Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 33

Tribune Is del'iveied In This Section to your home ever day in The year CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS TOR ONLY 054 A MONT VOL. CVII OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1928 NO. 22 IBFRKELFY TO Buggy, and Gate City's Pride In Nineties CUT GRINS nrnnniTn rnn Heavy Traffic Is Ruining Niles Canyon Bridges hen Jackson was the show street of Oakland, visitors were shown this carriage, the only one in all California. -It's not the grand fcuggy it used to be, according to MARY BLAKE in the coachman's seat and YNEZ ROTH who finds it difficult to step up into the carriage (upper view). In the lower picture YNEZ ROTH is examining the gates that once closed Jackson street at the lake-shore.

Both carriage and gate are owned by the late E. G. Lukens estate. TRIBUNE photos. HILTO 5 a stone wall at a narrow part of the road, where a creek borders one side of it, to prevent the road HAVE NEW CIVIC COUNCIL ib run I8IEU1LD1S 'VMM: 'Sb I jr 1 I milf JF 1 "'11 'rS1' from crumbling and dropping passing, cars into the stream.

SI IT OVER WAY The Niles Canyon road has been a thorn in the side of the county engineering department as the result of the prolonged law suit Involving the title to the rights of way which the supreme court of California recently decided against the Southern Pacific, the petitioner in the action. The railroad plans to take the fight to the United States Supreme Court in an effort to enforce their demands to an exclusive right of way In the canyon by dedication and use. Until this litigation is settled the board of supervisors and Posey have been loath to spend any money on the Niles Canyon road for permanent improvements and a result have been forced to spend thousands of dollars for temporary repairs which are "lost to the county through the constant use of the road. It will be early this summer be fore the Dublin canyon road is open to. traffic, Posey said, and until time the county must maintain the Niles canyon road and the bridges in good The; road was oiled last spring as a' safety measure and resulted in saving the roadbed, Posey said.

CIVIL SERVICE PUCES OPEN The United States civil service commission announces the follow ing Dositions open for competitive examinations: In the deputy prohibition administrator and assistant prohibition administrator (enforcement and permissive work) quar termaster in xne engineering ne- nartment fnr 'Hutv nn Hrpric-pa operating neair Oakland and in the army, transport service on trans ports operating irom rort Mason, San Frnnfispnr msrhinlst rofHppr. ating engineer and wheelman. ror tne Panama canal service, vacancies occurring are those of principal arcnuecuirai araitsman, principal engineering draftsman (structural and electrical), principal 'tonoeranhif' drflflHmnn cpnlnr architectural senior engineering draftsman, (structural and electrical) and senior topo- grapnic draftsman, i Vacancies in the Indian service, rnaftt and ppnriAtln cnrtrAv ans' bureau and public' service, for auty at Washington, D. and throughout the United States are: dietist, assistant medical officer, associate medical officer, medical officer, senior medical officer, junior medical officer (interne); matron, graduate nurse, graduate nurse (visiting duty), graduate nurse (junior grade); physiotherapy aide and physiotherapy pupil aide. Posts of junior engineer, associate and assistant mptaiiiifo-int.

special agent, intelligence unit class loxicoiogist, junior veterinary sanitarian (dairy) and assistant veterinary sanitarian fdniwi m- open at Washington, D. and tnroughout the United States. For duty in the departmental service at Washington, D. these position are-open: apprentice (government printing office), commercial artist, assistant translator, senior translator, translator, principal translator, chief of radio service, under card-punch operator, junior tabulating machine operator and social economist. ALAMEDA, Jan.

21. Widening of the of High street and Central avenue will probably be' started' the latter part of n.ext week, according to announcement this morning by City Engineer Burnett Hamilton. The widening was ordered by the city council to facilitate the flow of traffic to Bay Farm, island. Hamilton explained that the work will be started as soon as power lines and poles are removed by the Municipal Electric-light company. MM TO" WIDEN STREET More Than 261,000 Worth Of Stores and Homes Pro- for City During Week Just Closed.

Building permits for the past week totalled S61.218 it was announced today by Building Inspector A. S. Holmes in his report to Commissioner C. C. Young.

The largest items were two apartment houses of three stories each, which will cost On is to be constructed at Mohtioito avenue and Lee streetsat a cost of The onr is N. Badair.s. The 'other is to be built at Frui'-vale avenue and Pleasant avenue at a cost of $35,000, owned by Elinor 11. Forster and "built by James E. Forster.

There are 39 one-story dwellings listed in the report, and they will cost $82,400 A summary of tbe rppoit follows. Classification of No. Buildings Costs IS Dwellings 39 $82,400 28 Aparts 1 16,000 3S Aparts 2 90,000 IS Stores 1 8U0 IS 1 3,000 IS Bath House 1 600 2S 1 630 IS Tile Boiler Room 1 135 IS Tile Service Sta 2 1.5S0 IS Brick 1 9,550 IS Brick Garage 1 10,000 Brick Add 1 800 IS Br. and Con. Service Sta.

1 1.008 Billboards ...33 2,245 Klertric Signs 7 3.52S Root Signs i 1 2,500 IS Gargaes and Sheds. .12 7,400 Additions 21 10,054 Alterations and Repairs. .34 19,005 Total ...181 $261,218 Staff Chosen For rSchool agazine PIEDMONT, Jan. 21. Lawrence Wallace has been chosen editor of the Clan-O-Log, the monthly magazine of the Piedmont High school.

according to an announcement made today at the school. Other members of the staff for the pres ent ter mare'. Betty Watson, asso- elate editor; Oliver Jones, sports; Lawton Langdon, Helen Wilsey, school affairs; Vi-vienne Isaacs, art; Virginia Jones and Harold Edelen, photography; Katherine Harvey, fiction; Georg Sherman, poetry, and Lesbon Hass, humor. High School to Fete. Franklin Birthday in commemoration of the two hundsed and twenty-second birthday anniversary of Benjamin Franklin, an eight-reel educational film, "The Romance of Printing," will be shown at the McClymon's High school auditorium tomorrow night at eight o'clock.

A special feature of the film will be a series of historical episodes in the career of Benjamin The entertainment is free and open to the public. The film will be shown Tuesday afternoon to the printing students of the school. Students Compile History of Piedmont PIEDMONT, Jan. 21. Students of the Piedmont High school have compiled a history ahd civics text book covering the city of Piedmont and its government; and will use the volume as a permanent part of their course of study.

Sanford Siegrist, instructor, aided the students ln( their work. The social science department of the Piedmont High school, undor the direction of B. Johnson, is collecting autographed photographs of famous leaders in world politics. New Redwood Park Site Purchased BERKELEY, Jan. 21.

Another 20-acre tract of redwoods on the new section of the Redwood highway, will be preserved for park purposes, it was announced today by the Save-the-Redwoods League headquarters here. The property has been acquired through appropriations of $3000 by the league and $2500 by the supervisors of Del Norte county, the announcement" said. Alameda county may be forcedt to take- drastic measures to pre serve the roadway and bridges of the Niles canyon road, now the only artery for heavy trucking from Alameda county into the San Joaquin, in the opinion of George A. Posey, county surveyor. The closing of the Dublin canyon road for-repairs and changing of the road alignment has forced all heavy traffic through Niles canyon, with the result that from 3000 to 4000 automobiles and trucks are using the road each day.

Brdiees and culvert coverings. built 20 and 30 years ago for moderate traffic, are gradually giving way under the strain of the heavy trucks and Posey has been forced to keep a road maintenance crew at work each day in order to keep the road open. The heavy trucks find it impossible to cross Mission hill on the Sunol-Mission San Jose, road and are using the canyon road exclusively. KXFORCE WEIGHT. LIMIT Posey feels the only measure which can save the bridges will be the installation of a weighing machine such as Contra Costa and Pan Joaquin counties installed to weigh the trucks and keep within the load limit.

tion of the bridges showed floor beams and stringers are cracking under the loads. In another section of the canyon it was found neceasary to construct PALO ALTO, Jan. 21'. Declaring the new coastslde highway should be rechristened, leaving the name "Skyline boulevard" to the Eastbay, an editorial in the Palo Alto Times strikes a new blow at the confusion resulting from duplication of names. "Imagine the state of mind travelers -from a distance-will be7 in when they arrive at the end' of their Skyline boulevard, journey only to find that they have been directed to the wrong one," the editorial declares, "as their intended destination lies at-tire end of the Skyline- boulevard on the other Ride of the It continues: "Inasmuch as the Skyline boulevard in the Eastbay region was christened first, the obligation to adopt a new nanie naturally rests on the shoulders of the sponsors of the boulevard 'On the San Francisco side.

And, as we have iterated frequently here tofore in these columns, the' change should be made before the name of the thoroughfare on this side of the bay becomes so fixed in habit that a new designation would be useless. "Now Is indeed the time to take action. This proposed action, has been urged repeatedly by the Times. It has been endorsed by the Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce and other civic bodies of the peninsula. It has been commented on approvingly by the' San Francisco press from time to time.

It has been warmly approved by the Eastbay press. Yet nothing happens. But It is important that something Alameda C. Plan Tour of Yosemite ALAMEDA, Jan. The chamber of commerce will stage an excursion to the Yosemite valley next month, it was announced his morning by A.

R. Linn-, manager. Linn had been coducting a poll of the membership to determine whether or. hot enough Alamedans wouid be interested in such a trip. Requests for 35 reservations which came to.

htm py return mail were taken as sufficient guarantee of the popularity of such a trip and Linn is now expecting to make, up-a party of 100. It is planned to charter a special car to leave here Friday night, February 3. The week-end will be spent in the Yosemite to give Alamedans an opportunity to participate in the winter sports. Legion Auxiliary Head to Visit Bay SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 21.

Mrs. Irene Mclntyre Walbridge, national president of the American Legion auxiliary, is to make an official visit to California during the coming month, according to word received at local" American Legion headquarters. She will Gpn-fer with the state heads of the Women's Auxiliary, especially on matters' relative to the child welfare work of that organization. Mrs. Walbridge will sail for Hawaii on Feb.

25 for an inspection tour of the units of her organization in the islands. Your Eye-glass Problems Our large practice bag been built by making our custom-ers' 'eyesight troubles our own. We've conscientiously snd diligently sought to eliminate not only their problems of vision by fitting -them with right glasses but have used all our skill in them the utmost-" in comfort and utility as well. You can safely put your eye-glass problems in our bands. Courteoua Personal Service mam ilioWashintoSt Oakland RENAMING OF HIGHWAY URGED Oakland, eginning Tomorrow, To Point to Citizens the Importance of Service And of Terminus Here.

Importance of the air mail as a peedy. safe means of transportation and communication will be tressed to Eastbay citizens during Air Mail Week which opens tomorrow and continues until next Sunday, according to the Oakland Chamber Of Commerce, sponsors of the week's program. During- the week, according to the chamber, the message of the air mail and Oakland's importance as the western terminus of the transcontinental mail line will be stressed b- speakers, billboards, street car ads, moving pictures and window displays. The campaign has been divided Into a number of sections and will be carried on with cooperation of the National Aeronautic Association, city officials, post office department, hotels, street car company, aLrport officials, ylioeing Air Transport company and pacific Air Transport company. Tho week will "terminate with an open house at Oakland airport when citizens are invited to visit the municipal flying field and Inspect the giant mail planes.

TO THANK COMMISSION According to the chamber, the purpose of air mail week is to pub- licly express thanks to the port commission for making Oakland airport a reality, to give Eastbay people an opportunity to learn how they may profit by using tho air mail, and to increase air mail poundage. Realizing the importance of Oakland's position as westcdn terminus of the transcontinental air mail, the Oakland Advertising club will hold a special air mail program a its Tuesday ineetingJYV. O-Herron, vice-president in charge (0 traffic for the Boeing Air Transport company will speak on "Aviation and the Air Mail." Displays of models and photographs of mail ahd commercial planrs will lie held in show windows of various downtown depart- jut-iii Eastbay chapter, National Aeronautics Association, has sponsored a number of meetings to be held at various public schools (luring air mail week. The schools at which this program will be presented and the dates on which it will occur are: Frick Junior high school. Sixty-second avenue and Foothill boulevard, Tuesday, January 24; University high school.

Fifty-eighth and Grove streets, January 25; Roosevelt high school, Nineteenth avenue and East Nineteenth street, Thursday, January 26; and Technics! high school, Forty-fifth and Broadway, Friday, January MOVIES OF FIRST FLIGHTS' Tho first pa of the program, beginning at 8:15 p. m. at each school, as presented by Edgar L. Buttner, president of the N. A.

involved the history of aviation, a three-reel picture showing the actual flights of planes of various tvpes including Wright's first flight at Kitty Hawk in ISO 3. Curtis' first flight, Blariot's Channel flight, Lincoln the helicopters, up to the Grant, U. S. Army ix-motored trX-plane bomber. This will be follo'wed by five minute talks on the National Aeronautic association by Zook Sutton, director, at Frick Junior high school; Joseph Mortenson, secretary, at University- high-school; Howard Thomas', member at Roosevelt fcigh school and Captain Bill Royle, director, at Technical high school.

The Oakland airport and aviation will be discussed in a ten minute talk-t-Frick Junior and University high tchools by G. B. Hegardt, airport manager and at the Technical and Roosevelt high schools by Roscoe C. Jones, president or tne port commission. Supplementing this talk, a one-reel film showing the "take-off" of the Dole race flyers and other high-lights In the I history of the Oakland Airport will be presented.

BOOST FOR AIR MAIL Promotion of the more general luse of the Air Mail will be the ob- Iject of the next talks, which will I be presented at Frick University high schools by E. G. iMathews. traffic manager of the iBoeing Air Transport company and I at Roosevelt and xecnnicau nign schools by W. G.

llerron, vice-president of the same company. 'A tW-reef mctui'e 'Snowing Iphlises of the flights of Lindberghy Chamberlain and Juevine, roncn, IByrd, Maitland and Hegenberger, Smith and Bronte and others will conclude the program. ILLIXOISANS TO ELKCT. Thp. Illinois Hocietv of California vill hold their annual examination nd election of officers tomorrow pveninE- nrrnrriinc to an announce ment made today by Mrs.

Jmny loltkamp, president. Get your the highest grade, only Vt High GmcJc -Meniscus Leases in Genuine Shuron Frames Mighty jbtlstitjmajio Bessa Runt SftUs to Select from wjz grma loa with the Chamber of Commerce Sponsors Organization As Advisory Body; Committees Named for Coming Year. Jan. 20. A new civic body looms in Berkeley a "clearing house" made up of rep- regentatives of various organisations iji" which matters of city-wide importance may be discussed.

The Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, In it? reorganization cam-paign-to-brins- all factluns or the city into closer contact, is sponsor of the undertaking. A meeting will be' held the first week in February to discuss plans for the new body, following preliminary action taken by the board of directors this week in endorsing the project. William F. Krahn, theater owner, was named to the board of directors of the chamber of commerce this week to fill a vacancy caused by the election of Hollls Thompson as managing director of the civic body in the place of Charles Keeler. A.

C. Elkinton, general manager of the Philadelphia Quartz company of California, was chosen- by the chamber to be its representative at the mid-year meeting of the United States Chamber of Commerce to be held in Honolulu February 7-9. A. budget totalling than the' actual amount expended by the chamber in 1927 was adopted b. the board of directors tor the coming year following its presentation by Gifford Douglas, chairman of the budget committee.

Appoint ment of the following committees to carry on the work of the civic body was announced: Auditing G. L. Pape, chairman O. C. Attletweed, C.

S. Downing. "Bridging tlic Bay" Robert Sibley, chairman; Gifford T. Douglas, John N. Edy, F.

If. Wentworth, Lester F. Ready. Schools Dr. Herman Swartz, chairman; J.

Evan Armstrong, Virgil Dixon, D. L. Hennessey, H. II. Glessner.

Budget Gifford T. Douglas, chairman; Ralph It. Eltse, A. W. Bailey.

Fire Insurance Charles ETristie, chairman; Donald Campbell Fred Stripp. Publib Health James P. Scott, chairman; Chief August Vollmer, Chief George Haggerty. Kialty Dealers Cooperation Com. it tec W.

J. Mortimer, chairman; Richard B. Cadwalader, G. W. Murray Henry J.

Wolbold, Lee Sut-lift. Legislative a 1 R. Eltse, chairman; Hugh Brunk, E. J. Sinclair.

Central Business Cooperation E. J. McCulIagh, chairman: L. W. Hink, Herman Reid, William Ap-pdeton, GeovgR Schneider, Fred Butterfield, G.

W. Murray Jr. Industrial A. W. Elkinton, chairman, Ray B.

Cox, Gilford T. Douglas, Rov O. Long. J. J.

Rahill, Percy Williams. Robert Sibley. Eastbny Cooperation J. J. Rahill, chairman; Donald Parce, Gifford T.

Douglas. Traffic Sufety Pilling, chairman; Warde Sorrick, Joseph Kay, August Vollmer, Charles Hey-wood, Buggies of By gone Days INVESTMENT LECTURETOPIG FowJldOaklmdYqrd Milton H. Epstein, Investmont expert, will speak on "Diversification and the Investment Trust" at the third of the series of lectures he Is giving before Oakland Forum members. This lecture will be given Tuesday morning, January 24, at 10:30 m. ln'the ballroom of Hotel Oakland.

Diversification in Investments Is a recognition of the principle that it is not Wise to "put all one's eggs in one basket," but to "spread the risk" industrially, geographically aVd (in the case of bonds) in maturities. The investment trust provides an opportunity for the small investor to protect his capital in respect to this principle to extent he could not achieve These 'lectures are attracting widespread attention as they are designed to give the laymen, a general knowledge of investments and business principles for his own protection. They are given under the general topic head of "How, When and Where Shall- Invest My Money," and will continue on Tuesday morning throughout January and February. They are open to the public by payment of a small fee. glass es from us- trio of broken-down baggiest stand as a mute testimonial of Oakland's gay nineties.

The three a "Germantown," a relic of former grandeur and the only one ever to be driven in Cal ifornia; a Stanhope, another carriage for dress-on occasions, and a carriage that'sjust "plarn buggy" stand in a outside what was once the' earriacre house on the Jackson street estate of the late E. G. Lukens. No one, not even a prop man for a movie comedy, wants them now. An antique collector may seek them in two or three decades, or a mu seum may want them In thousand and something, but today they can't be given away.

Things were different in the days when Jackson was the "show street" of Oakland, and every one came in from Berkeley, and even San Leandro, to drive down this fashionable streettaJ.he lake shore. bunday afternoonst were- occasions xnose nays, ljauies richly clad in silks and satins drove by, seated in carriages that were drawn by fast-stepping horses. Of all the carriages, these three, now stiff and creaky from years of disuse and inattention, were the finest. ONLY 0E IX STATE- The Germantown, which was shipped from Philadelphia to Oakland by Lukens for the pleasure of his wife, was the only one of its kind in the Eastbay, or in all California, for that matter. Pulled by two high-stepping blacks or grays, this carriage, with its high red wheels, glass doors.

Student Editors Pledge Chest Aid Student editors of high school and junior high school newspapers in Oakland have- pledged their aid in support of the Oakland Community Chest drive to be held from February-27 to March 9. The student journalists attended a meeting at Chest headquarters recently and were Instructed in the types of stories tp use in their support of the Chest drive. Emeryville Body to Talk on Air Mail The development of the air mail service will be explained to tho members of the Emeryville Industries association at a noon luncheon in the Emeryville school Tuesday. L. G.

Matthews of the Boeing Air Transport company will speak, and enclosed box for the coachman, was seen In Oakland only on rare occasions, when a ball, opera or like "social function" was in order. This information has been re vealed by Miss Margaret Plunkett, still In charge of Che old Lukens home, where she came thirty years ago to serve as housekeeper-companion to Mrs. Lukens, "a very grand lady." Miss Plunkett also tells of -the time when the foot of Jackson street, which reached the lake front, was "embellished" by an Iron gate. This gate, according to Miss Plunkett, was erected by the Lukens, the Schillings, and other neighbors whose mansions were on Jackson street. NOW IX STUDIO The gates now decorate the studio of Otto Riehl, one of the artists who have, work rooms on the top floor of the old carriage house on the grounds of the Lukens estate.

Another studio room has as lamps, torches that led the parade that successsfully launched the Governor Pardee campaign in the early iiiuuieeu nunuieus. The studio converted carriage house remained a carriage house until the death of Mrs. Lukens in 1925. E. G.

Lukens, tile son of the late Senator Russell Lukens, died in 1914. A daughter, Mrs. Frances Reber Musser of Alameda, is- the only living member of the Lukens famiy. She has offered the carriages to any one who will take them away and use them, according to Miss Plunkett. Who wants a buggy, a relic of a bygone age? League to Give Concert Tuesday BERKELEY, Jan.

21. The second concert of the California Music league will be presented at the Harmon gymnasium, University of California campus, next Tuesday night under the direction of the university. The league orchestra, under the direction of Modeste will be heard in Beethoven's Fifth Symphony and the Mozart flat, opus 39. A chorus of children from the fifth, sixth and seventh grades of the Berkeley public schools, will sing I-Senoit's cantata, "Into the World." The third concert, April 9, will present the Loring club with Wallace A. Sabin in an all-Bhams pro gram in conjunction vita the or- chestra.

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