Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-05-23
sTgLL BOXING.

Notwithstanding the fact that the
Commissioners have repeatedly stated
that they would take no further steps
toward the purchase of a block oi land
on which to erect a csurt house, At this
session, unless some more favorable
offer IL made than has as yet been To-
ceived. Beriah Brown keeps persIsteLtly
at work circul4,i lg petition and sole
iting signatures to 1t, asking the Com
missis R,Ars to purchase bis block al
$4,000. Now, no one blames Mr.. Brown
for wishing to sell his block to the coud-
ty that is all right, 10 far a. IT goes
No one bla1nes man for selling brnk.
sd down horse for thousand dollars,
but every one gives the purchaser credit
for being fool. Nj my men would rather
sign PETITION, where il costs II TN
nothing directly, than offend the person
who circulates 1t and solicits their sig
natures. There are hundred reasons
why the Beriah Brown block should mol
be purchased by the county for court
house purposes, and not single good
reason why 1t should he, except that its
owner IL anxious to sell 1t.
In the first place, the block is not
worth much more than half the price
asked for 1t. and the writer does not be-
lleve there is All individual IN King
county. or any where else, who would pay
5000 for the block in ques ton.
la the second pl zoe, tue Beriah Brown
| block Is located on bluff, from which
no street leads down to the business
portion of the city, il being faced
ON two sides by short. unim:roved
streets. Lying ~ it does between sew
enth and Eighth streets. neither OF
| which have bt gu opened or improved. u
would be impossible to re- Gu II until m
Immense sum of money had been ex
| ponded in grading those streets, aftel
which the block would stand up like z
great monument of wing earth, un
slightly enough to be sure.
In the third place, a court house, wher
| Iuilt, should be located with some de.
gree of oOnsiderat On for the couven
fence of the public. just imagine tn,
different ATTORNEYS climbing the Beriat
Brown bluff tn the court house, half !
mile from the center Of BUSINESS, will
their arms full of law books every tim,
they have "A motion b. argue before th,
| judge, or a paper u fie with the clerk
In the fourth place, II the count,
wishes tn buy "A block in that vieiu ity
they can get much better located On,
for convenience fer much less mon.
than Mr.. Brown asks for his. Within
the last SIX months the Terry estate of
fered to sell a level block, within
stones throw of the property in qles
tiUn, facing on Ninth street, which WA
graded and sidewalked at that time. fn
little more than half what Mr.. Brown
asks for his block. But for the persist
ency of this man To force his objection
able property on tn county at a bil
figure, and his constant urging and soil
CIT ,tion OF business men to aid him II
his scheme, this paper would not hav
felt constrained TO point out some o
the many objectionable features of thi
transaction. Tue people have not los
confidence in their representatives, 8
far as TO believe that they will be led ia
to any such scheme a. the old gentle
man il trying bv hook and by crook &
wheedle them into. A purchase tha
w0uld not be good for an individual
certainly would not be for county an,
the individual who would pay 5000
for the Beriah Brown block at this time
could be oouvIcte of insanity befor
any probate judge on earth, withou
further or more convincing proof thai
the establishing of the fact of sale.