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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meda is a land-locked estuary calledthe San Antonio. It is connected at the westerly end with SanFrancisco by Oakland Creek, a deep-water stream, and on theeastern end with San Leandro Bay by a tidal canal. For boating the estuary is unexcelled. The water ranges indepth from five to twenty feet. There is no undertow, no boister-ous surf and no heavy winds. Its perfect sanitation, its smoothnessand its facilities give the very best conditions for the pleasures andadvantages of boating. The people indulge in the practice thewhole twelve months of the year. At the north end of Chestnut Street, on the estuary, withineasy walking distance from the center of the city, is the clubhouseof the Alameda Boating Club. It was organized on January 2,1890. It has a membership of 100. The club owns its house andhas a number of racing and pleasure boats. Its members have been highly successful in competition, andhave won more prizes during the past three years than any otherboating club in California.
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The Health Department of Alameda By L. W. STIDHAM, M. D. MAN does not, except from the force of necessity, dwell inunpleasant places — when he chooses a place for a home,that spot is selected which gives the greatest convenience,health, comfort and happiness — such inducements as these havebuilded Alameda across the Bay from San Francisco. It is acity of homes, and the municipal government has realized this factaesthetically, in shade trees, paved sidewalks and macadamizedstreets, and strictly healthful in a perfect sewer system, strict yardand garbage sanitation. This department of the Board is underthe jurisdiction of a master plumber and health inspector. Unsan-itary yards, unclean streets and cesspools of all descriptions arestrictly prohibited. We have a pure water supply, and above alla good food supply. The milk and food inspection is in charge of a competent(graduate) professor, who makes a monthly test of the milk fromeach dairy (taken from the wagons on the street unanno

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