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:7 JMtlmttr CtfDtinc DECEMBER 23, 1923 SUNDAY i I mniTllllin I FORGETS VIENNA IBRA Rea 1 6ames for Real (BOH RANCH in nun rnn rnun eiwjeTT Ill II LI 1 4 1F0 ATCLAREIUOITO rn i run tuuii OAKLAKD AS HITTELL SAW IT tide extends out Into the bay, and nnnil IN. 1874. the ship channel la more than DANCING CRAZE nWU UL nU IIIIH I Contribute Oakland Pioneer. by 1111 II HI I I.IIIJJI I 1 tool IIIIIIUR1I mile distant from the upland. Having no natural harbor accessible 1 BE BUILT ILnilU, I Llld UUUIV for large vessels, except the an-chorage along side tbe present Wharf, which is temporary structure, Oakland has been unable No.

116. In his "Resources of California," the first edition of which was printed in 1874, John 8. Hittell of San Francisco thus mentions our city. (See Sixth Edition, page Oakland Is tha prettiest town hi California, and (so far as my observation goes) In ie United States, and owes its superiority Hunger Lost Sight Of By to derive any prom from her ex tensive waterfront, but a plan has Novel of ISVllie Revell, News paper Woman, Tells of Brave Fight Oakland to Sing Car oIs; KiwanianV Hosts at Day.M New Ida to Be Advertised for in Tanple Over Institution. Throngs Seeking Jazz Entertainment.

bean proposed for making an art! ficlal harbor. This plan is practicable and Im mainly to the luxuriance, variety portant. It contemplates the uu structlon of walls 300 yards apart By fnlTenw! Service. VIENNA. Deo.

as. Vienna, once LEANDRO, Dec! 12. and beauty of Its vegetation, and the elegance of its. dwellings. It Is a suburb of San Francisco, and the from the mouth of the oreek to deep water, thus extending tha By CORIXXE Kicn.

tnivt-rsal Swire HIaff Corrcs- i. pondent. pee. M. Fou the city of son and dance and BERKELET, Dec, 22 Actual work of building a' new branch library for Claremont st the south Everything is In -readiness for the Christmas entertainment 'to be creek out to ship channel, and residence of many wealthy men do avoiding the mud flat which now beautiful women, has again become the "city of dance." Forgotten are the days of hunger and starvation held on evening' on the In if business in the city.

Having very littel trade, its houses are east corner of ARhhv and Benvenue-avenue is expected "to begin Plata the auspices of the i period following the end of the niarly all dwellings, and land is San Learidro chamber pf Com cheap as compared with the me shortly. While bids for the work. war such as uermany is passing throua-h now and all the charm tropolis. Many ot its homes are surrounded by fine gardens, and and er-ontanelty of the Viennese Is merce. the, city council and the KiwamV club.

The choir of the. First Methodist cWch of comina- to the surface asaln. Per- prevents ships from reaching Oakland. The basins at the head or the creel will supply a large area of tide water which will sweep through the channel four times a day and preserve its depth, and parhaps even clean it at first without dredging. The construction of the walls in durable style would cost several million 'dollars, but would add five times as much at its enough of the indigenous evergreen years ago Nellie Revell, veteran newspaper reporter, and the first American woman press aent, found herself In the middle of her career and auddenly possessed of a broken back besides wrenched pocketbook.

Bhe was carted! off to a hospital ere, away from the gay lights of Broadway, which formed her natural environment. Surgeons, innumerable eurireon, told her she library board, according to a report, made to the council yesterday hap no city in the world finds so Oakland with approximately sixty Librarian C. B. Jockal, City AttorJeV much genuine Joy in living as Vienna. voices will" slnir Christmas carols.

nev Lemuel It. RnnHnrsnn rnlert Vienna is aancirtr. By flay ana oaks have been left to almost hide the houses in dome parts of the town, and to make the name strikingly appropriate. The site is level; the streets are wall macadamized, and three horse and two steam railroads furnish, convenient anu The forty-piece Klwanls club band that new bids must he nrtvertlnerl by nfsht. Till 3 and 3 in the morn.

At o'clock lues and between cost to the market value "bf Oak for In that library officials exceeded their authority. The erection of the library will Ot ean teandro will play and Herbert P. Mee, song leader of tho club, will conduct tho choir and A Christmas: tree has been courses at dinner. At the big ho land property. Such harbor nearly three miles long.

$00 yards wide tels and in the 'pavilion." "Paris- i probably would never walk again. "I will," said Nellie Revell. Today, In her comfortable room In a small hotel along the 'roar- ln." "Femin. "Moulin Rouge." be financed by the Mercantile Fe-curltles Company, which entered Into a contract with the' set upon. the plaza, and will be electrically lighted and deoorated.

A 'Ladies Day" entertainment city oiwJune 8 of this fop the purchase of the new library site. Fig lng forces," Chosen because fit made mSf feel at home again, she showed me her new book just off cheap means of access to the neighboring country. The State University and the Dsaf, Dumo and' Blind Asylum are beautifully situated at the base of the mountains. The population, In 1870, was 10,600, and In 1872 the number of voters was 1877. At Oakland the track of the Cen- will be held Monday noon at the and twenty faet deep, with five miles of excellent frontage, would be more commodious, secure anu convenient of access, than some harbors of considerable seaport In Europe, nd by its construction, Oakland would be fitted to become, the main railroad terniinua of Estudlllo House; Wives of Miwan-lans'will be the guasts.

of honor. Taherln" and whatever the names of the faTortte places for American "Jaw" and the American it' i-( rots and tangoes infused new life into the stagnant gaiety of ViBa. Ia them the Viennese discovered that life it still worth and tbe miseries ot the last rears forgotten. Jass and fos-trot have crowded out the se- the press. Nellie Revell had She has left the hospital after so awfuljy A program of Christmas muslo will be rendered by several members of California.

The tnSUience of the tral Paclfio railroad ends; but on the club. Members will 'ba srlven a box filled with toys, candies and fruits to be deliversd to 200 poor account of the lack of harbor fa- railroad company wouia sur-cilitiea, it is not the tsrminus. The 1 ficient to transfer thither a lrj business is done in San Francisco, part of the business now done at which is reached by a wharf rex- San Francisco. tnrtinr a. mil mil half arraxa The People Of CvakUnd fcTe strains of the one-time fwtt Vteanes walties.

Everywhere roa hear the loud rattlety- cnuaren or mis city, Following are the members of the committees that will assist the mud flat out to deen water, and contemplated tbe oonswirtion tvurf -Ninj; cf American Jaia bands, ures submitted by Librarian Joeckel show the lowest bid received for the new building to be $25,848. Acting on this figure Joeckel declared that a cash payment of $8000 would be required, with annual payments of $5000 ana interest on the remaining sum at 6 per cent per annum. To begin, building activities Joeckel points out that it will be necessary to complete payments on the lot in a sum aggregating $2100. r.T. Owing to the legal entanglements the entire matter was referred to City Mananer John N.

Edy. who will take eteps' toward re-advertls-Ing for bids and toward beginning; work on the new branch. The entire cost- involved will be met by the library officials from the special Ev tJie danoine schools seldom a frrv boat runnln two miles this harbor for several rears, and many months. She walks; noi runs, but Indeed. And now he expects to refill her purse.

Hers is a story of success, of mountainous obstacles" climbed by faith and courage, that ourea. The book is calledl "Right Off the Chest." It is the tale of those four years, told with Nellie Re-ell'B sparkling humor. A hospital i etory that would be pure fun If one could noU read beside etoic determination and long suffering. WRITTEN IN LOXG HAND. Practically every word of it was several efforts have- been tI-to I rvrSv- a rwqnest to teach the old- and a half.

This wharf was built Dear Bunch: longer thus protected, and the at an expense of more than a mil-. added weight of the cotton cover It Isn't the easiest thing in the lion dollars, put is not consiaarea ay permanent structure, as the teredo, i with both general chairman; A. E. Pelton, F. B.

Granger, W. J. Gannon, city council committee; U. S. Ackles, A.

B. Cary, A. S. Weavar. Chamber of Commerce committee; B.

C. Heacock, W- B. Hawksworth, A. C. Jensen, Klwanls cJub committee; H.

P. Mee, Charles Way, program H. M. Hale, finance committee; W. B.

Zambresky, pub-' Holty commlttae. or shipworm, has commenced to makes the balloon a little faster. Bo long, The Play Man. (Copyright by United Feature organise companies to uaafrcase i ttm traits. I went to the dance ln-the work, but capitalist wowJi ixMt f.siJa! of WHty Elmayer.

across the take hold without a premise fwm 8 from Emperor Francis Jo-the railroad company it wMat4 sna eld palace, make Oakland th min typical Viennese cava-of all its roads. At presat. a r-JVJ ejr ef the old school and captain osition is under consideration I4ia the Austrian imperial cavalry, get a federal appropriate! faith in the love of dancing remake the harbor, and aa cjpt f. taratnc In the Viennese heart. He eat the piles.

A plan has been pro-" posed for the construction of an world to find good party games. There are a lot of tames "for the gymnasium and out-of-doors, but you are often up against it when you have a crowd In the house all artificial harbor In San Antonio creek, which Is- the southern i-r-. painfully written in lon nana, -on Syndicate.) All Rights Reserved. Reproduction Prohibited. pad of paper that lay pn Nellie Doundary of Oakland, and for she mo library fund levled 'by-the city has been oe.prv ttabkshed what la todav the lam- anxious for a good time and easier length of a mile and half, has a Revell's chest while was tinnlesa and flat in bed.

est dsncinr school In He harbors not so good by nattsr. mer so favorably siluatej for basaet width ot 3uo yarns or more ana at its head has two lakes or tide water basins, covering area of S00 It Is a remarkable book, so full cf a number 5f things worth while is assarted by 28 teachers. An aver-J iul wa ur tt new rao- of 400 pupils day take les- a funny thing, but no matter where as this, the assure r-V especially with such powerful lob- that In his Indorsement Of it vr, sons or between 8000 and 10,000 you go, east or west, north or acres. The creek, throuph much of 10th St. Sanitary Free Market nore David Stewart, president lpnirth has a donth varvlna by influences as cou.a oo pugai south, the average bunch looking nf th.

AndemV of Mediclrfd of a monin. He has made dancing a "sport" In Vienna. Instead of golfing or from ten to twenty feet at low to Dear jn iaTor mw tide, but in-front mouth of (Congress has ordftred a surrey cf Is'ew York, reebmmends It to the various boards of education as an tha creek, and all along the oaK- me creea. ana r'' land shore, a mud flat, covered by 1 has ben made on the practicabli- At Washington and Tenth- where shoppers save on Quality Products official textbook for doctprs( less than two feet of water at low ny oi me project nurses and patients. Of the completed volume, gay with Us Illustrations made ana donated by artist friends of the riding for an hour a day, many a Viennese lady or gentleman comes to Elmayer's institute and dances for one or two hours for pleasure, exercise or desire to be expert In the art of sport of dancing.

Fourteen slender, cava-r lier-like young men are always available as dancing partners and as many graceful young women. There Is no chance for flirting between dances. The moment the muslo ceases the younn. man or author. Nellie Revell says: NOTICE 'I have merely endeavored to hold the mirror up to life with me snicker" side out, and to chronicle for entertainment is usually limited to a few old standbys.

Well, I am going to introduce you to the game of SQUINK, and it will be one of several- which I will tell you about from time to time, which may be played in parlor and the equipment requires nothing more than a toy balloon. To Play SQUINK all of the participants sit on the floor facing one of the walls or the room. The last player In the line tosses up a toy balloon, and the game Is on. As the balloon comes toward you, fake a swat at it, hitting it so that it goes against the wall or batting it down tlieline between wall and players. Before the game starts, every player Is given five counters.

These In my limited way some oi tne laiiB-hs and tears coincident with THIS nnr vearef Internment-Jn 'a hu WRHnKUKBKMRBKtKBtnEA -1 young lady instantly leaves his or her partner and almost militarily William Fee, Business agent foi ng Is the complete list of the of- goes Into a separate room. ncers eieciea: nesiuem, c. cmnui, vice-president, Russell Gordon; re ENTIRE MARKET ivill be All Day Monday the MilkWagor Drivers' Union, Local No. 502, was taken seriously 111 at his home last week and was Cattle Being Fed On man reconstruction camp. If the history of my fight and recovery brings a ray of hope or a smile to ven ona dTQiouraged sufferer I shall not begrudge all it costs me to get the story." But It Is more than that, this hook of Nellie Revell's, according sent to the Roosevelt Hospital in Alvarado Beet Pulp ALVARADO, Dec.

22. Carload i may be anything, checkers, buttons Opn Berkeley, where ho was operated on for appendicitis. Fee is now resting easy and friends will, be permitted to see him in a few days. Edward Fitzgerald, who was elect her own statement. Thu hook itaelf she told me, la merely the 'copy that it took after carload of Texas steers direct from their ranges are being shipped to the stock yards hero by.

the Grayson Owen Packing Company of Emeryville. The cattle are fed beet pulp, a by-product from ed business representative at the recent election of the organization. so long to The Divine City Editor gave me a hard assignment. I had to live it out so long Wore I could write my story. Of cording secretary, ueorge Adams; treasurer, Fred Seltzer; conductor, W.

F. sentinel, Albert Tossl; trustees, Sam Chambers and R. F. Daniels; auditing committee, C. Blessing.

J. H. Browning and J. W. Hutchinson; law and legislative committee, R.

Dickson, F. Ray and Thomas Wall; executive board, C. Blessing, M. L. Butler, Alex Cairns, Alexander Campbell, W.

VV, Cartmell, Sam Chambers, R. Dick son, Fred Kappes, 'A. Ramos, C. Swenson and A. D.

Clancy. John Moore, for several years president jf rh Ohio State Federation of Labor, died in a hospital In Columbus, Ohio after a long Illness through stomach trouble. Be is attending to Fee's duties during his illness. the- Alameda Sugar Company's At the election of the Street Car mill. Something over five thousand head will be fattened during or pieces or caraooara.

ine counting or scoring is accomplished in this way: If the balloon is batted so that it drops-on the floor in back of the line of players THE PLAYER WHO LAST TOUCHED IKfe BALLOON is penalized. Hi penalty ia to pay to the player oi his right 1 counter. He also re- covers the balloon and, takes It the foot of the line, and after sit ting down puts it in play as In th' beginning of the game. The othe players move up to close the vacan space. The game continues yntl.

one player gets 10 counters. He men union, io. George Durand was elected presi the season. dent and business agent for the ensuing year. Uurant takes the plce jf William Humphreys, who was 5.

Firm to Take for Christmas Dinner Shopping Each department will have special displays and price inducements Over Lodi Hotel filling the uiiexp red term of Commissioner Moorehead, who held the position previous to his election as LODI, Dec. 22 T. L. Kaikinger, city official. Durand has oeen F.

P. Nellsen and Henri de Joigry, hollers SQUINK. and proves by course, it took a lot of human qualities to cover that assignment, ibu f-mstf all It took fight, I was discouraged at times, but I never thought for one minute of sTivlng up. A good reporter naturally doesn't." MORE THAN A BOOK. For that reason the book is more than a book.

Scintillating as it u. It gives In words an account of the battle of a fighting soldier. It tells of unknown things in the human heart. It winds its way through plaster casts, operations -so numerous they became a habit," and house of Aurance. "My real cure came when one active for several years in the af all of San Francisco, will take over showing the 10 counters that he 1b fairs of the street carmen, and is tne management or tne Hotel iodl.

the winner of the tame. The three men, with their families, roiiink is a better game if a well versed I.i the fundamentals of the organized labor movement. will move to this city and take nv, rnv- of soft cotton is mode ch. -go of the hotel. They operate hniinnn Th.

hallnon last The Musicians' Union of San flVA other hotels In California. l.1-!-1 fore his sicknesb he was stationed at Washington as legislative repre-sentative'of Un. ted Mine Workers of America. He was a member of that organization for many years and was a power in its councils. Secretary Frank Perry of the local Barbers' Union has been advised by the secretary of the International Barbers' union that by a referendum of.

15, 092 to 1517 It has been decided to hold the next international convention in Indianapolis. The international union main Francisco and viclnltj, stage hands and rhoving picture operators of ters affecting the welfare of the company will be taken up. I IT59 Beginning Dec. 26, the market will be open on regular market days Wednesdays and Saturdays as formerly. The front part of the market will be open daily.

A special called meeting of the Vitamines Lime Asiatic Exclusion League has been sent out bv organ'zer George Dan-bacher of the Butchers' Interna San Francisco, have requested the allied amusement industries, representing the.itcrs, moving picture houses and hotels, for a 16 per cent increase in wages to be effective January 1, 1924. It is understood that a meeting of all parties concerned will be held regarding the matter, and the Indications are that everything will be fettled satisfactory. Pepsin tains headquarttrjs in the next convention city. At the iast regular meeting of the Eastbay Auto Mechanics' un.on International Vice-President James Thorpe and Secretary William A. Spooner of he local labor council were the speakers.

Thorpe told the members of the organization of the progress that is being made by the and many other bodybuilding elements are in Miller's Quality Ice Cream Til a perfect food for old and young. tional Union Which will be held in the Bacon Building the first sveelt in January, 1924. Danbachefstates that the leag'te is now In a flourishing condition, and has a large membership, Dnnbacher will make his annual report at the coming meeting, and will also submit an outline of a campaign herein all the branches of the league throughout the state will be able to act in unison on matters handled by the league. of my friends called me Oroville Lighting Is to Be Improved OROVILLE, Deo. 22.

Plans for arly Improvement of Oroville's Street lighting system were agreed upon between representatives of the Paclfio Gas and Electric company and Hhe City Trustees despite the fact that the trustees refused to enter Into a contract with the company for a period of years. This the trustees declined to do declaring a contract to be The company, it is understood, plans to better the lighting system both In the business and residential sections of the city. The cost of maintaining the new lighting system. It Is stated, will Increase tbe city's bill for electricity about $2000 Practical Gifts! I 9 t-i'rf auto mechanics throughout the Several prominent labor men of Oakland attended the funeral of George A. Tracy, which was held in San Francisco last Friday afternoon.

At the time of his death he was servintes civil service commissioner for San Francisco. Tracy was a past vice-president of the International Typographical Union, past president ot the San Francisco" Typographical Union, No. 21, and a past president of the California State Federation of Labor. The following aNed as pall bearers: John O'Toole and E. A.

Walcott. evil service commissioners; Supervisors Ricnnrd Welch, Angelo J. Rossi, Jesse Coleman. Ralph McLaren, Paul Scharretiburg, sec United States. Spooner gave a short history of the organized labor movement in tt.ls county and called the attention of those present to the necessity of taking an active part in ail civic affairs and asked the supportand of the organization iti bringing about pruper conditions in the automobile repairing industry.

Election of officers was aiso taken up as a special order of business, and the results will be made known at the next regular meeting wn.ch will be held on next 'i'nuraday evening in the Oakland Labor Temple. retary of the California State Fed eration of Labor, and John A San Jose Surgeon to Transplant Glands BAN JOSE. Dc 22. Dr." J. Samuel Stau prominent local physician and surgeon, who recently Issued a statement that he believed O'Connell, secretary for the San Francisco Labor Council.

All Is In readiness for the annual Christmas dinner and dance of the Cooks', Waiters' and Waitresses' Union, Local No. 31, according to the report of general chair C. Deal, i secretary for the Ferry Boatmen's Union, has an nounced that ferry boatmen em man John Altman. Prominent among those who will attend the ployed by the Western Pacific, Southern Pacific and the, Santa Fe will receive un Increase in! wages Leather hand bags and sturdy wardrobe trunks are practical gifts and also gifts, of service and permanence, of sio a according to a re cent decision jf the railroad labor board. New wages in effect this month are: ChJef engineer, 1235: assistant chif engineer, 1223.75; assistant encineer, $175; deckhands.

(129.40. cabin watchman, S129.40; firemen. U36.35. Alex. Kels, Lodi's "haystack murdered," to be insane, will assist Dr.

It. L. Stanley, prison surgeon at San Quentin, in several gland transplanting operations at the penitentiary next Thursday. According to Dr. Staub be will aid particularly In a gland operation on a prisoner from Santa Clara county In whom he is interested.

e-i Burglar Gets Only-Small Silver Haul HAY WARD, Dec. 22. A burglar broke Into the home of H. Haus-chlld, and Second streets, sometime late last hight while the fam i Ther Santa Claus that please everyone, from the experienced traveler to dinner are: Commissioner W.lllam J. Moorehead, Commissioner Frank Coiburn, Stale Senator Edgar S.

Hurley, Thomas J. Roberts, manager tor tne Oakland Temple Association, and Stanton W. Lore, editor of the Union Labor Kecord. Several chefs have prepared ariisuc culinary designs, which will be served ju the diners. Aiuslc by a- large Orchestra will play aur.ng oninr and for the uance, wmch will foiloSv.

A large program of entertain-" ment lias been arranged for the talent, consisting of well known local a rusts. a ihe dinner and dance will be held in the ui.ljn'a headquarters at i. wenty-bocotid and Grove streets. At the annual election of officers tt every man or every. Daniel Wallace, a member of the Bricklayers' Union No.

8. of Oakland, died last Tuesday and was buried Thursday morn.ng. Members of the losal union attended the funeral, servicvu. Sydney M. Jacobs was re-elected ily was absent, ransacked one of HIS reindeers are speedy as lightnings especially when vou want us to deliver (lowers or a rjlant as business topresentative for the me upstairs rooms.

He obtained only a smaH amount of silver for his trouble, according to the report to Marshal Fred P. Schilling Indications showed that tha marauder was frightened and Machinist Lnbvi Lodge No. 284 at the recent election of th organiza for ti.e 'teamsters' Union, Local NO. tion. Jacobs has held this position for several vars.

Henry Lubkert was re-eli'Cttfd as financial -ucre- VU, or this ity. i-rank Cnurch was tied while In the midst of his op- I woman" who merely travels during the two weeks' annual vacation! Fqr good buys at right price, see "Xmas Suggestions" in tonight's Classified rations. Entry was made by fore- 1 tary. hich he has filled for you to friends or relatives. The beauty and fragrance of flowers or a plant are very much like ihe beauty and thought expressed in your message! Service guaranteed OPEN TODAY SUNDAY.

COME IN AND SEE OUR WONDERFUL DISPLAY, In a rar window. for the past ttn years. The follow- and wisely! Use The TRIBUNE Classified Section to save your time and energy! Ever -Stick Suction Plates with Trubyte Teeth $15 re-elected president and Kichard Miiali was re-elected financial eec-reiary. lien Krxkson, who -has tervej the ora.i.zauon as business representative for teveral 'years, was a.so re-t'ietted by a large majority. Cy Cooey, business agent and secretary fur the Bakers' Union.

Local Mo. 119, was re-elected for another year by the members at their regular meeting held last Saturday evening. Nearly all of the incumbent ofa'-trs were re-elected. Notices will be sent out during the coming week for a meeting of the stockholder of the Union Labor Publish. ng Company, which will be held in the early part of January.

192t. The election ot of ficefs for the ensuing year and the discussion of general business mat 1 GHAS. C. NAVLE CO. (Iric.) Since .883 NURSERYMEN SEEDSMEN FLORISTS 917 Wellington near 10th.

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