Name/Title
Miscellaneous City Documents, #2451-2500, 1914-1922Entry/Object ID
2012.30.1Scope and Content
Acc. No. 12.30.1
Subject or Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period: Dec 1913-Feb 1922
Object: File Folder
Description: Legal size, acid-free file folder with documents.
L 14 1/2 x 9"
History of Object: Folder with documents, found in the attic of City Hall in the 1990s, refoldered in 2012. Documents in this folder were originally found in a folder (discarded in 2012) marked 2451-2500 on the tab. The documents are ordered more or less chronologically, and pertain to: 1915 municipal improvement bonds and correspondence; auditors reports 1914-1915; 1915 Electric Light Plant Monthly reports, City Pound master expense reports; correspondence about cancelling of jitney bus licenses and a matching ordinance, including chauffeur union protest; a letter house numbers; recall of council members, free license applications, street improvements and sewers, including a suggested ordinance requiring concrete contractors working on the sidewalks to apply a stamp; erection of a railroad shelter at 5th and Lincoln; personnel issues (resignations, applications, and vacations).
Details: #2451: Nov. 12, 1914 Chamber of Commerce letter requesting garbage cans be placed near polling places for future elections; #2452: petition to construct a sewer in Lincoln Ave; from Versailles to the East Cohen Line; #2543: negative response to request by city to create sidewalk on Clement Ave.; #2454: 1913-1915 correspondence about street improvements on Park Street between Buena Vista and the Park Street Bridge; #2455: proposed ordinance suggested by Police Chief Conrad, prohibiting the use or possession of silencers; #2456: Street Superintendent V.M. Frodden suggesting an ordinance to create a contiguous concrete curbing on Santa Clara between Park and Webster, and to issue an ordinance, requiring concrete contractors to apply for approval, and to stamp their work; #2457: F. J. Croll requesting a filing cabinet for assessing automobiles; #2458: Dec. 1914 recommendation by James E. Sutton, City Engineer, to buy a Marchant calculating machine. [now cataloged in the collection as 81.119.1]; #2459: Southern Pacific Co. reply to complaints and suggestions; #2460: 1915 petition to move and improve the house owned by the Peoples Water Company across Fernside Boulevard; #2641: applications for gratuitous peddler’s licenses; #2642: Henry Meyers, for the Advisory City Planning Commission, about the cost of beautifying Santa Clara from Park to Webster [see #2498] and cost of improving playgrounds; #2643: petition from Bay Farm Island residents demanding lights and power from the Electric Light Plant; #2464: miscellaneous 1913 - 1914 documents: -1: J.E. Breitweiser, 1130 Regent St., urging to use wells, and not publicly provided water from Lake Chabot; -2: Charles L. Pryal, of the Municipal Ownership League of California, 945 Park St., comparing the Municipal Light Plants of Alameda and Pasadena and suggesting lower rate; -3: Alaska Packers thanking for notification of a new outlet for the city sewer emptying into the basin at the shipyard; -4: Auditor’s office alerting to a mistake about a duplicate bill; -5: John. A. Cloud applying for City Clerk; -6: W.H. Pollard, 1438 Park Street, alerting to expiration of insurance policy; -7: application by Charles E. Hewes for City Engineer, vacant by the death of I.N. Chapman; -8: letter from Street Superintendent about a (not included) plan for a concrete wall, stairway, and ornamental work proposed for the south end of Grand Street; -9: letter by Leo S. Robinson, 2237 San Antonio alerting about circulating petition for recall; -16: solicitation for pumps; -20: correspondence about a Tourist fund; -21: promotional letter for a Rotospeed duplicator; -22: solicitation by J.S. Hanley, 1310 Park Street, for fire Insurance on the Lincoln Park Club House; -23: invitation and -25: Letter of thanks from Oakland City Planning committee, for help on City Planning Exhibit, Oakland, 1914; -24: letter of caution against drastic law against unsuitable attire when swimming in the Tidal Canal at High Street; -26: rate lowering for Library insurance; -27: protest against a recall; -28: letter about recall of councilmembers; -29: protest by Alameda Civic League against councilmen in refusing to call a recall election and city attorney Samuel Poorman Jr.; -30: May 1913 request by Herman Hawes to have proper house numbers; -32: offer to figure for a proposed bitumen plant; -33: offer for wire for fences to pen Elk, rumored to have been offered by the California Academy of Sciences, for park purposes; -34: Receipt acknowledgement by Corps of Engineers of a letter about extension of a project for the south channel in Brooklyn Basin; -35: letter from New York City Mayor in a proposed tour of Europe; -36: Letter promoting Monterey Lodge Moose Independence Day celebration; -37: 1914 letter promoting towels for natatorium being built; -38: 1914 Letter promoting Gilroy Pageant of Progress; -39: 1914 letter from E.W. Maslin alerting the council about terms on the Board of the Library; -40: letter about bookkeeping at the Electric Light Plant; -42: Alameda Improvement Club letter about street improvements; -43: Letter promoting Pacific Coast Association of Fire Chiefs; -45: Request State Board of Health that City health officer attend the annual conference; -47: Letter requesting reimbursement of property tax; -49: Letter from East End Improvement Club suggesting abolishing Park and Playgrounds commission; #2465: resignation of Charles Adams, Los Angeles, from Board of Electricity; #2466: Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company correspondence including telephone contracts; #2467: 1915, S.W. Shafer Co, 3288 Encinal Ave, promoting a steel pole; #2468: 1914 offer to provide copies of interesting state bills and resolutions; #2469: 1919 applications, and revocation of Jitney Bus licenses, the latter stating the railroads have resumed regular operation, and 1916 ordinance and correspondence about it, including from the Chauffeurs’ Union, Oakland; #2471, #2470: 1915 bids, notices, and bills with the Evening Times-Star and Daily Alameda Argus, and bills, regarding printing of official notices; #2472: permit request, and petition of residents against, the 6 month establishment of a tent city to house visitors to the Panama Pacific Exhibition; #2473: resolution of condolences to family of Charles Sanders Neal; #2474: maximum $25 compensation for police officer Walter Jacoby, to function as Clerk of the Police Court, for City Attorney Samuel Poorman Jr., 1915; #2475: letter about stops on the Southern Pacific Electric Lines; #2476: 1915 petition and 1921 compromise to have a Southern Pacific Train meet a 1:20 pm ferry; #2477: Assessor’s 1914 monthly reports; #2478: Electric Light Plant 1914 monthly reports; #2479: Poundmaster Grant Hicks 1914 expense reports; #2480: see #2272; #2482: contracts for wire for the Electric Light Plant and requests by Plant employees (e.g. Howard Baxter, president) to leave the state for vacation; #2481: application for free licence, and vacation requests by various staff, 1914, #2483: annual statements of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company franchise, 1913-1921; #2484: correspondence with Southern Pacific about a shelter at 4th and Lincoln; #2485: complaints about the tennis courts at Washington Park; #2486: petition to remove eucalypt trees in front of Don Cohen’s property on Pearl Street, request by S. J. Kirschberg not to have shade trees planted in front of 1108 Central Ave (denied); #2487: resolution about a sidewalk to be installed along Fernside; #2488: 1915 bond measure and disbursement of funds, including board of education requesting transfer of interest on school bonds, which had already been used in other ways; #2489: personnel matters of Assessor Fred Croll’s office, including vacation of W.E. Varcoe, City Clerk and City Attorney Locke, both leaving the State; #2490: complaint by Mr. Plummer, residence corner of Webster and Atlantic, about being charged for reconstruction of curbs; #2491: resolution by the Council, presided by Frank Otis, supports federal plans for a pension for civil servants; #2492: recommendation by street committee about lights on Garfield and Liberty Aves; #2493: correspondence about water mains from the Peoples Water Company for fire hydrants; #2494: petition to install fuel oil tank for heating NE corner Clinton and Lafayette; #2495: resolution that the Mayor, F. H. Bartlett, can disburse the relief fund according to his judgement, and a state report on Relief of Destitute Unemployed; #2496: Waterside Terrace residents petition for a fire hydrant and alarm box; #2497: police report with transcript of police & fire board case of complaint by Vivian Hiester against Crescent Hotel Bar (owner, Martin Hughes); #2498: grouting and uniform concrete curbing for all of Santa Clara Ave. between Park and Webster; #2500: correspondence about bonds.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Cataloged: April 12, 2012