City of Seattle Records

Office of City Engineer, Seattle, Washington, May 9th, 1894.

List of names of property owners on Front Street between Union Street and Yesler Avenue, Seattle, Washington. -----

West half of Block 1, A. A. Denny's Second Addition. 6 Lots, A. A. Denny, owner. -----

West half of Block 6, A. A. Denny's Second Addition,

L. Diller, Mrs. Knight, (Judge Greene Att'y), Jacob Levy, Estate of Guy C. Phinney, Young & Jacobson -----

West half of Block 13, Boren's Addition,

Amos Brown, owner, -----

West half of Block 12, Boren's Addition,

R. Holyoke, F. E. Sander, L. H. Griffith, M. R. Maddock, -----

West half of Block 9, Boren's Addition,

Gatzert and Schwabacher Bros, Geo. F. Frye, -----

West half of Block 8, Boren's Addition,

Estate of Guy C. Phinney, Harms and Dickman, Sam'l Kenney, -----

West half of Block 5, Boren's Addition,

M. & K. Gottstein, John Sullivan, Christ. Scheurman, -----

West half Block 4, Boren's Addition,

H. L. Yesler Estate, J. D. Lowman, Emerson, (see L. C. Gilman), -----

Block 1, Boren's Addition,

John Collins, -----

East half of Block "E", Denny's 4th Addition,

A. A. Denny, J. J. Post, J. W. Edwards, -----

347 F

Petition For

Second Crossing

For

Crossing on at

Second Street Pine Street

Sep 4 1885

208 JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE Feb2/83 in a/c of Front Street sidewalk are laid on the table And now His Honor the Mayor H G Struve returns and proceeds to act as Mayor in Place of Councilman John Collins. New Business And now the Plans & Specification for Cherry Street Sidewalk under Ordinance 354 are presented & after due examination the same are approved & Ordered filed. And now the Plans & Specfications for Columbia Street sidewalk under Ordinance No 354 are presented & after due examination the same are approved & ordered filed And now His Honor the Mayor announced that from and after Monday February 5, 1883 he will be absent from the City for a time. Whereupon the Council proceeds to elect an Acting Mayor to serve during such absence. Whereupon John Collins is elected to the position of acting Mayor to serve during such absence. Ordered that a sidewalk to be constructed on both sides of Marion Street from the west side of the alley between Front and Second to the east side of 3rd streets & also on the south side of said Marion Street from the east side of 3rd to the West side of the alley between 3rd & 4th Streets in favor of said order Collins, Cosper, Clancy, Gasch, McDonald, Manning. Against said Order none. Ordered that the rate of assessment inorder to provide funds to pay for the sidewalk constructed on Union Street Under Ordinance No 324 be & is hereby fixed inthe sum of 19 mills. on the dollar. Ordered that the rate of assessment on order to provide funds to pay for the sidewalk constructed on Washington Street under Ordinance No 236 be & is hereby fixed in to sum of 4&7/10 mills on the dollar Ordinances Rec'd

H H Young D McKeon Office of Young & McKeon Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting Roofing and General Jobbing 721 Front Street Seattle W T Mar 1st, 1884 To the Mayor & Common Council of the City of Seattle report of Fire Warden for the month of February one fire on Washington Street Between Second Street & Third Street close to the Fire Department 75 Ft 3/4" hose I would recommend that some action be takin in regard to fire slips as the one at the foot of Columbia Streetis of no use except at High tide. Also that the foot of Columbia St be cleared of all buildings. Yours Resp H H Young Fire Warden City of Seattle

211 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE Jun 17 1887 necessary therefore with his objections to said Ordinance in writing as follows viz: To the Common Council of the City of Seattle. Gentlemen: On June 13th 1887 at a regular meeting you passed an ordinance entitled "An Ordinance to widen, extend, and establish Second Street in the City of Seattle W T , and to provide for the condemnation of real estate necessary therefor". Under the above ordinance Second Street is widened 24 feet of 12 feet in width from Depot Street to Mill Street. From Mill Street theordinance provides Second Street shall be extended directly continuous of and parallel of Second Street to a point near Plummer Street on Grant Street, the same width of 90 feet. This would undoubtedly present a fine appearance and be of great importance from a business stand point, but numerous objection are urged against the ordinance. The widening of Second Street from Depot Street to Mill Street is not very expensive and the burden would be comparatively light; and be worth a great deal more than the outlay. The continuation and extension of Second Street diagonally across business blocks, and valuable properties and improvements is a very expensive affair and it is a serious question whether the advantages derived from the Street being so extended would at all compare with the enormous expense. Second Street when widened as provided in the Ordinance to Mill may be made continuous with South Third Street by a condemning only a small piece of property at a conparative small expense, and without any destruction fo business property othere than a little corner Second amd Third Streets may this be run into one and widen South Third Street to 90 feet to say King St run from King Street to the aforsaid point in Grant St by going either by way of established streets or else diagonally across blocks and condemn the necessary