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The San Francisco call., 1910-03-19
CLEARING HOUSE IN
LEAD OF PROGRESS
Central Financial Institution of
Oakland Assists Greatly in
Building Up of City
By G. E. SLEEPER,
Manager Oakland Clearing House

Like a great many institutions need
ed in big city. the clearing house is
one of the requisites to the banking
quake Oakland was without an organ
lied clearing house, but Immediately
proceeded to have one, and this insti-
tuition came into existence May l, 1906.
1t has been performing its service to
the banks and public since that date.
There are at present eight members
in the association. which are as fol-
lows: Oakland Bank of Savings, Union
savings bank, First national bank,
Central bank, Farmers and Merchants
savings bank, State savings bank. Sc
curity bank and trust company, and
Harbor bank. These banks do the ac-
tual clearing for the city of Oakland
The other banks, situated in different
and more distant parts of the city. clear
through these original members of the
officers of the association are as fol-
lows: w. w. Garthwaite Of the Oak
land Bank of Savings, president; l.. G.
Burpee, vice president of the First ma
tional bank, vice president; George S.
Meredith, cashier of the Farmers and
Merchants savings bank. secretary;
George f. Sleeper. manager of the
Oakland clearing house.
The clearing house is situated in a
well arranged and modern building for
its purposes at 512 Twelfth street be-
tween WASHINGTON and Clay streets
Oakland has one of the best arranged
clearing houses in the United States,
and is second to none with the excep-
ton of the city of New York.
In the four years of its existence in
Oakland the clearing house has accom-
plished many things, and has been
live factor in the growth of the greater
city. During the financial panic of 1907
:he organization did a world of good
In quieting the fears of the public and
became better known to the business
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-19

Oakland recently is alone sufficient to
/ make up an imposing showing. These
include:
1. Voting Of $3,7GO.OoO in a bond issue for
docks and wharves and for the erection of a new
city hau.
>. Bond issue Of s3TJ,o0o to be expended for
sewers in the district annexed by popular vote,
this district including towns OF splendid opPor-
tunity and promise.
3. The construction Of a new POLYTECHNIC
school TO cost S6p0 600 aud a new high school
building. and also additional grounds and build
iugs TO extend the present fne system Of school
structures and their adjuncts.
f. The construction Of the great Bankers
hotel. upon which work is now proceeding and
An which cost exceeding 81 900 Vu0 i involved.
IAN '+i7t -ettun. HllSh hl' -
erection OF handsome buildings oi hlsh cost pE
the Union savings bank. the Oakland bank Of
savings, the First national bank and the Farm
g. The enlargement Of hotel accommodations
10y the erection Of the St Mark, the Athens, the
arcade. the Key Route hotel, the Claremont
hotel. and by the construction also Of a large
number II smaller hotels. apartment houses and
4 The projueet Of a great auditorium to cost
at least half million dollars. TO be situated in
an accessible and picturesque locality IN which
all the charms OF scenery and all the advantages
of speedy transportation may be combined. TO
the end that Oakland may claim 10 be conven-
ton city
ness purposes. and the formation OF plans for
others. among which the Elks building. the
department store OF Taft & Pennoyer. the Sher-
man. Clay * Co. building. the St George build
ing. the Kahn building. the Thayer building,
the King building. and by plans for other large
structures and by the addition Of stories to en-
large office accommodations supplied by bank
buildings. The Capwell building. about to be
constructed. viii represent in cost of land and
structure 81 .O00. 600. This viii stand on great
lot having dimensions Of 2osx13o feet. 1t viii
stand in the line Of Clay street between
Fourteenth and Fifteenth and win run back to
the city hall
. The procuring Of an appropriation that
makes Il certain that large Improvements in
Oakland harbor viii be made by the federal gov
erHment.
10 The coming into the city Of rev trans
continental railway. the Western Pacific.
IL The conversion Of the Southern Pacific
company OF its local lines from steam to elec-
tricaly propelled trains. thus extending the sub
urbs of Oakland into many new localities: the
simultaneous extension ~ local electric lines
which have been in existence for some time.
It is entirely impossible in a short in
troductory summary TO account for or
TO enumerate all the favorable causes
which have combined to make Oakland
Immediately greater, TO lay satisfac-
torily the foundation for a much larger
degree Of greatness, or even to suggest
the extent of water front advantages
commercially considered and from the
manufacturing point of view, or to in
the least indicate the delights and ac-
cessories Of pleasant living in Oakland.
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-19
CLAREMONT PALMS TRACT
LOTS EAGERLY SOUGHT
District Will Be One of the
Choicest for Homes

Lewis & Mitchell are highly elated
over their success in handling Clare
mont Palms tract This beautiful tract,
consisting of 50 lots. was opened for
sale January /, and il was predicted at
that time that the whole tract would
be sold inside of one year without great
effort Although the original prices
have been raised the owners report the
sale of 81 lots to date and now say that
they will not have lot left by mid
summer.
In speaking of the tract President
Lewis Of the company said:
Il have been more or less prominent
ly connected with every important sub
division on this side of the bay for the
last 10 years, but the way Claremont
Palms tract has gone from the very
start justifies my opinion that 1t is the
very finest subdivision l have ever seen.
Nearly all the lots sold to date have
been sold for home sites and nearly a
dozen houses have been commenced
Not one of these but has kept well
above the $4,000 building restriction
thus assuring a very choice, high class
residence district We are pushing the
street work TO completion as rapidly as
possible and with the exception of
BOYD avenue the work is all completed
and this street will positively be fin
fshed within the next so days We are
selling beautiful. level, elevated lot
4Ox1OO feet, for s1,150, including all
street work, sidewalks and palms, one
block TO the College avenue cars. 10
minutes TO Oakland or Berkeley and 25
minutes direct to San Francisco by the
CIaremont Key Route"
Claremont Palms tract is located in
the Claremont thermal belt. between
Claremont and College avenues, north
of Hudson street It has an elevation
4 4
view of the bay and surrounding hills
It lies close to the popular and exclu-
sive Elmwood park and is destined to
he an equally desira BILE home place
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-19
OAKLAND BUSINESS
SECTION BOOMING
Many Fine Buildings Will Be
Added to Those Now Full
and FlOurisfing

Oakland boasts of many fine stores,
which are representative of all lines of
business The chief center of retail
trade is on Washington street. Broad
way, Clay, Franklin and adjoining
streets and on the streets intersectins
these thorOughfareS. There are other
neigh bOrhoodS where retail business
has acquired large headway and where
the aggregate of transactions is con-
siderable. No portion OF Oakland has
improved more than the retail business
section in the last five years. Costly
structures of the skyscrapeT class. of
class A style. fitted handsomely and
located centrally, house large stocks Of
costly goods and provide Offices for "a
stirring and enterprising population
The number of such structures is in
creasing-
The retail business of Oakland has
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-19

increase over last year for the same
period.
Greater Oakland is fact both finan-
cially and commercially, and will grow
beyond all expectations in the next
decade
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-19
Frank K. Mott Co.
OAKJ JANTD QEAJ EcTATE
1860 Broadway, Oakland
Industrial Sites

Manufacturing sites and acreage for industrial enterprises
right in the heart of the front districts.
Factory locations aordng OF belt line railroad
facilities spur track facilities and wharfage.
Now is the time to buy such properties When harbor
improvements actually these lands will jump to
prohibitive prices for many purposes
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-19

been very largely stimulated by the
extension of railways TO connect the
center of the city with the outlying
and adjoining communities. which col
lectively have a population OF many
thousands
The San Francisco call., 1910-03-19
Business Properties

We have spent fortune gaining knowledge OF avail
able business property Oakland We put YOU nme
date touch with number of the safest in down
improved realty the Oaklands
has great future and there income properties
know be obtained today which should double in
the five years
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-08
LOVE THAT PAssETH UNDERSTANDING


buried The last word her old
let tell her
had her pick of half dozen
other other fellows, well pretty
much said ALL
They married housekeeping shack the edge
of fathers farm.
For while Joe puced and real steady but he began
oang getting until would come
home and Lucinda and the little boys out of doors even
time they slept would starved if
It
sober times
before he died.
to make her comfortable and harsh the
about often would mothers
she got in the house she would Abbe Chat
moher) make good talk
and have good cry
Lucinda would talk She drinking
neglect the blows
she loved him"
she would home cheered
wondered then and wonder Lu-
all
could kill; that could
change.
believed in God because there
women like Lucinda could love poor creature like Joe
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-08
Horoscope

The stars incline, but do not
compel"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-08
The New Sisterhood of
Women Who Work
and Women
Who Would Help

cite district that they might help these young women
They did not prmy gather up their skirts from the mill
floors Uttered with threads and remains of uncheons e
floors are the girls tables and chairs we They did
not look through the cold eyeglasses of the nvesgato
and with pencils poised on giltedged notebooks decide
that if the girls would put ''sou' into their work.
and not buy candy and new Easter hats they would not
need higher wages and shorter hours
These women thought they would never understand the
problems OF the working girl until they themselves be-
working girls.
Ian through eastern Pennsylvania worked in every
mill where job obtainabe for month"; says Miss
Sanvle in Harper's Magazine for April 'Then set
tied in typical mining town. obtained board in the family
of of the girls in the mill where we WORKED and for
another month lived with her. met her friends and
Joined in her recreations''
Then Miss Sanvie made the discovery that was
made by the millionaire sufragists of New York when
they went from their parOs into the and the night
courts to fight with the striking shrtwaist girls of another
class, another race and another creed
81 feel mpeled to emphasize again the essential similar
ity which exists between of the working and the
called non working class in spite of very general belief
to the contrary" says Miss Sanvle "With ordinary
in choosing suitable clothes and language the eXag
geraed chasm which is supposed to separate the college
trained woman from the factoybred shrank out of
sight"
Sefconscious investigators, she says who do factory
work for the sole purpose of writing it up have eXagger-
ated the contrasts and given harmuy untrue picture of
the factory girl ''The too-prevaen opinion which at
tributes lower standard of morals to factory girls than
fact"
She found that the selfcomorng statement of the rich
who deck themselves in the silks these girls weave
that the factory girl is FUSED to the monoony and don
mind it, is untrue She found that all of the girls well
herself found the passage of time the most absorbing
question after the first few hours of the day She had
leave her watch at home because she asked the time
often
She found that the girls showed beautiful spirit of
kindiness to each other Some girls patiently earned
Miss Sanvile her work. though they got money for it;
asked her to lovely waterfalls; another
offered to get her better job working out in swell
famiy'' another tried to get her beau
Before this ssterhood of who work, and
those of the upper class who down to work
and fight with them, the astonshed 1t has got
the brotherhood Of man going.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-08
MOST anything
Josh Wise Sayss
9TH young man who sets
out ter marry rich has made
a poor start"

You have injured my hotel bust.
ness. SIR" said the angry adver-
tiser. You have made it appear
as If l was conducting livery
barn."
How was that?" asked the pub
Usher of the village paper.
my ad should have read, we
Keep the Best Table in Town. and
it came out We Keep the Best Sta
BILE in Town."
Cannon is the only man ever
elected speaker Of the house Of rep
resentatives four consecutive terms.
There was Joy in the home of a
family in the poorer quarters of
London, for they had received from
the bakers a pie of far greater size
than the mean little pie they had
sent to be cooked. But when Gus
served it out his wife explained:
well, Gus, we have been mar
ried now nearly 80 years and this
is the first time you have served me
first"
Hush, hush, Liza!" replied Gus.
81 know very well that the man who
owns this pie will be saying, I hope
the first bite chokes the one who
eats it, Get on with your dinner,
like a good woman"
In Kansas town two young men
started a barber shop together. On
one dull day they sat down to a
quiet game of freeze-out poker.
After awhile a customer came in
and waited a while for them to
finish their game. Becoming impa-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-08
Saturday, April 9, 1910.

The stars incline, but do not
compel"
Saturday, April 9, 1910.
Today is born a moon that
shall behold
Strange things on earth and
happenings manifold.
On this e9th day the moon 10
new and has Mercury In con.
junction and Mars In benefio
aspect.
it's entry Is In signs that In.
dictate that many serious &C.
currenees will mark the days
during which Il rules. Euro
psan astrologers foreteII a
critical time for the eastern
hemisphere, and especially for
Germany, Australia and China.
There is an omen Of a dis
aster in a place where many
persons are gathered to hear
and see.
Many terrihls deaths are
fore-omened in the future, par.
ticuIarIy through the agencies
Of fire and accidents on high.
ways.
There will be great strife
among men holding public
office.
Jupiter opposing the Moon
this day warns business men
to exercise unusual care in
contracts and other important
undertakings. Speculation, ma
licious competition and efforts
to extract unfair profits or gain
dlshonorable advantages are
likely to react severely on
those who use them.
Physicians, surgeons, nurses
and others ministerlng to the
i'll or suffering are under OK.
eeedIngIy promising signs and
should be more than ordinarily
gifted to help and relieve.
Advertising is under a
brightly promising sign during
the ensuing 40 hours. The
time Is good for writing letters
and signing papers, but care
must be taken against errors
that may slip through II there
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-08

10 haste or confusion. En-.
pIoyees who write or calculate
must be particularly careful.
"Quarrel with Strangers"
especially In the afternoon o.
evening, 10 indicated today ~
holding many dangers. The
sign is evil, also, for drinking
or otherwise induIsing appe.
tites..
In the household the az.
pect favors baking.
Persons whose birth date 10
today may endanger their
prospects during the twelve
month by short sighted selfish
ness and greed for something
Of only fleeing and temporary
value.
Children are born today
under aspects promising great
powers Of will and Unborn fac.
uities Of leadership and direc.
q
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-08

Today is born a moon that
shall behold
Strange things on earth and
happenings manifold.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-08
TEDDY
ON POLITICS


before England had any government at ALL it was tough
In Teddy to STIR up the animals at Cairo by announcing
that people shouldn't go in for government until
they showed fitness and capabity therefor.
Since the days of Cambyses the people of Egypt have
6een having hard time with the government business
Mhen strong enough they haven't been backward about
feeding their obnoxious kings queens to the crocodes
and going in for taste of sefgovenment and evidently
tere today strong popular sentiment against the plan
OF Engands wetnursng at long range. The khedive is
puppet who dances in obedience to strings held at
don and Ieddys declaration that they shouldn't aim
something better until they longer tried such humia
gressive OF any sort within thousand miles of the an
cient and beloved Nile.
But since Teddy has got out of Cairo with whole skin
and all OF his teeth we're glad that he took that nbbe
Egyptian politics. 1t shows that Teddy still likes politics.
AS he progresses westward the taste may develop still
further and by the time he reaches home he may have
made up his mind to say few kind words about poll
tics that will mean whole feast with everybody invited
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-08

LONDON, April S.-The prevail
ing opinion of England's financiers
interviewed by representatives Of
the United Press, is that the pro-
posed invasion of American capital
lists, headed by J. P. Morgan and
the Standard Oil, into South Amer
lea, in an effort to secure a large
share of the banking business, will
meet with failure.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-08
Fun
Facts
Fiction
Froth
Fads
Folly

tient, he finally said, Hey, which
one of you is going to shave me"
Hold your horses" replied one,
"this deal will settle who owns the
ShOD"
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-08

Miss Florence Sanville,
secretary, and Miss Fanny
Cochran, director of the
Consumers league of Phil
adelphia, wanted to know
about the life of the girls in
the silk mills of the anthra-
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-08

on the address. label Of each When that GATE
arrives subscription has again been paid In advance
your taken from the list the address
label is receipt
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-04-08

AS the Egyptians had
about as much self-govern-
ment as they now get I'M
der England at least a
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-20
rack of IinllcS's Comet md neishborins stars, May 2o-s1.

the sister Of the deceased's first wife,
now living at Baltimore. She made
affidavit to that effect, and by her or
der the mummy a shipped to Wash
ipgton,
The departure of the body of Sidney
Lascelles, noted forger. swindler and
bisamist, writes fins to a tale OF
crime and deception in high life which
opened in Australia, shifted to the
ranks of nobility in England. and
closed in a cheap lodging house here.
In America the highest circles Of
society did homage to the bogus lord,
At Rome, Ga: Fitzgerald, Ca; Norfolk.
Va, and other cities, wherever he Went,
Lascelles formed matrimonial alliances
with the daughters of the rich. only to
leave them in the course of a week,
poor in purse, blu richer In experience.
Lascelles came to Asheville from Nor
folk, Va, eight years ago, suffering
from tuberculosis, and died In 1903,
There being no claimants for his body,
1t was embalmed. The body became al
most petrified, losing but little of its
lifelike appearance.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-20

Nothing In months has proven SO
popular as the daily demonstrations in
the uses of Wesson Snowdrlft Oil being
conducted daily by the Southern Cot
ton OH Company at the Exchange for
Women's Work, No, 500 East Franklin
Street. In order to familiarize the
public in general and the women in
particular With the results obtainable
through the use of Wesson Snowdrift
tOil, when, intelligently used for cook
laS and salad-maklng, the Southern
Sotton OH Company sent an EXPERT
crew or demonstrators to Richmond.
q! neat u attractive combination
kitchen and dining room has been Mt
Led APP at the home of the E%xchanee.
there, daily, from 1890 to IL O'clock,
We demonstrators are receiving the
Women of Richmond and teaching them
fi.s arr OF economy n table taste
tulness, through the use of Wesson
ana suets, for cooking and frying, or
olive oil in the preparation Of v
nalse and other delightful dressings
O'clock. 1850 :"
! me oil, which is absolutely pure.
ouor!sss and tasteless. Is used in the
preparation OF the dainty food which
Is served there to the Visitors IN N"
1or!la ot iunclleons throughout the day,
no ,petter weapon to be used In the
lsht 70 reduce the cost OF living has
peen found blythe women of Richmond
,nuh Wesson snowdrift Oil, which Is
iess expensive and at the same time
more healthful and better,
y ~ofdlal invitation is every
one 70 attend this demonstration.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-20
DEATH OF ADMIRAL NIcKELs
Veteran of Spanish War Passes Away
ut the Shenandoah

John Augustin Nickels, commodore
in the United States Navy, who served
through the Spanish-Amer!can War,
died Yesterday In the Shenandoah
Apartments, in this city, after a long
illness. Commodore Nickcls had been
retired on account of Ill hcaith for
years and had ltvcdfn Richmond
for several years.
Commodore Nichels married Miss
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander Parker
Of Richmond. She was q cousin of
Mrs. J. w. Henson. OF this city. and
Mrs. Marion Lambert. OF st. Louis, Win
was Miss Florence Parker.
Commodore Nickels was born In
Boston on January IL, 1919, the son
OF Edward Cutter Nlckcls and Sarah,
Colb oirne Nickels. He graduated from
the Naval academy with the class OF
1869. and was married the following
year.
Tbs funeral will take place in WASH
with military honors. The burial
VIII be in Arlington Cemetery.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-20
AT new
CENTRAL Y. NJ. CA.
Woman's Committee Entertains,
and Visitors Are Shown
Over Building.

Women's day In the formal opening
of the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton wa observed yesterday. 1t was
the first chance that the women who
had contributed SO much towards the
building, had had of visiting the place.
The reception was entirely informal.
a large number of women attended,
and they were shown through the
building from top to bottom. The new
home of the Y. NJ. c.. A.. was attrac-
lively decorated with palms and vases
OF peonies.
Those on the reception committee
We're Mrs. William Hodges Mann. Mrs.
u. C. Richardson. Mrs. Mary C. Gentry.
chairman of the woman's committee).
Mrs. Fred c. Carr. Mrs. A. C. Diggs,
Mrs. j. J.. Greer, Mrs. w. d. Duke Miss
Estelle Deaton. Mrs. 7. Jack Bagby.
Mrs. w. L. Haase, Mrs. r. C. Hawkins.
Mrs. II. w. Holloway. Mrs. j. S. James,
Mrs. j. r. Johnson. Mrs. T. B.. Johnson.
Miss Mamie Jones. Mrs. G. W. Koiner,
Mrs. w. S. Murray, Mrs. II. S. MacLean.
Mrs. D. C. Mccain, Mrs. S. Is. Mckee,
Mrs. B. c. Nelson, Mrs. II. c.. Oster-
bind. Mrs. L r. Pemberton, Mrs. John
C. Rose. Mrs. II. w. Rountree, Mrs. T..
NJ. Hundley. Mrs. L. O.. Miller. Mrs. c.,
b. Beasley, Mrs. S. p. Wiley, Mrs. A. i.
Miller. Mrs. ". Y. Reithard, Mrs. C. G.
Taylor. Jr., Mrs. L. D. Walford. Mrs.
C. X. Willis. Mrs. Mary S. banner. Mrs.
C. r. Guy, Mrs, James W. Gordon. Mrs.
l.. NJ Williams, Mrs. l.. I. Christian,
Mrs. j. F. Mayer, Mrs II. NJ. Smith.
Mrs. E. T. Sutton. Mrs. C. j. Billups.
Mrs. G. w. Bahlke. Mrs. o. A. Hawkins.
Mrs. Minor. Mrs. o. j. Sands, Mrs.
Jacob Urnlauf.
Further exercises in opening the
building will occur tomorrow. with
the following program: 10 "A. NJ, Boys
Bible Study Club reunion; 1890 p. NJ,
THE Swimming Pool in Action; $3.50
p. NJ, open house to the young mon
of the city. Sunday will be devoted to
services 10 meetings for
men and bows,