The San Francisco call., 1898-11-10
ALAMEDA GAINS
 4 VALUABLE
 WATER FRONT P. l. Go. Forced to Make Good Terms. PARTITION SUIT ADJUSTED THE NEW STEEL BRIDGE THE INDIRECT CAUSE. The City Fortunately Held the Land Upon Which the Approaches
 Had to Be Con
 struoted.
PARTITION SUIT ADJUSTED
THE NEW STEEL BRIDGE THE
 INDIRECT CAUSE.

ALAMEDA, Nov. s.-In few days pa pers will be filed giving this city undis- puted title to valuable water front fac ing Oakland harbor. The litigation over the marsh land and water front will then be settled. Indirectly the completion of the new steel railroad bridge over the estuary forced the Pacific Improvement Company to come to terms with the city in partitioning the disputed territory.
 There are over 150 claimants to the Ala meda marsh land. Some years ago, when the Pacific Improvement Company com menced an action to partition the prop erty, the city authorities, in order to make showing in court, seized a strip of fourteen acres between Webster street and the railroad tracks leading to the Alice street bridge. An old scow was run into a slough and scuttled in such a position that it might be used as a wharf This was considered an i'm provement' in the eyes of the law, and was done to strengthen Alameda's claim to the property.
 gauge approaches to the new steel bridge had to pass over this piece of marsh land. When the railroad commenced to con struct the embankments the city called halt Neither the Pacific Improvement Company nor the Alameda authorities were anxious for expensive litigation, so It was agreed that the representatives of each should come together and endeaYor to effect a compromise.
 The lana claimed by Alameda was prac- ttcally worthless to the city from the fact that it was hemmed in by three draWbridges, making it useless for dock age purposes; but it was valuable to the railroad company for the reason that they had to have 1t. Taking advantage or this Alameda was in a position to die tate the terms of the settlement. And Its presentauYeS got a great deal the best Of the transaction.
 over 15O parties had undivided interests in the marsh land. Alameda's proportion ate share was fourteen acres of land and 100 feet of water front. Under the stipula- ton by which the city releases its claim to the strip between the two bridges it will receive title to fifteen acres of land and 1l76 feet of water front in one of the best locations on the estuary. There are 96O feet of frontage between Wood and Prospect streets and 2l6 feet between Grand and Schiller streets. The fifteen acres includes ten-foot strip of land along all Of the city sewers passing over Company also agrees to donate sufficient property to widen the Webster-street roadway to eighty feet as soon as the city is prepared to undertake the improve ment. All parties in interest have agreed to the terms of the stipulation.
 The engineers are now preparing maps of the property, and soon as they are completed the attorneys will prepare a form of decree and ask the court to render Judgment in the partition suit tn accord anCe with the stipulation
 There is already talk of constructing wharves on the city's water front. City Attorney Taylor states that the matter will be entirely settled before the end of November.