The San Francisco call., 1909-11-21
CELEBRATE BONDS
AND ANNEXATION
Oakland Boosters Burn Effigy
of Silurian After Funeral
Parade

OAKLAND, Nov. 2O.-The unpro-
gressive citizen was burned tonight
with the bones of his ancestors.
While the fire bells back of the city
hall tolled lugubriously businessmen
marched the streets escorting a heroic
pyre, with bands wailing dirges and
death watch torches burning. The cor
tege wended to the shores of Lake Mer-
ritt, where the effigy of the silurian
was incinerated.
Then the celebrating paraders
marched back to the city hall over the
same streets through which they had
borne the silurian. On the steps of
the municipal building, which soon will
be torn away for a new structure, the
new spirit" of the city was given
greeting
Harmon Bell delivered panegyric
over the cremated mossbacks at the
lake and Mayor Frank X. Mott ad-
dressed those who had gathered to see
the obsequies. The evening was a re-
joicing for the two victories at the
polls this week the two greatest mu-
niclpal affairs ever known here. which
made possible the bonding of the city
Tor wharveS and a city hall and the
addition of Sc square miles to the city's
area.
Labor union men marched side by
side with members of commercial or
carnations, businessmen and men who
worked in the ranks during the bond
and annexation elections. The parade
formed at the city hall at o'clock,
with platoon of police leading.
Following the automobile bearing the
mayor and Bell came the grand mar
shall and his aids. City officials
marched next, then a squad of election
boosters, bands, the silurian float with
its pail bearers and a platoon of
boosters.
The leaders of the marchers were as
follows:
Grand mashal, C. NJ wardell: aids. Gustave
Mann. r. l. Oliver. E.. B. Bull, Tom Carroll F.
Captain in charge of guard of honor, ]. P.
n9atgomery: n,hh lieutenant of first division J. "
P. Mcdonald. Walter TAYLOR, A. Seton Jr., c.
G. Borton. G. G. Barnhardt, 7. S Gray, P. n.
l.. Hogue. W. +. Kroning. r. ]. Montgomery.
3. L. Kemp, R. S, Kitchener. W ]. Laymance
Millican. ]. c. Mlelke. Karl Nickel, Joseph II.
Norris. Harry B. Nichols, Phil Riley Broderich
Leonard, r. ]. FELTON,, I. Nielsen, B. A. Gamble
= j. Sylvia. j.. ]. Roggin. George Ingraham,
f. W. Hyden. E. Huracker, Thomas Westoby.
frank Niles. N-'A- Dahl. A. McSeacn- Wlll1aI
j. Britain, W. Porteus. William Denton.
Lieutenant second division. D. f. Perkins;
guard of honor, Charles Nesbitt. Frank du
Frame H. H. Brucker Jr.. j.. W: Phillips,
Charles l.. Smith, Joseph Lloyd. Herbert ].
Samues. F. S. Garcia. Clarence Reed. A. H.
Breed r. =. Gale. f. A. de Camp, George +.
Names. A. s. Hannaford. Joseph Herbert. Fred
erick Kahn. ]. P. Emigh,A a. P. Leach, H. B.
Mehrman. J. Jacobs. ]. G. 0Farrell. Charles $.
Riordan, A schIeuter, A T.; Barton; G. ".
Mattern. W. A. Drake, n. J. Kerby. Thomas T.
Marshall. Major John Jefery. Judge Mortimer
Smith, Or. o. T. Wilson. DIR. John Slavich,
DR. Arthur Smith. Dr. f. r. TAFT. l. Parker.
Dan W. Pratt, H. Fl. Gribbin. 0. c. Bryan. R.
II Adams. Eddie Smith. William J. Chinn G.
W. Shrader, j. J. Victory L. W. Watts A. b.
Weeks, W. NJ. Wood. E. F. Wehe. F. s. VIII
liams. d. NJ. Higgins, NJ. ]. Connolly, II. V.
Campbell
Boosters in charge of l. II. Clay-Bond di-
vision j. W Garthwaite, general; Carl Reuter-,
adjutant; staff, ". S. Maekay. B. P. Miller, A.
NJ. Thompson. Fl. L. Hinman. Fred Sherman. e.
G.. Ryker. Charles l.. Smith. P. y. Hanrahan.
A. S. Lavenson. W. F. Gibson.
Annexation division-Frank W. Bilger, gen
eral: Charles F. Cole, adjutant; staff. c.
Capwen C. J. Heeseman. r. NJ. Hamb. W. NJ.
Gardiner, p. C. Frederickson, Joseph ". Smart,
Mclaughlin. c. C. Craig, Theodore Gier, II.
II. Henlon.