City of Seattle Records

Settle, August 18th 1890

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

Gentlemen, The undersigned propertyowners, respectfully ask your honorable body to order the construction of a sewer on Cedar street, commencing at the foot of Cedar Street, up to fourth street. There are a number of buildings on both sides of the street, among them such buildings as the Brawley-Block on the N.W. Corner of Front and Cedar a four storey building 60 x 80 containing a number of Water-closets and sinks and which building for the lack of a sewer in Cedar street has been the cause of a nuisance for several blocks on its neighborhood and as these other buildings will be erected in the near