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To the Honorable the Mayor and Common
Council of the City of Seattle
Gentlemen!--
Whereas, There was presented to your
honorable body on Jan. 24th 1893, a
petition praying that Lake Avenue be
vacated from John Street to Mercer
Street, which petition alleges as a
reason for said vacation that Lake
Avenue was diagonally to the streets
already laid out in that district.
Now, Therefore, we, the undersigned
owners of property abutting on and
adjacent to Lake Avenue, do hereby
emphatically protest against the
vacation of said Avenue, for the
following reasons:--
1.-- The avenue running as it
does diagonally from the Bay to the
Lake Union, instead of being a detriment,
is in our opinion, a great public con-
venience as it affords the only direct
route from the Bay to the Lake (as will
be more readily seen by reference to the
map of the City) and will, when graded,
establish one of the finest drives in
Seattle, The Avenue being eighty feet
wide, of comparatively easy grade, and