City of Seattle Records

Received Jul 22 1891 Board of Public Works Seattle Wash Seattle Wash June 1891 The undersigned residents and property owners in the vacinity of the Streets named below, respectfully petition you Honorable Body, to order a Sewer built on Light Street, Commencing at Bradley Street, thence on Light Street to Harrison Street, thence on Harrison Street to Elliot Bay, according to the plans of Engineer Benezette Williams, and your petitioners will ever pray:

Names ______________ Cealg Lyon Andrew Knox Wm Bentley Leo Kinnear T H Hardwick E F Smart L H McKormin James H Payne L G N McTarlque Pease T Cochran

TRUSTEES

E. O. GRAVES, President, THOS. W. PROSCH, Vice-President SAMUEL RAMSEY, 2d Vice-President E. F. WITTLER, Treasurer.

A. P. BURWELL, JAS. R. HAYDEN, G. DAVIES, JOHN LEARY, J. FURTH, ANGUS MACKINTOSH, D. H. GILMAN, L. E. THOMPSON, BAILEY GATZERT, D. B. WARD, J. M. WIESTLING.

Seattle Chamber of Commerce.

J. W. DODGE, Secretary.

Seattle, Wash. 1893

To the Honorable City Council:

The Chamber of Commerce having carefully considered the matter of further bonding the city for the purpose of extending our sewerage, would respectfully represent to your honorable body that in the progress and growth of our city the time has now arrived when it surely seems wise that before further indebtedness is incurred a cafully considered system of sewerage should be planned so as to effect the best sanitary results for the city as a whole, and equitable distribute the financial burden throughout the various parts of the city that receive the benefit.

The chamber respectfully submits the following for your consideration as a plan, which, if adopted and adhered to as the settled policy of the city, would result in great good to the city and promote its future upbuilding and prosperity, by assuring the most judicious expenditure of money and on a just basis.

The chamber recommends that a temporary sewer commission be appointed, composed of two engineers (one of whom shall be the city engineer) and an honest, clear headed business man, making a commission of three, whose duty it shall be to carefully scan the system of sewerage devised by Benezette Williams, revise and extend said plan to date, list and describe by course and location such sewers as must serve as "intercepting mains," which in their judgment should be constructed within the next two years; also to recommend the priority in which such "intercepting mains"

Board of Public Works W V Rinehart, chairman J W Van Brocklin Jesse Cochran C G Heifner, secretary Reginald H Thomson city engineer DEPARTMENT OF CITY ENGINEER Seattle Washington, Nov 9 1892 TO Board of Public Works Gentlemen: I find the accompanying petition of M. W. Stratton et al for Sewer on Joy St. from Yesler Ave to Prince William St. to conform strictly to the plan of Benezette Williams. Estimated cost under said plan is $1300.00 dollars. Very respectfully R. H. Thomson City Engr To Council favorably recommended Cls Heifner Sec