City of Seattle Records

July 6th/91 88

Petition of Willis H. Howard for a Retail liquor license at 325 Pike Street corner 4th Street. Seattle.

Otto Kanke S. Aronson N. St Martin I. A. LeBeau Wm Vann E. L. Smith Herman F. Stiller A. W. Fisk S. B Wright

325 Pike Street, Seattle, Wash. July 6th 1891 To the Honorable the City Council of the City of Seattle, Gentlemen: I respectfully petition your Honorable Body to grant to me a Licence to conduct a retail Liquor business at the above address, which is at the the Southwest corner of Pike and 4th Streets, Seattle. I have been at great expense in fitting and furnishing the place and am now conducting it as a first class Billiard room, but after several months trial find that it does not pay expenses, as such, and it cannot be made to do so, unless I am given a retail saloon liquor license. This place is on one of our principal business streets and if granted the licence prayed for, I will guarantee that it will be conducted in a quiet, orderly and becoming manner, so that no offence will be given to neighboring residents or business people, but if such licence be not granted I shall be obliged to close it and go out of business, at great loss. Yours respectfully, Willis H. Howard