The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-21
A SEATTLE COLLEGE.
Baptist University Site on Lake
Washington.
LIBERAL BONUS PROMISED
A Commanding and Beautiful Location
History OF the Movement which
10 At Last Successful.

OTkbuiLeu university Vi 0cuthc, . oieS zoe
finally settled upon. and there is every in
dication that the negotiations now almost
completed will be closed up within week,
and that Seattle will shortly have . mag
nificent Baptist university established upon
a sound financial basis, and with the whole
Northwest rs keld of support.
The site selected is in section 10. town.
ship IS north, of range west, in King
county. 1t is one mile from Lake Wash
ington, on the east side, one-half mile from
Anderson bay. 1t is three miles due east
from the northeast corner of this city, and
overlooks Lake Washington and Lake
Samish, sixteen miles OF the west shore of
the former lake being in plain view from
the site. The ten acres which will be used for
the campus, in the center Of which will be
the university buildings. They are reached
from all sides by easy grades, and are adj
mirabiy situated for college purposes. A
$4,000 brick college building will be built
for start, so constructed that 1t may
afterwards be made the wing OF an edifce
OF larger proportions. Brick and stone
auxiliary buildings will also be put up, the
trustees binding themselves to have them
enclosed by September /, 1892, and finished
and occupied by September l, 1888.
Rev. !. w. Reed, pastor of the Market
street Baptist church. has been elected finan-
cial secretary of the board OF trustees, at q
salary OF 5000 per year. and has asked for
a week TO consider the offer. 1t is probable
that he will give up his pastorate and will
at once take up the financial management
of the university project.
About Us acres of land and several
q Toll in hayo
pledged to the trustees TO carry the move
ment through and about ninety-five acres
OF this has already been bonded to the
board.
Some OF the land given to the university
is as follows: q. w. r. Pettibone, twenty
acres; Mrs Susan A. Wells, an undivided
half.interest in forty acres; Mrs. Annie
Houghton. ten acres; D. ]. Shiak, ten
acres; L. G. Shorey, ten acres; A. G. Soren-
son, ten acres; George B. Kittinger, ten
acres: B. L. Northrup. four acres; Mr..
Fagerberg, two acres; University Snydi-
cate, ten acres, and several other gifts in
different amounts. making in all nearly
I25 acres. The board has set l50 as the
number of acres which they will have be-
fore they stop and the members are con.
fident of securing this in a few days.
Mr.. Fred T. Gates, secretary of the
American Baptist Educational Society, was
in Seattle last week in conference with the
board OF trustees upon the subject of the
university. His society is the medium
through which J. ID. Rockefeller has
mi de his munificent endowments, and Mr..
Gates will doubtless recommend this as a
most deserving institution. If he does the
university will be placed at once on very
substantial basis. This course of support,
however, is not assured and the board will
go ahead, whether it receives aid from the
national society or not.
The idea of a Baptist university on the
Sound is not new one, but has been
hou ght of and liked at as long ago as
1875 In that year at the fifth annual
meeting of the Puget sound association,
the following resolutions, which were
probably the first of such nature passed
by the Baptists in this section. were
adopted:
WHEREAS. The American Baptist Educational
Commission calls upon the Baptists of the
country TO commemorate the one-hundredth
birthday of this republic, by q simultaneous
effort for the upbuilding of Baptist institutions
Of les rning, and
WHEREAS, We feel that the educational wants
of this territory cannot be supplied by iustttu-
tons abroad, and
WHEREAS, We recognize that in the rapid
growth of this Northwest territory the time is
not far distant when an educated ministry can
only be supplied by young men raised and edu-
cat on the field; therefore
Resoired, That we recommend the appoint.
ment or elet ton of an associational committee
to secure proposals for site and to solicit
funds with a view to building up as God may
open the way q Baptist institution OF learning
in our midst. and report at Our next association
meeting.
Resolved, That we earnestly urge and author.
il every pastor TO secure as many subscrio-
tons as possible to the dollar fund.- and to pay
them into the hand of the committee or officers
for that purpose on or before the Ath of July.
1876 thus concentrating the centennial OF our
national Independence by an Offering which
shall prove to ba a blessing to future genera
tons and rebound to the glory of God.
The movement at that time was pre-
mature, however, and nothing was done
for several years. In 1888 a committee of
the association recommended that three
seminaries should be instituted in this ter
ritory, one midway between Puget sound
and the Columbia river, one in the Puget
sound basin, and the third near the ter.
minus of the Canadian Pacific railway.
These schools were TO be part of a system
OF feeders to supply with students a con.
veniently located college or university. but
the Bapnsts then thought that they should
have TO support the McMinnville college
in Oregon.
Abou, this time Richard Holvoke of
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