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1912
Oakland, Alameda & Berkeley Directory - p. 718 ACP residence 6440 Benvenue Ave. not in classified.
January
2 - Affidavit of publication of Notice to Creditors and Decree showing that due and legal notice to creditors has been given.
9 - Order for Sale of Personal Property. Title Insurance and Trust Co. applies for an order to sell personal property of the estate. Property is chickens and gasoline.
10 - Order Extending time for Arthur C. Pillsbury to present to the court for certification his bill of Exceptions and statement of the case herein. Date to be no later than January 27, 1912.
12 - Inventory and Appraisment - Appointment of Appraisers, N.P. Bailey, Leo J. Maguire, and Arthur G. Steffer. - Notarized acknowledgment from the court - ESTATE OF E.S. PILLSBURY, DECEASED. TRUST NO. 2517. SECURITIES. HELD BY ESTATE - Listing by parcels. This is the listing which gives the certificate numbers. Personal Inventory, furniture in home at 132 No. Palm Ave, Hollywood California, listed by room. This listing raises many questions. There is a list of monies owed from individuals, it is appraised at $0 although the amounts add up to $4,736.50. A large number of stocks and other items are also valued at nothing. Other parcels of land are not noted.
12 - Order to Sell Personal Property. Title Insurance & Trust Co. asking for an order to sell personal property of the estate: 3 book cases, 1 desk, one chair, medical books and surgical instruments etc. now at 132 Palm Ave. One X-ray machine now situated at Rooms 300-301 I.W. Hellman Bldg., Los Angeles, CA. One small oak settee, one operating chair, one clock, one small table, two chairs, six pictures now situated at Rooms 734-735 H.W. Hellman Bldg. Los Angeles. Five thousand two and a half shares of the capital stock of the Orange Auto Power Co., a Corporation, said shares now being in the custody of the administrator.
12 - Letter written to AC at 174 Geary Street, S.F. from Gabriet Souvlewski, Supervisor asking that form No. 1-399B and 1-399c, on which you are requested to render financial report covering your business in Yosemite Valley for the year ending Oct. 31, 1911 be filled out in triplicate. He is to end two copies and retain the third for his own use.
25 - Petition for the Sale of Personal Property. Title Insurance & Trust Co. All furnishings, furniture, household goods, etc. now at home place, No. 132 North Palm Ave. One Auburn Automobile, one small diamond ring, one Gasoline engine. 350 shares Bonanza Greenwater Copper, 4,000 shares Baby Florance Mining; 2 shares Castaline; 2,500 shares Caliente Gold Mining; 25 shares Columbia Hospital Assoc.; 3,200 shares Cox's Pneumatic Cushion; 500 shares Gold Creek Mining; 200 shares Gold Crown Silver Pick L. & M.; 10,000 shares Harriet S. Gold Mining; 2,000 shares Hunter Valley Mining; 100,000 shares Ibex Lead Silver Mining; 50 shares Inglewood Mission Sanitarium; 350 shares Jessie Belle M. M. & S.; 406 shares Kalispell Midway Oil; 90,000 shares Lucile G. & C. Mining; 2000 shares Mechanical Educator; 1 share Lucky Swede M & M; 1 share National Stock & Bond; 11,288 shares Pacific Reduction; 2,000 shares Santiago M&M C.; 1250 shares Stells Gold M; 60,000 shares Stevens Johnnie Gold M; 1,000 shares Square Deal G & C M; 1 share Stewart Tailoring; 500 shares Ferrochem; 833 shares Shreeves. Oil; 50 shares The Stott; 2,000 shares Talisman G&M.
25 - Petition for Leave to Rent. Title Insurance & Trust Co. Permission to rent the home.
26 - Notice of Application for order to Sell Personal Property and Affidavit of Posting Same. Date for hearing Feb. 2, 1912, 2 p.m.
February
5 - Petition for Order of Minor Children for Family Allowance.
5 - Order Granting to Minors Family Allowance. Order to pay Arthur Clarence Pillsbury $100 a month for minors’ care.
5 - Paperwork on rental of Hollywood home.
6 - Order for Sale of Personal Property - Title Insurance and Trust Co. asking to sell more property. A private sale is stipulated. Where was notice published?’
April
8 - Mary Alice Reasoner born in Colorado Springs.
11 - Letter to AC from Supervisor Gabriel Souvlowiski. Letter calls his attention to the fact he has not executed and returned his permit authorizing him to conduct business in Yosemite during the 1921 season. it tells him to take care of the matter immediately.
19 - AC Corresp on stationary to Major Forsythe, Yosemite, Calif. Encloses check for $300 for concession and asks is he can have a branch of business at Camp Curry. He was approached by Mr. Curry with this proposition. Asks if he has any objection to his running a free stereoptican show one night a week for each Camp. No advertising connected or any charge.
26 - AC Corresp on Stationary to Major Forsythe, Yosemite, Calif. Text
“Yours of the 23rd inst. at hand. Regarding this stereoptican shows at the Camps would say, this will be in the nature of an entertainment for the guests and paid for the Camp management. It is barely possible the Transportation people would also pay me something, in transportation for showing a set of Big Tree pictures, in illustrating the trip into the grove. there would be so little remuneration in the matter of course, so we could not afford to pay for the privilege but wish to use it as a means of helping out what looks like an impossible season.
Yours respectfully,
AC Pillsbury”
May
4 - Letter to Major Forsythe from Chief Clerk and Chief Executive Department of Interior giving AC permission to take views and groups and do general photographic work.
The three ES kids stay in San Francisco with AEtheline for the summer instead of going to Yosemite.
June
4 - Order appointing appraisers, N.P. Bailey Leo J. Maquire and Arthur G. Stepper. Judgment against E.S. from Inyo County for $8,878.
19 - Inventory and Appraisment - Appraisal of Auburn Automobile which is valued at $750. [this seems low; it was entirely restored according to previous documents.] Court notice of proceedings and payment of Appraisers.
October
8 - 12 - First Lapse-Time film, nature movie at meeting for National Parks Superintendents held in Yosemite. Superintendents vote for conservation of wild flowers. Invention of Lapse-Time Camera, Studio of the Three Arrows, Yosemite earlier in the year.
26 - (Note that stationary reflects that Pillsbury Picture’s has become a corporation listing William A. Nunlist as treasurer and manager. )
AC Corresp to Lieut. Col. Forsythe, Yosemite, Calif.
“Dear Sir: -
Yours of this 21st inst. regarding branch at Camp Curry at hand. I would like to file an application for same, and will put up, if granted the privilege a 14X40 tent, enclosed in a rustic frame made with 6 to 8 inch logs, frame work being about 10 or 12 feet high with diagonal log between the main braces, roof timbers and front porch also of logs, inside of which the tent will be erected. This, I maintain for two years after which time I will enclose with lumber and finish the outside with bark in an artistic manner.
I would of course, give the same efficient service and prices as in the main studio opposite the grocery store.
Considering the fact that the next two years will develop a new hotel somewhere in the Valley, in all probability within a eighth of a mile of the old Stoneman location, I would like to offer as a suggestion, the location opposite Camp Curry on the River side of the road, or if that does not conform with your ideas, somewhere between Camp Curry and the Sierra Club Lodge. Either of those locations would answer all of the requirements both for Camp Curry and the new hotel when constructed.
I would also call your attention to the fact that I have applied for the concession of a branch studio at Glacier Point and that we are about to open a studio in Los Angeles and another this coming season at Crater Lake and Sequoia National Park. this is to remind you of the fact that we are doing more to promote the interest of Yosemite Valley and the other National Parks in the West than all of the other Concessionaires combines who are connected with our line of work, and owning to the fact that out present location in the Valley is acknowledged not equal to others, we trust you will receive this application with favor.
Yours very respectfully,
AC Pillsbury” (noted as received Oct. 28th)
31 - Letter to AC at 174 Geary St., S.F. from Wm Forsythe. “Referring to your application of October 18, 1912 to the Secretary of the Interior, for a photographic concession at Glacier Point, I ave to advise that there has been one other application received for such a concession at this place. Two concessions of the same kind at this place under the present circumstances would be too many, and probably but one will be granted. In considering these applications, it will probably be advisible to grant one concession for a branch photograph studio at Glacier Point, and one at Camp Curry, about which we have had some correspondence, You are therefore requested to advise this office at once as to your preferences in the matter ---whether you would prefer to have your branch studio at Camp Curry or Glacier Point.
Very Respectfully,
W. M. Forsythe, Lieutenant Col. of Cavalry, Acting Superintendent”
November
7 - AC Correp. Stationary - To Lieut. Col. Forsythe, Yosemite, Calif.
“Dear Sir: - Yours regarding our preferences between a studio at Camp Curry and Glacier Point at hand. If but one location is available for me, would prefer the Camp Curry site. I trust the studio would not of necessity be located within the Camp grounds, as I am afraid we would find we would have too much Curry if we had to stand it for an entire season in such close proximity to him.
Yours very respectfully,
AC Pillsbury”
Arthur C. Pillsbury takes ship to Hawaii to photograph the Islands and write and article for Sunset Magazine, which will be published in the January 1913 Issue.
December
28 - Notice of Settlement of Final Account and Hearing of Petition for Distribution. request from Title Insurance and Trust co.
28 - First and Final Account, Report and Petition for Distribution - Report on sale of assets of the Estate. [Compare it with first Inventory and other early listings]
No mention of previous listing of monies owing to estate.
Dates? AC goes to Hawaii to do photographic work.
Dates? AC starts taking time-lapse moving pictures of the wild flowers in Yosemite.
1912 - LA Telephone Book - p. 1511. Pillsbury Picture Co., 428 S. Broadway S.S. Churchill, manager, p. 446, Samual S. Churchill, manager Pillsbury Picture Co, Residence, Hollenbeck Hotel, Spring St.. (SA corner 2d)
Mary Abigail Pillsbury Thurman & Sylvanius Thurman are listed as members of the First Congregationalist Church in Redlands.
The ES kids go to Yosemite to spend the summer. They take the train in Oakland to El Portal via Merced. AC met the train at El Portal with his buggy on the last day of school.