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SEP 12 1890 82 E B Maple et al to have contructed a wooden pile bridge as a branch on extension of Grant St Bridge

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TO THE HONORABLE, THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE DITY OF SEATTLE, STATE OF WASHINGTON

Your Petitioners, being residents and property holders of the city of Seattle and White River Valley, earnestly and respectfully petition your Hon.Body to have constructed a wooden pile bridge as a branch or extension of the Grant Street Bridge, which shall be erected as nearly as practicable along the following proposed route. Commencing at a point where Hanford Street intersects Grant Street on West side of the Grant Street Bridge so as to connect the branch with said Bridge, and thence Westerly on and along Hanford Street the full width thereof to the West side of Colfax Street and thence changing its course South on and along Colfax Street the full width thereof to a suitable termination at or near Court Street in South Seattle on the Southerly shore of Elliot Bay. Your Petitioners further petition your Hon.Body to plank Colfax Street from the termination of said Bridge on Colfax Street to the South boundary line of the City limits. Your petitioners further represent that a vast amount of travel and traffic passes over Grant Street Bridge and that near the South and thereof. Railway trains are constantly crossing the same at a point where the view is partially obstructed. That teams passing through the railway crossing being run over by passing trains of frightened thereby and

colliding with each other. That in consequence numerous accidents have occurred, resulting in loss of life and destruction of property. That as said Grant Street Bridge is now being repaired and as such proposed Branch Bridge will, if constructed, be some distance from the Railroad tracks and will be entirely free from railroad crossings, all such dangers will be avoided and such accidents averted. That such bridge is a public necessity and benefit and should receive immediate consideration and Your Petitioners will ever pray for the same.

NAMES. E.B. Maple Michael 0'Bryan Reed W. Newell of Newellman Co. J.W. Thornton Henry Van Asselt Ward & Brown James Cummings L.J. Stuart M Dickinson John Gourley F Duclo Charles P. Reitze Chas. A. Craig W.W. White S.D. Wharton G Kirschner Frank Paul C.C. Coleman F McNutt Chas. H Frye Geo W Sunlay Chas Bruhn Frank Frye Seattle Transfer Co. B.B. Allen Dan E Brooks J.E. Whitworth

C.H. Merrick W.W. Wardell Frank Card H.H. Harris Alex Prentiss Samuel Sloane Joseph Quinn P. Duban T.E. Harris F. C. Ward John Rines Clement Johnson J.W. Maple J.C. Gard J.M. Wilson V. Furst H. Graf L.G. Retekman C.W. Penn Wm Elliott G.G. Wards W Pavanaugh W.J. Kinnear J.W. McCallister Hurd & Howland E Boden M. Hoyt A.C. Parsons James McKinley George Kinner W.L. Haskell B. Gritner E. Heyman T.R. Hill E.E. Craven L.S. Card