Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
A century ago, on Oct. 20, 1923, the Berkeley Daily Gazette art writer and critic J. Vennerstrom Cannon wrote during “National Picture Week” about what she called “the patronizing attitude of club women as well as that of the public towards the artists.Berkeley, a Look Back: Construction starts on UC women’s faculty building
“The artist is the last person in the world to tolerate a charitable attitude,” she added. “He spends his life creating his wares. He should have the privilege of parting with them on the basis of any self-respecting merchant.”I’ll reproduce this short article in full since it has considerable relevance to the history of the 1923 fire. It ran Oct. 22, 1923, in the Gazette.
“The committee has been functioning now for nearly three years with limited capital out of which it has employed fire wardens, purchased firefighting equipment and installed it at strategic points, which has proved effective to combatting many fires up to the time the great brush fire, which was swept by a terrific wind, got away on September 17 and descended on Berkeley.”
Also, on the same day this article ran, there was a short note in the Gazette that PG&E and the East Bay Water Co. had decided to cancel “current bills against homeowners and residents of the burned area.”As Berkeley passed the one-month anniversary of the 1923 fire, some local things, such as traffic accidents, were getting back to normal. The Gazette reported Oct. 22, 1923, that eight people were injured in Berkeley mishaps, one seriously.
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