The morning call., 1894-09-08
AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE.

OAKLAND-The City Couacil last even
ing finally passed ordinances calling for
two special eections-0ne to be held on
September % to vote $14}, 600 to refund the
bonded Indebtedness uf The city, and the
other to be held on October Is to elect
fifteen freeholders to formulate a new
charter.
But, important as these elections will be,
the following petition, which was granted
unanimously, outlines projects of far
greater Importance 20 the city. The peti-
lion explains itself:
We, the undersigned citizens Of Oakland,
representing various lines Of business, respect.
fully request the use Of the Council chamber on
Thursday evening. September 20. for the pur-
nose OF holding u conference relative TO the
interests of our city, and to devise ways and
means for promoting such measures as, IN the
judgment OF those assembled, MAY seem most
likely to that END.
Among other matters TO be considered will be
the proposition 10 open one or more streets to
the water front and the recliOn of wDarves
and warehouses thereon, the disposal Of the
city park on which the city Han is now
located, and the purchase of a block of land in
some central portion OF The city and the cree
lion thereon OF new CITY Hall and Public
Library ID keeping with the present develop
ment and future growth OF the city, TO be paid
ior out of Tie proceeds OF the sale OF the afOre-
surplus atISing from said sale 10 The purchase
OF public park in the outskirts OF the city.
SecOnd--TO consider the advsability OF open
ing Washington street 10 San Pablo avenue;
The widening of Telegraph avenue. the cOntnu-
alton of The present Improvement now under
way on LakeshOre avenue 10 the intersection
with Perry street, at the head of Lake Merritt.
and the putting in complete and thorough re-
pair all leading thorOughiaTes, extending from
the center Of the city 10 the outlying country,
such as San Pablo avenue, Telegraph avenue
and New Broadway, and especially Twelfth and
Fourteenth streets. over which the heaviest
travel 10 the country passes.
Ihird-Ihe consideration OF the best Ways
ana means 10 secure a speedy completion OF
the new wharf al North Oakland and the Oper-
alton of a new competing ferry Herewith 10
san Francisco, aud the concentrating OF several
OF the electric street railroads at that point; /;
and the making The same the terminus of new
competing overland railroad. All of which Is
IN contemplation by the Oakland Terminal
Company, but which is bindered by the present
financial stress and lack OF cooperation iu the
part Of our fellOwctiZens.
The petition was signed by Councilman
W. 5. Barnard and fifty other gentlemen
representing every profession and branch
of business IN the city.
The Hutchings Divorce Case.
The divorce trial of Dorothea Hulchings
against James o. Hutchings is drawing a
good audience to Judge Greene's court
room. The crowd listened eagerly to the
tale of woe told by Mrs. Hutchings while
Cd the stand all day yesterday.
The couple were elderly people when
married, and Mrs. Hutchngs told how
they first met She said the lpIT0duction came
ABOUT through a Mrs. Hertz. who kept a kind
Ofsa bureau TO bring ma rriageable people to-
gether. This was in San Francisco. Mrs
Hertz arranged for a correspondence, letters
PASSED ana Mr.. Hutchings sent his Photograph.
Then on d Saturday he came TO see her at the
Golden West Hotel. The next Saturday he
came again and took her to the park. The third
Saturday Hutchings proposed. but the lady
held him OF bit aud the marriage was finally
arranged by letter.
They were welded, but It was only few days
afer that Mrs. HutchingS says her misery
began. Her husband accused her OF lax CON
duct with other men and seemed TO be insanely
jealous.
Things went from bad to worse, and finally
articles Of separation we're drawn up and
signed and Mrs Hutchings left the family home
al HayWards.
Then came hours of loneliness to the rich
old man, and he wrote frequently endeari3g
letters TO bis wife, asking her To come back. Ia
one Of these. dated December %, 1892, written
On bTbead from Hutchiugs general meT-
chandise store at HayWards, tue husband wrote
as follows:
Now I ask you for an interview, which propose
TO hold in the following way: W ISL you to ap-
point some hour. not later than next Saturday for
me TO call upon you with the buggy, and will
have drive together. and then under the canopy
OF heaven and alone we may arrive at final Sou-
tOn of past diff ulties and plight anew hearts
10 each other. The world is a void without you.
will be IN waiting hour.
These loving epistles seem to have had their