The San Francisco call., 1910-08-23

flowers. and the same was done to
Fireman T. Z. Putnam when his visage
was seen
The committee in charge of the ar
rangements had planned for a little
formal speech making after the train
had been brought to a halt. The plans
might have been very well in their
way, but there was one drawback-the
crowd would not stop shouting Wal
ter +. Mackay, president of the Oak
land chamber of commerce and chair
man of the committee of arrangements,
tried TO obtain peace by holding up his
right hand in the time honored manner
The crowd took it to be the signal for
another burst of cheers and ripped out
additional yells. Then he arose on
table, but no sooner did he turn his
countenance away from the grand
stand to the crowd massed beneath
he was cheered on his own account.
Ultimately he began reading his ad-
dress of welcome; but he had might as
well have cracked jokes for all the
good it did to the crowd. The shout
ing would not cease. and neither would
the whistling from the factories.
CROWD Is UNRELENTING
The crowd was there to celebrate the
event in its own benign way, and as
those in tho rear could not hear word
they kindly saw TO it that excitement
should not be allowed to lack. Mackay
introduced Mayor Mott. who took his
stand on a chair, and no sooner did his
popular face gain the recognition of
the crowd than he was cheered He
was cheered again when the chair
broke. The speakers. however, defied
the uproar They had their speeches
and they made them.
The same unrestrained jollity which
of h. rle-{<, 4
were in evidence in the Industrial pa
rade- Flowers, fruit and candies were
scattered among the crowd from the
wagons. There followed lot of scram-
bling and a lof of pushing, but above
all there followed lot of laughter.
The arch which spanned Third street
and under which the new train passed
was "a feet high and so feet in width
Above the cornice and belt work rose a
parapet u feet high, each of the two
buttresses carrying a fagpole. The
arch carried the inscription, Oakland
Gateway to the Pacific Welcomes the
Western Pacific" On one side the arch
was embellishe1 with an engine and on
the other with a ship 1t was de-
signed by D. Franklin Oliver and con-
structed by F. j. Jones. The lumber
was provided by the E. K Wood, the
Sunset, Western. the Hogan, the Hodge
Collins, the Rainier and the Hunter
lumber companies. Mill work was con-
tributed by the Eureka mill and lumber
company and the Burnham- -Standeford
company.
MAYOR MOTIFS SPEECH
Mayor Mott. in welcoming the west
ern Pacific, said:
This is a notable day in the an
nails Of Oakland Here we are as
sembled to give greetings and well
come TO the representatives of
new and great transcontinentaI
railway system. Their presence
ter the city over the rails OF this
completed line marks another epoch
in commercial and Industrial
achievement which will stand
among the foremost events in our
history.
Those of us who, by reason of Off
cial positions or otherwise. shared
in the work of securing entrance
into this city of the Western Pa
cific system have no reason to feel
ashamed of their effort. The West
ern Pacific came to us in the guise
of a friend. We met 1t on that
basis, and ] believe that we shall
never regret that we accorded its
representatives in those days a fair
the first great corporation in the
country to recognize the city's
rights to its harbor. 1t was through
the Western Pacific that Oakland
today controls the wllarfng out
rights on its water front. 1t was
litigation fought out by this COM
pany in the federal courts which
led finally to a settlement on an
equitable basis of so odd long years
of battle strife and controversy.