March 20-Dr. Joseph A. Long, Assistant Professor of Embryology, "The Development of the Chick."

April 10-Albert L. Barrows, Instructor in Zoology, "Methods and Aims of Oceanographic Research."

April 24-Dr. Barton W. Evermann, Director of the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, "The Golden Trout of the Mount Whitney Region."

READINGS FROM GREEK PLAYS

James T. Allen, Associate Professor of Greek, continued his series of public readings from Greek plays as follows: March 1, the "Oedipus the King" of Sophocles (translation of Sir George Young); March 3, the "Antigone" of Sophocles (translation of Sir George Young); March 8, the "Philoctetes" of Sophocles (translation of Sir George Young); March 15, the "Oedipus Colo"of Sophocles (translation of Sir George Young); March 22, the "Hippolytus" of Euripides; April 5, the "Bacchae" of Euripides; April 12, the "Frogs" of Aristophanes (translation of Professor Gilbert Murray).

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MINING LECTURES

March 6-Charles W. Merrill, "Crushing Preparatory to Cyaniding."

March 7-Charles W. Merrill, "The Cyanide Process; Solution of Gold and Silver."

March 8-Charles W. Merrill, “The Cyanide Process; Filtration or Separation of Metal-bearing Solutions from Ore Residue."

March 9-Charles W. Merrill, "The Cyanide Process; Precipi tation (Historical).''

March 10-Charles W. Merrill, "The Cyanide Process; Precipitation (Current Practice).”

SCOUT-MASTERS' TRAINING CLASS

March 7-C. E. Rugh, Professor of Education, "Work with the Adolescent Boy''; A. H. Singleton, U.S.N., "The Making and Reading of Maps, Judging Distance, Size, Number and Weight; the Compass; New Programmes.'

March 14-Eustace Peixotto, Director of Physical Education for the San Francisco Schools, "Boys' Camps: Qualities, Methods, Supervision, Equipment, Preparation; Cooking in the Open."

March 21-Dr. J. N. Force, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, "Use of the Knife and Hatchet; First Aid."

March 28—Dr. J. N. Force, "Firebuilding; Tracking; First Aid; Examination for the Red Cross Certificate.”

April 4 Sidney Peixotto of the Columbia Park Boys' Club, "Indoor and Out-of-door Programmes and Games."'

April 11-H. M. Hall, Assistant Professor of Economic Botany, "Local Tree and Plant Life."

April 17-Dr. J. P. Buwalda, Instructor in Geography, "Central California Rock and Geological Formations."

April 17-R. T. Crawford, Associate Professor of Practical Astronomy, "The Principal Stars and Constellations.”

April 25-August Vollmer, Chief of Police of Berkeley, "Important City Ordinances and How to Help Keep Them;" G. S. Rose, Fire Chief of Berkeley, "How to Extinguish and Prevent Fires."'

May 2-R. T. Crawford, "The Principal Stars and Clusters."'

THE HALF HOUR OF MUSIC

(In the Greek Theatre on Sunday Afternoons.)

March 5-Miss Margaret Graham, soprano, accompanied by Frederick Maurer.

March 12-Miss Louise M. Lund, soprano, accompanied by Frederick G. Schiller, and Miss Alberta Livernash, pianist.

March 19-Ernest P. Allen, violinist, and Howard E. Pratt, tenor, accompanied by Miss Carrie Jones.

March 25-Wyman Garthwaite, '18, violinist; Charles Edwards, '19, 'cellist, and Elmore Roberts, '18, pianist.

April 2-Miss Zhay Clark, harpist; Richard Cook, tenor, and Miss Helen Beatrice Cooper, soprano, accompanied by Miss Laura Lundegaard, pianist.

April 9-California Cadet Band, led by Herman Trutner, Jr. April 16-Signor Mario Rodolfi, tenor; Miss Daisy Foster, accompanist.

April 23-The University of California Glee Club and the De Koven Club, under the direction of Mr. Clinton R. Morse, '96, assisted by Miss Ruth Bowers, soprano, accompanied by Mrs. Mabel Hill Redfield, and the California Trio, consisting of Wymond B. Garthwaite, '18, violinist; Charles S. Edwards, '19, 'cellist, and Eugene Roberts, '19, pianist.

April 30-Gilbert Reek, violinist; Mrs. George C. Butler, soprano; Mrs. R. H. Chamlee, contralto; Felix Desimone, tenor, and Stanley Egenese, tenor, accompanied by Frederick Maurer, Jr. May 7-Mr. and Mrs. Cedric Wright, violinists.

OTHER MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC EVENTS

March 14-Berkeley Musical Association Concert, Miss Florence Hinkle, soprano, accompanied by Charles Albert Baker. March 17-Glee Club Concert, Harmon Gynasium.

March 25-Mask and Dagger Play, "The Devil's Disciple," by George Bernard Shaw, Oakland Auditorium Opera House.

April 7-Fifth Annual Partheneia, "Aranyani of the Jasmine Vine," by Maude Meagher, '17, with music by Catherine Urner, a graduate student.

April 11-The Kneisel Quartet, composed of Franz Kneisel, first violin; Hanz Letz, second violin; Louis Svecenski, viola, and Willem Willeke, violincello (before the Berkeley Musical Association).

April 15-Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration in the Greek Theatre, with the presentation of scenes from Shakespeare by the high schools of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley.

April 21-Sixth Annual Good Friday Concert in the Greek Theatre: Rossini's "Stabat Mater," and other sacred music, rendered by a chorus of 200 from the Berkeley Oratorio Society, the Wednesday Morning Chorale of Oakland, and the San Francisco Choral Society, and an orchestra of fifty, with Choragus Paul Steindorff as Conductor, Emilio Meriz as concert-master, and the following soloists: Madame Johanna Kristoffy, Madame Claude Albright, Hugh Williams, Godfrey Price, and Miss Amy Ahrents, violinist.

April 22-Shakespeare Tercentenary Celebration, Production of "Julius Caesar" by students of the University, under the auspices of the English Club, Greek Theatre.

April 25-University Recital in 101 California Hall by Constance Edson Seeger, violinist, and Walter Handel Thorley, pianist.

May 2-University recital by Constance Edson Seeger, violinist, and Walter Handel Thorley, pianist.

May 13-Senior Extravaganza, "Absent on Leave," by Hazel Havermale, '16, and Roger Goss, '16, with original music by Lawrence Seymour, '17; E. B. Spofford, '18; H. P. Darling, '16; J. S. Taylor, '16; R. G. Dudley, '16; K. C. Kaufman, '16, and Roger Goss, '16.

VOL. XVIII

OCTOBER, 1916

THE WESTERN PACIFIC*

No. 4

WARREN OLNey, Jr.

The Western Pacific Railroad is of some little importance in this community. It has recently been much in the newspapers. It is entering upon a new period in its history, with new owners and new management and new hopes. I have thought the Club might be interested in a brief review of its vicissitudes up to this time and of its present condition and outlook.

The history of the Western Pacific really goes back to the acquisition of the Southern Pacific by Mr. E. H. Harriman. The situation at that time was this:

Mr. Harriman had a few years before acquired the Union Pacific. Mr. George J. Gould had for a number of years controlled the Denver and Rio Grande. Both these last mentioned lines crossed the Rocky Mountains and had their Western terminals at Ogden. Both were largely dependent on through business and were in direct competition for the same through business. Both were dependent for direct entrance into San Francisco and Northern California upon the same connection, namely, the old Central Pacific line from Ogden to San Francisco, which for many years had been and still is owned and operated by the Southern Pacific. This line was the only line into San Francisco and Northern California except from the far South and the far North. The importance of it as a connection to both of the Rocky Mountain roads was very great. If it chose to do so it could cut off from one or the other a very

* A paper read before the Berkeley Club. Mr. Olney was one of the receivers of the Western Pacific appointed by the courts.