Name/Title
Miscellaneous City Hall Documents, #2551-2600, 1915-1922Entry/Object ID
2012.30.3Scope and Content
Acc. No. 12.30.3
Subject or Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period: 1915-1922
Object: File Folder
Description: Legal size, acid-free file folder with documents, marked on the back with a sequence number between 2551 and 2600.
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. The documents are ordered more or less chronologically, and pertain to: salary increases for city employees, with mayor Bartlett not endorsing the increase for Street Superintendent Frodden; extension of Fernside Boulevard; expansion or rebuild of Porter School; death of Wm. Hammond, Sr., death of former Trustee Board president Joseph Franklin Forderer; raiding by the police of a Chinese gambling house; use of City Hall rooms by G.A.R. and Camp Bartlett veterans and Joe Hooker Post No. 1; instruction to create maps with location of fire hydrants - one of these is in the museum collection; street improvements, sewers, and steps to the beach at Weber Street, and a gang of boys damaging gardens backing to McKinley Park; correspondence about a bascule bridge across the Estuary.
Details: #2553: Letter by S. Carr, M. Cox, and Frank L. Carroll, of 1316, 1314 and 1322 Fernside Blvd respectively, indicating they own tidelands, between Briggs and Encinal, on which Fernside Boulevard was being constructed, contrary to a claim by Mrs. H.M. Kearney; #2556: July 1915 Street sweeping contract details by L. Serralungo & Co., on stationery of Department of Streets, Sewers and Wharves, Wm. Hammond, Jr., Chairman, to Street superintendent V.M. Frodden; #2557: grant for right of way for a sewer from Arbor Street to Grand Street, by Chas. Stam [? illegible signature]; #2558: installation of electroliers in front of Postoffice - city to pay for current and installation, government for the electroliers, after agreement with Postmaster T.C. Stoddard; #2559: resolution f respect and thank you note regarding death of Joseph Franklin Forderer; #2560: appointment and salary of S. Winkler as gardner; #2562: Fernside Recreation Club requesting move of a sewer to N of Central, as they plan to install bath houses on their pier at the foot of Garfield Ave; #2564: Henry H. Meyers, for the City Planning Commission, requesting funds to cover expenses; #2565: 1915-1916 correspondence from Schools Department about school improvements and sale of buildings on newly acquired lots; #2567: report of completion of work for construction of a sewer and street improvement of Noble Ave.; #2568: Report by mayor Bartlett about raiding by the police of a Chinese gambling house, corner of Lincoln and Park; #2570: correspondence 1915-1918 regarding construction of a 'new bascule bridge' across the Estuary; #2571: complaints by Chas M. Quintero, 1714 Chestnut, owner of 1914 Mulberry St., and Gustav Niederholzen of 1918 Mulberry St. about boys loitering at McKinley Park and destroying the gardens; #2572: August 1915 Instruction to City Engineer to provide 6 maps designating the location of fire hydrants and water mains, one for the Fire Chief's office and one for each fire station; #2573: contract and correspondence regarding paving of yard behind City Hall; #2574: notification of expiration of term of Recreation Commission member of Mrs. Ellen Langren; #2575: petition and private contract to construct a bulkhead with steps to the beach at the end of Weber Street; #2576: notice, bids, and correspondence about issues with surfacing of Santa Clara between Ninth and St. Charles; #2577: correspondence regarding use of City Hall rooms by the Barrett Camp, No. 29 United Spanish War Veterans and G.A.R. (until they switchted to Moose Hall), Joe Hooker Post, No. 11, otherwise meeting in Linerman Hall; #2578: petition of complaint about lack of sidewalk along Stanton Street; #2581: notification of retirement because of disability of police officer Louis W. Schroeder; #2582: correspondence between Mayor Bartlett and commissioners appointed by him to investigate actions by William Hammond, Jr. resulting from claims for reimbursement; #2584: request from Alameda Women's Improvement Club, 1538 Webster Street, to ask the Southern Pacific Co. to install a danger signal at the crossing at Buena Vista between Webster and 8th; #2585: resignation from Board of Health of J.A. Riley, M.D., on 1430 Park Street stationery; #2587: correspondence and petitions to purchase properties on Central Ave, owned by William Baurhyte, Lizzie Baurhyte, and Rose Politeo, for a new or expansion of Lincoln school, and petitions to purchase the 'Lorber & Old Peoples Home' or 'Lorber and Ladies Relief Society' property instead; #2590: correspondence regarding the Peoples Water Company, including a permit form for obtaining water from San Pablo Creek; #2591: Oct, 1915 letter to J.H. Wilkens, Chariman Public Utilities Committee, from Western Union Telegraph Company, indicating they telephone telegrams when addressed to a subscriber, and 1922 letter to City Manager C.E. Hickok, informing that telephone delivery is final unless the addressee requests mailing, and that telegrams relating to deaths, serious sickness, accidents, and messages of congratulation and condolence are not telephoned; #2593: Letters describing offers for lamp post models and fountains by artist Rupert Schmidt, 811 Lincoln Ave.; #2594: Alameda Improvement letter and council resolution of support, regarding an extension of San Francisco - Oakland Terminal Railways (Key Systems) street car services to the West End; #2595: Nov 1915 opinion of City Attorney St. Just [?] that a state Railroad Commission suit against the Southern Pacific Company, in that they had no transfers between cross-Alameda and main line trains, be dismissed, as the company started a swing service; #2597: letter from mayor Bartlett describing Mrs. Ann Lawrence does not have the means to install a required sidewalk; #2598: requests for salary increases from various departments and officials, and refusal of mayor Bartlett to give the Street superintendent a raise.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Cataloged: April 12, 2012