Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 29

1 Si III v.m,o v. xV VOLUME XCVI. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 1922. NO. 64.

1PHT5 TDNfJAGE MOWS IS 'fwiFStJW lit Progress Is Shown on Manv Buildings in the Eastbav JlSE VEN MILLIONS 1 1 1 1 OfrtWKfta xa wwk- o-yo: i gnr i i ir-n-i-nT -nrTinrriimiiwiii iiimi imiiiiiiifimi -awiwiiiw aiii jj jj x.a..-.LL-JwwuM-ULjju u-i-iui. jil FEBRUARY 0KR1EDOCS REftLTY BUSINESS OF II EASTBAY DFOIIIli illys Once Held Option on Site for Factory in the East 0 a land District Bujlding Progresses and a New Corporation Takes Up the Work of Development My TAIL GOLDSMITH. Tho hopes on the part of Oakland that the announcement mierht noon be made of the location of maun ui me location or another great automobile factory In the pastbay district were very great- wnen John North Willys, the head of the Willys-Overland automobile concern and one of the automobile 'kings of the United Mates, slated positively that his institution would have to have a factory on the Pacific coast and that he expected to make the announcement of its exact location before the end of the year. This statement was 'made at the luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce given on Friday, and It very much heartened the Kutshay boomers believe that Oakland fa destined to be the automobile factory center of the Tti-Ollln coast. Willys made several points during his address that.seemed to point to Oakland as the probable point of location.

He advanced all of the arguments that are usually made by the residents of the Eastbay district in advancing the claims of their section to factory recognition, lie nnoke of llvlngVonditlons, of transportation conditions, of nearness to tidewater and consequent possibilities for export trade and he dwelt Upon the growing Importance of export trade to American automobile manufacturers; he talked about the location of 'Oakland as to population, referring to the now famous Laller "median line of population." All of Willys statements seemed like arguments for Oakland to He A thA nnw fnntnrv tin V.aatmv Institution. ONCK HAD OPTIOV. vfl caj fell M.nini., iivnTliiiniiiiiiinirrli Mnimf 't 4 iif a 'r1 'ffiytWiyrtMillfit e1 Ji y1W)aWWWWMWWWWMWWWWWMWWWMW'W IMIIIII III III jUWWlWI mi I III 1 1 HWy 1 jfi i mi ii iiiimiiirmBKiniiiinii tTiTj-TfimrmiT i iririiiitiiii'i fiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiMiiiiMiiMniMin iimi i mi iiiini 111 nn inn iimmufi' fun made on many big buildings now under construction in the Eastbay district. Compare this picture with the one printed on January these buildings will be at once apparent. Tlie upper left is the Regillus Apartments on the shore of Lake Merritt.

Upper right. is up on Franklin street. The lower right is the Captve'll building which will be occupied by Reich Lievre and which is almost the new home of the Oakland Title Insurance and Guarantee Company on Franklin street. new ei, Almost Two-Thirds of the Shipping Is Erom Coast To' Coast. The present year Is to be the greatest In the history of Oakland waterfront shipping and develop- ment, according to the prediction of warehoune men, based on a tabula- tlon of tonnage handled ojer the Oakland municipal docks during February.

The report showed that the total tonnage coming into and going out trom municipal dock No. 1 operated by the Lawrence Warehouse Com pany, at the foot or Jefferson street, was increased" by 155 per cent over that for January. This is approximately one and one-half times the amount of freight and general merchandise handled during the first month of the year. Tonnage Includes both coastwige and ihtercoastal cargoes received at the terminal duriiu? the month. Coastwise cargoes handled over the dock during February shows an In crease of 51 pr cent ovc the total for the previous month.

The phenomenal Increase in ship ping over the municipal docks lsthe more surprising, according to warehouse by reason of the fact that February was a short month. Of the total volume of shipping 64 per cent was intercostal or for eign business, while the remaining 3 6 per cent was coastwise trade. These figures including both Incoiri- yig.and outgoing cargoes. The in- tercostar and foreign shipments are carried by vessels of the American-Hawaiian line, which touches at At. lantlc ports and connects with for eign ports, the Pacific Mail and the Isthmian line.

Coastwise shipping Is rhandled by vesselsoT the Admiral line. The volume of business handled at municipal dock No. 2., at the foot of Clay street, operated by'the Bay Cities Transportation Company, was slightly lower during February than during January, because of the short -month. This dock is operated by the Lawrence Company also. In order to facilitate shipping- and Improve the dockthe city la raising switching tracks along the waterfront from Clay 'to Jefferson street.

v' The main track is located within a few feet of the water to permit loading direct from ship hold into cars. The track has settleC a foot or IS inches and will be brought back up to the level of pavement. Harbor Engineer Ralph Bcebe is in charge of the work. i 1 i hi Sutter Unimproved Land Sold for $500 MADDOCK, Sutter March 4. The sale of twenty-one acres of unimproved land for 1500 an acre, west of Yub City, was reported this week.

The land was sold by John P. Onstott to. A. T. Baldwin, and comprises a portion of the E.

M. Thomas tracts. Baldwin plans to build on the property and-develop an orchard there. STTXO BIT KEWARDED. Patrons of a Long Island telephone line complained ot a buzzing on the wires and a trouble hunter was aent out to locate the difficulty.

He located it and he did something else, for he found that a swarm of bees had made a hive In the connection box on a telephone pole. The trouble hunter worked for hours and finally routed the bees with a ftre. extin guisher. He was badly but he was rewarded by ten pounds of honey stored in the connection box. TELEPHONE IX WAR." During the war the Bell system supplied the government with more than 7500 miles of telephone circulta and 25.000 miles of telegraph circuits for its exclusive use.

Low enough in price for the most modest building i Strong enough for the lofuest and largest structure Dickey. masIerIile Send for our frea booklet "Permanent Construction et the Cost of" Frame" (, Manufactured TK -CALIFORNIA BRICK COMPAJW nnd'TumiininittrnMIti IJVERMORB FIRE BRICK WK3 604 Mission Street, San Frtnctco Builders 0klad Siroffg Omcift Cuiehii Number of Deeds Fewer, But the Value of Transfers fc Is Greater. More than $7,000,000 worth of real estate changed hands in this community during- February according estimates of members of the Oakland' Real Estate Hoard who have computed the value, of prop erty involved in the 1538 deed recorded as shown by the repowtsvjf County. Kecorder Pai-ori: -iv L. U1B I V.

1 oinojc iui rui ucti yvi- prreater than for January and the of value involved was greater. The number of deeds recorded during the month Just past was 2 per lent greater than, the average for February for the previous nine years, as fhown by the official records. Extensive home financing duripx t-ebruary was evidenced by the records of loans, 1S35 defeds of trut inolving $1.151. 382 'being filed, while but 1010 such Instruments involving $2,677,487 were recorded In February of 1921' and 960 involving $3,081,242 were recorded in January of this year. Intensive home building operations now under way and dally in creasing In volume and the very ex tensive activity In unimproved realty.

ettpvciully modest home sites, indi cates a new hlah record in realty market fur. March BEST ESSAY BEET'SIIEAR Students in domestic 'science classes of bay cities schools are competing for $200 in prizes for the best essays on beet sugar offered by the leading beet augur Interests of California. Thirty-six cash prizes are to. be distributed at the close of the con test March 81. Teachers of winning, students are also to receive a prize.

The Judges will be Maud I. Murchie, State Director of Home Economics; Harr Wagner, publisher, Western Journal of Education and James A. publisher, Sierra Educational' News. Considerable interest is being manifested in both public and pri- vate schools In the contest. It is ilirectly sponsored by the Union Sugar, company and file Alameda Sugar Cbmpany.

producers Qf Snow- Sugar which is. a California product from field to. table. The object of the contest is to familiarize pupils end. their parents with the suitability and satisfaction of beet sugar for all table and cooking uses.

How the "better homes' move ment carried on through the columns of the women's magazines and home periodicals, in the advertising of furniture, electrical decorating and building materials firms, in classes in school of all grades, has "registered" in the minds of (home-buyers of. the. Eastbay district Is told by Harry Boyle, owner and builder of series of modern homes in Maxwell Park. "Once, and not ao very long ago." says Boyle, "the buyer simply looked the prospective home over rather casually, and; if it looked good, bought it. "Now, If the visitors to my homes in Maxwell Park are to be considered typical, they examine the minutest details and insist on having them rieht before they make a payment.

A number of Boyle's first series ot homes, part of a total, of at least fifty he planv'to build within the year, are well along aixl are draw, ing scores of interested visitors to Maxwell Park every week. VWWWWWWWWWWrrWWrWrrrWW a number of days without lowering the water level. The water stands at eighty feet from thfe surface. The Irvington activity, after over half a century of placid Indifference, is attracting county-wide attention, and it Is being realized that thedls-trict possesses a great potential agricultu.al and industrial wealth. County Assessor Lou Kennedy at the Irvington meeting last week spoke of the possibility of greatly improving the, assessed valuation of Washington TownshlPi Soil and climate con ditions for the Cultivation of fruit is equal to tnat or me sania i iara valley, and, with the demonstration of a water supply, it Is realized that the value of the land can be more than doubled within a few years.

The Interest ot Maurice L. Reid. president of Reid Brothers, who has by the force of his personal effort developed a business from a small beginning to an aggregate wealth of approximately amllllon dollars with in ten years, is Spurring the residents of the dlatrieffoward. the attainment of the new Irvington Ideal. Downey Class an.l Paint Co.

INCORPORATED MANUFACTURERS JOBBERS 368-370 Twelfth Street Aol nJ PlntrlhutT fiw JOHN I4-CA8 CO. ot PbMrt1ph1 Mint inc; Virnirsh Mkri lnf 149 PRIZES I i EXACT! tlon of other character is taken, the But it was not generally known In the crowd thtit gathered to do honor to Willys that Willys himself once took an option on a' site for factory, and that that site was In the city limits of Oakland. This occured three A site of considerable size Ivift selected on rf Kast Fourteenth, and a slHe'rable deposit was patd upon it. The option was held for a year, and when the great depression came that wlruck the automobile trade first, the option was allowed to lapse. It la a fact that had not the great de-f presslon come when it did, Oakland would have had," by this time, sn-oiher automobile factory in operation.

It In a fair assumption that Willys and his agent have not chanped greatly their opinion of Oakland. If the Eastbay district was considered good three years ago, It has not gone back since that time, and Oakland certainly standB as good, if not a gtHtnr. chance than any other city on the coast. Gorman DeVaux has been with Willys so much of late that it "has given rise to gosRlp that connects the names of the two men In the pros- pects of the new factory. THK KASTBAY CORPORATION.

The next most Important development during the week ts the announcement ot the organization of the Eastbay Corporation In which are associated Norman DeVaux. State Benitor A. H. Breed and other4. This organization had secured Martin Madaen, secretary to Governor Stephens, as general man- ager, and it 1 expected that they will operate extensively lit Eastbay projects.

The first project Is the market now under construction on Telegraph avenue and Nnieteenth atreet. but.lt Is certain that the era-, ployment of Madsen that the Eastbay Corporation hacther and more Important plans iri prospect. In the mean time work is progressing rapidly upon many new buildings In the Eastbay The TRIBUNE printed Illustrations on January 1st in tafia Development Section of 'a number of the new buildings under construction in; Oakland. The TRIBUNE prints, today pictures of some of buildings showing advanced; construction, and rapid work. PROGRESS IS BCILDKfS; For instance the progress upon the building now being erected on Broadway by.the H.

C. Cap.well la clearly apparent. This building is now practically complete. The artistic front is finished, and the scaffoldings are befng taken down. The Regillus styows marked advancement, and the new building of ih.

riabiani Title'. Insurance and was received in Oakland this week that a real estate broker's license has been W. J. Culll-gan by the State Real Estate Department as the result of ai formal hearing held some weeks ago. by Commissioner Edwin T.

Reiser based on series of complaints filed by various persons against the Triangle Real Estate Company of which Cul- Ugan was a member. J. T. McKeon, another member of that firm, haa riot applied for a license. Culligan and McKeon conducted a business specializing in rooming; houses aridfall of the complaints dealt with transactions of that character.

This class of real estate brokerage business, "Is, according to Commissioner Keiser, the source of more complaints and dissatisfaction than all the other branches of realty activity. While many complaints of this kind come to the local board and the State Real Estate Department, there are a few broker specializing such properties against whom no complaints ever have been made. That section of the state real estate license law which requires the holder of a broker's-license to display a business sign of some character before his place of business, as well as that which requires the prominent display of the license certificate, is being disregarded in some degree in this community, Is the warning Issued, by the State Real Estate' Department to Oie local board. Investieation has shown that those who are violating the law in this resnect are not actively In the real estate business but hold a broker'a license as incidental to the regular occu patlon- Failure- to -display a real estate broker's sign is sufficient cause for official punishment by the Commissioner or by the local courts. Reports, of such violations are be ing made to the department by a field deputy now operating im this Community and, unless previous ac- Ucenses 'of such violators will not be renewed for 1923.

Decision has been made by the of ficers of the Oakland Real Estate Board who have to do with the hearing of grievances and the arbitration of diaputes, that ho case of such a character will be 'handled by the board unless It involves a member of the board or Is especially referred to it by the State Real Estate commissioner. ,1 In various cases recently filed with the board, an attempt has been made to' use the organization as a collec-. tlon agency, sometimes in tne case of licensed brokers in no manner identified with the board and there for not vouched for or officially rec ognized by it. No complaint based merely on at attempt to collect money will be entertained by the State Real Estate Department. The authority of the Commissioner does not permit him tq order the payment of money He can only consider charges involving some form of dishonesty in the conduct of the real estate business.

Matters are sometimes, submitted to him for arbitration but such cases are usually referred to him by a local real estate board, especially If there be involved a member of that board. Enthusiastic approval was given byjDakland realtors at their Wednesday noon meeting to the program of The OAKLAND TRIBUNE in regard to the special featuring of classified advertising each mid-week issue, as announoed by" Morton Macaonam in his address to the board. Throughout the entire series, the your home" theme is to be carried by publicity features offered by the real estate board, since practically every commodity presented; by advertisers In such advertising has to do in some measure with the home and its ownership. This picture shows the progress 1st and the rapid progress on the. Wakefield building going completed.

The lower right is Imj: proved -Shipping Facilities Arc Installed in East Oakland. The first movemade by the Western-Pacific Railway, to improve its terminal facilities in Oakland, since the construction of the branch line into San Jose, was made last week with tbVlncrease of spur track faci lities in East Oakland. A new aiding, capable of handling fourteen cars at one time, was installed btween Nineteenth and Twentieth avenues and East Twelfth street and the railroad has already begun handling freight at this point. This is in effect a new freight station and is intended to serve a large and growing industrial ectton. It will aid in the handling of 1.

c. J. consignments, particularly, though there are several large concerns that will use it for carload shipments. It will save much hauling to Fruit-vale station, which is the. nearest point for freight shipments.

The Western Pacific Railroad has a number of development plans under consideration that will make for the improvement of the terminal facilities of the. Company. For the last year the Western Pa ciflc has been busy building Indus trial trackage for the many new manufacturing plants that been established along its tracks almost down to Niles. The between the tracks' of the Western Pacific and the Southern Pacific railroads from Oakland to Niles has become immensely valuable for manufacturing sites, because of the cas with which ind'iHtrial tracks can be secured from each rajlroad. i i Sutter Plantings Heavy in Peaches MADDOCK, Sutter Qounty, i.

Plantings during the last two months in Sutter county have run atrong to peaches, according to the report of County Horticultural Commissioner H. P. Stabler. Sutter county leads the state In the growing of canning peaches. Prunes have been second ori the list, Total plantings number 112,830 trees, distrib uted as follows; Peaeh trees 85,000 20.341 3.818 "2,986 399 50 41 16 178 Prune' trees.

Plum trees. Pear trees. NEW INDIiSTRIAL TDACKSBUILTBY WESTERN PACIFIC Cherry trees. Olive trees. Apricot trees, Citrus trees.

Ornamental plants. a to in T. TAKES LARGER I1FFICE SPACE Moves Into the Heart of the New Ileal Estate Section. The T. Wood Company moved into commodious Jew quarters this week, at 41" Fifteenth street, near Franklin.

For the last four years this firm has been In the Syndicate building, but in keeping pace with the remarkable development of the city, especially the residential sections, it has been found necessary to secure larger quarters. The Wood company believes that this year will be one of the greatest in the history of Oakland, and is already planning to put new subdivisions on the market during the spring, and to begin a big building in another tract. Tfrl new office will compare with the most fully equipped and finest arranged in the Bay Cities. Artists have-executed a series of panel pictures showing scenes "of the lake properties put on the market by the Fred T. Wood Company In recent years, and of the new tracts.

Several new departments will be added, and every branch of the real estate business will-be- Included. The departments will be as follows; Subdivisions, building, business property, residential property, loans, Insurance, homes and farms. Trained men are In charge of every department and the firm is determined to play a leading part' in future development of Oakland. The first tract to be subdivided this year will be Lake Knoll, the new lake district subdivision, adjoining Lake Merritt. The Wood company will sell this property in association with the C.

W. Boden Company, owners of the tract. This consists of sixty-five handsome lots, which are to be placed upon the market immediately. Piedmont Park Is the other property soon to be subdivided. This is recognized as among the finest residence property in the entire East Bay.

region; and the work' of im proving- this tract is rapidly. progressingj "We have moved because we needed more room, for our said Fred T. Wood thii week. "We have always been firm believers in Oakland's and rfave proved thpu inijthe past by the many handsome tracts we have put In the lake district. In the-past we have subdivided.

Lake wood Park, The Oaks, and Lake-mont, and this year we will put on Piedmont Park and work with the C. W. Boden Company in the sale of Lake Knoll." Several Institutions IjVre Con- siderinfj Locating Big -Plants. The town of TrvinRton is in line for another major industry and officials of the chamber of commerce express confidence rtiat an authoritative announcement of the acquisition can be made shortly. The King Food Frodutts Company of Portland, operating plants at The Dalles, Salem anjf elsewhere, are seeking a California site, and their representatives have tentatively selected Ir-yinglon as a point sultabU to their requirements, ft Ms given out that they expect to employ some two hands in their California plant.

Irvington made an offer ot a tract dt land for the purpose, and acceptance is pending. A San Ftanclsco electrical manufacturing firm is on the point of closing a deal authorizing the location of their industry in Irvington, on a basis that will enable them to largely expand their business. The Identity of the firm is not disclosed pending conclusion of negotiations. The deal is being arranged with a. representative of Reid Brothers, who are building un Irvington factory, and who-are backing the campaign for Irvington's industrial supremacy.

Two hundred Washington Township men felicitated Irvington on her new prosperity at a meeting in Irvington last week The prediction was made that.lrvlngton will become the principal center 6f growth in the lower end of the county, with a population increase that will give the community from fourto five thousand people within the, next two or three years. Instances of sales of real estate over one hundred per cent advanced from recently Quoted valu- iations were told, and it was estimated that the sales closed during the past three months all at advanced prices, total close to 200,000. The necessity of providing over one hundred homes immediately to house the. Industrial population that is due tiaj- rive in Irvington within the next three months was stressed, ana local owners of property were urged to Improve. Construction at the Reid factory site is progressing rapidly1, and the magnificent proportions of the building thatNWill house the hospital sup pues mwnuiaciui mis K'aiu van.

oi i 1 1 i 1 1 UUUIJ' covess i tne principal portion oi me rive-acre site; Construction Is of reinforced concrete. The well drilled vat. the edge of the site has withstood a severe test. The pump raised over four hundred gallons a minutes tor Guarantee company is approaching completion. These are concrete evidences of the advancement of Oakland and the; Eastbay districts uU Sonoma Water Plants Merged.

4 'Brains and Gains' New 'Tribune" Development Feature Peculiarly timely in its application to this community is the delightfully quaint bit of literature from the pen of Hervy Smith McCowan, the author of the popular series of "Old John Brains and His. Letters to His Son," which is to be published on this page next Sunday morning. "Brains and Gains" is of the author' best stories and is typical of the peculiar wit which has made McCowan famous among American humorists. illustrating, as it io well does, the mental and moral characteristics of the shrewd and successful middle-class business man of an older generation whose wise advice is clothed in homely language but whose words, though few, carry a weighty message with every sentence. Hervy Smith McCowan visited Oakland a few' months ago and addressed members of the Oakland Real Estate Board.

In his address the author read this story as illustrating a feature of his remarks. He. has given to The TRIBUNE permission to publish it, as- it deal with a subject especially applicable to Oakland and Oakland's people, although nqne of his publics'' tiona have ever before been printed in other than individual volumes or collections of short stories. The TRIBUNE feels especially fortunate in being able thus io present to its readers this story, "Brain and GainV and the quaintly witty yet valuable message -which it carries. 1 In a supplemental order the-.

Railroad Commission last week authorised the Sonoma Water and Irrigation Company to acquire the properties of the Sonoma Valley Water, Light and Power Company, subject to an indebtedness of not $10,000. a ft'MTED STATES LEADS WORLD. There are In the United- States to day more than and three quarter millions of 'telephones. This is an average wf 12.7 telephones for 100 persons or," put another way, better than ona telephone for every eight people, From a telephone standpoint this country .19 by far the Dest developed lit the worm, in taci, no other country is even ariose ond..