The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-18
NORTHUMBERLAND
Citizens Declare They Want 1t
Stopped Up
A PosToFFIcE WHISKY JOINT.
Remembrance to Be Presented tn the
Council Tonight Against the Grant
of License.


a saloon in the small building being con-
structesi adjoining the new possotfies build
ing on the west, and 10 be known as the
Hole in the Wall, has excited the oppo-
sition OF temperance people and remon-
STRANGE against the granting OF the petition
for 4 license has been circulated and gem
orally signed. The persons erecting the
building obtained lease 10 the premises
from the Puget Sound Improvement Com
pany. the owner. The remonstrsnce,
which viii be presented TO the council to-
night. Is as follows:
To the Honorable Mayor Gad C1wmea Cotacfl
ef tAe City u seattle: Your petitioners, the un-
dersisae1. residents and property holders in
sest1ls would respectfully represent that there
is now beng constructed aud equipped for a
saloon against the west wall ei the new pest
Office on Celumbis street, a building Of dimen'
sioas feet by 10 feet, the entrance 10 which
will be abous three feet ivom the west entrance
10 said ros;ofsiee. that application will shortly
be ma3S 10 your honorable body for license 10
sell intoxicating drinks in said building. Where
fore. your petitioners earnestly pray you to deny
and refuse 10 grant said application for license.
for the following reasons:
That said posfcffce By virtue OF its peculiar
pubic character is necessarily resorted to daily
hy the women and children OF seattle; that in
such daily Use of said postoihee they VIII re
forced into contact with the sights and infu-
enees Of the sdjoining saloon; that the record OF
saloons warrants the assertion that said saloon
viii menace the youth OF our city with vicious
snd demorslizing temptations that, from the To-
cation of said saloon, cannot be Stunned. and
viii oFesent constantly scenes revolving and in
sulting 20 the eyes and ears of the women OF
Seattle; that the arguments which wisely lead
your honorable body 10 refuse licenses for the
sale of liquors near the homes of this city apply
with equal force 10 this saloon that viii be
thrust upon women and children otherwise
freed from its contact.
Roger s. Greene, William H. Reeves,
J, N. Coiman, l. y. Bigelow,
A. Macintosh, \. s Burwcn.
Dexter Horton, a. A. Denny,
w. +. Boone. William f. Bailey,
George b. Aiair, q, II. Heilhron.
c. b. Bagley, George B. kitunger.
C. Hopkins, q. A. Ill.,
William d. Wood, \. T. Burwen,
W. F. Epleg, l.. A. Treen,
D. T. Denny. T. NJ Daulton,
X. w. Winchell, Alder. Wilton,
W. q. Dickinson, J. &. Shorey.
John B. Denny. r. y. McFadden.
q. Davies K Co., r. B. Burwell.
Z. C. kilbourne, w. r. Andrews,
Robert Abrams, T. J. HImes.
John II. Sanderson, 4. K. simpson,
j. SOhram. Ill. III. AmeS,
J. T. Hsndsaker, G. Willis Price,
Home Fire Ins. Co., W. L. Jones,
James Boutwell,, NJ. ID. Ballard
George w. Crane, W. Il. Brawley,
W X. Ballard, A. Il. Grout,
James Leddy, Il. l.. Northup,
J. W. George, W. l.. Gazzam,
J. J. MeGilvra, G.. E. Miller,
Lee Deyres, .. Jacobs,
Boyd J. Tallmsn, s. S. Waldo,
Nelson Chilberg, Il. s Ingraham,
u X. Coryeli, l.. I. Turner,
". A. Peters, Thomas l.. Minor,
X c. Strudwick. ID. b. Ward,
Thomas w. Prosch, Z. ii. Thompson,
J. Is. McDougall, Charles X. Jenner,
=. singermsn, J. T. Ronald,
W. S. Bush, ;. II. Piles,
J. K. Cbilberg. David kellogg,
H. L. Yesler. Joseph Green,
John Collins, J. W. Whitehead,
C. NJ. Sacaie. o. Knox,
Thomas Marum, Amos Brown
W. II. Pumphrey, Everest smith,
F. J. Grant.