The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-04-13
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Boulevard There are = ire city three
Grant Streets ard ore Grant avenue. as
vel a. -two Grams streets and ore Grand
avenue Ns thought il world os wei
20 get nd q or.e % these ard We IooE
tse une ever which we rad 1sgrts1actsoEz-
Ws materially altered the street. Ei1sEa-
Ing II. lengthening Il. char ging Its Cirec-
ton somewhat. and We supposed Se were
doing a pleasant fhlng % oesfow upon
Il the name Of oar swa city. L y TIE
/ oniy fh0Toughfre IN the CRY called bouie-
ward BY las. Il is f19 feet wide thrse
Miles long, and all BE Of one leTei from
end 20 end Some day Il VIII ss q mag
uidcent highway
our board had re names TO bestow.
/ II We had pursued the plan adopted BY
TIE average upland owner we would have
called one. perhaps, III street. the next
First. the next Peach. the next STnfta.
the next Subtraction. the next Silver, the
next Gertrude, and 50 on 70 the end.
there being neither system nor sense IN
the art Except that portion o. the clty
most important and deISsly populated.
from King street to Vine. and also except
a feW isolated streets, we pat system III
70 the nomenclature throughout. start
ing az = point Sc the north end, 4 begin
ming Was made with A street, and every
street In succession was called after a
Successive letter OF the alphabet reaching
Il beyond t5G&laE4 ALTHOUGH p d. "A 81 -
name was duplicated IN the city, the ON
er z street can have another name, and
the north system remain perfect ana
valuable. Further south city names were
chosen as a pr0loBgatiOn or me alpna-
bette system They began with Alieshe-
rs. and ran along uniformly 10 Roanoke.
which your article says Il duplicates Ia
name by a street al Lake Union. IL so.
this was unsnfentional on our part ana
Eaxr he
street 70 appear in the Seattle Guide.
That Is a matter easily rectfec, too
on the main body OF the tide lands the
streets were called after states. and are
perfectly systematic. except Commercial
and others. as before stated This IS Ger
taInIy better than the jumbled mess or
names there before
s4Tn 40 this in a satisfactory manner a
clean sweep OF names had II be made
II wouldn't do TO pick out one here ana
there. nor would IL have done 10 nave
substituted your name or mine tor those
OF other individuals. The avenues as
rule were given popular state or "asaing-
ton names, and neither they nor the
state names in the city limits are dupli-
Gated. we believe. by street names over
which our respected municipal authori-
ties have control. With us names OF
kind mean something. When one wants
TO know where street is, he viii lind
that IL is with the other aipnabstic
streets in a quarter of the city by them
selves When he wants 10 know where
Ranger. Duluth or Sacramento streets
are II will be the same. They are all
north end streets extending towards the
tay. When he hears OF Spokane. What
com. Walla Walla, Kitsap. Chelan, Pu-
get. ouilliyute and Wenatchee. he VIII
know when he gets the run OF the plan
that they are all avenues. with width
exceeding that OF any street. or more than
IC0 feet. And so when he hears OF lndi-
ana. Montana, Arizona and streets OF Ike
name he will learn that they are IN A
nortion of the city by themselves. and
the information viii to a limited extent
he helpful 10 him. as streets methodicaiy
numbered invariably are 10 all people
THE only thing | regret IS tnat our
hoard did mot go further and substitute
other names for the meaningless ones We
left in few places
.srha thing for the city 10 do - 10
adonf the same names on the upland
wherever possible pushing Them righ'
i through 10 Lake Washington. giving con-
,inuons names from West Seattle. a
/ ,envtb of four miles. This would simpll-
( ~ matters on the upland. and will leave
/ tho tide land streets systematic in thelf
I nomenclature. as they also are In thelE
arrangement.