The San Francisco call., 1895-11-24
NO MONEY FOR LIGHTS,
The Town Trustees of Berke.
ley Refuse to Pay the
Bills.
The Cornerstone of Ellsworth.S Street
Presbyterian Church to Be Laid
Thursday.

BERKELEY, CAL, Nov. 22.-W. E.
Topham, secretary of the Berkeley Elec-
trio Light Company, appeared before the
Board of Town Trustees last night and de-
manded payment of bills rendered in July
for the making of extensions in the town
lighting system. The bills were dated
July % and July 80, and called for s575 50
and S54 respectively, the former sum being
for poles, wire and labor in the extension
of the Claremont avenue system, and the
latter for painting.
Upon notion of Trustee Martin the
board passed resolution declining to pay
the bills. This action was taken under a
clause in the electric-lighting company's
contract which provided that the COM
pany should furnish such additional
lights as the town might desire sat the
same price and under the same conditions
as the others.
The Trustees construction of the con-
tract is that the "same conditions"
are that the lighting company fur
nish the light with the plant as it was
when placed in the hands of the company
by the town, while the company on the
other hand declares that the conditions OF
the past and present are that all lights are
upon wires and poles supplied by the town.
In communication to the board the
company declined to extend the line for
the twenty arc lights as ordered by the
board. The letter was read and filed; and
a resolution passed again ordering the
lights.
In the casting of the ballots, Trustees
Gage and Jones voted mo- as formerly.
President Richards, who voted mo" on
the previous ordering of the lights, sup
ported the resolution, giving as his reason
for so doing the desire for test case that
a do ba Of ho
The board passed to print an ordinance
declaring it to be for the good of the town
that wharf be constructed at West
Berkeley, and that High School and four
grammar school buildings be constructed.
The total cost of the wharf and buildings,
as shown in the ordinance passed last
night and based upon revised reports OF
Expert Mathieson and Engineer higgins,
is $200,000, divioed as follows: Wharf,
$4,000; High School site $4,000, con-
struction $4,000, furniture $1,000; North
Berkeley school site $4,000, construction
$780, furniture $500; Dwight-way school,
construction $40, 500, furniture $500; con-
struction of San Pablo school $14, 900. fur
niture $4,000.
Will Lay the Cornerstone.
The cornerstone of the new 10000 Pres
byterian church building, now in process
of construction at the corner of Ellsworth
street and Ailston way Will be laid on
Thanksgiving day at 10 clock A. NJ. By
consent of the other churches of Berkeley
the ceremonies attendant with the laying
of the stone will take the place of the usual
union Thanksgiving sermon.
Addresses will be made by President
Martin Kellogg and DIR. Joseph LIE Conte
of the University of California, DR.. Fraser
of Oakland and by DR.. Minton, professor
in the San Francisco Theological Semi
nary.
DR.. Ketchum, pastor of the church, will
offer the invocation; DR.. Bentley of the
Trinity Methodist Church the prayer
Rev. George B. Hatch will read the Scrip
lures; and J. NJ. Whitworth, president OF
the board of church trustees, will place the
stone and contents. After the close of the
exercises connected with the laying of the
stone the congregation will adjourn to the
old church building, where the addresses
of President Kellogg. DIR. lie Conte and
DIR. Minton will be made.
Cause OF Miss Michae1s' Death.
Investigation to-day revealed the fact
that Miss Alice Michaels, the member oi
the class of '98, whose death was at first
reported to have been caused from over
exertion in the university gymnasium,
came to her death from Inflammation OF
the heart. The attending physician, DR..
Reynolds, stated that the gymnasium
work prescribed for her in no way aug
mented the disease which caused her
DEATH