The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-11-16
JUST 38 YEARS AGO
Anniversary Of the Founding
Of Seattle. !.
MEN WHO SAW The clTrs BIRTH
Hos A. a. Dsaay aaa Deputy colI~etas
Aiexaassr Ten Kew They Beeame
Rloneers 81 Seattle.

Yesterday was the thirtv eighth anysveE-
sarv Of tbe founding Of the CITY Of Fassie.
Only two men are n0w living il ae city
who canse up On the pioneer boE which
brought the thirty or forty young faen who
founded the city. These two ARE Hon.
Arthur A. Denny and Mr. John Alexander.
deputy United states collector III customs
ct this port The latter gea9eman was
seen yesterday by Posf-Is tKLLtGEscEk
reporter.
rfosKKs ALExAwpxR EroET.
Il was ONLY Is years old fhcn we canse
" from Portland on the kchooner Exact
and landed NJ Alki point sot house was
In ssghl. We stayed tnqe q short time
and saen nav fathers faukly sent 20 Wild
by island. where my mSaeris still living
Arthur Denny. then q 3eang man, Charley
Terry. Carson y. Bored and others came
over 70 seattle ard fof hded thecify. There
We're. shonld say, feariy 200 Indians
here ~ that time. Al 4 they were peaeeAble
until several years filter that remember
when Charley Terry landed. he said, Here
Is going 10 be fhef6ew York Of the Pacific,
bat IA old settle& thought. twenty years
aeo. that the CT would never be as large
az it Is now.
What did SEATTLE look Iike7 Well. there
was dense f6Fest ali over. except On the
point near where the Arlington stood. on
The corner Of Main and second streets
The Indians had cleared this place. which
was thsn an island, and we used TO row
around il Hpto near where the Occidental
block Is being built.
1.-THE boat VIC came ont The Exact was
schooner which had been chartered by a
LOT Of miners az San Francisco TO go 70
Alaska. When they got 70 Portland We
induced them 10 take us on board and TO
60 several hundred miles ont Of their way
10 land Us. The Exact gent on 10 Queen
Charlotte island AMI expected 70 came
back in seven months Over a year wens
by and nothing was heard OF her. Finally
the brig Tarqreno. under Captain Baleh.
went after the Exact A party from this
boat got lost tn the woods ard we're cap
inred b. the Indians. S. y. Howe was
one OF this party.
Portland was then q snail town and
oIymFia had two or three cabins The
people here made living by cutting and
hewing plies and trapping for the Hudson
Bay Fur Company.
PIONEER pKxsY's STORY.
Hon. A. A. Denny, the other pioneer
who came 10 Seattle thiFty-eight years ago,
was too sick yesterday to be seen by re-
porter. His entertaining little book, pub
hshed last year. Pioneer Days on Puget
Sound, states that be arrived on Novem-
Der Is. 1851. instead OF on the 18th. speak
ing Of the trip to seattle in his book. he
says:
"The Exact sailed from Portland on the
5th OF November. ISL and cleared at As
toria. rs shown by the cussomhoEse re-
eords. on the It'll We crossed OFT on the
same day, and on Thursday, the 18th. our
party, consisting Of myself and family,
John " Low and IaSaily. c. ID.
Boren aud family, VIM. n. Bell and family,
and Charles G.. Terry landed at Alki point,
and our first work was TO provide shelter
for the winter. We finished the house be-
gun by my brother. d. T. Denny, and Lee
Terry. for ]. N. Low, and all took shelter
in Il from the rain. which was falling more
or less every day. bus we did net regard II
with much concern and seldom LOST any
time ON that account. We next bniit log
house for myself. which increased our
roam verv materially and made all more
comfortable. We had NOW used up eli the
timber suitable for log houses which we
could get without a team, and we split
cedar and built houses for He'll and BaTen
which We considered quite fancy, but not
so substantial as the log houses. About
the time we had completed our winter
quarters the brig Lecnesa. Captain Daniel
). Howard. came to anchor In the bay
Seeing that the place was Inhabited By
whites the captain came on shore seeking
= cargo Of piles. ard we readily made q
contract 10 load his vessel. -