The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-02

for Each street intersection would COST
about $50 and would be cnargeaoie 10 the
general street fund of the city. Inc streets
Tor which / would recommend that TINS
form Of relief be ordered By the city coun-
Gil are as follows:
Commercial street. from hing street 20
YesIer avenue, with the exception OF part
of the east side between King and Jackson
streets. the east side between Jackson ana
Main and the paving between washington
street and Yesler avenue. There mas oeeh
no renewal for four years: most OF the
planking has been recently removed; the
street raised to grade and the top dressed
with ashes, thus giving good iounoation
for substantial pianking or Tor paving
where there are retaining walls.
South Third street, from washington
to main needs thorough renewal
jackson street, from Commercial to
South Third.
main street, from South Second to
South Sixth. planked five years ago this
Anonth; replanked from South Slxtn 10
South Tenth, put from South Tenth TO
South Eleventh in very poor condition.
Washington street. from Commercial
to South Third"
In addition to the above the superin-
tendent mentions other streets as worthy
consideration as follows:
Eighth. As no retaining walls are neces-
sary on this street, | believe Ii should be
paved. 1.-THE curbs be set for 1O-foot side
walks, as now exist, there would be forty
feet between curbs. OF which the central
seventeen feet would have TO be paved by
the street railway companies. leaving only
twenty-nine feet 20 be paved at the ex-
pense of the city. The estimated cost of
such a roadway, paved with brick and
lined with granite CURLING. would be about
So for each foot OF aDutting frontage, or
SIP for each lineal foot of roadway. Street
intersections would cost the city about
81. 200 for each intersection"
The superintendent recommends that
before decisive action i. taken the matter
be placed before the property owners for
petition. The report continues:
second Front and Second streets.
We still have strong hopes of receiving a
petition for paving Second street from
Yesler avenue 10 Pike street. and some
portions of Front street. As soon as the
matter of title To tide lands on the west
side, from Columbia 10 Seneca. Is settled
by proper purchase from the state it will
be possible to proceed with that portion of
Front street, but until that time under
stand that no legal assessment can be laid
on bonds issued for any improvement on
that portion of the street, except the city
AT large pays Inc TAX assessor 70 TUG owner
outside the meander line and within 10
feet OF the street.
.Third-There is one block on Temper
ance street. between Mercer and Roy,
planked before the fire, and now entirely
gone 1t is necessary that il be replanked,
as the soil is clay and will be impossible
in wet weather"
The report shows that there are twenty
five and half miles of planked streets.
most of them badly worn. and recon-
mends that some system looking to per-
manent pavement be speedily adopted.
Attention is called to sections g. IL and Is.
of ordinance 2,5s1. which. if strictly en-
forced, the superintendent says, would
noticeably reduce the expense of the street
department.
The report was read and sent to the
house Of delegates.