The San Francisco call., 1896-06-09
PROSPEROUS YEAR
IN BERKELEY,
Town Trustees Receive
Annual Reports of
Officers.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
Berkeley Stands Second in
HealthfulneSs in the En-
tire State.
THE CITY OFFICIALS DISAGREE
The Marshal Dissatisfied With the
Conduct of the Prosecution in
Liquor Cases.

| oEhALAG OALsJ hAAO hO LOnH
Trustees held meeting this evening,
when reports for the past year of all the
town officers were received. ]. W. Rich
ards, president of the board, also made an
elaborate review of the years work.
The facts adduced in the various reports
show that the year has been one of rapid
growth for the university town.
Street Superintendent Chicks report
| showed that there are now twenty-seven
miles of macadamized streets in Berkeley
and that during the year ending June 1,
1896, about 100000 had been expended
upon the streets of the town, as against
only $11, ,248 in the previous twelve months
The actual public street expenditures
were $59 sol 95, private $36,912, in addition
to which sums large amount has been
spent on construction of sidewalks.
The report of DR.. H. N. Rowell, Health
| Officer, gives Berkeley the second place
| for healthfulness in the entire State, the
death rate being only 1013 per cent 1t is
noteW orthy that out OF LA deaths that oc-
Cured in the town during the year twenty
| five we're Coroner's cases. DR.. Rowell said
that the health of the town was most graf
| flying, and that the only epidemic that has
visited Berkeley was one of mild form of
measles, which recently attacked Ward
| four. Forty-seven pupils were excluded
from the public schools, but no deaths
havs resulted from the disease.
| Marshal Lloyd reviewed the famous
liquor fight, and in the concluding words
of his report hit District Attorney Shook.
The illicit liquor traffic can only be sup
pressed by vigorous prosecution" said the
Marshal, "but that cannot be expected
with the District Attorneys Office as at
present organized"
i of ha de 10 bry
five of the "speak-easies" have been
closed,
"The present violators of the liquor law
are doing very small business" said
Marshal Lloyd.
"After July l." said President Richards
1--WE shall have power under the new water
ordinance to order new hydrants placed
on all streets having four-inch mains"
Mr.. Richards called attention to fig
ures furnished by Sanitary Inspector
Thompson, showing that in five months
since January 1 sixty new buildings have
been erected in Berkeley at cost Of
$4,000
Reports were also submitted to the
Trustees by Town Clerk Hanscom, by
John Squires, treasurer, Sanitary Inspec-
tor Frank Thompson and Poundmaster
Lauterback.
Five hundred copies of the reports will
be printed by the board for the use OF the
public.
Comedy by Student Actors.
BERKELEY, CAL, June 8.-The class
day exercises of the Berkeley High School
will be held tomorrow evening in Shat
tuck Hall. Members of the graduating
class will present Mrs Burton Harrison s
1.-TWO Strings to Her Bow" comedy in
two acts.
The cast will be as follows:
NJ Dumesnil a bourgeois father, A. T.
Hughes; Nine. Dumesnil, his wife, May NJ.
Howell; Cecile, his daughter, Stella NJ. West;
Haseltine; Alphonse de Lueeval, suitor oil
Cecile, Mark H. White; Baptiste, an old
servant, Carlton H. Parker; country girls
Agnes P. Steedman, Daisy N. Clark, Lulu r.
Frame, Fannie Z. Tvrrell, Grace A. Tyrrell,
Viva NJ Gage, Alice Stewart, Ella Roberts
Jennie Ellison, Lucy W. Dewing, Charlotte A.
Henley
The play will be preceded by musical
furnished by the High School orchestra.
Carpenters Want Fair Play.
BERKELEY, CAL, June S.-The car
+ penters and building contractors of Berke-
ley are discussing the organization of a
Builders Trade Association for the pur-
pose of preventing contracts for local work
going to San Francisco and Oakland firms.
1t is said that outsiders now secure an un-
due share of the business of the town owing
to the TACT CnaC the arCnltectS EN- plOyeQ
usually give Oakland or San Francisco
bidders the preference. The Berkeleyans
propose to bring influence to bear on the
architects.
Killed Near Redding.
BERKELY, CAL, June s.-Superin-
tendent Wellendorff of the Alameda Water
Company has gone north to the scene oi
the accident OF last Saturday, by which his
son, Paul G. Wellendorff, was killed. The
young man was the victim of an explosion
while working in mine near Trinity Cen.
ter. The explosion occurred in q wagon
drawn by ten horses, which young We'll
Iendorff was driving. He was thrown te
the ground and trampled to death by the
: horses.
The deceased was % years of age.
Death of H. f. Norris.
BERKELEY, CAL, June 8.-H. F. Nor
ris, superintendent of the San francisco
Baptist Mission, died yesterday at his res
idence, 1909 Vine street, North Berkeley
The deceased was a native of Alabama
aged as years and had resided in Ber
kelley about six months.