City of Seattle Records

PETITION OF D C Townsend et al for Opening 11th & Howell Streets

By Common Council

FILED Feb 8 1884

Petition Dated Jan 28th 1884

To the honorable Mayor and City Council of the city of Seattle W T We the undersigned citizens and freeholders of the City of Seattle hereby respectfully request and pray your honorable body to cause to be opened for the travel of teams the following parts of streets Viz: that part of Eleventh Street running from Stewart Street to Howell Street Also Howell Street from Eleventh Street to Tenth Street Said Streets being Situated in that part of Seattle known as the second Addition of the heirs of Sarah A Bell.

D C Townsend John W Chew W D Kozcorsm F Wilhelm O W Lynch W Latka C E Plough A Graham Jas Alexander Samuel Scoon George F Smith J A Townsend H Smith C W Smith

To the Mayor And Common Council of the City of Seattle We the undersigned property holders on Jackson Street in the City of Seattle ask your Honorable Body to place a sewer in Jackson Street from eleventh Street to tide water at fifth street. The property holders on said street have no means of sewage whatever - and the lots and street are full of sess pools which we consider very bad for the Health of the inhabitants on said Street and city likewise - at the present time several new dwellings are being erected and no means of sewerage S.S. Miller F Mc Ginnis W.H. Morris John Kingston A.H. Alexander J.M. Frink Neary E. S. Spaulding Ida A. Keene Henry Sheahan

991935

To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle:

GENTLEMEN: Your Committee on Sewer's and Drainage to whom was referred Petition of A.S. Miller and others for a Sewer on Jackson Street from Eleventh Street to tide water at Fifth Street beg to report that the Petition be granted and that Sewer be put in as soon as possible as said locality is in a very unhealthy condition from overflowing cess pools and other nuisances

Terence O'Brien, Chairman. Sewer's and Drainage Committee Dated, June 25th 1889

70 JOURNAL OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE purpose for the next fiscal year, the several funds, and that said committee submit an ordinance providing for the requisite tax levy. Said committee is also instructed to report on the matter of the extension of the Gas Limits. to be ready friday. Ordered that the Council now stand adjournded until May 17th, 1882. Attest E S Osborne, Clerk Approved Mayor Be it remembered that on this the 16th day of May 1882, The Common Council of the City of Seattle meets in it's Council Chamber as a Board of Equalization pursuant to adjournment of May 15th, 1882. Present, His Honor, the Mayor, L. P. Smith and Councilmen Thos Clancy, John Colllins, Wm. A. Jennings, John Keenan, and Chas McDonald. Thereupon the Board proceeds with the equalization of the assessment roll pending which an adjournment is ordered until May 17th, 1882 at 7:00 o'clock p.m. Attest: E S Osborne, Clerk Approved L. P. Smith, Mayor Be it remembered that on this the 17th day of May, 1882, the Common Council of the City of Seattle meets in it's Council Chamber pusuant to adjournment of May 16th, 1882. Present His Honor, the Mayor, L. P. Smith and Councilmen Thomas Clancy, John Collins, Wm. A. Jennings, John Keenan and Charles McDonald. Thereupon the following proceedings are had. The Street committee report favorably on the petition of J. A. Wirth and others praying for the construction of a sidewalk from the corner of Eighth and Pine Streets, thence along the north side of Pine Street to Ninth Street, thence along the west side of Ninth Street to Stewart Street, thence along the north side of Stewart Street to Tenth Street, thence along the west side of Tenth Street to Virginia Street, thence along the North side of Virginia Street to Eleventh Street, said