The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-08-05
PLANS MAKING FOR
GREAT CITY
r CIVIC COMMISSION, RE-
.eu7LY APPOINTED, BE-
GINS ITS WORK.
Linn of One Million and Area OF
- Hundred Fifty Square Miles
Basis on Which Plans viii Be
,v,rked out-Work to Start at the
Water Front.

citv of 100000 is the basis on
.iob all work of the civic plans COM
Sn ;nSion of Seattle will be done. The
I US are to be extended in the future
cover territory embracing $50
.,orp miles. This decision was reach
y recently at a full meeting of the
commission.
ritv Engineer R. H. Thomson was
s,rtber instructed to correspond with
,T p Bogue, the noted New York
.oilvay and traction engineer, to as
..rtan if his services can be secured
sor 81 800 a month. In previous cor
,asnondence Mr.. Bogue has intimated
tbot he would accept $4,000 a month.
Tho commission believes he can be OBJ
+oined for the lesser figure. If Bogue
moves willing, Thomson was instruct
ID 10 employ him at once.
Preliminary Work Authorized.
Thomson was further instructed to
socure competent engineers and drafts
men to develop all data available pos.
spssed by the city. The object is to
have the preliminaries ready for the
eyDert. Bogue, or the man finally
chosen, to begin work at once without
going to unnecessary expense to Sc
cure data already held by the city.
committee consisting of Engineer
Thomson, Councilman F. P. Mullen
and James Anderson, of the Pacific
Coast Company, was named to fix the
salaries of the engineers and drafts
men employed for this purpose. Of
fees will be opened at once in rooms
1924 Central building, including
drafting, consultation and secretary's
room.
Ask for a Tax Levy.
The commission made an estimate
which will be filed with the city
comptroller asking that official to pro-
vide for a tax levy that will raise $685.
900 under the charter authorization.
By this law the commission is author
lied to anticipate the revenue raised
by the levy by issuing warrants
against it.
The committee, including William
H. Murphy, president of the city coun-
ell, and Norwood Brockett, secretary
Of the commission, was instructed to
wait on the finance committee of the
council and ask for temporary appro-
pration of $4,000 from the general
fund to be credited to current expenses
Of the civic plans commission and re-
paid out of the revenue of the tax
levy.
To Start at Water Front.
1t was agreed at the meeting that
1t should be the policy of the COM
mission that work shall be started at
the water front, planning harbor and
dockage facilities in connection with
land lines. Then traction lines will be
laken up, including surface, tunnels
and subways or elevated lines, all with
reference to the plans for the water
front and railway development in get
ing proper grades and routes for the
uanscontinental lines in and out of
the city
The sewerage and water system is
10 TALL naturally into the scheme, bring.
Ing about a logical determination OF
the civic center. The main idea to be
kept IN mind will be the relation OF
Tue water traffic to the land trans
poftation lines with view to develop
lug Seattle as a great commercial cen.
ter
Proposed New City Boundary.
City Engineer Thomson furnished
We data On which the basis of 1,0O0, 900
equation to $50 square miles OF ter
.i'ory was fixed. The tentative lines
Including this territory run east from
.ue sound at Richmond Beach along
le county line between King and
s ~ county, to a point opposite
Ae north end of Lake Washington
~, VEST OF Bothell, thence southeasterly
ioush the center of Lake Washing
:. WI swinging east under Juanita bay
"a point mile northeast Of Kirkland
.uence the line drops In q generally
,Ou.aerly direction, including all the
W. r.titory on the east side Of Lake
o naasssaington, to a point as far south q
oliilia' thence westerly to the Sound
san sSin, taking in Sunnydale. This line
n n,iuoes the proposed $50 square miiei
S WI; IN a general way and the territor,
VA ~in De carefully examined BY the com
- customers before final decision VII