The San Francisco call., 1910-09-20
CAR EXTENSION
MEANS PROGRESS
East FruitvaIe Club Celebrates
Opening of Continuation of
LieSe Avenue Line

OAKLAND. Sept. ia new era of
development and progress has COM
menced for the hillside district of
East FruitvaIe. which contains some of
the most attractive homesites in CAL
ifornia. with the opening of the exten-
sion of the Liese avenue car line from
Penniman avenue 10 Fruitvale boule-
ward, z distance OF one mile. With the
exception OF the California railway,
which extends TO Leona Heights, the
Liese avenue line now penetrates into
the foothills section Of greater Oak
land farther than any other:
The opening Of the extension was
made the occasion Of a celebration. held
under the auspices Of the Central i'm
provement club OF East Fruitvale, at
the end Of the extension, where plat
form had been erected. The route of
the extension was decorated with
American flags ana evergreens. while
al night lights made the platform as
bright as day for the dance which
closed the festivities.
SPEAKERS Commend PROJECT
President ". E. Sansome. of the club
presided over the festivities, assisted
by the celebration committee. COM
posed Of Edward Hensley. Roy Truman,
John Dietzmann. W. II. Locke, Ernest
Southwick and II. ]. Ritter. Among
the speakers were /. II. Clay of the
oakland chamber Of commerce. J. Au-
bray Jones. Councilman r. c. Vose and
". B. Bridge and Rev. H. Baker. In
MS remarks Councilman Nose said that
within a short time the Oakland trac-
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Of the Dimond car line along Hopkins
street completed as far as Auendale.
The new terminal of the Liese avenue
line Is on the route Of the proposed
Key Route extension.
New officers Of the Latham Terrace
Improvement club were nominated Fri
day night at a smoker held by the or
ganizatiOn in Hyden hall +. w Hyden,
incumbent president, and \. r. Hide
brand, vice president, were nominated
for the presidency. while r. Z. Hummel
was named for vice president and W.
s. Frost. incumbent was renominated
for secretary and treasurer. The cleo
tion viii he held Friday. September %.
Following an address by Councilman
r. G. Nose on the franchise. the club
adopted resolutions favoring the grant
ing OF the water front franchise TO the
Southern Pacific company, with the re-
strictions which have now been placed
on il. F. NJ Smith, president of the
Twenty-third Avenue improvement
club and nominee for assemblyman
from the district, also delivered an ad-
dress. Musical selections were rem
dered during the evening by an orches-
ira.
TO RENAME STREETS
The remaining OF the streets running
parallel to East Fourteenth street in
order TO avoid the confusion now exist
ing owing to recurrence of names, and
the numbering Of the houses in prep
aration for the Inauguration of the
postal mail delivery. are the two prof
ects on which the members OF the Elm
hurst board OF trade are now at work
At meeting Monday night Philip Reil-
IS, Ben Wilson and T. c. Tillman, pres
ident of the board, were appointed to
confer with superintendent of Streets
Howe IN regard to the matter The
trouble over the street names has been
caused by the owners of tracts giving
their own names to streets that pass
through their lands. The Elmhurst
residents want one name only for q
street that is continuous.
J. T. Walden, Raymond B. FELTON,, w
A. Penney, Frank Gordon and L. c
Grssser. the fire protection committee
Of the new Melrose Heights improve
ment club, reported at Friday nights
IneeUn& OF the ORGANIZATION tnat tl65
had held a conference with Mayor
Frank X Mott and the board of public
works in regard TO obtaining immedi-
ate protection against fires. The board
has ordered, as a result of the confer
ence. that fire hydrants and proper
size mains be installed in the districi
at once and the work of installation
has already begun.
PAVING PROJECT FAVORED
The permanent paving Of East Four
tenth street from Twenty avenue
as far out as F'ifty-second avenue
which was taken up vigorously las
spring at the instance of Councilman
Nose. is again TO be discussed by tn,
Fruitvale board of trade. The mer
chants Of the Fruitvale and Melros.
sections want the highway paved a,
quickly as possible. for the mudd,
street greatly retards trade in tn,
winter months. The opposition to tn,
Improvement comes from the big prop
erty owners that reside in East -Four
reenth street west Of Fruitvale ave
nue..
The securing of better and NOR,
lights and the installation of additiona
IRE hydrants are the objects for which
the members of the Steinway Terrac,
Improvement club are working Th,
club recently built a handsome station
on the line OF the California raflwa
and all cars OF the company now stoj
at the depot, which is called Steinwa,