The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-03-14
EDES AND KNIGHTS.
J0gs in the Lines Shown by the
New Survey.
EFFECTS or THE ORDINANCE.
several Houses Discovered to BE Dat
On the streses-Rences Which win
Have g BE Moved.

esousA Weeks Ego tno CITY council passed m
ordinance directing that Q survey should Be
made Of the Edss 4 Knights addition. The
plat Wa laid out upon lines which were soon
afferward found to b defective, and when the
Eastern addition. Renton addition and later tho
squire addition wefe plated it was found i'm.
possible to adjust the boundary lines with those
OF the Edes Knights. When Hyde street was
graded this became % serious that an injunction
was obtained against the city ana work was
suspended. leaving instead OF street "hog
chute for part Of . block Petitions for the
grading OF other streets have had TO b rejected
Tor she same reason and the addition IL In Q
semi-barbaric condition. while adjoining tracts
are being settled up with nns houses.
CITY Engineer Thomson has almost com.
pieted his task ana the result will be that some
concessions must BE- made BY property owners
who have been unfortunate enough to build
houses over the line of the streeta On the
whole the disturbance of supposed lines will
not Do 90 great - was anticipated. but in some
blocks there will have to Be q removal OF build.
lnss. The lines can Be drawn 50 a to make Q
minimum Of cost and disturbance of improve
nenss. but to effect this the lines cannot BE-
made With mathematical accuracy. There IL no
block !. or .; block u perfect: 4 good; 8 and
lean be easily Strengthened ont without dis
turbing values; blocks 10. H. IL, II are in OF Of
the highwav: blocks Is 16, IL, 10, 20, u, %, 25.
26. n and . are perfect
Auc OtuoE docks run OUT on 10 tho streets, ana
there will be more or less removal of fences.
In block 5 the arrangements are a. follows:
Lots and ere about eighteen feet too far to
the west, and . house il about four feet out.
Lots and 4 are about right; on lots aad 6 the
fences are out about sixteen feet, but the house
Is Within tho line; lot Il and south half of lot
II. fronting on Hughsson street, are about
moved out eastwardly that distance. The fence
from north half Of lot II up to knight street IL
about two feet TOO far out No houses need bs
disturbed ON this street
In block NO houses will be affected BY the
new lines. but on lots and 2 the fence 10 out
about seventeen feet to the west on Hughston
street, and on lots 2, g. ii and II the fence can be
PIT further out from twelve to thirteen feet on
kenney street. The fences ON the south side Of
this block. on Willow street, four to Eve feet
too far out.
On block 2. on the east side OF Hughston
street, the fence 10 nearly twenty five feet out,
and house overaps the line by about two feet,
and barn on lot is about twenty-five feet on
the street fence along the west side OF the
block on Kenney street is over twenty feet in
side the line, but disturbs no property except .
house on lot II, fronting on knight street, which
Is several feet TO the west of the line of this
block and overlaps lots l and 2
Block II. on kenney street, is in bad shape.
The fence Is logged and varies from ten to
effected 10 on lot which 10 several feet the
line and will have to be moved back. The other
houses are all we'll In. On Randolph street the
fence can be moved further out On this latter
street there are three cabins and three shacks
built without any regard TO lines and are clearly
in the highway.
Block IS 10 fairly good, but fences In front OF
lots II and are too far forward, and ON lot Il a
double house just barely touches on the street.
There Is a cabin on the corner OF Rose and Edes,
right across the middle of Rose. at the south
west corner Of lot l, OF block % To the south
of lot 6, block 2, 10 another cabin in knight
street
Joy street 10 all right except that the fence ON
block q. between Edes and knight streets, 10
about thirty feet inside the line and that dis
lance too far to the west Chestnut street 10 in
good shape, except that on block a. between
Willow aud Edes, on lots 10 and II, the fence is
out about four feet on the street, but the houses
are well within the line
On block 50 the fence on the east side of
Clara 10 almost out to the middle of the street,
while on the west side of the block 1t 10 a. far
in. On lot a house stands at fully twenty feet
on Clara, but the other houses are safely located
Hyde street, between Willow and Edes. IL the
scene Of war: but the only trouble is with lots
2, 8 l3 II, Is, block Is the three last facing
Willow street On lot Is is q house built by
Phleming J. Pratt, and 1t was over this house
arose, and ended fatally for the carpenter. It
fell into the hands OF firm of attorneys who
defended the owner and secured his acQuittal,
and lie now either owned by or mortgaged to J.
NJ Rex. 1t seems to stand out about fifteen
feet from the true line. house which was be-
lieved to be ON lot II now appears to pe half way
each on IA and Is. A house ON lot is also ap-
parently about twelve or fourteen feet out on
the street: and house on lot 4. believed to have
been built we'll In. now seems to stand just on
the line. II is here that the sidewalk from Edes
stree, to the south 10 stopped.
Street work In this addition cannot proceed
until the lines are accepted by the property
owners, and although. in the main, q little good
temper and concession will effect great deal,
there are . few cases in which it would seem
hardship is inevitable. Unfortunately, it falls
upon those who have improved their property.
Ii is not intended to force the new lines
arbitrarily. bat they will greatly aid those about
to build in making sure tnat they are safely To-
Gated within the true boundaries of their
property.
CIVIC ROnIES TIL