Bishop's Oakland directory for 1876-8, Part 1

Author: D.M. Bishop & Co
Publication date: 1876-77
Publisher: Oakland : B.C. Vandall
Number of Pages: 530


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ii.


OAKLAND DIRECTORY.


J. DAVIES. B. MCCULLOUGH.


MCCULLOUGH & DAVIES, Carpenters Builders


JOBBING OF ALL KINDS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.


Residence 189 Third St.


BET. ALICE AND JACKSON STS. · OAKLAND.


OAKLAND Billiard Parlor


SHATTUCK'S HALL,


863 Broadway, bet. Seventh and Eighth, Oakland.


The above popular room has just been lav- ishly refurnished and carpeted throughout, and will compare favorably with the first-class Bil- liard Saloons of the metropolis.


J. FENNESSY, Proprietor.


Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars.


ADVERTISEMENTS.


LEWIS PETERSON.


JOHN OLSSON.


PETERSON & OLSSON,


Model Makers.


SPECIAL ATTENTION TO MODELS FOR INVENTORS.


EMBLEMATIC SIGNS.


MANUFACTURERS OF Weather Vanes, Chemical Apparatus, Tea Canisters, Liquor Measures, Pumps, Syphons, and all descriptions of Lanterns, Theatrical Properties, etc.


328 BUSH ST.


Between Montgomery and Kearny Streets, (UP STAIRS) SAN FRANCISCO.


STARKWEATHER & SON,


IMPORTERS OF


Carpets and Oil Cloths


II53 BROADWAY,


Between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Streets, Oakland.


The Latest Patterns of Body Brussels, Tapestries, Three-Ply and Ingrains, OIL CLOTHS OF ALL WIDTHS,


Rugs, Mats and Matting in all varieties constantly on hand. Old carpets taken up, cleaned, and re-laid the same day, when desired. Curtain Work done to order, and perfect satisfaction guaranteed.


iv. OAKLAND DIRECTORY.


THE Oakland Carpet


Store.


CHAS. L. TAYLOR,


IMPORTER AND DEALER IN


Carpets, Dil Cloths


PAPER HANGINGS, UPHOLSTERY GOODS, 1060 Broadway,


EAST SIDE, . BET. ELEVENTH AND TWELFTH, Oakland.


Carpet and Curtain Work done to order.


TINNING, PLUMBING, GAS - FITTING


And Metal Roofing done in all its branches,


.315 East Twelfth Street, East Oakland.


Gas Fixtures, Pumps of all kinds, Stoves and Ranges. Jobbing, etc.


M. DE LA MONTANYA,


DEALER IN


Ranges, Stoves Tinware,


1011 BROADWAY, BFT. TENTH AND ELEVENTH.


All kinds of Tin, Copper, Zinc and Sheet Iron Work made to order. Roofing and all kinds of Repairing done at short notice, and at the lowest prices.


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Blank Books made to order, with every kind of ruling. All kinds of books bound in the best manner. Sheet Music bound strong, and promptly delivered. Pictures neatly framed, and Fancy Leather Work and Gold Lettering a specialty. Albums repaired. All our work first-class, at moderate prices.


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OAKLAND DIRECTORY.


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Proprietors, 420 Sansome Street, San Francisco, MANUFACTURERS OF


Brass, Copper, Steel and Iron Wire Cloth


Brass and Steel Battery Screens, Locomotive Wire Cloth and Heavy Mining Cloth,


ORNAMENTAL WIRE WORK, WIRE FENCE, RAILING, GUARDS, ETC.


Galvanized Wire Cloth for Fruit Drying,


Ship and Railroad Lanterns.


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BISHOP'S OAKLAND DIRECTORY - FOR -


1876-7.


CONTAINING A


BUSINESS DIRECTORY,


STREET GUIDE.


RECORD OF THE


CITY GOVERNMENT,


Its Institutions, etc.


- ALSO A -


DIRECTORY OF THE TOWN OF ALAMEDA


1 COMPILED BY D. M. BISHOP & CO.


W. B. HARDY, 959 BROADWAY, AGENT.


- JULY 1876.


OAKLAND: PUBLISHED BY B. C. VANDALL. 1876.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by B. C. Vandall, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D. C. -


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TABLE OF CONTENTS.


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ABBREVIATIONS


83


ADDITIONAL NAMES


5


ALAMEDA DIRECTORY 467 64


BANKS


BOARD OF EDUCATION


23


BOARD OF HEALTH


BOARD OF SUPERVISORS, COUNTY


BONDED DEBT


BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF OAKLAND


CHURCHES


CITY COUNCIL OF OAKLAND


COUNTY INFIRMARY


COURTS


EDUCATIONAL .


FIRE DEPARTMENT


IMPROVEMENTS.


INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODD FELLOWS


LIBRARIES


MASONIC


MILITARY


MISCELLANEOUS SOCIETIES.


MORTUARY REPORT ..


MUNICIPAL FINANCES.


MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT OF OAKLAND.


NOTARIES PUBLIC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY .


OFFICIAL DIRECTORY OF THE COUNTY OF


ALAMEDA


POLICE DEPARTMENT


POPULATION


POST OFFICES.


PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF OAKLAND


RAILROADS-STREET


66


REAL ESTATE


32 473


REGISTER OF NAMES, ALAMEDA


83


REGISTER OF NAMES, OAKLAND


RESOURCES AND PRODUCTIONS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY 20


SECRET SOCIETIES 57


STREET GUIDE. 71


UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA


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23 17 28 405 54 22 19 19 39 24 38 59 65 57 64 63 69 27 21 18 17 23 15 69 39


INDEX OF ADVERTISERS.


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Auld & Barfred.


-315


Baldwin A.


410


McGivney James.


438


Bancroft A. L. & Co. opp


96


McKenzie W. W 464


Barnes H. W.


96


Metcalf George D.


452


Berger L. P.


445


Methodist Book Concern


i


Bering John P.


vi


Meyer Adolph


. top margin back cover


Bernard Charles


500


Miley & Laage


430


Miller J. Fred. 454


Brown S. A .. 117


Burkardt Max ... bottom margin front cover


Burnham, Standeford & Co ...... back cover


Carrique E. T.


445


Cochrane & Richmond, side margin


front cover


Dalziel & Moller


151


Dalziel James


151


Day Thomas.


front cover


De La Montanya M


iv


Denniston Edward G.


461


Dexter Livery Stable


117


Diamond Printing Co


451


Everson W. & M.


173


Palace Horse Shoeing Shop


442


Peterson & Olsson


iii


Fennessy J.


ii


Follrath Adam


442


Forg Charles.


449


Freeman & Jaffe


429


Fuhrmann A. M.


back cover


Gaudin J


189


Gibb & Co.


454


Golden Gate Academy.


82


Gordon J. S. G.


top margin


Grand Central Carriage Works


427


Grand Central Livery Stables.


371


Guild Pianos.


back cover


San


Francisco


Pioneer


Varnish


Halley William


458


Works.


.opp


224


Hallidie A. S.


.front cover


Hardy W. B.


207


Hayes George & Co.


.432, 450, 461


Heald's Business College.


.opp


208


Sohst Bros.


427


Healy M. J.


. bottom margin back cover


Herrmann C.


. side margin front cover


Hill J. B.


i


Howard & Morse.


vi


Hueter Bros. & Co


.opp


224


Jahn & Scholl.


231


Jordan Bros


426


500


Jung J. C.


Kelly E. J. & Co


.side margin


Kirk O. C ..


iv


Lawrie A. G ..


460


Lulley M. & Sons.


407


Maple Leaf Nursery.


295


Mau Charles


406


Murray & Roberts 427


National Surgical Institute


498


Newsom L. M


295


Oakland Bank of Savings


301


Oakland Journal.


Oakland Planing Mill.


.back cover


Oakland Transcript.


.opp


300


Oakland Tribune.


bottom margin


Ockelmann & Friedlander ₱


Pacific Business College.


opp


304


Pacific Electro Depositing Works.


...


462


Pacific Wire Works.


. back cover


Pioneer Collection Office 317


Pioneer Planing Mills


315


Raffo Bros


440


Remillard & Bros


499


Robinson A.


331


Rutherford C. B.


side margin


Samm Jacob


498


San


Francisco


and Pacific Glass


Works.


back of cover


San Francisco Plating Works.


461


Slate W.


350


Smith Stephen


bottom margin


Starkweather & Son


iii


Stokes William


406


Sunny Side House


410


Taylor Charles L.


iv


Tinkham & Butterfield.


371


Tustin W. I.


inside front cover


Union National Gold Bank.


378


Union Savings Bank


378


West Coast Furniture Co.


back cover


Wheat C. D


499


White J. E.


451


Williams H. F


499


Woodward & Taggart.


top margin


Mccullough & Davies.


ii


Blethen & Terry


315


Morris A.


i


Farno A. C ..


317


Pioneer Carpet Beating Machine


331


Pioneer Carriage Factory 427


ADDITIONAL NAMES, REMOVALS, ETC.,


Received too late for regular insertion.


Adams J. R., foreman W. D. Co., res Sunnyside House Allen D. P., carpenter with Philip Schreiber, res Sunnyside House


Armstrong B. A. & Son (B. A. and George F. Armstrong) house, carriage and fresco painter, N s Twelfth bet Harrison and Alice


Armstrong Bradley A. (B. A. Armstrong & Son) res :W s Broadway nr Twenty-second


Armstrong George F. (B. A. Armstrong & Son) res W s Broadway nr Twenty-second


ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC TELEGRAPH CO., E. W. Haskin manager, Broadway Railroad station


BALDWIN ALEXANDER, proprietor Sunnyside House, SW cor Thirteenth and Harrison


Bartlett Benoit, stonecutter Oakland Stone Yard, res Ala- meda


Basnett John .D., clerk with William Dick, res Alameda


Bieler Frank, wholesale wines and liquors, store and res 769 East Twelfth


Blaisdell Samuel S., photographer with Bluett & Fardon Blake Francis (Blake, Robbins & Co., SF) res Telegraph av bet Sycamore and Caledonia av


Blessing Charles V., carpenter Oakland Planing Mill, res 469 Sixth


BLUETT & FARDON (W. H. Bluett and G. R. Fardon) photographers, 1157 Broadway


BLUETT W. H. (Bluett & Fardon) res SW cor Jefferson and Sixteenth


BRINCKMANN E. (Koenig & Brinckmann) res N s Thir- teenth bet Broadway and Franklin


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BURKARDT MAX, oil paintings, chromos and picture frames, 545 Washington (S F) res SE cor Tenth und Madison. [See advertisement bottom margin front cover. ]


Campbell E. D., clerk post office, res Sunnyside House CARL CHARLES, stock broker, 922 Broadway (Union Bank Building)


CARRIQUE E. T., agent State Investment and Insurance Co., 460 Eighth, res NW cor Washington and Ninth


DARGIE WILLIAM E., president Oakland Tribuhe Pub- lishing Co, 911 Broadway


Deitrick A. A., butcher, shop and res 830 Clay


Dinneen Bartholomew, stone cutter Oakland stone yard, res Golden Star Hotel


FOLLRATH ADAM, proprietor Palace horseshoeing shop, N s Twelfth bet Harrison and Alice


Grinnell W. E. (R. McCrum & Co.) res cor Twenty-sixth and West


Hanscom John O., mining (S F) res William nr Telegraph av JORDAN BROS. (Moses S. and J. C. Jordan) carpenters and builders, 403 Tenth


JORDAN J. C. (Jordan Bros.) res Alta House


JORDAN MOSES S. (Jordan Bros.) res 316 Tenth


MCKENZIE W. W., undertaker, N s Eighth bet Broadway and Franklin, res 611 Fifteenth


MILLER J. FRED., bookbinder and paper ruler, 9 Wilcox block, res Fifth bet Alice and Jackson


Oakes Fred A., operator Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Co., Broadway R R Station


OAKLAND TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO., William E. Dargie president, 911 Broadway


Paget Mr. & Mrs., Parisian Academy, cor Telegraph av and Seventeenth


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THE CITY OF OAKLAND.


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The City of Oakland is located on the Bay of San Fran- cisco, at the western terminus of the Central Pacific Rail- road. The extent of the city from east to west is about four and one-half miles, and from north to south three miles. San Antonio Creek forms the southern, and the Bay of San Francisco the western boundary. On the north and east its borders seem destined to a perpetual enlargement. The growing giant must have room. So rapidly do the people come hither to locate, and such is the natural tendency to expansion that it becomes unsafe to venture a prediction as to the ultimate future limits of her municipal area. Berke- ley, Temescal and other suburbs will be absorbed, and a city from forty to fifty square miles in extent will be the result at no distant day.


The land upon which Oakland stands was conveyed by the Mexican Government to one of its citizens, Louis Ma Peralta, in the year 1822. The domain remained in possession of Peralta and his sons until 1852, when it was sold, and came into the possession of several American citizens. On the 4th of May, 1852, the Governor of the State approved an act incorporating the Town of Oakland. The population was small, consisting mainly of speculators, and a few scat- tered Mexicans. But the founders of the town were active and enterprising and soon attracted a considerable accession to the settlement. The beauty of the location and its desi- rability as a place of residence, was acknowledged by all


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who visited it, and it soon became evident that early holders of property had every prospect of realizing largely on their investments. The town had been laid out in blocks and lots, the real estate market became active, and population flowed in. So rapidly did the young town progress, that a city government became desirable, the more fully to protect the interests of the people, and on the 25th of March, 1854, an act incorporating the City of Oakland was approved by the Governor. The vote polled at the first charter election was three hundred and sixty-eight, indicating a population . of about one thousand. Adult male citizens predominated at that early day. Oakland was now fairly started upon a career of organized progress. The first Mayor was Mr. H. W. Car- pentier, who delivered his first message April 9th, 1854. Of the long and embarassing litigation which followed, involv- ing the title to the water front, it is unnecessary to speak, except to state that all subject matters in dispute were hap- pily settled by compromise-but not until 1868. From the date of its incorporation to the present day Oakland has constantly progressed, at times slowly and at other times with marvellous rapidity. A firm and well founded belief has always prevailed among the leading men of Oakland that the city was destined to a brilliant future. Already are the predictions of her pioneers being fulfilled. That great drawback to her prosperity, lack of speedy and certain com- munication with San Francisco has been removed. The im- provement of her harbor to an extent that shall enable the largest ships to come up alongside her wharves is progress- ing, and will soon be an accomplished fact. David Leeman Emerson, in a recent lecture, has given a glowing prophetic picture of the near future of the city. He says that "the water front will be lined with warehouses, docks and wharves, in front of which shall be safely moored multitudes of steam- ers and merchantmen from every clime, while along our principal streets costly and spacious edifices devoted to trade shall extend one mile from the waters edge." C. B. McDon- ald, Esq., in a paper published in the Centennial edition of the Daily Transcript, says: " All that is necessary to estab-


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lish an extensive commerce on the Oakland side is the com- pletion of the sea wall, the construction of suitable wharfage, and the erection of a few great warehouses and elevators on the vast property belonging to the Water Front Company; then all that portion of trade which shall be in course to- wards the east will inevitably find its way to the most direct and convenient point of conjunction with the overland rail- way. No aggregation of capital can retain the seat of commercial empire away from the established highway of commerce; and Oakland being the actual terminus of the overland railway, and having more than the required wharf- age, must in time acquire a considerable proportion if not a preponderance of trade."


Oakland has had, including the present incumbent, nine- teen Mayors, as follows: H. W. Carpentier, 1854-5; Charles Campbell, 1855-6; S. H. Robinson, 1856-7; A. Williams, 1857-8, and 1858-9; F. K. Shattuck, 1859-60; J. P. M. Da- vis, 1860-61 and 1861-2; George M. Blake, 1862-3; W. H. Bovee, 1863-4; Edward Gibbons, 1864-5; B. F. Ferris, 1865-6; J. W. Dwinelle, 1866-7; W. W. Crane jr., 1867-8; Samuel Merritt, 1868-9; John B. Felton, 1869-70 and 1870-71; N. W. Spaulding, 1871-2 and 1872-3; Henry Durant, 1873-4 and 1874-5; Mack Webber, 1875-6, and E. H. Pardee, 1876-7.


Oakland has been described as the most beautiful city on the American continent. Certainly it is one of the most at- tractive. The site consists of a plain, gently sloping from the waters of the bay to the neighborhood of the foot-hills, where the surface becomes more undulating and is, in some places, diversified by considerable elevations. The rise to the northward and westward throughout Central Oakland is so gradual that to the eye of the observer it is imperceptible, yet it is amply sufficient to allow the perfection of a system of drainage, which is being rapidly inaugurated upon a defi- nite scientific plan. On First street, north of San Antonio Creek, the natural elevation above high water mark is at the


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intersection of Webster street, two feet eight inches, rising to eight feet nine inches at Second street, to twelve feet four inches at Third street, to fifteen feet at Fourth street, to eighteen feet eight inches at Fifth street, to twenty-four feet five inches at Sixth street, to twenty-seven feet nine inches at Seventh street, to thirty feet nine inches at Eighth street, to thirty-two feet eight inches at Ninth street, to thirty-five feet five inches at Tenth street, to thirty-six feet eight inches at Eleventh street, whence the decline is towards Lake Mer- ritt. The above illustration of the "lay of the land " is generally applicable to 'all the level portion of Oakland, and shows at a glance admirable drainage facilities. The atten- tion of strangers whose first impressions, derived from the eye alone, may lead them to suppose that the city is located upon a dead level is called to these figures.


The present aspect of Oakland is that of an extended vil- lage. The entire plain was originally covered with a luxu- riant growth of majestic live oaks, and great care has been taken, both by the municipal authorities and the citizens, to preserve them. The streets are shaded by them, and almost every residence lot is embellished by them; their grateful shade shields the mansion and the cottage from the rays of the sun, and their giant arms protect from the power of the storm. The effect upon the eye of such a vast mass of graceful foliage is pleasant in the extreme. A few moments walk aside from any of the principal business streets, brings one into an atmosphere of repose and rural quiet.


While nature has done so much to render this spot attract- ive, the skill and enterprise of the arborculturist has greatly increased and diversified its beauty. The climate is so genial that a great variety of trees and shrubs, unknown in Eastern States outside of glass, flourish luxuriantly in the open air. Among the hardy varieties which adorn many of the gardens of the city, and which, according to Mr. James Hutchison, a nurseryman of many years experience in Oakland, stand our winters well, are the magnolia "Gran-


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THE CITY OF OAKLAND.


diflora" and other varieties, many varieties of the palm, the pepper tree, "Schinus Molli ;" the eucalyptus or gum tree, which grows with great rapidity and to a great height, nearly all varieties of the acacia, which grows to a size that renders it an excellent shade tree, the " Mespelus Japonica;" the Norfolk Island pine, " Arancaria Excelsia;" the olive, " Olea Verrucosa;" the century plant, "Agave Americana," which has been known to bloom here at the age of twelve years; the Florapenda or " Brugmansia;" the camilia japon- ica; the "Daphne Odora;" the oleander, "Nerianes;" the lemon, "Aloysia Citriodora;" the verbena; the crape myrtle; fuchsias; heliotropes; pittosporams, abutilons, the Indian Shot, " Canna Indica;" pomegranates, figs and a large num- ber of other ornamental trees and shrubs. Is it remarkable that such a profusion of foliage and bloom as flourishes in this charming city, should attract hundreds of æsthetic tastes to her borders ? It would seem that life amid such surround- ings must of necessity be colored to the scene, and be infinitely more enjoyable than amid the dust and din and whirling sand of the peninsula.


The natural scenery of Oakland and her suburbs is sur- passingly beautiful. The Bay in its front stretches to the northward and the southward, dotted with its clear, sharply outlined islands, and out to that magnificent portal the Golden Gate ; the promontories of Marin lift their rugged surface to the sky on the far right, while the whole picture is set as in frame by the encircling San Pablo range of lofty and picturesque hills. These hills approach in some in- stances the dignity of mountains, and are seamed throughout with the paths of impetuous water courses, full in winter, but only little rills during the summer. The variety of scene is so great and the range so extended that the eye need never be surfeited.


The climate is equable ; there are no extremes of heat or cold. Snow never falls and but rarely is the ground whitened by frost. The fierce winds that sweep over the opposite


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peninsula lose their force and their chill and come to us as moderate breezes to cool the heat of the summer sun. Veg- etation flourishes throughout the year, and the greenest and most enjoyable season is that of so-called winter.


The commercial importance of Oakland is dependent upon the completion of her harbor improvements. The bulk of the grain and wool products of California will seek this port as the most natural and. convenient point for shipment, and the productions of foreign countries for shipment over the Central Pacific Railroad will be landed at our wharves so soon as the work now in progress is completed. From July 1st to December 31st, 1875, thirty vessels were loaded with wheat for Europe at the Oakland Wharf. The amount reached 140,128,000 pounds or 70,064 tons. The receipts of coal were 73,463 tons. Lumber receipts aggregated over twenty million feet.


As a point for the establishment of large manufacturing industries this city presents many peculiar advantages, prom- inent among which are her unequalled railroad facilities, and the feasibility of procuring for all time an abundance of cheap fuel. The most extensive establishments now in operation in Oakland or its immediate vicinity are the Pacfic Cordage Company, which supplies the market of San Fran- cisco, and the California Watch Company, formerly known as the Cornell Watch Company, which has removed from San Francisco to Berkeley, a northern suburb. This Com- pany will employ when in full operation, several hundred men. Turk's Manufactory of Preserved Fruit gives em- ployment, during the packing season, to over one hundred and fifty persons. The Standard Soap Company have built a large building in the neighborhood of the water front at Berkeley, and will greatly enlarge their business.


The R. J. Kohler Reduction and Refining Works have been established at Damon's Landing, on the San Leandro Creek, at an outlay of about one hundred thousand dollars.


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The Pacific Jute Bag Factory, located in East Oakland, runs one hundred and fifty looms, producing annually more than four millions of sacks, and employing five hundred operatives.


There are also in the city three large flouring mills, four planing mills, two potteries, and three manufactories of artificial stone. There are also three tanneries, and a large number of small establishments for the manufacture of different articles for home use and export.


The manufacturing interest will be greatly benefited by the harbor improvements, which will render the banks of San Antonio Creek available for the prosecution of all branches of manufacturing.




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