The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-09-14
NEW PARISH FORMED
1t Will Be in Charge of a Dis
tinguished Jesuit.
BOUNDARIES OF HIS DISTRICT
Rev, Levi GiIberts Discourse at the
First Methodist Episcopa1-Gen-
eral Church News.

The large territory heretofore embraced
in the Catholic parish of the Church of
Our Lady of Good Help has been divided
and a new parish formed IN the center of
the city, which is to be under the care of
the Jesuits.
The boundaries of the new parish, as
laid out by his lordship, Right Rev. A. f.
Junger, bishop of Nesqually, and Rev.
Father +. Y. Prefontaine, are as follows:
Starting at the corner of Pine and Fourth
streets, east on Pine to the junction of
Seventeenth and Broad way, Broadway to
Bancroft, thence due east to Lake Wash
ington. Starting at Fourth and Pine
streets, south on Fourth to Madison, Mad
ison to Twelfth, Twelfth to Broadway,
Broadway to Yesler avenue, Yesler avenue
to Lake Washington.
All that part OF the city south and west
of Yesler avenue, Broadway, Madison,
Fourth and Pine streets will remain in the
parish presided over by Rev. Father Pre-
fontaine, while the parish boundaries of
the Sacred Heart church in North Seattle
remain unchanged.
Rev. Father Victor Garland, a mission
airy of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus.
has been in Seattle two weeks arranging
Prefontaine. Father Garland will be the
superior of the mission, and he will be as
sisted by Rev. Father A. Sweere. Regular
services will commence Immediately in the
chapel hall of the st. Francis school build
ing at Madison and Sixth streets. st.
Francis school, established about year
ago by Father Prefontaine and his church,
has already been transferred to the Jesuit
Fathers.
As soon as possible new church will
be built on the block at the northeast cor
ner of Broadway and Madison streets,
owned by the parish.
Rev. Father Prefontaine, after laboring
for twenty-six years in building up a
strong church, saw more than two years
$50 that his parish was becoming far too
large for him to handle alone, and asked
forhelp. A short time before that the
parish of the Sacred Heart, in North Sc
attic, had been divided off from Father Pre-
fontaine's parish. but still the parish was
too large, and hundreds of communicates
we're crowded out of the services every
Sunday In spite of the increasing du-
ties of the father, he found time a year
ago TO establish st. Francis school,
IN addition to the academy at Jack
son and Ninth streets, established nine
years ago and conducted under the super
vision of the church. Upon Father Pre-
fontaine's invitation the Jesuit Fathers
came to Seattle, and with the bishops
sanction the new parish was formed.
Rev. Father Victor Garland, is a young
man, a native of France, and has the hap
py faculty of making a friend of every
one ne meets. For the last six years he
has been at Yakima. Previous TO that for
a number of years he was a missionary in
Algiers and other countries in the north of
Africa In 1880 he founded Jesuit mis-
sion in Adana, Turkey. which he con-
Quoted for three and half years. Father
Sweere is a Hollander by birth and comes
here from the Eastern province. He has
been rector of large parish in Milwaukee
and has done missionary work in Chicogo,
ST. Louis and other Eastern cities.