Name/Title
Board of Trustees Correspondence, March-May 1902Entry/Object ID
2012.18.2Scope and Content
Acc. No. 12.18.2
Subject Category:
Date or Period: March 1902-May 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 50 and 100.
Documents in this folder include requests for gratuitous licenses, requests for lighting; complaints about garbage; report of contamination Lake Chabot drinking water; choosing of architects for additions to Wilson, Mastick, and for the new High Schools; receipts from animal pound, petition by John Conrad to increase police staffing, treasury spreadsheet from Oswald Lubbock- an old city family. Operating expenses for Electric plant, Fire Dept., and one proposed but opposed house move, and an event in Oakland involving Alameda Tong No. 1.
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 '50-100' on the folder tab. Documents in this folder pertain to: #51: Notice to Architects for a 2-story, 14-room High School building, and extensions to Wilson and Mastick Schools; #52: report on Electric Plant Engine; #53: requisition for hose for the Fire Dept.; #54: petition with complaint about the noise from the Oakland Transit railway cars along San Jose Ave.; #55: Clerk's Jan-Mar 1902 Quarterly Statement; # 55 1/2: Electric Plant Plant statement July 1, 1901-April 1-1902; #56: 9-month Report Electric Plant; #57: Financial Report Electric Light Plan for February 1902; #58: Adelphian Club requesting a Children's playground; #59: complaint about using a team for two purposes, one being hauling of muck; #60; federal government elected officials' support for a Postoffice; #61: complaint about the poundmaster; #62: Change of gate keeper at the Narrow Gauge Railroad mole, appointed as regular police officer without pay; #63: Chief Conrad requesting increase of staff to match increase of population - includes population statistics 1880-1902; #64: petition by police officers to have insurance and pension fund; #65: Fire Department Expense Report for March; #67: Petition by peddler to pay license fee quarterly; #68, 73, 91, 92: petitions for gratuitous peddling licenses; #69 Municipal Electric Light Plant Expense report for March; #70: request to clean the approach to Webster Street from garbage since it causes blood poisoning and malaria; #71: Invitation to Fourth of July celebration in Oakland; #72: Request for extension of School Plan bid period and request by Board of Education to deny; #74: Treasurer's Quarterly Report; #75: complaints about garbage; #76: borderline dispute complaint; #77: letter by Manufacturers and producers association of California suggesting local products should be bought by the city; #78: Board of Education member Sloan suggesting changes in School specification; #79: Board of Education choosing architects - Paff for Mastick addition, and Stone and Smith for Wilson and High Schools. #80: complaint about revoking of a medicine peddler's license with fancy letterhead; #81: petition for lights along Van Buren; #82: Fire Dept. Expense Report for April; #83: Poundmaster report, including killed, redeemed dogs, horses, cows, and burrying (3 chickens, 13 cat, 6 dogs, 1 horse); #84: G.R. Miller requesting to peddle outside his store at 1101 Buena Vista Ave; #85: request by Electric Light Plant to have their bills paid; #86: letter of commendation for Stone school design from Berkeley Board of Trustees; #87: Inspection report for Electric Light Plant Boiler 4; #88: Electric Light Plant Expense Report for April; #89: Petition in favor and against a house move by Matthaus Hofmann near Walnut - opposition stating the house was delapidated; #89 1/2: Subdivision request for block on Court and Calhoun - and request to remove the City Pound located therein; #90: Board of Education approves proposed plans by architects; #93: Notice for, and bids for Redwood poles for lighting; #94: Insurance policy change for Electric Light Plant and agent change to daughter Bessie B. Hierelhy, 2015 Pacific Ave; #95: request for water main for fire protection to Sherman St.; #96: Letter from Oakland fourth of July Celebration Committee; #97: L. W. Stidham from Board of Health reporting bacteria and organic matter in Lake Chabot drinking water; #98: offer for boilers; #99: complaint about claiming of a cow by the poundmaster while the owner was chatting nearby; #100: Elk's Street Fair and Carnival in Oakland designating June 14 as 'Alameda Day', includes mention of Alameda Tong No. 1.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Catalog Date: February 18, 2012
