City of Seattle Records

To the Honorable City Council of the City of Seattle:

The undersigned, being the owners of all the property abutting on Lake Avenue, between John Street and Mercer Street, hereby petition and pray your Honorable Body to vacate that portion of Lake Avenue between John Street and Mercer Street.

The reason for said vacation is that said street does not conform to the other streets in said vicinity but runs diagonally across the same, and is of no practical benefit or utility to the City.

And your petitioners will ever pray.

NAMES. Lot Block Addition

Olaf P. Norgren and Ida Norgren 4 65 Home R.D. Parker & Lizzie Parker 5&6 11 " H.J. Pearmine & Pauline Pearmine 7 65 Home Frederick Prosch & Helen M. Prosch (on 7&8 61 Park condition that street when vacated becomes the property of abutting land owners) R.D. Parker & Lizzie M. Parker 11&12 66 Denny's Park Mrs S K Murdock 2-3 61 Denny's Park W. Dankel Margaret Dankel 7 57 " " Douglass Allmond (wishes his name taken off)4-5-6 61 " " Annie C. Haller by Theo. W. Haller]] atty in fact 1,2 [57] " " Granville O. Haller by Theo. W. Haller]] atty in fact 3,4 57 " " Henrietta M Haller by Theo. W. Haller]] atty in fact 5 [57] " " D.T. Denny all fractional lots in said all Blocks 65 Louisa Denny block 72-73-74- DT Denny Home addition

To the Honorable the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle Gentlemen!-- Whereas, There was presented to your honorable body on Jan. 24th 1893, a petition praying that Lake Avenue be vacated from John Street to Mercer Street, which petition alleges as a reason for said vacation that Lake Avenue was diagonally to the streets already laid out in that district. Now, Therefore, we, the undersigned owners of property abutting on and adjacent to Lake Avenue, do hereby emphatically protest against the vacation of said Avenue, for the following reasons:-- 1.-- The avenue running as it does diagonally from the Bay to the Lake Union, instead of being a detriment, is in our opinion, a great public convenience as it affords the only direct route from the Bay to the Lake (as will be more readily seen by reference to the map of the City) and will, when graded, establish one of the finest drives in Seattle, The Avenue being eighty feet wide, of comparatively easy grade, and

Pet of J. W. Hall, et al, for street lights-corner of Ash & John sts. (not dated) (file #1-7)

JW Hall et al for St. Light cor. Ash & John Sts.

Allowed. J. N. Wallingford Geo W. Hall St. Lights

To the Honorable the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle.

Your Petitioners, beg leave respectfully to represent that they reside in the neighborhood of Ash, and John streets in said city, and that said neighborhood is thickly settled and that much travel takes place over the said streets, that there is a street lamp at the intersection of Depot and Ash streets which is the only lamp within several blocks of the point named. Your petitioners therefore request that a street lamp be placed at the corner of Ash and John streets which will be of great advantage to the public particularly to residents in that vicinity.

J. W. Hall L E Hixson Jno. Hixson M. Keating L A Wilmot A. Johnson J O Burns E Storrs C Teclersen L A Kinney S. F. Hall J. D. Erikson

J B Bange W X Wright F H Bangs T. J. South C. Brown John T Jenkins Con. Bieber Elisabeth Bieber August Engeland John N. Bettinger George Relland