City of Seattle Records

To the Honorable MAYOR and COMMON COUNCIL of the City of Seattle Gentlemen:-- The undersigned petitioners respectfully represent and show that several months ago the City of Seattle, by Ordinance duly passed, laid out and established Main Street from Market Street to Yakima St and condemned certain property therefor; that in pursuance of said ordinance appraisers were duly appointed, which said appraisers duly examined the line of said improvements and filed their report thereof; that said report was satisfactory to all the residents living along the line of said street and owning the improvements so condemned with two exceptions; that the said two parties excepted duly filed with the Superior Court and said cause was docketed for trial when said cause was called for trail the Corporation Counsel, acting upon the advise and under the instructions of the City Council, as your petitioners, are informed, dismissed said cause; that we are informed by said Corporation Counsel that the Council of the City of Seattle waived the rights of the City in said premises and abandoned the intentions of said City to open said street as aforesaid upon the ground that the City is in debt. Your petitioners learned with unfeigned astonishment of this decision of your honorable body. We most emphatically declare that such action is a great injustice and a grevious wrong to a large portion of citizens and residents and tax-payers living between Jackson Street and Yesler Avenue and east of Market For many years we have paid our taxes and unmurmuringly and without complaint. We have now no means of getting to or from the cable

Shoudy Bros & Co J A Shoudy J H Stevens } Ellensburgh, Wash W H Shoudy [F S Sylvester]] } Seattle, Wash Wholesale Commission Merchants Dealers in Flour, Feed, Hay, Grain, Provisions, Fruit and General Produce Foot of Jackson Street opposite City Dock Seattle Wash Nov 21st '89 To the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle Gentlemen, The undersigned respectfully solicit your honorable body to cause the removal of a Stone Cutters yard on Jackson Street. (near Commercial) beteween Rail Road Avenue and Commercial Street. Said yard is now occuplying the North side of Jackson Street, which is planked thus forcing the heavy teaming to the South side where there is no planking. In all respects the above stone yard is a nuisance and we ask your honorable body to have it removed to the limits of private property as the interests of said yard is in several buildings on adjacent property.

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

To the Honerable Mayor and Common Council of the City of Sattle Gentlemen Your committee on License and Revenue in view of the rapid extension of the business portion of the City would recommend that the area within which Liquor Licenses may be granted be established as it shall be bounded and described as follows: Beginning at the intersection go Front and Depot streets, running east on Depot Street to Cherry Street Thence Southerly on Second Street to Cherry Street Thence easterly on Cherry St to Third Street thence southerly on Third Street to Yesler Avenue Thence east on Yesler Avenue to South Sixth Street. Thence south on South Sixth Street to Jackson Street. Thence east on Jackson Street to South Seventh Street. Thence south on South Seventh Street to Weller Street. Thence west on Weller Street to Commercial Street. Thence south on Commercial Street to Norman Street. Thence westonNorman Street to Railroad Avenue Thence in a northerly direction on Railroad Avenue to [Union Street]]. Thence easterly on Union Street to Front Street. Thence northerly on Front Street to Depot Street, the place of the beginning.