In January 1906 Seattle Assistant City Engineer James C. Jeffery announced another round of street name changes. He explained that changes were necessary because sometimes there were two streets with the same name in different parts of the city. Other streets had confusing names and the city engineering department decided that simplification was needed.
Seattle newspapers noted the street-name ordinance which City Council was to vote for, and printed the list of all the proposed changes. Among the changes to be made, were street names in what is now the area around Seattle Pacific University on north Queen Anne.
The listing of streets in the Ross Addition and Ross Second Addition, was plats of land on both sides of today’s ship canal, on land once owned by the Ross family.
The reference to the Victory Addition included the present site of the Seattle Pacific University campus. One of the streets in that area was to be renamed “Humes Place.”
