Name/Title
Miscellaneous City Documents #2648-2700, 1916-1919Entry/Object ID
2012.30.6Scope and Content
Acc. No. 12.30.6
Subject or Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period: 1916-1919
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 2648 and 2700. The documents are ordered more or less chronologically, and pertain to: ordinance about garbage wagons within city limits; obtaining lots for playgrounds next to the schools (Longfellow, Wilson, Porter, High School); house move permits; 1916 City Budget; street improvements.
Details: #2648: proposed ordinance about garbage wagons, and petition requesting same and protest against scavengers keeping equipment at 1139 Broadway; #2651: Key Systems response to a complaint about condition of Park Street between Buena Vista and San Jose Ave.; #2652: corrections to ordinance of #2648; #2653: Key Systems (San Francisco Oakland Terminal Railways) reminder of rules for free rides for olice officers; #2654: petition to have Central Court become part of Central Ave; #2656: proceedings to obtain land adjacent to schools, and sale of houses on these lots (2217 Alameda Ave, owned by R. B. Mott or Dora Jones, 516 Pacific Ave, owned by A. Wolff, and property owned by the Zeh estate and by G. H. Noble); #2657: iterations and correspondence about budget for 1916, with estimates from the various departments; #2658: house move petitions and bonds for same, -10: from 516 Pacific Ave; -9: by G. G. Garlang, from 2243 Encinal Ave to rear of 1219 Park Street; -8: by J. W. Patmon, 2303 Webster St., from corner of Van Buren and Mound to west side Versailles, corner Versailles and Calhoun (spelled Versales and Calhoon), -4 by Dora Blanchard, move a house at 2242 Alameda Ave. to S side Clement between Everett and Broadway (2522 Clement Ave.), -3: from 2246 Alameda Ave to E. side Oak St between Santa Clara and Bank St., -2: 2236 Alameda Ave to S Alameda Ave, between Oak and Walnut, -1: 2249 Encinal Ave, N side Encinal between Oak and Walnut; #2659: appointment to Board of Education of Chas. M. Cadman, replacing Jas. M. Shanly; #2660: appointment Leo Smith to coundil, replacing A.F. Heyer, who resigned; #2661: recommendation to install a steel bell tower at Fire Station No. 2 (Webster Street); #2663: correspondence regarding the corporation yard, foot of Grand Street, including 1920 permit to James Robertson to build Ferries on an unused portion; #2665: plans for pipeline and ordinance about filling and dredging near Webster Street; #2666: complaint by Alameda Improvement Club about 'spielers' connected to Beach Resorts, on Webster and Central Ave; #2667: petition for extra police on Webster Street; #2268: appointment of Paul Arnerich to Board of Electricity to replace Wynn Meredith; #2669: correspondence with the War Department / Corps of Engineers about the opening and closing of bridges over the Estuary at Webster and Harrison Streets; #2671: resignation M. E. Ackerman from playgrounds commission; #2673: Board of Education requesting additional funds; #2674: Sept. 1916 request by Board of Freeholders for extension period for writing a new charter; 2676: decision to obtain property to the south of the Electric Light Power House; #2677: liquor license of the liquor houses in Alameda renewal request; #2680: July 1916 - Chamber of Commerce notifying about organization benefitting Company G, N.G.C. (National Guard); #2681: Corps of Engineers notification about meeting regarding Cross Bay Bridge; #2685: attempt to get reimbursed according to a state constitution article; #2687: prohibiting drinking alchoholic drinks in public places; #2688: Municipal Light Plant explaining lighting schedule, every cloudy night, regrdless of moonlight; #2689: 1916-1919 correspondence about scarifying Lincoln Ave; #2690: correspondence from Street Superintendent Frodden about improvement on Alameda Avenue; #2691: Board of Education accepting responsibility for games, recreation, sport and exercise in the public playgrounds or recreation centers; #2694: discussions about improvement of Encinal Ave. East of Park; #2695: 1916-1919 documents about acquisition of lots adjoining Longfellow School for a playground #2698: improvement of Works Street, between Webster Street and the Union Iron Works; #2699: Finance committee suggesting a case be bought for the Municipal Banner; #2700: San Francisco-Oakland Terminal Railways request to make connection between Webster Street and right of Way to the east.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Cataloged: April 12, 2012