The San Francisco call., 1897-06-12
WHAT "GREATER
OAKLAND" MEANS
Many District Schools Will
Be Added to the City
Department.
Two Weeks Only to E'apye Be-
lore the Enlarged City Will
Legally Exist.
FoFty-Nine Miles of Streets Added 10
The Care of the Street
Department.
OAKLAND OFFICE SAN Francisco CALI

9OS Broadway, June II.
On the 2lst of July the City Council and
Supervisors will pass t necessary reso-
luton declaring the official existence Of
Greater Oakland. The resolution will
then be sent to the Secretary of State and
as soon as notification is received that it
has been filed the city government OF
Oakland Will become responsible for the
conduct Of the annexed territory.
The annexation OF one-third the area OF
the Old city o. Oakland necessitates much
additional work for every branch of the
cliy government. Perhaps one Of the
most important events will be the trans
Ter OF all the schools in the annexed dis
trlct to the public school department of
oakland. Pupils from the outside who
attend the high school will no longer
nave to pay for their tuition and all
eIlgrole pupils 20 The high and central
grammar schools will be drafted 10 those
institutions when the term commences.
l he trustees of the outside districts will
shortly wind up their business and yield
everything to the Board of Education
ne transfer OF :he schools will do away
Win much petty scandal that always dis
llnguishes district schools. The election
OF trustee always means q fight in the
interests OF some particular teacher, and
thlS tends to keep the schools in a cnntin-
ual state OF satisfaction. Hencefortb
the teachers will be elected as all other
CITY teachers. and their tenure OF office
Will more nkeIy be permanent.
1he man who now represents nearly
one-thIrd the area Of Greater Oakland in
the CiIy Council is +. r. Gi-ard. All the
new territory is a portion of the Second
Ward, and will remain so until 1900 when
the entire city will be redistrlc ed.
The annexation also takes from Super
VISOR Mitchell all his road districts. Mr..
Mitchell must be fond OF work. for no
oiher rea"on could surely have indu ed
him. 10 fight annexation when it meant
much less work for him with nc decrease
OF salary. The new amendment, howev T.
TlII add lorty-nlne miles of road for Street
Superintendent Miller to look after.
Chief Of Police Lloyd has studied the
matter and states that it will require two
sub-police stations, one at Golden Gate
and one at Temescal, and about ten new
officers, all hough some of The district is so
sparselY settled that it can be paIrolled
with safety by a mounted officer. MAYOR
thomas IS rather proud of being the first
Mayor OF Greater Oakland. He was at
work 1o-day hgurIng out the needs OF the
new territory, and he hopest he new citi-
Zens VIII not want too mucA at once
City Electrician Carleton says that the
ire and police telegraph system can be
satisfactorily placed IN the new district
1Oi TOoSO- I4SLS Will dlSC De Necessity lOr
twenty-five h-e-alarm boxes. The electric
light sysSeln can also be extended easily.
for this year $4,000 is being, saved over
last year because of a new system OF
lighting.
Members of the Annexation League de-
clared to-day that now that Oakland is so
near to the point of population reached
by Los Angeles the southern city would
lose no time in Gnnexing Pasadena.
AS soon as they do that" said G sorge
Morrow, 'In comes Berkeley"