1893 Ballard Directory

              Seattle Goal & Iron Go. «~e£™ COAL
Telephone 57.
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Incorporated as a city of the third class. Located at the
head of Salmon Bay, adjoining the northern boundary of Seattle, on a plateau gently sloping to the water. The town
was first platted a little over four years ago, and .owing to its
excellent location and shipping facilities has become quite a
manufacturing centre, with a population of about 2,600. It
possesses a fine deep-water harbor, Salmon Bay being the j
mouth of the proposed ship canal connecting Lake Washington with the Sound. The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern
Railway passes along the water front and the Great Northern
Railway through the western end of the town. The town is ^ •
well laid out, with graded and planked streets and good busi- § *—
ness blocks. It is provided with an efficient fire department, 0m
electric light plant, water works, etc. Among its principal O ^
industries are seven shingle and saw mills, sash and door c ™—
factory, steel and iron works, ship yards, boiler works, a ^^
savings bank, dry goods and general merchandise stores, etc. - "j?
There are also two school houses and seven churches. ^
CITY GOVERNMENT. * #
City offices w s Ballard av bet 2d and 3d avs. Mayor, A. E. %\
Pretty; councilmen, A. Looney, F. Frazier, A. McDonald, F. H|-"
C. Shirtliff, Wm. Curtiss, W. T. McVay, M. Czerwinka; ^
treasurer, J. Keane; assessor, H. B. Pederson; health officer, *—
George P. Holden; city clerk, E. O. Marsh; city attorney, E. ^Z
Peters; marshal, J. Peters; city engineer, Stewart K. Smith: 2
police magistrate, W. H. Vernon. H Ql
FIRE DEPARTMENT. r,U
Wm. Cochran, chief fire department. tj "K
Shilshole Hose Co. No. 1—Frank W. Frazier, foreman, s s g
Ballard av opp Park Place. 2
Ballard Hose Co. No. 2—Frank T. Finnerin, foreman, s s pi
Ballard av opp Park Place.
Loyhed Tinware MTg Co, {!&}nz
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