Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 43

1DPMEN ECTION SI VOLUME CIV NO. 160 OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, MAY 30, 1926 i-fj- ST. JAMES Robert B. Mitchell Who will have charge, for J. H.

L'Hommedieu Company of the sales in St. James Wood. Views and Scenes of Activity in Smith Reserve Large crowds are reported visiting Smith Reserve, the splendid new home area just placed on the market by the Realty Syndicate This scenic area adjoins the Boy Scout camp and is contiguous to Montclair. VISITORS CROWD TO NEW TRAGT WOOD WILL BE UNIQUE s. mm Smith Reserve Realty Syndicate Company's New De- velopment Offers Great Scenic Beauty, Parorama Visitors to Smith Reserve, the new subdivision In the Piedmont hills district, were impressed with the unusual beauty of the place a.nd the remarkable marine panorama it commands, declared officials of the Realty Syndicate Company, owners and developers of the property.

In discussing the opening sale last Sunday. Smith Reserve is aid to have been originally selected for these reasons as th location of an elaborate estate for "Borax" Smith at the tim wen known capitalist owned a largo part of the finest residential property of the Eastbay. The Syndicate company states: "The location of Smith Reserve within twenty minutes by automobile of the Oakland city hall, is hatj BUILDING COST TO BE DISCUSSED Sound Ideas of Home Construction Economy to Be Subject at National Meet, Fred R. Caldwell Reports The cost of building homes may be lowered through better circulation of sound Ideas of construction economy. That is the thesis upon which the National Association of Real Esate Boards has called a national home builders' conference as leading feature of its nineteenth anual convention, according to Fred R.

Caldwell, president of th Oakland Real Estate Board. The convention, which is expected to bring together between 3500 and 4000 of the leading real estate men of the United States and Canada, will be held at Tulsa, June 7 to 11. A score or more of Oak land realtors will be official delegates to the convention and many others from the Eastbay cities will attend the conclave. "City planning, as it must enter Into the work of the man who plata a new subdivision or develops a new industrial tract, will be another large topic for discussion at the Tulsa: convention," said Caldwell. "The national body will also consider methods of control which should be exercised to sound development of subdivisions.

It will study essentials in the development of a central manufacturing district, and best methods of solving the location problem for factories and other Industrial plants. It will take up the disputed matter of the skyscraper and study the relation between first costs and enduring values In such buildings. It will discuss the work of official appraisal commlt-tess of real estate boards and the growing opportunities for technical education In real estate as a special field of economics. Conference will also be held on raising the efficiency of real estate advertising, lt 'wi" fppsf'1' Jr1 WMa 1 another advantage of the property. It is but a few minutes from the Montclalr business center, and electric trains to San Francisco parallel its western border.

"Oakland is growing so rapidly It Is a matter of a short time only until Smith Reserve will have hundreds of families enjoying many beautiful homes within this area. It has every natural advantage for i development. Pine, eucalyptus and trees mingle to produce wonderful settings for either elaborate Or modest dwellings. "A recreation center for Smith Reserve is planned around Smith Lake near the Boy Scout camp. This Is a scenic body of fresh water impounded by a large dam.

"Syndicate officials predict a rapid sale of the Smith Reserve property as a result of the steady demand that has so quickly prac- -r---r ess- V-iteu yflii 1rm property. An artistic tract office Is to be built at the Park boulevard entrance, according to the designs of Architect Charles W. McCall. and will subsequently be used for a station for the street car lines. In this connection It is interesting to note that the Park boulevard grade was lowered at this point to a depth of approximately eight feet in order to establish a level with the entrance.

J. H. L'Hommedieu states that home building in this tract will operate under restrictions ranging from $5000 to depending upon location, and that the upper view sites are restricted to higher priced homes. Entering the tract by Sunnyhills road, one passes some of the most indgniLiceni nomes in tne HJastbay territory. Including the mansions of C.

L. Best. Charles Bates and Monumental Entrance Gates, Rronze Electroliers, Wide Thoroughfares and Side-walksJlestrictions to Be Features In Fine Tract One of the most interesting developments of recent months in Oakland is that of St. James Wood, the scenic property in the Piedmont hills, between Sunnyhills road and Park boulevard. This property, which is to be placed on the market at an early date by J.

II. L'Hommedieu Company is to be developed along the same general lines which have made St. Francis Wood, the home area beyond Twin Peaks in San Francisco, famous. Three main roads are nearing completion at presenet in this tract. Cavanaugh road, which Is the lower road leading through the tract from Trestle Glenn and Lake-shore Highlands to the Park boulevard entrance; Indian road, which leads from the Sunnyhills entrance to Park boulevard, and Estates drive, which leads off Park boulevard over a succession of scenic knolls, where a panoramic view Is obtained over the city, San Francisco bay, San Francisco, the Golden Gate and Mt.

Tamalpais. The main thoroughfare in the property will have a width of at least 60 feet and will be constructed of a special combination of brick and concrete, colored with a greenish tinge and offering a pleasing contrast to the eye. The streets will be lighted by a system of artistic electroliers, with underground wiring. The two main entrances will be marked by ornamental gates on the Sunnyhills and Park boulevard entrances to the R. R.

MITCHELL TO DIRECT ST. JAMES WDDD SALE Robert Brent Mitchell, under whose directions more than a million dollars' worth of residence property bas been sold at Orinda, is to be in charge of the sales of St. James Wood. This is the announcement from the office of J. II.

L'Hommedieu Company which is now pre paring this elaborate and exclusive subdivision of Piedmont for sale. Mitchell has made a brilliant record at Orinda during the past four years, having had charge of the Orinda sales during that entire period. His success in this project has led to his selection for the equally Important work of managing the sales In St. James Wood, It is stated. "Our selling campaign on St.

James Wood, which will start very soon." says the company announce ment, will be conducted In a man ner fitting to the high class of property to be sold. We are there fore choosing our gelling staff carefully. Mitchell has shown himself competent to handle an organization on such property." Mitchell said: "I feel that St. James Wood is a worthy companion to Orinda. Here we will offer the finest city development In Piedmont Just as we have been offering the finest type of country development at Orinda." Mitchell will start forming the selling organization for St.

James Wood at once. I tlcally closed out Montclair, High- lands and Montclair Highlands extension. Sales since the opening of those two subdivisions less than year ago aggregate more than Smith Reserve is the next adjoining property and the opening Indications promise a similar suc-m. eess for it." Jn "S.n it Reserve is the next logi BUSINESS MEN St Ljj "Successful JJ Li vk Servicc" JU 9 II Under Ft Complete I Supervision Zr A Plant Lj of the AvSv Equipment LI fj State KSmf ANB SJ Insurance Modern IJ Commissioner Methods ll 1430 Franklin Strret Tpipphons Oiiiinu fa. Big Building Activity in Dominion Reports of building activities throughout Canada reveal a very rapid development now taking place, rermits issued in April In 60 lending cities totaled compared with $10,538,423 in the preceding month and with $15,442, S55 in April, 1 325, according to the Dominion bureau of statistics.

The increase was 23 per cent over April last year and 80 per cent over Marsh this year. These figures compare with an April to April loss of 8 per cent and a negligible gain over March In the principal cities and towns of the United States as revealed In the national monthly building survey of S. V. Straus Co. Since the first of the year Canadian building permits have totaled J41.24O.209 compared with a gain of more than 1 per cent, while In the United States the volume of permits Issued since the first of this year has been slightly less than during the same period of 1925.

Fi ft cal place to interest people who ere in searcn eitiusivc communities." states C. P. Mur-dock, vice president and general manager of the Realty Syndicate Companv. "It is a continuation of the line which the finest residential communities have followed since early days in Oakland. This development began at Seventh street near the bay and then worked back to what is now the downtown district and then out around the lake and Piedmont and up Into Montclair.

Now Smith Reserve, adjoining Montclair. has tepped Into the limelight, turning a new page in Its romantic history. "Smith Reserve has everything beautiful and exclusive residential community con Venn nee, accessibility, view, climate and great natural beauty. Nearly 800 to Receive Real Estate Diplomas Nearly 800 certificates will be Issued this year by the California Kal Estate Association and the University of Southern "illlornla to members of real estate classes who will complete the Joint real state course of the association and the university. Forty-eight students In the Pomona Realty Hoard class were presented certificates.

Huntington Park board held exercises for Its 2 4 rrsduntes on May 12. and Monte-bello awarded IS on May 14. Among other boards that sre planning elaborate exercises are Monrovia. West Hollywood, South Pasadena, lnglewood. Southwest branch of Lo Angeles, nurllngame, Fresno and San Fernando.

The fertlflcates, bearing the signatures of officials of the state association end the university, sre flven to students who have main tslned a high average througnouiA i OFFICERS C. K. Moser. president of the fiolden State Theater Realty Company, announces that his company's new Fairfax Theater, located on Foothill Boulevard and Belvedere street. vill be formally opened to the public on June 6.

The Fairfax Businessmen's Association, under whose ausi4ices this event will be celebrated, is arranging a local program, a part of which will be furnished by the Oakland Real Estate Board. The phenomenal growth of the Fairfax district is one of the outstanding features in the general development of East lake. It is fbinted out. 1 NEW THEATER I A. rORSTERER I a I STANLEY J.

SMITH Vi MARTIN n. CREEN fl 0- (JSE'llI EASTBAY In a survey of heating problems of Eastbay buildings, Raymond F. Blerbaum, heating engineer and president of Oil-O-Matlc of California states: "In spite of the fine, even temperature of the Eastbay, heating until recently remained a vital problem. 'A new and economical method of heating Is rapidly coming Into vogue, namely, Oil-O-Matic heating, meaning automatic heating with oil. "This new method of heating, equally adapted for all types of buildings, has enjoyed an instan taneous success In the Eastbay and is being rapidly Installed In homes and apartment houses, as well as public and commercial buildings.

Burning Diesel oil at IH cents per gallon, it effects a large saving "Architects, heating engineers and builders have closely checked every rhae of OII-O-Matlc beating, not merely for economy, but unimrniuy oi neai, reiiaminy and the net result of those scientific check-ups has been the frequent specification of Oll-O-Mstic heating for vsrled types of building. Qil-O-Mstic, by modernizing h'Jtlng. saves time to the house wife. It means a clean house with rugs, curtains free of coal soot. 1 NT I I DIRECTORS I I I Si HARRY 8.

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inmtii anil two final exam-Tof operation, cleanliness, Oervice fl (J C. H. II COX I -3 Plastoid, Product Wins In U. C. Test "Leading builders of apnrtmi ut houses ore anticipating the demand for better all round construction, not merely in point of beauty, durability and comfort, but also privacy." states V.

of Plastoid Products Inc. "This problem, privacy, is becoming so important that the testing laboratories of our universities have been called upon to determine the relative value from this standpoint of the many sound "deadeners offered the building industry. A recent test was conducted by the University of California, southern branch, of eleven different materials, all selected from regular stock for sale in the open market. "The materials to be tested were In the form of a panel, two feet square, which comprised one side of an otherwise sound-proof box. State Association ehelt Roster Highe Figures appearing In the May Issue of the California Real Estate magazine show the enrollment of more than 300 brokers and salesmen at the close of the fourth month of the administration of President Harry H.

Culver. This Is high water mark for the association for the firxt third of the year. Many of the boards are still to report. The fourteenth district, whk-'i Includes San Dieco. El Ccntro and Ocesnlde.

Is the first to make more Ihsn Its district assignment. Several other larger districts are close behind, notably No. which includes Iteverlv Hills. Santa Monica. Santa Barbara.

Ventura and Venice. the fourth district which Includes Del the state convention rity. and Hnn Jose, Beat of the first board In California. In Los Angeles nearly 41 realtors have been enrolled, more than half of the present realtor membership of the Ios Angeles Kalty Koerd unw holding certificates In the stite association. Culver City Furnishes Board of -Realtors The latt addition tn the family of more than 1M realty hoards In California the f'ulver Citr Rrslty Board.

hlrh will hare more tb 2fc member la the state and national WT1 1 inn. Carl K. elected free- i Hefit. ael V. Ruby esv-retary.

Charlee I. Undhlad. general manatee the llarrv H. Culver (wrr. B4 hirmaaj the fctp 4 irn th elate evw-tato.

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tMH KoTtry aneee-t-ers ef La a tvrd. Inatlons of the course. Esst Pay ster rompsny has applied to the Railroad Commission for nuthorlty to trsnfer to the East Bay Municipal ftility District, an easement for tunnel throush Its property In Tontra Costa county, for the sum of II72V4. Prudential Insurance Loans AND PER CENT. INSTALLMENT June 1, 1926-An Epochal Date in ihc financial history of Oakland.

Wc congratulate the Central Banks on their vision and enterprise SURROUNDED by nearly two acres of beautifully landscaped gardens, these elegantly appointed apartment homes of eight charming rooms enjoy an unsurpassed view of lake, hills and bay. Ever)' modern convenience for those who love to entertain a magnificent ballroom, roof garden and tennis courts. Ijjstigate before buying or building elsewhere. FLAT iiiii run atttyyiMli jA i --XJt r-Z- WALSH, are chosen by Bankers and Officials of Mortgage and Title Companies for their own residency. Exclusiccly through Jaciicson-Towle-Willoughby Corporation 333 17th SL, 662 Mills S.

F. LIFE INSURANCE NOT NECESSARY O'CONNOR CO. Thes co-operative homes are open for inspection tcry afternoon, including Sundays, or by appointment he ncs Morning, Oakland 356 Afternoon LcJaide 81 R. M. MARSHALL, Resident Partner Central Bank Building Oakland 1.