F 869 .B5 B54 LN-SC^TTM^ltt'V-DES' J_ KiiiKri-rt iii'oonlliift lo Act of nonKreM. In tho year l»!W, by J. I,. SCOTrHLEK. In iho iiftli-e of the l.lbrHriHii of Conirreioi hi WHHlilncton. IHROIGH THE PINES A lATIIMlV IN THE IMVKKslTV (illOlNIW O. V. Luugf pholo •^TgS'S®a-gj:s^S'S'®®s:^:»SSB?s a as«g-:ffi;§sfsi!8;'r^ ,01 i«^* Published by the BERKELEY EVENING WORLD. -!*r* y^ ^ ^ Undar the direction of J. L. SCOTCHLEH. BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA. 1898. 2ntf copy >X\^ << ^^^ (^ \ ■y (i I J>9 Information. Any inquiries that ma> be suggested by the pictures, or by any statements that have been made, will be graciously considered upon request by mail to J. L. Scotchler, Berkeley, California. Arrangements can jjf aiade for procuring large copies of the vnrious pictures for framing. Sets of any number.Ofnhe pictures can be obtained, including the cover, at special rates which uill be made upon application as above. The publishers desire to e.xpress their thanks to all who have assisted by suggestions in preparing this collection: 10 J. C. Rowell, Esq., Librarian of the University, for data; to Prof. Wm. Carey Jones, for f -rmission to publish several pictures included in his History of the University; and to J. B. Reinstein, hsq., for copies of the Hearst Prospectus and Architectural Plan. Hall Tanas by Bolton & Strong, slo Montgomery St., San Francisco, Cal. ■t 14 on 3- :jc 1 87? liKNKHAl. VIKU i>f BKKKEl.EV. l.lH.KINli WKST KKOM THE llll.U .K'KIKS TIIK BAV (IF SAN KRASrlWH, AMI DIT THK GOLIIKN (JATE 1898 O V Lauge photo Ill'w^f*''''-^ tf^M*' BERKELEY STATION i.ookii.K North In ISKS THE t'SIVEKSITV HETOT <>F TIIE LOC'AI. TRAINS FROM SAN FRANCISCO THE I'HINCIPAI, Kl'SINEWl CENTER (if THE TOWN O. V. Lanpc photo THE SAME In 1898 O. V. Lan!?e photo ALLSTON \VA> In INKX IJ)l)KIN(i EA>T KKIIM THE ^AMK ^TAMiloINT *> IN 11IK 1 lin KI.IN.i VIKM r,,KNKk ^II.IITICK AVEXIK O. \'. LUU] 5 » w a CONSERVATORY IK THE IKIVEESITY GEOIKES O. V. Lange photo THE FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Old and New A NOTABLE EXAMPLE OF CRuWTH AND DEVELOPMENT. CORNER ALUSTON WAY AND ELLSWORTH STREET O. V. Lange photo INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND THE ELIND V. Lunge photo Sims photo THE BEAR HUNT STATliE BY DOL'liLASS TILDEN (DEAF MX'TE) IN THE GROV.NDS OP THE INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND BLIND A ROSE AND GERANIUM BOWER Partridge photo- RESIDENCE OF PROF. F. V. PAGET, Dwir.HT Way "*R5^ CHANNING AND PIEDMONT WAYS RESIDENCE CORNERS HEAD OF WARKIST. STREET Partriflgp rhoto BAN'CROFT WAY AND TELEGRAPH AVENTE 0. G. Dornin photo FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Partridge photo THE OLD BITLDING SHOWN IN THE TPPER Cf.RNER WAS BUILT IN 187.5. IT WAS THE FIRST PROTESTANT CHfRCH IK BERKELEY. IT IS NOW A PART OF THE TOWN'S HIi:H SCHOOL. STILES HALL O. V, Lange pLoio THE BUILDING DEDICATED In USE OF CHRISTIAN OROANIZATIONS OF THE VNIVERSITY. GIFT OF THE LATE MRS. ANN .1. STILES CATTLE ON lHh. lilLLS AVENUE ENTERING RESIDENCE OF JOHN GARBER. ESQ. Sims photo DEAF AND BLIND INSTITUTION FROM CORNER RlfXiE ROAD AND SCENIC AVENUE HILLSIDE VIEWS LOOKIN ; EAST ON PIEDMONT WAV O. V. Lange photo UPI'ER END OF HEARST AVENUE J o r ^ o s ^^.oiJEi III CHEMISTRY UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS SOUTH HALL— ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENT J. T. Warren photo NORTH HAIJ,— ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT MINING ANn CIVIL ENCINEERING UNIVERSlTt BUILDINGS MTUDENTS' OBfiERVATORY J. T. Warren photo GYMNASirM L-- ENTRANCE TO CAMPrS UNIVERSITY SCENES IX THE CREEK J. T. Warren photq MECHANICS BUILDING Partridge photo SOME BERKELEY CHURCHES ST. JOSEPH'S (ROMAN CATHOLIC) METHODIST O. V. Lange phpto BERKELEY' PUBLIC LIBRARY O. V. Lange photo - '^i^^^^mMm^^if I ^. :* ■ **' ••J?T»"-'.^ 1^1 '•«*'•■»*• Jtiiiivjr: DWIGHT WA'*- SCHOOL Erected 1897 LOOKINC EAST, CiRlZZLY PEAK IN RIGHT BACKGROrND O. V. Lange photo ffSIS; THROUGH THE OAKS LOOKING EAST. UP KIDGE ROAD TuWARLI THE HII.I.S HEARST AVENUE O- '^^ ^*°se photo LOOKING WEST, THE BAY AND MAKIN CorNTY HILLS IN BACKGROUND -^A ' ^ HEAD OF COLLEaE AVENUE A BERKELEY LASSIE AND HER TURNOUT Partridge photo RESIDENCE OF J. F. SIMS, ESQ. a X ■A o z < O ta LOOKING NORTHEAST, TOWARDS THE HILLS, FROM CORNER DWIGHT AND PIEDMONT WAYS TYPICAL STREET SCENES O. V. Lange photo LOOKING WEST, DOWN BANCROFT WAV, FROM CORNER PIEDMONT WAY STREET SCENES LOOKINi; EA>T FROM CORNER DURANT AVENCE AND ELl-SWuKTH ^TKEE'I O. V. Lange photo CEDAR STREET, LOOKING EAST. TOWARDS THE HILLS, FROM WALM'T STEET y iHlE PUI^POSE of this work is to show in an effective way the physical features of the gi'eat college town that is rising at the western gateway of our nation's domain. No attempt has been made to rehearse details of history, and reference is made only to such plain facts of previous years as seem indispensable to a proper understanding of the town's present status and future prospects. The growth of the place has been so interwoven with that of the great institution of learning on its hills, that what is said of either needs no repetition for the other. The pictures have been selected with the view of presenting characteristic scenes, and of showing contrasts of growth and development. Some are from photographs taken several years ago, but the greater number are from photographs taken during the months of December, 1897, and January, 1898. The grounds of the University and the buildings thereon have received special attention, as they con- stitute the nucleus around which the town has been formed. it is believed that Berkeley should be made more familiar to the people of our country, and that there can be no better method of accomplishing that end than by the dissemination of a pictorial medium of information. This is the first effort in that behalf. Patient inspection is asked for it, and cooperation to ensure the success of its mission. The Town and the Colleges THE Town of Berkeley is the home of the University of California, and its growth and cieN'elopinent have been commensurate with the progress of tiiat institution. Tiie possibility of a village came with the selection of the site for the colleaes. This selection was made in ICS58. The name Berkeley was adopted in 1866. but no steps were taken to build a city until the State of California in 1868 decided to establish a university. The earliest buildings were erected in 1872. when the surrounding country was occupied only by f-ums and orchards. In 1873 they were first occupied by classes. In 1878 the town was mcorporated under a special charter by act of the legislature. In 189s another charter was granted by the State, and under the more appropriate conditions of this later document Berkeley is rapidlv' taking a leading position in the ranks of modern cities. Berkeley lies on the slopes of the hills, facing west and looking out upon and across the waters of the great Bay of San Francisco. Just ten miles west from the shore stands the world-famous Golden Gate barring the boisterous onsl-uicrht of theare at Pacific Ocean and daily permitting just enough of its ardent tide to rush head- long tluough the rocky opening to cleanse, to purify and to renew the toiling waters of this inland sea. The area of Berkeley is about nine square miles; its domain extends eastward fr,.m the waters of the bay. some three miles to an elevation of seven hundred teet on tlie foothills ot the Coast Range; its population is between twelve and thirteen tho'-^'o.l lousand. University of California In treating this subject it has been deemed best to quote directly from writings already before the pub- lic. The great institution, her history, progress, needs and future prospects have been so well presented by those who have at heart her highest interests and destiny that no words of ours could better impress our purpose. On August 31, 1897, there was issued at San Francisco a Prospectus for an Architectural Plan of the University of California. This document is in the main as follows : "The Uni\'ersity of California has undertaken an enterprise which it is hoped to make one of the most notable in the history of architecture; and in this hope it asks, through the wise and loving kindness ot Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst, the co-operatinn of the architects and artists of every land and clime, in the prepara- tion of a plan for an ideal home of education. The purpose is to secure a plan to which all the buildings, that may be needed by the University in its future growth, shall conform. All the buildings that have been constructed up to the present time are to be ignored, and the grounds are to be treated as a blank space, to be filled with a single beautiful and harmo- nious picture as a painter fills in his canvas. The University of California was founded under an Act of the Congress of the United States, passed in 1862. It received a large land-grant and subsidies, and still receives, in addition, a yearly income from the United States. The charter of the University was granted to it by the State of California, in 1868, and a part of its income is derived from a tax of two cents on each ^100 of the taxable wealth of the State, which income is, of course, constantly increasing in amount. It will thus be seen that the University has both a National and State character. Its present re- sources are valued at about nine million dollars and, in addition to the revenue derived from part of such resources, it has a yearly income of about S40,ooo from the United States, and of about SsjO.OCo from the State tax. The University has trebled its number of students in six \Tars. It had -j-j-j, in 1891; it has 2300 now, and it will probably have 5000 after ten years, which is the number ot students for whom the architectural plan should be calculated. The site of the University of California, at Berkeley, California, comprises two hundred and forty- live (245) acres of land, rising at first in a gentle and then in a holder slope from a height of about two hun- dred feet above the sea level to one of over nine hundred feet. It thus covers a range of more than seven bundled feet in altitude, while back of it the chain of hills continues to rise a thousand feet higher. It has a superb outlook over the Bay and City of San Francisco, over the neighboring plains and mountains, and the ocean. It is the desire of those who have charge of this enterprise, to treat the grounds and the buildings together, landscape gardening and architecture forming one composition, which will never need to be structurally changed in all the future history of the University. It is thought that the advantages of the site, whose bold slope will enable the entire mass of buildings to be taken in at a single coup- d'dil, will permit the production of an effect unique in the world, and that the architect who can seize the opportunity it offers, will immortalize himself. it is seldom in any age that an artist has had a chance to express his thought so freely, on so large a scale, and with such entire exemption from the influence of discordant surroundings. Here there will be at least twenty-eight buildings, all mutually related and, at the same time, entirely cut off from anythmg that could mar the effect of the picture. In fact, it is a city to be created,— a City of Learning, — in which there is to be no sordid or inharmonious feature. There are to be no dethiite limitations of cost, materials or style. All is to be left to the unfettered discretion of the designer. He is asked to record his conception of an ideal home for a University, assuming time and resources to be unlimited. He is to plan for centuries to come. There will doubtless be development of science in the future that will impose new duties on the University, and require alterations in the detailed arranjiement of its buildings, hut it is believed to be possible to secure a comprehensive plan so in harmony with the universal principles of architectural art, that there will be no more necessity of remodeling its broad outlines a thousand years lience than there would be of remodeling the Parthenon, had it come down to us complete and uninjured. in the great works of antiquity, the designer came first, and it was the business of the financier to find the money to carry out his plans. In the new building scheme of the University of California, it is the intention to restore the artist and the art idea to their old pre-eminence. The architect will simply design, others must provide the cost. About five million dollars have already been pledged for a beginning, and such a general desire to contribute has been manifested, that it is thought that all the funds required will be forthcoming as fast as the work can be carried on. Mrs. Phebe A. Hearst, widow of the late United States Senator George Hearst, and a lady well known for her interest in and taste for all things artistic, has provided ample funds for securing the archi- tectural plan. For this purpose she has appointed a Board of Trustees consisting of the Governor of the State, James H. Budd, representing the State ; one of the Regents of the University, J. B. Reinstein, represen- ting theBoard of Regents; and one of the Professors of the Faculty, William Carey Jones, representing the University." Following the Prospectus there was issued by the same authority, on December 3d, 1897, A Programme for an International Competition of Architects. Again quotation is made: "The City of Berkeley, near San Francisco, is situated on the shore of a large bay, called the Bay of San Francisco, nearly opposite the straits, known as the Golden Gate, which connects the bay with the Pacific Ocean. Resting against a mountainous background, the city is situated on a gentle slope, the rise increasing as it recedes from the bay. The location reserved tor the Univerbity begins about two miles east of tiie shore-line of the Bay, and extends beyond the city, on hilly ground. While the present entrance to the University grounds is at pres- ent Center street, on the western boundary, architects are free to provide other entrances, either for the principal apprcjach, or for side ones. There is a ferry from San Francisco to Berkeley, at the foot of University avenue, and a railroad from San Francisco to Berkeley, and other railroads. The perimeter of the grounds is irregular; their greatest length is about 1870 meters, extending almost due east and west, and their greatest width about 770 meters. The least altitude is 198 feet (60.3 m.), on the side nearest the shore of the Bay. the highest, r 64 feet (293.6 m.), making a difference in the level of. 766 feet (233-3 m.) (The English foot .3046 m.) In the groLUids there are two brooks, which join before leaving the grounds. The grounds are partly planted with beautiful trees. The soil is generally firm and nffers no particular difficulties for foundations. :^ '^ -^ * 'Jfi ^ The general scheme will comprise: 1st. Provision for the general and collective purposes comniDii 1 1 all the departments, as follows: Administration, University Library, University Museum, Auditoriums, Military Establishment. Gymnasia, Printing Establishment, Habitation, Club Houses, Infirmary, Approach and Communication. 2d. Buildings for all things pertaining to the general service of the several departments, Such as central power, heat and light station, postal, telephone and telegraph systems, etc. 4d. The Departments of Instruction, so far contemplated, number fifteen, and the buildings for their accommodation differ much as to their relative size and importance. *;;;*** The preceding directions are intended to give a general idea of the scope and character of the Univer- sity, and are not intended to control the details of the plan of the architect, especially in the preliminar\- competition. The distribution of the groups on the grounds, as well as their respective proportions, are left to the judgment of the architects. There are no limitations on the materials to be used. California abounds in beautiful and durable building stones. The attention of the competing architects is particularly called to the importance of a monumental and artistic aspect of tlie roofs. Indeed, the marked declivity of the ground creates special conditions of per- spective, and the spectator, placed on the summit of the grounds, uill have the view ot the roofs on succes- sive lower elevations. The superb panorama of the Ba>- of San Francisco can be seen from the grounds at the altitude thereon of about 260 English feet." A Regent's View. AGAIN, in the present year comes a furiher discussion of the Universit\' and its prospects in a valuable address by Regent J. B. Rt-instein before a special meetinc; of the Regents of the University on January 15, 1898. The following extracts are chosen: "No State University can, nor should it hope for success without state pride, dignity and patriotism, and, therefore, a thorough-going, deep and ardent appreciation of the state and a glowing belief in its future greatness is precedent of all other means for the welfare of this State University. Only a great Stale can have a great State University . Not without reason did the gifted Seward say, in the debates on the admission of this State into the Union on September 9th, 1850, "The unity of our empire hangs on the dedsion of this day." Nor thoughtlessly did Benton and Calhoun and Seward prophes\- that the theatre of luturr civiliza- tion was to be the Pacific and not the Atlantic ocean. Nor is this a destiny of the far future. It is here, now , at hand. No longer do events move with leaden feet; the very forces of nature are chained to the car of civilization and progress. The stroke of a pen, the push of a button, and tremendous social, industrial and militar\' wars come with the speed and power of the thunderbolt, with continents in conflict, with worlds at clash and nations for stakes. The University, Past, Present and Future. Let us see what it has been, is, and may become: There was a University of California, which, though it was gathering strength while it slept, was yet a sleeping giant, unconscious of its powers and purposes, and sluggish tow:ird both. That University is no more. There is a new University of California awakened to nobler aiuj higher purposes, keenl\- alive to its superb destiny, and thrilling with new consciousness and fuller :ippreciation of its e.xalted mission, its e.\- panding life, its glorious opportunities. Within the past few' years the state has taken effective steps to direct ahd control the public education throughout the State. The State's appropriation for the University has been doubled without a dissenting vote, at a time when econoim- was forced on e\'erv representati\'e. The Phebe Hearst Architectural Plan of the University. Not only has this competition shown this University broad enough to seek and take the best from every land and nation, but almost as a direct result from it, and partly through the same generosity, the University within a few months will show to the world that great nations like France may be interested by this University to do an almost national service in the arts of architecture, painting and sculpture. This competition has resulted already- in a great advantage to the nation, the State and this Uni\ersity. These things have not happened by chance. There iias not been one thing which was not planned and wrought." These quotations have been made to indicate what must be in store for Berkeley. The upbuilding of the University can have but one effect upon its surrounding town, and that is to make it expand and grow corresponding!')-. The future of the town of Berkeley is thus assured. There can be no steps backward. The advance is sounded. • Institution for the Deaf and the Blind. Next to the University in point of interest and importance in Berkeley is this great State establishment. Lying on the breast of the hills at the south-east corner of the town, it has served for thirtv^ years as a haven and hope to thousands of helpless and afflicted ones. Few institutions of the ireiitest Daily Variation [ 28 Least Dailv X'ariation ! 8 59 5 60 71.2 6q S 55 2 $A 7 27 4 27 4 8 2 6.1 57 < 66.9 52 I 27.7 5.6 53. « , 48.3 62 9 ! 54 7 48.4 23.0 4.8 43 2 18.5 5-4 46.1 I 48.6 I 50.1 ,s-' ^ 56 s .S4 3 56.9 I .S8 3 f'2 .^ i 66 7 42.7 I 43 8 44 7 j 46 I ; 49.8 18.0 : 20 9 22 o 27.1 2S 9 4 8 I 461 3.7 6 8 RELATivji iii'.MiinTv (i'i:r cent). 81.8 84 I 82.9 81.4 79-3 1 84 5 I 84.1 ! 84.1 KMNivi.i, n\riiKsV 84.6 59-3 71 3 52 3 30 7 9 3 84 2 I 83 3 ' 80 5 3.^4 > 4 2.' 1 -'1 \VE.\TlIliU Clear 15 Fair .i eioiulv j 11 l'»t!gy I 16 Kniny i 14 10 12 "5 10 Ul RECTI S. W. W. MUEK OE days). 1/ 1 IS 12 13 14 12 l.S 13 17 6 4 ~ () 4 16 .s h 6 8 S 12 12 10 13 10 12 7 6 3 2 2 3 3 2 4 6 ' r. 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