The San Francisco call., 1910-10-24
IMPROVERS Will
Hold CELEBRATION
Installation of ElectrOliers on
Twenty=third Avenue to
Be Occasion

OAKLAND. Oct. "a halloween
celebration will take place Saturday
night, October %, when an open air
festival will be held under the aus
pices of the Twenty-third Avenue I'm
provement club to mark the installa-
ton and lighting of electroliers along
Twenty-third avenue, from East
Twelfth and East Twentythird streets.
Invitations have been sent to every
Improvement and civic organization in
the annexed district to participate, as
well as TO the civic bodies of Oakland.
The celebration will be of Importance
to the East Oakland district, for it
will mean the beginning of a great
shopping center. a street OF modern
stores and amusement places. well illu-
minated and convenient of access to
population estimated at 10000. Coun-
Gilman r. c. Vose, chairman; w. g.
Hawes. secretary; Louis Hinck. treas
urer; c. Tiedenann, T. S. Hansen, NJ.
Van Haaren and W. T. Smith, the com
mittee in charge of the affair, have
completed plans for the festival.
With a concert at East Fourteenth
street and Twenty-third avenue by the
Fifth Regiment band at 7:30 o'clock.
the celebration will formally open. In
1 IWenIN-IllrQ avenue, DeINttU Cdol
Fifteenth and East Sixteenth streets,
a band stand will be erected and the
pavement swept clean, in order that
dancing may be enjoyed until mid
night The block above will be de-
voted to races under the auspices of
the Century athletic club, for valuable
prizes The houses will be Illuminated
and decorated, fancy booths Will line
the sidewalks and everywhere will be.
grinning jack o lanterns. The festival
will end at midnight with a confetti
battle.
LAUREL GROVE ACTIVITY
At a meeting at the home of W. H.
Husband 3237 Laurel avenUe, the
Laurel Grove improvement club elected
the following officers last week: John
Duffy, president; Joseph Unger, first
vice president; c. HUFFMAN, secretary;
T A. Currie, treasurer. The club ap
proved of the extension of the Dimond
street carline along Hopkins street.
Resolutions were adopted urging that
action be taken as quickly as possible
to provide a sanitary system for the
district.
The Latham Terrace Improvement
club is devoting its attention to the
dissolution of the old sanitary district
known as No. ,. President E. w. Hyden
has been appointed to confer with City
Attorney j. w. ~Stetson as to the
quickest. method to dissolve the district
and turn the administration of the
sanitary affairs over to Oakland. The
club also desires East Twenty third
street repaired in the neighborhood of
Sausal creek, and a police and fire
alarm box placed at East Twenty third
street and Twenty third avenue.
With its attention divided between
securing the extra land necessary for
the widening of Hopkins street and the
installation of a sewer system, the
Hopkins Street improvement club is
one of the busiest organizations east
of Lake Merritt Due to the efforts
of w. Broderick, F. w. S. Brookes and
c. Ernst, the extension of the Dimond
carline along Hopkins street is an
assured fact, and it is only question
of time until actual construction of the
road Aill begin.
PROGRESS REPORTED
In the absence of President W. E.
Sansome, W. II. Locke presided at the
meeting of the Central Improvement
club of East Fruitvale, Tuesday night.
z. Huffaker and r. R. Clarke reported
on the progress being made in the
sanitary matter. Louis May, E. d.
Southwick. K. Bergendahl and Edward
Hensley said that they had held a con-
ference with the fire commissioners
and that a means of fire protection
WOuiQ De pfOflOtQ lot Tile AlIeDQdle
district within few weeks.
Thursday night an entertainment
and banquet was given by the Twenty
third Avenue Improvement club in its
hall 1910 East Fifteenth street. Mrs.
Grant d. Miller gave a recitation,
which was followed by Mrs. t. B.
Holmes and Aubrey and Beverly
Holmes with a musical trio number,
composed of piano, cornet and violin.
VIII Moir and III. McVeigh sang sew
eral songs. while Irving Dow played
violin solo and Miss Nina Weldon
gave a piano solo. The committee in
charge was composed of f. Sinz, T.
Hibbler and T. f. Hansen
Under the auspices Sof the Elmhurst
board of trade the houses in that COM
munity are being rapidly numbered by
Ed Colgrove, preparatory to the in
stallation of free mail delivery
service.
Amendments to the constitution, to
be voted on in November, were con-
sidered at Friday nights meeting of
the Melrose. Heights club, as well as
the need of street signs in the annexed
district and the remaining Of the high
ways according TO a uniform system.
The need of storm sewers in certain
parts of the district was also dis
cussee