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Seattle, Wash. May 19th 1891.

To the Honorable Mayor, House of Delegates and Board of Aldermen
of the City of Seattle.

We, your undersigned petitioners, citizens and taxpayers of
said City of Seattle, residing on the East and North shores of Lake
Union, respectfully represent as follows, to-wit:-

That the aforementioned districts are being rapidly improved
and settled, and that as yet there have been no streets opened except
by private parties: that the main streets and avenues of travel along
and around the East shore of said Lake Union and to Latona and Brooklyn
and the adjacent precincts are Lake Avenue, running through Doyle's,
Hilton's and Frances' Additions, Yellow and Green Streets in Green's
and the Denny-Fuhrman Additions: that between the North end of Lake
Avenue and said Yellow street there are two small strips of land owned
by Samuel B. Carr and W. Perry Smith, respectively, neither of whom
have platted their said lands or dedicated to the public for its use
any of said lands as streets, but, to the contrary, have refused and
still refuse to open or allow to be opened a street or streets across
said lands. That it is necessary for our use and for the use of the
public generally that the street be opened across said lands between the aforementioned points.

Where, your petitioners pray that your Honorable Body or-
der a strip of land, not less than sixty (60) feet in width, condemned
for the use and purposes of a public street across said pieces or par-
cels of land, owned by the said Samuel B. Carr and W. Perry Smith, and
that said street be located parallel to, and including the line of The
Rainier Power and Railway Company's Right of Way or roadbed as the same
is now located, and graded across the said tracts aforesaid, and your
petitioners will ever pray.