6

TO the Honorable, the City Council of the city of Seattle;-

The petition of the undersigned,
respectfully represents unto your honorable body that they are citizens,
property owners and tax payers of said city of Seattle; that they are
owners of and interested in property located in the district or lo-
cality usually known as Beacon Hill, in said city; that said property
is approached by 14th. Street, leading South from Jackson Street and
that said thoroughfare of 14th. Street is the only natural and prac-
tical way of reaching said property by teams or otherwise; that
in fact said route over 14th. Street is the only way that said section
known as Beacon Hill can be reached from the central part of the
city of Seattle, and then only in the dry season or when said street
is in good repair.

Your petitioners further represent unto your honorable body that
said 14th. Street, commencing at its intersection of Lane Street and
continuing South for about a block and a half, is out of repair and
is in fact in very bad condition, almost impassable in the dry
season of the year; that your petitioners are informed and believe
that said street between the points mentioned was at one time graded
up to the city datum, but by reason of the continued, long, wet
season of the winter of 1890-91 a large portion of the filling and
garding [sic] was carried out of the street proper and down the hill to
the East of said street, thereby making it almost impassable for
teams at the best season of the year.

Your petitioners further represent that during the present
season a large number of residences have been and are being built
in the section of the city referred to and many persons and families
have become and are about to become residents thereof and will be