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LOS ANGELES GAS COMPANY.
In 1866 the Counnon Council granted a franchise for the purpose of furnishing the city with gas. The Following year a company was duly incorporated, aud established works on the vorner of Turner and New High streets. The principal mer- cantile houses were first lighted by gas ou the evening of November 20, 1867. In 1876 the company was compelled to inove their works, as they were too near the business portion of the city. The new works are located on Aliso street, and have capacity of manufacturing one hundred thousand cubic feet of gas per day. C. 11. Simkins, President; Daniel Ulhnan, Superintendent; H. L. Maeniel, Secretary.
BEET SUGAR FACTORY.
Messrs. Nadeau & Gennert have purchased a large tract of land on the San Antonio Rancho, adjoining the railroad, and have recently erected thereon a factory for the purpose of inanufacturing beet-sugar. This promises to be one of the greatest industries iu the county, and should prove profitable both to the fariner and the manufacturer. Messrs. Nadeau & Genvert have imported beet-seed from Europe at an expense of several thousand dollars, and have distributed it among the farmers. There have been some one thousand acres planted in beets this season throughout the county, and the crop will average about twenty tons to the acre. The beets
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have been analyzed for their saccharine qualities and the analysis has proven very satisfactory. That this new enter- prise will be a grand success is undoubted. The Iwrts are ent up and dried before being operated upon.
ASBESTINE SUB-IRRIGATION COMPANY.
This system of sub-irrigation originated with E. M. Hamil- tou, of East Los Angeles, who, in 1876, luid concrete pipes to conduct water to each tree, delivering the water on the surface of the ground. This proved better than the ordinary way of irrigating, but required too much water; the ground still had to be dng around the tree to prevent its baking, and tended to keep the roots too near the surface. Then he invented the plug and earth guard ns now used nud allowed no water tu renel the surface.
In March, 1878, Mr. Hamilton proposed to C. N Earl that. they apply for a patent for the system, which was acceded to, Mr. Hamilton assigning a one-half interest in the invention to Mr. Earl, and applying for the patent, which was issued Jun 17, 1879. Up to this time the cost of making and laying the pipe was so great that people could not afford to adopt the sys- tem. To prove that it would work in other soil than that of the experimental grounds of Mr. Hamilton, Messrs, Hamilton and Earl contractesl with Moses P. Grove to pipe one acre for forty-tivo dollars, expecting to lose ummey hy the job. Then Mr. Earl proposed to make a machine for laying the pipe con- tinnously. After consultation and many experiments, the roughly-constructed machine was made to do fair work, which Mr. Grove was so will pleased with that he offered to assist in introducing the system and its appliances. This offer was accepted, a patent socured on the pipe machine in October, 1879, and a partnership entered into between E. M. Hamilton, C. N. Earl and M. P. tirove, known as the Asbestine Sub-Irri- gation Company.
Messrs. Hamilton & Grove attended the Californin State Fair in 1879, making a practical exhibit of the system. The first to notice and adopt it were the well-known rnisin-growers. C. C. Briggs and R. B. Blowers, of Yolo county. It is now being extensively used throughout the State.
CHAPTER XXIV. EDUCATIONAL. (1771-1850).)
Mexican Setools -The First English School-History of the Public Schools- 'their Present Condition-List of the Districts-St. Vincent's College- Sisters of Charity-Lawlor tastitute.
EVEN so early as 1827 some effort appears to have been made iu Los Angeles
"To teach the young idea to shoot The germs of common sense."
For under date September 29th of that year, we find recorded in the city archives a payinent of twelve dollars by the Alcahle for a bench and talde purchased at San tiabriel, "for the use of a school in Los Angeles."
After the secularization of the missions probably about 1535 6 a school was established by the Mexican Government, at San Gabriel, and in 1935 at Los Angeles, that of 1827 has- ing, most likely, diel a natural death. Nor can this last establishment have fare I much better, for Don Manuel Requena, in 1844. congratulated the art-going alguntamiento on having established a primary school in the city of Los Angeles, " the recollection of similar institutions having been lost in this unfortunate country." He went on ta state that the Depart- ment tavernment had appropriated five hundred dollars a year toward this object, and had given leave of alcance to Ensign Don Guadalupe Medina to act as preceptor "on the principde of mutual instruction whatever that might mean). One hundred and three children attended ; but unfortunately the school suspended after a sesion of less than luff a year, owing to the school-master being reeallel to his military duties by the Governor. True to the instincts of his profesion, the "learned preceptor," before leaving, " held an examination which proved his devotion to his duties, and the rapid improve- ment which the youth of Los Angeles had made in the short period of tive and n half months." Four months later the pre- ceptor was returned, but the school-house being required for a military barracks, the pupils were turned out and school once more suspended. It was a pity that it had to be given up, for it certainly had a fine-sounding name. This pioneer public school-master of Los Angeles has left on record the following inventory, translated by Stephen C. Foster, Esq., for the Erpress:
LANCASTORIAN SCHOOL OF LOS ANGELES.
Iuveutory of the books and furniture in the above institution belonging to the Ayuntamiento: thirty-six spelling books, eleven see- ond readers for children, fourteen catechismus by Father Ripaldi, one table withont cover, writing desk, six benches, one blackboard.
Angeles, February 2d, 1844. GAUDALLPE MEDINA.
About 1850 the first English school was opened in Los Angeles, by Rev. Dr. Wieks and J. G. Nichols. When Mr. Il. D Barrows arrived, in 1854, there were bnt two public schools in the city. These were conducted in the present Spring street school-house, and that still standing on Bath street above the plaza. They were denominated respectively School No. 1 and School No. 1, and among the first teachers were William MeKee, Miss Mary E. Hoyt and Miss Anna MeArthur, Mayor S. C. Foster, in his message of that year, called attention to the fact that within the limits of the city were five hundred chil- dren, three-fourths of whom were dependent on the public schools for instruction. He advised the building of three
when-homes, and called attention among other available sites) In certain property of the city which had been decided to the Bishop of Califorma on condition that he should ervet a college theresa, which he had failed to do. In this same year a Mr Host conducted a private school in los Angeles, and held au examination September 25th, when her school contained "twelve young ladies and thres small boy's '
In 1955, under the administration of Mayor Thomas Foster, schod houses were created, and who ordinances established In January of that year the Ster mforms us that . there are now on thousand one hundred and morty our children between the ages of four and eighteen an los Angeles, El Monte and San Gabriel school districts vet not more than one hundred and Bity in all attend school " In this yom September 3, 1555 J. F Burns was elected School Superintendent, sareand. ing A F. Coronel, who had hold the office from Isou
In I Siti 7 there were seven schools in los Angeles county. four of thew Wwing located in the city In February two of these Intter were closed by order of the Scloud t'ommissioners, there being no funds to pay expenses. Som afterward the other two were suspended for the same causas, an I educational matters in the city booked gloomy enough, until William Woll' skill stepped forward with n donation of six hundred dedlars, which ennided one of the closed schools to re-open, and so ties over the emergency. In 1859 60 similar finneint deficiencies again caused the closing of the schools, and npqwals were made to the liberal minded, in both years.
In 1861 there were four schools in the city, including two primary, one intermediate, and one grammar school. The aggregate nttendance was four Indred and eighty three, nn increase of one hundred and ninety-tive over the providing year. The total expenditure for 1861 was seven thousand six hundred and sixty-three dollars and twenty-six cents, includ- ing four thousand eight hundred and twenty seven dollars and nineteen cents paid to teachers.
In INGS the apportionment of State school funds to Im Angeles county was on the basis of two thousand three hun- dred and ninety-eight children attending school, and the amount four thousand five hundred and eighty-one dollars and ninety . nine cents.
In INGHi there were twelve school districts in the county, and two thousand five hundred and four children between the ages of five and fifteen years.
By act of the Legislature, approved February 24, 1872, the public schools of Los Angeles City were separated from those of the county, and placed under the direction of a Board of Edu- cation composed of five members, elected by the people. These five to elect a president and secretary out of their number.
July 19, 1872, the corner-stone of the Los Angeles High School building was laid with considerable ceremony, by the
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Masonic fraternity; Grand Architect, L. C. Goodwin; Orator, Rev. . I. T. Willis. There was a large attendance, and all the prominent societies were represented. The contract of build- ing was awarded to James M Riley, for nineteen thousand and ninety-seven dollars. During this year six thousand one lun- dred and seventy-one children attended school in the county. The State and county apportionments amounted to cleven thousand eight loundred and eighteen dollars and forty-three cents.
On July 1, 1873, the county hal thirty-nine districts, forty- l'our school-houses, fifty-live teachers and schools, and six thon- sand one hundred and one school-children Only three dis- triets outside of Los Angeles had either intermediate or primary schools, The State and county apportionment For the year amounted to something less than fifty thousand dollars. Dur- ing this season the High School builling was completed, nud a thorough system of grading established by Dr. Lucky, the Superintendent. The Wilson College, at Wilmington, was nso founded by the Inte Hon. Benjamin D. Wilson.
In 1874 there were forty live school districts in the county, and seven thousand one hundred and twenty- four children between the ages of five nnd seventeen years. Los Angeles ('ity had six school-houses, eighteen tenchers, and right hundred and seventy-live pupils attending school.
In 1875 there were forty-eight distriets, fifty-nine publie school-houses, seventy.two teachers, and seven thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven school children in the county The eity had eleven school-houses, twenty-three teachers, and one thousand one hundred school-children. The State and school moneys received amounted to about eighty-one thousand dollars.
In 1870 there were fifty-three districts in the county, with nine thousand two hundred and thirty-nine school-children between the ages of live nud seventeen years, In the city two thousand six hundred and forty-nine school-children between those ages. The total apportionment was estimated at one hundred and fifty-nine thousand dollars.
In 1877 the county had fifty- live districts, and one hundred and twenty-eight teachers. In 1878, there were sixty districts, one hundred nud twenty-nine teachers, and ten thousand four hundred and forty-six pupils,
The present condition of the public schools in Los Angeles county, is stated by Mr. J. W. Hinton, the County Superin- tendent, as follows :
The county includes seventy-two school-districts, and every district has at least one school: some have more. There are in all eighty.one schools, and, with one or two exceptions, these all have school-houses, owned by the listriet in which each is locateil. Enel distriet is mannged by a Board of three school- trustees, one of whom acts as elerk.
The city school system is separate and independent from that
of the county, having their own officers, and examining their own teachers Government moneys are, however, paid over to the city school officials through the County Superintendent. Here the connection crases.
The school census returns for the year ending June 30, 1879. including Los Angeles City, show the following condition of the schools :
Number of children who have attended school during the year. six thousand and twenty-two
Prosent valuation of school property in the county:
Real estate and furniture .8207,250
Library
9,987
Apparatus
3,135
Total.
$220,372
The roll-call of the Teachers Institute, November 3. 1879, shows an attendance of one hundred nul twenty-seven teachers male and female) employed in the county.
Expenditures for the school-year ending June 30, 1879: -
Teachers' salaries .8 88,058 07
Total expenditure for the year. 111,913 49
The following is a complete list of the school-districts at present in the county, with names and addresses of the several District Clerks, up to June 30, 1880 :-
DISTRICTS.
DISTRICT CLERKS. POST-OFFICES.
Alamed: J. W. Venable
Downey.
Alamitas
F. A. Gates
Westminster.
Anaheim
.F. W. Athearn
Anaheim.
Artesia
R. M. Williams Norwalk.
Azusa
T. C. Preston .
- . Azusa.
Ballona I. A. Lamb
Maeliado.
Bay View
W. D. Lamb:
Santa Ana.
Bog Dale .
I. A. Anderson
El Monte
Cahuenga
If. B. Stewart
Los Angeles
Centralia
James W. Luundell
. Anaheim
Cerritos.
William Shaw.
Wilmington.
Cunega
William White.
Delhi A. B. Palmer.
.Santa Ana.
Diamond
.J. G. Cook
Santa Aua.
Duarte
S. B. Bellew
El Monte.
El Monte
.A. H. Hoyt
El Monte.
Elizabeth Lake . .. Louis Mayet
Sidney Ilolman
Anaheim.
Florence
.R. Raney
Florence.
Fountain Valley . . W. R. Caudle
.C'on. Howe .
Garden Grove.
Green Meadows .. . James S. Hart.
J. A. Nichols ..
Los Angeles.
Laguna.
F. M. Goff
. Tustin City.
La Puente
J. D. Durfee.
Los Angeles.
Little Lake. .
Thomas Isbell.
. Downey.
Los Angeles
John E. Jackson
Los Angeles.
Los Nietos
.(. C. Mason
Norwalk.
Lugo ..
. Todd.
.Compton.
Maizeland.
.L. L. Bequette
. Downey.
Newball
George Compton
.Newhall.
New Hope W. H. Jasper
DISTRICTS.
DISTRICT CLERKS.
POST-OFFICES.
Newport.
J. 11. Moeswer.
Santa Ana.
New River. William Justice, Jr.
Downey.
Norwalk
D. D. Johnson
Norwalk.
Oceau. C. E. J. White.
Ocean View
I. H. Johnson
Westminster.
Orange
N. D. Harwood
Alfred Metcalte.
Anabeim.
Pasadena
1. B. (lapp
Pasaden».
Pacentin
J. K. Tuff'rre
Anaheim,
Providencia.
Jolin Morris
. Los Angeles,
Ranchito
A. Il. Imunlap.
. Ranchito.
Rowland
F. W. Temple.
El Monte.
San Antonio.
W. W. Jenkins
. Downey,
Sun Dimas ..
W. C. Martin
Pomona.
San Fernando
ileronimo lopez San Fernando,
San Gabriel .. .
II. llamilton . .. San Gabriel.
San Jose ..
.lo Wright
.. Spndr.
San Juan.
R. Egan
Capistrano.
Fan l'asqual ..
.8. Washburn.
.B. Il. Twombly
l'ompton,
Santa Am
Daniel Faulkner
.Santa Am.
Santa Anita
George S. Sufford
San Gabriel,
Santa Monica
W. 8. Vawter
Santa Monica.
Santa Susanna
llenry Schassen
San Fernando.
Santiago ..
W. Il. Phillips
.Orange.
Savannah
D. Snyder
Savannah.
Sepulveda
E. E. Shaw
Los Angeles.
Silver
W. F. Cooper.
. Downey.
Soledad
Jolin Bell
RavenDI.
Sulphur Springs . John Lang
Lang's Station.
Sycamore
J. S. Rice.
Tustin City.
Trabuco
R. R. Stuples
. Santa Ana.
Vermillio
L. Dukes
Los Angeles.
Vernon
J. 11. Brewer
Los Angeles.
Westminster
George C. Mack
Westminster.
Wilmington.
Charles Beyler.
Wilmington.
Yorba
Tilman Bush
. . Amabeim.
ST. VINCENT'S COLLEGE.
In August, 1866, the corner-stone of St. Vincent's College was laid at Sixth street, Los Angeles, with appropriate cere- monies. The building was completed during the following spring. It is two stories high with basement and attic ; the main building is forty by eighty feet on the ground, with an extensive wing at cach end. The grounds cover abont ten acres.
This establishinent was erected under the auspices of the Fathers of the St. Vincent de Paul Mission, and a staff of pro- fessors was securel T'rom the Atlantic States and Europe, with a view to making the curriculum as thorough as possible ; this embracing not only a full English and classical course with modern languages and mathematics, but also a thorough com- mercial course.
This institution is chartered under the laws of the State, and is empowered to confer degrees. The first officers were: Father McGill, President; Father Flynn, Vice- President; Father Richardson, Treasurer; Father O'Brien, Professor of Mathematics. For some years the average attendance was about seventy-five. The college is at present closed.
Los Angeles,
Oliver ..
F. W. Squires.
. Orange.
.. Orange.
Palomares
Cyrus Burdick
. Pomoua.
Orangethorp
Santa Ana.
Elizabeth Lake.
Fairview
.Santa Ana.
Garden Grove
Los Angeles.
La Dow
Bolsa Grande. Daniel Griswold
Westminster.
San Pedro
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SISTERS OF CHARITY.
December 15, 1855, pursuant to a call from the Right Rev. Bishop Amat, a meeting was hell by the citizens of lor Angeles for the purpose of laking int, consideration the prar. ticability of establishing the Sisters of Charity in the city. The meeting was organized by calling Don Abel Stearns to the Chair, nud appointing John G Dowuey, Secretary. tu motion of Hon. Benjamin Hays a committee of uine geutle- men were appointed, viz: Hon. Thomas Foster, Don Luis Vignes, Hon. Ezra Drown, Don Antonio F Coronel, Don Man- nel Reynrun, Don Ignacio del Valle, and John G. Downey, For the purpose of drafting resolutions, nud to appoint a committee to solicit subscriptions from the citizens. A large amonut was subscribed, and the old B. D. Wilson property, located on the corner of Alameda and Macy streets, was purchased for the 14: of the Sisters, six of whom arrived Junnary 5, 1856, three of them natives of the United States, and three of Spain.
The Roman Catholic Orphans' Adlymm and School were here established the same year. The present builling is prin- vipally of brick, and is three stories high. The average num- ber attending school, including the orphans and pupils from abrowil, is nhont one hundred, including the day school, two hun Irod. Sister Scholastica, one of the six Sisters who came in 1856, is Ihr Sister Superior. There are nt present fourtern Sisters in this institution. The Los Angeles Infirmary, located ou Main street, is also under the charge of the Sisters. It was established May 31, 1858, in the house of Don Cristobal Aguiler. Subsequently a line brick building was created, and The grounds tastefully planted in orchard and vineyard. Sister Ann, who also cause to Los Angeles in 1856, is the Sister Superior. There are seven Sisters contracted with the infirmary.
The lawlor Institute for the education of youth of both seXo4, was established in Los Angeles by William Lawlor in 1870. It had a very fair altendance and good snecess until 1878, when it was discontinued.
There have also been private schools and educational institu- lions conducted within the past few years un ler direction of the Christian Brothers, the Misses Chapman and Cole, Miss Bengal, Mist Bongough. A S. Frambes, T. B. Julian, C. W La Feira, and others, The two last-named gentlemen are still conducting business colleges in the city.
CHAPTER XXI
COMMON CARRIERS.
1771-1ANI,
Navigation -Jodian Bale The First schooner Strand the Table of whip Jung from Bash to 1979 Land Travel-Carretas Lt teaches Hall. roada los Angeles and san l'elru Railroad Nothern l'ab Hailo a.l los Angeles and Independence Railroad.
NAVIGATION
THAT the Aborigines of wothern Californ a were to wine extent familiar with the art of navigation, is indisputalde, for all writers agree, that the islands within, say one honderd tuiles from the main const line, were alt, or nearly all. ocupied by them; and that tratie between the islander- and the inhabi- tants of the main-land was constantly carried on. In his " Native Races of the Pacific States," Mr Bancroft says that the southern Indians send "Bolsas" rafts of tales, hats mule out of strong planks, fastened together, and paid on the Hennes with bitumen; also sometimes "dag-out- " similar to those used by the northern tribes.
The Spaniards and Mexicans coming next in the order of lime, seem lo have paid but little attention to navigation Occasionally a vessel came up from San Blas or Aenpaleo with supplies, but that any vessel was built or owned upon the coast, prior to the little schooner Refugio of Sanchez. Woltskill and others in 1831, does not appear. This then, and the brig soon afterward purchased by Friar Sanchez for traudle with Mexico and South America, were probably the first vowels ever owned in Los Angeles county. Yet even in mission tiones (after Mexican independence), there were a goodly number of Yankee and Russian ships constantly calling along the coast, exchanging manufactured goods for hides and tallow Thus J. J. Warner writes:
San l'edro was often lively in 1840-and had been so in mission times -- by the trading vessels engaged, with active competition, in the purchase of hides and tallow. Francis Mellie gives a list of these all This evast, August Jed of that year, thirteen in number, as follows : " Ships-Ciddiforma (Captain Arthur, Alage (Clappo, Moramo Vin- centr. Alert i Phelps; Barques-Jader IScotty, Clara 1 Walters; ller. maphrodite briga -Leonidas Stevens, Ayacucho (Daren; Brig-Jun Jose Dunkin, Baficar (Nye); Schooners-Fly Wilson, D'aliformat (Coopers, Nymph, formerly Norge (Fitch), and two more expected."
In 1835 the clipper ship Freundin was owned by All Stearns, Esy . an I some others in partnership, an I was employed as a regular trader between San Pedro and Boston
STEAMERS
Appear to have been unknown until Is40, and the first one elenred in that year for San Pedro from San Francisco the United States Propeller Elith, sent to bring commissioners to
the Constitutional Convention lead the la fortune to In wreckal on her down trip According to Mr Warner.
The first steamer that ever visited San l'oro was the lings Hauser. in Is!" - asile wheel, which made the voyage from san Franciscu to Mazal an. louch ng at way |wirts
The fold Inter was followed by the streamers thin.
in Dit The line was at first ander control of a New Orleans Company but was subsequently purchase ! by Mr John T Wright I'under hisa Immmistration. A T Hawley says
The price of passage, in the cabin, between San Pedro and San Francisco, in the earliest atentosship days, was fifty five dollars, and the fall of fare embraced only salt beef, hard bread, juntoes, and cutles without Bulk of sugar What the dirt of the steerage pasengers was I do not know and cannot imagine. Freight was twenty five dollars per tol.
The California Steam Navigation Timpany bought the role of Wright in 1836, and ran it until 1867, when they sold out to the North Pacific Transportation Company. The fare had been reduced to twenty-five dollars, and freight lo fifteen dollars pur tun.
Hot here Ar Hawley is probably astray, as ander dale. April 11, 1969, the Los Angeles Your trwaily the sale of the stemmer John T Wright, leaving the coast trade to depend on one steamer only, with passenger rates " at the figure of former times," twenty five dollars between Los Angeles and San Francisco, and freight ton dollars per tou between the same points: after about eight months with the rates respectively ten and six dollars. As these steamers carried the mail. 14 Angeles now only had postal connection with the North every two weeks. The following year the Senator made the true a month. In June, INE, Mr J' Banning purchased a little steamer named the Cricket for twenty two thousand dollars in greenbacks, but with what object does not appear In 1870 five trips per month were made between San Francisco and San Pedro. In 1871 a movement was inaugurated in los Angeles to estable an opposition line, and twenty thousand dollars was raised by subscription toward parchaving a controlling interest in the steamer William Taber
In 1872 the Northern Pacific Transportation trangany sal to the Pacific Mail St amship Company, and there were Alle- celed in 1575 by the Showall Nelwan & Parking Steamship Company, the present carriers. After the establishment of a wharf at Santa Monica, and nutil its destruction in 187%, a certain proportion of the steamers up and down stopped regularly at that port. In 1878 an agreement with John Wright of San Francisco was largely signed by the merchanty of Los Angeles, by which he agreed to convey freight Intwww.n South Santa Monica and San Francisco at a certain specified rate, they, on their part, agreeing that they would ship only by his boats. The wharf at South Santa Monica is now in progress of erection.
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