City of Seattle Records

553 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE Aug 3 1888 there being a tie vote the Mayor casts his ballot for Isaac Parker whereupon the said Isaac Parker is duly elected City Treasurer of the City of Seattle. Petitions etc. Petition of Jesse F Cochran & others for opening Light Street from Bluff Street to Bradley Street read and referred to the Street Committee. Petition of J D Lowman and others for a change of grade on [Fifth Street]] corner of Marion Street read and referred to Street committee. Petition of S N Sorensen for a sewer in Spring Street an a sidewalk on said street from Second Street to Third Street read and referred to the Committee on Sewers and Drainage. Petition of Winsor and Co to have Front Street between Pike Street and Union Street read and the Chief of Police directed to notify property owners to clean up their street fronts. Petition of Puget Sound Improvement Company & others to have property owners on line of Pike Street sewer compelled to connect their houses with the sewer in order that the street may be planked as heretofore ordered. Referred to Street Committee. Petition of G Beninghansen for perission to put a small building on west side of Commercial Street next to Harrington & Smith's store referred to Com on Fire & Water. Petition of J H Bridge for opening the alley in Block 31 of Maynard's plat from Mill to Washington Streets referred to Street Committee.

573 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE Aug 17 1888 From Committee on Sewers & Drainage granting petition of S N Sorensen for a sewer in Spring Street fromThird Street to anoutlet or connection with with some other sewer. Adopted. From Same Committee granting petiton of D T Denny ndothers for a sewer in Bell Street from the Bay to fifth Street. Adopted. From Committee on Street Lights granting petitionof W V Rinehart & others for street Lights on Fifth Street between Pine & Bell Streets saod lights to be of 16 candle power & placed on wooden posts. Adopted. From Committee on Harbor & Wharves recommentind that a public boat landing by built at the foot of Jackson Street consisting of a float made of cedar logs with gangway anchored to the whatf at the foot of of said street for the landing of small boars. Adopted and Street Commission directed to build said landing. From Committee on Streets to whom was referred the petition of the Puget Sound Improvement Co & others regarding sewer connections with Pike Street sewer and planking said Pike Street recommending that said street be planked sixteen feet wide on the south side from Second Street toSixth Street as heretofore ordered and the part of said petition referring to sewer connections be referred to the sewer committee. Adopted From same committee granting petition of J A Gould and others for opening Ward Street from Farm to Lombard Street and Lombard Street from Ward Street to Farragut Street. Adopted.