The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-12-26
THREE CORNERED
Gates or No Gates for
Oakland.
KNOTTY COUNCIL PROBLEM.
Practical Charity Advocated by
Mrs. Kelley.
KNoTTY COUNCIL PROBLEM.
WILL NOT ARREST HALF A MAN
Temescalians Making Strenuous
Efforts to Bring Their Dis
triCt Into Oakland.


when, as a committees of the whole. the
question of street gates at railroad cross
ings will be discussed. The matter has
been once deferred at the wish of the rail-
road officials, and at the meeting last
Thursday Lawyer Baker. for the railroad.
asked that consideration OF the subject be
put off until tonight, in order to give MIR.
Towne and Mr.. Curtiss an opportunity to
be heard. Both these gentlemen, said MIR.
Baker, were absent at the time in Ell Paso.
The question OF street gates has got into
a curious muddle In Oakland, because the
railroad company. in its opposition to
gates, has enlisted on its side the citizens
who reside below Seventh street. which
has been called the dead line" of the
city.
The people below the so-called dead
line" are up in arms against the project,
and have already held a meeting of pro-
Test. A committee of five property own
ers have all the past week been securing
that section for signatures to a petition
protesting, and at the Thursday night
meeting of the Council number of prop
erty-owners were present and made
speeches against The proposed ordinance.
The meeting tonight, it is thought, will
be a lively one, because Attorney Baker
has promised that Manager A. n. TOwne
and several 0tner railroad lights will grace
the Council chamber with their presence.
The railroad COMPANY object to the gates
because of the additional cost to the COM
pany, and they also say that these gates
must be operated from towers. and that the
Council has already forbidden them 10 erect
them 10 The Streets To prove this assertion
they say hat they applied for permission 10
erect tower on Webster and Seventh streets
from which 20 operate derailng switch, but
were refused.
The people below Seventh street object be-
cause they say the gates would make the dead
line" OF the town stu more pronOunc aud
ruin their property and business entirely.
On the other hand. majority of the Council
is IN favor of the Dalton ordinance and it has
already been passed 10 print There is still an-
otnel ordinance on the subject OF gates, intro
duced by Councilman Smell, and third still
bearing reference 10 gates al drawbridges. 1t
is expected that the meeting tonight will be
an interesting one because of the three-cor-
nered fight.
To Establish the woodward.
Mrs. Helen L. Kelley. Superintendent Of the
Associated Charities OF Oakland. believes In
The saying, :" he truest charity trains the poor
TO help themselves" and has issued a letter to
The citizens asking their corporation in the
establishment and maintenance OF woodward.
In II she says:
ut seems strange that In city where over
$4,000 a year is distributed IN charity by the
Board of Supervisors it is so difficult task 10
obtain the 500 needed with which 10 begin
operations. think the public-spirted citizens
OF Oakland are equal to raising the required
amount. We are not asking for charity, but
for means by which these unfortunates claim
Ing TO be out OF employment, may have place
where they can go and earn their meals. lOqg
lDgS, etc. Let US make men of these men, and
not pauperize them by bestowlng charity
"Our plan is 10 place work tickets In the
hands OF any beneyolently disposed person,
allowing them the privilege of sending the ap.
pllcant directly to the yard, where work will
be furnished him at so much an hour. being
IN In for n io AaIe
tickets or transportation. TIL plan affords an
opportunity 10 the private citizen OF bestOwing
temporary relief by means OF these tickets, pay.
ing for the used ones, VIII CHI will be collected
later 1t has been truly said that Alameda
county Is The paradise Iof beggars' Hardly
day passes in the history OF The Associated
man does not say, "Oakland is good place TO
be. can get all l want to eat and place 10
sleep Your private houses Will furnish the
means for these and your charitable organiZa-
lions Will furnish us clothing"
The 1925 already collected will be used at
once to begin operations, but it is earnestly
put up the necessary cash 10 maintain this In
stftution. There are 100 destitute people to
look after. The lady visitors are busily en-
gaged In visiting poor families.
The office of the association Will be open
hereafter, at 41S Tenth street. from A. M. till
P. NJ. to receive donations of provisions,
clothing, etc. There Is no clothing whatever
left. Mrs. Kelley is willing to make special ar
rangements for contributions.
He Escapes Arrest.
Santos Ruffini. who lives down In the Emery
vile district just over the Oakland line, started
home from Oakland on Christmas eve with
glad Jag" Indeed, Santos had just a little
more than he could carry, and would have been
locked up over hight at the City Prison had any
policeman happened across him while in OaN-
land. But he Steered unsleadily for home and
Jared pretty well until he reached Hollis street.
Now Hollis street marks the limits of the CITY,
and on Hollis street the Christmas celebrant
ynd 4, 8t,o ffnl lion, ha.1
or two. He got wavy, and finally lurched for
ward and fell in the middle OF the thorough
fare, his feet and head pointing TO either side
walk. His head was In the Emeryville district
while lis feet were in Oakland.
The man IN the street attracted attention
after while ana Officer michael Powers Of
the mounted patrol soon put in an appearance.
Powers Is humane sort OF person anyhow
and did no care particularly to arrest the man,
though some OF the bystanders insisted that
Notwithstanding 1t was Christmas the man
ought to be cared for. Finally the officer said
that he was not In his district and he had not
the power to take charge of him. Only his feet
were In Oakland.
The case was a peculiar ons az the same
state OF affairs existed over the line. Only his
head was In the constabulary jurisdiction OF
Emeryville and he could not be taken, and so
Santos csc ped arrest. After while SYM
pathizing friend came along and piloted him
safe TO his own hearthstone.
Christmas Day Music.
Christmas day was observed at st. PauPs
Episcopal Gnufcn. corner Harrison and Four
teenth streets, yesterday morning with special
music by vested choir OF TWEEN y-slx boys and
ten men. ID. M. Lawrence was he tenor soloist,
while William B. King presided at he organ
and Gustav Albrecht acted as cboirmaser.
The following programme was well rendered:
Organ prelude, "Toccata" Dubois; process.
siOnal, 90 Come All Ye Faithful"; "Adeste
Fideles"; reading; "Venite," Gregorian ;,"GIo-
ia Patrl," IN Nat !wesp; tie Deum,b in D
(Fisher); "'Jubilate:" in E (Parker: anthem,
"Arisei ShtneP' ID. BUCK; "Kyrie." in G
(MendelssoBn); "Gioria Tibi," in d (GauetD;
hymn; sermon by the Rev. Robert Richie;
ohertory. 20, Holy Night" (Adam), tenor solo
and chorus; communion service; 'Sanctus,"
In fiat (W0odward); eucharistic hymn,
Bread OF the World" (Woodward); "Glorla in
Excelsis," In q (WoOdward); "Nunc Dlmittis,"
Field)i retrocessiona angels From the
Realms OF Glory" (SmarD; organ postlude,
FESTIVAL March" (Best)
Circu ating Petitions.
The residents OF Temescal, who are so
anxious TO have themselves annexed to Oak
land. viii be compelled TO secure 1000 names |
OF voters to their petitions asking the Council 10
call all election and submitting this PROPOSE |
ton. In order 10 get these names as soon as
possible the committee will this morning have
a petition at each of the local depots of the
railroad lines. at the Courthouse and the City
Hall.
They do not expect to meet with any opposi.
ton from the city and very little on the out |
side. for over three-fOurths of their own num-