The San Francisco call., 1910-04-07
Fear of Annexation by San
MateO or BurIingame Cause
of New Municipality
MiIIiOnaires Will Fill All Offices.
Dispensing Law From
Palaces

Uplands. the home of Templeton and
Miss Jennie Crocker. If the younger
set wins out and Templeton Crocker
is elected mayor Of Hinsborough Up
lands viii be the doge's palace.
1t was the Thursday Browning club
of IL Cerrito that discovered about
the doge and his palace.
In discussing the merry spirit of
Hilsborough one of the erudite mem
bers discovered and declaimed:
What. they lived once thus at Venice, where the
merchants the kings.
Did young people take their pleasure when the
Balls and masks begun at midnight, burning
When they made up fresh adventures for the
morrow, 90 you sayf
Will Be Town de Luxe
So the freshest adventure of Hills
borough became a new town govern
ment-
They say we are to have town de
luxe. a town d'elite," said Bowie, the
recorder to be. yesterday. Maybe we
are. but that isn't the point. We are
TO have town by ourselves. For our
own protection we have had to form
this town"
Il was Rev. w. A Brewer who ex-
pressed most clearly the purposes of
the new town. Mr.. Brewer it must be
explained. represents the educational
rather than the multimillionaire class.
He is the rector of st. Matthew's school
for boys and has a military academy
with battery of artillery and basket
bah team TO give Hillsborough both a
militant and athletic distinction such
as is enjoyed by few communities.
EXPLAINS NEW TOWN
said Mr.. Brewer:
What we desire most in Hills
borough-and though 1 speak wholly
for myself, / am sure that I am not
expressing any idea that is not gen
orally in accord with the spirit Of
the community-what we desire most
in Hfusborough is a town that will
he in every way desirable for country
homes. That idea is the one thing
that led the people Of this district to
plan to form the new town.
There VIII be no business center in
the town, and presume that no saloons
viii be permitted. though 1 do not be-
lieve that the bars at the country clubs
viii be fnterfered with
1T is hoped that the precedents of
similar towns located in the suburbs
of New York and Boston will be sue
cessfully followed. There is the town
of Shorthills. \. J., at which I have
visited, which is conducted along the
lines proposed for Hillsborough. Every
thing there is subordinate to the one
purpose of making homes desirable for
the best development of the family.
The undesirable elements are Eliminated
and excluded. The saloon element is
prohibited. There is no limitation on
the playrOOm for children.
Those are the conditions which
should, and I presume viii, obtain in
Efnsborough. We viii make a town
most 1T for the fullest development of
family life There will be streets not
spoiled with asphalt pavement. The
wild flowers viii be protected from will
ful destruction, but will grow so that
children may gather them along the
roads.
What I shall like to see is a town
where the children may wander at will
and in safety and pick the flowers and
gain health and strength, where there
o
f"Good sanitation, good roads and an
out Of door aspect are the ideal Of the
cmmunity. as / take it.
"A business center in a community is
undesirable, I hold, except as a con-
venience. We have the business COM
munities OF San Mateo and Burlingame
TO serve our needs. I would oppose the
establishment of any business COM
munity in Hillsboro. and as 1 under
stand il. that is the attitude of the
other gentlemen who are interested
IN the new town.
"Of course, I have not yet been
elected town trustee. I was informed
that / was nominated for the Office.
] think that there may possibly be an
opposition ticket, though 1 have heard
of-none other in the field. 1t is always
better. you know, to have competition"
Is sBOEsTRING TOWN
with these purposes in view, the mill
lionaires of Hillsborough have started
their model town idea.
To be really artistic in these DAYS Of
landscape gardening a place must have
serpentine paths. But Hillsborough has
gone landscape gardening one better
It has a serpentine town. 1t is a shoe
string town. Skillfully avoiding the
property of the never millionaires, the
geographers of Hillsborough have drawn
a map that glistens with gold. 1t
starts from the Charles W. Clark place
in FL Canine real near San Mateo as
its southeastern boundary Then fl
slips snugly back toward the hills and
embraces the De Saba property, the
transplanted Japanese-Versailles gar
dens of Henry P. Bowie, includes Up
lands, which will contain the mayors
palace if Templeton Crocker Is elected
mayor and swings on to the north.
skillfully embraces the Italian castle Of
George Howard, but adroitly avoiding
San Mateo park-where millionaires do
not live, and where the dissonant Jingle
of the cash register may sound at times.
St. Matthew'S school, where the edu-
cational idea is given. is included, and
then there is graceful dip TO include
the golf links and the Burlingame
country club. The FL Cerrito club and
polo field is also included in the sweep.
The line of demarkation embraces In
its golden meshes the property of
George Pope and Villa NH Crocker
and a few other millionaires. For as
the Browning club paraphrases-
GERALD CoNENs FOR MARSHAL
Then-more dollars-should we stop them when
q million seems so few?
Hark, the dominaDt's persistence till IL must be
answered to-
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