City of Seattle Records

cars. We have no means, many of us, of conveying coal and fuel into our wood houses, nor groceries into our dwelling houses. The district of the City is thickly populated with expensive buildings, with a contented, law abiding, industrious people. To thus deprive these people, who have all there years borne with the inconvenience now bearable no longer, whohave said their taxes unmurmuringly and without complaint just because of the simple fact, that to open this street will cost four of five thousand dollars, seems to us to be an act of gross injustice. We are informed that there is now a proposition before your honorable body to condemn certain property and open three cross streets instead of Main Street aforesaid. This propostition does not remedy the wrong suffered by your petitioners. This wrong can only be remedied by opening up Main Street as established and laid out by the Ordinance herein before referred to. Your petitioners, therefore, earnestly urge that you proceedto open up said Street, according to the ordianance aforesiad. We desire to knkow as soon as possible whether or not this large population is to have redress from the hands of the legl representatives of the City or whether we are to be left entirely at the mercy of obstructionists and schemers, and your petitioners will ever pray. L B Wood Martin Long B T Smith [?] Emil Anderson R Albin A M Ciel W H Shaffer A C Dhalman W W Long Mrs Mary Deley