The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-07-19
THE PIONEERS BUILDING.
Meeting to Arrange for Structure-Tht
Plan Gains Approval.


Plan Gains Approval.
At O'Clock next Saturday afternoon in
the Office of d. T. Denny viii be held a
meeting of the pioneers of Seattle and vi
cinity to consider the question of erecting
here Pioneers building and to arrange
for incorporation. As has already been
announced, 2. II. Servis has given the lot
on the southwest corner of Madison and
Fourth streets as site. and Henry l..
Yesier, Hillory Butler and L. S.
Rowe have promised gifts of land,
which can be used toward the
building fund. n. ]. Ohm has promised
lot worth 5000. and Captain Henry Roeder,
of Whatcom, another of the same value.
Conditional promises have been made by
other pioneers. John Parkinson has Of
fered his services to the extent of $3.50.
In connection with this subject, the fol-
lowing letter, under date of July IL, has
been received from Judge James G. Swan,
of Port Townsend:
l have received letter from Mr.. Charles
Prosch, secretary OF Washington Pioneer Asso-
citation, informing me that Mr.. z. H. Lewis. OF
Seattle, member of the pioneers, has offered to
give the society valuable lot of land on which
to erect a building for the use of the pioneers
for ali time and that other pioneers will aid in
having a commodious Pioneer hall with ample
space for our annual reunions, with rooms Tor
our records, historical matter, museum, etc. l
have mentioned this matter to the pioneers in
Port Townsend and they are much pleased with
the idea. We have long needed hall for our
headquarters. We have wandered about from
place TO place like the children OF Israel in the
wilderness, and this promise of a resting place,
fixed habitation, is very gratifying. Seattle is
the proper place for the Pioneer hall. 1t is GEN.
trail, easy of access, and very convenient for all
the pioneers OF Western Washington, as we'll as
those east of the Cascade range.
A pioneer hall will serve as nucleus to
attract every pioneer not only at our regular
reunions, but whenever he or she may visit Sc
attic. The reading room will afford a resting
place where pioneers can meet each other, spin
yarns. read the papers, or write letters.
The secretarys Office will have the records,
and he will be the custodian of the manuscript
writing OF the early history of our state which
pioneers will be more ready to furnish when
they feel sure that such manuscript will be pre-
served among the archives of the society to be
available for the future historian.
Every pioneer of Jefferson, Clalam, San Juan,
Whatcom, Snohomish and Island counties will
be more than pleased to know that there is q
prospect OF Pioneer hall assured by the munif-
cence of such Seattle pioneers as p. H. Lewis, A.
A. Denny, David Denny, Henry L. Yesler, Hill
Tory Butler and other wealthy pioneers OF the
Queen city. / trust that by the time OF our next
Tuesday in June, 1898, that we may meet in the
new hall and congratulate each other that the
swarm OF pioneers which now are to be found
all over the state have at last settled into their
hive, which will from thenceforth be the so
Ciety's home