City of Seattle Records

To the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Seattle:Your petitioners, who are owners of property on or near the line of the proposed street railway for which Mr. S L Bowman applied on the 27th inst. to your honorable body for a franchise, repectfully petition your honorable body to grant said franchise, believing that the construction of said proposed line will assist in the development of the portion of said city and of the adjacent country through which it is intended to run, and will be of great benefit to the whole city. Dated June 30, 1890 J A Stratton M M Carraher Fred J Kerr C A Salyer A M Hailey Everett Smith F D Chamberlain Wm E Nichols C A Smith W R Forrest A C Thompson F J Foster Geo W Dunlap Ogden A Kirkland H H Lewis C A Pickarts C A Holmes R N M Fadden F E Clark L H Rogers Thomas Boyd