Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 35

noun? tcrioN VOLUME cm OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1925 NO. 159 si Model Plant of Ice and Cold Storage Company Here The plant and offices of the Oakland Ice and Cold Storage Co. at First and Market streets, owned and operated by the National Ice and Cold Storage Co. of California. The company reports a large volume of business.

Automotive -Show Opens in Bank Lobby BIG VOLUME OF BUSINESS BY ICE CD. KNIIS UNIT COMPANY 't New Road Is Open to Traffic Now; Property Has Famous Panorama and Ad- Western NatFonal Life Insurance Co. Is Founded in Oakland. National Ire and Cold Storage Operating Big Oakland Plants, Will Add to Cold Storage Snace Exclusive Area joins Announcement, is made of the establishment in Oakland of the Western National Life Insurance Company, a corporation com tived Inflh" Kn. mvu fill its hrani-lios is reported by the National Ice ami Cold Storage OAKLAND'S part the aulo-mobile industry will be presented to the public for two weeks beginning tomorrow when an exhibit of twenty-two automobile manufacturers, operating plants in Oakland, opens in the lobby of The Oakland Bank.

The local manufacturers represent capital investment of and their annual output is valued at according to estimates by Harry J. Harding, assistant vice-president of the bank, following a survey of the industry. The exhibit will include displays from aulo assembling and manufacturing plants, batteries, absorbers, lubricating systems, motormeters, radiator caps, luggage carriers, springs, auto parts, aluminum castings, busses, motors, axles, tires, bumpers and many other auto parts manufactured here. "The purpose of the exhibit, explained Harding, is to show that Oakland really has a right to call itself "The Detroit of the West." Oakland manufacturers are shipping their products to practically all parts of the world as automobiles and automobib parts made here are widely used leaders of the Eastbay region. E.

Company uf Oilifornia. which owns, and operates the model plants of the Oakland Tco and Cold StoraRC Company. The National Eyon, former president of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, Is Ire and Cold Storage Company of the, president of the new company and M. Miller, nationally known New Life Insurance Co. Heads E.

C. LYON (left), president of the Western National Life Insurance Company, a new Oakland corporation, and J. M. MILLER, secretary. California owns and operates some 45 plants throughout the state, has been in business in Oakland for 85 years and is one of the substantial companies of Alameda county, where it maintains a large staff of killed employees.

The company reports that the demand for Its products in the Eastbay is constantly increasing. A'' recent review of the plants maintained in the Eastbay by the company, and of Hs mode of operations, reads: "The ice factory, cold storage warehouses, garages and office buildings occupy nearly two blocks at First and Market streets. "The ice factory has a capacity BRASS, COPPER The new approach to Claremont Knolls Is open to traffic, it la an- fir nounced. Simultaneously with the com- pletion of the extension of Alva- rado Road, comprising the new approach, Cleve McMillen, aalea manager for Heber Harter handling this panoramic realden- -t tial park atop the Claremont hllla, announces that the second unit of the tract is now available to homeslte buyers. McMillen atatoa: "The new approach bringra Claremont Knolls within 1600 feet of the highly developed residential area in Claremont where property is valued at $100 a foot, and up.

"It is also within a block and a half of easy walking; from the Claremont Hotel and the famous Harte home, show places of Clare- mont. "Arrangements have been made -y to bring all visitors to Claremont Knolls, beginning today, over th new approach which is reached Tia v'r Tunnel Road, thence to Alvare "vy'S1" and direct to the residential paanja "With the first unit practlctJ sold out we look forward ti i. quick sale of the second unit 'jif. the property. This unit possess all the beauty and desirability that marked the first uniti Prices re- main the same.

-V "It is gratifying- to note that within the past week the demand for Claremont Knolls homesitea A has shown a decided impetus. That there Is a decided investment value to these homesites as' well as their wonderful attraction as a place on which to place your flbme is indicated by two advanced price offers to present homeslte owners, both turned down. "Now, with the Alvarado Road extension completed, the new ap- proach through the highly devel- oped Claremont district open to traffic, and with the second unit the market we look forward to a very busy December." -s The first home to be built In SUPPLY CO. IS as an authority on life insurance, Is the secretary. The other officials and directors are: F.

V. Atkinson, vice-president; State Treasurer Charles J. Johnson, treasurer; Charles H. Rowe, Jr. medical director; Benjamin R.

Aiken, general counsel; Barrett N. Coates, consulting actuary; George M. Bowles, Oakland; W. K. Simpson.

Porterviat R. A. Belden, Santa RosajHa.t Horwinski, Oakland; Johjaf'T'. Mullins, member board of supervisors, Oakland; Fred D. Parr, Oakland and San Francisco; Samuel H.

Thornton, Oakland. The officers of the company state: "The Western National Life Insurance Company has an authorized capital of $1,000,000. but will commence operations when 25,000 shares have been subscribed, giving a paid-up capital of and a substantial surplus. It will be a multiple line company, i. it will write accident and health insurance as well as life insurance, and therefore will be in a positinji to furnish complete coverage to ifc policy holders.

It will also develop a health conservation service that will be broad in its scope and efficiency, highly beneficial to both the company and its policy holders." The reasons which prompted the establishment of this new company are given by President E. C. Lyon as follows: "Oakland, with a population of approximately 300,000 people, has no life insurance company. On account of its geographical situation and rapid IN 1 of 120 tons per day of clear crystal ice and large ice storage rooms to hold 21)00 tons. The ice is used in the local delivery service of the National Ice and Cold Storage Company and also for the icing of all the refrigerator ears used in the Oakland district which are switched to the track serving the factory and are iced day or night.

"The ice delivery service operated by the National Ice and Cold Storage Company furnishes ice to the markets, restaurants, residences, in Oakland and is maintained most efficiently, which is evidenced by its large patronage in Alameda county. "Cold storage warehouses, with the very latent of equipment, have a capacity of 750.000 cubic feet of spa'e, consisting of 3u rooms, each specially equipped to handle the various commodities requiring re iomice houdfii fiwbuildiig awarded big throughout u.s. barge contract The American Brass and Copper Supply company, successor to the R. S. Young Supply company, 523 Fourth Btreet, announce that they have just completed rearranging their stock rooms and machine shop.

This business has been established over 25 years but was heretofore operated on a limited scale. The company is now incorporated and will carry a complete line of aluminum, brass, copper and other increase in population, the city of frigeration for ifreservation. eggs, butter, cheese, poultry, meal, fruit and vegetables. "ThO hajidling of goods in cold metal supplies. Oakland has been chosen for the location of the home office of the Western National Life Insurance W.

Osburn, secretary and man The Pacific -Coast Engineering Company announces that Libby, McNeil Libby have awarded theut the contract for the con A recent survey by the Prudential Insurntnce Compnny of America reads: "The Prudential Insurance Company of America loaned in the ager of the new corporation, states that they have three or four large Claremont Knolls is nearing completion, Several plans for other homes are now in preparation and work will start immediately after the holidays. struction of an all-steel 775-ton month of October $12. 1 79.S00 fbarge will be built at the homes and apartment buildHilrs in i This bar Company. "Oakland is California's third largest city. It Is perhaps the only city of its size in the I'nited States without at least one life insurance company.

The population of Oakland increased more than 40 per cent in the past six years. Bank the United Slates and Canada. This financed ISoii hyuTs jwid 121 apartments and provided living accomodations for 3478 families all of these in-ne month, a good sized city ip'ltsell'. Insurance Comnany funds are loaned in the Bay Cities through the local plant of the Pacific Coast Engineering foot of West 14ih street, and when completed will be lowed to Honolulu where it will be used for inter-ida ml service bv Libby. McNeil Jbbv.

Tile barge will be 130 feet long by 40 fell wide with a draught of nine feet, and with a total capacity of 20.000 lug boxes of pine- An approved list of industrial experts to advise cities a'nd towns on ways and means of obtaining the type of industries suitable to their location has been started by the National Association of Real Estate Boards at the suggestion Of the Industrial prbperty division of that body. XCLUSIVENESS EMPLOYEES OF storage requires continuous operation day and night and constant attention by experienced employees. Each commodity must be carried at a certain temperature and ijji a percentage of humidity which has been found from years of experience, gives the best results. "The cold storage warehouses were constructed to allow for enlargements as business developed, and plans are now prepared for the addition of fruit and vegeurtlfe rooms to be ready for next crop. The warehouses are served by spur track of anple capacity, making for the expeditious handling of good imniid out by carload: also, the yard and platform facilities provide quick service for goods received and delivered by truck.

"National Ice and Cold Storage Ribbon ice cream has become popular in the bay district, and every attention is given to this growing business." loughby Corporation. 393 Seven- ri apples. teenth Street, Oakland. at Vs 0 HLL COMPANY mil i-onstruct ion will start immediately, and delivery will be made at Honolulu on the com shipments of metal supplies In transit from eastern mills. He added: "With the increasing industries in the Eastbay a stock of over SI 00,000,000 will be carried at all times to supply the demands of Eastbay industries.

"In addition to the stock of supplies, a machine shop is operated in connection, which makes all kinds of brass fittings and other supplies." State Realtors To Attend Meet In anticipation of a. large delegation from the state of California to attend the annual convention of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, the California Real Estate Association has advised the Tulsa Real Estate Board at Tulsa, to reserve 125 rooms at their leading hotel for the California delegatio'n. It is planned to have a California train, which probably will be in several sections, as there is a desire already evident on the part of many realtors to participate in the convention. pany states. METROSE SLOPE FOR HOMES HAVE BONUS clearings increased 150 per cent and building permits over 400 per cent.

The Eastbay stands tenth among cities in the United States In the value of building permits. During 1924 the value of the permits for the Eastbay totaled over $48,000,000. and the 1 92 5 record will be greater." J. SI. Miller, the secretary of the company, has a thorough knowledge of life insurance in all its branches.

He has had twenty-five years' experience in the business. After many years in the field as a personal producer of insurance, then as general agent, he was selected for executive work as secretary and treasurer of the Montana "Life of Helena. participating actively in the organization and management of that company for a period of nine years. The Montana Life Is today one of the most successful of the younger life insurance companies. TffllD Success to the Metropolitan Stores Office Furniture Fumiihed by Parish Desk Exchange 557-559 12th St Opposite Athens Club lakeside 1359 I ill UNIT 6 per cent.

"Loans are made either flat or on instalment and the loans run from three to seventeen years, depending on the convenience of the individual. "The Prudential Insurance Company has loaned over S40.000.OO0 in California. "The rate is die same on small loans as it is to the large borrower. A. U'illoughby and his associates have lately formed the Interior Investment Corporation who will loan immediately', for the Prudential Insurance Company of America, funds on the same terms in the cities of Sacramento.

Stockton. Modesto, Palo Alto. San Jose and Merced, and will later loan in other important interior cities. "It is also the intention of the new company to shortly loan on ranches nt a low rate of interest." One frature of Hampton Highlands which every visit or notices at once is the natural "exclusive-ness' which is the result of the formation of the hills at that point, representatives of C. P.

Murdock. Incorporated, suhdividers of the property say. On all sides the hills slope away, leaving just the' flat OPENED 8 Yuletide gifts will be distributed this year by the Ward' Heater Company in the form of cash bonuses, ranging from 10 to 20 per cent of the annual salaries to all employees who, have worked a year or more for the concern, according to announcement made yesterday by Samuel Sproat, president of the concern. "This action was decided upon after we had completed preparation to boost our production schedules for the Pacific Coast of 1926 to $2,300,000 as a preliminary step toward transferring all our manufacturing operations to the Pacific Making Realty Appraisal Survey A survey of the appraised work being done by local realty boards throughout the state of California is now 'being made by the California Real Estate Association through Peter Hanson. former president of the C.lendale Realty Board, who is preparing a report to be submitted to the siate board of directors at the midwinter meeting in Los Angeles January 4 and 5.

Merced's Big Three. The city of Merced leads the state in the shipping of beef cattle and in the production of alfalfa and sweet Hay Figures. Tulare county's hay crop'is harvested and il is estimated to be over irjn.ooO tons from 137,000 acres. Building Material Exhibit, Fourteenth and Madison streets, started operations in this district about fourteen months ago in the distribution of the Ward System of Circulating Warm Air. using gas for DIRECTORS Trn uTCiimMfT LSI i ii uruiui i in i table which is Hampton Highlands, they explained, with the result that people who build on the property will be in a little world all their own.

This elevation has the double advantage of giving a clear view-over Piedmont, which lios th.i immediate foreground, anu afiords an exceptionally wide panorama of the entire San Framisco dis trlct. with the oiuclair hills in full view at close ra.nc;c just back of the tract. "Nature planned Hampton Highlands as the show place of the Eastbav district." is the opinion voiced by C. P. Murdock, President of C.

P. lurdock. Incorporated. the improvements which we are placing on the property, together with the high buijding restrictions, there can be no question but that this property will be graced by some of the finest homes in Oakland. The increase in value which will certainly follow makes Hnninton Highlands an attractive fuel.

The company states; I nis IJAVIUUv UUUIV LESTER W. BINK P3 LESTER W. BINK HARRY S. ANDERSON F. D.

BROWN E. I. DE LAVEACA system is easily adaptable to either DIRECTORS E. LYON' f. MURDOCK EDWIN U.

OTIS D. E. PERKINS STANLEY J. SMITH E. M.

TILDEN C. H. WILCOX P. A. DINSMORE L.

D. FAY B. A. JAMES II. L'HOMMEDIEU Coast." Sproat declared.

According to SproatV announcement, all employees of one "ear's service with the company wil' receive 10 per cent of their sa'aries, in the form of a cash bonus at Christmas time- Employees of two years' standing will get 15 per cent of their salary, while a bonus of 20 per cent will go to those who have worked for the company five years or longer. "Most of this sum to be distributed will be invested in California homes." Sproat said. "Ninety-six per cent of our employees are married. and per cent either own their own homes or are buying them on the plan we found in a recent survey." The local branch of the Ward Heater Company, located in the The oening of the third unit of Melrose Highlands today jg announced by C. J.

Murduek. Incorporated, suhdividers of that East Oakland property. As in the first two units, it is announced that completely furnished bouses are offered in this unit on a deferred payment of $100 down and SI a day." It is this convenient fashion of -financing a home that is regarded as responsible for the weekly sales that rau.iis high as and disposed of tvh units in a surprisingly short time, the Company slates. "Homes in Melrose Highlands have been purchased til. a much faster rate than we had ever expected." says C.

P. Murdock, President of C. V. Murdock. Incorporated.

"The many advantages of the such as convenient location, pleasant climate alid good transportation are undoubtedly responsible' for this in a large measure, but chiefly credit must be given to the easy paymenL pla.i. W'u have made it so easy to buy a home In Melrose Highlands that people eannotftolerate the wastefulness of continued rent paying in compa rison." Millions in 'Wages. ft Is estimated that $7,000,000 will be paid 32,000 men for harvesting the 1925 crops of raisins, grapes and cotton in the San Joaquin Valley. the small or large home ami is easily installed. The results obtained by users of this system of heating in their homes have made the Ward System of Heating very popular with the result that the local branch has constantly had to increase its quarters, equipment and installing force." The local branch Is under the management of J.

L. D. Keppy, who staj.es that "business was never better and that the outlook for the future shows nothing but continued expansion." OFFICERS B. A. F0RSTERER.

Present STANLEY 7. SMITH. Sec'yTreu. MARTIN R. CREEN, Cn.

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