Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1923, Part 5

Author: Polk-Husted Directory Co
Publication date: 1924
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : Polk-Husted Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1892

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CLIMATE

Oakland's climate is extremely equable. The average temperature for the twelve months is 56 degrees. The days are never too hot for com- fort and the nights are always cool. Seldom, even in the so-called winter months, does the mercury drop to 32 degrees F. It is due to this ideal work- ing climate that Oakland shipyards-and incidently Oakland is one of the largest shipbuilding centers in the world-were the ones to set one build- ing record after another during the World War.

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HEALTH CONDITIONS

In point of health Oakland has consistently ranked among the first cities of the nation for a long period of years, and statistics show that it has become an increasingly more healthful place for residents during the last fifteen years.

In 1920 Oakland ranked second in smallness of death rate out of a list of forty-three larger cities compiled by the United States Government. The rate which was then 11.6 per thousand was exceeded only by Seattle, where the death rate was 10.5.

It is noteworthy that Oakland, as indicated by the death rate, exceeds in health conditions both Los Angeles and San Francisco; in one case 3.4 per thousand and in the other by 3 per thousand.

POPULATION

The population of Oakland, January 1st, 1923, was estimated at 265,000, a gain of approximately 50,000 in three years' time. On the same date the population of the seven cities that form the Eastbay community was esti- mated at 400,000.

The population of Oakland in 1910 was 150,174, in 1920, 216,261, a gain of approximately 44 per cent in a ten-year period. At the present rate of growth it will register a materially larger percentage of increase during the ten years between 1920 and 1930.

The cities of Berkeley and Alameda and the municipalities of Emery- ville, Piedmont, San Leandro and Albany have now grown together into one compact whole. It is these seven cities which are referred to as East- bay community.

SCHOOLS

Few cities in the United States can boast of a more perfect school sys- tem than Oakland, or more attractive school buildings. Noted educators from every section of the world have praised Oakland's educational facilities. The present school enrollment is in excess of 45,000. In Berkeley, which adjoins Oakland on the north, is the great University of California, the largest in the United States in point of enrollment and incidently one of the richest in the matter of endowment.

Oakland has 44 primary and grammar schools, 11 junior high schools, and five high schools.

PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS

Oakland's new park and playground development-a noteworthy feature of which was the acquisition this year of extensive municipal golf links- undoubtedly will be conducive to a still higher level of health and well- being among residents of this favored city. Among the Oakland parks which have attracted the attention of tourists from all parts of the world is beautiful Lake Merritt and Lakeside Park. Lake Merritt, situated in the center of the city, comprises 160 acres, and is surrounded by wonderful lawns and beyond these by beautiful modern homes and apartments. On one side of the lake is situated Oakland's new million-dollar auditorium.

The waters of Lake Merritt are dotted the year round with canoes and launches and during the so-called winter months many thousand of wild ducks make Lake Merritt their home. Spring finds these traditionally wild birds almost as tame as barnyard fowls. They walk on the lawns and among the sightseers, apparently recognizing that their safety is assured.

The annual visit of these ducks which have adopted this spot in sunny California as their home has been made the occasion for pageants on the part of the people, and each January the now nationally known Wild Duck Pageant is held on the lake shore.

Possessed as it is of all those things considered essential for a great metropolis, with three transcontinental railways, its position on one of the world's greatest land-locked harbors and with ample room in which to make a tremendous expansion, Oakland's future is assured.

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BERKELEY

Reaching along the base of the gracefully rolling Berkeley hills, the city looks westward over the glorious pageant of San Francisco Bay to the Golden Gate, the mystic portal through which the commerce of America and all the lands of the Pacific Ocean are interchanged. To the south of the Golden Gate it looks upon San Francisco built on its many hills. To the north it faces the Marin County hills rising into the gracefully chiseled profile of Mount Tamalpais. Close at hand lies a long stretch of plain sweeping from the bay shore and crowded with dwellings and the build- ings of trade and industry. The whole panorama as revealed from the heights of Berkeley is one of beauty and splendor.

Southward extends the fair city of Oakland. its ships lying beside the docks, its factories crowding the waterfront and the graceful towers of its tall office buildings marking the business center, with Lake Merritt glistening like a jewel in its setting of park.

During the past thirty years Berkeley has emerged out of the obscurity of a little college town of four or five thousand people to the present city of some 68,000 inhabitants. In those pastoral days the country roads were dusty in summer and deep pools of mud made walking difficult in winter. Two board planks served as sidewalk and broad fields of grain and orchards of cherries and other fruit invited the wayfarer to loiter. The townsfolk carried their lanterns when they walked abroad at night. A few of the wealthy residents had horses and buggies, and a horse car went out from Oakland to Temescal, where a wheezy little steam dummy connected with the University grounds.

Today the metropolitan area of San Francisco and the Eastbay cities includes in a compact district on the shores of the bay a population of over a million and fifty thousand inhabitants, distributed between the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Richmond and the smaller towns.

From the standpoint of climate, site, living conditions and educational opportunities, Berkeley is today a magnet attracting those who appreciate the better things of life. It is estimated that the city is growing at the rate of about 6,000 new inhabitants per year, which means that if the present rate continues, the city will double its population in the next twelve years.

The University of California is located in the very heart of Berkeley on six hundred acres of hill slope and plain, where over 10,000 students study under the guidance of a faculty of over 1,200 professors and in- structors. To say it is the largest university in America gives little im- pression of the breadth and scope of its activities. It includes one of the foremost colleges of mines in the country and a college of agriculture that is reaching out over the entire state in creating untold values to the land by its investigations of means for destroying pests of fruit and farm prod- ucts, by teaching how to irrigate and to prune, by soil analysis and by removing the element of chance from the husbandry and developing it into a science. Its college of architecture is training young men and women how to become creators of buildings nobly conceived in the light of the artistic traditions of the past and the engineering skill of the present. Its college of medicine is endowing the men and women who are to be the guardians of life and health of the people of tomorrow with new stand- ards of proficiency. So in law, economics, commerce, the natural sciences. pedagogy, the classics, history, art and letters, the University of California is training the leaders of thought and action to take their places in the great democracy which is destined to shape the course of world history.

In addition to the thousands of native sons and daughters of the Golden West, the University of California is educating students from many states

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and from many other nations. The Cosmopolitan club of the University Y. M. C. A. has in its membership several hundred students from other lands, chiefly of countries bordering the Pacific, and including representa- tive leaders from China, Japan, the Philippines, Siam, India, Siberia, Mexico, Central and South America. These young men and women are absorbing the training, customs and standards of American life and carrying them home to help in the great task of creating an interpenetrating world brother- hood in the nations of the earth.

The athletes of the University of California year after year carry off the honors in contests with all American universities, thus proving that California, with its equable coast climate, its out-of-door life and its abund- ance of fruit and vegetable food, together with exceptional sanitation and public health work, is producing a superior physical type of man.

Residents of Berkeley have a singularly favorable chance of rearing all their children to maturity. The infant mortality rate is the lowest for any city in the class of cities between fifty and one hundred thousand population in the United States. The rate for 1922 is 37 deaths out of every thousand born. The death rate for all ages is 8.8 per thousand, which is the lowest rate for any city of its size on the Pacific Coast.

The thorough supervision of the milk supply by the Health Depart- ment, the unceasing care of the water supply by the Eastbay Water Com- pany, and the work of the Welfare Organization with its trained staff of visiting nurses, are important factors in this health record. By far the largest number of deaths in Berkeley occur in the age period between 60 and 80 years, from heart disease, cancer and apoplexy.

Another field in which Berkeley is doing pioneer work is in the Police Department. The basis of Chief August Vollmer's work is in the education of children who show symptoms of potential criminal habits. These children are all recorded on a pin map and the police have them under their super- vision, aiming to train them into good habits. Many of the Berkeley police are college students and college graduates who are receiving a scientific training in modern police work.

Among the features of Berkeley's police system are the equipping of all police officers with Ford cars, a signal system covering the entire city under which police can be mobilized at any point in a few minutes after an alarm is given, and the mechanical lie detector which registers blood pressure and respiration and is believed to indicate any untruth told by a person when questioned. The great emphasis of the Berkeley police de- partment is upon the correction of wrong habits, especially in children, and upon a scientific study of problem cases in order to ascertain the cause of delinquency and the cure.

The fact that in the past ten years only two murders have been com- mitted in Berkeley is an index of results. One was committed by an in- sane man who killed his son, the other by a San Francisco Chinese tong gunman who came to Berkeley and shot a peaceful Chinese merchant of a rival tong.

All charity, welfare and social agencies in Berkeley have recently been organized under a Community Chest and the campaign to finance them was successfully carried through.

Berkeley has just adopted a city manager form of government and the new council with Frank Stringham as mayor has chosen John N. Edy, a man of eminent qualifications for the post as city manager. Berkeley is believed to be on the eve of a great forward stride when the new ad- ministration takes office on July first.

Under the able leadership of Superintendent Harry Wilson, Berkeley has an exceptionally efficient and successful school department. It has the only complete Junior High School system in the United States. Children are taught under the new system of group projects, which is as inspiring and fascinating to the children as it is effective in training. Under this

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system the children are being encouraged in initiative and trained to make their own text books and create scenes and plays expressive of what they are learning.

On the waterfront Berkeley has nearly a hundred industrial plants where diversified types of manufacture are in progress. Chemical, metal and food industries are in the lead. Owing to superior climatic and living conditions, many manufacturers are today seeking locations in this favored city, where the workers live in comfortable individual homes and where out-of-door life is agreeable all the year round.

The hills are attracting many of the leaders of business in the bay cities who commute from their charming homes set in gardens of perenniel bloom. A ferry and electric train service unexcelled in the country carries them back and forth. Many retired army and navy officers, after seeing the world have chosen Berkeley for a permanent home.

The Chamber of Commerce is co-operating with the city government in working on a city plan. When completed and carried out, Berkeley should become one of the most beautiful of American cities. It is calling to men and women of distinction in science and art to come to the college city, destined to become more and more the center of learning and culture of the Pacific, to help to plan and to build here a city worthy of this peerless site.

The Indo European stock from which the builders of western civilization have grown, took its origin in the shadow of the Himalayas. The Indian Ocean was its first theater of action. Thence it traveled westward through the Red Sea into the Mediterranean and builded there the civilizations of Greece and Rome. Through the Pillars of Hercules it swept, on into the Atlantic, and Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Britain grew into maturity and strength. Then still westward it moved into the New World, conquering the American wilderness and building the first great democ- racy that spelled the doom of kings. On it pressed, westward, ever west- ward, over prairie and plateau, over desert and mountain, until Fremont stood upon the Contra Costa Hills and named the Golden Gate.

Today Berkeley, christened by the founders of the University of Cali- fornia after the idealistic Bishop of Cloyne, stands upon the western-most rim of Western civilization, looking through the Golden Gate, out over the vast waste of the Pacific. Beyond the sea is the ancient East, that land of hoar antiquity teeming with its millions. California is the fartherest west where the New World must pile upon the last margin of the Indo European migration. Berkeley, the intellectual center of California standing upon its hillslopes with the vision of the setting sun in this mystic portal, must look steadfastly through this gateway, and must ponder long on the problem which it conjures to the imagination. The Pacific, now linked by the Pan- ama Canal with the Atlantic is the center of the civilization of tomorrow. Here where West meets East in trade and the interchange of ideas, is the theater of the mighty deeds of the world to be. Berkeley, the Pacific capitol of learning, must fit itself to be worthy of the leadership which fate has thrust upon it. It must rear a city of supreme beauty wherein men will think great thoughts and exercise that leadership which flows from knowl- edge and high ideals. Come to us, all you who see the vision, and help us to worthily fulfill our destiny. Berkeley, looking through the Golden Gate, is calling you!

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ALAMEDA

By I. P. McDOWELL, Secretary Chamber of Commerce

Alameda, the Dahlia City-the city of beautiful homes, of an unex- celled climate. This is the appellation which is frequently given to Alameda which is within forty minutes ride by fast electric train and ferry boat, from San Francisco.

Alameda is one of the most beautiful of the San Francisco bay cities. It is situated on an island three miles long and one-half mile wide, with San Francisco bay gently lapping the southern and western shores while San Leandro bay borders the east side, and the tidal canal, separating Oak- land and Alameda, bounds the city on the north side.

The city hall of Oakland is but 32 miles from the central business dis- trict of Alameda and may be reached by three different street car lines.

Because of the excellence of the climate and the splendid school sys- tem in the city, hundreds of San Francisco and Oakland business men make Alameda their home, and some of the most beautiful small estates in northern California are here.

Taxes in Alameda are low with a tax rate for 1923 of $2. This is due to the fact that Alameda owns and operates a municipal electric light plant which gives electricity to consumers at a much lower rate than other neighboring cities pay, the plant profits annually approximate $75,000.

Alameda's school system has reached that pinnacle of efficiency where it is one of the most talked of systems in the entire United States. There are four elementary, three primary and a high school. At the present time the high school district is erecting one of the most modern high schools to be found in the United States at a cost of $1,000,000.

A new $250,000 modern hospital is under course of construction in Alameda. A health center to care for the health of the city is being erected at a cost of $30,000. This money was appropriated from the profits of the Municipal Electric Light Plant.

Five of the most beautiful public parks in Northern California are located within the boundaries of the city. They are the mecca each year for more than one million people who come from miles away to take ad- vantage of the cooling breezes while their children frolic among the trees and foliage or on the sandy beaches or enjoy themselves on the most mod- ern play equipment found anywhere. Attesting to the popularity of the pleasure resorts located on San Francisco bay in Alameda, a careful check shows that between 75,000 and 100,000 people each Sunday during the sum- mer months, visit these resorts to enjoy the surf bathing and other pleasures provided for their entertainment.

Alameda has more than 160 miles of excellent paving, and the streets and parks are under the supervision of experts who yearly plant, prune and care for the thousands of beautiful trees which border each boulevard.

Flowers grow in profusion in the city, the dahlia being the most prolific, and some of the prize winners in the large dahlia shows are grown in Alameda. Scores of other blooms are also to be seen while many houses are partially hid from view by the gorgeous fiowering vines such as the wistaria, climbing roses and others.

Besides the advantages of home life which the city offers, it has an unexcelled industrial district located along the shores of the tidal canal where shipping facilities are of the best. This district is also served by a Municipal belt railroad connecting with all transcontinental railroad lines.

Such industries as the Alaska Packers' Association, the largest fishing corporation in the world; the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation; Pacific Coast Borax Co .; The Listo Pencil Corporation; Saylor's Chocolates; lum- ber, coal, bridge and oil companies are located in the industrial district.

A newspaper, the Alameda Times-Star, carrying the full United Press telegraph report of world news and covering every section of the city in local happenings, is issued each afternoon.

And there is room for other large industries along the tidal canal. Alameda is under the city manager form of government and all branches of the city administration come directly under this official's supervision.

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GENERAL INDEX

Abbreviations 193

Alphabetical List of Names

194-1682

Buyers Guide 7-124

Classified Business Directory

1683

Index to Advertisers.

134-136

Index to Miscellaneous Information

133

Introduction 126

Miscellaneous Information 137-150

Removals, Alterations and Additions 136

Street and Avenue Guide (Oakland) 151-174

Street and Avenue Guide (Berkeley)

175-186

Street and Avenue Guide (Alameda) 187-191

INDEX TO MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION

Apartments

(See Classified Section)

Building, Blocks, Halls

(See Classified Section)

Cemeteries

(See Classified Section)

Churches

137-140

City Officers 439-441

College Fraternities and Clubs 149-150

Clubs, Associations and Societies 140-142

Consulates 142

County Officers

483-484

Fire Departments

625-626

Homes, Hospitals, Etc

(See Classified Section)

Labor and Trade Organizations. 142-143

Libraries (See Classified Section)

Military

143

Military Fraternal Socities

150

Parks and Public Grounds

143

Police Departments

+39-441

Postoffices

1275

Public Schools

143-144

Secret and Fraternal Societies

144-150

United States Officials 150

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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Page

A. A. A. Architectural Service

right bottom lines and

Campanile Electric Co. 59

Acme Auto & Taxicab Co. 114 Capwell H. C. Co. right top lines and 53 Carruth & Adamson Co .... 92 and opp 412

Acme Towing Service Inc ...

back cover and

Ad Lib

Alameda Chamber of Commerce

Alameda County Realty Co.

Alameda County Title Ins. Co. ... right top lines and

Alameda Times Star Co.

Alhambra Water Depot.

right side lines and

Allen Wiley B. Co. The. 88

Alpha Tile Co ... 114

American Auto Metal Works

left bottom lines

American Bank .. right side lines and 27

American Writing Machine Co. Inc 116 Anderson's Carpet House. 36

Clay, Hotchkiss & Schroeter

right top lines and

Coast Tire & Rubber Co.

left side lines

Cody Chas J. Dr.

left side lines and 39

College Hardware Co.

Collier & Brooker ..

Colonial Cafeteria Co. 36

Colton & Haidt 27

Commercial Trust & Savings Bank .. left side lines and 25

Bay Construction Co.

Bay Engineering Co.

Bay View Water Co.

right bottom lines and

Bell & Boyd

Bennett-Scholey Motors Co.

Bennett's Collection Assn. left side lines and

Cozzens-Ball Inc. 14

Crane Co. 89

Bercovich David

Berg Funeral Parlors

right bottom lines and

118

Berkeley Chamber of Commerce.

Berkeley Gazette Publishing Co.

Berkeley Realty Co.

Bernal D. C.

left side lines and

Bertillion, Leading Hatter, Inc ..

right top lines and

Birch Clyde A.

Bischoff Surgical House

Derbyshire & Main Inc.

front cover and

Dickson & Holbrook

110

Dodge Henry A ......... right side lines

Dodge. Sweeney & Co. 63

Doty R. A. Co.

Drayage Service Corporation 56

Duner-Matheny Sash & Door Co.

Durant Motor Co. of California. 16

East Bay Water Co.

122

Eastern Outfitting Co.

Eastern Tailoring Co

opp

1682

Engel Albert & Co ..

118

Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U. S. A

Building Loan & Finance Co. 94

Burns Percy H.

Espersen Bros.

Burritt Shealey & Goard Inc.

right bottom lines, 31 and 95

Cadwalader R. B.

.... right side lines and

Cahill James & Co. 120

Cain Electric Co. 58

California Builders Co.

.top end stencil and

California Cotton Mills Co

California Cracker Co.

Farnsworth L. A.

California Crematorium 52

California Door Co. The. 56

California Mission Furniture Co

Cavalier Wm. & Co.

Central National

Bank

front

cover and

Central Savings

Bank.

front

cover and

Central-Shuey Creamery Co.

back

cover

and

Chanslor & Lyon Co. 13

Chesebrough Harry N.

left top lines and 81

Chicago Rubber Stamp & Printing

Co.

left side lines and

Chinn-Beretta Optical Co. 85 Citizens National Bank 25

Appleton G. W. right bottom lines and 58 Armstrong Schools of Business ... right side lines

Automatic Printing Co. 90

Automobile Glass House The. 13 Bank of Italy 24 Barber Furniture Co. 61 30

Bard Arthur & Co ...

Bass-Hueter Paint Co.

Bates & Borland

Bauer August

Cooperative Ice Cream Co.

opp 1683

Cooperative Protective Syndicate .... 46 Cortelyou Guyon W. & Co 69 Cosgraves Inc. 41

17 Cowell Henry Lime & Cement Co ... 33

Cox Cylinder Works. 14

Curtain Store The right side lines and 52 Daahl-Thoms Awning & Canvas Co. left side lines and 12

Darling & Peterson

Davis K. A. Mfg. Co.

opp 1683

Dean Chas. M. 31

Dean Law & Collection Co. 16

Dening C. Co. 62

Blue Bird Tea Room .opp inside back cover

Blyth, Witter & Co.

Bolton Realty Co.

Bond & Goodwin & Tucker

Bowdish Bros. Realty Co.

.right bottom lines and

Bowman Drug Co. right top lines and

Bradley Wm. W.

Breuner John Co.

right top lines

Briggs J. E.

Brown Albert Co.

back bone and 117

Brown Chas. F.

Drew-Mountjoy Furniture Co. 109

Evans E. W. M. & Sons

left top lines and

Fairbanks, Morse & Co.

inside back cover

Fairmont Monument Works

left top lines and

Farmers

and

Merchants

Savings

Bank

left top lines and

Ferriter Geo E.

Field IS. B. Co.

front cover and

134

86 47 64

82 6 69

Page

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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Page

Field & Lee

opp 431

First National Bank

right side lines and

Kettinger Mabel

110

Key Realty Co. 100

Flodquist & Brown

left bottom lines and

Key Route Inn

Market

Kitchener R. S.

Foo Wing Herb Co.

left bottom lines and,

Forbes F. E. Co ..

Foster & Kleiser 9

Frandsen Alex 98

Fredericksen P. C

right top lines and 43

Freeman & Cox-Roach & Kenney

Undertaking Co ..... front cover and 118 French J. E. Co. 15

Fuller Brush Co.

Lawrence H. M.

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Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1923, Part 5

Author: Polk-Husted Directory Co Publication date: 1924 Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : Polk-Husted Directory Co. Number of Pages: 1892

Author: Polk-Husted Directory Co
Publication date: 1924
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : Polk-Husted Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1892