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 BAY AND UPPER COAST COUNTIES 133 trains, trolleys, vehicles and foot-passengers will be accommodated. When the Rush Suspension Bridge, which is to be built with private capital, is accomplished, we shall no longer be dependent upon the ferry boats, and Oakland and Berkeley will be " just over the bridge " instead of across the oft-times fog-impeded bay. Oakland's site was originally a grove of oaks owned by the Per alt a family. To-day it is cov- ered by the buildings of a splendid, nearly-new city. The earthquake prospered rather than in- jured it. It became first the temporary shelter, then the established home and business-place of many who had lived in the sister city. Broadway is the main business street. There are fine houses in East Oakland and the Piedmont District. In the heart of the city is Lake Merritt, an inlet of the bay, upon whose sylvan shores are homes of the fortunate. The automobile which leaves the Hotel Oakland every morning at 10 o'clock and for which seats should be reserved in advance (fare $1.50), covers more satisfactorily than the self-conducted stran- ger could do the idyllic roads of the city and its suburbs, including Berkeley and Piedmont. Thrice the distance may be covered at two-thirds the cost by taking a Key Trolley Trip ticket at the San Francisco dock at 10 o'clock in the morn- ing. At the ferry terminal across the bay, elec-