Name/Title
Board of Trustees Correspondence, Oct 1902 - Jan 1903Entry/Object ID
2012.18.5Scope and Content
Acc. No. 12.18.5
Subject Category:
Date or Period: Oct 1902 - Jan 1903
Object: Folder, file
Description: Acid-free legal size manila file folder with documents, marked on the reverse with a number in black ink, between 201 and 250.
History of Object: Correspondence with the Board of Trustees, found in the attic of City Hall, and refoldered in 2012. The original folder was marked '201-250' on the folder tab. Documents in this folder include petitions for gratuitous licenses, to move houses, installation of lights, street improvements including replacement of a wooden sidewalk for a concrete one, installation of a 12-ft. high fence around the Girl's Training Home. Further includes reports of failures to respond to fire alarms by Whidden Hose Volunteers, and changes in assignments of paid firemen; controversy regarding courts of Justice of the Peace vs. Recorder; complaints against the pound men.
Details: Documents in this folder pertain to: #201: petition to fix sidewalks and improve Encinal Ave; #202: offer to install new water fountain 'for man and beast'; #203: options for clocks for Fire Department; #204: Request by California Training Home for Girls at 520 Railroad Ave to build a high fence; #205: Chief Krauth suggesting a fire alarm box at Union and Buena Vista, not Union and Eagle as petitioned; #206: complaint by H. Scholten about stones being thrown from narrow guage Railroad near 2408 Encinal and Park Hotel; #207: Board of Health requesting transfer of allotted funds; #208: letter from Southern Pacific Co. about the road maintenance on Railroad Ave.; #209: petition by J.T. Hardin, 1607 Sherman St. to improve section of Sherman St.; #210: an Oakland company doing the work of #209; #211: elected Justice R.B. Tappan sending printed letter regarding office of City Justice of the Peace and abolishing
of Recorder's Court; #212: petition by Hammond & Hammond, 1422 Park Street (formerly of 2326 Santa Clara Ave., successor to H.P. Moreal & Co.) for Bert Fisher, to move house from N side Encinal to S side of Buena Vista; #213: petition to remodel 1541 and 1545 Park Street; #214: petition for light on College Ave. near San Jose and Calhoun; #215: petition for a light at Eagle and Webster; #216: permission to add a display window to 1536 Park Street; #217: petition to reshingle 1537 Park St.; #218: application for gratuitous license to peddle shoe polish; #220: report on complaint against Police office Albert Kamp; #221: Trustee C. J. Hammond offers and moves resolution that Fire Dept. Chief Engineer may transfer paid members as he deemes necessary; #222: Chief Krauth informing of transfers; #223: petition for light at Clineton and Lafayette by James W. Brunham, 1837 Clinton Ave.; #224 request by J. L. M. Culley to be appointed special Police Officer without Pay. No reason given.; #226: application for gratuitous license to peddle a scissor sharpener invention; #227: thanks from California Girls' Training Home for allowing to build a 12 ft. fence; #228: petition for lights on Morton Street by L.H. bissell, 1432 Morton St.; #229: notification of Convention of League of California Municpalities; #230: report on consolidating Alameda into a City and County; #231: permit to close off Harrison for a Alameda Spring Festival to be held at end of Harrison; #232; Petition to replace wooden sidewalk for concrete one at 2262 San Jose; #233: Janitor reporting on use of coal in Nov/ Dec.; #234: Board of Education report acceptance of work of addition to Mastick School; #235: petition to move a cottage house from 1609 Alameda Ave to Broadway near Lincoln; #236: petition to have unused railroad tracks removed from Railroad Ave.; #237: opinion from City Attorney M. W. Simpson regarding ordinance to force railroads to install gates on cars to prevent rocks being thrown from them (see #206); #238: resolution to prevent establishment of a Justice of the Peace; #239: request by Electrical Workers union to increase pay; #240: Chico requesting secretary of League of Municpalities to gather opinions about preference for elected or appointed Marshall; #241: Quarterly Treasurer's Report; #242, 243; Complaints against poundmen; #244: petition by W. Krueger to install a boiler and engine at 2300 Encinal Ave.; #245: Clerk's Quarterly report; #246 1/2: report by Chief Krauth of lapses in reporting by Whidden Hose Co. volunteers; #246: Report by Board of Education about attempts by President Otis to arrange reduced transit rates for school children; #247: 'In Envelope' (none found); #248: Petition by Combs & Fisher, 1342-44-46 Park Street, signed by merchants on Park St., to limit further gratuitous lisenses except in extreme poverty cases; #249: permit application to install telegraph lines in specified locations; #250: Board of Health requesting the place to be vacated by the Library to be used for an emergency hospital.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Catalog Date: February 18, 2012