City of Seattle Records

and by the service ofa one-inch-supply-pipe laid along Epler Place from said main, and wholly at the expence and cost of the owners of said residences. 4th that the capacity of said one-inch supply pipe is now and Always Has Been inadequate to meet the family needs of said residences; and that after eight years of use, the capacity it was once posessed of may now by materially diminished by interior corrosion. 5th that while we contribute our full just and equitable share to the City Treasurer for a full just and equitable water-service and supply, we are seriously inconvenienced, harrassed and harmed by the insufficiency and partialness of our present service and supply; and we pray your honorable body to direct and cause at least a Two Inch Main to be placed along Epler Place; -for the distance above indicated; for our relief and accomodation and the further service in the vacinity of others who may need. And your petitioners will every etc. Clayton Jerome Burns Wm P Harper Seattle Wash May 25th 1896