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July 20/89 27 Petition of Remonstrance against Extending Fire Limits A S Miller et al

F & W Fire Filed July 20 1889 Clerk

Remonstrance To the mayor and Common Council of Seattle Being interested in 57 feet on 3rd Street I desire to protest against the present extension of the Fire Limits First because there is an immediate demand for business houses and the people on 3rd Street are not able to build brick and even if there were brick buildings could not well be erected and completed before the rainy season. Again there are many now in tents who will be obliged to close their business on the approach of wet-weather to avoid injury to their stocks. Second if the proposed limits are adopted the City said extension is premature and should not be made until Front and Second Streets have been built up with Brick when there will be time enough for said extesion the whole thing looks like an effort on the part of those in the burnt district to keep business off from 3rd Street so that they may get much higher rents than they otherwise could. Roswell Scott agent

A Shaw And your petitioners will ever pray

A S Miller Thos Lyle J W Maryott Mrs L Lifesky Dexter Horton intrested in 440 ft on 3rd Walter Harmon Hamun Schmitz John Webster M L Cavanaugh F M Guye E W P Guye Miss Shannon Simon Davis Mr Mrs Meydenbaur O C Shorey Rodney Knight Ellen Brannen L M Graves Wm Meydenbaur Mrs Longfellow per B R Brierly A A Denny Wm Campbell Roswell Scott J H Sanderson Chas E Plimpton J F Byrne R C Graves Amos Brown agent for J C Ellis D B Jackson Chas Prosch

Remonstrance To the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle We the undersigned property holders on third Street ask your honorable body not to extend the fire limits as proposed by a very few of the larger property holders in the burned District if our people who have been burned out Cannot have the priveledged of building wooden buildings on 3rd St they will most certainly have to leave the City as they are not able to build brick and can not do business in tents in the coming winter. are all two years Hence will do to extend the fire limits over most is give poor people a shove and your petitioners will ever pray A S Miller Thos Lyle J W Maryott Mrs L Lifesky Dexter Horton interested in 440 ft on 3rd Walter Harmon Hamun Schmitz John Webster M L Cavanaugh F M Guye E W P Guye Miss Shannon Simon Davis Mr Mrs Meydenbaur O C Shorey Rodney Knight