Identifier: alamedaalamedaco00alam (find matches)
Title: Alameda, Alameda Co., California, situated on the eastern shore of the Bay of San Francisco. A city of homes. Being a brief description of the beauties of Alameda, and its surroundings on land and water
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Alameda (Calif.). Board of Trade
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Publisher: (Alameda, Calif.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Added to these municipal and industrial conditions, there aremany natural advantages. The citys elevation above sea-level istwenty-nine feet; it has a sandy loam, quickly absorbing the rain-fall, gradually sloping from the center of the city to the bay shoreon either side, allowing natural drainage and sewers partly flushedby sea water. We have a mild, pure atmosphere and an equablecHmate, allowing outdoor life from January to December. Thereis no malaria, and few contagious diseases. The citys Board of Health is composed of professional men,who stand high among eminent physicians, and are men of authorityon sanitary laws and legislation. A Board of Health is oftentimescensured by the public as meddlesome and interfering with per-sonal rights and business interests; but this important body hasthe householder at heart, and protects the home and property valueagainst unscrupulous people, by abating nuisances and things un-pleasant and unsanitary, on the broadest principles of humanity.
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Public Library of Alameda By F. B. graves ONE of the potent factors in the development of a city is itsfree library. It is an essential part of a broad system ofeducation ; it supplements and assists in the work of theschools. It furnishes an incentive and an opportunity for widerstudy to the pupils ; it gives to men and women excursions in freshand delightful fields; it gives to history clubs and others materialfor better work; and gives to all classes wholesome reading forleisure hours. The Free Public Library of the city of Alameda ranks fourth inthe list of free libraries of California as to number of volumesissued, and sixth as to maintenance and number of volumes in thelibrary. It was started in the year 1877 by a few ladies and gentlemen,who organized the Alameda Free Reading-room and LibraryAssociation. Gifts of money and books were generously con-tributed, and the association, with several hundred volumes, theleading California newspapers and principal American monthlymagazin

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