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nearly as possible the residence portion from the bus-
iness district and that these limits when established
be strictly adhered. Your attention is called to the question
of providing additional sewerage facilities, especially
in the vicinity of Lake Union. I would recommend that
a committe be appointed by the Council to confer with
a committee of an equal number of citizens from the
neighborhood of Lake Union and that said committee
after fully investigatin the subject report to the Council
whether the sewerage from that portion of the City can
be disposed of without using Lake Union for that
purpose. As this is an important matter to the people
directly interested. I reommend that it receive
immediate attention. In view of the fact that the
new charter provides for the sale of street franchises
I am of the opinion that is will be for the best
interest of the city to refrain from granting any
franchises until the new charter shall have been
submitted to a vote of the people. The city has
already lost a large sun on money that it was justly
entitled to by failing to require a consideratin for
the great number of valuable franhises already granted.
In order to secure if possible a satisfactory as-
justment of matters connected with railroad avenue,
I would ecommend that the council appoint a
committee to act with one to be elected by the Chamber
of Commerce and that said committee be requested
to secure definate proposition from each of the raods
interested and also to recommend what in the judge-
mant of said committee woudl be the best plan fror
the council to adopt in order to advance the best
intersts of the city while acting legally and fairly
with the right of all interested raods.
I believe that it would be a good plan and
one that would have a tendency to keep the credit
of the city at a high standard to never allow the ex-
penditures to reachthe amount permitted by the or-
ganis act. We can in this way preserve a margin with
which to meet any unforseen contingency that may
arise inthe future. Some plan should be speedily
devised to obviate the necessity of paying laborers
in depreciated City Scrip, the discount on which
reduces the wages of a class of men who are not
financially able to bear the reduction
The laborer is worthy of his time and ought
to be paid in cash, or its euqivalent.