The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-07-31
DOING LOTS OF WORK.
Council Committees Act on I'M
portant Matters.
CHERRY STREET TO BE PAVED.
A Schedule for Licsnsfnr Suggested
That Covers . Ienx List Of Bust.
ness Enterprises.

VITA al OF The wark thar the standing
committees and special committees are
Plling u2 the next session OF the city
council promises 10 be highly interest
LIS AFFAIR. and as nobody proposes to al
low bills. resolutions or ordinances in
which he IS interested to be rassro&ded
through. the coancl viii have 10 arrange
to nave breakfast served 20 them az Tue
city hrl.
Yesterdays meetings OF Important, COM
mlttess commenced in the morning when
the joint committees on streets ana finance
got together and discussed matters resa-
tive 10 street improvements that Aayeoeen
projected. and for which City Engineer
Thomson furnished the estimates that
were printed hast week In the Post-Tnfel,i-
gencer. The Cherry street Improvement
which has been delayed until that one
time thoroughfare is now a checker board
OF sink holes and protrudins planks. and
which Is considered by the public ore
OF the most important. viii be taken up
and It's completion pushed. The estimate
Tor Cherry street Is 81 coo no portion OF
which Is charged 10 the city.
The committee recommended the re-
psanking Of Jackson street at cost OF
sospo. $l.so OF which = chargeahle TO the
city. The closing OF Jackson street was
recommended al the last council meet
ing. owing 10 its dangerous condition.
The Western avenue Improvement is
estimated at 81 100, for which the city Is
liable TO the extent OF $500.
Grant street and its heavy cost and
the fact that none OF The frontages along
il have titles from the state, proved a
stone-wall against which the committee
precipltated itself. The estimate was for
$500. and the city's liability was set
down at ss,2a. Just how that matter
would straighten itself out the committee
did not determine. but IL viii recommend
the Improvement.
Without the Grant street replankIng
and rerailing the improvements on Jack
son street and Western avenue should
amount 10 2.loo for the eity's share.
The operations. is carried cut. viii be
under an ordinance for forced improve
ments.
A special committee was also Instructed
to investigate and report upon the appli-
cation OF the Northern Pacaffc railroad
Tor the vacating OF the extensions OF Yes
Ter way. Columbia aud Marion streets. as
exhibited by the plats of the tide fats.
The appncation Of Receiver Burleigh to
the United States court for permission 10
purchase the block owned by J. NJ. Col
man. bounded by Columbia. Marion and
West street and Railroad avenue and the
expressed determination OF the roads Of
fieials TO improve the docking facilities
OF its water frontage, led the committee
to take extra precautions not TO pledge
any OF the city's rights unless written
stipulations were entered into between the
municipality and the road wherein the
advantages TO the city are expressly set
forth and the road bound to an execution
of It's promises. The special committee
consisted OF Rudy. James. Taylor. Hurd
and Dodds
In the afternoon another special COM
mittee, consisting of the regular COM
mittee on police. revenue and license,
Navin. Taylor and Hurd. with ellison and
Herman as extra members. met In the
council chamber. The matter of greatest
Importance WAS a list OF passable IL
censes, offered as suggestions only. In
troduced by Councilman Herman. The
list according TO Mr.. Herrman's state
ment, was not based entirely upon his
own ideas of licenses. but included sug-
gestions offered to him by Nayin and
others. Navin. who is radically opposed
10 licensing anything, stated that he had
offered his suggestions in a spirit OF JUS
tice toward those whose business had
been previously named as those against
which license should be placed. Tho
list was, as submitted. as follows: AS
trologers. fortune tellevs, etc, s. per day,
500 per quarter; auctioneers, $40 per day,
so per quarter; bill posters. 500 per year;
bowling alleys SO per year; billiard and
pool tables, ner table. So per year: coal
oil storage, IS per year; coal oil eoliy-
cry, $40 per year: circuses. class A, per
day. 500; b. $500; C.. $780, u. 500: Z, so;
for each side show connected with a cir
Gus. SO per day: coupes. sl2 per year:
drnys. single. S per year; double. si2; ex-
press wagons. per year, single. s.: double.
So: employment agencies. per year, 500;
hack, single, IS; double. si2 per year:
money brokers, 500 per year; real estate
agents, SO per year; mining brokers. $50
per year; insurance agents, one COM
pany, $50: more than one company. 500.
peddlers OF fruits, vegetables. etc. two
horse teams. $40 per year; SIS per quar-
ter, one horse. $50 per year; SO per quar-
ter: peddlers, with baskets. s. per year;
81 per quarter; hawkers. TO pay double
rates: laundries, s. per year; 81 per quar-
ter; power. storage and sale, per year,
81; pawnhrokers, 500 per year; second
hand and junk dealers. 500 per year; ex-
hibItion, charging IS cents admission,
week: jaEglers per day. so; per year.
500: skating Kinks, $40 per month; rope
walkers, s. per exhibition patent mndi-
cine fakirS, so per day; athletic exhibit
tons. S per day; candy and fruit stands
on public streets. s. per month: phono-
graphs. etc. 40 per month. merry-so-
rounds, $40 per week: So per month; doll
racks, cane racks, egg throwing etc.
$50 per day: tamaie, hot corn. popcorn
and other cooked foods, s. per month
cigarettes wholesale. per year. SO; re-
tail. so per year: drug stores nrst-ciass.
600; second. 500; third, SO: fourth. s25.
hotels and lodging houses. per year. first
class. 500: second-class, 30: third-cIass.
81: fourth-ciass, $40. restaurants. per
third-ciaSs. 81: fourth-class. SIS; NTH
class. SO: milk wagons. single, IS: dou-
bic. 81.
Gibson moved the adoption OF the sched-
ule as a basis for report. and was Sec
orded by Herman: Navln and Taylor
voted against ~. BY motion the com
naittee decided 20 refer the matter back
10 the council as a committee OF the
whole.