Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 31

volume cm NO. 131 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1925 MEMBERS In Melrose Highlands ignianas New Plant of Central California Producers This rapidly growing Oakland concern has now occupied its nw and fully equipped offices and plant at First and Franklin streets. An ever-increasing volume of business It reported. Showing pronounced activity in this close-in new home tract. Proximity to the great industrial plants is an important factor.

a i yr it, Tbm I ifriii- CLUB HOUSE Montclair Club House Construction Is Started; Will Contain Auditorium and Large Crods Examine Six-' Story Building Eight Feet High, and Complete In All Details. Other Features. 1 rmuTtKik.t 1- 1 mm 1 VS. i I rv I Few exhibits have been brought to the Eastbay which have attracted more interest among architects, builders, engineers and real estate operators than the marvel-ously complete electrified model apartment building now on display in the lobby of the Great Western Power Company office at 1700 Broadway. Because of the type of building selected for the purpose It has been possible to incorporate in this one model electrical equipment typical of the public building, office building, hotel, restaurant, apartment, and large or small homes.

A description reads: Another attraction to the beautiful Montclair and Merriewood districts hack of Piedmont began to take form Sunday when the members of the Montclair Improvement Club gathered at the Junction of Thorn road and Mountain boulevard and began the construction of the new Montclair 3y workinjr on Sundays and holidays mid such other times as they can, the members hope to erect their buildinjr without having a trrcat proportion of the available funds po for labor. A statement by-the buildi'ns committee reads: "A very handsome $10,000 structure is planned for the new Montclair clubhouse. It will be 109 by 40 feet and will contain a large auditorium, etase, dressing: room, dining room, kitchen, check room, rest room and basement space which will be utilized as a billiard luuMLJULiJuiwiJWtwwiai 1 j- iir itiinnsi rrrrrnrrri 1 rrrrriTfniin i 4:. THREE CARLOADS Central California Producers Report Big Volume of Business WARDFURNACE5 room. Tennis courts, handball courts, playground for children and eventually a polf course are listed among the additions under consideration.

Plans for these will be UL muni! LI! I U.UL IIIUinLLLU "This unique structure was designed by one of the leading architects In New York In order that It might be true to form as a modern building and might lack nothing in design which would make its appeal practical and attractive. The elevator installation was worked out between a group of electrical engineers and a large eastern elevator manufacturer. The home apartment kitchens as well as the hotel pantry and kitchen which are included In the model, hrVe been laid out according to the standard of modern electrified hotels and homes. The building machinery in the basement was all carefully planned and located by the general engineering department of the Westinghouse Electric In less than two years, the Cen- house an Ideal plant, with packing carried out progressively, as rapidly as the demands of an Increasing membership require them. The present membership is made up of residents of Montclair, Merriewood and neighboring communities.

Continued rapid settlement of that The arrival of three carload this week by the local branch1 of the Ward Furnace Company, I cated in the Buildtno- Material: Ei- area is expected to lengthen the list of members very greatly In the near future. "We are building this clubhouse beyond our Immediate require and Manufacturing Company which ments but with an eye to the fu hiblt, 14th and Madison street. This shipment represents four hun- dred and fifty furnaces' traadi, in' the Ward' System of eating by Circulating Warm Air. General Manager J. L.

D. Keppy atatea that these furnaces will ba installed In Eastbay homes just aa fast as ture." states Mrs. E. T. Jetsen president of the Montclair Im equipment, sales and display floors and storage space all on one floor.

As -tli 4 fruit is unloaded from the cars or trucks it is run into a hopper from which it is carried by a roller elevator to a two-run brusher, where the fruit is brushed and cleaned. From the brusher it Is carried to a grading table, where the fruit is classified, and all undesirable fruit thrown out. The selected fruit is delivered by grades to the sizer, where it is distributed, after a series of mechanical operations, to twenty individual bins, according to size and grade. The fact that there is only one-eighth of an inch difference between each successive size, a difference un-noticeable to the untrained eye, gives an idea of the precision of the machine operations. From the bins the fruit is taken by the pack provement Club, who was at work Sunday morning, along with Stan tral California Producers (First and Franklin streets), has occupied a front rank position among Hie citrus fruit distributors of Oakland.

Originally organized by a body of orange growers, it experienced rapid progress from the start, and through its present organization it now handles a substantial portion of Oakland's citrus fruit supply. A recent survey by the company reads: "The rapid expansion of its business caused the company to move from their original quarters on Second street, to the present location on Franklin street. Since moving the company has again enlarged its floor space by acquiring the entire ground floor of the building. This provides space for a packing plant with the most modern equipment, as well as larger storage and sales floors. Installation of the big new packing plant Is just being completed.

The equipment Includes the latest type double standard, rope and roller sizer, with brushes, dis ton "VV. Lore, vice-president; H. Richardson, secretary; S. A. Ford, company is exhibiting this interesting model in Oakland.

"This is not a toy house with blocks of wood to Indicate where electrical apparatus should be installed. Tt is a complete building, six stories high, built to a scale of one Inch to the foot. And the electrical equipment models are not only marvels of detail and accurate workmanship but some of them are operating as well. Every treasurer, and other members of the club. "As soon as the club is finished we can begin at once to make a great deal of use of it as a place for all neighborhood gatherings such as our monthly dance, and for the rehearsal and performance of the dramatic club which we are planning under the leadership of Norman Field, one of ers and packed either into the mem.

ah oi mem Deing on praer for both already built homatrausd new homes under The recent cold snap-, bast awamped us with ordera for tha hi- stallation of Wards In old homea," stated Keppy, 'and all our.artwa are working overtime to gtvf: aer- vice to our customera." Keppy added: "Tha Ward 8ytetn of Circulating Warm Air la at scientific and bygenic heaitingV-uslng gas for fuel. The' tur properly vented so that not 1 or gases can get Into tha ra(om. heats by setting up a clrcolatic of the air in tha rooms heater drawing out the cold air and replacing with pure warm air. It 1m easily installed in new or old homea and haa a record for low ief eon- sumption." "ay" E. T.

McDonald haa appuad-t standard packing boxes, or into the company's own boxes. From the packers' stands the filled boxes are carried by an automatic conveyor to the press, where the packed room is lighted In accordance with tha best standards of the day. The lighting arrangement was laid out by the illuminating engineering bureau in New York. In living rooms only wall brackets are used. These are equipped with miniature parchment shades as are also the stand lamps and portables.

Mi'nia-ture Westinghouse Sol-Lux limin-arles have been Installed in all tributors and conveyors. fruit la "lidded," or the open boxes "A fleet of trucks operated by our members and the leading man In "The Best People," as well as the head of the Fulton dramatic school. The beginning of a business center within a block of our location and the rapid rate at which population Is Increasing out here should give us a sufficiently larce membership to crowd our facilities within a short time." the Central California Producers, other and deIlvere(i t0 the (supplementing the r00m or salesfloor. forms a nnK Deiween me orange i nAir-w and grapefruit groves and the Oak- 't the of the distributor be- other rooms. Portal brackets are hung at each side of the front entrance while a miniature Westinghouse street lighting unit similar 1 tween the orange grove and the consuming, public through the re provides the earliest possible delivery of fruit and this speed in in design to those proposed recently for use in Oakland, is set on the the railroad commission for certificate to operate auto freight service for transportation of ilrna equipment and theater auppUM handling brings to the consumer a tailers, with the least possible cost consistent with the quality of fruit handled, and with as little delay as possible to Insure the quality of freshness." sidewalk in front of the building.

There are 112 separate pieces of electrical equipment illustrated in BIG DUD FOR between San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Emeryville, Piedmont Alameda and Eden. EIGHTEEN If this small structure. In each the scale and detail have been made as perfectly as the highest trained Monze Speaks Before Realtors On4 Leasing Railroads Buy Sacramento Station Sacramento Northern Railroad and the San Francisco-Sacramento Railroad Company, having been authorized in a previous decision by the Railroad Commission for the former to sell to the latter an undivided one-third Interest In the union electric railroad station at Sacramento, the Railroad Commission today, by supplemental order, approved the terms under which the San Francisco-Sacramento MELROS HIGH BUYERS LISTED model makers in this country could make them. Some of the men who worked on this project received their training as apprentices in England and- are making a life work of this occupation. fact which enterprising retailers have been quick to recognize.

"Economical and efficient handling of fruit tends to maintain the low level of prices that the company has set as its permanent policy. Railroad spurs on the First street side of the warehouse bring the carloads of fruit to its doors, thereby effecting a substantial saving in handling costs. The company has eliminated costly packages for the cheaper grades of fruit, packing them economically and passing the saving on to the retailer and consumer. "Although specialising; in oranges, grapefruit and lemons, the company also handles, each year, a large number of carloads of watermelons, and table grapes, as well aa juice grapes. "Tha company'r naw quaftera Among the more interesting ap Old Whaling Ship Electrically Lighted Off South Dartmouth, la anchored the Charles W.

Morgan, one of the last of the New England whaling ships. She is maintained by Colonel E. H. Green, aon of tha famous woman capitalist, Hetty Green, aa a memorial to the whaling Industry. Nightly the Morgan la electrically flood-lighted and when passing ships salute her, tha Morgan returna the aalute by turning off the flood lights three times in rapid succession.

LANDS SITES LAKESHORE plication ehown are electric Situation Wantt Sales or office' eawulwsr'lby young man 38 years of tgev' Experienced, both wholesale and retail. Resident of Oakland six years. Box M-43838, Tribrar ranges, heaters, waffle irons, Railroad Company will purchase aame. broiler, ovens, hot table, refrigerator, ventilating and celling fans. One elevator and all fan are oper Eighteen homeslte buyers bought ating.

In the basement or the in LAKesnora Highlands and ad building ara shown a power sub Jacent unlta during the past few lARK R. MONZE of the firm of Mrk R. Monie, Inc, was the principal speaker at last week's educational class of the Real Estate Board The meeting was presided over by Fred Caldwell, president of the Oak-land Real Estate Board. J. Mc-Weihey, president of the firm of McWethey Greenleaf company, contractors; W.

R. Robertson, in-surance broker, and Wait Stephenson, president of the Wait H. Stephenson company, also spoke. The meeting was attended by some 150 salesmen members of the board. days, according to J.

A. Scofield of the Walter H. Lelmert Co. owners and, developers of this resi Eales in Melrose Highlands continue brisk, according to C. P.

Murdock, Incorporated, eubdlvlders handling the property. Last Sunday more than $41,000 worth of property was reported sold and sales for the month of October were said to be $225,000. This subdivision is located in East Oakland just off Foothill boulevard and between Mills college and the Sequoia dential district. Idaho Enters Guernseys at Show Thousands Springs Farm at Wendell, Idaho, wires the entry of Its show herd of fifteen Guern-eeys, at the dairy show here. Another Guernsey herd which It is xpected will exhibit from Idaho, Is the famous Duno herd formerly located at 'a lifornia.

station, panel switchboards, refrigeration compressor, motor-generator for elevator power, vacuum cleaner unit, ventilation blower, and both high and low pressure pumps. The model building Is on display in the window of the Great Western Power Company office at 1700 Broadway until about Thursday, Scofield lists as the recent buy November It. It will then ba placed In tha lobby of the Pacific ers: H. B. Thompson, H.

Willlamsi S. F. Herrod, J. Nelson, Thompson, Garver Garner, G. Gaa and Electric building at sev enteenth and Clay atreeta, Oakland, Del Fave, J.

Mariana, A. L. Rog for approximately a week. Country club. The combination of EASTBAY ers, Samuel Moe, L.

G. Baldwin, Fred Woodburn, E. W. West, J. B.

Grubb, A. Lapham, and L. Price. 1 H-i mum! diiiectorII1; DIRECTORS Carl I. Wheat, thief counsel for LESTER V.

BINS HARBT S. ANDERSON COMPANY This Is the House That Service Built Our 'td modern building, erected and W. T. D. BROWN E.

DE LAVEACA P. A. DINSMOM the Railroad Commission, will depart from San Francisco tomorrow night for Portland, and Washington, D. C. on a number of Important matters affecting the Railroad Commission and California utilities.

P. MUHDOCS EDWIN M. OTU Dt E. PE RUNS ilit 8TANLXT J. E.M.TTLDEN K.

WILCOX -A L. D. FAT B. A. FORSTERt.lt JAMES H.

L'BOHMEDIIU a lot and finished house on a liberal deferred payment plan Is said to be very popular with working-men and it is this condition which is held responsible for the large volume of business. Extensive etreet Improvements have been reported in Melrose Highlands during the last few weeks, together with extensions of power lines and water and gas mains. Leveling has been carried out on a large scale, according to representatives of the company, in the section which has been laid out for business purposes. r'The business opportunities offered by a rapidly growing tract like, Melrose Highlands are well worth investigating if a man is interested in opening a. neighborhood store," states C.

P. Murdock, president of C. P. Murdock, Incorporated. "People are flocking to the tract fast and development Is general throughout the district.

Approximately a thousand families are to be expected within conveni OFFICERS B. A. rORSTEREB. PraaMm STANLEY J. SMITH, SM-rraaa.

MARTIN R. GREEN, ent trading radius within a short time and the volume of btrfiiM Title Insurance Building equipped to facilitate and increase our service. ALAMEDA COUNTY TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY they will represent is worm me attention of any merchant. Business lots are being offered now and aid in the construction of a store will be given as well as liberal terms on the site." YOV WILL BE PLEASED WITH OUR PROMPT ACCURATE COURTEOUS TITLE INSURANCE Significant Leadership-Vote the Harbor Bonds and -ft SNAP SERVICE All TttU Insnranea Comoanies in California ara under tha 'Tt BOARD OF PIRECTOKS Carl Abhott Ira Abraham Arthur U. Hrerd II.

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