City of Seattle Records

134 JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Jan 7 1887 Petition of B B Allen et al to plank north side of Main Street between Commercial and South Second Streets. Referred to Street Committee Petition of Emil Anderson et al for a side walk on East Side of Seventh Street fromPike St to Battery St referred to Street Committee. Petition of Wm D Wood for approval of Wood's Supplemental Plat of Blocks 16 &17 of Burke's 2nd Addition to the City of Seattle refered to Street Com. Petition of D B Wood et al to open Box Street Laid on the Table Petition of L B Andrews et al to extend Marion Street sewer to the east side of Fourth Street. Referred to Committee on Sewers and Drainage. Official Reports Received From City Atty for Month of Dec. Read & Ordered filed. From Justice G A Hall for Month of Dec. Referred to Finance Com. From Chief of Police for Month of Dec. Read & Ordered filed. From City Treasurer for Month of Dec. Referred to Finance Com. From City Jailor for Month of Dec. Referred to Finance Com. From Chief of Fire Dept for Month of Dec. Referred to Fire & Water. From Street Commissioner for Month of Dec. Referred to Street Committee & returned approved. From Custodian of the Powder House for Nov & Dec read & approved & ordered filed. Committee Reports Received From Judiciary Committee on Communication from Knights of Labor asking for the discharge of street

148 JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Feb 4 1887 Committee Reports Received From Street Committee granting petition of W B Benjamin et al for two crossings on Madison Street Adopted. FromSame Committee granting petition of L B Andrews for a sidewalk 136 feet long on [?] side of Madison Street between 3rd & 4th Streets. Adopted. From Same Committee granting petition of H A Bigelow et al for a crossing on Pike Street west side of Fourth Street. Adopted. From Same Committee rejecting petition of B B Allen et al for planking north side of Main Street to South Second Street. Adopted. From Same Committee granting petition of Emil Anderson et al for a sidewalk on Seventh Street from Pike Street to Battery Street and recommending that the City surveyor be instructed to prepare and submit plans therefor. On motion of Councilman Furth the report is laid on the table without action for the present. From the Same Committee on petition of U R Neisz et al to openand improve South Seventh Street from Pike Street to Mill Street recommending that the same be not granted, but recommending that when said Street is improved it be improved from Pike Street to Mill Street. From Finance Committee rejecting petition of Sisters of Providence Hospital for renumeration in the sum of $218.50 for care of wounded rioters. Adopted.

cars. We have no means, many of us, of conveying coal and fuel into our wood houses, nor groceries into our dwelling houses. The district of the City is thickly populated with expensive buildings, with a contented, law abiding, industrious people. To thus deprive these people, who have all there years borne with the inconvenience now bearable no longer, whohave said their taxes unmurmuringly and without complaint just because of the simple fact, that to open this street will cost four of five thousand dollars, seems to us to be an act of gross injustice. We are informed that there is now a proposition before your honorable body to condemn certain property and open three cross streets instead of Main Street aforesaid. This propostition does not remedy the wrong suffered by your petitioners. This wrong can only be remedied by opening up Main Street as established and laid out by the Ordinance herein before referred to. Your petitioners, therefore, earnestly urge that you proceedto open up said Street, according to the ordianance aforesiad. We desire to knkow as soon as possible whether or not this large population is to have redress from the hands of the legl representatives of the City or whether we are to be left entirely at the mercy of obstructionists and schemers, and your petitioners will ever pray. L B Wood Martin Long B T Smith [?] Emil Anderson R Albin A M Ciel W H Shaffer A C Dhalman W W Long Mrs Mary Deley

To the Hon. Mayor & Common Council of the City of Seattle - Gentlemen. The undersignedresidents of the eastern portion of the city, respectfully request your honorable body to order the southerly half of Jackson Street from Sixteenth Street to Lake View Street to be planked frorm the car track to the sidewalk on the south side of the street. Three Fourths of all the travel from the City to Lake Washington goes over Jackson Street, a portion of which is newly graded and filled some four feet deep, and this part particularly will be impassable as soon as wet weather sets in. Wherefore we pray that said work be ordered done and your petitioners will ever pray. R Morford C A Cram B M Padley H McDermid Harry Muhl A M Cale Geo H Bartell Anderson Jas Henry Jones A H Mafferd W E Burgess A G Keene J M Branson Thos Anderson Alex C Anderson M J Cook H Keller C S Rabison E A Frasier Levi Wintermuth C H Morford A W Pratt Chas N Evans Emil Anderson J C Levold E W Engel J S Cox