City of Seattle Records

Seattle, Wash.,July,16th, 1890. To the Mayor and City Council of the City of Seattle. Gentlemen:I earnestly, petition your Honorable Body, to grant me the privilege of erecting a Street Clock in front on my place of business, at 604 Front Street. The said Clock to stand on an Iron Piller, 15 feet high, 14 inches square at the base, and to stand on the Edge of the side-walk, near the Curb. the siad Clock to cost not less that $600.00 to be a reliable Time-keeper, and an ornament to the City. J K Basye. We, the undersigned Merchants doing business on Front Street, Seattle, cordially endorse the proposition of Mr Basye, regarding the same, as an ornament and a public necessity, as an instrument to keep correct time. signed. Toklas Singerman & Co Dexter Horton & Co Bks Doheny & Marum Dunock & Cheasty C Abraham & Pen City of Paris The Goldstein Hat Co. L Turner Cashier W A Hasbrouck & Co H Hershberg & Co Merchants Nal Bank Gordon & Cameranes Kline & Roseberg G M Boyd & Co P Sound Natl Bank Hareh & Hall Lowman & Hanford S P Co R A Culligan R M Crawford Robert B Wilson Latour & Co Harris & Dickman Wm Dimsbruck Merchants Natl Bank Hyams Pauson & Co T H Dempsey Journal Publishing Co Ehiland Cross & Co Post Intelligencer Pub Co

227 COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SEATTLE Jul 15 1887 Remonstrance of Fred Gasch and others against grading Madison Street extension. Read and Referred to Street Committee. Petition of H H McDonald for permissionto use powder in clearing land within the City Limits, read and on motion granted. Petition of Kline & Roseberg for permission to place signs on the Grant Street Bridge under the direction of the Street Commissioner, read and on motion granted. communication from the City Surveyor calling the attention of the Council to the condition of the bridge on Jefferson Street between Fourth Street and Fifth St and reporting the same in an unsafe condition is read and referred to the Street Committee. Report of City Jailor for month of June is referred to Finance Committee. Committee Reports Rec'd From Finance Committee rejecting petition of W H Hughes asking that certain taxes be refunded to Wm Cochrane. adopted. From same Committee rejecting petition of Western Union Telegraph Co for the refunding of certain taxes. adopted. Sidewalks Condemned, Communication received from the Street Committee recommending that the following sidewalks be condemned and new sidewalks ordered constructed: First, South Side of Mill Street, commencing at south west corner of Commercial Street & Mill Street thence west, sixty four (64) feet. Second, on the West Side of Commercial Street, Commencing at the north west corner of Jackson and Com-