Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1921, Part 4

Author: Polk-Husted Directory Co
Publication date: 1924
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : Polk-Husted Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1188

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"Buy From Strong and You Wont Go Wrong"

Strong Realty Company THE PIONEERS Specialists in Claremont-Rockridge Homes on Easy Terms Let Us Build an Artistic Home to Your Plans PHONE PIEDMONT 7514 5651 College Ave. at Keith Oakland, Cal.

REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT

W. J. CULLIGAN

J. T. MCKEON

Real

Estate

PHONE LAKESIDE 4562

625 Fourteenth Street

Oakland, Calif.

J. VANDERKAR

REAL ESTATE

INSURANCE

INVESTMENTS

3320 East Fourteenth St.

Phone Fruitvale 119

WILLIAM F. WEISS

REALTOR

HIGH CLASS PROPERTIES Adams Point, East Piedmont Heights, Piedmont Business Property Resident Agent-Cleveland National Fire Insurance Company Hours 9-10 A. M .- 1-2 P. M. 301 Syndicate Building Phone Oakland 7096

Residence Phone Oakland 9191

HARRY C. WUERTH

Real Estate and Insurance BROKERS-LOANS AND INVESTMENTS ATTORNEY-NOTARY PUBLIC

625-626 First National Bank Bldg. Phone Oakland 1816

APARTMENTS Triangle HOTELS

ROOMING HOUSES

REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT

REAL ESTATE GED.A.VOSE NOTARY

GEO. H. VOSE REALTOR

REAL ESTATE INSURANCE NOTARY

PHONE OAKLAND 3582

515 Syndicate Bldg.

1440 Broadway

Real Service Prompt Service and Courtesy

Whatever you desire in Real Estate you will find it to your advantage to consult F. Watterson.

I have always a large list of properties for sale or exchange. I am always at your service and I will give youradvice on any purchase you desire to make. I can save you money through my practical knowledge of Real Estate values. I have had 16 years of practical dealing.

When you desire to go away on an extended trip, and you wish to have your property taken care of I will take full charge of the property for you. Look out for your interest. Attend to all repairs and details. Collect the rents, etc., and relieve you of all care.

FRED WATTERSON

5181/2 16th STREET OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

PHONE OAKLAND 7471

ROOFING DEPARTMENT

J. P. GALLAGHER, Mgr.

WESTERN ROOFING CO.

FELT AND GRAVEL ROOFING A SPECIALTY NEW WORK AND REPAIRING 420 Fifteenth Street

Phone Okld. 425

SASH AND DOOR DEPARTMENT

Duner-Matheny Sash & Door Co. Sash, Door and Screen Specialists

Office, Factory and Warehouses

E. 14th Street and 42nd Avenue OAKLAND, CALIF

Phone Fruitvale 681

Pacific Manufacturing Company

Doors, Windows, Mouldings, Etc. General Millwork TELEPHONE OAKLAND 7898 1001 Franklin Street OAKLAND, CAL.

SAUSAGE MANUFACTURERS DEPT.

MUELLER BROS. Sausage Factory Wholesale and Retail Meat Dealers Finest Sausages of all Kinds-Quality Meats-Delicatessen Bacon-Hams-Poultry "MELROSE BRAND" 4533-4559 E. 14th St. Phone Fruitvale 992

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES DEPARTMENT

Bayliss Organ Studios

EDGAR BAYLISS, DIRECTOR

Complete training for THEATRE ORGANISTS Lessons and Practice on Full Sized Theatre Organ Send for List of Graduates Now Holding Positions in Leading Theatres 1905 GROVE ST. PHONE OKLD. 4194

HEMPHILL BROS.' California State Auto and Tractor Schools INCORPORATED

Teachers of All Branches of Automobile Engineering and Repairing The Largest Chain of Practical Motor Schools in the World

720 Franklin Street Phone Okld. 8454

THE MARION MADSEN SCHOOL

FOR BUSINESS TRAINING

Intensive Secretarial Training-Gregg and Pitmanic Shorthand. Special Calculating Machine Course. Bookkeeping. Evening School. Saturday Afternoon Class for Part Time Education. Individual Instruction. Students may enroll at any time and advance rapidly from class to class according to ability. For those who wish to brush up in typing and shorthand speed, this is an ideal school in which to do so without loss of time.

1328 Webster Street Near Fourteenth Telephone Okld. 4703

Parker- Goddard Secretarial School

THE SCHOOL OF GOOD RESULTS

Blake Block-1121 Washington St.

Tel. Oakland 6148

Secretarial Work Includes Training in Bookkeeping Shorthand-Gregg or Pitman, Etc.

DAY AND EVENING CLASSES

Moderate Tuition Charges.

Make Your Parker-Goddard Training the

Best Investment You Ever Made

SHEET METAL WORKS DEPARTMENT

Yager Sheet Metal Co.

GENERAL SHEET METAL WORK

Metal Stamping, Cornice Skylights and Patent Chimneys . .

LARGEST STOCK

BEST EQUIPPED IN ALAMEDA COUNTY

Corner Thirty-fifth and San Pablo Ave.

3509 Chestnut St.

Telephone Piedmont 471

SHOES DEPARTMENT

GROUND GRIPPER SHOES

Built for Comfort and Durability for Men, Women and Children Made the SHAPE of a NORMAL Foot

GROUND GRIPPER SHOE STORES

1506 Broadway, Oakland 687 Market St., San Francisco 2103 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley

STATIONERS DEPARTMENT

"BARBER SERVICE

Means Much to the East Bay District

16 YEARS OF SERVICE IN

STATIONERY, PRINTING, OFFICE SUPPLIES

BROADWAY OPP. 15TH STREET

The Edgar H. Barber Co.

STATIONERS DEPARTMENT

25 EFFICIENT AGREEABLE ASSISTANTS

Anxious to Serve You With OFFICE SUPPLIES AND PRINTING SOCIAL STATIONERY AND ENGRAVING LEATHER GOODS AND KODAKS ARTISTS' MATERIALS AND GREETING CARDS

SMITH BROS.

13th Street Near Broadway

STORAGE DEPARTMENT

BEKINS FIRE PROOF STORAGE

Finest on the Coast Inspection Invited

Moving, Storing, Packing, Shipping

Private Railroad Track Sprinkler System, Lowest Rate of Insurance, Separate Locked Rooms or Open Space. Three Entire Floors for Exclusive Storage of Automobiles.

Main Office and Warehouse 22d and San Pablo Av. PHONE OAKLAND 907

STOVE AND RANGE DEPARTMENT

A. PETERSON

THE STOVE SHOP

Stove Parts-Range Repairs-Gas Appliance Work- Water Heating COAL AND WOOD STOVES, GAS RANGES AND FURNACES REPAIRED AND REMODELED

Telephone Oakland 3298 565 16th St., Oakland, Calif.

TAXI DEPARTMENT

AXI?

LIMOUSINES TOURING CARS for

FUNERAL SERVICE AND WEDDINGS

ACME AUTO & TAXICAB CO. OAKLAND TAXICAB CO. Superior Service - Reasonable Prices High Grade Equipment 733 TWENTY-SIXTH ST. PHONE OAKLAND 100

TAXI Broadway Taxi Co.

TEL. LAKESIDE Day or Night

LIMOUSINES TOURING CARS

1110 BROADWAY

TOWEL SUPPLY DEPARTMENT

Rent! Why Buy?

Clean towel service, napkins, table-cloths, table tops, white coats, white pants, profes- sional gowns, dental smocks, nurses' gowns.

Keep Clean and SERVE IT IN WHITE Rented from

THE OAKLAND-CALIFORNIA TOWEL COMPANY

TRANSFER DEPARTMENT

Merchants Express and Draying Co.

H. L. HINMAN, Manager

CARLOAD DISTRIBUTION A SPECIALTY Reliable Express Service Between San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley

400-406 ALICE STREET PHONE LAKESIDE 6200

Red Line Express & Transfer Co.

H. DAVIDSON, Manager

RED LINE

Express and

Transfer Co.

OUR MASCOT PHONE OAKLAND 216

Freight, Baggage, Piano and Furniture Moving, Packing, Shipping; City and Country Auto Service Phones Oakland 218 and 219

Office-1331 Jefferson St.

Oakland, Cal.

E. B. HAUNSCHILD, President C. H. SAMUELS, Secretary

U. C. EXPRESS & STORAGE CO. FIREPROOF STORAGE General Forwarders PHONE BERKELEY 1082 2120 Berkeley Way near Shattuck Ave. BERKELEY

PHONE OAKLAND 248

PHONE BERKELEY 8400 UNITED TRANSFER CO. BAGGAGE CHECKED AT HOME TO DESTINATION

Only Company Authorized by Southern Pacific-Western Pacific-All Steamship Lines TWO TRIPS TO SAN FRANCISCO DAILY Main Office 538 Seventeenth Street, Oakland, California ALAMEDA SAN FRANCISCO :

Phone Alameda 1300 Phone Douglas 83

PACKING-MOVING-STORING-FREIGHTING

100

TYPEWRITERS DEPARTMENT

@ Century

TYPEWRITERS

ALL MAKES

Rented, 3 Months, $7.50 up Sold, $25.00 to $85.00

Guaranteed Factory Rebuilt

SUPPLIES AND REPAIRS FOR ALL MACHINES MANUFACTURERS OF THE CENTURY TYPEWRITER THE PRACTICAL PERSONAL MACHINE

American Writing Machine Co., Inc. 308 Twelfth St. OAKLAND

PHONE OAKLAND 300

UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT

P. N. HANRAHAN CO. UNDERTAKERS

Phone Merritt 3534

510 East Fourteenth Street AT FIFTH AVENUE

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

NICHOLAS J. MEINERT

ALBERT ENGEL

Phone Oakland 943

ENGEL MEINERT

FUNERAL DIRECTORS "The Funeral Home of Service" LADY ASSISTANTS 2655 TELEGRAPH AVE.

OAKLAND, CALIF.

Cor. 27th Street

101

UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT

ESTABLISHED NOVEMEBER 10, 1873

Albert Brown Company Undertakers

OAKLAND 582-584 THIRTEENTH STREET

BERKELEY 2045 UNIVERSITY AVENUE

I ALAMEDA 2110 SANTA CLARA AVENUE

OAKLAND 18

Telephones : ALAMEDA 157

BERKELEY 981

102

UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT

Freeman & Cox Roach & Kenney Undertaking Co. Incorporated

FUNERAL DIRECTORS

OAKLAND PARLORS 2630 Telegraph Ave., Phone Lakeside 1181

FRUITVALE PARLORS

2945 East 14th St., Phone Fruitvale 210

BERKELEY PARLORS 2414 Grove St., Phone Berkeley 2538

TRUMAN UNDERTAKING CO.

Funeral Directors and Embalmers

In the hour of bereavement TRUMAN SERVICE quietly provides the sympa- thetic personal attention of a friend

2935 TELEGRAPH AVE.

Tel. Oak 5085 Oakland

IN SAN FRANCISCO

at 1919 Mission Street-Telephone Market 109

CHAS. H. J. TRUMAN General Manager

103

UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT

WILL R. HILL FUNERAL DIRECTOR MODERN METHODS-EFFICIENT SERVICE

LADY ATTENDANT

734 25th near San Pablo Ave.

Phone Oakland 372

WALL PAPER DEPARTMENT

JAMES CAHILL CO.

Wholesale & Retail Dealers in WALL PAPER AND PAINTS WINDOW SHADE MANUFACTURERS

Phone Oakland 1113 372-374 TWELFTH ST.

OAKLAND, CAL.

WALL PAPER

We have the most comprehensive line ever shown in Oakland, embodying the ideas of the world's foremost designers and decorators.

Whether it be a dainty little bed-room paper in stripes, chintz, or cre- tonne effects; or rich, elaborate designs for reception, living or dining-room; you will find here artistic papers in many new and clever patterns and color combinations-to suit every room in every home, at prices to fit the purses in those homes.

Let ,our decorators help you in selecting wall-hangings that will "fit" in your house-without obligating you in any manner.

PAINTS

DISTRIBUTORS OF

Bass-Hueters Paints and Varnishes Emil Calman's Varnishes

Selby-Carter Lead Spencer & Kelloggs Linseed Oil

CHRIS NELSON CO., Inc.

1418-20 Jefferson Street Oakland 7901

2330-32 East 14th Street Fruitvale 156

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WALL PAPER DEPARTMENT

UHL BROS., INC. WALL PAPER, PAINTS, VARNISH, ENAMELS LININGS, BURLAP, KALSOMINE, BRUSHES Painters' and Paper Hangers' Supplies Distributors Murphy Varnish Co.'s Architctural and Automobile Varnishes and Enamels PHONE OAKLAND 4928

375 12th Street

Oakland, Calif.

WAREHOUSES DEPARTMENT

Shippers- Here's a Service for You

The Lawrence Warehouse Company has a service for all who ship in or out of its exten- sive territory.

It provides excellent STORAGE FACILI- TIES in well-equipped warehouses; a POOL CAR SERVICE that saves money on small shipments; a SHIPPING SERVICE for re- shipping large stores in small lots; and an OCEAN FREIGHT SERVICE in coastwise, coast-to-coast and 'round the world freighters. Write, call or phone for details.

LAWRENCE WAREHOUSE CO. Phone Lakeside 456

MORE GOODS

ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD

THROUGH THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS LISTS

OF THE DIRECTORY THAN ANY OTHER MEDIUM ON EARTH

105

WATER COMPANIES DEPARTMENT

How to Make Application For Water Service

When you move into a new house-whether owned by you or rented-the first requirement necessary is Water Service.

It is no trouble to get this service. You may come to the office and personally sign for meter connection-you may write your request for water-or if in the confusion of moving, it is not convenient to write or call, a telephone message will bring one of our service men to you at any time and place desired.

It is our desire to make it easy and convenient for you to get water service. Our Order Department is instructed to comply promptly with every reasonable request.

If you are a new comer to this community and have not previously paid water bills for a year and do not own your own home, you will be asked to make a deposit of $2.50, which will be returned to you after one year with interest at 6%. If, however, you are a property owner, or have previously been prompt in paying water bills for a period of one year, no deposit will be asked.

The Water Company is anxious to serve you in every possible way, and the development of this broad policy of handling orders is part of the service to you.

East Bay Water® Co.

DOMESTIC

INDUSTRIAL

Oakland 512 16th St. Tel. Lakeside 585

Berkeley Allston & Milvia Tel. Berk. 362

Alameda 1412 Park St. Tel. Ala. 41

Richmond 717 Macdonald Ave. Tel. Richmond 95

106

OAKLAND

CITY DIRECTORY 1921

Containing an Alphabetical List of Business Firms and Pri- vate Citizens, a Directory of the City and County Officers, Churches, Public and Private Schools, Benevolent, Literary and other Associa- tions, Incorporated Institutions, Etc.

AND A COMPLETE

CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY OF OAKLAND

And an Improved Street and Avenue Guide

Compiled and Published by POLK-HUSTED DIRECTORY CO.

(Member Association of North American Directory Publishers.)

314 Pantages Bldg., Oakland, Cal.

"The

DIRECTORY

Price

IS THE COMMON INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN BUYER AND SELLER"

$12.00

D. 465 Or 4 1921 IAO

INDEX TO CONTENTS

Abbreviations 201

Alameda Street Guide

159

Alphabetical List of Names.

202

Berkeley Street Guide

147

Buyers Guide

Churches

115

City Officials

348

Classified Business Directory.

1103

Clubs

117

County Officials

375

·Federal Officers

122

Fire Department

463

Labor Organizations

117

Parks and Playgrounds

119

Police Department.

349

Postoffice

859

Public Schools

119

Secret Societies. 119

Street and Avenue Guide. 123

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INTRODUCTION

The Polk-Husted Directory Co., publishers of the Oakland City Directory, present the 1921 edition of that publication to its patrons and users with full confidence that it will not fail to satisfy the most critical.

Especial care has been exercised to secure a thorough enumeration of the residents of the city and all its manifold business interests. The work presents as complete and comprehensive a directory as it is possible to produce, having in view the vast volume of information and statistical data assembled for compilation. In the accomplishment of this task the pub- lishers have utilized their complete organization and efficient methods and the directory represents an achievement in production on a par with other metropolitan directories. The directory is devoted to the advancement of all of the city's vital interests and has in each issue kept pace with its progress.

We are indebted to the Oakland Chamber of Commerce for the following data, which has been especially prepared by Mr. Eugene Bowles, director of publicity.

THE MAINLAND OF SAN FRANCISCO BAY

A hundred years from now the traveler bound for Asia will ask for a stop-over at Oakland, and as he looks down from the dirigible observation platform-for they will all be flying then-as the airship slows down for the airdome, the unique city of the world will meet his eye.

He will see a metropolis of varied and beautiful character-great indus- tries flanking a harbor-front at which is tied up the shipping of the world; in the mid-section the business, commercial and financial center; on the foothills that run down to the sea the homes of a happy people-hustling manufacturing, cold-blooded business, contented firesides all comingled.

Outstanding will be the Pacific naval base-mayhap by that time trans- formed into a base for the warriors of the air, immense fighting planes and dirigibles that can swoop across the Pacific in hours to deal death to the enemy.

Just a beautiful dream, you say? Well, one Edward Bellamy once wrote a book called "Looking Backward." It was written less than a century ago. Look it over again and see if nearly all of the wonderful things he wrote about in that book have not come true today, with more wonders made into realities than he ever dreamed of.

Oakland has all the elements for the making of such a wonder city- and when one speaks of Oakland and its development, its sister cities must always be taken into consideration.

Along the shores of San Fancisco Bay cluster these "Seven Cities of the Mainland," as some call them. In reality they are all one big community with common interests and with a combined population of 315,940 (1920 census). These cities are:

Alameda, population 28,806; Albany, 2,426; Berkeley, 56,036; Emeryville, 2,390; Oakland, 216,261; Piedmont, 4,282; San Leandro, 5,703.

In the center is Oakland, which gained 65 new industries in 1920, adding 4,000 men and $7,000,000 to its payrolls and increasing industrial investments by $9,000,000. It is the Alameda County seat and the third largest city in California, scoring a 44 per cent growth in the 1910-1920 decade.

The United States census shows that it was among the ten fastest growing cities in the country in 1910-20 decade, and the same census figures show that an east and west line drawn in the neighborhood of the city hall equally divides the population of the Pacific Coast, 2,783,000 people living on each side of the line.

The county as a whole has 344,177 people and in the outlying sections are a number of prosperous small cities, among them the following:

Hayward, population, 3,487; Pleasanton, 991; Livermore, 1,916.

The late John Hay, then secretary of State under President Roosevelt, called Oakland the "beauty spot of the world" when he visited the city in 1906. He had viewed it as one views Naples-from its heights-and like Naples, he saw it running down in verdant terraces to meet iridescent San Francisco Bay.

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About 150 years previously the conquistadores viewed the same verdant terraces-"ups and downs," as they are quaintly described in the old Spanish documents-and the site of Oakland was discovered by white men.

What their emotions were history does not tell, but it does relate something of their yearnings. It seems that as his Spanish majesty's troops went marching over a field-"clank-clank, clankety-clank," for those were the days of the cuirass, the breast-plate and the arquebuss, the glisten and clangor of their "tin Bee-vee-dees" startled a bear from his midday nap. It was a fat bear, carefree and happy, for it lived in sunny California. The bear saw the conquistadores first and ran away-and so there were no bear steaks a la Espagne around the campfire that night. But it was a great chase while it lasted.

Right there the history of Oakland began being made, for the hungry hunters ran themselves out of breath over the "ups and downs" until they reached one of the up-pest "ups" and there for the first time in world's history white men's eyes looked through the Golden Gate.

That was on March 27, 1772, as it is all so meticulously detailed in the diaries of Father Juan Crespi and Lieutenant Pedro Fages, leaders of the churchly militant pioneers sent out by Don Gaspar de Portola to see what lay on the farther side of the "great estuary," as they called San Francisco Bay.

Scarcely more than a century later-merely a respiration in the exist- ence of this age-old earth-that same cavalcade of Spanish braves would become a band of dumfounded poltroons could they retrace today the course of their bear chase. Stone ships that float, roaring engines that hurl sausage shaped things through the air at incredible speed, machines that project a whisper, enlarged seven times seven until it reverberates against the Contra Costa hills like the battlecry of Pizarro's hosts-such wonders, and hundreds more, would they see produced in the scores of manufacturing plants that crowd the path of their futile meat hunt.

Where in their day was a morass through which they foundered is now a great ship yard where men fashion vessels out of concrete. Over there was then a barren hillock topped by a lone scrubby oak: over there is now a great steel and glass factory turning out day and night Union dirigible engines for the navy's "blimps." Yonder was then a sweet scented thicket with grateful coolness, yonder is now a model plant where the thunderbolt has been tamed to carry sound-waves wherever and however man commands.

Don't you think those old Spanish explorers would be pop-eyed with wonder? Of course. You would yourself.

This quick spanning of the ancient with the modern is merely by way of emphasizing the importance to California and the whole Pacific Coast of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Emeryville, Albany, Piedmont, San Leandro, Hayward-the cities on the mainland of San Francisco Bay-and their back country of Alameda County.

Industrially considered, the cities named above are now in the very forefront and are stepping rapidly ahead. It is not booster's hyperbole to say that here is perhaps the biggest industrial section, actually and poten- tially, west of the Missouri river.

Millions of dollars of manufacturing capital has come here in the last year to make still more millions for its owners and for Oakland. The lead- ing manufacturers of electrical appliances will soon rear a great plant on the old Emeryville race track. One of the greatest packing corporations in the United States chose Oakland for what ultimately will be its largest cannery on the Pacific Coast. From far off Australia has come a great jam and marmalade factory, whose own international fame did not blind it to the fame of Oakland. A great milling plant has risen on the shores of the Inner Harbor. Two garment manufacturers of national reputation have established branches here and seriously consider transferring their main works to Oak- land. The same applies to two large paint concerns.

All of these new manufacturers give two prime and important reasons for their moves-climatic conditions that make för 100 per cent efficiency all the year around and a class of labor that is unexcelled for intelligence and a liking for the job.

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Surely no other section in the world can point so satisfied a finger at such a record. Certainly it is a matter of pride that Alameda County has a citizenry that is so steady, so dependable, so efficient that manufacturers all over America yearn to employ it.

Climate is the trite reason. Let us not harp on this subject, but let us dismiss it with the statement that we have that here which makes a man like his labor, that sends him in the evening back to a home environment which makes him feel like a man among men, and that makes of him a happy, contented, productive employe.

Oakland and its sister cities have spoken often and loudly, perhaps boastfully, of their great shipbuilding industry. During the war the whole world came to know and applaud the shipbuilding wonders here performed -the triple launchings, the quadruple launchings, the sextuple launchings, the punching records, the riveting records, the building of a 12,000 ton ship in 26 days when the U-boat was stabbing the world's water commerce from beneath. The shipbuilder was our most prominent citizen.

Now, comparisons are not odious, a well known authority to the contrary notwithstanding.

Turn to the pages of the 1910 census as compiled by the federal gov- ernment and there you will find that altogether the manufacturing establish- ments of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley totaled 576. And now they total nearly 1,400.

Sixty-five of those came to Alameda County in 1921, representing a manufacturing investment of $11,000,000. That sum was 40 per cent of the total investment in factories here a short decade ago.

The New Industries Committee of the Oakland Chamber of Commerce took stock recently after its successful efforts in locating 60 new plants and these are the three principal conclusions the hustlers came to with regard to the reasons factory men like to put their plants on the continental side of San Francisco Bay:

FIRST-Recent favorable adjustment of freight rates from the East to the Pacific Coast, making it an advantage to manufacture here.

SECOND-Shorter haul to the markets of the Orient, which not only saves freight charges, but reduces the amount of exchange paid during the ocean trip-and that, by the way, is a big item in three days, when the American dollar has soared in value and the British pound has fallen to a record low figure.

THIRD_Climate advantage, which permits plants here to operate with 100 per cent efficiency the year around, as compared with 57 per cent effi- ciency in eastern states in the extreme cold of winter and the enervating heat of summer.

The committee also arrived at the opinion that, although the Pacific Coast was the last to feel the effects of the world war, it had been the first to "come back" in post-war activity and development.

The committee came to the further conclusion that with the increasing interest in trans-Pacific trade, eastern men of affairs had awakened to the fact that in Oakland they found the ideal arrangement for domestic and foreign commerce-ships alongside of wharves, where cargo can be slung from hold to boxcar for carriage to Cathay or California, or other coast des- tination.

Uncle Sam has recently finished counting up the industrial plants, their employes, their products and other facts that go to make up the official manufacturing census. Some of the facts that will be developed regarding the industrial section on the east side of the bay are:

That the population of the district had grown in ten years from 225,276 to 335,100, an increase of 4812 per cent.

That the industrial population, conservatively estimated at 55,000, showed an increase of 400 per cent in ten years.

That the industrial payroll totaled $60,000,000, as against $6,953,000 in 1919.

That manufacturing investment in a little more than four years amounted to $43,000,000.

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Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1921, Part 4

Author: Polk-Husted Directory Co Publication date: 1924 Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : Polk-Husted Directory Co. Number of Pages: 1188

Author: Polk-Husted Directory Co
Publication date: 1924
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : Polk-Husted Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1188