City of Seattle Records

To the Honorable Mayor and Common Counsil of the City of Seattle.

Your petitioners respectfully represent that there are business men holding tent permits and occupying space on the extension of Second Street between Yesler Avenue and Washington Streets in the City of Seattle. That we have received notice to vacate said tents by the First of March next; that on account of the severe winter which we have had the rainy season setting in the business buildings now in course of erection being unfinished and therefore your petitioners cannot find places in which to occupy in their various business before the first of May next.

Therefore we feel that it is a matter of common justice to us for you to extend the time in which for us to vacate said tents until the First day of May next and if this request is complied with on your part we promise a cheerful compliance with an order to vacate at the time designated to-wit: May 1st, 1890. Your petitioner further state that the severity of the inter has been the cause of a bad business by many of us therefore we feel that under the circumstances surrounding us that we can reasonably hope for the releif prayed for herein. Names G M Godfry Geo W Ely M M Fredrick W D Highwarden Gus Brown M Madsen H Jones and Son Nathan & Streymthe C O Bargeron E W Booker J Berkman H Uhlfelder H Myers