The morning call., 1893-07-02
BERKELEY.

Thursday afternoon about o'clock the
suburban house of l.. Wellendorff. super
intendent of the Alameda Water Company,
was entered. the rear door being forced
The house was thoroughly ransacked, and
field and opera glasses, rings and watches
and all the valuable jewelry that could be
found was taken. The solid silver table
service was not touched. The robbers
seem to have been scared away Some
$3.50 worth of yaluables are missing, man Y
keepsakes especially valued for remem-
brances clnging about them being among
among the lot The robbers seem to have
been acquainted with the slirrOundin gs
and with the family's absence. Two
young men were noticed hanging around
the place. Officers are now looking tor
them. Deputy Sheriff McCarty arrested a
man last evening on suspicion. Two
purses containing considerable money
were found on him. but nothing else.
Officer Fonzo is on the trail Of Chinese
ragpicker. who he thinks was implicated.
Ferry to Berkeley.
The Southern Pacific Company is itself
going 10 take hand In the new ferry
from San Francisco to Berkeley, making
its Berkeley terminus at Delaware street,
West Berkeley.
The ferry line will be first class in everv
respect. and the steamers AmadOr and Ell
Captain Will be put OH this new route. A
ferry-slip and approaches at the foot of
Delaware street will be shortly COM
menced. and passengers will be landed at
their Berkeley homes by the network Of
electric lines now traversing the town in
all directions. The town has now some
10000 people, and with the new electric
lines protected by the railroad company
every portion can be reached readily and
In a verv short time.
The Berkeley ferry service over the
Oakland mole will be discoE tinued, as
traffic was increasing so fast that the
DO ats over the regular line could scarcely
accommodate the people. and there was,
too, great element of danger where the
Berkeley tracks and the Overland tracks
intermingled at Wood and Seventh streets
The Southern Pacific ferry-boats will
then be distributed as follows: On the
Oakland route the Piedmont and Oakland.
on the Alameda route the Newark and
Encinal, and on the new Berkeley route
TIE Amcador and Ell Captain.
Health Matters.
Two additional cases of typhoid fever
were reported to the Health Office yester-
day.
The sewer on Oxford street, just at the
entrance to the university grounds, has
been broken and is clogged up, and
forced upon the street and is running into
the bed OF Strawberry Creek. where it
stands In stagDant. green scum-coated
pools.
There is a case Of diphtheria in the
Giessberger block. corner of Jones street
and San Pablo. avenue. West Berkeley.
There have been NUM- Der Of cases there
during the pasttwo months, none of which
have been reported. as required. to the
Health Office.
Professor Captured Abroad.
William Clay Jones. who holds the as
socate professorsfip of United State.
history in the university, but who for the
past year has been travelling and studying
-cn the continent ON full pay, starts for
home this month";. In a letter to a friend
he says he hopes to wed Miss Butteffield,
daughter o. the well-known land auc.
tioneer,: William Buttarfeld, in England.
He first met Miss. Butterfield, who has
long lived and: Travelled with Mrs. Phoebe
Hearst. IN Paris. Afterward the professor
went to Berlin. but soon finding the Paris
attractions so much greater he returned in.