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The school won its way steadily from the first.
Total enrollment of pupils in 1891-92.
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From September 1, 1891, to April 19, 1893, there had been paid out for buildings, grounds, and current expenses of the school, by Father Throop, $57,628.70. The current expenses for 1893-94 were $19,591.25.
Universalist Church.
- East Hall. Co. A, Throop Cadets.
' Land of Sunshine" Photo .- 1895. West Hall.
THROOP POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE.
A report printed in the New Year Edition of the Pasadena Star, 1895, says :
"It has accomodations for over 400 pupils. The growth for 1894-95 has been rapid and gratifying. Seven members were added to the faculty, making a total of twenty-five teachers engaged in the work of the Institute. Prof. M. M. Parker was chosen Dean of the faculty. During the summer $12,000 worth of new machinery and apparatus has been purchased and in- stalled. This includes additions to chemical, physical, electrical and biological equipment, a new steam plant, complete pattern shop outfit, a complete machine shop outfit, and a Sloyd school equipment. The total value of the equipment at present amounts to about $100,000. The officers
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of the board of Trustees for 1894-95, are: Hon. P. M. Green, President ; E. L. Conger, D. D., Vice-President ; Frank J. Polley, Secretary ; C. B. Scoville, Teasurer.
"The members of the Board of Trustees are: Hon. P. M. Green, E. E. Spalding, Mrs. Ellen I. Stanton, Mrs. Louise T. W. Conger, Hon. Enoch Knight, Hon. T. P. Lukens, W. E. Arthur, Esq., John Wadsworth, C. B. Scoville, Esq., President C. H. Keyes, Norman Bridge, M. D., Hon. W. L. Hardison, E. L. Conger, D. D., C. D. Daggett."
Executive Board for 1895-96: Hon. P. M. Green, chairman ; C. D. Daggett, John Wadsworth, W. E. Arthur, Rev. Dr. Conger.
LIFE OF FATHER THROOP.
As a fitting addition to this historical sketch of the Throop Polytechnic Institute, I give here a brief biography of its founder, who is more truly loved by the people of Pasadena than any other man who has ever lived here. Prof. Lowe is honored and admired ; "Father Throop" is loved and revered with an affectionate tenderness born in us from his own great love toward his fellow-men.
Hon. Amos G. Throop was born in De Ruyter, Madison county, New York, July 22, 1811. The most of his boyhood was spent in Courtland and Chenango counties, New York. In May, 1832, he left Chenango county for Michigan, the then far west, settling in St. Clair county. In 1838 he returned to his native State, and at Preston was united in marriage with Miss Eliza V. Waite. He and his wife returned to his home in Michigan, where they remained until 1843, in which year they removed to Chicago, where they resided until 1880. He was one of the organizers of the Chi- cago Board of Trade, and a member of it for many years. In 1849 Mr. Throop was elected an alderman of the city of Chicago, serving four years. In 1854 and 1855 he was appointed assessor for West Chicago. In 1855 he was elected city treasurer for a term of two years, during which time he handled over $5,000,000 of the city funds. Mr. Throop served five years as a member of the Board of Supervisors of Cook county, and for two years was a member of the state legislature of Illinois. In 1876 he was again elected alderman, and served the city in that capacity for four years.
He came to California in 1880, locating in Los Angeles, where he re- mained until 1886, when he removed to Pasadena. In 1888 Mr. and Mrs. Throop celebrated their golden wedding. From 1888 to 1892 he served Pasadena as a member of her city council, being also Mayor of the city for the last two years of his term.
PASSED AWAY.
On Thursday, March 22, 1894, he worked until about noon setting out some flowering plants at the Polytechnic grounds. Then he went home, feeling sick from a chronic ulceration of the stomach with which he had long been a sufferer ; and at 8:10 in the evening he passed away as quietly and peacefully as a child falls asleep. His wife and daughter [Mrs. J. C. Vaughan] were in Chicago, and his brother, John Throop, at his own home below Los Angeles, and they were summoned by telegraph. The next day
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all flags in the city were displayed at half mast. Awaiting the arrival of absent members of his family, the funeral did not take place until March 28th, when, as the Daily Star said, occurred "the most impressive demon- stration of popular sorrow that ever occurred in Pasadena." Mrs. Throop was sick in Chicago and not able to come, but the daughter came. Places of business were generally closed during the funeral hour, and nearly all were draped with emblems of mourning. The public services occurred at the Universalist church ; and as an historic indication of the esteem in which he was held by all classes and sects, I note that the following clergy- men sat in the pulpit area as participants in the commemorative exercises :
Rev. Dr. J. B. Stewart, Rev. N. H. G. Fife and Rev. L. P. Crawford, Presbyterians.
Rev. Clark Crawford and Rev. W. G. Cowan, Methodists.
Rev. H. T. Staats, Congregationalist.
Rev. C. E. Harris, Baptist.
Rev. T. D. Garvin, Christian or Disciples.
Rev. C. E. Tebbetts, Friends.
Rev. Dr. E. L. Conger, Rev. Dr. Deere, and Rev. Florence E. Kol- lock, Universalists.
The pall-bearers were : Prof. T. S. C. Lowe, W. U. Masters, Thomas F. Croft, Hon. P. M. Green, T. P. Lukens, and Elisha Millard.
Marshals and assistant marshals of the funeral procession were Col. L. P. Hansen, city marshal John T. Buchanan, Capt. A. C. Drake of G. A. R., Capt. N. S. Bangham of Sons of Veterans, and Geo Mahler. Escorts were Co. B. of the National Guards, Co. A of Throop Polytechnic Cadets, and the Pasadena Band. The church was crowded to its uttermost capacity, besides many comers who could not gain entrance ; and there were few who did not shed tears. It was as if every one felt it a personal bereavement- the loss of a beloved friend. The fine memorial window in the east wall of the church to his only son, George Throop, who died as a soldier in the Union army, was appropriately draped with national flags, and bore witness now to the devoted patriotism of both father and son in the days when the nation's life was in peril .* Mr. Higinbotham, late president of the World's Fair managers, who had known and loved both Father Throop and his soldier son from thirty-four years back, was present, and spoke most feel- ingly his tribute of praise. Gov. H. H. Markham also spoke; and others. And James G. Clark, the venerable poet, music composer and singer, known to fame for nearly forty years past, sang his own well-known song, "The Evergreen Mountains of Life." Rev. Dr. Conger related his last interview
*" An elegant memorial window occupies the east wall of the Universalist church, to the memory of George Throop, son of our venerable city councilman, Hon. A. G. Throop. The young man belonged to the Chicago Mercantile Battery, and took part in the battles of Black River Bridge, Champion's Hill, Port Gibson, Arkansas Post, Mausfield, Siege of Jackson, Siege of Vicksburg."-Pasadena Standard, March 12, 1889. He was mortally wounded in the disastrous Red River expedition in April, 1864, and his body never found.
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with Father Throop, when with almost his last breath he said : "My journey is almost ended ; and I am ready, if it is my Heavenly Father's will. But what will become of my school ?" I answered, " You have done your whole duty nobly ; and Pasadena will take care of your school."
He had already expended for the Institute a total sum of $97,874. His will gives $20,000 more, or whatever remains of the estate after the death of his wife.
CLASSICAL SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
Established in October, 1889. Stephen Cutter Clark, A. B., principal ; Mrs. Grace Miller Clark, A. B. and A. M., Greek and Latin ; Mary Louisa French, A. B., primary ; Jean Trebaol, French ; Wm. P. Hammond, pen- manship ; Wm. Wallis, drillmaster. Object : To fit and prepare boys for ad- mission to any college or university in the country. The enterprise succeeded from the first. In the spring of 1891 Mr. Clark erected a building purposely for his school, at No. 59 South Euclid Avenue, with six recitation rooms. The number of pupils averaged about 30, the highest enrollment being 37.
CLASSICAL SCHOOL FOR GIRLS.
Established in 1890, by Anna B. Orton, principal, and instructor in Mathematics and in Greek and Latin ; May A. Morrison, French and His- tory ; Isa Cranston Pirret, English branches ; Mabel L. Merriman, Science ; Fraulein A. Werner, German ; Wm. P. Hammond, penmanship ; Mrs. L. E. Garden-Macleod, drawing and painting, this department being a branch of the Los Angeles School of Art and Design. The music department has Herr Thilo Becker and Susan R. Orton, as instructors on the piano; and Josef and Johanna Rubo, teachers of voice culture and chorus singing. The object is to give girls a thorough school culture, and to prepare those who wish it for entrance to any college or university where women are admitted. In the summer of 1892 Miss Orton erected a fine building in old Spanish style of architecture, designed and planned purposely for her school, with five recitation rooms- No. 124 South Euclid Avenue. She had 16 pupils the first year, and about 60 in all departments the past year.
WILLIAMS BUSINESS COLLEGE.
Commenced September 17, 1894, in Strong's Block on Colorado street : T. J. Williams, principal ; Miss Bertha Buckingham, teacher of English branches ; Chas. A. Miles, business agent. Full courses in all branches of book-keeping, penmanship, pen drawing, shorthand, typewriting, etc. Fur- niture and apparatus, about $800. Publish a paper called The New Education.
PASADENA'S STATE NORMAL GRADUATES.
Prof. E. T. Pierce, now principal of the State Normal School at Los Angeles, has kindly furnished me the following list of all the young people from Pasadena who have graduated at that institution :
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CLASS OF 1884- Elma Ball, Hannah P. Ball.
CLASS OF 1886- Henry A. Fisk.
CLASS OF 1887 - Mary M. Baker.
CLASS OF 1889 - Agnes Elliott (now a teacher in the Normal-1895).
CLASS OF 1890 - Ida Robinson, Ella G. Wood.
CLASS OF 1891 - Imelda Brooks, Jessie A. Fisher, Frances H. Gearhart, May Gearhart, Caroline E. Harris, Charles C. Hill, Edith M. Kellogg, Sarah L. Prentiss.
CLASS OF 1892- Lizzie E. Batchelder, Mary E. Johnston, Etta V. Neibel, Mary E. Thompson [grand-daughter of the historic " Old John Brown "].
CLASS OF 1893 -Aura M. Beach, Grace E. Bosley, Agnes E. Daniels, Esther C. Daniels, Anna M. Dilworth, Agnes Fushia, Grace Johnston, Herbert C. Mosher, James W. Mosher, Marion Van Slyck.
Total, 29-4 gentlemen and 25 ladies.
TABLE OF ENROLLMENT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA OF STUDENTS REGISTERED FROM PASADENA.
NAME
DATE OF ENROLL- MENT
DEGREE OBTAINED
COURSE PURSUED
REMARKS
Charles A. Allin
1887
Ph. B., '94
Jonathan M. Gilmore
1890
B. L., '94
Mary H. Gilmore
1889
B. L., '94
Harry W. Rhodes
1890
B. S., '94
Charles L. Turner.
1888
A. B., '92
Joseph O. Downing
1890
Harriet H. Godfrey.
1891
B. L., '95
C1. L. P. S. Chem.
In residence.
Ralph A. Gould
1893
William H. Linney
1891
B. S., '95
Min.
Alva D. S. McCoy
1891
Chem.
Fred H. Seares
1891
B. S., '95
C. E.
Elma F. Ball
1886
Lit.
Withdrew, 1887.
Clifford W. Barnes.
1885
C1.
1887.
George F. Duncan.
1889
L. P. S.
1890.
Attest : JAMES SUTTON, Recorder of the Faculties.
PASADENIANS IN STANFORD UNIVERSITY-1894.
The following students from Pasadena were on the rolls at Leland Stanford, Jr., University, Palo Alto, California, in 1894, and the list was kindly furnished me by Prof. Monroe :
Will S. Monroe, formerly city superintendent of schools.
Caspar W. Hodgson, formerly principal Lincoln school.
Charles C. Hill, formerly principal Grant school.
Agnes Stowell, formerly teacher in Washington school.
Ella G. Wood, formerly teacher in Lincoln school.
Ellen F. Thompson, formerly teacher in High school.
Hattie Mason Willard,* formerly teacher in Pasadena Academy [gradu- ate of Chicago Law School.]
Clara Winifred Caldwell,* formerly student in Pasadena High school. Kate L. Nash,* formerly student in Pasadena High school.
Lenora Schopbach, formerly student in Pasadena High school.
*Graduated in June, 1895.
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George H. Baldwin, formerly student in Pasadena High school. Ethel W. Bishop, formerly student in Pasadena High school. Carleton E. Durrell,* formerly student in Pasadena High school. LeRoy D. Ely, formerly student in Pasadena High school. Chas. A. Fife, formerly student in Pasadena High school. J. Paull Fife, formerly student in Pasadena High school. Lyman Woodworth, formerly student in Pasadena High school. Carl C. Thomas, formerly student in Pasadena High school. Winifred Webb, formerly student in Pasadena High school. Rennie W. Doane, formerly student in Pasadena High school. Will A Strong, formerly student in Pasadena High school. Roland H. Manahan,* formerly student in Pasadena High school. Frances M. Rand, formerly student in Pasadena High school. Erma Rand, formerly student in Pasadena High school. Harriet Nichols, formerly student in Pasadena High school. Mrs. May Caldwell Ray, formerly resident of Pasadena. Ernest B. Hoag, B. S., special course.
Total 26, out of a total of 44 from Los Angeles county.
PASADENA STUDENTS AT POMONA COLLEGE.
CLAREMONT, CAL., May 21, 1894.
DR. H. A. REID, Pasadena, Cal .: Dear Sir :- In the absence of president Baldwin, your communication asking for names of those who have attended our institution, has been handed me for reply. None have gradu- ated from the College course, but the following have been connected with the school from Pasadena :
Edwin F. Hahn, [graduated from preparatory school in 1894.]
Lucy Traylor, special student, '94.
Emma Parker, freshman, '94. Abba L. Marston, freshman, '94.
Charles C. Knight, junior preparatory, '94.
Alfred Erskine, middle preparatory, '94.
Very truly yours, E. C. NORTON.
I wrote the University of Southern California for a similar report, but received no answer.
CHAPTER X.
LITERARY : The Public Library .- The Library Building .- The Library Citrus Fair .- The Library Syndicate .- The Library's purchase by the City .- Academy of Science and Scientific Collections .- Pasadena's Newspapers .- 1883 to 1895 .- Pasadena's Literary People .- Pasadena Architecture.
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
In 1882, while Pasadena was still merely a fruit colony, Abbot Kinney suggested the starting of a public free library. Some thought the colony settlers too much scattered and too poor to make or use sucli a library ; but tlie more cultivated and progressive people grew more in favor of the under-
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taking as they kept on talking about it; and the lugubrious "lions in the way " proved to be empty air bubbles whenever punched with a pointed argument or a living purpose. I find special credit accorded to S. Wash- burn for his public-spiritedness and attention in working up subscriptions for the enterprise ; and to H. N. Rust, Dr. O. H. Conger, Dr. Lyman Allen, T. P. Lukens, and E. F. Hurlbut for active assistance in the prelim- inary work necessary to complete the organization. Mr. Kinney had planned it to be a popular movement in which all could take part ; there were to be 10,000 shares at $5 each ; and on this basis it was incorporated December 26, 1882, under the name of " Pasadena Library and Village Im- provement Society." A circular was at once issued, setting forth its ob- jects, and that $1,000 of the stock had already been subscribed and paid in; that $700 had been pledged by the A. O. U. W. and I. O. G. T. fraternal orders ; and soliciting further contributions of money, books, periodicals, etc. This first document ever issued by the Association bears no date, but is signed by the Board of Directors : Abbot Kinney, president ; Jeanne C. Carr, corresponding secretary ; S. Washburn, A. R. Hanna, W. H. Wakeley, H. N. Rust, E. F. Hurlbut, Lyman Allen. Up to February 1, 1885, there had been 348 shares of the stock subscribed and paid, which with funds from other sources made a total of $2,374.04 received ; while the ex- penditures had been $3,063.70. In reporting the sources of the Library funds a list is printed of 149 individual contributors, among whom Abbot Kinney is credited with $300, H. D. Bacon $250, E F. Hurlbut $60 ; J. F. Crank and H. H. Markham $50 each ; T. P. Lukens, James Craig and James Smith $25 each ; H. H. Vischer, H. Ridgway, W. W. McGee, E. S. Frost, $20 each ; Mrs. Gov. Stoneman, $15 ; and others in $10 and $5 sums. The Art Loan Society is credited with $272.46 ; Entertainment at Hall, $92.05 ; Cash from Concert $58 ; Col. Howard's lecture $30 ; H. N. Rust's lecture $21.50 ; Horticultural Society $19 ; and so on. These will indicate some of the methods used to raise money, outside of stock share subscrip- tions. Public concerts were given on the evening of Memorial Day, 1884, and on November 1, 1884, under the management of Mrs. S. E. Merritt, the librarian,* which netted $118, and the Trustees assigned this to her to provide needful furnishings for the Library parlor and reading room. A book social was held at Library Hall in January, 1884, each guest bringing some sort of a book suitable for the Library. And Mr. Kinney planned an Art Loan Exhibition, in which H. N. Rust's large and rare collection of stone implements and Indian relics was a prominent feature ; this Loan Exhibition proved the most successful of anything, and brought $272.46 into the Library fund. Other persons who are specially credited with good
*Mrs. Merritt was librarian from the first ; and on November 7, 1884, she was elected secretary, vice W. W. Doyle, resigned, and held the office until 1889, wben L. C. Winston was elected (after one Otto Froelich had served a few months). The Decoration Day concert gotten;up by Mrs. Merritt in Williams Hall this year was the first public observance of the day ever made in Pasadena. It cleared $50 for the Library.
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service in the various ways for raising funds were : Mrs. Jeanne C. Carr, Mrs. Dr. O. H. Conger, Mrs. Belle M. Jewett, Mrs. L. C. Winston, Mrs. Rosenbaum, Miss Anna Picher, Miss Alice Freeman.
THE LIBRARY BUILDING.
B. D. Wilson had donated the central five-acre school lot to the colony for school purposes only. From these grounds the school trustees leased a lot 100x306 feet in size to the Library Association for a term of twenty years ; but in order to validate this lease it was necessary to get the Wilson deed changed-and this change was granted by Mrs. J. De Barth Shorb and the two younger daughters of Mr. Wilson, his surviving heirs, for which favor the Association was very grateful. Then during 1883-84 a sub- stantial frame building 22×40 and two stories high was erected on their lot, next east of where the Masonic Temple block now stands and close to the Santa Fe railroad line. The building cost about $2,300. Of this amount the Independent Order of Good Templars and the Ancient Order of United Workmen furnished $700, and owned the upper story, which they fitted up for their Lodge meetings. The lower story was the Library part, and was opened to the public by Mrs. Merritt on February 26, 1884, with 329 vol- umes in place, besides magazines and newspapers on the reading-room tables. The rooms were to be open daily except Sunday, from 10 to 12, from 2 to 5, and from 7 to 9. From the opening day until August 1 there had been 1,835 drawings of volumes, entirely free. But it was found necessary to provide some source of income for necessary current expenses, and after August 1, 1884, a fee of twenty-five cents per month was charged for loan of books, although the reading room remained free to all ; and under this rule, up to February 1, 1885, there had been 2,036 drawings of books, and $124.03 received as Library fees.
THE LIBRARY CITRUS FAIR.
The next notable incident in the Library's history was the great Citrus Fair held in the Roller Skating Rink (a large frame building which then stood on the northwest corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Dayton street), on March 3, 4, 5 and 6, 1885. The special committee to work up and manage this undertaking, the most extensive of anything yet attempted, was T. P. Lukens, Dr. O. H. Conger and H. N. Rust. To advertise this Fair, and advertise Pasadena at the same time, Mr. Rust and others got out a pamphlet of 96 pages [2,000 copies of it], receiving enough advertisements from business firms in Pasadena and Los Angeles to pay the cost of printing it. Seventeen pages of this first "boom " pamphlet were devoted to a catalogue of the Library, the first ever printed. The Fair proved a great success and turned $531 into the Library treasury. [For some additional particulars, see article entitled "Second Great Citrus Fair," in chapter 16].
In the spring of 1886, when the "boom " tide was flushing its phe-
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nomenal rise, the School Trustees subdivided their central five acres into city lots and sold them at auction. [For particulars of this event see chapter 9]. The Library lot had 17 years of its leasehold yet to run, * and hence the society was allowed to bid it in for $170-and within a year thereafter they sold it for $10,000, not including the building, it being removed to a small lot on Dayton street for which they paid $1,496 cash. And this year the first classified catalogue of the Library was issued.
From the annual report of the Library trustees, made in December of this year, I quote here a few points :
"Taking charge of its affairs in January 1886, we found the Library out of debt but with only $23.30 in the treasury, and no assured income from any source. A series of entertainments was at once inaugurated, with the following results :
In January [1886] a parlor theatrical given by Dr. W. F. Channing and family yielded net to the library $ 65 00 In February, Mrs. S. E. Merritt's concert at Williams Hall 160 00 In March, the net receipts from the floral and citrus fair in
Williams' Hall were
477 05
Total $702 05
The funds thus obtained, together with the monthly dues from sub- scribers, have paid the monthly expenses ever since, besides enabling us to add by purchase over 300 volumes to our collection of books. We have now on our shelves about 1,700 volumes, and their use is steadily increasing with their number.
About six months ago, by the aid of both of our enterprising local news- papers, we asked for offers of lots for future use of the library. Four excel- lent offers were made to us-all without price. They were as follows :
I. From Messrs. Painter & Thomas, a lot on the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and the new extension of the same. We deemed this too far from the center of the town, [junction of Fair Oaks and Lincoln Avenue].
2. From Dr. E. S. Carr, a lot on the east side of Pasadena Avenue north of Colorado street. This also we feared would be liable to the same objection.
3. From E. C. Webster, of the free privilege of building above the one-story walls he proposed erecting on two lots [50x100 feet], on the south side of Colorado street, opposite the Exchange Block [Carlton hotel].
4. Offer made by Charles Legge, who after frequent consultations with our Committee in charge of this matter, has executed in favor of our Society a heavy bond for the conveyance to it, on or before January 1, 1888, of that centrally located and spacious lot fronting 100 feet on the east side of the new. Raymond Avenue by 150 feet on the south line of Walnut street ; pro- vided, that meantime our Society shall have erected thereon, and paid for, without incurring any debt, a brick or stone building, to cost not less than $25,000; and that the property shall not be alienated, or incumbered, or used for other than library purposes during the life of the grantor.
* When the railroad was built it took a strip 15 feet wide by 306 feet long off from this lot and never paid a cent for it. The whole right-of-way through the city was donated, the people were so anxious to get their first railroad.
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At the annual meeting of the Library Association, June 13, 1888, there were 1610 shares represented, out of a total of 1990 shares of stock that had been issued. The officers then elected were C. T. Hopkins, president ; Abbot Kinney, vice-president ; Mrs. S. E. Merritt, secretary and librarian ; L. C. Winston, assistant secretary ; Otto Froelich, treasurer ; H. N. Rust, Dr. W. F. Channing, Charles M. Parker, and Chas. Legge, additional directors. Enoch Knight, attorney. President Hopkins in his annual re- port said : "We had made all arrangements for the external completion of the building during the past year at a total cost of $17,604, leaving the in- terior finish and painting to be provided for hereafter. But the contractor for the brick and stone work failed after completing half the walls." This failure caused much embarrassment and delay, for this con- tract was to have been completed by October 31, 1887, and now they had to enforce continuance of the work by the bondsmen for the contractor, the Tehachipi Building Stone Co. of Los Angeles ; but the delays and troubles with other contracts caused by this delinquent one proved dis- astrous.
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