Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - March 20, 1889, Oakland, California VOL. XXVII IN PIONEER The First Minister Settled t in Church and College Founded in the AV When wife carne out here she came Dr. Bell's of Early Eimes en the Oak Clad of Centra V f s ilev Dr H. P. Bell of Karsas City was pottering around the roses this at the house of his 1'rank C. on Prospect Sometimes he bent the bushes in search ot mid sometimes his eyes wandered over which lay beneath a city of and domestic with of spires and jutting into the forty-two of ing to the count of thai hillside Th broader attracted Bell's attention more the spiders for even though he does hail now Kansas he is in truth Dr. Bell of Oakland the first minister of the infant and the founder the same society ever which Horton exercises pastoral the roses Dr. Bell was found full ei antique ot that Oakland long anil most save by a few old wno still hang on at er their little village grow into i wealthy and Front his homi n tiie hill the founder of the church looks down upon the halt hun died churches which have grown from the seed he planted thirty-six ago in petty camp of c roj bers land as he calls it. WHS indeed the first n o the gospel settled in and yoi are rightly i did th. f rst church in tnis was lira that 1'r. Bell began bis reminiscence of Oakland as he knew it froi i the thin to the thirteenth year ot its existence were eight of us told lef Kew York in November of the full clipper ship Trade Vi boum the Horn loSan were sent out by the an Missionary Society to look alter spiritual wants of the State t. which so ninny adventurous men wer The Trade was tti largest ship that had ever laid e-i the berth for California at lhat tinn and we made a fine voyage of U that we were alire for ten whe Home of the embers from the galte down into the hold the foremast and kindled a th It was February whe we t can fix the the pilot brought us copies of the Ail describing the eel Oration a glor ous name for a what become of Wlr when t lefl he was in Ihe ol h we landed in San consigned to the few Presbyterian an ministers i the they assigned is st: two being sent to I can over to Oakland made i ly first e fort to gather a flock together this lime of ths As as I c. fix it without the old it was the middle of This part of city where we now stand was hut a trackless carpeted kn deep wilh poppy and the t. below was ex. live oal The only settlement was d by ti at the of whe there about a K sou Horace W. Mr. Mhoon were the mos Naturally there was no in began my the by a hell fro an old ferry boat that was no longer hung up from a rail la across n fence corner on Broadwa and bv its tones called people their first religious meeting under t branches of a big live After tl wer little si 10! house the -eil hand which we worshipped until my chur was hell vas not t for calli people Do vu on t Wharf was a camion which w to call trie to inns wUi the men made was the first man met when I landed in well cordial reception gave me. Whv the tirit he d was to invite to And through my ten he w me material i Of m my had to keep aloof from a 1 their the of I arid Carpt tier contributed and the camps raise came in quite ru soon we had ough tc ahead For a we chose a on Harrison near a facing the it was out to be but we in of making it attractive to the Uan A tonio people across the arm of the cs1 but I'm sorry say they took much out -j lumber in these lulls back of the c now but then covered with n The was fc and very tine for those It's tho igh mov from its original It is now Fourteenth nearly i t present First terian a Is I by a pi original parsonage is still i t where we built it. hell was given us friends Long snd it hangs in the steeple of the Jt bears an inscription stating presented to the Church of Contra That was t original name of the and then quite a little story about l ie change 1 like the Spanish odd that when I first ca to Oakland they were o- the and ibal I find myself in the end of tae fight o the for 1 settlors had laid out a tow u on the had named it Contra a were hard at work in trying get a There was bitter sti 1 between the squatters and the 1 era and latter engaged U to see that the charter was watched the Legi mull he was San Francisco one Tien the C tra Costa men saw their Tl out that and put Oakland in its an i with t Change the charter the men were the wi until it all d. Adams helped is In those early He used tope piece in the plate ev and when the exterior of was completed but the ins was nothing but rough no n tne whole expense of it in 1 It made it lock tt whereas H was an excellent the usual foundation but one night a rascal came along n the dead of night and pried f he church IIP wilh biR lever und the I didn't discover the loss until I saw the lever lying the church in the ri a as not our only vv e didn t know anything about northers and when the norther came g t church into a heap ol lers as at but we had to make it over iu the Grecian 1 started there were some twenty families in tho little idtv and enough men to br is the total population up to what would correspond with fifty a mil es After making a beginning I 1 au less ihann families enrolled in the theft you must remember that eighty people made a very laige in not even excepting San This was one ol the strongest churches in he and it used to br a byword I among mv fellow ministers to speak of as and I all we were n I strong congregation when our I was in well would 1 think fairly cover their number in the earliest I I ber 1 to use them all up 1 but ihe field was a most encouraging 1 was pastor of this church for ten until fy time I bad it all to Toward the end I of mv pastorate others began to but meanwhile my had The Congregate along iu the some lime with r as their was the third in he i came he looked just as old as he does a very proper 1 Then came the I and the brethren preached semi- The 1 had nc regular but 1'endtaliad a in his 1 a When I retired and returned to New York was Mr. Walworth mv brother The succession IB Ilia pastorate down to the present 1 have uot kept of. church was not my I really founded the old Col- lege of When 1 came here there was nothing bin a lew houses at the foot of a very nest oi cattle robbers and land but 1 felt in mv soul that this was the place for a on the shore of this which some day will be as celebrated as 1 that ot People told me that i Contra Costa a bard hut my I only answer much the ware i do need One of my ties wa's to attend ft conference ol L and ministers in then a nourishing and wealthy mining At this ence I a resolution that ihe two churches found a college in at laughed at me and said Oakland was no 1 bad no one to support me but Henry but be was a tower of Together we i worked ami finally succeeded m ing that resolution which they had Durant a mau among I a a man of earnest a man of tie came out from the to found a nud we bin we had to work I the lime I've had to divide my with him to keep from II It was a hard struggle for but ie we went everywhere lor ami we got At last wo got n 'e and it was 1 who got the charter i College ot California which Durant i 1 founded is now the ritate e I 1 am more and more convinced the 1 tional bodies made a a II tremendous when they slip from their i have chanced since and so has tlie Some ol the old men but most of them are Do yon know Malachi How the old i Jle built tlie and 0 and people used lo come here from all over to at and talk the solid progress of the Then there was a man by the name ol Abbey used to live down here on the bis hy i I he down worth of ducks one dis- charge bis swivel Jack Hays i and 1 steady He and 1 hunted all over Ihe to induce people to help us build a wharf out to deep But we couldn't m kc it never once dreamed that sjan people would put their capital into and its just that mistake which for my uot being a millionaire was one of the charter members of 1 Live Oak Lodge of and for lcl i some service 1 was able to render the j lodge they made me a life The same happened tn me ward in New York in Temple 1 is an honor that lew s can b of. Tlie to by the People on tha streets still wunt to who will constitute Board of Public Mayor-elect John i yet made no sign that j he has selected his and ir. all probabilities he will not announce them until he is installed on the day of one week from next D. Thomson is one of the popular candidates with the ple They regard him with mid feel that lie could conduct the i with greater satisfaction to the i city than almost any the others who His financial I ty seems particularly to j the business men are a l unit in indorsing John I Tompkins is also a popular I and there are mauy that the present I C. is out of the for Ihe general impression is that if hi would accept he would have ihe THE OLD be Bnt there are other to is who is now api bv the City 1' Bn City has been but is some dm bt as to whether he C M 1'1-rjib, the Secretary of uie Board of has been spoken ot as i a able mau for the a man I who would be able con- I t the Mr. is a Father McNally's Visit to the Scenes of His By Rocks and and at tlie A Now Branch of the Young Ladiee In- ty tto tor of St. The inclement weather did pre- vent the admirers of the J. 15. from Montana Hall last night in expectation of 15 a humorous ami instructive lectur that on his trip to The Young Institute No. 1 o West which was during Father absence its and Father deliver an M. the few appropriate Father McNally to the remarked that he wa going to give a lecture hut was go about his Before lie com hi usel n held Hit ucet The in siead iu this H at present a Deputy is frequently always successful in any of which they had While walking down the str was thinking Unit every 1 et h ha BI OR i Tte New Charter of Oakland Is dentally Tlie at tho State Tlie very important problem of the cc manlier of approving charters of cities hy the Stale u re will be solved by the Supreme Court of the Tlie Supreme Court on banded i n of W. T. attorney for i around tl some of ihe I 11 u t T n (I pleasure He that he had never been guilty of anyone that ho was taking a trip but he had to confess i was for to make for traveling first remarkable his occurred on the train a short he had left He was I I in a in when a man who was sitting u who had been silent for ho by 1 The speak that he would he anv and UK man and said priest 1 have ever s to in my I have out c a Catholic Now ther question that is troubling me. to the minister of my and him to giv doctrines of Ins He them out on a piece them to 1 I Marlon issued au alternative 1 writ of directed to i City Assessor of Los a id returnable before the court in b ink on Tuesday April i Brooks alleges lhat he is a resilient a id taxpayer of the city of Los i h s. and lhat an Assessor o is assess him under Ihe new recently proved by the and thai i charter is and tlie reason that the approval ot the have been by a as provided by section -s of the ana not by iiit resolution of both in this The of ban and Los Angeles were ail tlie Legislature in the by joint r orce in each house and bv the constitutional ma. church and found that they d agree with all his I v another minister and obtained tl trines his with the sal ie re he on he kind enough to give me a Kumr ol f Apr lilt ii The irney after K by rs in- you scd to silent re thR joken is a went hurch m e r the d not ent 10 e sick and nt their death their beneficiaries receive The speaker aiso gave an account ol the rapid growth of the During the evening the following gramme was carried Teresa Porn Hanson Tillle It. THE i infix ami tlie A careful investigation of the lie yesterday by the assignee of he of Livermore shows hat liabilities amount bile their assets are set forth ii valued ar Mauy of creditors the firm are The assets of ihe as set forth in their are as f real book horst and miles of note of personal her creditors are Hoi ten stein it 01 7H: ot 1'leasaiilon; Hardware Company of Of S. 11. of same and H. C. Shaw of of San VMI ton niun it uf Mission tinn The iu Oakland National 1 Home K. iVr 11. in Livermore are 1'. Native of the H. f i Mrs. 10. J. Native Daughters the 07; J. 10. if H. iL 1'opken, Miss Mollie Mrs. A. K. J. J. M. C. C. I K. DOCTOR VAN ofu your brought anout some trouble and caused me to drown it in was the Dr. Maurice Van Epen made in the lice Court this morning to a charge of Van Kpen is a graduate of Cooper Medical After tion he became the proprietor of on between Broadway and Franklin which occupation he tti have nad a greater than for the practice of his subsequently sold the and uf j late has been attempting to build up u business as a Hut ihe its he acquired in the saloon business ot sampling his own have clung to and it has been the dragging the 1'octor into the depths of besides rupturing his His wile was preparing to DEATH leave him yesterday lor having taken steps to procure a in ihe and endeavored to get a trunk from the family residence on Alice near Van Kpen iu sought solace the wine cup and was lighting He thereupon pumiced upon his wife and attacked her with i that the Confession of Mrs. Woman Would Die With a Lie on Her Cha Keeper of a Lying In Hospital in the County Accused of he into tlie cause of death Mrs. place yesterday in and beyond a doubt that her death the of a criminal to premature child The was of T. W. F. M. M. John 11. wilness called was Ucn husband of the I le was in a and it was brass dour with which be cut him He t that he a er cheek to him He that he from Ihe eye to Ihe Oliver i years the doctor iu and his wile hud the but he all to the oilier My wife told me ten days wallowed the mire in see M and make an ap Ihe crushing his glossy tile when wilo her under The culprit had a very I dn nnt my wife was very I paid more Dr. 1'. Ilex the unfortunate part of her illnes unprofessional look about him sitting in the duck He guilty to being drunk ami battery on his to be tried on that right His was in an adjoining room with swathe 1 in Van Kpen was given the regulation i hi who attended woman in the ter railed to see Mrs. on the 1'itli of this about in I found her ill with itis She had been in agony Ihe and I asked her the doctrines of vour to him the apostolic K. M. D. In: K. E. M.S. It. Morton Horton 50; Mrs. It. K. estate ol J. F. Mrs. F. lon Mrs. C. Mrs. J. 11: 7U; A. A. Hank ot Tlie creditors in Sun Francisco Hecht H. T. A. it S. Co. Blum t Strauss W. A. Nolan r. i i called an old man was n whom 1 hud reason to believe and 1 asked him what i d in and he commenced hy in one etc. lea and he said the same then informed the gentleman would find the Catholic same over the lie the train he gave me hi A HAPPY The Rollers and Hookers to Return U The at tho to lie and remarked that perhaps lit ar from him When the speaker arrived Lake he paid R visit to the inon He how a in any part of st j U. bv the ma. r. i that Ihe decision in could hear n pin drop into a po of Hatch vs. I other part of the J c i I've come back for to remain here the rest of my for i I've never found any climate that I like so well as 1 an- 1 interested in the 1 knew so CON Them W. an wouldn't take it i That is what W. It. Thomas said or 'd j of Chief of i I I could have to Iv say about the police that i am I to 1 not into an I lice and be responsible for a lot of in- 111 Why should a man be held responsible for a lot ol drunks who h. could not earn ji'S u month at anything it i ami who don't earn it at the police -in It is not right and I wouldn't ho take the page I roval must lie by the in- chiding the and the only i such approval by i could be would be by 'A report vnt that Ihe 1 are 1 i i a pool tn oppose tlie charter in the and have raised to assist 1 paying expenses of eral asked tins re- and all deny the truth COilE THE to u Disgusted I ire in J. healthy in tlie this charged with drunk mid pleaded guilty to both that it was his and that be was a and and that dis- tress bad driven him soliciting He was sentenced to three days for Ihe first and i 10" twenty days for the It appears that bad taken visited Catholic schools in Su found that llm Mormon b. nils in never the of their i speaker then described his and told how a driven him down Michigan ave: otr l h Alter he hud it re to his that hi had une to Oakland for etc. He said thai he saw was more beautiful could i in the city of ihe and that let out da The speaker then gave ari his iu New and tina how he departed the steal It au yea rs and the appa station in front of the anH money from every man and who approached the Anione whom he ad- was who was dressed in said me a quarter o a 1 don't yon RO over to tlie ity i a free lodging the the replied the me Koine inio the City I guess 1 will take you said the who thereupon himself and yanked the irised into the evidently a in the Kelly was we'll acquainted with the and to tbE as of the arresting the prisoner cordially greeted by one THE De- to the Storm a Car TVa The first disaster that has occurred No. intc operation .it Sixteenth street station occurred as the 7 o'clock train Berkeley reached that The -ear truck of last car jumped the It was at first thought that the disaster was caused by the tower man throwing the before the car had passed bu: it has been discovered that it was because the rails owing 10 the soft con- of the train was de- of Yesterday the funeral services of the late Francis Doling were held at the Church of the The deceased a brother of I Doling of Fifth and Jackson i and was a member of the He died in absolute i but through the efforts of friends the 1 was raised on Monday last by A. A further sum I j of will come to the widow from Washington from the brotherhood to i which the husband The I soloists at the requiem mass were Miss j j Mary Sullivan anu W. C. j who played the A choir of j eight voices and the attended iu a A Ferit of the Masters ot to if boats and other performance was in progress in the sels which ply in the creek i circus tent recently erected on the lot i about a mud scow that is anchored at the corner of street and near the end of the The scow blocks the fairway and is a nuisance by i and at night is a positive I ger. since no anchor is shown and tho scow lies so low that it cannot be seen till close 1 bv aies it M. it Armes Haker ed Home California Hosiery Morse 3u; Op. Central Sanborn it Gregory it D. it W. F. it it Sadler 70: it Sa i Cordage I f Is 5'i- Farth 't Del Monte 4'.; i American i K. I i Lavis Siegfried Business M. it t Halt person in an- Ie t Lalte ys ami intend d had UP a ig tbat i found The at the between the striking rolling and their employers are virtually The committee who went to yesterday relumed late in the and reported to their re in conversation Morgan at tlie work this morning it was learned that a will be made immediately t ihe entire satisfaction of the tu And it exported that work will be n in the rolling before the mean time i large consignment of been and is now being in loaded from cars the company side The men who have been for three days have a as lo s are preparing to go I wurk again on short U has m t et been learned what the rate of will but it is generally thr old wages will be ami t street Washington of who n said that M Funke told her she I asked her why she told she -I think I am to and L do not wish to die with a lie upon my An made by the deceased to Health ticer of then read to the It is unite and is in sub- stance as full My Mary 1 1 hi lieve J I lii this in view J my e her jit her lie 7 i went to her nad an to nld 1 ami t when I see i I on H was Ihe from to she an she tu my and tip nil she slie toM lae lu tell thin I fold she nil me. My L- uf her t to see Mrs. on March I wus If I should I my will ilie of was also given by Dr. Lean and Dr. who the describing cause of death to Ihe Mrs. had also been summoned as a of course she did not put in an The after a short brought iii the verdict find hrf on 11 K. which is. thill Mrs. in A of us Mrs. K. and the oi tlie Attorney Heed was present and carefully to tho of mnl o Iv BAD was tilled with were going and some were groups the were taking r in the the d surge to and With a the .is they up and Ihe and Ha of a uot 1 fur He pushed I through he reached the I front was When he saw its In charging if that dis- was on a Sunday morning sence ol and one that he again saw dear oh He watched and in due time landed at Tpon Ins arrival in that c thing that greeted his He jumped abo i told the driver to him and down He roue around for half an of respectable and driver charged wel to of lie paid well for the J experience was at Blarney While walking the pointed out to him t ney and suggested to bin hold his heels while the kissed the the spea not going to take any such cha he took a stick he heh hand and touched the stone ai kissed the end of the veiled the Lukes ot friends asked him what he tin the and he replied tbat li only lish He asked they bad ever seen the Lake Tahoe in the a lake where in places they have been able to never seen anything that conic the preen fields of had been in Ireland ten days to rain and continued during the remainder of his sta Then he went to England and 1 mud and The nt he visited was Taris an there on fete the 1-lth From here he went to Bordeau he found much California and after going process it was shipped away ag speaker then described at len visit to and told his of the wonderful revelation wh place there when the miracle of Lourdes was the waters were which now draw thousands o to drink of the waters their The Says Is A. Sau Francisco paper says American No. cussed Ihe necessity supplying West Oakland with good bread instead of the inferior article at present made there by laborers who are not members of the A decisive majority favored I the 1'resident, while j the inconvenience people of that were pill to hy ing to use unsatisfactory deemed il in the interest of respectable linus Oakland to devise means of Castle i the The willingness of as expressed hy thur vote tu j up money enough to furnish means of the demand for the product i of should not be availed of until private enterprise had been given a He was always ready 1 to 1" movement to i In this case he was not satisfied that the to attained the trouble and ex- pense that would be A tour of of land to show that fault was found with the West Oakland and the origin of the story could not be i v Hi ey were- hem if greal nd hud eclipse it com e found place i was where ine was h some The his hearers ch took uf our ed and covered ano re- Laved only a few Three work trains are out between here and Port Costa ballasting the track to prevent such A Wrecked At o'clock last while a was in progress in the circus tent recently erected on the lot at the corner of street and a gust of wind rent the canvas in twain and lifted it part over into Franklin The accident brought the performance to a sudden Tbe wreck was strewn over the ground this tho wished the young ladies much t and thanked them for their i in in- viting him to address 1'resident Miss M. Young tl en told of the growth of the 1 which now has sixty-seven n and invited those who are uot j lembers to inspect the constitution anc of the She an- lhat Father McNally lad con- sented to continue his e on hn travels Miss Carrie Gallagher oi S the Grand President of t ie then stated the objects of the The members receive t a wees Another or Who Though held to answer on a charge IO Irew up with to hy inid was hy while 11..-ni'.U..--1 m Mrs. anticipated arrest Mr. upon her she requested lhat stie be taken into us lo art as her to the defen and the services of these two men fur one j were uf no avail Mrs. saw John in a hurry I bad also engaged yesterday when was the am. a I the services of Attorney A. A. crowd followed in his Over tie belief is gaining in went over the platform went a sniad d regardless of each others toes struck Lie other side and hurried down towards a crowded 6omcthing must the matter in the tor brai man was watching reached the and wheel twister from the and the crowd followed which had grown a desperate struggle with sin Afler a moment's cons il- lation turned the eyes returned to I ie crowded while the was the matter? ie going to arrest any asked one of wanted to sec about checking a the er his eyes from something on t ie above were vou blushed and sta J usl ieu How suine men will lie they get a tight And there is 10 one that will do it with a or a firmer voice than the average a grant who finds himself face 10 ai d mcda that if a fuil been made into Meyers uf Han died in Mrs. Mrs. would have been taken inlo The Mrs. gave birth to a but asked where the i is she told a gauzy story a to her after tlie cf Miss and under the pretence being a relative of. the took the child Mrs. is She located in v in the County A lamed i about of manslaughter Police with in the police C. who killed Jacob still a red wdd eyed yi retains his pe h of i i who was bronchi into the City not having been ended from the force j state of assured his As showing that he has rather this that it andy with hii H former instance hi and bis first i such practice is related of Shortly before the November on of the big Republican an boy was about 10 o'clock with two Han Francisco boys on between Seventh and Eighth streets Officer McCloud approached and the Oakland bov ran with the in When near the rner by Barnum's restaurant the cer fired and the bullet whistled ovar his McCloud then tripped on a pile of rocks and fell his pistol Hying some fifteen feet Now for the On one of the overland trains which reached this city last was a women who resides on Telegraph ave She expected her husband would be at the mole to meet but was disappointed to find that he was not there when the train cot in. Instead of summoning a the station rung up the patrol and in that vehicle she was conveyed to ter home between 11 and 12 in yet more than in the courtroom remembered him ing in the same dock as a vagrant i many He promised he would never get drunk again a id the Judge generously suspended having evidently forgotten er seeing the man ami the Last tho last meeting of ihe current year of the Oakland Board of the first year of its corpor ite existence was to have been seven years a lying-in but her place has always been looked upon with suspicion by her Dr. Joseph whu has been seriously ill. is slowly and her lor and expect to be gone about A. mother of Mrs. J. M. tu leave during latter part of the month for and will remain until Ceorge W. Heavier of the Press Publishing Company will leave for iu a few and will spend the summer in the A. Tucker of South who itin HT F. L. U. and Mrs. to-morrow for L. L. and his sou John have gone on extended tour after the young man will EMiter Kton College in tu pursue a five j son of N. are visiting Mrs. ton's K. on Thirteenth and ami expect to locate m this There is water in the cutting at Park street to make the Sail a waterway if to the severe j to A steam was not in The j been keeping the down of the Board will meet afternoon on Thursday Indiana State The Indiana Association grown beyond Ihe capacity of the r dences of ita and it has compelled to hire a Its next re- union will be held Friday at Odd corner of tin and Eleventh that the of the steam shovel might not be dam As as there is reason to suppose that llys ram has definitely ceased ditch will he dry and tiie wurk of tion He Thought a Adam H. Wall of this city was granted letters patent on a ol his own
