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Petition.

To the Honorable Common Council of the
City of Seattle;

Gentlemen:

Your petitioners, property owners,
and business men, whose property and business
is in that part of the City of Seattle, bounded
by King, Lane, Commercial and South Second
streets, would call your honorable body's
attention to the fact of the numerous recent
fires in the part of the city above described,
some of which have, no doubt, been of incendiary
origin, and feeling our own insecurity
in the imminent danger from fire,
by reason of the inadequate facilities for
extinguishing fires, as well as the danger
to the whole city, we would most respectfully
request your honorable body to purchase
at least 600 feet of hose and an
engine, either chemical or stationary,
to be located for use in this part of the
city; and also that your petitioners be permitted
to organize a volunteer fire company,
under the control and direction of the
Chief of the Fire Department of the city.

Your petitioners would further most respectfully
ask that the portion of commercial