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Remonstrance
To the mayor and Common Council of Seattle
Being interested in 57 feet on 3rd Street
I desire to protest against the present extension of
the Fire Limits First because there is an immediate
demand for business houses and the people on 3rd
Street are not able to build brick and even if there
were brick buildings could not well be erected and completed
before the rainy season. Again there are many now in
tents who will be obliged to close their business on
the approach of wet-weather to avoid injury to their
stocks. Second if the proposed limits are adopted
the City said extension is premature and should
not be made until Front and Second Streets have
been built up with Brick when there will be time
enough for said extesion the whole thing looks
like an effort on the part of those in the burnt
district to keep business off from 3rd Street so that
they may get much higher rents than they otherwise
could. Roswell Scott agent