City of Seattle Records

465 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE May 11 1888 deposited with the City Clerk as a forfeit in case petitioner failed to construct a cable road in accordance with the terms of Ordinance No 890 granting a Street Railway to franchise to said company, read & referred to the City Atty. Petition of Geo Kinnear for establishing the grade of High Street between Temperance Street and Banner Street read and granted. Committee Reports Received From Committee on sewers and drainage recommending that an Iron Stone sewer be constructed in James Street from Second Street to Twelfth Street the same to be of ten (10) inch pipe from Second Street to Eighth Street and of Eight (8) inch pipe the balance of the way. Adopted and the purchasing Agent directed to order the necessary pipe. From Committee on Fire & Water granting petition of W H Bow for permission to make certain alterations and repairs to wooden building on the West side of Commercial Street near Main Street. Adopted. From Street committee granting petition of J A Stewart & others for opening Second Street to a width of ninety (90) feet from Battery Street southward to the center of Blanchard Street and grading and building sidewalks on both sides of said street. The committee also recommend & that the surveyor be instructed to submit plans and specifications for said work and connect this district with the assessment district on said street extending from Depot Street to Battery Street heretofore ordered widened and graded, Adopted. Applications for Licenses referred John J Gearey, James Weir and Chas H Fox

475 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE May 18 1888 of A A Denny and others against opening Streets on the Tide Flats at the expense of the general fund to the effect that the remonstrance was made under a misapprehension & therefore recommend that the same be tabled. Adopted. From the City Surveyor stating that at the rate the contractor is now worrking onMill Street it will requite ninety four (94) days to complete his contract. Referred to Street Committee Licenses Ordered Issued. L V D Schnyder, Mrs Jane Berry, Frank W Clancy, Andrew Lunn E Champeaux, Thos R Hughes, James Wier, Chas H Fox and John J Gearey. The vote on issuing said licenses is as Follows viz: In favor of the same, Furth, Frink, Green, Lake, Neisz, Russell & Reitze. Against the same none. Licenses Referred Storah & Bauman and J T Beadle Bids for driving piles and building retaining walls on Mill Street were opened and read as follows: McKinnon & Co Driving piles per lineal feet .40cents Lumber per M[thousand board feet] $25.00 Iron Rods each $20.00 On motion the bid is tabled. Bids for grading and building sidewalks on both sides of Cherry Street from Fifth Street to Thirteenth St were opened and read as follows: Henderson & Locke Earth Work per cubic yard .40cents Cribbing per M[thousand board feet] $18.00 Sidewalks per M[thousand board feet] $17.00 Box Drains per M[thousand board feet] $18.00 Clearing and grubbing per acre $75.00