The San Francisco call., 1904-08-11
Meetings Are Being Planned
to Include All Sections
of the City of Oakland
DORNIN MAKES A TALK
President of the Town COun-
Gil Furnishes Some Sub
stantial Facts and Figures
Oakland Office San Francisco Call,
1915 Broadway, Aug. 10.

lUlO bTOdQWdN, aug. ~.
The campaign for the bond issue for
Oakland improvements has begun,
though the City Council has not yet
formally called the election. In COM
mittee session the Council has de-
cided that the bond election shall be
held September 27 and at the meeting
on Monday next this action will be
regularly taken. All of the other pre-
liminary work has been done and
there now remains nothing but a cam
paign of a little more than six weeks
in which to impress upon the voters
of Oakland the necessity for the pro-
posed improvements.
A regular campaign will be under
taken by the city officials of Oakland
and the various improvement societies
and organiZati tionS interested in the ad-
vancement of the city. All of such
societies Will hold meetings before
the bond election, at which members
of the City Council and city officials
will be requested to explain the pro-
posed bond issue and the reasons for
its adoption.
The first general meeting for the
central portion of Oakland will be
held August 10 under the auspices of
the Oakland Board of Trade. This
viii be the regular quarterly meeting
of the board and they will resolve it
INTO Il bOlu L1CElinS. lllC OtllCClS VI
all the local improvement societies
have been invited to be present and
the plan is to start a series of meet
ings in all sections of the city and to
carry on an active campaign that will
induce every voter in the city to cast
his ballot September 81.
The first actual meeting in favor of
bonds was held last night in the
Union-street Presbyterian Church.
Tho na1fnA ~ tho N {
League of that church for a discus
sion OF the matter, but there was very
little discussion, for the members
seemed to all be of one mind and that
for the bonds. Addresses were made
by George w. Dornin, president of the
Oakland City Council, and Edwin
Meese, chairman of the Street Com
mittee of that body. Dornin showed
that If all the bonds were voted ii
would add SO 20 in taxes to each
thousand dollars worth of property
in Oakland for the first year and that
this would be reduced as the bonds
were paid off and property values
rose. He believed that the increased
valuation of Oakland property caused
by the investment of the bond money
would meet, TO a large extent, the in
crease of actual taxes. January
next Dornin said that the bonded in
debtedness of Oakland would only be
1852, 500. This would leave an avail
able bond credit of $1,000 900, which
could be raised for a water plant if
the people thought best.
Dornin explained that every item
in the bond issue was separate and
could be so voted for or against except
few small parks. which were
grouped. The items in the bond is
sue are:
West Oakland Park $4,000; Sixth Ward
Park, $4,000: Second Ward Park, S25. coo: De
Fremery Park, $95. 900: Sather Park, $3.50. 600;
Independence Park. $50 OOO; Bushrod Park
$4,000; park south of Twelfth-street DAM
SlS5,OO0; park west side of Lake Merritt,
Sl60 COO; improvements for same $50 600: bou-
levard, S1l5 goo; extension of boulevard
from station H. $50, COO; boulevard be-
tween Twentieth and Twenty-fourth, on west
side Of lake, SOS. 600; improvements OF Lake
Merritt $50, coo; City Hall. $375. 600; site for
same. $3.50. 600; furnishing City Hall, S25, 600;
bituminous cross walks throughout the city,
500 900; improvements in free library, $15. .000;
stone culverts. $4,000; city wharf improve
ments $4,000; extension of main lake sewer
10 low water $4,000; east side sewer exten-
sions $50 coo: extension of Twenty-first ave-
nue. sewer, 500 900; Polytechnic High School,
S1jo, 600: Cemetery Creek improvements. $SO,-
OO0-making in all total Of 81, 51S, 600.