The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-04

above disaster. and the city that rose out
of the ashes was far more solid AMI far
more beautiful than its predecessor. AS
we were about to extend our drive, in and
out OF the town, we had the good fortune
10 find DIR. Alison. and laid held on
him." and forced him to come UP into
the chariot and keep us company. He
took us TO see his own large and beauti-
full church, In which he fully expects to
receive the general assembly when next
it holds its annual gathering on the Pa
cific. Seattle is city of churches, Of off
ferent denominations, ali OF which would
join heartily to welcome the great Pres
byterian sanhedrim- But when shall
these things be? Not next year. nor the
year after. But we may hope that it win
be before this century has expired. And
may we be there to see
Nor did DR.. ALISON fail to point out the
site of the coming university in which
he interested a good many friends at TIE
East a year or two since, to which the
late Elliot F. Shepard and other generous
givers contributed. The site Is ma gnifi-
cent-a bold heailand overlooking Puget
Sound--a position as commanding as that
OF Robert college ON the Bospaorus,
session 1t has started nlO<sestly in a town
IN the interior. where its beginnings are
small. but not a bit smaller than were
those OF Harvard and Yale; and by ami
by, when it takes possession of it's hill OF
Zion, and all dts lamps OF science and
philosophy are trimmed and burning" 1t
will be lighthouse of learning that will
cast its rays far and wide along the shores
of the Pacific.
But this Is not the only commanding
site in the surrounding OF Seattle. The
city Is g.rdled with hills. This clay OF the
land" would be the despair of road-mak-
ess. who should wish to lay out a scsey
four-squar'e. with the Streets all running
ct right angles, and on a level surface
And yet it is this very irveguiarity whieh
offers to architects and landscape garden
ers the opportunity TO produce their most
beautiful effects. In this mornings drive
we came abruptly on many a high place
that would be a fitting site for q stately
mansion, with n lookout over land and
sea; with many a quiet nook nestled in
the recesses of the hills, where a. post Oh.
painter or scholar might shut himself in
from the world, and dream Dreams as
IL he were i'm some like nest on the shores
OF the bay OF Naples.
After a drive of four hours we were
not sorry for a MONDAY rest at the Rain
Ter house. which from the hilltop COM
mands view of miles up and down Pu-
get Sound, and to tina mountains on the
west. where the sun goes down.
But the sun Is net down yet, and our
work Is but half-done. When you go to
Seattle" said a friend, do not fail to
see Washington lake" But it is several
miles out OF town. Yet for all these Diff
culties a way Is provided, for electric
cars or cable cars are running every
where. not only through the streets. but
up hill and down dale with a swiftness
that almost takes ones breath away. and
in half an hour We were looking into the
placid face OF a sheet OF water as beau
tiiGl as ever WAS empcsomea IN the niffa
And when We reluctantly turned our
backs upon 1t, II was only 10 take an
other long ride TO another lake, with n
grove on its border. whero parties from
the city camp in the shade, or skim the
water in their light shells" forgetting
all the hard labor. and all the folly and
the sin Of this weary and wicked world.