City of Seattle Records

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.