Name/Title
Miscellaneous City Documents, 1917-1919Entry/Object ID
2011.53.30Scope and Content
Accession No. 11.53.30
Subject Category: City of Alameda;
Date or Period: 1917-1919
Object: File Folder
Description: Tan legal size manila folder with miscellaneous documents, with ‘165’ stamped on the tab.
History of Object: Folder found in the attic of City Hall prior to renovations in the 1990s. Documents in this folder pertain to: Application for Secretary to City Manager by R. L. Mosher, formerly editor of ‘The Alameda Review’; application by W. O. Jacoby for Police Chief (to replace Chief Conrad, but Chief Heinrich held the position for a year); minor personnel and financial matters; Delay in delivery of a car on stationery of E. C. Dick, Ford Agent, 2424 Central; Complaints about Neptune Beach gambling; suggestion to police the beaches to prevent ‘another tragedy’ (1918); refusal to E.M.Shaw, Real Estate, 1504 Park, to establish a lumber mill next to Everett School; request by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. for 500 men to protect vessels under construction; Letter from Pacific Coast Borax Co with corrected location, asking about status of a request for closing Manzanita Street; protests about a license fee for ‘Cleaners and Dyers’, one unclear, one on letterhead of Frank Jacobs, Tailor, 2325 Santa Clara; suggestions for salary increase to attract more firemen from the Chamber of Commerce, and Parck Street Merchants Association (secretary: Russel J. Franck); Invitation to meeting of the Alameda Improvement Club; haggling about rights to waterfront and closing of Harrison Street; C.C. Adams, 2326 Santa Clara, offering to serve as fire insurance agent; bids for police automobile. City Manager: C. E. Hewes.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Date Cataloged: 9/24/11