The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-11

~ ~ meeting OF the board Of public
~ nSat saturday plans will probably be
rSyo1 and bids asked for laying an
kt-lneh water main on Seventeenth
n1s1a. from Yesler way to East Madison
10y uids will be opened and the work
n rvoootly be started within the next
~ seventeenth avenue water main IL
~ ~ W the city under the plan
= n6o61ng the cort OF the Improvement
1n6t the abutting property adopted
cnartsr amendment last spring. This
M - TIE hrst trial of tho new method
~ ~ Intention Is TO make II a test
- q ~ carried TO the state supreme
Pf FOR decision upon the legality OF
M n1sn Of paying for water mains Tn
decision IL rendered in this test
o. ~ actien will be taken upon the
XNG twenty proposed water main ex-
6foBs now IN the hands OF the city
4 = M the purpose Of the city 70 ad-
- u the letter Of the charter. The
- = recognized that a water main of
1V ~ y OF benefit to more than the
ocsnt property. probably serving as
na sn tUr 'G e Assem-. ssss sr.ns a r.,
0cb3y uniy the cost Of . six-inch matn
M case where larger pipe II laid
y 11H1fence between the cost OF a sig
IA main and that put down viii be paid
~ proposed main on Seventeenth ave-
6s king m eight-inch pipe. the crst OF
- inDFovsment win be divided, between
r. Uypsrty owners and the city. II Is
lkough Il il probable that figure Will
n pmewhet reduced BY the bidding Of
~ oootrnctors Should no reduction be
kowsver. 1855 Of the cost win be
s.2o ~ xns cry ana ssi,, Eno viii b as
k1ld the supreme court dsclde that
~ 1et q water mains cannot be az
~ eoNlhst the abuttlng property. no
III 4atSF mains will Be laid in the city
~ for 1901 the city council an Az
N satisfied that the provision
~1 ~ eustAined, cut out the 100000
r - for water main construction in
- ~ mains, with the exception Of
m uof& on tho Cedar river water sys-
fave been laid since early spring,
~ q : constantly increasing De.
81 nav mains IN every portion Of
IN cysssms csIiir fos IL ssp esesnd Mn,ss
Ii Q4ut 30. 90, will be held Up by the
IT'LL until decision Il secured il the
Ssm 9s. %ss r4S on 10 Ease 9..s
Hfeet; an eight-inch main on Minor
Gyn from Madison street 10 Union
a Bellevue avenue. from Union
- Denny way, and on Denny ray
4ellevue avenue TO Summit avenue;
- 4t-!nch main on Twentieth avenue
~ {ssier way to East Marion street;
t-inch main on Queen Anne ave-
- Qaier street TO Ray street: an
~ Matn on Sixteenth avenue sui
8th avenue north, from Yesler way
4eet south OF East Harrison street:
t-inch main on Eighteenth avenue.
Teller way TO East Union; an ciahr-
4Am on Twenty-sixth avenue south,
Ysrler way to Judklns street; an
l.inch main on Harvard avenue. from
"a Way 70 Pike. street; an eight-inch
~ avenue north. from East Madison
~ 20 East Republican street: eight
y, ten-inch. twelve-inch mains on
4 MoAison street. from Broadway TO
4ty ninth avenue north. an eight
main on Roylsson avenue. from SEN
street 70 Denny way: ten-inch
% On Broadway. from Jefferson street
Adison street; an eight.inch main
* summit avenue. from Broadway TO
~ avenue south. from Main street to
oee)cut street; an eisht-inch main on
see~eH street from Twenty-fourth ave
- eeuth 10 Thirticth avenue south:
q egol-fncb main on Eleventh avenue
M. from East Denny way 10 Hast
xlsen street. twenty-inch main on
eotstn avenue. from Iseil street TO.
ath avenue, from East Madison street
. East Mercer street. n twcive-inch
<asA system covering the entire Denny
AMMAN addition, estimated to cost
x<&; main on Fourth avenue west,
9en republican street 10 Roy street