The Clifton clarion., 1886-06-23
SUBURBS OF 4 GREAT CITY.
The Alameda Sh0re-Athens of the Pacific-Culture and ShOddy-- Free Railways for Convenience and Economy.

cisco looking east across the bay,
 or with better view from the sum-
 init of some hill as Mob or Tele-
 graph, one sees the continuous line
 of houses which fringe the Ala
 meda shore from Fleming's Point to Bay Farm Island, white and gleaming in the afternoon sun, or less distinct through the veil of mist which the sea wind hurries inward, and back of these, the grass green hills of the rugged Contra Costa Range. From the distance of a half dozen miles across the bay, the stretch of houses, with trees, parks, and open places seems one continuous city skirting the water line for about eIght miles.
 Here are the suburbs of San Francisco-all included in three townships, known as Brooklyn, Alameda, and Oakland; but va riously subdivided into cities, towns, etc. Thus we have Brook lyn in township enc ward, the seventh, of the city of Oakland, known as East Oakland, and for merly comprising the towns of Clinton and San Antonio, and bel side the ward, Fruit Vale, Melrosa
 Fitchburg, the settlement about
 Mills Seminary and Piedmaht, The township of Alameda and Rd city of the same name are coaxf0p1 sive, but include the divisicns bf the West End, Encinal and Fem side. Oakland township includes the city of Oakland (ex"lusixe-of the ward in Brooklyn township which means Oakland proper and West Oakland, and outside the city limits. Temescal, North Temescal, Claremont, North QaksllasHHtd, a!ksls.Ht,, Shell Shell Mound and Emeryville in the pre- cinct of Temescal, and Berkeley with its subdivisions of East, West, and North. All these really con stitute one city and will eventually be united into the city of Oakland and county of Alameda, after the manner of San Francisco making county and city limits identical and having but one set of officials allowing the remaining portion in cludod in the present county of Alameda to form new county by itself.
 These constitute the great sub urbs of San Francisco, with a pop ulation perhaps slightly in excess of 60,000, Of which the city of Oak land includes about 45,O00, within its charter limits.
 During the '70s the rapidity of growth and increase in population of the Alameda suburbs was pbe- nomenal, but with the fall of the Comstock, the Kearney agitation. and the general depression in busi- ness which in '7S set in, the reac- ton was no less great. The pop ulation of Oakland grew less, real estate depreciated one half, and in the future prosperi- ty of the city gave way to doubt and despondency. This continued until recently but of late unusual in business and building is noticeable, and the new boom is begun. Despite the long term of inactivity, Oakland still retains its rank as the second city in pop ulation on the Pacific Coast, which the census of 80 gave it, and the first in rank in the long stretch of 2,000 miles betwixt San Francisco and Kansas City. Essentially city of homes, the residence of many of the prominent business men of San Francisco, 1t yet takes rank we'll forward in the manufac- uring way, having iron and nail works, jute and glass works, and the only cotton factory in the west, the last, new venture, but highly 
 The great educational center of the Paclflc Coast, Oakland mas req son to be proud of her school sys- tenn which will challenge compari- son with that of any of the Amer ican cities, even the Hub-more money being expended for school purposes, in proportion to popula- ton than by any other city on the continent. Even in the '60s Oak land was termed the Athens of the Pacific, and stills retains the title, which by San Franciscans is made a transferred eplthet dubbing the inhabitants the Athenians.
 Oakland and Alameda iointlv