City of Seattle Records

The Street Committee report that they have considered the application of S L Bowman for a street-railway franchise, made to the city council on the 27thof June; that they are opposed to the granting of any franchise for a street railway along Weller Street at prosent, while questions as to the grade of that street and the constructionof the roadway thereof are unsettled; but that Mr. Bowman has expressed to yout committee his willingness to m odify his application so as to ask for the franchise desired by him over the following route: Beginning on Washington Street at the west line of the sidewalk on the east side of Railroad Avenue; running thence east along Washington Street to the line of Sixteenth Street in Sander's Supplemental Plat projected northward; thence south through private property along said line of said Sixteenth Street projected northward, to and across Jackson Street; thence in an easterly, southeasterly or southerly direction through private property to Twenty Fifth Street in Sander's Supplemental Plat; thence south along said Twenty Fifth Street to State Street; thence east along State Street to the line of Twenty Fourth Street in the plat of Central Seattle projected northward; thence south along the line of said Twenty Fourth Street projected northward, to Grand Street; thence east along Grand Street to Twenty Fifth Street in said plat of Central Seattle; thence south along said Twenty Fifth Street to Walker Street; and thence in an easterly, southeasterly or southerly dierction , by the most practicable route, through private propety and along or across any street or streets necssary or desirable to be included in such route, to the south boundry line of the City of Seattle. And your committee respectfully report in favor of granting to said S L Bowman a franchise, with porper conditions and restrictions, for the constructions and operationofa street railway along the route above designated. July 2 1890 T E Jones Chairman Streets F A Twitchell Harry White