City of Seattle Records

Seattle, September, 1889

To the Honorable The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle:

It is with pleasure that your petitioners observe a disposition on the part of the Council to place some restrictions upon the liquor traffic, by forming a district, outside of which no saloons shall be allowed.

The district as outlined by the committee on License and Revenue, in their recent report, included within its limits a part of Third street.

Your petitioners respectfully represent that Third street between James and Stewart streets is yet largely a residence street, and situated upon it are several churches, and two or more are soon to be built thereon; that the University grounds are but one-half block from it, and in the opinion of your petitioners the extension of the saloon district to include this part of Third street is entirely uncalled for and unnecessary:

THEREFORE, we the undersigned property owners, residents and business firms on Third street between James and Stewart streets, do most earnestly request your Honorable Body to exclude that part of Third street lying between James and Stewart streets, from the district in which saloon licenses are to be granted; and your petitioners will forever pray etc.

Wm H. Reeves D Horton for J. H. Sanderson Methodist Traditional Church L. M. Ballard Elliot N. Brown for A. Mackintosh First-Pres. Church L Horton D. D. Campbell for A. D. Plimpton First Methodist Episcopal Church S. L. Denny T. M. Gatch, Pres of C L Denny Ter. Ministries J. N. Wallingford Geo. A. Tewksbury, for Wm D. Wood Plymouth Cong'l Church I. A. Bigelow Robt Swift A M Shoblad for Scandinavian Church L. S. Lifesky H. M. Guye A. E. McComb M. McComb K. L. Hurd