City of Seattle Records

375 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE Jan 20 1888 Grant Street Plank Road to a connection with South Sixth Street, read and referred to Street Committee. Petition of John Forbes for the return of certain license money, read & referred to Committee on Licenses & Revenue. Petition of J P Smith for permission to remove the wreck of the Steamer Mississippi read and tabled. Communication from Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade requesting the Council to pass a resolution protesting against the passage of the bill for the division of King County, read, and the Mayor authorized to telegraph the King County representatives at Olympia to use every effort to defeat said bill. The Mayor being called away calls Councilman Furth to the chair. Report from Chief of the Fire Department read and referred to the Comittee on Fire and Water Committee Reports Rec'd From Committee on Fire & Water on Petition of W A Perry & J H Kennedy, engineers, for an increase of salary recommending that the pay of said engineers be increased to $82.50 per month. Adopted. From same Committee on the report of the Chief of the Fire Department as follows we find the fire slips in fair condition and would not recommend any further outlay at present than is recommend in the report of the Harbor & Wharves Committee. We recommend that the purchasing agent be authorized to procure suitable and sufficient suction hose for the use of the Fire Department. We do not recommend the employment of a driver and a tillerman nor the purchase of hoses for the new turn table truck at