Petaluma High School - Trojans Yearbook (Petaluma, CA)

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We are now in a position to get a good view of the High School building. The assistants will furnish you with magni¬ fying field glasses so that you may note its architectural beauties. It was painted two years ago. There are still some traces of the paint to be seen on the sheltered por¬ tions of the building. The job was contract¬ ed, but the paint was extracted. The large bare spot you see in front of the building is the old athletic grounds. It is fully twenty feet wide by thirty-two feet long, with a flag pole in the center and has a slope of twenty-three degrees. This insures a dry field for practice even in a rainstorm. Upon this track were trained all of the gold medal sprinters which have come from Pet¬ aluma for the last decade. The track is so large that one man can train at a time and not bump into himself provided he uses due care and keeps to the right all the time. The boys will train on the roof just as soon as they can risk themselves on a larger and more level surface. The building with the loud sign is the Petaluma Furniture Emporium. It is claim¬ ed by some who are in a position to know that this building contains as many unique specimens as does the far-famed British Museum. It would require a catalogue the size of Webster’s Dictionary to name and locate the articles to be found here. No guides are furnished but you can wander through at your own risk. This stately edifice is the official home of the City Fathers, the City Assessor, OW, ladies and gentlemen, we are ready to start upon our regular trip around the city. We will take you to many of points of. interest by daylight £ nd bring you back in time to see the mov¬ ing pictures at the Unique or hear the phon¬ ograph at the Nickelodeon. All ready, Chauncey. Let her go. We will first go through the residence portion of the city and see where the people stay when they are at home. The building which appears to be around the corner is really on this same street. The people here made their streets crooked so as to make them longer and still keep them inside the city limits. In this way we get more miles ) of paved streets and sidewalks than any other town of this size in the state. 23 —

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P. H. S. ENTERPRISE ’08. tially placed in my path, I mounted, turned his head toward home, and digging my heals in his ribs urged him forward. He did go forward, surprising me with his speed, but not toward home, for, suddenly wheeling in the narrow lane he bolted back over the road I had just come. He carried me on straight for about a mile, I, in the meantime using all my ability to stay on his back. Then clearing a hedge he went on again for some distance over the rough ground on the moor. Coming to a second hedge, he jump¬ ed high in the air and sped on, leaving me to find the nearest way to the ground. Fate chose the hardest spot for me to land on and for some minutes l lay thlnKlng over my sorrows. Finally I picked myself up, stiff and sore, and returned home over the same weary road I had already traversed three times that night. Donkeys might bray and ghosts might howl, I felt that neither would rouse any further emotion in me now. I had made a failure of both rid¬ ing and courting, and resolving that I had had enough for a lifetime I have remained a bachelor to this day.” JENNIE BULLOCK. “31 (Batt’f in ®ltat £ nm’ As sung with great success by the Petaluma Track Team. If Petaluma sent a team With four schools in the list, And got last place ’most every time, Would she be badly missed? Now if another school came in, The question that’s in doubt, Is, “Would she move on up the line, Or further down and out?” CHORUS— Put down one, then wait for two, That’s the best that we can do! You can count, and count, and count, till your brains are sore, Add it up any way you please won’t make it any more! If Petaluma had a team— Heraus mit ihm! heraus! — Which practiced steady once a month, Around behind the house, And if those nine and sturdy men Should win one point in all, How many men would it require To win no points at all? CHORUS— We got ONE! oh yum! yum! yum! Gee! but ain’t that going some You can count, and count, when all’s said and done, Other schools get what we leave; PETALU¬ MA WON (ONE!) —A. B. W. — 22 —

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P. H. S. ENTERPRISE ' 08. and the Fire Department. The city also maintains in this building a free lunch coun¬ ter and rooming house for the “weary and wandering” population of the county. The odd decoration you see in front of the building is a street sweeper. It is kept in full view so the public will know there is such a thing. Some day it is expected the machine will be used as an experiment. We must hasten by this unique and inter¬ esting structure because the chief fire fight¬ ing appliances of the city are located here. The noise you hear is made by the driver who is practicing arising with grace and alacrity from his couch. Black Bart is giv¬ ing him the horse laugh. No, madam, this is not a one-horse town just because we have a one-horse fire de¬ partment. Some nights ago a chimney took fire three block from this place. So well did the department work, that before it could, reach the scene of the conflagration two women had extinguished the blaze and the family had gone over to visit the neighbors. The large stone building on your right is the Free Public Library, one of tho by-products of the Carnegie Steel Corpora¬ tion. It is a wonderful institution. The books you want worst are either out or stor¬ ed in the basement awaiting the arrival of a cataloguer from Sacramento. It is con¬ fidently expected that the library will all be catalogued before Japan reduces the United States to a tribute-paying dependency. We are now passing in front of the Kindergarten Department. The Must Hatch Incubator Com¬ pany. This company has so far separated the production of chicks from the old and accepted methods that it is said that a con¬ scientious Plymouth Rock hen will not speak to an incubator offspring. the famous boulevard of the city. It leads directly to the D street-bridge, which has the distinction of being open nearly every time you are in a hurry to cross. The Pacific Ocean is an enlargement of the stream you are now crossing. On the official map it is a creek, if you are addressing tjie Chamber of Commerce or preparing a petition to Con¬ gress it is a River. It is so crooked that the further you sail out the nearer you are to being back. Congress has just appropri¬ ated $500 to straighten out all of the 914 bends in this stream. It is estimated that this amount will almost pay the expenses of the dredger to make the trip up here and tack to San Francisco if it encounters no rough seas and does not have to do any work. Congressmen are great things to sentative. If we had had none there is no doubt but that the national government would have come onto us for an assessment of a thousand or more. The large brick building ahead of us is — 24 —