The morning call., 1893-05-30
BERKELEY.
The Board of Trade-Better Railroad
Service Asked For.

petition is being circulated and numer0usly
signed asking the S. P. r. r. Company &c
stop all overland and main line trains al
West Berkeley. There is no other city in
the United States of 10000 inhabitants
through which the trains whiz at full
speed. Now passenger has TO pass clear
through Berkeley to the Sixteentb-street
station, Oakland. and from there take the
local back. The petition also Includes d
request for half hourly local trains
throughout the day. At present from 1C
A. NJ. to 3 P NJ. trains run only every hour.
but in the morning and evening till P. NJ.
every half hour.
PENwELL MAKES HAPPY FIND
Justice Penwell Of West Berkeley, who
has been expected to enter the race fol
City Recorder as an independent candi-
date, has concluded not to do so. as he
claims the Recorder Will not be successor
of the Justice, who will therefore continue
10 office. The Justices office was created
by the old town charter, and the general
law under which fifth-class cities such as
Berkeley now Isl are organized does not
name the Recorder as successor TO the Jus
tlce. Berkeley is the first town n the State,
Penwell claims. where just the circum-
stances have been as they are in Berkeley,
Berkeley will have City Recorder and
two Justices OF the Peace as heretofore
EQUAL TO THE BEsT.-The proposed ac-
ton of several graduates of the university
who intend to go East and enter the SEN
Tor class at Harvard is being freely crlti-
cized In student circles. The desire for
more knowledge and a degree from old
Harvard is a laudabie one, but 1t is con-
tended that Berkeley graduates have
M
any Eastern university.
OFFICERS ELECTED.-The Board of
Trade has elected w. L. Sell vice-president
and the CommerciaBan of Berkeley treas
urer. Seven directors Will be chosen at the
boards next meeting, June 9. The board
starts out with two members from North,
six from Central, two from South and one
from West Berkeley.
WELCOMED AS FATHER.-Captain
and Mrs. William McCleuye left yesterday
for YountVllle 10 take part with the old
veterans in The sacred duties of Decoration
day. Captain McCleave served as CON-
mandant of the home for several years.
ami ne is regarded by the old soldiers
there almost as father.
BUILDING UP.-Some sixty odd lots
were sold al auction in Berkeley Saturday,
mostly to residents of San Francisco ana
Oakland seeking suburban homes. The
sales aggregated some $4,000.
SUMNER School IN CHEMISTRY
Messrs. Victor K. Chestnut and w. C,
Blasdye of the faculty of the chemistry
department of the university are ar:ang-
ing to open summer school, especially
for teachers, present and prospective, OF
chemistry tomorrow. They have pros
poets more hatteTine than those of any pre-
vious year This will be the third year Of
the schools existence.
Alameda.
F. D. ARFF's WIIL.-The last will and
testament of f. d. Al ff, deceased, was au-
mitted to probate by Judge Greene yester-
day. IN the Superior Court The matter
had been pending for over two years.
Louis Schaffer of Mount Eden is the exc =
utor, and all contests have been settled
Eddie Meysel. the grandehild of deceased
receives $500; Mrs. NJ. Thompson, a
daughter OF deceased who resides in Ala.
media, receives $4,000. and the residue of the
estate goes to another daughter OF de.
ceased, Mrs. c. A. Heuer, who pays the
S11, 800 to the other two heirs and all the
debts and charges of administration.
ANOTHER BODY FoUND.-The crew Of
the sl0op Bonita found the BODY of young
man in the channel, about 1000 yards We
of the drawbridge. at Bay Farm Island
yesterday Afternoon. 1t is supposed to be
one of the party drowned in the plungeI
near Shag Rock week ago last Sunday
ELECTRIC LIGHT-The taxpayers will
hold a meeting at Linderman's Opera
house on next Friday evening, to discuss
the proposition of whether or not the city
should maintain the electric light or sell H.