The Seattle Post Intelligencer

MAY WIDEN MADISON STREET.

Northern Pacific Plans Contemplate Increasing It to 100 Feet.

Contrary to the expectations of several city officials the application of the Northern Pacific for the vacation of Madison, Spring and Seneca streets and Western avenue was not made last night at the meeting of the city council. The papers are still in the hands of the local representatives of the railroad company. Maps are being prepared showing the location and extent of the proposed improvements, and their relation to local shipping and commercial interests so that city officials and all interested may obtain for themselves an idea of the proposed terminals.

One feature of the plans of the Northern Pacific for terminals on its water front property, which has heretofore been overlooked, is the proposed widening of Madison street from Post street to Railroad avenue. The street at present is sixty-six feet wide. The Northern Pacific proposes to give the city a strip of land thirty-four feet wide by 250 feet in length on the north side of Madison street from Post street as widened to the railroad tracks. This will make a street 100 feet wide, affording a wide thoroughfare from the business section to the water front and the passenger depot.