Name/Title
Board of Trustees Correspondence, Aug - Nov 1902Entry/Object ID
2012.18.4Scope and Content
Acc. No. 12.18.4
Subject Category:
Date or Period: Aug 1902 - Nov 1902
Object: Folder, file
Description: Acid-free legal size manila file folder with documents, marked on the reverse with a number in black ink, between 151 and 200.
History of Object: Correspondence with the Board of Trustees, found in the attic of City Hall, and refoldered in 2012. The original folder was marked '151-200' on the folder tab. Documents in this folder include petitions to move houses, including one by E.J. Blanding; applications for gratuitous business licenses, requests for lamps and a fire alarm box; Personnel changes; Department reports; union expected wage schedule for electrical workers; bids to supply horse feed by local businesses; updates and term extension requests related to work on the Wilson, Mastick, and new High School, including invitation to laying of cornerstone.
Details: Documents in this folder pertain to: #151: Board of Education invite Board of Trustees to be present at laying of corner stone of the new High School, Sept. 9, 2 P.M.; #152: failure of Whidden Hose Company to respond to a fire alarm; #152 1/2: application for free produce peddling license; #153: announcement of Convention of Pacific Coast Association of Fire Chiefs; #154: notification from Pacific Surety Co. that the bond for collector Wittich will expire; #156: Petitioin to place a boiler at laundry at 2217 Encinal Ave by P. Berger; #157: Petition to transfer a junk license; #158: Petition to mouve a cottage house from 2312 Santa Clara Ave to south line Webb Ave, by E. J. Blanding; #159: Petition to move house from Santa Clara Ave to north side of Alameda Ave, stationery of Wm. Dufour & Co., Real Estate Brokers, 2236 Santa Clara Ave, includes pencil map of property ownership; #160: petition to move a house from 1043 San Antonio to San Antonio between St. Charles and Caroline by C. L. Tilden; #161: Petition against ordinance enabling dairying between Chestnut and Willow; #162: Application for gratuitous peddling license by Martha B. Moody of 1129 Park St. to sell her home-made deodorizer; #162 1/2: gratuitous fruit peddling license; #163: gratuitous potato peddling license; #164: Fire Dept Expense report for August; #165: typed advertisement for an oil burner; #166: Petition by Hutchinson, Oakland, to improve Central Ave, recurbing with redwood, or for a fee, artificial stone, on behalf of residents; #168: Announcement of a Irrigation Congress and Forestry Association Convention; #169: Jos. Knowland requests an ordinance limiting the speed of automobiles to under eight miles per hour; #170: protest against saloon near Webster Street Bridge; #171: petition for light at 6th and Pacific; #171 1/2: letter from committee opposing an assembly motion to centralize lighting or water utilities; #172: job application and information request for engineer at the power plant; #173: Foresters of America Day, Haywards, invitation; #174: request for increase of pay by Electric Light Plant accountant H. Wittich; #175: assessment rate quote for railroad for Alameda; #176: bids to supply hay and grain, by Lubben Bros., August Koerber, successor to Henry Koerber, between Park and Oak Street, and A. W. Victors, 1520 Park Street; #177: Annual Fiscal Report from Street Department Superintendent V.F. Frodden to June 1902; #178: bid by Peerless Oil Co. to supply oil from their Webster St. tanks instead of the company who won the bid but wasn't able to deliver; #179: petition to have tracks removed from Railroad Ave, which would be no longer needed since the P.C. (Pacific Coast) Oil Works were moving to Point Richmond; #180: protest against rumored Republican County convention plans to replace the City Recorder office with a City Justice; #181: Geo. Hall asking for term extension on work for Mastick School addition because of supply issues. Comments by Frank Otis and Citty Attorney Simpson, and signed by C.E. K., E. M. Keys, W. McLeod, C. A. Brown; #182 1/2: Treasurer Lubbock's quarterly report; #183: Resolution on property taxes to be levied; #184: Reaction to complaint about poor lumber being used in the new High School building (no, was used for scaffolding only); #185: request for improvement Alameda Avenue by Superintendent Frodden; #186: complaint by N.M. Powdle of 1513 Encinal Ave about the unprofessional trimming of his Acacia trees; #187: Geo Fleming resigning non-paid Police Officer post as he had resigned as Janitor from Wilson School; #188: Resignation of Andrew Nissen as second extra driver of Fire Dept. Chemical No. engine; #189: Appointment by Chief Krauth of James Delvecchio as second extra driver of same; #190: Board of Education suggesting lowest bid, from Hillhouse and Reardon, for laying of bitumen for Mastick and Wilson schools, be accepted; #191: C.F. Fischer, 1334 Park Street, requests extension of term for radiator for Wilson School; #192: resignation of M.S. Taylor, City Recorder, upon election as Justice of the Peace; #193: application to position of City Recorder soon to be vacant; #194: minimum wage rate schedule decreed by the Brotherhodd of Electrical Workers, Linemens Union No. 151; #195: Quarterly report Electrical Light Plant; #196: Quarterly Inspection report Electrical Light Plant boiler 4; #197: announcement of result of election of Fire Department officers (Krauth, Millington, Steinmetz, Fox, Combs); #197 1/2: petition for a fire alarm box at Union and Eagle; #198: petition for light at Union and Eagle; #200: gratuitous peddle license for minaral novelties and ornaments.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Catalog Date: February 18, 2012