Daily Alta California, Volume 83, Number 40, 9 August 1890 — THE EASTERN SHORE. [ARTICLE]

THE EASTERN SHORE.

fiews From Alameda, Berkeley; Oak-

land and Environs.

The Golden Gate Fair Promises to*

be a Great Success.

An Orcliardist Dissatisfied "With Trees Furnished Him— Dooley andJCoughlan. St. Blarcus Church.

Alameda.

Joseph Vasqaez has petitioned for theguardlianship of Josephine \ aequez, his minor child. The petitioner alleges that he has been deserted by Frances Vasqaez, his -wife, and mother of the child, without cause, who has taken the said minor and an infant child from their home. The parties live in Alameda. The Alameda Improvement Association held a meeting Thursday evening in the City Trustees' room. Columbus Bartlett presided and J. E. Barber acted as secretary. Mr. Bartlett reported that the Oakland Gas Light and Heat Company is now favorably inclined to the boulevard project on Atlantic avenue, and g would most likely sign the deed for the right of way through its property. This would insure the success of the project, as the gas company is the only large property-owner holding out. It was decided as the sense of the Association that the streets running north and couth across the Encinal should be numbered, commencing at tho West End, and that the ' Louse numbers should also be changed so as to commence at the West End instead of at the East End, as at present. A model for a etteet sign was adopted. It consists principally of a cast-iron pipe eleven feet long, three of which will be in the ground, and on top are two signs bearing the names of the streets. The posts are to be set at corners within the property lines, where the owners will permit, -otherwise on the sidewalks. The estimated cost of each is $3 50. Berkeley. Mr. and Mrs. Horace Davis have returned from their trip to a point a short distance along the line of the Canadian Pacific. Confirmation services will be held in the Church of the Good Shepherd Sunday morning by Right Key. W. P. Nichols. • Higgins, Davison & Co., contractors, have failed to an amount of almost $10,000. Thia -firm has been building here for the past two Tears, having erectea eighteen houses. liev. E. T. Whittimore has gone to San Di££O for his health. He has obtained a leave of for three weeks and the pulpit of the ' Baptist church will be filled during his absence by clergymen from Oakland ana San Francisco. « Principal S. D. Waterman of the Kellogg -School, Berkeley, 6ays he will not be a candidate for the Republican nomination for Scate Superintendent of Public Instruction. He was the nominee ol the party when W. F. Welcker wag elected. Proceedings will 6oon be commenced to have Dwight way graded, macadamized, sewered, ■etc., from Fernwald avenue to Warring street. The property of the .State Deaf and Dumb Asylum forms a large portion of the frontage, but the Trustees of the institution passed a resolution at their last meeting recommending the work. Oakland. Ths Agassiz Society has been organized. I'roieesor S. P. Meads is Director. Work will soon be commenced on the Com-merce-street oewer, to cost $40,000. Sheriff Hale has appointed John Kimmis and W. T. Thomas to act as deputy sheriffs at Ulair'sPark. Charles L. Dooley, first-baseman, and wife "have arrived m Oakland from the East. Dooley is to play with the Oakland club. Mrs. Henry Vrooman has exchanged her Claremont residence for property at Thirteenth '-" and Jefferoon streets, owned bY Mrs. Nancy M. Millett. Boscoe Coughlan is liable to play with the Oakland nine. He has been advised to smoke the pipe of peace with his quondam tormentor, Captain Tip O'Neill. Frank M. Blethen, eon of the ex-Mayor, was -yesterday divorced from his wife, the ground being desertion. The child was left with the mother, and for its support $15 a month is to l>e paid by Blethen. The lumbermen of this city held a meeting Thursday night to take preliminary steps toward organizing a lumbermen's union. There are about 150 men employed in the lumber yards in and about Oakland. Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Dargie, the bride having "been Miss Bessie Sedgwick until Thursday ■evening, will make a three weeks' tour in the Puget Sound country. On' their return tney will keep house at Twelfth and Alice streets. The visiting Nobles of the Mystic Shrine took in Oakland and vicinity yesterday. Messrs. Charles D. Pierce. Albert Brown and Z. T. Gilpin were the local committee that had charge of the excursion. The strangers were greatly charmed with this city. * Frances McPherson has discovered some new evidence against her husband, Thomas McPherson, co yesterday afternoon she filed a supplemental complaint for a divorce, in order to make her case stronger in the event that her husband should see fit to contest it. Charles A. Chandler has withdrawn as a » Kepublican candidate for County Clerk. W. / 11. H. Hußsey, aspirant for the nomination for also Uvcb in the Second ward, and Mr. Chandler will give him his strength, expecting to be made Under Sheriff if Mr. Hussey gets the office. Preparations are being made for the Methodist camp-meeting at Beulah Park, which commences on Thursday of next week. The cainpsneeting will be under the management Of Mrs. la. O. Robinson of Indianapolis, and under the general direction of Rev. It. Bentley. Tents and board will be furnished campers. The Golden Gate Fair this year gives promise of beinz a brilliant success. Director George Bement states that the applications for Btalls are very numerous, and already IGI stalls for horses, 107 for cattle and twentyfour for sheep and hogs have been applied for. The entries for the races are numerous. Among the passengers that arrived on the Xios Angeles express yesterday morning were aome twenty Chinese, who were apprehended in trying to cross the line into the United States from Mexico. They were handcuffed together, and in charge of five officers. They were placed in the County Jail for cafe keeping. Ada Brydges, sister of Actress Katfl Castlelon, who is desirous of securing a divorce from "William Castell Brydges on the ground of extreme cruelty, filed an affidavit in Court yesterday stating that the residence of her husliand is unknown to her and she desires to t serve him with a summons by publication, lirydges is a tenor singer, and is traveling with a theatrical company somewhere in the -East. Maurice Kahn has sued the California Nursery Company for 825,000. Kahn is the owner of 200 acres of land near Winters, Yolo county, which is particularly adapted for apricots and peaches. In January, 1887, he bought of the nursery company 1000 Royal apricot trees and 500 Llowell. peach trees. Kahn charges that the trees furnished were of an inferior kind and not well adapted to his land, but he was sot aware of the irand until April, 1890. - The St. Marcus German Lutheran church, on Filbert street, between Seventh and Eighth, ■will be dedicated, with appropriate ceremonies, on Sunday morning. Rev. Fuendeling, the pastor, the choir and the entire congregation of St. Marcus Lutheran church, on Geary street, San Francisco, will attend in* a body. The dedicatory eermon will be delivered by Dr. Severinghaus of Chicago, assisted by Rev. P. M. Brandes of Petaluma, Rev. Jatho, the present pastor, and others. The following candidates passed the Civil' .Service examination held in the City Hall on Monday for appointments to the Postal ser-' vice, and are now eligible for appointment: . Clerk, Mrs. Bessie Jordan; average, 80. All the male applicants failed.* Letter-carriers-r-

vr fw h5h 5 n ' : 93; -D- Cameron, 92; }**£■ E - Burger, 87: John Z; Barnett! 86; e !». E * Amidon ' 85. v Ashley D. Cameron !™ "* w»e service betore, and applied for reinstatement, which was not possible, as he nad been out more than a year, tHe was allo wed to compete again, and was successful.