Name/Title
Board of Trustees Correspondence, Jan - July 1903Entry/Object ID
2012.18.6Scope and Content
Acc. No. 12.18.6
Subject Category:
Date or Period: Jan 1903 - July 1903
Object: Folder, file
Description: Acid-free legal size manila file folder with documents, marked on the reverse with a number in black ink, from 251 to 300.
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 '251-300' on the folder tab. Documents in this folder include further complaints about lack of response from volunteer fire companies; a few petitions to move houses; advertisement and permit requests for a Wonders of the World Merchants' Exposition Fair; petitions for lights, fire hydrants, streets improvements, sewers; salary increase requests; suggestion by the Adelphian Club that the City install street signs; invitation to dedication ceremony of the Carnegie Library, April 16, 1903; request by the Health Department to turn the space vacated by the library into an emergency hospital; payments for the progress at the Wilson, Mastick, and new high school, and reconstruction of Longfellow School; indications of plans to acquire power from outside sources rather than maintaining a municipal light plant; and Police Department report, job application forms (incl. Steinmetz and McDonnell), and requests for mattresses and handcuffs, and petition pro and con salary increase; papers related to the Electric Light Plant.
Details:
Documents in this folder pertain to: #251: complaint by Health Officer Stidham about street sweepings being dumped on the rear of the city hall lot; #251 1/2: Response from Whidden Hose Co. to complaint by Chief Krauth, blaming lack of tappers to tell about the fire alarms; #252: report that street work on Sherman Ave. has been completed; #253: Report by Superintendent of Streets about Street Cleaning and sweeping for 1902, includes statement that dumping at the back of city Hall cannot continue. #254: Adelphian Club, via Chairman Mrs. E. Holt of 1007 Morton St. requesting street signs to be maintained by the City; #255: Justice Tappan donating part of his salary, with injunction to first pay him and reference to abolishing Recorder's Court. #256: permit request to strung a banner across Park Street to advertise the Spring Festival and Merchants' Exposition, committee of Wonders of the World, Secretary, J. J. Knight, Alameda; #257: request to have lights at the Festival, April 26 to May 2; #258; notice posted by J.W. Gillogly, City Clerk, and bids for copper wire; #259: Board of Health requesting transfer of allotted funds; #260: request by Superintendent of schools to add a light near Longfellow, to discourage 'nuisances'. #261: request for an ordinance regarding dogs; #261 1/2: petition to construct a sewer on Everett; #262: Hillhouse and Reardon report completion of bitumen work for Mastick School; #263: United Engineering Works request permit to construct poles to bring electricity from California Gas & Electric Corporation lines in Oakland to their works near the Webster St. Bridge; #265: Report of bills due for High School change orders; #266: Invitation to dedication event of the new Library Building, the gift of Mr. Carnegie, Thursday, April 16, 1903; #267: West End Alameda improvement Association thanking for light at Longfellow School and sixth street, and asking for police officer patrolling seventh street; #268: 'in envelope of Municipal E. L. Plant'; #269: Quarterly report of earnings by Oakland Transit Consolidated; #270: request for endorsement of a Fair in Oakland by Oakland Knights of Pythias; #270 1/2: Report by Chief Krauth of lack of response by Whidden Hose Co. No. 2 to a fire alarm; #271: petition by West End Club to appoint Captain Thomas Ellis as police officer for the area; #272: 'put in police dept. envelope'.; #273: Sewer inspector Louis G. Spenz [sp.?] requesting increase because his work is very dirty and unhealthy; #274: petition by street sprinkling men to increase the wage per 'man and team', citing increased cost of living; #275: request to bitumize section of Santa Clara Ave. and add a light; #275 1/2: petition by West End Improvement Association to be given grounds for removal of tracks from Railroad Avenue; #276: 'filed in Municipal E. L. envelope'; #277: Board of Education reports test of heating apparatus was satisfactory and requests payment of bills; #277 1/2: specification of Sea Wall at southerly end of Laurel and Oak streets; #278: Board of Education requesting remaining bond funds to pay reconstructing Everett School, and purchase of Wilson School lot; #279: Health Officer Stidham requesting to use vacated space in City Hall as emergency hospital; #280: 'filed in Police Dept. Envelope'; #281: Eberhard Weisel requesting his name be removed from a petition [perhaps #280?]; #282: City Electrician Wiese requesting a promised increase of pay; #283: protest petition against operation of the Chinese match factory at Oak and Blanding, citing dangerous materials; #284: Certificate of Physical Examination and Application for appointment as (special) Police Officer of Geo. W. Woolf Jr., brakeman with the Southern Pacific; #285: Report of completed street work and sewer construction on a section of High Street; #286: Reports by Chief Fred K. Krauth of lack of response of H. Cordes Hose Company, No. 5 to a fire alarm; #286 1/2: estimate by Chief Krauth of cost of replacing the 4 volunteer hose wagons by paid firemen; #287: Auditor report of books of Electric Light Plant, Nov 1901-March 1903, tenure of G.T. Thompson; #288, #289, #290: bids for a heater for the Electric Light Plant; #291: flyer for relief fund of Armourdale, Kansas, which suffered flooding of the Kaw river; #292: West End Improvement Ass. request opening of Buena Vista from eight to Clark's Pottery; #293: petition to move a house from Clinton to E. of Willow Street; #294: petition to add a hydrant to St. Charles, between San Anto io and St. Charles; #294 1/2: Suggestions for supply for the Electric Light Plant by W.M. Bowers and H.M. Pond; #294 3/4: opinion from City Attorney Simpson about power of the city to purchase current for resale; #295: notice and bids for sea wall at Laurel and Oak; #296: Board of Education request to transfer bond premium to the High School Fund; #297: Request by West End Improvement Ass. to include replacement plans for Webster and Fifth St. stations when granting a franchise to the S.P.R.R.; #299: Statement by Joseph Forderer, on his S.F. business stationery, seconded by trustees Hammond and Combs, that the reports in the Argus are unfair; #300: petition by Clarence W. Doane, manager of Independent Match Co, on S.E. corner of Oak and the Tidal Canal, to lay pipes to use water from the canal in case of fire.
Grouped together, it appears previously in a separate 'Police Department Envelope': #1: Police Department Report for 1902; #6-1: Job Applications, #6: W. F. Steinmetz; #5: James McDonell; #4: Burton W. Marshall; #: John coffee and Jas Mc Guiness (special Police Officers for Dickie's Ship Yard ner Webster St. Bridge); #2: Police Chief Conrad requesting police telephones, mattresses, blankets, handcuffs, and a gas heater; #272: petition of the police officers to increase pay; #280: counterpetition claiming that Alameda as an island is easier to police.
Electric Light Plant papers: #1: Electric Light plant report by G. S. Thompson, Jan 17, 1903; #2: petition for a light on Railroad Ave; #3: report on various matters, Feb 16, 1903; #4: inspection report; #5: Superintendent Wiese appointed W.C. Yaw upon resignation of fireman Thos. C. Stoddard; #5 1/2: request for light at sixth street station; #5 3/4: petition for ligths on Caroline; #6: job application for assistant engineer; #7: resignation letter manager G. S. Thompson; #8: due to death of David Greenleaf, W.C. Yaw was appointed as switch board tender and lamp repairer; L. Jones fireman in his stead; #268: job application for bookkeeper; #9: Financial overview to April 1903; #276: request for rate quote; #10, 15, 23: equipment inspection reports; #11, #12, 13, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22: expense reports; #14: resignation as assistant engineer of Claire Button since he intended to go to sea; #18: request for light at Morton and San Jose; #20: request for light at; #24: petition for light on Van Buren; #25: petition for a light near Eagle and Broadway; #26: West End Alameda Improvement Association, secreatary H. J. Mehrtens, request for light at corner of Fifth and Santa Clara, and sixth and Railroad Ave.; #27: petition for a light at Santa Clara
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Catalog Date: February 18, 2012