City of Seattle Records

to the Honorable, The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle Gentlemen:- The undersigned tax-payers of the City of Seattle, respectfully submit to the consideration of your honorable body, the following :--That Front Street between Pike and Blanchard Streets, be re-graded in such a manner as to do away with the heavy grade, and the respective hill now existing. The expenses of re-grading said street inculding damages to abutting property, to be born by the City of Seattle. The great benefit to be derived from said improvements to the city of Seattle at large is so apparent that we deem any argument in its favor unneccessary. Wm Voigt W H T Bareds Martin Pauf S S Roan H W Whiler W Bareds W A Thompson druggist Duncan Shaw G L Manning Henry Buesing R G Johnson Fred Christemen Alfred Christeman C S Benjamin C E Sherwin Conner Bros Grocers Morgan & Finlay Abe Morgan F Truchit A Sharpe A D Ferguson G S McNeely C E Roland W B Deau J S Peterson Clem Branham Ida E Schaar E C Webber

To the Hon Mayor Board of Aldermen and House of Delegates of the City of Seattle Gentlemen:- The undersigned citizens and tax-payers of theCity of Seattle respectfully represent: that there is urgent need of re-grading Front Street from Pike Street to Blanchard Street, and in view of the fact that the City is preparing to lay a water main in said Front Street, your petitioners respectfully ask your Hon Body to order said Front Street regraded from Pike Street to Blanchard Street, before said water pipe is laid, The expense of re-grading said Front Street, including dmage to abutting property, to be borne by the City of Seattle. The benefits to be derived from said improvements to the City at large, we deem suffiicient to justify the expenditure. Names D T Denny John B Denny S S Rowe Alonzo Hull W H Mitchell A E Losey F Plessy Christian Ludwig {Northwestern Cigar Co.]] S Frai L Elliott A Howe E Mesner D L McCowan W J Bowen E T Hollingsworth J F Lord M Thompson Duncan Shaw P H Drake Marvin Dingman F O Nickerson T B Elder R Sartori & Co A Haycock R M Creswell Conner Bros. R B Williams]] Morgan & Finlay H E Kelsey W G Biscoff Chas E Dyer F B Etting H W Hawes August Peterson Edward Carroll Collins Bros