Name/Title
Miscellaneous City Documents #2701-2750, 1916-1917Entry/Object ID
2012.30.7Scope and Content
Acc. No. 12.30.7
Subject or Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period: Sept 1916 - Jan 1917
Object: File Folder
Description: Legal size, acid-free file folder with documents.
Size: 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 2701-2750 on the tab. The documents are ordered more or less chronologically, and pertain to: opening up of Lincoln from 8th street; appointment of Greene Majors to the council and resignation as mayor two years later; documents relating to garbage collection, such as establishment of a sorting facility on Bay Farm Island, bids to establish or use hogs to feed on food refuse, and rate increase for pick up by the Scavenger Co.; E.M. Shaw establishing a lumber yard corner Webster and Eagle; papers related to election and acceptance of 1917 charter; papers related to 1916-1917 controversy between Superintendent of Streets V.M. Frodden and mayor Bartlett; correspondence related to the contract between Union Iron Works and PG&E; report drowning of a woman as a result of some deep holes off the Alameda Beaches, street improvements, and request to move of a First Baptist Church building across Santa Clara Ave.
Details: #2702: Alameda Improvement Club alerting to holes off the Alameda Beaches, causing the drowning of a woman; #2703: Southern Pacific Co. deeding a section of Lincoln (formerly Railroad Avenue), from 8th Street (formerly Prospect Street), to be used as a street; #2708: Resolution to post for bids for a Chemical Engine and Hose Wagon for the Fire Department, signed by mayor F. H. Bartlett and City Clerk R.E. Bosshard, requested by W. Jacoby, secretary of the Board of Police & Fire Commissioners, yeahs Councilmen Hammond, Morris, Probst, Roght, Smith, Stewart, Walker and Wilkins - absent, council-president Bullock; #2709: mayor F.H. Bartlett appointing John Reardon to the Board of Education, to replace Dr. W.T. Lum, who resigned; #2710: Letter from the San Leandro Bay Naval Committee of the Fitchburg Social & Improvement Club, trying to secure the Naval Base on San Leandro Bay; #2711-2 to -16: papers reflecting the decision process (proposal, including to form a herd of swine to eat the food refuse, bids for same, petitions of protest, and rate increase by Scavenger Co.) and resolution to install works on Bay Farm Island for 20 years for garbage disposal, and request by E.M. Shaw to establish a lumber yard, corner Webster and Eagle [possibly misfiled?]; #2712: publication agreement for new charter, starting November 1916; #2713: resolution from the Utilities Comission (including Krusi, Baxter, and Arnerich) to file suit against PG&E Corp., supplying power to the Union Iron Works Co., in violation with city ordinances, and invitation to council meeting by mayor Bartlett to adress this, sent to councilment vullock, Hammond, Morris, Probst, Roth, Smith, Stewart, Walker, Wikens, and City Attorney A.F. St. Sure; #2714: suggestion for improvement of paving of Webster; #2715: suggestions for improvements of streets by the Alameda improvement club, 1538 Webster Street; #2716; Electric light Plant suggests cancelling charge for running service connections; #2717: controversy between mayor Bartlett and the Finance committee about Times-Star publishing contracts; #2721: V.M. Frozen, Street superintendent, recommending scarifying of Buena Vista Ave; #2724: F.J. Croll suggesting an audit of the books, and offer by an S.F. CPA to do that; #2725: mayor Bartlett suggesting to order printing supplies from the Times-Star at nominal rate; #2726: protest against tax on 1334 Park Ave, inherited by Barbara Watts, upon the death of her husband Charles; #2727: appointment of James Fowler to replace E.B. Bullock upon the his resignation; #2728: appointments at the Assessor's office; #2729: correspondence about Southern Pacific Co. filling in land near the Webster Street Bridge; #2731: resignation of Elizabeth H. Walden from the Playground committee; #2732: resolution that the Park and playground committee can employ and discharge employees; #2733: bids and report of completion of work on Encinal Ave; #2734: appointment to council of Thomas J. Allan to fill vacancy caused by resignation of John H. Wilens; #2735: suspension of Superintendent of Streets Frodden for dereliction of duty by mayor Bartlett, rebuttal by Mr. Frodden, and opinion from Bartlett that since under the new charter, going into effect in March of 1917 the City Manager is responsible for the streets, that will resolve itself; #2737: Electric Light Plant suggesting not to fight the contract between PG&E and the Union Iron Works Co.; #2788: Board of Education stating they cannot pay for a curb in front of the Porter School on Alameda Ave., since they paid for the curbing of Central Ave.; #2739: City Clerk Bosshard warning the council that their plan to supply electricity to tents to be used at the January 9, 1917 election, would be contrary to the liability insurance rules; #2740: protests against gas rate increase; #2741: January 10, 1917 appointment of Greene Majors to the council, filling the spot of James Fowler, upon his resignation, and the December 2, 1919 resignation as mayor, first mayor elected under new charter; #2742: 1917 appointment of E.B. Bullock to the Finance commission; #2743: permit request from First Baptist Church of Alameda to move the church building from Santa Clara Ave to the NE corner of Santa Clara Ave and Stanton; #2744: complaints about peddlers selling wares on Works Street; #2745: Union Iron Works requesting police protection for their workers on pay day; #2746: funding arrangements for opening widening and extending of Encinal Ave.; #2747: 1917 correspondence regarding using the tidelands between the mole and Alameda by the Navy; #2748: plans by Associated Oil for erection a station at Webster St. junction; #2749: correspondence about a claim by Lloyd Beanston for damages from a collision of his car and an oak tree sticking out into Pacific Avenue; #2750: Fife and Drum corps of Aerie #1076 Eagles Order request permit to hold an all night dance at the new Surf Beach Pavillion, March 17, 1917; #2751: Nelson C. Hawks, of The Island city Press Printing House, 1615 Webster St., requesting permission to post a bulletin boardinside the curb line in front of his property; #2752: William Pattiani alerting the council that newspapers incorrectly place the Union Iron Works in Oakland - an erroneous extrapolation from their location on the Oakland Estuary or Oakland Harbor.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Cataloged: April 12, 2012