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8 stories matching clutter

  1. After the Great Fire: A City Rebuilds from Ashes

    Following the Great Seattle Fire of 1889, city authorities clash with circus owners and residents over the 'tinderbox' conditions that allowed the blaze to consume the downtown business district.

    Jun 18, 1889The Seattle Post-IntelligencerFront Street, Seattle, King CountyCity Hall · Disasters

  2. The Great Bill-Posting Scandal: Seattle’s First War on Urban Clutter

    As the city grows, merchants are plastering every available surface with advertisements. Now, frustrated business owners are demanding the City Council step in to stop the visual chaos.

    Oct 2, 1876The Daily IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

  3. Seattle's Great Tent Crisis

    After the Great Fire of 1889, the city struggled to regulate the makeshift shanties and board-and-canvas tents cluttering the city limits.

    Sep 21, 1889The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

  4. The Candidate Who Refused to Promise a Bridge

    Running for representative, Gordon C. Moores argues that effective legislation requires compromise rather than the 'hobby-riding' log-rolling that clutters the statute books.

    Sep 7, 1916The Kennewick Courier-ReporterKennewick, Benton CountyCity Hall

  5. The Garbage Crisis: Seattle’s ‘Primitive’ Streets Demand a Permanent Solution

    As the City Council debates the fate of the city's waste, officials warn that makeshift disposal methods are turning neighborhoods into health hazards and driving down property values.

    Feb 17, 1889The Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyCity Hall

  6. The Great Telephone Monopoly Debate

    Tacoma’s business elite weigh in on whether a second telephone franchise will bring healthy competition or just more tangled wires.

    May 28, 1904The Tacoma TimesTacoma, Pierce CountyFollow the Money

  7. The Struggle to Keep Seattle Clean in 1888

    As Seattle prepared for a massive influx of tourists for a summer celebration, one citizen publicly shamed the city's leadership for allowing its streets to remain a cluttered, hazardous mess of construction debris.

    Jun 21, 1888The Seattle Post-IntelligencerFront Street, Seattle, King CountyCity Hall

  8. The Midnight Butcher of Seattle

    A traveler stops for the night at a remote fisherman's hut, only to find himself terrorized by the sound of steel scraping against stone.

    Nov 23, 1876The Daily IntelligencerSeattle, King CountyStrange But True

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