Name/Title
Miscellaneous City Documents #2601-2649, 1914-1916Entry/Object ID
2012.30.5Scope and Content
Acc. No. 12.30.5
Subject or Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period: 1914-1916
Object: File Folder
Description: Legal size, acid-free file folder with documents, marked on the back with a sequence number between 2601 and 2649.
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: documents reflecting purchase of property Alameda Ave 2242-2254) and Encinal Ave. (2249-2607) for a new Porter School; death of William Hammond, Sr., documents regarding City Clerk and Deputy Clerk positions, including 1920 resignation of R.E. Bosshard and appointment W.E. Varcoe; Alaska Packers requesting closure of streets near their property, correspondence about purchasing additional Electricity for large plants; 1915 vacation requests; street work on Santa Clara and complaints relating to streets and sewers, with proposal for storm drains, needed because of fill north and west of Paru blocked former sloughs; 1915 monthly reports from the Electrical Light Plant.
Details: #2601: correspondence with Board of Library about bills without cash discounts; #2603: resolution regarding the death of William Hammond, Sr.; #2604: Board of Education proposing to purchase property for the new Porter School: on Alameda Ave, 2236: G. Schaeffer Co., 2242: J.V. Swensen, 2244: M. Swensen, 2246: John Neilson, 2250: G. Schaeffer Co., 2254: J.A. Hackett, and on Encinal Ave: G.T. Vergez, 2249: Geo. D. Kierulff, 2253: B. Laloge, 2255: N. & E. Lena; #2607: Complaint by Street Superintenent Frodden about lack of drainage to the north and west of Paru Street, because of the fill of marsh land, and suggestion of a system of storm drains; #2608: report of completion of work constructing a sewer in Fernside Blvd; 2609: nomination of J.D. Mills to Board of Education, replacing Louis Weinmann, who resigned; #2610: response to a letter by Geo W. Christensen, apparently about employees of the city being residents; #2611: request by Justice of the Peace for supplies; #2612: house move, of a farm, from Third to the East of Third Street; #2613: 1915-1916 Board of Education requests for carpets, lighting, varnish, and letter of appreciation; #2614: requests for vacation, 1915; #2615: resolutions to transfer funds from or to the General Fund for various purposes, including opening of Encinal Ave; #2624: 1914-1914 Electric Light Plant requesting permits to run wires and erect poles, to add connections; #2625: contract with B. A. Minor and Chas. C. Boynton to supply salt water to the Electric light Plant; #2626: 1916-1920 documents regarding City Clerk and Deputy City Clerk positions, including 1920 resignation of R.E. Bosshard, City Clerk, and appointment of W.E. Varcoe as successor, and 1916 appointment of George W. Christensen as Deputy City Clerk and his 1918 resignation. #2627: Mayor Bartlett complaining about the quality of repaving of Santa Clara Ave.; #2628: complaint by Ben Lamborn, 1428 Morton Street, about a ruling of the State Railroad Commission regarding payment by subscribers; #2629: 1916 petition regarding fees for sewer connections, and 1920 recommendation by City Engineer & Street Superintendent C.E. HIckok to raise the fees; #2630: Alaska Packers 1916 and 1917 requests to closure of streets disecting their property, i.e. Nautilus Street, Paru from Eagle Street, and Clement from Hibbard; 2631: opinion by City Attorney (St. Jure?) that the City Clerk may not withold documents from being viewed by the public until the council has seen them; #2633: suggestions to consolidate with Oakland; #2634: letter from G. E. Stiefvater, 1716 Central Ave, to have the railroads repair the crossing at Central and 9th and to fix the train signal in front of 910 Central Ave. #2635: C. H. Zimmerman suggesting all laundries, Alameda as well as Oakland ones, pay for a license to do business in Alameda; #2637: Proposal for street work - street illegible; #2638: petition to improve Santa Clara Ave.; #2639 appointment of R.H. Jamison as City Engineer, replacing James E. Sutton, whose term had expired; #2642: complaint about the vacant, dilapidated church at 2316 Central Ave.; #2643: 1916 Board of Electricity suggestion of adding external power contracts in anticipation of large factories requiring more power, and 1917 acceptance on Municipal Electric Light Plant, 2407 Santa Clara Ave. stationery, of proposal submitted by Great Western Power Company to supply Electricity; #2645: Alameda Improvement Club requesting the Southrn Pacific Co. to alert the public of fog; #2649; Electric Light Plant monthly financial reports for 1915.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Cataloged: April 12, 2012