City of Seattle Records

Seattle July 24th 1890

To his honor the Mayor and Members of city Council of Seattle. We the undersigned residents of North Seattle most respectully protest against the proposed locating of an oil storage house at the Corner of Bell & West streets of this city and respectfully ask your honorable body to prohibit any such enterprise being carried on at this location.

[column 1] Frank S Davis August Peterson Geo S Bennett William Thomas Dyer & Nickerson H. H. Prouty G. Leland Morgan & Finlay Conner Bros A. E McCalley Henry Buesing W. B. Deau W. C. Morris Robt Mellor H. Prothera Priest & Turner R. Nattel Robt Murphy

[column2] R Sartori & Co Ballard & Woodhouse L. M. Tuin Chas Sturm J [?] [M?] J. W. Hobrusack Newman Bro's Charles Baker N. A. White J. D. White D. J. Smith H. A. James Amira A. James A. S. Keller O M Lundstrom Nordhoff & Co C. M. Weist E. M. Clough A. Haycock

David Decker August Peterson W Nickerson S W Smith J B Pinckney Caprial Pfaff Frederick Johnson John Taylor W Crawford Denis Flynn Pat McKernel Frank Hafenberg J W Sheehan C Erickson Peter E Flynn John Galeff E VanNesse MrLee Darrington Wm Gunterman R Petrovito R Doubleday John Leiskey G A Hermann W Brunce Wm Calvert J D Lloyd James Riefer W W Wilshire Hyson Stockwell I J Lichtenley J M Coynihan George Kreig John McNeary Adolph Loncke Julius Loncke Carl L Wieland J McMillan J A McKinnon

To the Hon Mayor Board of Aldermen and House of Delegates of the City of Seattle Gentlemen:- The undersigned citizens and tax-payers of theCity of Seattle respectfully represent: that there is urgent need of re-grading Front Street from Pike Street to Blanchard Street, and in view of the fact that the City is preparing to lay a water main in said Front Street, your petitioners respectfully ask your Hon Body to order said Front Street regraded from Pike Street to Blanchard Street, before said water pipe is laid, The expense of re-grading said Front Street, including dmage to abutting property, to be borne by the City of Seattle. The benefits to be derived from said improvements to the City at large, we deem suffiicient to justify the expenditure. Names D T Denny John B Denny S S Rowe Alonzo Hull W H Mitchell A E Losey F Plessy Christian Ludwig {Northwestern Cigar Co.]] S Frai L Elliott A Howe E Mesner D L McCowan W J Bowen E T Hollingsworth J F Lord M Thompson Duncan Shaw P H Drake Marvin Dingman F O Nickerson T B Elder R Sartori & Co A Haycock R M Creswell Conner Bros. R B Williams]] Morgan & Finlay H E Kelsey W G Biscoff Chas E Dyer F B Etting H W Hawes August Peterson Edward Carroll Collins Bros