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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 ex-
cept by private parties: that the main streets and avenues of trav-
el 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 ded-
icated 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 nec-
essary for our use and for the use of the public generally that
the street be opened across said lands between the aforementioned
points.

Wherefore, your petitioners pray that your Honorable Body or-
der a strip of land, not less than sixty (60) feet in width, con-
demned for the use and purposes of a public street across said
pieces or parcels of land, owned by the said Samuel B. Carr and W.
Perry Smith, and that said street be located parallel to, and in-
cluding 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.