The San Francisco call., 1904-04-04

other mercantile organizations. to in
duce other transcontInentai railroads
TO make Oakland their terminus The
present chairman of the railroad COM
nlittee of the Oakland Board of Trade.
NJ. }. Keller, was made chairman of
the joint committee formed al that
time for the purpose of comforting with
the officials of the Santa Fe to request
that road to come to Oakland The
time was not ripe. however. but the
railroad committee of the board never
relinquished it's efforts, and to-day
Messrs. Keller, c. J. Heeseman. d. e.
Collins, r.. z. NJ. Greeley and j. Tyr
roads, are arranging for celebration
of the day-May 2-when the first Santa
Fe train will enter Oakland.
When the telegraphic press reports
announced that President Roosevelt
was contemplating a visit to Califor-
MIA the Oakland Board of Trade was
the first to send an invitation to the
chief executive to visit Oakland. The
invitation was accepted, and the Board
of Trade, feeling that the entertain
ment of so distinguished visitor
properly belonged to the entire COM
munity and not solely to the organ
ization whose invitation he had ac-
cepted, requested the Mayor to appoint
a committee of citizens to receive and
the 1TeS1QenI.
GOOD PRESENT PROGRAMME.
At the present time a committee of
the Board of Trade is working in con-
junction with a committee from Ala
media with a view to the improvement
of Webster street, in Alameda. and
with every prospect of successful cul-
mination. 1t is hoped to make of this
great thoroughfare a boulevard sixty
feet in width. connecting the two cities
Samples of rush grown in the
marsh lands were taken East a few
months ago by a large manufacturer
of mating. These samples We're made
UP into mating, apparently of excel
lent quality, and the Board of Trade
is to-day, with the assistance of the
University of California, experiment.
ing in raising this rush or tule. Experi-
ment stations have been started at
Pleasanton and Elmhurst. If the ex-
pertinent proves successful thousands
of acres of marshy land in California,
now practically useless. will become
very valuable. The manufacturers of
mating agree to takA all the rush or
tule that can be raised upon 10.0 600
acres If 1t is proved by the experiments
now being conducted by the Board of
Trade that the tule can be grown sue
cessfully, or in other words that it can
be grown TO the desired length.
The board is now in correspondence
with several Eastern manufacturers,
with view to inducing them to To-
cate plants on the eastern side of the
Bay of San Francisco, where trans
pertation by rail and water meet.
The Western Pacific Railroad was
ma terially assisted by the Board of
Trade in securing rights of way and
terminals in Oakland and ere another
two years have elapsed it is hoped that
the entry into Oakland on the first
Western Pacific train will be duly cele-
brated.
Many of the principal improvements
in Alameda County can be traced to
the efforts of the Oakland Board OF
Trade.
>OFFICERS AND MEMBERS.
The present officers and directors of
the Board of Trade are: r. H Cham
berIain, president; d. Edward Collins.
vice president; M. J. Keller, treasurer:
committee, d. Edward Collins, j. Tyr
rel, George z. Fairchild, H. C. Cap
well and C. j. Heeseman; directors, r.
II. Chamberlain. Hugh Hogan. NJ. J.
Keller, George E. Fairchild, J. Tyrrel,
r. p. NJ. Greeley, c. j. Heeseman, d.
Edward Collins, II. c. Capwell, A. w.
Kirkland and Frank X. Mott.
Every line of business and every pro-
fession is represented strongly in the
membership of the Oakland Board of
Trade. The full list of members is
given as follows by Secretary Edwin
Stearns:
Abrahamson Bros, Edison f. Adams. John
C. Adams, DR.. r. L. Adams. Wesley Adams.
tIexander s. anderson S. AUSTIN uel Aims,
worth Company, A A Ambrose, p. w. An