Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-11-03

L 49, H0ACifN0 No lOO. 1AAClE .
two water companies in Oakland now,
fshting like cats and dogs and both
about broke. What a metropolis needs
is a good water system. They can't
give 1t. They're stick-in-the-muds. I'll
gobble them up and deliver the right
article to the city. There's money
there, too-money everywhere. Every
thing works in with everything else,
Each Improvement makes the value of
everything else jump up. It's people
that are behind the value. The big
ger the crowd that herds in one place,
the more valuable is the real estate.
And. this is the very place for a crowd
to herd. Look at It. Just look at 1t!
You could never find a finer site for a
great city. All 1t needs is the herd,
and Ill stampede a couple of hundred
thousand people in here inside two
years. And what's more, 1t won't be
one of these wildcat land booms. 1t
will be legitimate. Twenty. years
from nov therell. be a million people
on this side the bay. Another thing
IS hotels. There isn't a decent one in
ShV ~ " L. 4 II fpnl1Q % COARtG vi up-lO~
date ones thatll make them sit up and
take notice. I won't care If they don't
pay for years. Their effect will more
than give me my money back out of
the other holdings. And, oh, yes, I'm
going to plant eucalyptus, millions of
them, on these hills"
s"But how are you going to do tt?"
! nadn ucIxaJ H4 ftNO., I.,-1-ft 49,
money for all that you've planned"
1--WE thirty million, and If | need
more I can borrow on the land and
other things. Interest on mortgages
won't anywhere near eat up the in
crease in land values, and I'll be sell
ing land right along"
In the weeks that followed, Day
light was a busy man. It meant quick
work on a colossal scale, for Oakland
and the adjacent country was not
slow to feel the tremendous buying.
But Daylight had the ready cash and
1t had always been his policy to
strike quickly. Before the others
could get the warning of the ON. he
quietly accomplished many tags. At
the same time that his agents were
purchasing corner lots and entire
blocks in the heart of the business
section and the waste lands for fac
tory sites, Daylight was rushing fran
chises through the city council, cap
turing the two exhausted water con
panies and the eight or nine indie
pendent street railways, and getting
his grip on the Oakland Creek and
the bay tide-Iands for his dock system.
The tide-lands had been In litigation
for years, and he took the bull by the
horns-buying out the private owners
and at the same time leasing from the
city fathers. BY the time that Oak
land was aroused by this runprecedent-
ed activity in every direction and was
questioning excitedly the meaning of
it, Daylight secretly bought the chief
Republican newspaper and the chief
Democratic organ, and moved boldly
into his new Offices. OF necessity. they
were on q large scale, occupying four
floors OF the only modern office build
ing in the town-the only building
that wouldn't be, torn, down later on,
as Daylight put it. There was de-
partmentg after department, a score of
them, and hundreds of clerks and
Stenographers. AS he told Dede:-
1--WE got more companies than you
can shake a stick it. There's the Ala
media & Contra Costa Land Syndicate,
the Consolidated Street Railways, the
Yerba Buena Ferry Company, the
United Water Company, the Pied
mont Realty Company, the Fairview
and Portola Hotel Company, and half
a dozen more that I've got to refer to
a notebook to remember. There's the
Piedmont Laundry Farm, and Red
wood Consolidated Quarries. Starting
In with our quarry, I Just kept a-going
till I got them ali. And there's the
ship-building company | amt got a
name for yet. Seeing as I had to have
ferry-boats, I decided to build them
myself. They'll be done by the time
the pier is ready for them"
For months Daylight was buried In
work. The outlay was terrific, and
there was nothing coming in. Beyond
a general rise in land values, Oakland
had not acknowledged his Eruption
on the financial scene. The city was
I waiting for him to show what he was
going to do, and he lost no time about
1t. The best skilled brains on the
market We're hired by him for the diff
fsrent branches Of the work. Initial
mistakes he had no patience with, and
he was determined to start right. as
when he engaged Wilkinson. almost
doubling his big salary, and brought
him out from Chicago to take charge
Of sthe street railway organization,
Night and day the road gangs toiled
/ on the streets. And night and day
piie-drivers hammered the big piles
down into the mud of San Francisco
Bay. The pier was to be three miles
long. and the Berkeley hills were de-
nuded OF whole royes OF mature
eucalyptus for the piling.
At the same time that his electric
roads were building out through the
hills. the hay-helds we're being sur
veged and broken up into city squares,
with here and there, according to best
modern methods. winding ~boulevards
AID strips OF park. Broad streets,
we'll graded were made. with sewers
and water-pipes ready laid, and ma
c~16SIi1s1 ffom MS own quarries. Ce-
ment sidewalks were also laid, SO that
all the purchaser had 20 do was TO