aid, He Savs.

3 i Most cf the Chinamen lived i.n Co-eds share with home-brew the Inspiration of most of the jokes and cartoons in the issue. Here's a few samples: She (nestling In his arms): "Have you ever done this before?" He: "No, I Just met 'Risque Co-ed: "To think that we are to be prevented from rouging our Conservative: "But we can still rouge our faces." Risque Co-ed: "True, but Who looks at our faces?" i 1 1 1 The decision of Commissioner Col-bourn that the cost of the hitrh pressure water system extensions should r.r.i. hv thp district assessment The Ethel Moore Memorial hall and college endowment will be the general theme for the annual council nieetlns and luncheon of the mattresses department. Mail believe that mutual gain, expedited mail deliveries and calls and better wjrklng conditions for the carriers will result If everv resident of Oakland not only has his home properly numbered-tvit has a.niall box conveniently icped as The postoffice department Is conducting a nation-wide drive through its carriers for a National Receptacle and House Number Bay. The campaign here is under the supervision of Superintendent of Mails F.

West and West Is receiving the active cooperation of the city's legion of. mail carriers. Alumnae of Mills College on Saturday, October 29, at Hotel Oakland. Miss Mary Yost, newly appointed dean of women at Stanford President Aurella Henry Rein-hardt, and Miss Catherine Urner o'f the music" department at Mills will California Camilla: shave our eyebrows here," plan was backed yesterday by City; Attorney. Leon Gray, to whom the I matter was referred.

I "The expenses of cove rnment," fiiyg Gray, "should bo so that those who benefit should Why tax East Oakland for a hi.qtl I jwinin" nvMPni -which benefits north! central Oakland? Why should not north central Oakland constitute the district to he assessed? I "The benefit in dollar and In reduced Insurance. rates will pay; for MKT? in north contra! London Louise: Our Ighbrowa Milk plants, dairies, butter factories and ice cream plants now bloom where once were only Oakland's "famous rat colonies, according to a reorganized map of the city now hanging on the wall at the health ofhee. The map has long been a principal decoration on the northern wall of the health oflice. where it can be seen by everybody riding in the Years ago a survey of rats waa made by the health aur thorities, and pins were stuck in the map, blue for 100 rats, pink for 75 rats, yellow for EO rats, and so on. In a short time tho rats of Oakland were so carefully Indexed that the wharf and dock district of Oakland looked like a colorful celebration.

Every rat in Oakland, practically, was tagged. Then for three years not a p-in Was changed. According to the map, tho rats stay -They neither died, moved nor increased. Once every half year a pin representing 75 rats fell off the wall, but -otherwise the situation was unchanged Yesterday Br. Harry.

Foster, city health officer, eliminated the whole rat population ami put in dairies and ice cream-factories ii stead. "As there are less milk 'anil butter establishments than there-were rats, the big map of the city of Oakland now hasa baro anil deserted appearance compared' with its former glory, and colored Pins appear only every square foot or so. We are for the development' of Oakland's Industries," says Br. Foster. "The rats are out of date.

The dairies are more Interesting." be. the guests of honor. Miss Tost affect mustaches, you know." First Cootie: "Where hava you been?" Second Cootie: "riea voyage, old top." First Cootie: "Yeh?" Second Cootie: "Uh, huh; rldln the marcel waves." FICKLE KINO. BANGKOK, Oct. 22.

When the Ivlnar of Slam announced his betrothal to Princess Va Hatha last November it was expected that he would soon be married. Now, however, he announces that he is agoing to wed the Princess' half-sister. New 40-lb. 100 Pure Silk Floss Matresses from $16.50 to $20.00 NEW COUCHES Mattresses made over and returned the same day. The newest, latest improved Dust Extracting Mattress Renovator in Oakland.

All work Guaranteed WEBB First Ave. and E. 14th St Phone Merrilt 1285 in- live years. Ihc, money will not lie directly payable anyhow, hut comi'" In thiy-form of nine-year bonds" 'msion is practically decided upon, ter one-story shacks with a store in front. They had.

a htcr Chinese trade, for at that time all of the cheap labor' here in California was by Chi-mimcn, who then worked for a a day. Chinatown, was a pretty big settlement; for 1 think there must have been about a thousand of them packed in there. As the town Improved, the city fathers made the Chinamen, move to a new location, so they moved' out to the east side of Telegraph "Uoad" between Sixteenth and Seventeenth the Birnie place, Just north of -where I then lived, Broadway not havinj? been opened at that time, which was about 1.SU7. They pot their iittlo town all fixed up in pood shape when one night a coal-oil lump exploded and the whoie.ptoce -went up in fue; and it. was some fire, 1 tell you.

Bid the Chinamen ln anything to put it cult' they slcod around and tnade a noiso eomethlnj? like ilock; of KCf-SM. The exempt fire department got out the old enfiino and sucooiUmL, in -savinr; the. hit oniy. The lot was surely saved, for the Oakland postoifice stands on a part of it today, The next move wan to the east side fit Kan' 1'ablo road, between Nineteenth and Twentieih streets, runnini; around onto Twentieth street, which property at that time belonged to old man Ed yogan, and was just west of late Frederick Belter's beautiful home, Itoiran Rnd Belger never loved one another very much, go Mr. Belger got the city fathers, who made Chinatown again move on.

The next place they went was Tho MaWen: "Somehow or other I feel as if I were terribly dirty." Tho Maid: Oh, no, madamol-selle, eet ees only in the mind." There Is nothing aaddfrf nowadays than a little girl -trying to. llnd her mother in a crowd-of women -and children among the short skirts but it la more heartrending to see the mother. himself, in the boa constrictor's section' Robert Ingram, editor of the Poll-ran, was assisted by tho following contributors for this month's issue: Buckley McGurrin, Idella Purnell Ruth McOlure, Natalie Loewenthai, S. McManus. George A.

Charles Thorndike, Lois Hanscom, Carol Andrews, Thomas Moriarity Hugh Lytle, Bean Markham. It you have ever tried home l.rnwr L- wtv iIia toads they'' could carry! Bach uno of them had two baskets, one on each end of a strong pole, which they carried on their shoulders; and if they packed a pound I thmk they packed a ton, for they were Surely loaded down to the limit. with very little opposition among the official. "At present." he. says, "the system runs along Twelfth street snd First street, not being: connected at and Oafe By making-thegp connections water can be circulated In a roundabout way If there is any break in the pipe.

At present a break would nullify the system. 1 "Th extension of the high pressure system wiil be along Twenty-second street. Assuinine; that the pressure iaarniinble throuch firehoses for five on either side of the pressure pipes, the enlarged system gives ample protection from First to Twenty-eighth streets, and from the lake to Market street." Students Complete felt when he crawled-lnto the clr-cui train for the night and found will discuss college endowment. Conferenceof class secretaries and Mills Club is announced for 11:30 m. All Mills College alumnae are invited to attend the 1 p.

m. luncheon, at which Mrs. Gertrude. Holmes Kierulff will preside. Mills College juniors have opened a hox- office on tho campus as a means of adding their contribution to.

the. Endowment Fund. They are offering 600 seats for "East is West." in which Fay Balnter will appear in the San Francisco New Century-theater on Monday evening, October 31. Seniors will give a silver tea at the residence of Mrs. William E.

Sharon, class of 1876, Saturday, November 5, for the same cause. Miss Marjorie Miss Emily Searles will be hostesses at an endowment tea at the Ransom school on Friday. November 18. The Christmas festival of the Mills club of Alameda county at Hotel Oakland in Becember will benefit the proposed $2,000,000 fund. The Mills College Drama Association turned over the proceeds of the production of "A Midsummer Night's Bream" to the endowment.

A series of interclass and intercollegiate hockey contests were inaugurated yesterday by the women students. Willis and tho University, of California teams will meet on Saturday, October 25, the tournament with Stanford scheduled for November 12. "A Gentleman With a Buster" was reviewed yesterday morning before the student body by Br. Cardinal Goodwin, professor American history many as twenty came over; We are FOR Consolidation in A Salt ft: OAKLAND Supreme from San Francisco every day, bringing vegetables and fruit, each one having-bls own route from house to house. Ask any one of these who his Chinese friend was, hfs answer always was: "AH same, my cousin.

What for?" Bo you remember how these Chinese would walk alongr in the street just like a bunch of tame ducks, always ono after the other? You never would see them two abreast, whether there were two or twenty of them, but always one bi-hind the other, one wore a black hat, and the members of the Chinese Six Companies each had a. different shaped hat. We boys used to row over to China Point on ttte Alameda side of the Creek und pet dried shrimps ami eat rice with the Chinese fishermen. What a long pull it seemed to us! For fifteen cents we could get all tho shrimps we wanted 1.0 cat: and how good they did ta.sK; after that long row! BILr.lK. Monday Some Handsome under the Phoebe Hearst Founda-! tlon.

Industrial Maps hundred map) showing occu- pations, divisions of labor find other! industrial subjects perlairfinif to, Oaklaml, have been compiled by the students of Emerson bohool classes under direction of Miss Wil- hclmina I'ohl. The project for chat-tins' the city has aroused interest among educators as showiest what can be dono to arouse interest amors students on subjects which, studied from text books alone, are hold to be somewhat dry. Sanity of Accused Woman Investigated Police Jiidsre Edward J. Tyrrell continued the cane ot Josephine Steinbeck, who is charged with pass- hi if a fictlitious check lor $50, un'il Thursday in order to f-ive the po- Hoe time' to find nut if is on pa-' role from a sta'c insane If she in on parole Tyrrell stated that the woman was not re. near by on Charter, or Twenty-second as it Is now called, and Pan Pablo road.

Well, the town kept on prowlmt and our kooJ fathers made th Chinamen move on again. No one wanted them for neighbors, but at last one of the city fathers who owned some property on First street between Castro and Brush. together with another property owner on First street, let Chinatown in on this tio'v it.e. By this time, however, a pood pajt of the town had (rot lost and the new Chinatown was much smaller. See how it.

afterwards -back right into the heart of the city) 'where it is now. One can never, tell: In these early days, we had a lot of Chinese ped llf rs, and what classes wir.B lixiniitt. A -display of the work of the special classes in dressmaking and fre-hnnd drnwinrr wiil bo held fit the Vocational High school, and Market streets, on Fri- Many Civic Posts To Be Filled Soon A long list of city positions will be made subj.ect to entry through civil wrvlce examinations next month, as announced today by the civil service board. Oner of the most important is that of senior clerk, which pays $140 per month on the first 150 for the second year and GO thereafter. at win-; is invoixcr.D.

SAN KIIA'NC-ISCO. Oct. 22. Kalph Foley, a plumber, was granted a divorce decree by Superior Judge' Ocorgp Cabauiss from his wife, Allen. Ho described her treatment of sponsible for her would be Kent back lo the institution.

On Thursday, she wus tried the ttt the Emcr.ncy hospital and was s. no bv duvy October 2S, Irani to .4 p. m. 'him by savin? simply that she was The exhibit will lie in Kooms 8 and! fond of Kiin out with other men l't. The public is invited.

land thut isne nettiectea tier nome. The list follows: Captain, tire department November 3, 1921; sergeant of police promotional) Becember i 8, 1921: s-eniqr clerk, Becember 15, (1921: inspector' of police (promotional), Becember 19, 1921: patrol-j man, January 6, 1922; assistant inspector of police (promotional), January 12. 1922; corporal of police (promotional). January 13, 1922: district deputy superintendent of streets. January 23, 1922; assistant bacteriologist, January 26i 1922; nurse.

JanuMry 30. 1922; deputy license inspector, February 2, 1922; Oakland shoppers were again impressed with CAP-WELL supremacy last week when they dtame en masse to our great Thirty-second Anniversary party. But Why Should It Not Have Been a Sale Supreme? In its steady growth, in its vast stocks, in its values, in its staunch friendships, in its spirit of never faltering hf-Jiflilness, in its under- standing of and sympathy for yur wants and needs, CAP-WELLS have every right to use the word 1.1 food inspector, I ebruary Pi make their debut feeautiful in fabric and fur, these Coats will make an instant appeal to women seek 922: deputy plumbing inspector. tr A' V'A A February. 16.

1922; instrumsntmaker. February 23, Application blanks and further information can be (Obtained at room 316, Oakland City Hall. THE PROTECTION OF PROSPECTIVE CHASERS Miff HMSff TRESENT USERS Of President oloraao Speaks in ing style distinction and becocwirjssWinC' JBared skirts, loosely bloused or belted backs, and graceful sleeves are the style points. Now lhal chillier rJa have come you will want a coat of this kind lo be warmly and Etylishly clad. They are skilffully developed in such exquisite fabrics as marvella, panvelaine or PoHyanna all different in weave or tex (t 'xJ -tZA i Supreme 'AJ.

I Br. Aurelia Henry Relnhardt, pres-; idem of Mills-College, delivered three 'addresses before the Colorado State I Teachers' Association last week in institute in Grand Junction, Pueblo land lle subjects were: "American f3enls -In mteation," Contribution of American Lit-jerature to'Amfrie-an Citizenship" and "The AmericuYi Teacher." Parents of- students registered I from I'-ucna Ydsta. will enter-j tain Br. Eeinliardt at a reception tim ing her sojourn there. In Colo- i ado Springs she will be entertained U.y President Buniway.

1 I TheT1' K. Mora'e home on Seminary i avenue, which wis recintiy -pur-' chased by the college authorities, shortly to a s-ito Ije;" 'tween the campanile and music studio on the campus, becoming a music annex. I Vesper services on Sunday will be I conducted by Rev If. K. Evans, i'a-M-ino School of Religion, Berkeley.

r'The Crossroads of Life" will be the subject. IW leinporary Sale Price wx pi r- ture, but all alike in richness and quality. Oiher smart Winter Coats begin at $25 and go by eay price stages to $195. Second Honr, Capvcnlh Dinner arid Afternoon Frocks of Filmy Lace are here in readiness for the social season. Some of them are fashioned entirely of lace, while others are combined with satin or char-meuse.

Each has the inherent charm that arid CAPWELLS will keep right' on serving you with the things you want at the price you want to pay. Every price drop the marjtet affords is instantly reflected in our stocks. Our customers are always protected both in quality and price. The great THIRTY-SECOND BIRTHDAY was only a milestone. It could not have been celebrated wilh the great success that attended it had not our policy of fair dealing won for us public confidence.

The big celebration is over but low fjices still prevail and moneyi saving offerings are to be found hert every day in the year. to 'Reduce Present. Stocks The follow inj: i- Im d' Miilim-iol for ihr E1)F; Kl.l Ci CIn ilES SUEH in lite eitifS of OAKLAND. 1. In order i i.l lltf I 1 SKRA .1.

and the rACTOK WIAXYIA) pur-rliasr your frmti one -of TOiiLS- 9 Affection of Mgte Divorce Suit Basis I SAX FUA.VCISCO Oct. 22. That tin re is cruelty in too great 'a di-i-rday of affection under certain condi-t'ons. was charged in a divorce complaint -hied in t.he Superior court today by Mr Conception Stegeman. The defendant is Br.

Leo l. Stege-i man, a dentist of T.ift. The couple separated last after bing 'married since March 10. Stegeman said her husband as suffering from tuberculosis and took her to a. shack at Colfax.

She. says that despito his malady lie insisted on kissing and hugging 'her their baby and she feared they would become victims of the i malady. She aserts that it was Ubis same earressiug, that she be-! Il-ved -led to the death a second child. 150,666 Transported To Industry Show extent to which Eastbay manufacturers conveyed their "Home Industry" message to Alameda county residents during the recent Manufacturers' Exposition at I lora 1 Park is disclosed In a report on file only a master designer can impart and in these copies of Parisian ideas all the grace and beauty has been preserved and, in many cases, improved upon. The prices are moderate, ranging from $27 to $150.

Second Floor, Captvelts HOTE SPECIALTIES 01 0 13th Street, Oakland is Km i (. 2010 Phattuck ih 1 'LI 'CTUK COMPANY SJ01 Adf Stic i i it. W. TTTT iU3 East 14th Oakland, Cal. i HOPKINS 11 "-1 23rd Oakland 'MPAMLE HIC CO.

Berkeley Attention, Dressmakers! November Delineator Winter Fashion Book November Butterick and Needle Art have arrived at the' Pattern Counter First Floor, C.apwells Be Sure Your Eden Bears the Original Factory Serial Number GILLESPIE EDEN CORPORATION 281 Fourth San Francisco, Cal. Street and Afternoon Frocks of Silk or Wool are in our stocks iii style profusion. Each dress has a personality all its own, so individual is the fashioning, and so graceful the line. The prices range from $20 to $150 Second Floor, CapuelU today with the Merchants' Exchange of Oakland. The repor't Is from the San Francisco and Oakland Terminal and Mates that the company's cars transported 150,000.

persons to and from the pari? during the exposition week and that this figure does liot include the number of persons who, it- is estimated. -can be classified as regular park visitors. sr. Lot is TOP.K nExvr.it.

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