The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-27
Provides for the Building Of an
Electric Street Railway.
70 RUN TO The CITY PARK.
a.~s,s ut the Intersection OF Con-
.esticut street and First Avenue
sssth-Protest From Fourteenth
Avepue south Reside nts-.onsfd-
srstion of Consolidated Fran
shiss Postponed-Routin Work.

m Frink franchise ordinance, provid-
- Tor an electric street railway from the
,,,srsrction OF Connecticut street with
rIrst avenue south, along various thor
cushfares to the City park, passed the
council at last nights regular meeting by
vote Of 10 to 8. Those voting in favor
we're casteman, Crichton. Diller Gill.
James. McArdle, Rude. Muldoon, Taylor
snd President Rinehart. Nayin, Craw-
ford and Hill we're recorded against the
ordnance. There was a protest against
~ passage from certain residents of
Fourteenth avenue south, one OF the thor
oughfares along which the proposed road
I'M run II. A. Chadwick led in this OPP
position, addressing the council. lie de-
eafed that there were many reasons why
de ordinance should not be passed This
street. he said, ls the logical als entrance
n the Cascade and Olympic ranges are
10 BE- had, and street railway would
simply mar the beauty and attractiveness
II the thoroughfare. The residents of the
areet DO not want the road there. Those
n thirteenth and Fifteenth avenues have,
Il IL true, petitioned for the railway, and
i say that II they want 1t II should be
built along one OF those thoroughfares.
Va do not want IT: they do. There are
now many telegraph and telephone poles
dong the street, and the addition OF 9th
n Tor railway purposes would make the
erect still more unsightly. As carrier
II would be of no benefit to us. We want
10 be landed down town. and not on the
tide fats
Chadwick. claiming that the protestantss
had waited until the eleventh hour, and
then advanced no valid objection against
the proposed road. Mr. White. J. NJ.
Fnnk and p. p. Tremper petitioned for
before these speeches were made Mr..
Clark read two petitions. one signed by
thIYty-three residents OF Fourteenth ave-
ha gsa "a
Of the ordinance, and another from sixty
six residents OF Thirteenth, Fourteenth
and Fifteenth avenues praying for It's pas
The ordinance was taken up on motion
Of James, and the subsequent opening of
Z bid wherein Frink and his associates
offered the. city per cent OF the gross
earnings Of the road during the life OF
the franchise. This was the only bid, and
the award was made accordingly, follow
ed by the passage of the ordinance proper.
Consideration Of council bill No 800 9th.
erwise known as the Consolidated Street
Railway franchise. was on motion post
poned for one week,
Tho body adopted resolution of tho
public buildings and grounds committee
providing for an assistant building In.
spector The recommendation was based
on petition of the Trade and Building
Councils OF the city praying for the cree
alton OF such position. The salary was
hxed by resolution at about 500 per
month"; and acceptance OF II implies that
the recipient shall devote his fun time TO
the position.
Ths personal damage claim of Ella Mack
for $40 was allowed
Assessment rolls OF local Improvement
listrict were approved as follows:
No. 237 Union avenue. 81 d0.4i No. 220.
of the alley in block :, Bo-
RMS addition. 81 800 G5; No. 2Ss, Jackson
street sewerage, s2,sbs. II: No. 242. Marion
street planking, N.6s625.
ON Recommendation OF the sewer COM
nittee N 4. Peterson was relieved of his
assessment In the matter of the Denny
way sewer. on the ground that he had
been assessed for the Republican street
sewer.
Fifteen or twenty applications for liquor
licenses either original or renewed. were
acted upon by favorable recommendation
or reference to tho license committee