City of Seattle Records

Supt of parks Report for March 1893 To The Honorable The Board of Commissioners Gentlemen Conforming with your instructions a set of plans have been completed constituting a study a suggestion for the improvement of Pioneer Place in submitting the same to your honorable Body, your permissions is asked to accompany said plan with a statement of the 'motif' for such design and its arrangements. First this place is the most conspicuous one in the city and will ever be prominient by the very nature of its locality. 2nd It not only is central, but is made the center by the many street ar lines converging at the corner or intersection of Commercial St and Yesler Avenue. 3rd It is even at this early age of the history of Seattle, The chief rondevous place for all notable celebrations, gatherings and meetings: And may, then be summed up the The place of the City calculated to perpetuate the uses to which

Commitee Report. Mr. President: Your Committee on Streets to [Whan?] an Ordinance to provide for the establishment of the Grade of the Alley running between Yesler Avenue and Washington St. in Block Eight of Maynard's in this Town now the City of Seattle. Your Committees have had the same under Consideration and recommend it passage all of which is most respectfully submitted.

A.S. Miller Frank A. Pontius Committee

991065

To the Hon. Mayor and Council of the City of Seattle.

To the Mayor and Council of the City of Seattle

Gentlemen: -

We, the undersigned citizens and tax payers living on and in the vicinity of Lake Street, respectfully represent that East Street, north of Yesler Avenue, is not lighted by the City, and your petitioners respectfully ask your Hon. body to order electric lights, of thirty candle power, placed at the north west corner of Lake & East Streets, and the north west corner of Prince William& East Streets, and your petitioners will ever pray.

Names [Left Column]

R.W. Winchell Geo. W. Nash J W Huff H.P.J. Allen D.M. Tibor P. Grubb J S Anderson Geo Gardner J L Moyes B C Mayer L.N. Rice H Cortign A E Giering A J Waltz

Names [Right Column]

J.W. Godwin E.H. Bragg

Office of City Engineer, Seattle, Washington, May 9th, 1894.

List of names of property owners on Front Street between Union Street and Yesler Avenue, Seattle, Washington. -----

West half of Block 1, A. A. Denny's Second Addition. 6 Lots, A. A. Denny, owner. -----

West half of Block 6, A. A. Denny's Second Addition,

L. Diller, Mrs. Knight, (Judge Greene Att'y), Jacob Levy, Estate of Guy C. Phinney, Young & Jacobson -----

West half of Block 13, Boren's Addition,

Amos Brown, owner, -----

West half of Block 12, Boren's Addition,

R. Holyoke, F. E. Sander, L. H. Griffith, M. R. Maddock, -----

West half of Block 9, Boren's Addition,

Gatzert and Schwabacher Bros, Geo. F. Frye, -----

West half of Block 8, Boren's Addition,

Estate of Guy C. Phinney, Harms and Dickman, Sam'l Kenney, -----

West half of Block 5, Boren's Addition,

M. & K. Gottstein, John Sullivan, Christ. Scheurman, -----

West half Block 4, Boren's Addition,

H. L. Yesler Estate, J. D. Lowman, Emerson, (see L. C. Gilman), -----

Block 1, Boren's Addition,

John Collins, -----

East half of Block "E", Denny's 4th Addition,

A. A. Denny, J. J. Post, J. W. Edwards, -----

990014

Seattle, Washington, June 13th, 1892.

To the Board of Aldermen and the House of Delegates of the City of Seattle:

the petition of Hans Ahrenstedt, a citizen of the city of Seattle, respecfully shows unto your Honors:

1. that at all the times mentioned in this petition Hans Ahrenstedt was and is now a resident of and a citizen of the City of Seattle.

2. That at all the times hereinmentioned your petitioner was and is now the owner of the following described property, together with the dwelling house located thereon: Lot number eight of Block six of Plummer's Addition to the City of Seattle.

3. That on the 10th day of May, 1889, the Common Council passed an Ordinance, Numbered 1086, which provided for the grading and sidewalking of South Ninth Street in the City of Seattle from Yesler Avenue South to Charles Street; which said ordinance was on the 13th day of May, 1889, duly approved by the Mayor of Seattle and became a law.

4. That the property belonging to your petitioner is situated between Charles Street and Yesler Avenue, and would front on said South Ninth Street if said street was extended through to said Charles Street.

5. That said South Ninth Street was not graded from Yesler Avenue south entirely to Charles Street, but the grading and sidewalking of said South Ninth Street was stopped about sixty feet from Charles Street, and before reaching the property of your petitioner, and no grading or other improvements of said South Ninth Street was done in front of the property of your petitioner.