Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 16

APRIL 23, 1922. 1G WEDNESDAY EVENING DafclanD Cribunc TO NEW BUILDING IS CREDIT OAKLAND Greetings ITIVEHTY JUffi OF and Succe Title Insurance Building Thrown Open to Public sou EARNS TO THE Oakland Title Insurance PUBLIC ESTEEM in their new home The Oakland Title lnsurar.ee and Guaranty company, whose now building at Fifteenth end Franklin is now open, was inrorpo- The new building of the Oakland Title Insurance and Guaranty Company at Fifteenth and Franklin streets was formally opened yesterday, when leading -business men welcomed the company to its new Quarters and congratulated the officers on the fine modern home. In this new structure, erected at a cost of the modern idea of title insurance finds its highest expression. Tho building, three stories high, is occupied exclusively by the Oakland Title Insurance and Guaranty Company with the exception of four stores on the ground floor and a basement. Incorporated in the building are many novel arrangements by which title work will be greatly facilitated.

The site Is a commanding one, and will be even strategic when Fifteenth street lias been cut through to Harrison, a project for which all necessary legal plans already have been made. STRATEGIC CENTER. Fifteenth and then fill IrJJ tex 'Y -ft If I 1 i HJj i j. if 1 fi: I UK nit LJ I 5 ii i fo I A'- If i I 'I iT3 F. A.

MULLER BUILDER 805 Syndicate Bldg. Oakland 8744 OAKLAND mahogany, and Is connected to the floors above by pneumatic tubes and lifts. The construction of the new $100,000 building Is an 'answer to the growing demand, for the services of a company equipped to handle title insurance In a satisfactory manner. Title insurance is the present-day development of the old system of title' searching and title abstrait and has demonstrated that it Is adjunct to business. The general contract for the building was handled by the Oakland Building and Construction Company, headed by F.

A. Muller, who personally superintended the Construction of the building from the breaking of the ground to the turning over of -the completed structure to its owners. Among other well-known Oakland firms who 'participated in he work arc: Ariss-Knapp who did the excavating; Rird-Rymer who designed and Installed the electric: fixtures; S. Kulchar builders of the fine cabinet work and permanent office fixtures, and the. Pacific Iron works, manufacturers of all tho ornamental iron work including; the spiral stairway.

World Conference Of Churches, Plan International News Sorvtco. LONDON, April 2:. Under the auspices of the World ChurVrt League for the Promotion of International Understanding an International Church Conference Is to lie held in Copenhagen from AU gust 5 to 11. Retween hundred and fifty to two hundred delegates are expected to attend, and the subjects be discussed include the position of national and ri ligous minorities, cooperation with other Christian movements and with labor organization, reconciliation nnd reconstruction. tl, JJV11H.

llluttu imp fiie Oakland Title Insurance and Guaranty Company building, which has just been completed in this city. Thc Spiral Stairway and all Ornamental Iron Work In the Xcw Oakland Title Insurance Guaranty Building Were Manufactured The Pacific Iron Works Higlicft-cas Iron Ornamental architectural work our specialty. Kffi-rlent service, reasonable prices. Consult us. PACIFIC IRON WORKS 1155 67th St.

Telephone Piedmont 452 Oakland, Calif. STUDENTS PCKED The Special Designs in LIGHTING FIXTURES swing eastward towaru tne lasu and westward into tho heart of the shopping and financial center. The building stands at the cross-roads. Although the structure is now but three stories high, the builders planned on the need of a much larger building in the not distant future, and It was laid out so that six more stories may be added. Among the novel features Is a series of escrow rooms, where agents and clients may meet to close their deals.

The Oakland Title Insurance and Guaranty Company has taken into consideration tho needs of real estate men and their clients In planning the building, and has included many features for the convenience of both. MODERN METHODS. The present day real estate trans-acHurr generally takes shape through the title insurance company in the form of an escrow, and one of the most important services rendered by the Oakland. Title Insurance and Guaranty Company is the handling in an efficient, confidential and intelligent manner the closing of the transaction, from the receipt of the initial deposit to OB HILL fund deposited with the blate treasurer is to protect holders of policies against loss. This money cannot be withdrawn or diminished, even though the company should desire to retire or cease writing title Insurance.

It is a permanent fund and must be kept unimpaired under the iaw. In organizing the Oakland Title Insurance and Guaranty company the founders took over the Leckie-Abraham company, founded by Ir.i Abraham and Robert S. and having many years of clean, successful work behind it. The present officers arc: Presi rated some years ago Ty a group of twenty well-known Alameda county men. From their experience they had reached the conclusion that the old system of handling title, work was unsatisfactory, and they determined to found company which would stand on a foundation adequate to support the necessary financial responsibility.

The Oakland Title Insurance and Guaranty company was the outcome of that idea. The capital is J330.000, all of which has been fully paid up in cash, and 100,000 of which, in accordance with the laws of the stale, has been -deposited with the slate treasurer for the of This Building re froin the Factory dent, Itobert S. Leckie; Hist icc- Fierce U. S. Thirst Enriches Mexicans WASHINGTON; April Mexicans are harvesting fortunes from America's prohibition thirst.

Re honetit or tho policy Holders or the i president, William II. li.mahue; company second vice-president, P. Wool- l.N'Sl KANC Jl H'XP. I sey; secretary and manager, ira The total assets of the company Abraham directors J. V.

I'arlstoii, are now more than tf.no non. Thejrar n. Ahbolt. Arthur Prced, .1. W.

tho filing and recording of the RKKKKI.KV, April EC Ten of the most prominent members of the graduating class at the university have been selected as speakers at the farewell student meeting of tho. term to be held on Friday in the Creek theater. Tho occasion will also mark the formal dedication of a marble chair to President Harrows as the gift of the Junior these ceremonies having been piiwtponed from Charter day. Th students who are included in the lis-U are: K. H.

do Golin A. D. Kggleston, D. A. IF.

R. v. w. Tenney. Grace Allen.

Florence Rradford, Madora lrwin lloli, olive i'rcsler and Alma Smith. In addition to these seniors, K. i. Steel, elect of the Associated Students, will be formally presented to the student body. cent reports from border agents to Prohibition Commissioner Ilaynes stated that Mexican booze promoter f.

bottling concoctions Phillips, Anthony McMillan, Walter P. AV'oolsey, William 11. Donahue, J. McDonald, T. W.

Har of BIRD-RYMER CO. 332 14th St. iris, Harrison S. Robinson. Sam .1.

Kva, Charles A. KossbT, Kobert t. i Lecki and Stuart K. Hawley. deed, mortgage, deed of lrut or other instrument necessary to the transaction.

Ry this method, it Is said, the interests of buyer, seller, lender, real estate agent, and any oilier party to the det-re givcn the proper and disinterested protection of experts trained In the handling of real estate transactions. In the year Just passed the Oakland Title Insurance and Guaran ty Company was depositary for! Willi extract of the Mexican pulque plant as a base, are shipping enormous quantities into the United State. Bootleggers In the border States buying tho fiery Slexican drinks at a low price aro getting top-notch prices for their wares in many of the Southwestern and Western States, tho report stated. or roctst. April 20.

Many sections of South Africa report a plaguo of locusts. At ono point they clustered two feet deep on the railroad track, btopplng all raffle. over $1 000, 000 in such transactions, and in the past ten vears We Started It! The Oakland Title Insurance and Guaranty Building put on a good fooling ARISS-KNAPPXO. EXCAVATIONS it Made in Oakland" tho company has received and dis GROWTH OF COMPANY. Success' has attended every effort of the company since its foundation, its reputation for clean, accurate.

Intelligent and responsible title service is known throughout the state. The company has taken its place as the oldest, the largest and the best equipped title insurance company of this county, and ranks fourth in California. Those who hswe studied the matter declare that title insurance must eventually take the place of the unguaranteed certificate of title in the same way that the certilrcate replaced the unsatisfactory abstract bursed over $80,000,000 in escrow funds without the loss of a dollar to any client, according to 4 Ira Abraham, secietary and manager. GROIXD 1 OFFICE. Two entrances are provided In tho new $100,000 building, ono on Franklin, the on Fifteenth.

The ground floor office, where the public is received, is fitted In rich OAKLAND TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED BRINGS RESULTS HOVE. Eng. April 26. Miss A- H. Grilhth left $6000 to her rook when sh died.

Grading and Steam Shovel Work 1041 38th Street Piedmont 436 i of title. 1 Titloinsurancp gums up the work of the abstractor, but goes a step farther and guarantees the aecu-I racy cf its work with a written agreement to indemnify the client in case of loss. Jail Term Delayed To Save Man's Job RF.RKEI.K-Y. April 26. So that Fred K.

StcKlnley, musician in an Kmcryville cafe, might not lose his Job, a. jail sentence, which Judge Robert Edgar today Imposed on him was delayed until Monday, MoKinley nsked permission to remain out of jail long enough to plav for Saturday and Sunday night dances. was sentenced to serve five days in the county jail. McKinley was arrested on San Pablo avenue charged with going S5 miles ah hour. Pleasanton Banker Found Dead in Bed PLFASANTOX, Apil 25.

Dr. C. A. Case, vice-president of the First National Bank of Pleasanton, was found dead in his bed this morning, xictim to acute indigestion from which he long had been a sufferer. Discovery was made by his daughter.

Miss Winifred Case, vice principal of the Pleasanton nchool, when she went to his apartment to call him at the usual hour. Dr. Case was 76 years old. He wafl one of family, of six brothers, all of them physicians and surgeons. He leaves besides his daughter, two sons, Horace Case of Oakland, and George Case of Clarksburg, California.

The Oakland Title Inurance and Guaranty company proceeds on the assumption that title insurance is a definite service to the public and has therefore equipped itself so that beyond doubt it is in better position than any other company In this part of the state to carry on such work. FRED T. WOOD CO. Oakland's leaden in Lake District and Piedmont residence pfyperly, are now located in a splendid ground floor location at 417, 15th near Franklin Welcome The Oakland Title Insuranceand Guaranty Co. now our neighbors Jfi'iif our offices when jou inspect ihc Title Company building FRED T.

WOOD CO. Fifteenth Street, near Franklin Phone Lakeside 243 Trad Office, Excelsior and Lakcshorc Aves. Phone LaJusidc 1196 Piedmont Park Goes on Sale the First Part of May ineer Head Will Eng Legion to Observe Decoration Day RICHMOND, April Definite arrangements for observance of Memorial Day will bo made tomorrow night at Hall, in the city hall, when committees from the American Degion and other patriotic bodies In the city will get together and map out events for May 30. Commander T. SI.

Carlson of the American Legion post has named the following committee to prepare plans for the day's observance: George SI. Relfschneider, chairman: V. A. Cickery, Ward McRacken and Henry Soito. Methodist Meeting To Hear Dr.

Milnes RICHSIOXD, April 6. Dr. H. K. Milnes.

superintendent of the Oakland district, will address the midyear conference of the First Methodist church tomorrow evening at Point Richmond. Rev. S. J. Hocking announces that the report of the church board will be read.

Address Conclave Oakland Title Innaraaea aa4 tompanj la the oldeat. tin largest and beat equipped title insurance company of Alameda county and rank! fourth largest in The Company it now established in its own new home at Fifteenth and Franklin straeta a beautiful temple of buitnen dedicated to the proposition that Title Insurance la tbeglndlspana-able servant to all who buy or sell real estate or lend their money on real estate security. Oaklaad Title laanraaee aad Guaranty Company waa organised by. and Is managed by man who believe in the County of Ala meda and who have an abiding faith that an Institution which serves an actual need must succeed. The new building, which they have erected to used exclusively for title work and which lias become necessary to take care of the tremendoua growth of the compar.y'a business, is proof positive of the faith of the company's founders.

Oakland Title Inenrance and Guaranty Company haa built thoughts of service into th Terr foundation stone of Ita new home. Hie County's Title History of 100 YEARS PAST is now securely housed in our splendid fire-proof home today opened to the public whose confidence in us and in our service has inspired us with such faith in the future of this county that we have builded a title organization large enough and strong enough for the big and prosperous years which are to come to all of us. THROUGH TITLE INSURANCE WE HAVE PROTECTED THOUSANDS Our clients know that no spectre can arise out of the dim past to upset, with a gesture, the title to their property or confute them to their loss; for Title Insurance is a careful and accurate student in a romantic field. It knows the history of all the real property in the county. It knows the owners past and present living and dead, their title vicissitudes and triumphs, their litigations, their compromises and settlements.

TITLE INSURANCE SOLVES THE WORRIES OF THE REAL ESTATE DEAL by assuming the whole burden of the transaction and by guaranteeing to hold all parties who entrust their realty problems to the Title Insurance Company free from loss or damage. Escrow is the key- stone of the arch of title insurance service. Our title experts, trained by years of experience in the handling of most of the important real estate transactions of the county and backed by a company-with as-. sets of over $600,000.00, render the most efficient, intelligent and valuable assistance you can obtain. Oakland Title Insurance and Guaranty Company can be helpful to you as it has been to thousands of others in realty matters by INSURING ANQ GUARANTEEING YOUR TITLE STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

April 26. Prof. Charles D. Marx, head of the Stanford civil engineering department, will speak at the second annual conference on public engineering, to be held at the Carnegie Institute of Technology at Pittsburg May 1 and 2. Prof.

Marx will also preside over one of the groups at the. conference. The meeting was called by the United States Commissioner of Education to investigate business training for engineers and engineer training for business students. 'J The Attractive Fixtures and Cabinet Work .1 in the new Oakland Title Insurance and Guaranty Bldg, IL were made in Oakland in the factory of S. KULCHAR CO.

Fine rrxtures, Show Cases and Cabinet Work for Banks, Offices and Stores Oakland Title Insurance and Guaranty Company Oakland Title Insurance and Guaranty Company Best Wishes for Continued Success in the New Building From. i Maury Diggs Architecture Engineering Easlon Buildinfj Oakland I i FIFTEENTH and FRANKLIN DONAHUE, Fim Vice-President. W. P. WOOLSEY, Second Vice-Preiident.

TITLE INSURANCE BUILDING R. S. LECKIE, PrrMclont. IRA ABRAHAM, Secretary and Manager. 8th Ave and E.

10th St. Telephone Merrill 104 DIRECTORS: john j. McDonald T. W. HARRIS HARRISON S.

ROBINSON SAM J. EVA CHAS. A. BOSSIER IRA ABRAHAM ROBT. S.

LECKIE J. CARLSTON CARL II. ABBOTT ARTHUR H. BREED J. W.

THILLIPS STUART S. HAWLEY WALTER P. WOOLSEY WJW. H. DONAHUE.