R. H. Thomson
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- Jun 3, 1892The Mystery of the Missing Railroad TrackA civil engineer's discovery threatens to derail the Columbia & Puget Sound Railroad's land claim in downtown Seattle.Seattle, WA
- Jul 9, 1893City Engineer Fires Bachelors to Save MoneyIn a wave of municipal cost-cutting, Seattle's city engineer decides that single men are the first to be let go.Seattle, WA
- Nov 30, 1893The Cable Car StandoffA proposed sewer project threatens to paralyze Seattle's transit, pitting the city's public works against the cable car company.Front Street, Seattle, WA
- Feb 6, 1894The Sewer Scandal: A Whistleblower’s WarningCity Engineer Thomson testified that he repeatedly warned officials against using sub-standard, 'rotten' brick in Seattle’s sewer construction, only to be ignored as the project fell into corruption and mismanagement.Jackson Street, Seattle, WA
- Feb 20, 1894The Siege of the City Engineer’s OfficeWhen an incoming engineer faced a stubborn incumbent, it took a locksmith, a drill, and a policeman to settle the power struggle.City Hall, Seattle, WA
- Sep 1, 1894A 'Close Combination' at the Courthouse: Surveyor Accuses King County's Ring of Self-DealingKing County's surveyor says commissioners paid the prosecuting attorney's rent to their own chairman's Union Block while refusing to cover his office — and he names the men he says run the courthouse for themselves.Seattle, WA
- Jan 26, 1895The Real Fight at City Hall Was Never About the Nominee — It Was About the City EngineerA routine appointment to the board of public works turned into a proxy war over R. H. Thomson, whose appointment a year earlier had ended Edwin Hall Warner's brief and bitter tenure as Seattle's city engineer.Seattle City Hall, Seattle, WA
- Feb 24, 1895Seattle's 1895 Warning: Secure Cedar River Water Before Private Speculators DoCity Engineer R. H. Thomson says Seattle's overworked pumps cannot survive another summer and urges the city to buy the Cedar River watershed, dams and reservoir sites while it still can.Seattle, WA
- Mar 15, 1904Samuel Hill Warns Seattle Would 'Die Like Rats in a Trap' Without HighwaysAs Congress weighs the Latimer and Brownlow road-funding bills, the Seattle utility magnate and son-in-law of James J. Hill makes the case that paved highways out of the city are a matter of survival, not comfort.Seattle, WA