The morning call., 1890-05-15
ACROSS THE BAY.
A Proposition to Remove Oak
lands City Hall.
No Half Holiday Measure-Ths Christian Tenn
perance Union-Two Escapes From
the City Prison.

The question of removing the Oakland City
Hall 10 what Is now known as City Hall Park,
which, 10 the event Of the opening of Washing
ton street, would be triangle almost OF equal
sides, is being moOted. 1t is believed that in
view OF the crossing Of the two cables-the San
Pablo and Piedmont-and other street-car lines
at or near that point, the street should be
opened through to San Pablo and Sixteenth
street Again, 1t Is urged that the building
should be moved upon the lot west Of the build
Ing, thus placing it on the west side OF Wash
ington street, with the front on Fourteenth
street, as at present, and leaving the City Hall
Park as 1t is, with frontage on Fourteenth and
Washington streets and on San Pablo avenue.
The Oakland Carpenters and Joiners Union
has decided not 10 accept the Saturday half holi
day proposition as compromise measure In the
mills, hut 10 insist on eighthour days after June
1st.
City School Census Marshal MelIm and his six
deputies Will start in to-day 10 take the school
census of Oakland.
CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE.
The annual convention OF the Woman's Chris.
tian Temperance Union of Alameda County met
in the First Baptist Church on Tuesday. The
annual reports show twenty OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
teen W. Z. I. US and seven Y.'s-Hith COM
bined membership of 1000. The amount OF
money expended in distributing temperance lit
eratule during the year S3325 %, and the
mum Der OF pages circulated 10000. The sum
OF $1,000 was taken In at the Ninth street
coffee house Mrs. SturGeYaut Peet was reelected
President; Mrs. o. NJ. Stanford, Vice President;
Mrs Parrish, Secretary, and Mrs. Webster,
treasurer.
a mass-meeting OF the First Hebrew Congre-
cation was held on Tuesday evening at which
The annual dues OF The members were pledged to
be double that formerly paid. This was the re-
suit OF statement that Rabbi Levy contem-
plated going TO San Francisco
suit for divorce was entered yesterday by
William +. Hall against Gussie P. Hall. They
recently Tesdt in Sacramento, but are now in
San Francisco. Mamie S. Woodd has also sued
Henry S. Woodd for divorce
ESCAPED FROM THE CITY PRISON.
John Burke, the man who attempted twice to
lie down on The track at Sixteenth-street Depot
IN front OF approaching trains on Tuesday, made
ms escape with another drunken prisoner on
that night from the City Prison by cutting hole
through partition and reaching the stairs lead
ing 10 the Police Court They climbed out OF a
window in The first story and made their escape.
movement is on foot 10 widen Sixteenth
street. West Oakland, from PeIalta TO the depot.
IL IS understood that the property-owners are
unanimously In favor and that the present i'm
provements can easily be moved back al small
cost
Four saloon keepers were arrested yesterday
for selling liquor without license. They have
been selling without license in open violation Of
law.
he Central Pacific Directors car went out in
the o'clock train from the pier yesterday after
noon.
MOCK BURIAL.
1t is reported that some OF the students at
Mills College performed a mock burial service
on the college grounds over ex-President STRAIT
ton. grave made on the hillside was covered
over With flowers after poem and burlesque
GRAFTON. Ii is also said that he was burned in
eftgy. On the part of Mrs. Mills 1t Is said that
she did not know or approve OF the proceedings
The will OF the pioneer druggist Of Oakland
Dr. j. p Reilly, who died few days ago, was
filed yesterday for probate. The estate consists
OF money, amounting TO $1,000. and the drug
store on Broadway, bequeathed TO the widow.
His heirs at law are the widow and four chill
dren.
Charles C. McIver has decided 44o acres Of
land on the new county road between Snnol and
Pleasanton to Senator Hearst The land Is
portion Of 1t on the Arroyo Laguna.
The Grand Lodge OF the American branch of
the Foresters, holding Its session in Oakland.
went on picnic 10 Petaluma yesterday.