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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

Seattle Wash 1889 To the Honerable Mayor and City Council of the City of Seattle We, the undersigned, residents and property holders along the streets herein-after named, respectfully petition your Honorable Body, that provision be made for the proper placing of sewers upon Fourth Street, between Vine and Willburn Streets (recently called Cedar Street), and on Willburn and Willow Streets to Mercer Street, and from thence to some propert out-let. And, also, for the placing of fire-hydrant at the junction of Willow and Depot Streets And your Petitioners further represent, that the District aforesaid is entirely without sewerage, and that want thereof threatens the health of the community. And your Petitioners will ever pray, etc. J A McAuslan Albert Shilton Thomas Webb D L Ballam G H Woodhouse R Byrne B A Anderson B F Bell Wm Dankel E Lockwood T H Foster Angus S Schone J T H Abell Fred Kelly A Crook L W Lovering P Pederson Karl C Wagenbach Con Buber Amos Hurst A L Kreider J L Sendell Tho Machlenbury Mrs M Mickel Per D

A Jackson, Chairman Superintendent of Public Works G N Alexander, Superintendent Streets & Sewers J W Van Brocklin, Superintendent Bridges, Buildings, & Wharves The City of Seattle George F Meacham, Secretary Board of Public Works Seattle, Washington Dec 10, 1894

To the Honorable City Council Seattle Washington Gentlemen :Referring to a Communication from the Board of Aldermen, dated Nov 30, 1894, regarding the repair of Albert and Howell Streets from Eighth Street to Mercer Street, the Board of Public Works desires to say, that having obtained from the Corporation Counsel an opinion to the effect that the Railroad Company operating a street car line on those streets, could be required to make the necessary repairs, a notice was served by order of the Board, upon Seattle Consolidated Street Railway Company, to put the streets in a good condition for travel. The reply of the Consolidated Company to the notice is herewith submitted, also the opinion of the Corporation Counsel referred to. The Board respectfully awaits such instruction as the City Council may be plaesed to make in the matter yours very truly, George F Meacham Secretary

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Seattle, Washington, November 14th 1902.

TO THE CITY OF SEATTLE AND TO THE CITY TREASURER OF SAID CITY:-

Comes now August C. Anderson, and tenders and pays under protest the sum of Eight hundred and forty four dollars and ninety-five cents ($844.95), being the amount assessed against the following described property owned by him, by the City of Seattle, for the construction of concrete sidewalks on both sides of Eastlake Avenue from Howell Street to Mercer Street, under Ordinance No. 7928, creating Local Improvement District No. 578, to wit: Lots Ten (10), Eleven (11), Twelve (12), Fifteen (15), Sixteen (16), Seventeen (17) and Eighteen (18), Anderson's Supplemental Plat of Block Twenty (20), Pontius Addition, and Lots Eleven (11) and Twelve (12), Block Twenty-one (21), Pontius Addition to the City of Seattle. In paying said amount to the city, said August C. Anderson, protests that he is not liable to pay the same and should not be required to pay the same, for the reason that the City of Seattle and the contractor having charge of said work, has not done said work in accordance with the previsions of the contract therefor; and has failed to construct retaining walls in front of said property to retain the earth used in making the fill in front of said property upon which said sidewalk has been constructed, and has allowed the loose earth from said fill to slide over and project upon said property to a distance of several feet to the material injury and damage of said property, and has thrown upon said property a large quantity of refuse lumber and other debris from the street in front of said property, likewise to the material injury and damage of said property. That the damage aforesaid done to the said property is in excess of the amount assessed against said property for said