Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-11-14

utes wholesale, and making two mir
utes grow where one minute grew be
fore? Oh, yes, and planting a few
trees, too-say several million OF
them You remember the quarry !
made believe was looking at? Well,
I'm going to buy it. I'm going to buy
these hills, too, clear from here
around to Berkeley and down the
lot of them already, for that matter
But mum is the word. I'll be buying
a long time to come before anything
much is guessed about it. and don't
want the market to jump up out OF
sight. You see that hill over there.
It's my hill running clear down its
slopes through Piedmont and halfway
along those rolling hills into Oakland /.
And it's nothing to all the things I'm
,soing to buy"
He paused triumphantly.
1.-THE ferry system between Oakland
and San Francisco is the worst one
horse concern in the United States.
You cross on it every day, six days
in the week. That's say, twenty-five
days a month, or three hundred
year. How long does it take you one
way? Forty minutes, if you're lucky
I'm going to put you across IN TWEEN
ty minutes. If that amt making two
minutes grow where one grew before,
knock off my head with little apples.
I'll save you twenty minutes eacn
way. That's forty minues a day, times
three hundred. equal to twelve thou
sand minutes a year, just for you, just
for one person. Let's see: that's two
hundred whole hours Suppose save
two hundred hours a year for thou
sands Of other folks-that's farming
some, amt is? Come on. Let's ride
up that hill, and when | get you Out
on top where you can see something
I'll talk sense"
small footpath dropped down to
the dry bed of the canyon, which they
crossed before they began the climb.
The slope was steep and covered with
matted brush and bushes, through
which the horses slipped and lunged.
Showers of twigs and leaves fell upon
them, and predicament followed pre-
dicament, until they emerged on the
hilltop the worse for wear but happy
and excited Here no trees cbstruct-
ed the view. The particular hill on
which they were out-jutted from the
regular linH Of the range, so that the
sweep Of their vision extended over
three-uuarters OF the circle. Below, on
the fiat land bordering the bay. lay
Oakland, and ;.cross the bay was San
Francisco. Between the two cities
they could see the white ferly-boats
on the water. Around to their right
was Berkeley. and to their lett the
scattered villages between Oakland
and San Leandro Directly in the fore.
ground was Piedmont. with its Gesul-
tory dwellings and patches OF farming
land. and from Piedmont the land
rolled down in successive waves upon
Oakland.
Look at it. said Daylight, extend
ing his arm N a sweeping gesture.
a hundred thousand people there,
and no reason there shouldn't be half
a million There's the chance to make
five people grow where one grows
now. Here's the scheme in a nutshell.
Why don't more people live in Oak
land? No good service with San Fran
cisco, and. besides. Oakland is asleep.
It's a whole LOT better place 10 live in
than San Francisco. Now. suppose
buy in all the street railways OF Oak
land, Berkeley. Alameda. San Leandro,
and the rest-bring them under one
head with competent management?
Suppose l cut the time to San Fran
cisco oue-half by building big pieT
out there almost TO Gsat Island and