City of Seattle Records

Seattle, Wash. May 5th 1890.

To the Hon. Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle.

Gentlemen:

We, the undersigned, property owners along the line of Rollin Street, in the City of Seattle, would respectfully remonstrate against the granting of petition of Jacob Furth et al. for a franchise to locate, construct and maintain and operate a line of railway in along and upon Rollin Street, for the reason that we are not satisfied as to whether or not said Jacob Furth et al. will furnish to the public satisfactory railway facilities etc. And we would petition your Honorable Body to grant the prayer of the petition heretofore presented to your honorable Body by Luther H. Griffith to locate construct and operate a line

Seattle, Wash. May 19th 1891.

To the Honorable Mayor, House of Delegates and Board of Aldermen of the City of Seattle.

We, your undersigned petitioners, citizens and taxpayers of said City of Seattle, residing on the East and North shores of Lake Union, respectfully represent as follows, to-wit:-

That the aforementioned districts are being rapidly improved and settled, and that as yet there have been no streets opened except by private parties: that the main streets and avenues of travel along and around the East shore of said Lake Union and to Latona and Brooklyn and the adjacent precincts are Lake Avenue, running through Doyle's, Hilton's and Frances' Additions, Yellow and Green Streets in Green's and the Denny-Fuhrman Additions: that between the North end of Lake Avenue and said Yellow street there are two small strips of land owned by Samuel B. Carr and W. Perry Smith, respectively, neither of whom have platted their said lands or dedicated to the public for its use any of said lands as streets, but, to the contrary, have refused and still refuse to open or allow to be opened a street or streets across said lands. That it is necessary for our use and for the use of the public generally that the street be opened across said lands between the aforementioned points.

Where, your petitioners pray that your Honorable Body order a strip of land, not less than sixty (60) feet in width, condemned for the use and purposes of a public street across said pieces or parcels of land, owned by the said Samuel B. Carr and W. Perry Smith, and that said street be located parallel to, and including the line of The Rainier Power and Railway Company's Right of Way or roadbed as the same is now located, and graded across the said tracts aforesaid, and your petitioners will ever pray.

Seattle, November 28th 1889

To theHonorable mayor and City Council of the City of Seattle. Gentleman! Your petitioners, resident and property owners along Front street from Pine street to Battery street respectfully petition your Honorable body to cause the planking of the west side of Front street from Pine street to Battery street.

Wm Ritterhoff Gordon T Bower Joseph Metzger Comer Bros W B Deantleo M A Angeline Dyer & Wilkerson H H Hill Frank S. Davis WW Swank C.F. Eggent Rowe Stone & Carr G C Lehan

2 order to kill out the growth, leaving the ground work for the last. It should also be reported, that the native woods, trees and shrubs, selected and retained as neucleus to the future ornamentation of the Park, was by nature very favorable, so that even now, inits most raw condition, the landscape development is quite effective and bids results still more attractive in genuine Park scenery. On the day, previous to the departure of your superintendent, he received a communication (in French) from Monseur De Villmoran, stating that he not only had secured official recognition for the City of Seattle for special exchanges of rare plants and seeds from his own, the French governmental gardens and the Arnold Arboretum, Mass. but had also secured the same from the Royal Kyew Gardens of England. It is therefore, with no little satisfaction, reported to your Honorable Board, that through his trip to Mount Rainier entailed a large personal expense, and was devoted to the producing of as large results, as so limited time, upon as large as area of territory permitted, especially where there still remained large areas of snow and consequent immature vegetation, the collection consists of a large and quite complete assortment of specimens in leaf and bloom which are now under treatment for preservation and can not be distribute beside some 40 kinds of choice varieties with mature seeds. It is urged, that the City of Seattle should make as large and complete a collection of her native tree - shrub - and - plant - seeds, as can be made possible for the contribution to these noted government institutions shall be of sufficient amount to deserve valuable recognition abroad.

To the Honorable Board of Aldermen and House of Delagates of the City of Seattle:- Gentlemen:- We the undersigned taxpayers, residing and doing business on and in the vacinity of Depot St. most respectfully rpquest your Honorable bodies to order an Arc light placed at the corner of Depot and Willow Sts. as recommended and granted some time ago by the late Common Council of said City of Seattle, and your petitioners will every pray. A E Guy & Co Geo T Hendrei Albert Wilhm J A McAuslan E W Tryes N Ericksen B A Anderson F Ora Nickel W J Dobbie R A Wheli Wm McDellem Thompson Booth Edmond & James C W Hawes O J Hadsit S M Newman G A Paich H F Smithson T Washburn Thomas Douley C H Lilly Jas E Crichton J W Putnam Shalz Cuboch & Koch William Allan G W Seymons H C Green L B Henderson H C Thompson A M Sterem W W Casper John Nestor Geo O Dodge D R Judkins