The San Francisco call., 1909-11-18

OAKLAND, Nov. 17.-Within three
weeks at the latest, it is expected that
the territory that voted yesterday to
become part of Oakland will be legally
incorporated into the city. The formal
steps requisite for making Fruitvale
Melrose, Elmhurst, Fitchburg, part OF
Claremont, part of Piedmont, Leona
heights, Seminary park, Allendale and
Dimond a part of Oakland have already
been prepared and will be attended to
with the greatest possible rapidity.
The votes will be officially canvassed
by the city council at its next regular
meeting, which will take place Decem-
Der 6. The returns will then be sent
to the secretary of state at Sacramento
and when they are officially fled by him
greater Oakland will be legal reality
The same activity In reaping the re-
suits of the successful bond election of
Monday, by which the citizens of Oak
land voted TO spend $3,733.000 for the
improvement of the water front, the
erection of a city hall and hall OF
justice and the betterment of the fire
and police telegraph and telephone sys-
tenn, will mark the efforts of the mu-
sold as soon as it is possible to do so
legally and with advantage, and the
work of improvement will begin at an
early date
WILL REDIsTRICT CITY
Oakland will have to be redistricted,
now that a territory so per cent greater
than the old city area has been added.
This redistricting must be done next
year, according TO law, and the new ter
ritory and population will then be pro-
yided for. In the meantime the four
councilmen at large represent, partic-
ularly. the new districts. 1t is the in
tention of Mayor Mott and his sup
porters to ask the voters of the new
Oakland to adopt a new charter next
year.
Fire and police protection will be the
first benefits to be gained by the an
nexed districts. In this connection the
first work will probably be the extern
sion of the fire and police telephone and
telegraph system into the outlying dis
tricts This work will be pushed for
ward as fast as money and time will
permit. A branch police station. on a
site not yet chosen, will be another
early Improvement.
Speaking of the extension of NUM-
cipal advantages to the annexed dis
tricts Mayor Mott said today:
"A meeting of the heads of the muni-
cipal departments will be called at
once for the purpose of discussing the
plans for extending the operation of
these departments to the annexed terri
tory.
This extension will be carried for
ward as fast as the means at hand
will permit. While there will be but
little revenue from the annexed dis
trict for the present year, this will
not interfere with the plans of the ad-
ministration to begin at once to give
the people OF those sections the be-
ginnings of the benefits to accrue from
being a part of the city OF Oakland.
The actual annexation will take place
as soon as the vote can be canvassed,
the certificate filed with the secretary
OF state and the other formalities OF
the law complied with.
EXTEND MUNICIPAL FACILITIES
"The extension of municipal facili-
ties will at once give to the people OF
the annexed territory something bet
ter than they have been able to pro-
cure for themselves and these facilities
will be increased more than the pro-
portion of the taxation on the annexed