The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-08
LAKE sHoRE rKAcKa

APplieaeleo for Permit 10 Lay Halls
- Rsitrosa Avsaue.
The board Of public works yesterday re-
ceived the following communication from
Thomas X. Brown. receiver Of the Seattle,
Lake Shore & Eastern railroad, through
Carr & Preston. his attorneys:
I. Thomas r. Brown, the duly appointed.
qualified aud acting receiver OF the Seattle.
Lake Shore d Eaaternl Railway Company,
hereby respectfully request . permit from
your honorable body TO lay one or more
tracks along and upon the vest thirty feet
Of the east thirty feet OF Railroad
avenue by extending iss constructed tracks
from the north line Of Yesler avenue,
whore they now are, 10 intersection with
the constructed sratks of the Northern
Pacific and Puget Sound Shore Railroad
Company, within the limits of said thirty
feet of the cast thirty-eight feet of said
Railroad avenue, and also within the
limits of the right of way described in
ordinance No. NJ. entitled. IAN ordinance
granting the right to the Oregon Trans
continental Railroad Company and the
Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad Com
pany, and to authorize the said companies
20 construct, MAINTAIN and operate single
or doubie-track railway along the water
front OF the city of Seattle" approved
March IL. 1892. published March IA, 1SS2,
and found on page 80 Of the published Or
dinanccs Of the city of Seattle OF 1883.
The franchise giving the Seattle. Lake
Shore d Eastern Railway Company the
right aud authority to construct tracks
along and upon the west thirty feet Of the
east thirty-eight feet Of said Railroad ave-
nue. 10 ordinance No. !, a6. which was ap.
proved on the I'd day OF October. 1883, and
is entitled IAN ordinance granting 10 the
Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railway
Company, its successors and assigns, the
right and authority to locate, lay down
and construct maintain and operate .
railway consisting of one or more tracks
In, along, upon or over certain public
This request il made in conformity to
the requirements Of section Is of article 8
Of the charter Of the city Of Seattle.
/ respectfully call your attention to the
fact that prior to my appointment, and on
December q, 1892, the attorney of the
Seattle, Lake Shore T. Eastern Railway
Company. by its direction made proper
application in writing for authority to
extend its tracks as herein requested by
me. and that upon January 3, 1898. your
honorable body rejected the said spplica-
ton. stating Is reason therefor that your
board refused e take sction on the matter
until the suit then pending. and pertain.
ing TO the right on what Is known a. the
rams horn had been settled. am in-
formed that the suit referred to has now
been settled. | beg further to represent
to your honorable body that no question
in anywise affecting the so-called rams
horn CONTROVERSY IS involved in this APP
.piication. am o. the opinion that the
extension Of these tracks is necessary In
order that the business Of the company
may be properly conducted.
It was referred to the corporation coun.
sci for his opinion.
The board let the contracts for the grad
Ing of Thomas street from Temperance to
Willow and Willow from East street to
east limo of Waila Walls addition. The
bids for Thomas street were IS follows:
J. A. Bailey, $4.55L9s; H. NJ. Byeriy, $4.-
l39.Ol; Mcdonald & Holt, $i,2i539, and
the contract WAS awarded to that firm.
The only bid on Willow street was s..
29O.O1, put in by J. A. Bailey and the con-
tract Was awarded to him.
petition for the removal Of . fence
across Nellie street Was referred to the city
engineer.
The Oregon improvement Company
asked permission TO renew the pianking on
their dock between King street and the
Northern Pacific freight depot on the ex-
tension Of South Third street.
Chief Hunt complained to the board Of
the condition of the alley at the back Of
the Union building. the accumulation Of
PaflSe inviting fire.