City of Seattle Records

C. B. PARCELLS Agent for DIEBOLD SAFE AND LOCK CO. Manafacturers of Safes Locks Bank and Safe Deposit Work

Jail work a specialty factory at Canton, Ohio

W. W. Clark, President. D. Tyler, Secretary and Treasurer. L.V. Bockius, Vice Prest. C. Diebold, Supt.

221 California ST San Francisco Cal. Sept 14th 1889

To the Mayor and Council of Seattle, W.T. Gentlemen The undersigned hereby proposes to build erect in place ready for occupying in the designated place in Seattle. Two steel jail cells and corridor in exact accordance with specifications and plans herewith submitted. The steel plates and bars used to be chrome 5 ply steel, the product of the Brooklyn NY Chrome Steel Co. the same to be guaranteed, drill file and saw proof, and subject to test. For the sum of Twenty two hundred and twenty five dollars $2225. Respectfully Diebold Safe and Lock Co of Canton Ohio

By CB Parcells Special Agent San Francisco Cal

C. B. PARCELLS Agent for DIEBOLD SAFE AND LOCK CO. Manafacturers of Safes Locks Bank and Safe Deposit Work

Jail work a specialty factory at Canton, Ohio

W. W. Clark, President. D. Tyler, Secretary and Treasurer. L.V. Bockius, Vice Prest. C. Diebold, Supt.

221 California ST San Francisco Cal. Sept 17th 1889

The Honorable Mayor and Council Seattle WT

Gentlemen I have just learned that the sizes of jail selected by you differ from those specified by me in the bid which I sent you on the 14th and that you desire cells etc made entirely of 3-8 inch steel. I there fore propose to build you two cells each seven high wide and deep with corridor fourteen feet long by five feet wide and seven feet high, made as per my specifications but substituting steel plates three eights of an inch thick, for those specified to be one fourth inch thick, for the sum of Twenty four hundred dollars, $2400. Or made the above size, but as specified by me in my bid of 14th inst Twenty one hundred dollars, $2100.

I have not been informed that a deposit of coin or certified check is required to accompany the bids, but will state that if such is the case, I will, if my bid and specifications are oth otherwise satisfactory, immediately upon notification of same and the amount required, telegraph same to you. Respectfully Yours C B Parcells special agt Diebold Safe and Lock Co Canton Ohio

You will please note that my specifications, already sent you call for all bar and lattice work to be of thre eights thick metal.

Diebold Safe and Lock Co Fire and Burglar Proof Jeweler, Skeleton and House Safes Canton, Ohio Peerless and Eagle Patent Combination Locks.

Steel and Iron Jail cells, Safety Deposit Boxes, Vault Doors, Steel and Iron Vault Linings.

We point with pride to our record of 25 years, We claim superiority in special Machinery and other advantages, use the best of materials employ only the best workmen and finish our work with taste.

None but first class work turned out.

From C B Parcells agency Diebold Safe and Lock Co 221 California Street San Francisco Cal

1889

Specifications and bid for jail etc

C W Ferris Esq City Clerk Seattle, W.T.