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325 Pike Street,
Seattle, Wash. July 6th 1891
To the Honorable the City Council
of the City of Seattle,
Gentlemen:
I respectfully
petition your Honorable Body to
grant to me a Licence to conduct a
retail Liquor business at the above
address, which is at the the Southwest
corner of Pike and 4th Streets, Seattle.
I have been at great expense in
fitting and furnishing the place and
am now conducting it as a first class
Billiard room, but after several months
trial find that it does not pay
expenses, as such, and it cannot be
made to do so, unless I am given a
retail saloon liquor license. This
place is on one of our principal bus-
iness streets and if granted the licence
prayed for, I will guarantee that it
will be conducted in a quiet, orderly
and becoming manner, so that no offence
will be given to neighboring residents or
business people, but if such licence be
not granted I shall be obliged to close it
and go out of business, at great loss.
Yours respectfully, Willis H. Howard