The San Francisco call., 1908-04-26

buildings included in the beautiful ar
chitectural' plans which have been ap-
proved. and which will some day ma
terialize. Work has been started on
new library building designed for the
housing of the 10000 volumes now in
the library rooms. At the university
there are 195 officers of instruction dis
students; an art gallery, museums,
laboratories and agricultural expert
ment grounds and station. Tuition is
free and in summer a session of six
weeks is held, which is attended by
600 mature students. During the ses-
sion OF this summer school many emf
nent professors from other American
institutions, as well as distinguished
scholars from the universities of Eu-
rope, participate in this course of in
struction
There is no city like Berkeley else
where in America. Without noise or
commotion, without advertising or
striving to do so, it has doubled its pop
ulation and then doubled it again in
few years only. 1t has made many
started well on the road to wealth by
being accidentally, as it were, owners
OF realty IN the town or In its sub
urbs. Nowhere else in America can
the opportunity for the investor, small
or large, be found as in this city. Its
in he h1
email; at present. it is healthy and con-
tinuously accelerating, and its growth
for the future is assured Nothing.
neither war nor pestilence, calamity nor
commercial depression, can stem the
mighty tide of population flowing in a
resistless and increasing flood from
the forty odd prosperous states into the
great plains and valleys OF California,
smiling their sunny welcome to the ad-
vancing hosts. And of this vast army
an ever increasing number is finding
out that there is no other place on the
coast which offers the same necessary
features for home and fortune building
that Berkeley does.
See the hillsides dotted with the var
led homes of the university professors
See the valleys and level ground where
q large prOpOrtlOn OF the wealthy mer-
chants of San Francisco, seeking a re-
treat from the blare and fatigue of the
day, dwell. The artist and the poet,
the man of letters, the judge on the
bench and the plain citizen can live
here side by side, knowing that there is
room and beauty for all to enjoy, with
out treading on one anothers toes.
There have never been any spite
walls" built in Berkeley. There is no
need
Look on this picture: It is Sunday
afternoon The time draws near for
the half hour of music at the great
Greek theater UP yonder on the uni
versity grounds. BY ferry and by rail,
by steam and by trolley, by carriage.
by auto and on foot an unending pro-
cession is converging at the entrance
Of the marvellous reproduction Of Greek
architecture. And there upon tier upon
tier Of solid masonry. domed only by
the blue sky. sit 10000 of four cities
listening to the best compositions OF
classic and modern masters, while
overhead shines the brilliant sun like
that of an eastern June, and all about
are the green hills, the caroling birds
and the perfume of flowers. And it Is
nlidwinter What contrast to the
ice bound snow and ice of the eastern
cities? Who would live there when
he could live in Berkeley?
Summing it all UP, it is plain that
Berkeley has unnumbered advantages
to its credit, and thousand reasons