Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 29

1 VOLUME XCVU. NO. 170. OAKLAaND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1922 NIGOFIE Made Bus With Street Car Facilities ALEXANDRIA IS I' i.i i 1 'P' 'j 1 1 1 "i 1 1 1 "yvu 1 'y )' 1 111 111 1 I 4 -'UL VVs pv it. .11 0 PS NEW IDEA I 'I 4 il 11 Safety Coach ifvvi: v.

NEW STREET 1 fm OPENING IS ifiif flQfflf BOARD ELECTS Four NewMemberT CKosen To Serve For the Next Three Years. The election for five directors to serve for three years on the directorate of the Oakland Real Estate Board resulted In the election of four new members and one of the outgoing set The new members are: C. W. Boden, D. E.

Lane, C. M. Wood and D. W. LaFortune, and the old member who was returned was R.

V. Kittrelle. The announcement of the result of the election was made at tha luncheon of the board which was held Wednesday to celebrate the return of the delegates from Santa Ana. Each of the" new delegates was asked to make a short talk at that luncheon and each promised more activity for the Real Estate Board during the coming year. The Board of Directors consists of fifteen, five going out of office ever year.

Th new Board will meet soon to elect officers and is a practical certainty that F. F. Porter will be chosen president for another term, and it is an absolute certainty that R. Porter Giles will be chosen secretary, Three of ths new directors represent the Achievement Committee, C' W. Boden, D.

E. Lane and C. M. Wood. La Fortune represents the salesmen, he being connected with the M.

J. Laymance company. Kittrelle is the only member of the outgoing five who was returned. The luncheon last Wednesday was given over to-reports of the trip to Santa" Ana. While tha trip was bad as to weather it wa very good" as to results.

The Oakland Board is preparing to send a delegation of twenty-five to the National Convention In Cleveland in June of next year and to send half of the Oakland Board to the state convention in Sacramento a year from now. The C. W. Boden builders of the BodenXhomes in the lake district and Piedmont, report the demand has been very heavy, and many homes have betn purchased before ft R. Caldwell, sales manager of the Boden Company, says that a number of the homes have been sold from the plans and in other Instances sales have been made with only the, foundations laid.

Caldwell, looks for a steady demand throughout the winter months and the Boden Company is now building on an average of fifteen houses a month. Among recent purchasers of Boden homes are the following: William N. Williams of the Medical Protective Company of San Francisco, J. S. Rafter of the Victor I MMHMMS Various-views of the Fageol A.

Y. motor bus to which has been adapted all of the modern facilities of the one-man street car. Many of these cars are being ordered for street car lines that can now operate successfully on rails. This car is an Oakland invention and product. cities the bus systems are operated by the traction companies in connection -with their street railway systems.

FRED R. CALDWELL, "SftogW of the achievement committee, of the Oakland Real Estate Board who it being called upon to or ganize similar committees for other real estate boards in va-rious part, of the State of Call- fornia. REPLACING MQNEY SACRAMENTO, Dec. 18 -Warn ing has been issued to investors by Commissioner of Corporations Ed win M. Daugherty to be exceedingly wary of placing their money dur ing the coming reinvestment period.

It is pointed out by the commissioner that' large sums are being paid by the United States government In redeeming certain bonds and war savings stamps; that the principal of several large bond Issues is coming due, and that trie uaual amount of mortgage money and stock dividends are being offered between now and the first of the year. Investors first consult with reliable financiers or professional men before trusting their money in the 'hands of salesmen. Investors should satisfy themselves of the character of the securities- before investing and one way to do this is to get informa-ttion from some one who knows. Beware of the suave talker, Who makes extravagant promises. Remember that a company Is not bound by statements not contained in its printed contract, or other literature, relating, to the sales of its The Thermo-Wall ateel forms system Is meeting with a steady demand by builders and architects, according to- R.

O. McCline, who the state representative for this tried A number or nomes in various parts of the city and a public garage on Fortieth street, near Telegraph avenue, ihave already been completed. A home on Vicksburg street near Fiftieth ave- nun. Is now nearlng completion. This method of building reinforced concrete structures by use of adjutable steel forms saves time and labor and McCline is planning, with the beginning of the coming year to build upon a much larger scale and announces that a num-! ber of big building contracts by this method hava already been placed.

If BEWARE WHEN 1 HEW SYSTEM I gain of the busses was achieved in spite of the fact that the fare was nearly double tnat on the street cars. Large fleets of motor busses are t. streets. also operating in Chicago, St. Louisrlterders fromlmany cities' where the "Achievement Committee" Plan Captured the State Convention of Realtors At The Session Recently Held Oakland's Board andSho-gun" Fred Caldwell -Are Asked to Organise Similar St.flt.ft.

By rAUL The Achievement Committee Idea was oneof the biff Ideas that took the convention of State Realtors by storm at the session Just Closed la7 Santa Ana. This is complimentary to Oakland for the Achievement Committee idea is trlctly an Oakland The delegate to the state convention cere quick to see the value of the Oakland plan and F. R. Caldwell, "Shogun" of the Oakland Achievement Committee, has been deluged with Invitations from all over the tate to visit different cities and organize similar clubs, of boosters. The Achievement Committee idea Is simply that of a closed membership committee within each Real Board, the membership to depend upon attendance and actual accomplishments.

TJie membership in the committee being closed and not open to everyone it inspires a desire to accomplish or achieve something In-order to ecure membership there in. It also Inspires activity within the committee because the drone is at once supplanted by one of the ager ones from outside. It is not like a board of directors, which, once elected, can not be changed. The membership of the Achievement Committee can be changed over night The visiting delegates saw In touch an organization the germ of great the power generated by a desire to hold a membership In such an organization. The re sult is that immediately after the beginning of the year the Oakland Real Estate Board will begin the organization of Achievement Com mittees in all Real Estate Boards vomipatlnEr Rirh helD.

The Oakland Board walked away With the first prize for "achieve ments" at the Santa Ana conven tlon, because of the activity of the Oakland Committee. This prize Is a cup presented by the retiring president. C. C. C.

Tatum, ana Mr. Tatum has become so much In-rented In Oakland that he Is com ing to this-city ttfreaent the cup In rerson. The Oakland Board sent exactly 14' delegates to Santa Ana in the "Oreo" caravan, while four more uront Anwn bv train later. By a strange method of computing the attendance points Sacramento with three delegates won the first prize for attendance, while Oakland was econd. Attendance Is computed upon the percentage of delegates traveling the greatest number of miles.

The Sacramento Board has in the neighborhood or twenty-live or thirty members, while Oakland as between 250 and 300 memDers The resmlt was that the small Sacramento delegation counted for rnro-tVinn the larger uawana ae legation. The "miles traveled was a little in the favor of the Sacra tnento Board. And at that Oakland had more delegates' at Santa Ana than did Los Angeles, not much more than fiftv miles away. But the great ibeneflt ts Oak land at large was the way the Oreb" caravan advertised uaa land through the towns of the San Joaquin Valley and even in Los Angeles. The trip was of inestimable value to the city of Oakland a a whole.

MITJt SERVICE WANTED. L. E. Thompson has asked the xtauroaa iOiuiuissiuii iui auwtuiu; to transoort by truck milk and Cream Jfrom ranches in the vicinity Of Escalqn to Oakland creameries. ABIG SUCCESS New Apartment House on the Shore of Lake Merritt Attracts Many.

The opening of the Alexandria apartments on the shore of Lake Merrltt at Jackson and Lake streets on Sunday-last was a success. More than two thousand, people visited the new apartments and inspected the building from cellar to garret Both 'the owner and the builders were represented and escorted the guests through the new structure. explaining the special points of comrort ana Deauty. The building is the latest add! tlon to the growing' list of big buildings being added to the ex clusive apartment house district on the shores of Lake Merrltt. It is owned and will be conducted by Arthur Alexander and Is the prod uct of the best efforts of the Cali fornia Builders, of which M.

Kendall la the manager and moving spirit In the Rnnatrnctlnn nf thla hntlif ing the latest ideas in apartment house construction were used. Convenience as well as attractiveness wag considered. Built-in features of every conceivable kind have cinerator in the cellar cohnected with each apartment by chutes, to tn most modern bathroom facili ties, juavun use oi uie nas Deen made-throughout the building for kitchen and bathroom purposes. The location Is ideal. On the new Lakeshore boulevard, with a view of Lake Merrltt, Lakeshore Park and the Piedmont, it Is but Ave minutes' walk from the center of Oakland and within easy transportation to San Francisco.

The apartments ire already well leased. i FOR CIH LOIS Among the realty transactions recently made through the office of Sheaf! Toung wra.several in which country property figured as part of the consideration. O. W. Bergman exchanged the residence property at 222TwBnty-fifth avenue, receiving In exchange a highly Improved orange and alfalfa ranch near Orland, belonging to C.

J. H. Troutwlne exchanged the residence property at 1258 Sixty-first avenue, accepting as partial payment 20 acres in the Weeks Colony Tract, Elk Grove district The block of stores and flats at the southeast corner of Thirteenth avenue and East Fifteenth street, owned by B. Carrington, were sold to Harry Mackler, part of the consideration being a highly Improved alfalfa ranch -in the Willows district J. A.

Thorp exchanged the 14-room residence at 802 Pacific avenue. Alameda, receiving as part payment one-halt of the Alfred Perrih ranch, near Burson, Calaveras county. Street Opening 'it kt 5 fv- Mil It IBODEH SELLS MflNy HOMES Proposal to Make Twenty- Second Street'Free to All Travel. C. Peterson, well-known resi dent of Oakland for the past 30-years, who recently Joined! the ranks of the Oakland realtors, with an office on Telegraph avenue, advocates the bpening- of Twenty-second street from Telegraph to Broadway.

Peterson says because of the rapid growth of th; Telegraph avenue district it is imperative to find another outlet for the heavy traffic in thla section of the city. Twenty-second street from Telegraph to Broadway is now a private right of way of the Oakland Traction Company and in order to" connect with points cast from this parr of Telegraph avenue "It Is necessary, to use-one of the adjoin- withXwenty-seeond street open to Broadway there would be a direct connection with Grand avs- jnue," Peterson says, "the logical street to the lane section or the citjr and Piedmont," The Byron Company, makers of fine garments for men, have moved from 1614 Broadway to much larger quarters at 605 Seventeenth street, corner of Telegraph avenue, Byron Rutley has conducted a very successful tailor ing1 business in this city since 1893, being the oldest established tailor In the bay cities. He Is assisted in his business by his eon, Harold Byron Rutley. He bas added to his already large stock some very fine material, and ths same Byron Rutley service which it has been their pleasure to give for the past! thirty years will be continued. Kadota Figs A Big Crop Preserved fresh figs are becoming popular the country over.

Although the present production is less than four hundred tons, there now are planted over 2000 acres to ths Kadota which is the variety of fig used for preserving on account of Its thin skin, firmness and practically seedless character. It ts estimated that Kadota fig trees when mature, will produce from six to twelve tons per acre, which means from 12,000 to 24,000 tons from present acreage. Let Us Be BYRON 1TIER NEW OUflBTEiTSI Oakland J5 3 1 If The Fageol A Y. Bps Supplanting the Street Car. To offer a feasible solution of the traffic and transportation problems that vex every growing city, the Kageol Motors Co.

of Oakland has developed a new type of Us famous safety coach, designed especially for city street motor bus service. -The new vehicle is a one man, pay-as-you-enter type, with regular street car seats, standing room, advertising card rack, safety and. all the features of comfort and sanitation such as are found the very best one man trolley cars. The first shipment of the new safety coach street cars has already been sent to Everett, where they will take the place of the trolley system now being operated by the Puget Sound International Rall- wIaT.1an?0w1e..:0, th? The conditions which prompted this traction company to make the change from the trolley system to the trackless variety are the same as exist to a greater or less extent In every growing city a traffic con gestion that is not only making travel through the main streets slow, but adding danger for every person and vehicle on the streets. Accidents in traffic were becoming too frequent, and the liability claims which were being collected from the street railway company were coming to be very burden some.

The Installation of a bus system is expected to relieve the traffic congestion because the busses pull to the curb when stopping, leaving the street open for vehicular traffic, instead of holding up a whole line or automobiles as does a stopped street car. It is claimed that motor busses have a higher average rate of speed through con gested districts, as they can weave in and out through traffic; they get under way taster, and stop more quickly on account of their light weight; while express service can be run without affecting normal traffic, Motor busses load and unload at the statistics show that most of the accidents occurlng to street car passengers happen as the result of the passenger being thrown to the street in boarding or alighting, due to the height of the street car steps, or else the jierson is run down by an automobile in going between the curb and the street car in, the middle of the street Acci dents from both these causes will be practically eliminated by the use of the safety coach street car. In 1910, the number of passengers carried by the Fifth Avenue Coach Company in New York City, was 6,603,175. In 1920 the number increased to 42,562,709, a gain of 710 per cent During these same 11 years the' passengers carried on the surface street cars Increased only CO per cent. The tremendous and Improvement 1 i tenancies on which a number of deals are now pending.

The stores will hA am "Smart. Khnnno "Row?" the- stores "vTll be constructed a large daylight mezzanine floor and above this a loft which will face on the three streets. The building Is. sufficient to carry four additional stories. Fred A.

Muller is superintendent of construction of the new building and has started wrecking the old building which la on the site. L. II. Thomas is the architect and, has exeeu'ed several very unique ideas on the store fronts. Muller expects to have the building ready for occupancy April 1st.

Wachs Pros, represented both parties In the transaction and negotiated all deUils. Fageol' X-Ray Corporation. C. A. Bosl-of--s street caf pmems are in difficulties and extensions can not be made.

These cars are In operation between Oakland and Jose Big Demand For Lots in LorinHeights A. G. MYRAN. Stockton real et-tate operator Uiho is cleaning up a well developed property. The sale of Lorin Heights last Sunday was a success, despite' rain and bad weather.

Twelve out of thirty lots were sold and the rest Will go before Christmas. This tract is not a new one. Originally it covered something more than three square blocks of land. bulk of it was sold a dozen years ago at $30 a foott, a price which, at that time, was considered low. More than two-thirds of the tract was (sold and has been bullf upon, and the thirty lots that remain have been held for 'more than, a dozen -j'ears.

In that time no lots have been Sold and no particular effort has been made to sell them, but the entire neighborhood had built up with a very good grade of bungalow homes. Transportation, always good, was Improved when the Southern Pacific ran Its suburban lines through the tract. Then the few remaining lots wore placed In the hands of A. G. operator, and the flrst.Tsale was held last Sunday with the result that twelve oat of the thirty remaining lots were sold.

The tract Is to be absolutely cleaned up, and the sale is being conducted from a sales tent at the corner of Ashby avenue and Sacramento street. There is no downtown of fice and sales are only made on the tract, itself, whare the lota can be Inspected. RFHSrS PERMIT. The application of Clement owners of Yellow Pennant stages for authority to operate passenger, express, package and baggage ser-r vice bi'twt on I'aso Itobleu and King City, has been denied by the railroad commission. The order following the rinding that llckwlck stnses, had the right to give lucal service between theto points.

i I KwostwrT, Toronto. Cleveland, Tiilsa, Baltimore, Pittsburg, and a score of other cities. Most of them have transfer privileges, and in many SOFT Dill Miller Ice Cream Plant Is Taken Over For the Manufacture. Arrangements have been made by the Eastbay Milk Producers' Association to take over the milk plant of the Miller Ice Cream' factory at 2941 Broadway, for. the production of "400" new soft drink which is about to be placed on the Oakland market.

This beverage is a chocolated dairy drink, pasteurised nnA hnmncrpnlKAfl hv A. nrrtPAii lar to that used In Ice cream -manu-' facture. "400" will be sold in individual seven ounce bottles for the convenientgum of five cents. At the reftent Health Exposition In Oakland, where this dairy drink was introduced, it was so well met by the publlc'that in the two hours a day in which was served during the exposition, an average of eight hundred bottles of this drink were consumed each hour. "Distribution is to be made dally to the retailers in order that "400" may- reach the consumer In its highest nutritious form," states Mr.

H. E. Burch, manager of the association. "We have our plant in readiness and are prepared to serve the public by the first of the year." 1 Advertising Writer Joins Hamman Staff Robert J. Wandalelgh, Eastern advertising man, has Joined the copy staff of the affiliated advertising agencies of K.

L. Hamman, advertising in Oakland, and John-ston-Ayres Company of San Francisco, according to an announcement yesterday by K. L. Hamman, head of. the agencies.

Wandaleigh is an advertising and newspaper man of twenty years' experience. Before coming to the Pacific coast he was account executive for Frank Seaman Inc. of New York and Chicago and for George Batten Co. of New York. Later he served as manager of the Bush Advertising Service in New York.

Wandaleigh has been connected with advertising agencies in OmRha, Des Moines, Chicago, Pittsburgh and Buffalo; also he was for several years the New York Times and -newspapers in Pittsburgh," 'Columbus, and Cincinnati. flrppnP. tci SntSCih tn i ww wyv-vrv lu Tulare Gatherings At the request of local people interested in advancing cow-testing work. Secretary Sam H. Greene of Dairy Council has gone to Tulare County for a series of addresses.

He spoke before the Tulare Rotary Club December 12, and In the afternoon of the same day to a dairymen's meeting at Tipton. These fvo talks was followed by appearances before ft general meetinif of business men at the HiKh School Auditorium, Tulare, December 13, and at a luncheon of the Tulare Lo.iril of Trade, December 11. Your Is your landlord buying Xmas 1 the Bethlehem Shipbuilding company, C. of the J. W.

Leavttt Company of San Francisco. R. E. Jones of San Francisco and F. 'S Hudson, of San Franciscl The Boden Company also reports the sale of two lots on Jerome avenue in' Piedmont to Ella M.

Davis for $1600 each, and a lot in 1 Lake Knoll to Howard N. Smith, ensign of the flagship California, for $4500. orae Santa Claus presents with yourrent money: il i Sine it 1 The Greatest Gift in the World This Xmas Would Be a Own Your Own Home OAKLAND REAL ESTATE BOARD It ia'the worthy ambition of every man to 'own a home. Owning a home is worth working for. Ownership means contentment, security and happiness.

It is an incentive to work and to save. It means immunity from want, it gives protection for old age, it means independence, stability and prosperity and more than all else, it means happiness. HOME OWNERSHIP MAKES FOR BETTER CITIZENSHIP. It is the pride of Oakland that it is known everywhere as, the "City of Homes." Oakland has a larger percentage home-owners than any other city of over 1125,000 population in the United States. r.vr......

Yquican buy a home with a comparatively small initial payment and "Jay the balance "like rent. Buying a home is not coetly it is simply a matter of regular, consistent, month-by-month saving. Your monthly payments that are now going for rent can be turned into a saving instead of an expense, by being applied to the purchase of a home. In a few years you will have paid for the property. You will have a title to it, instead of a bundle of rent receipts.

When you buy a home consult a Realtor, ne knows real estate. He is familiar with all the complex matters which Men New building, the erection of whith has already been begun on the frontage of newly widened Seventeenth -j 5 now ready for delivery in Piedmont Park. 9 now ready forilehvery in Lakeshore Highlands Think of it! A small payment down will put you in your own home for Xmas. long term ground lease has Just been closed by the firm of Waehs Bros. forArlhur JX-Ta-- shelra, W.

B. Dunningv and the McKee Estate to Harry and Bercovich and carries with it the erection of a-modern building inir medlately. The property leased Is situated on the corner of Broadway, Seventeenth and Telegraph and faces on the newly widened portion of Seventeenth street and, Is in the Immediate vicinity of the' new Beven-story Ambassador building, on which work has just been started. The ground floor of this building will carry five of the most modern up-to-the stores that architecture is able to dpsifrn and. will be leaded to high grade determine value.

He is familiar with loans, title insurance, partial payment ratios, contracts, and all phases of the transfer of property. The Realtors of Oakland have the knowl-edgp, the ability and the will to serve you well. Whenever you buy, soli or lease property, consult a Realtor. He can serve you best 305 Syndicate Bldg. OAKLAND, CALIF.

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