The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-04-02
Berkeley.

Berkeley.
The new flags were hoisted over the
schools on Monday.
W. L. Welcker is spoken Of as a candiS
date for the office Of Justice of the Peace Q
Field day has been setafor the afternoon
OF Saturday, May oath. the week before the
championship games. -
g The workmen are now tunneling under
the railroad track in North Berkeley, where
the pipe culyert is about to be laid iii Vine
Creek. %
The faculty has decided that the adj
dresses OF the commencement speakers are
not to exceed ten minutes in length each,
e and are to be prepared under the direction
of the professor ef English.
Thirty-1He new boxes are now being made
fer the Berkeley Postoffice. When n. b.
Byrne took charge of the Office there were
but 125 b0Nes,9 and now there are more than
500, all of which are in use. 90
o Sir Sidney Waterow, ex-Lord Mayor of
London, visited the University one day last
week with Mrs, Kipcaid5 principal of the
Girls High School of San francisco. Dr.
Nixon Of London was also with them.
On Friday night the So homores went on
aahaZtng expedition, which resulted to the
slight discontinue OF couple of unwary
freshmen, who were treated to mucilage
andaln shampoo, and other like pleasan-
tries.
An Injunction was served YESTERDAY by
the Sheriff on Captain j. I. Morrison, Sec
rotary Of the Peralta Park Hotel Associa-
ton, enJQining5 him from selling certain
stock which was to have been sold to-day.
The injunction was granted in the suit of
daegb 5otrahle against the hotel company.
The faculty has taken action in regard
to theSophom0re who attempted to remove
the scroll which the freshmen displayed in
the gymnasium during the Charter day ex-
ercises. He has been suspended until
September. Nothing has been done in re-
gard to the freshmen, who were primarily
responsible for the fracas. The class of the
injured student has taken no action in the
matter. though there was some talk of the
class holting in body.
Notwithstanding she fact that the general
State law requires all municipalities To
elect their Justices of the Peace at the gen.
siai election, tue berkeley people will
probably elect their judicial officers at the
/ coming town election, as of yore. If test
case IS ever taken to the Supreme Court the
Justices elected at other than general elec-
ton VIII, 1t Is thought, surely be deposed
but Judge Little says that ne will risk IL
ana his opponents look at the matter in the
same light.
The East Berkeley Postoffice is now
third-clasS Office, having been raised from
the fourth class some time ago on account
OF the increase of business. Saws Post
master Byrne: ut might just as well be
raised to second-class office, and in due
time nave Tree delivery if every one here
would patronize it. For example, up to the
present time none of the new postage
stamps have been sent to me. yet fully two
thirds OF the letters which we send out are
stamped with the new stamps. The people
buy their stamps In Oakland and San Fran
cisco and thereby keep the business of the
Office down They are cheating themselves
out OF tree-delyery system, which they
are postponfng for years, because they are
not buying their stamps at the Berkeley
Postofiice"