Name/Title
Miscellaneous City Documents, #2501-2548, 1914-1925Entry/Object ID
2012.30.2Scope and Content
Acc. No. 12.30.2
Subject or Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period: 1914-1925
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 are marked on the back with a sequence number between 2501 and 2548. The documents are ordered more or less chronologically, and pertain to: appointments and resignations of officials; plans and contracts for work on City Hall including altering the tower; condemnation of Porter School by the Board of Health, signed by Dr. Hieronymous; the state compensation insurance act and fund; street improvements; widening of Crist Street.
Details: #2501: resignations of Wilkins, Heuer, and Bullock, resolution that the Mayor make appointments, and appointment list of January 16, 1917; #2503: 1915 docs related to mandate that city employees be citizens of the U.S.; #2504: 1915-1919 - Southern Pacific Co. fill in holes westerly from the tracks on Central Ave.; #2505: petition for improvements along Powell Blvd along the Bay; #2506: resignation Hawks from the Library Board; #2507: 1917 appointment of Harold Miller to the Library Board by mayor Majors, and 1922 by mayor Otis; #2508: resignation Mrs. H, Theresa Speddy from the Board of Education; #2509: 1915 appointment to School Board of Dr. Kate P. Van Orden and 1917 resignation; #2510: 1915 condemnation by A. Hiernoymous, secretary Board of Health, to condemn Porter School; #2512: tan legal size manila folder with 1915-1920 documents relating to the state compensation insurance fund; #2513: an legal size manila folder with 1915 finance documents; #2514: contract for supply of bitulithic surface material; #2515: tan legal size manila folder with 1915-1917 documents relating to improvement of city hall (alteration fo the tower, painting, etc.), and bids, including by locals A.T. Spence, res. 641 Taylor Ave., Wm. Dufour & Co, 2326 Santa Clara Ave (awarded); and contracts awarded Geo L. Yager, W.J. Sheller; Chas. L. Metzler, insurance agent: GEo H. Fox, 2022 San Antonio Ave.; #2517: contracts for improvement of Webster street; #2518: 1915-1919 correspondence about removal of a spur track on Encinal Ave; #2520: resolution to open Noble Ave.; #2521: 1915 Recreation commission cost estimate; 2522: 1915 temporary appointment of 3 extra police officers; #2523: Emily A. Rogers, Alameda Women's Improvement Club, 1538 Webster Street, arranged for strip of land to widen sixth Street; #2525: declaration of bankruptcy of William R. Geary , Alameda Venice Swimming Baths Company; #2526: appointment of Henry Tank to the Police and Fire Commission, replacing W.H.L. Hynes, who had resigned; #2530: plans to hand over the playgrounds part of the Recreation Commission to the Board of Education; #2531: 1915 appointment and resignation of Louis Weinmann as School Director, replacing G. Harold Ward; #2532: insurance co. claiming reimbursement of payment for injury of Eugenene F. White during a 1914 Fire Department Test, for reasons of negigence by the Fire Dept.; #2535: private street improvement contract and completion of work statement for Fernside Boulevard; #2539: approval of purchasing the house on the corner of Crist and Regent Streets from Marie L. Troost, for widening of Crist Street; #2540: 1915-1917 mandated construction of a fire escape at the California Girls' Training Home; #2541: 1915 re-appointment of D. L. Randolph to the Advisory Planning Commission; #2542: Misc 1915-1922 documents regarding, or with opinions by, Wm J. Locke, who in 1915 was appointed to the Municipal Educational and Reference Bureau, together with Jasper D. Mills, and later became City Attorney; #2543: 1915, appointment of J.C. West as City Attorney in stead of Samuel Poorman Jr., who resigned; #2545: permit application to move a corrugated iron building to the west side of the Panama Lumber Co. yard, on Webster Street between Tunnel and wilson Street; #2546: construction of a bulkhead and steps to the beach at the foot of Laurel Street; #2547: correspondence regarding doing something about building laws; #2548: resolution to have the Board of Electricity take control of the pumping plants in the various City Parks.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Cataloged: April 12, 2012