Name/Title
Board of Trustees Correspondence, Feb-May 1906Entry/Object ID
2012.18.14Scope and Content
Acc. No. 12.18.14
Subject Category:
Date or Period: Feb - May 1906
Object: Folder, file
Description: Acid-free legal size manila file folder with documents, marked on the reverse with a number in black ink, from 651 to 700.
History of Object: Correspondence with the Board of Trustees, found in the attic of City Hall in the 1990s, and refoldered in 2012. The original folder was marked '651-700' on the folder tab. Documents in this folder include or pertain to: delinquent tax statement prepared by Oswald Lubbock whose house still stands on Lincoln between Oak & Walnut Street. Petitions and complaints and City Attorney opinion about gambling and slot machines, including proceedings against William Zingg including for sale of cigarettes; request by Judge Tappan, who had one arm from falling on railroad tracks as a child and getting run over, for a filing cabinet; proceedings to form a new charter; accidental death at a railroad crossing of a sprinkling wagon driver, and structural damage report on buildings in Alameda after the 1906 Earthquake., condemnation or Armory Hall, and delay in establishing a ferry service because of the earthquake.
Details:
Documents in this folder pertain to: #651: resignation as deputy of Geo. Sturtevant; #652: application by Elmer Johnson as deputy Assessor, Treasurer and Tax Collector; #653: Board of Health request for transfer of funds; #654: Expense report Street Department for Feb 1906; #655: Adelphian Club invitation for Arbor Day Celebration at the City Park, March 7; #656: E.K. Taylor, 1424 1/2 Park St. addressing William J. Gorham, 1227 Chestnut Street to meet with C.S. Neal, D. L. Randolph, Wm. F. Schulte, C. C. Volberg and A.V. Clark to meet with Board of Trustees to make suggestions to the Freeholders; #657: William Horst suggesting the city acquire grants from franchised companies to pay for City Parks; #658: report by J. Oswald Lubbock, City Treasurer and Tax collector, of delinquent tax bills; #659: petition of complaint by neighbors on Regent St. of Mr. Boehmer, about swill and garbage being dumped; #660: petition to ensure Mr. Boehmer does the same with the neighboring lot along Bay Island Ave.; #661: Central Alameda Improvement Club complaint about stumps on sidewalks on Chapin, Pacific, Bay Streets; #662: Affidavit of Assisted Voter form, with draft motion to support franchises by Joseph F. Forderer; #663: notification that Associated Oil Company has succeeded to the rights and interests of the National Oil and Transportation, Pacific Oil Transportation, and Coalinga Oil Transportation Company; #664: P.M. Macfarlane informating of prohibited horse race gambling and celling cigarettes by J.W. Rew, and William Zingg, and by the latter's employee Roberts for betting on a horse race, and notifying this was done on a property rented to Zingg by Board member Boehmer, which was also prohibited by an ordinance; #665: report of completion of sewer work on Elm Street by L. Mazzini; #666: petition to transfer a liquor license from Frank Von Berkefeldt at 1538-1542 Park St. to E. A. Kober, 1612 Bay St.; #667: petition to improve Eagle Ave between Grand and Chestnut; #668: John Lutzen resignation from Board of Library Trustees; #669: Southern Pacific Co. notification of change in schedule and laying of new tracks at the Alameda Mole; #670: petition to use the Council Chamber by Alameda Public Ownership Club once per month; #670 1/2: West End Alameda Improvement Ass. requesting the new charter includes regulations to establish Children's Play Grounds; #671: petition of approval of actions against Mrs. Rew, Roberts and Zingg in the Court of City Justicw R. B. Tappan; #672: Board of Health recommending filling of a depression of Front St. between Regent and Park Ave; #673: petition to cut down trees in front of 1372 Pearl Street by owner Wm. Cunnings; #674: resolution from a mass meeting that Ordinance 402, imposing a license fee on slot machines, be replaced by the state law regarding gambling and gambling devices; #675: Expense report Street Department for March 1906; #676: petition to transfer liquor license for corner of 9th and Santa Clara from A. H. Krietz to Kostering & Brandt Sr.; #677: resignation from Maurice Brown from Board of Health; #678: response by F. L. Nash to allegations in a newspaper about his fence; #679: Board of Freeholders president E.K. Taylor requesting payment of bills for clerical services for framing the new charter; #680: complaint by Stuart Machpherson, 1343 Fountain St., complaining about a cow being staked near or in front of his residence; #681: Central Improvement Club approves of granting a franchise for a ferry system etc. to San Francisco; #681 1/2: D.M. Etten, Etten & Co., 1231 Park St. requesting non-local businesses being charged to do business; #682: Appointment of N. C. Hawks to Board of Library Trustees on recommendation by West End Alameda Approvement Association, H.P. Royle, Acting Secretary, 401 Central Ave.; #683: recommendation by Board of Education to acquire lot adjoining Wilson School through condemnation proceedings; #684: request to ask Oakland Traction Consolidated to lay a double track on Santa Clara between Park and High, instead of a single track; #684 1/2: J.D. Jamison requesting enforcement of law against slot machines; #685: advertisement offer of hose; #687: Justice Tappan requesting purchase of a filing cabinet for court documents; #688: Central Oakland Club invitation to meeting to discuss consolidation; #689: petition by the Alameda Baseball Clubto establish a baseball park; #690: City Attorney Simpson opinion regarding slot machine ordinances; #691: Letter from Attorney Chas. C. Boynton about ordinances regulating slot machines;
#692: report of committee appointed to inspect buildings injured by the April 1906 earthquake; #693: Street Department Expense Report for April 1906; #694: report by Supt. of Streets V.M. Frodden of death of Mr. P.J. Kelly, driver of a sprinkling wagon, through a collision with a train at Railroad Ave and 8th.; #695: report of completion of street work on Elm Street by C.J. Hammond; #696: request by E.K. Taylor, President of Board of Freeholders to frame a new charter; to order pulication of the proposed charter and call for election; #697: protest of owner Mrs. Minnie E. Tucker, against taking down of Armory Hall, corner Buena Vista and Park. penciled information adds: cite to appear May 18th for hearing; *sold to bank since are to tear down building, and protest as to Armory overruled; #698: complaint about the hedge in front of the Dwinelle property on Weber Street; #699: request for extension of starting period for railroad franchise, because of delay in drawing up papers, since the meeting for final papers was prevented by the earthquake earlier the same day, by banks being out of order, and by needing to redo engineering work to find a place for the San Francisco terminal; #700: Southern Pacific Co. informs of ordering of crossing bells for Broadway and Everett, and one at Prospect Street.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Catalog Date: February 18, 2012
