The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-08-19

sewer VIII hu discussed again nj the
special meeting to be- held ia OF.
mans hall tonight by the Haluiof
Heights improvement club. The tax
payers. who viii be Assessed fuf tho
500 600 Improvement. are thorough
~ aroused over The matter Most
OF them think that "a rank injustice
~ being done them aud it rs likely
that the hall viii be- filled 10 over
flowing
The resolution ordering the wurk
has already been passed by the
council. the members Of which. since
Corporation Counsel Gillian in.
formed them that the method 81
affeaameut proposed by city Eugi
ucor Thomson vas legal are gen
orally In favor Of seeing the im-
provrmeut go ahead Councilman
Johnston Il the Second ward stated
yesterday that he was Ia favor of
u. although he aidesiepaod the re-
uponaibllity OF introducing the feao-
luton in tie present shape.
lie shifted that act off upon The
shoulders Of city Engineer Thorn.
son
The sewer Is necessity he
said "and / want 90 see ita con-
aturiion begun a. soon a. possible.
1.-THE drainage facilities la the Rat
Enief avenue valley are now abamiu
Fable The district % rapidly gain
Tins In population. and unless a
Irower o. quickly built there o. liable
I q be an epidemic 81 typhoid among
. itr residents
The people out there have been
{ trying 60 get the sewer Tor years.
and 1 Do not like o. see lie con
struetlon blocked now BY a little
matter when ita completion appears
o. be go nearly certainty
"fhe mode ~ assessment pro
. poaed believe % b. just an prop
rgtY aaaraasd fuf che trunk sewer.
even 10 the far,heat limits uf the az
sssament district - Aloha street on
/ The hafth aud broadway % the east
viii be benefited A trunk sewer %
T five OF nix feet Ia diameter BE- ALSO
luteiY required O. remove The sew
aFt from the whole district
The Lane street aud Twelfth hv-
enue sewers are nos inadequate
and must BE- relieved Ia rainy
weather the sewage b. forced up
through the mauhalea lu The streets
F When the ueW trunk De- constructed
theae sewers will hs EiFsn a suitable
outlet The city furnished 81 600
lut - the Ksusnal fund for the Im
F profemsnt and consider that quite
F liberal"
Chairman Mullen % the streets
committee said that politics and
+ agitation - Former Councilman q.
n Muldoou. who h affected ~ the
F Improvement are the chief causes
Of all the truubie
Those people had better stop
taikinE politics and talk business.
b. said They have been making
big hue aud cry bot not one IL
them has taken The trouble 90 eume
up here a. the engineers office and
talk over the plans in a business
way While Mr kinilef aaa com
Gilman from the Second uard he
made repeated attempts % secure
ths construction q The sever. but
failed
4 am not particularly Interested
f Co. the matter. but ! woaid like TO
So the Improvement made ! have
been attacked fof speaking In favor
F u g. Eheu ! did 80 uHly because
T ! thought ! suuid b. helping other
Cuunelimeu who represent the dis
tfict affected bY the Improvement
+ 90 doing q good work
e DO net believe that those peo-
RE oct there know a good thluE
when they sse H. The finance eam
mittea has already offered % LET 20
10000 cot 81 the general fund for
E the improvement and I think that
F o. very liberal II advantage iH not
taken 81 II pretty noon. II is liable
. a. BE- discovered that thIa rum will
F bc Withdrawn al she time the tan
lew and reapporiionmeut Of funds
+ for the coming year is made b. the
committee In a few weeks
/ The city engineers assert that The
claim made BY certain uhlectora %
the proposition that the city Off
ciala are trying 70 establish uew
precedent ~ taxing certain districts
for the construction OF trunk sew
om. Instead ~ the general fund. h
not true They aay that several
trunk sewers have recently been
constructed without drawing GA the
general fund
me HE arueraro aVaf,an rf
Brooklyn. nov under construction.
was SO necessary that the city coos
asnte8 90 give tG.0a0 out ~ the Een
Cral fund for ita construction be-
cause the limit u assessment # tho
property affected Waa 20 small that
% could not have been built with
ont the clty.s aid
They claim that other sewer ays-
TENS. which though not aa large az
the proposed Rainier avenue afB-
tenn are strictly trunk sewers never
thClfas. have been built with little
or no aid from the general fund.
They point 20 the recently comnlet-
eel brick trunk. measuring 20 ~ 30
inches. on Twenty third avenue. the
Ewing street. the Lake Dell. the
Mndrona Heights. the East Denny
way the East Pine street. the Four
trcuth avenue. and the Twelfth ave
nuo trunk sewer systems ne In
stances of this kind The Twelfth