City of Seattle Records

To the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle:- Your petitioner, S L Bowman, a resident of the city of Seattle, respectfully petitions your honorable body to enact an ordinance granting to your petitioner and his assigns a franchise to build and operate a line of street railway in the city of Seattle, beginning at or near the corner of Yesler Avenue and South Second Street, thence southand east along south Second, Jackson, South Third and Weller Streets to the east line of the Syndicate Addition, thence southeasterly to the south boundry line of the city, which proposed route is more particularly designated in a draft herewith submitted of such an ordinance to that end as will be satisfactory to your petitioner; subject to such alterations of said proposed ordinance and ot the route therein designated, if any, as may appear suitable to your honorable body and as may be agreed upon between your honorable body and the undersigned. All which is respectfully submitted. Dated, June 27, 1890 S L Bowman