City of Seattle Records

Seattle, Wash.,July,16th, 1890. To the Mayor and City Council of the City of Seattle. Gentlemen:I earnestly, petition your Honorable Body, to grant me the privilege of erecting a Street Clock in front on my place of business, at 604 Front Street. The said Clock to stand on an Iron Piller, 15 feet high, 14 inches square at the base, and to stand on the Edge of the side-walk, near the Curb. the siad Clock to cost not less that $600.00 to be a reliable Time-keeper, and an ornament to the City. J K Basye. We, the undersigned Merchants doing business on Front Street, Seattle, cordially endorse the proposition of Mr Basye, regarding the same, as an ornament and a public necessity, as an instrument to keep correct time. signed. Toklas Singerman & Co Dexter Horton & Co Bks Doheny & Marum Dunock & Cheasty C Abraham & Pen City of Paris The Goldstein Hat Co. L Turner Cashier W A Hasbrouck & Co H Hershberg & Co Merchants Nal Bank Gordon & Cameranes Kline & Roseberg G M Boyd & Co P Sound Natl Bank Hareh & Hall Lowman & Hanford S P Co R A Culligan R M Crawford Robert B Wilson Latour & Co Harris & Dickman Wm Dimsbruck Merchants Natl Bank Hyams Pauson & Co T H Dempsey Journal Publishing Co Ehiland Cross & Co Post Intelligencer Pub Co