The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-28
INTO NEW QUARTERS.
The City's Servants Move Into
Pleasant Rooms.
SOME WORK YET TO BE DONE.
Omcials well Satisfied with the Change
Fixing the New Jafi-stories Of
the Past Recalled.

rhe board OF public works, the building In
snecfnr the water department, the city engineer.
a. sfre<f commissioner and the city treasurer
moved their Offices yesterday from the Butler
hlock 10 the new city hall. at the corner of
Third and Jefferson streets The city clerk and
ths comptroller win move tomorrow. and the
hosrd OF aldermen and the house OF delegates
Nil meet Ia their new halls at their next
meeting.
Reos,rz TO the old courthouse-now the new
an hsIl-were going on all day yesterday, and
~ eify officers who moved in were surrounded
81 cxrpsrsers and painters, and could do little
mr. thsn get In safely, with their books and
furniture. The steps at the entrance are not
- fufshed aud all day those who went up the
- toward Yesler avenue found when they
81 10 the top that they had 10 take q step four
= I've feet long over q yawning hole, or else
= around the other way.
The main stairway inside the building has
Nm left as Il was In the old courthouse and
fne main hall on the first door has also been left
almost the same; but the other rooms have been
materially changed, and. with the handsome
painting and papering on the walls and ceiling,
they present much more attractive, cheerful
and cleanly appearance than they did when CO
eupied By the county Offices
Superintendent of Buildings Compton occu-
pies room No. !, Immediately 20 the left upon
entering. The board Of public works occupies
No q the next room on the left or north side of
the hall. and Street Commissioner Alexander
has No 8. which connects with the room occu-
pied By the board of public works by q wide
door The city clerks two rooms are near the
end Of the hall and run TO the corner. The
water department Office Is in room No. 8, at the
end OF the ball, and the treasurer's is No. z, on
the scnth side OF the hall The comptroller will
occupy the first room to the right upon entering
The stairway in the old courthouse that
opened on Jefferson street has been removed
and hall has been put in almost the whole
lsng4h OF the second floor on the north side Of
the building. The meeting room of the board
Of aldermen IL ut the west end of the upper floor,
and the room in which the house of delegates
VII meet Ia in the center of the building Room
10. q, q, the northeast quarter is to be pri-
rlfs room, In connection with the city engin-
eefs department. which department 10 In the
no at the southeast corner.
The uew city Offices, il Is expected, will be
sdequksx 10 meet the demands OF the city for
some tina They are roomy, airy and centrally
locsted They are the hest quarters the city
government ever had. At the time of the great
IRE Of June 6. 1859. the city Offices were In the
city bali on South Third street near Yesler ave-
nfle. over the quarters of Fire Engine company
No The fire destroyed the building and the
Offices we're moved TO the hall on the corner of
Sixth street aud Yesler avenue, which had been
purchased q short time before BY the city from
Noses Keeser. About year ago, when the new
City charter went into effect, the Offices were
moved into the Butler block At one time in
the history OF the city, the municipal affairs
we're managed from the second floor of the old
sngine-house on the south side OF Columbia
Itreet, between Front and second streets. Be-
lore that time meetings were sometimes held in
the Masonic hall In the old Frye opera-house, at
Front and Marion streets.
The new city jail, adjoining the new city hall,
viii be ready for occupancy q week from next
Monday. Workmen are now busily engaged
upon the alterations. The jail, which has been
used by the county since Is76is still very strong
Il has many times had as many as sixty prison
srs In il at once, aud has confined many noted
criminals. Thompson, the murderer, was hung
near the Jail in is77, and in 1881, Payne, the
murderer OF Special Policeman Dave sires, was
hung By mob who broke into the Jail and took
the prisoner away from Sheriff wykoff.