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