City of Seattle Records

To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle: We, the undersigned business men, residents and tax payers of said City, understanding that there is in circulation a petition remonstrating against the contrast of the City letting the lighting thereof to the Rainier Power Railway Company and the Seattle Gas and Electric Light Company, which said petition is being circulated in the interests of the Union Electric Company, beg to urge on your Honorable body the full appreciation we have, and are confident you have, for the necessity of an economical administration of the affairs of the City, and a lessening of the pres ent burden borne by the tax payers. We are further of the opinion that the awarding of this contract to the lowest bidder would effect a large saving to the City and meet with public approval. Hammond Smitz A Cohn A J Prager & Sons A N Wales of Delmonico Rest. G O Guy Boardman Wall Paper Co Inc by F M Boardeman Yakima Market Charles Wents Rookery Restr M A Cox & Co James Ford A A Seagrave M K Ford R Sartori&

Seattle Sep 22 1890 To the Hon the Mayor and Council of the City of Seattle Gentlemen the undersigned petitioners respectfully & request that your Honorable Body will open up the alley between Bell and Blanchard Sts. between Front & West . L S Rowe G B Reynolds Martin Paup David Munro P E Fisher George Delfet O E Dyer J F Lord Wm Voigt J W Lewis D Horlacher Morgan & Finlay J Morrison Cowin Bros C V Pettinger Philip Gabel D W Clark W H T Barnes A A Thompson D Parry L L Curtis E R N Reieer J D Dalton G C A Langford Y B Elder R Sartori F H Harkin Wm Collins & Son Fred Pring G H Heilbron Ben Hazeltine

Seattle Washington February 15 1894 To the Honorable City Council of the City of Seattle, Gentlemen:-We the undersigned residents and property owners upon the vacinity of Broadway and DeForrest Streets North of Madison Street and who are obliged to make daily use of said streets hereby petition your honorable body to cuase street lights to be places alont the line of siad Broadway and DeForrest Streets are not now established between Madison Street on the South and Oak Street on the North. Dated at Seattle Washongton February 15, 1884 Frank L Leshi E B Fowler Jas R Hayden Jas T Greenleaf E C Neufelder C S Webb Daniel W Bass F A Bell F G Pohundroff Seattle Trust Co Lee J Pitner, president Earl Young C M Sheafer Geo C Williams C A Williams H J Washburn J M Carson H C Henry Frank A Pontius H A Schneider F B Tipton J McAtgassone R Sartori G McMeir W H White Cow Gepferh James Davey Wm Davey A M Pinckney Charles Peterson John Decker John Dill