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To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle,

GENTLEMEN: Your Committee on Streets and Street improvement to whom was referred the petition of John S. Anderson praying for the grading of Fifth Street from James to Jefferson

beg to report that the improvement prayed for would be very expensive, requiring extensive crib work, and a fill of about feet;

That the petition represents only one fourth of the property abutting; That the contractors on the James Street improvement can legally and reasonably refuse, and do refuse, to waste the earth from James Street, where so long a haul is required. We therefore recomend [sic] that the prayer of the petitioner be not granted.

Alfred Snyder Chairman. Dated Sept 5th 1884

Seattle, Wash. MCh 14th, 1890

To His Honor the Mayor and the Common Council of the city of Seattle.

Gentlemen,

We the undersigned property owners and business men doing business on front street bet. seneca and university do respectfully pettition your honorable body to remove all the rubbish on said street and to cut off the front of the Knight Building all ready condemed by you as soon as possible.

L. Dilles J. Lucy David Gilmore JH [?] T.C. Ph[?]y

Seattle, Washington, July 13th.,1893

To the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle:

We, the undersigned, property owners and residents of Beacon Hill, City of Seattle, respectfully petition your Honorable Body to place at the corner of Frederick and Fifteenth Streets, or as near thereto as practicable, a fire alarm box, for the reason that in case of fire, there is no means of communication with the fire department of the City, nearer than the alarm box situated at Eleventh and Jackson Streets; and further, for the reason that there are many valuable residences in the vicinity mentioned, owned by the undersigned petitioners, who feel that they are entitled to the same proctection in case of fire, as other residents of the City.

And your petitioners will every pray.

New England Northwestern Investment Co. [pr. M S G Young Genl Manager] M S G Young D W Emmory M S Scott E. Atwood Jr W. H. Oliver H M Viele [Mrs Swanberg] W. F. McKay C H Black F W Black J A Johnson

I hereby recommend that the above petition be granted as the above mentioned locality is without sufficient means of communication with this Dept.

A B Hunt Chief Fire Dept

To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of the City of Seattle:-

The undersigned, your petitioners, respectfully represent:-

That they are all and each of them citizens of the City of Seattle, County of King and State of Washington

That the extension of the license limits beyond the limits established by the Common Council of the City of Seattle on the Fourth day of October 1889, would be of great and serious detriment to those parts of the City of Seattle which would be by such and extension included license limits.

That the limits proposed by the ordinance entitles "An Ordinence Establishing a Saloon Limit within the City of Seattle within which Limit Licenses for the sale of Intoxicating Liquors may be Granted Pursuant to the Charter of the City of Seattle" now pending before the Honorable House of Delegates to whom this petition is here with presented include upon Yesler and Third Street and other streets localities of said City of Seattle devoted to largely and in part wholly to uses for residence purposes and also includes several of the leading churches in said City of Seattle.

That the passage of said Ordinance by the City Council will be Detrimental to the good order and quiet of said Streets and a great injury to the residence upon said Streets and to the people of Seattle as a whole.

991925

To The Honorable The Mayor and City Council of the City of Seattle State of Washington

Gentlemen

We in the undersigned residents on and about the corner of 7th and Spring Streets of the City of Seattle do most respectfully represent to your an honorable body. That there is being erected at the corner before named what is generally termed "Merry go round" we your petitioners are opposed to the said show being exhibited at said corner, for the following reasons The everlasting noise and disturbance. attending to such show. The collection of kinds of people of all kinds and especially the vicious and who take advantage of crowds to ply their nefarious avocations. We respectfully suggest to you honorable body. That the location to which we refer is one of the most quiet and and respectable portions of the City. and the establishment of such a show as the one referred to with damage this property in the vicinity and umrest our hitherto peaceable