City of Seattle Records

To His Honor the mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle W T

Seattle Wash., Sept, 23rd-1889 Gentlemen; We the undersigned property owners and residentants, living upon Alton Street, in the said city of Seattle, would humbly pray that your honorable body will grant our request for the placing of six electric lights, places as follows: to-wit; one on east side of Alton St between Jackson and King Streets, and one on north-east corner of King & Alton Street, and one on the east far side of Alton between King and Weller Streets and one on the north-west corner of Alton and Weller Streets, aand one on the East side of Alton between Weller and Cullen Streets, and one on the corner of Cullen and Alton Street, we are humbly yours. Names [?Martin & Co] [?Curecei Brch 5] F T Iler C A Cram Jas Manning Wm McCarter John Beck Mr G T Gardner James McNamara Hiram Rayburn Lyle V Stewart C M Barness O C Whilkey A J Trigg Eli Poleson Mrs E P Bowditch John H Pritchard Ed Cook H McDarind Monroe Grinelle

Committee Report Mr President: Your committee on Fire & Water to whom was referred petition for extention of Water main on Bradley Street beg leave to respectfully submit the following report: That we recommend that said petition be granted but not to be ordered put in before the first of July 1892 or untill the funds from the bonds are available.

C A Cram { Thos J Carle {committee

Chambers of the Board of Aldermen J P Sweeney President Geo J Stoneman city clerk and clerk of the Board Standing Committees Chairmen J F Brewer Ordinance Fire Department T M Daulton Finance Equalization H C Ingram Claims Street Lights L Miller Streets & Alleys License & Revenue T J Carle Sewers & Drains Railroads Geo B Stocks Police Department Water Department C A Cram Parks & Boulevards Public Buildings & City P[roperties] J E Jordan Harbors & Wharves Health Department

Seattle Wash. March 18, 1895 To the Hon Council Your committee on Public Buildings & Grounds would most respectfully call the attention of your Honorable Body to the large number of persons killed & injured by Elevators in the various buildings of our City and we would recommend that the Supt of Buildings be instructed to look into the matter of the construction, operation and the speed inwhich they are run and the qualifications of the Operatpors and recommend such legislation as will tend to lessen the danger to life & limb. F V Little chairman J A James James Gleeson

Mr President: Your committee on License and Rev to whom was referred aplication of Frank Young]] for the return of $25.00 as oayment for license for an employment office and which was refused beg leave to report favorably on return of same. Adopted L Miller Chairman C A Cram committee

To the Hon. Mayor & Common Council of the City of Seattle - Gentlemen. The undersignedresidents of the eastern portion of the city, respectfully request your honorable body to order the southerly half of Jackson Street from Sixteenth Street to Lake View Street to be planked frorm the car track to the sidewalk on the south side of the street. Three Fourths of all the travel from the City to Lake Washington goes over Jackson Street, a portion of which is newly graded and filled some four feet deep, and this part particularly will be impassable as soon as wet weather sets in. Wherefore we pray that said work be ordered done and your petitioners will ever pray. R Morford C A Cram B M Padley H McDermid Harry Muhl A M Cale Geo H Bartell Anderson Jas Henry Jones A H Mafferd W E Burgess A G Keene J M Branson Thos Anderson Alex C Anderson M J Cook H Keller C S Rabison E A Frasier Levi Wintermuth C H Morford A W Pratt Chas N Evans Emil Anderson J C Levold E W Engel J S Cox