The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-07
Spend Pleasant Day at the Madi-
son Park Pavilion.
MORE THAN 500 PRESENT.
Talk of Old Times and Exchange OF
Reminiscences-Ho Allan Weir,
of Olympia, Delivers Address of
Occasion, and Prof. r. :. Menny
Sings ''The Ola scttier--Dr. whit
worth and j. j. McGtIvra speak.

Moro than 900 pioneers Of Washington
ettended tho closing exercises Of their an
S1ual reunion yesterday at the Madison
park pavilion The occasion was one that
will live long IN the memories OF those
present Every county west Of the noun
tains was represented, the old settlers
turning out In crowds with their wives,
children and grandchildren, TO do honor to
the day.
A sturdler collection Of men II would be
hard TO find anywhere They sat on the
-- shady verandas or wandered about the
grounds I'm merry groups. exchanging rem.
arfsoences OF the earlier days on Puget
Bound Age seemed in no way to have
sessened their enjoyment I'm NE, and af.er
sufnptuous repasf al noon, 10 wnich they
did ample Justice. many OF them sought
out secluded spots and produced Cigars and
Corn-cob pipes
Their conversation was garlanded with
wise sayings and pithy observations, the
fr,iit OF many long years experience;
Below them lay the lake, steamboats, and
launches plowing its boson9 where once
the canoe WIS supreme. The distant bum
Of a mighty city had replaced the silence
OF the forest, and the white-halred pion-
GERS. The couriers OF civilization, talked OF
the change and said It was well.
Recreation Mt the Park.
Tho majority OF the pioneers left the city
aboK ii o'clock In the morning, and spent
They patronlzed the swings extensively,
Al noon they entered the pavilion for din
nor, which was served by a number OF the
ladies' OF the association.
Half an hour was given up TO general
conversation and the renewing of old
friendships and then President Thomas W.
Prosch ascendsd the stage, and called the
meeting to order. In few well chosen
remarks he introduced W. ". Rinehart.
who welcomed tho visitors to Seattle. he
generously turned the city over 20 the
pioneers, even giving them permission 10
climb the totem pole II they 70 desired,
Hon. Allan Weir. OF Olympia, the orator
of tala day. was then presented TO the as
sefnbly. Mr.. Weir made an eloquent and In
structivo speech, frightened BY many
sudden fashes Of hurnor,
He said IN part:
Life Of Early settlers.
Forty yeua aga yesterday ! landed
on the Inviting - mud fats at Dunge-
ness, IN the county of clallam, territory
of Washington. United States of America
AT least we were told that we were sim
supposed TO be within he bounds of
Uncle SANS domain. | remember. how
ever, that mother concluded II must be the
edge OF the jumping of place our first
Impressions were that we were indeed
far from the maddening crowd and
these Impressions were not weakened by
subsequent events. There was "a sense
OF largencsa OF room for expansion, as
II were. We had the broad pillows OF the
straits OF Juan de Fuca to the north of
US, tho snow-capped mountain sentinels
OF the Oiympcs stood In solemn gran
qNNl tlllltH AWAY 10 the HuHtnNArU, our
nearest neighbors 70 the westward with
few exceptions save Siwashes were some
where out on the Aleutian islands or the
coast of Asia; and We had most all the
space 80 the eastward clear to the Mon
tnna line 10 grow up In. Farther east
than that the space had been reserved
como and occupy H. IL we had desired
60 visit the San Juan islands, where
few American soldiers occasionally made
faces at few English soldiers for as
serting tho dignity and sovereignty Of
the Union Jack-or, II we had wished to
call ON Capt. Roeder or Edward Eldrdge
at Fort Heiltpgham, or to make the ac-
qusintauce OF lett or Morse or Crockett
or Cranney or Buzby on WILDLY island
why. II was merely a matter of forty
ycyances there were Indian canoes 10
be chartered 'spose kiaska potlstch
we. OF course. were not among the
frat Already there had been white set
Tiers In ClalIam, or what was then Cial-
lam county, "a long az six or eight years.
Some OF these, as Capt MeAlmond John
Thornton, John Donuell, the late l. r.
nrownheld and few others, had been
there when the area later set on "a tial-
lain and Jefferson counties We're merely
voting precincts Of Thurston county. No,
we were 'Cho chacea' 30 1860 Btlly Ward
had not vet claimed Hurd creek by right
Of discovery; nor had Mount Olympus
been marked on tho maps At Port Town
send the fetiygroycs Hastingses, king
ers, hriggseS and others were already
Neuaratcd as old-timCrs. over Ia the
snohomish country young fellow named
Ferguson had a few dozen square miles
mostly 20 himseif Occasionally We could
hear him laugh, bat didn't get lime TO
&c over and "a. on him for some fifteen
years afterward.
Several sawmiils existed on Puget
sound In iseo. + l.. Mhsttck s. Cos min
nt Port Discovery was daily chewing w
liyns NICOLA stick Arthur phinney. at
Port Ludlow, WINS doing likewise at least
HIS min was. white Pope ( Talbot had
made I$rt Gamble famous aud cyrus
alE IA tN..e, fts
Into a hundred thousand or So At SEA.
beck Marshall hliun aud Capt Adams
,ysre, doing , = rushing ,,id business Ard then
sisied Hood N dtgElug the canal and
who watched ~ carefully mKny years o.
kssp Il from SETTING checked or rned Nh
and useless or course We knew that al
oBmeta Judge HtSeloW MAJ Brooks
George A. harnce. John Miller Murphy
petchca or clam patches Vt thoir own o.
sssY NOTHING 90 h"ur sack patches whrrc
psy would do che most good Gov Mai.
hea ana frank Clark uriKlnat uatentces
at steiacoom, were patiently waiting f.f
Chat bars 'o rival Ntw NufA Tacaruu
there wac Mayor Edward HukMtns az
ktsquslly fort who tended the rjaius and
esrs people ~ the E1ae4 w aia hear
Fofsua aud Nss3er. away up % TUiott
DAY. has ST "a Said road mRH~ almost
miie back tuIo the woods auA haa 81
roe onfoe started named after oiA cater
EeNlth The YAKIMA country as ALI
Eastern Washington WAS called VA.
Aimplv a htg stock range.
The Farm in the MiIderness
I'VE ai1nR wait long TO feast On the
gibrfns % sure. an 'taC Nature but after
having shsctteA a generous fuIintea ~
fhs Bud Eat smell we climbed up 20 ths
fsYrr barh. wrerr an lu3iau Village f.ir.
ptshed other sorts = smells ia ~rlI.r.
Variety and prodigal Frofustsu oar BE
factory nerves were speedily sntiats.f.
n tAo;. almost rRrslyzeA ~ she fearf4fy
All flHV &C "a d..
tmctr thosp Our urst coucern was ne
tarm' We had come a thousand miles lbs