City of Seattle Records

Seattle Wash Feby 1891 To the Honorable Board of Public works of the city of Seattle Washington The undersigned, your petitioners, respectfully call your attention to the wretched condition of the ally between second and third streets and bounded by Marion and Columbia Streets in this City: also this alley is used continually as a main road on which all mails for the lower sound and Alaska are transported also the heavy draying of two of the daily papers of this city is done through a portion of this said alley as is other considerable business done. Your petitioners respectfully request that this alley be graded and planked to conform to the grade of the aforementioned Columbia and Marion Streets and they will ever praying. A. M. Brookes Postmaster Telegraph Publishing Co J H Calvert & Co Lowman Hanford S Pbling Post Intelligencer Publishing Co G Reliulander B F Shaubut Manager Seattle Transfer Co Chas Armstrong The Press Times Pubhshg Co of Seattle

641 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE Nov 2 1888 on Kentucky, Harrison, Temperance, Roy, Light and Bluff Streets, read and granted. Petition of Chester Cleary for permission to build addition in rear of his store on East side of Front Street read and on motion tabled. Petition of Geo Kinnear for permission to lay sidewalks on Roy, Light, and Banner Streets, read and granted. the work to be done under the supervision of the City Surveyor. Petition of Puget Sound Navigation Company for the opening of Pine Street in South Seattle West to the City limits, read and granted. Petition of Chas Armstrong and others for the planking of Main and South Second Street, read and referred to the Street Comittee with power to act. Petition of O N Morse & others for permission to raise the sidewalk around the Arlington House ten inches above the grade read and on motion tables and Mr Morse be notified to lower his sidewalk to grade. Petition A W Engle and others for change of grade on Tenth Street at Jefferson Street read and granted. Petition of J L Kehaley and others for opening alley through Block 47 Terry's 1st Addn read and referred to Street Com. Petition of Toklas and Singerman and others for planking alley in Block "M" Terry's 3rd Addn read and referred to Street Committe. Petition of the Pacific Coast Detective Agency for