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January.
$ 66,985
May
$139,837
September. $131,632
February.
45,000
June.
93, III
October
82,100
March.
199,635
July
87,000
November
102,086
April
67,95I
August.
127,770 December (estimated) 72, 119 $1,214,726
Total for the year.
THE BOARD OF TRADE.
The real estate exchange was organized in August, 1887, and com- prised a large proportion of the most enterprising and public-spirited busi- ness men of the city, for nearly everybody went dabbling in real estate ventures in some way. One of the declared objects of that real estate organization was, " To devise, encourage and foster schemes of public im- provement and benefit to the city at large," etc. Under this the business men learned to confer and work together as an organized body on matters of public concern,-whereas, before it had always depended on some one man to voluntarily stir about and get up an interest in any such matter, when the occasion arose. However, it became very evident in a few months that something larger and more comprehensive was needed on this line ; and after being talked over in a general way for some weeks, a public meet- ing was held in Williams hall to take practical action thereon. The meeting was called to order by Col. J. Banbury, vice-president of the real estate exchange. Col. W. A. Ray, then president of the San Gabriel Valley bank, was made chairman and E. E. Fordham, secretary. Steps were then
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taken and committee appointed to complete the organization of a BOARD OF TRADE ; and the county records give March 22, 1888, as the date of its incorporation. The board of directors named were W. A. Ray, Enoch Knight, J. Banbury, W. U. Masters, J. H. Painter, B. A. O'Neil, and G. A. Swartwout. At a meeting on April 12, 1888, the first permanent organ- ization was effected by electing W. U. Masters, president ; W. A. Ray, vice-president; E. E. Fordham, secretary; G. A. Swartwout, treasurer. The objects and purposes of the organization were thus stated to the public :
" To arouse and concentrate public opinion upon all matters of vital importance to Pasadena. To gather and disseminate information concerning the resources of Pasadena for the benefit of immigrants, capitalists, and business men seeking homes or investments therein ; to aid and encourage the establishment of such manufactories as may be essential to utilize the various products of the soil ; and to stimulate the establishment of such other industries as may be requisite and necessary for the wants or necessi- ties of the people ; and to aid and encourage the same by securing, when practicable the donation of lands for building and yard. To procure for the city of Pasadena such privileges and concessions from railway and other corporations or individuals as may from time to time be suggested by the wants and necessities of the people, and the business interests of the city. To watch over and aid the business of the city government ; to petition for all needed legislation ; and to bring to bear the true sentiments of the people on behalf of wise and energetic and comprehensive municipal adminis- tration."
After one year of work a reckoning was made, and I quote results :
THINGS THE BOARD OF TRADE DID.
The following is a summary of President W. U. Masters' report at the annual meeting in April, 1889, showing what matters of public interest the Board of Trade has dealt with during the preceding year :
"The board was organized April 12, 1888, and the first point given atten- tion was a proposition to establish an iron foundry, which came to nothing. Then followed the entertainment of the delegates to the State Democratic convention ; a proposition to establish a fruit cannery made by L. J. Ben- nett ; appointment of a committee to secure reduction of assessment values ; proposition of M. W. McGee to bore for gas or oil; distribution of real estate exchange pamphlets; celebration of Memorial Day by invitation of the G. A. R .; proposition to establish a watch factory; celebration of the Fourth of July ; exhibition of stereopticon views in Columbus, O., to several thousand people ; advertising in the Phillips railway guide ; recommendation to the city council to appoint a local board of forestry and to encourage the planting of trees; the writing of letters to the eastern press by Prof. Holder ; the entertainment of 150 school teachers from the east; entertainment of delegates to the Sovereign Lodge of Odd Fellows; agitation of the water question and reading of Judge Eaton's address on the subject ; recommenda- tion to the city council to amend ordinance 45; the appointment of a com- mittee to devise a system of water supply for the city, and secure better defense from fire; the obtainment of improved train service to Los Angeles ;
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the effort to secure a better cemetery site for the city ; the distribution in the east of photographic views of this city ; the suppression of damaging rumors as to the prevalence of typhoid fever in this city ; the tender of aid to the suffering poor of Dakota; entertainment of the Editorial Association of Southern California; the efforts to secure the establishment of an astro- nomical observatory on Mt. Wilson; co-operation in the effort to obtain relief of debtors under real estate contracts; memorial to the Legislature for the better protection of fruits; placing the Harvard telescope on the summit of Mt. Wilson; work of committee on our agricultural resources who state that $150,000 goes out of Pasadena yearly for fruits, vegetables, etc .; calling upon the city fathers for a financial statement of the city ; the recent work of the board in aid of the construction of a boulevard to Los Angeles; petition to the city council for rapid transit ; recommenda- tions for a city park, and for a cannery ; action in giving the cantata ; in observing arbor day, and inauguration centennial."
It must be kept in mind that. 1888 was a "boom" year, in order to better understand the many grand business projects above mentioned which never existed except in talk or on paper.
The Pasadena Standard of January 12, 1889, gave a few additional points, thus :
"The president of the Board of Trade reports that out of 154 who originally signed for membership, only fifty have become members. The board sent photograph views to fifteen eastern cities to be put up in frames and publicly exhibited. The views selected were: The public library, Wilson grammar school, Monks Hill school, Universalist church, E. F. Hurlbut's residence, Colorado street (looking west), Colorado street (looking east), Richardson villa, Pickwick club rooms, Y. M. C. A. building, H. H. Markham's residence, Marengo avenue, Raymond Hotel, Sierra Madre mountains, Devil's Gate, Painter Hotel, Cascade in Millard canyon."
May 15, 1889, United States Senators Hoar of Massachusetts, Pugh of Alabama, Allison of Iowa, and Dolph of Oregon, visited Pasadena, and were driven about the city, under auspices of Board of Trade. And in all public interests of this nature, or any matter coming properly within its purview, the Board of Trade continued to be active, energetic, prompt and useful.
In 1892 the board again issued a 40-page pamphlet with close print on large sized page, and many photogravure illustrations. The text was written by Theodore Coleman, city editor of the Daily Star. At this time the officers were: W. U. Masters, president ; J. A. Buchanan, vice-presi- dent ; M. E. Wood, treasurer; Webster Wotkyns, secretary. And standing committees of five members each were maintained on manufactures, on edu- cation and publications, on public meetings, on railroads and transportation, on streets and parks, on health and sanitation, on advertising and fairs, on receptions. This will show what a field of volunteer endeavor for the public welfare this organization aimed to fill. In this 1892 pamphlet was a list of its members- 148 in all.
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Its officers in 1894 were : President, Prof. C. H. Keyes, president of Throop Polytechnic Institute; vice-president, Prof. T. S. C. Lowe ; treasurer, P. M. Green; secretary, W. H. Knight; directors, Keyes, A. G. Throop, Lowe, M. D. Painter, Theo. Coleman, Herman R. Hertel, M. H. Weight. [Later - Knight resigned, and M. E. Wood was elected secretary, 1894-95.]
TABLE OF CORPORATE ASSOCIATIONS.
By the kindness of Mr. H. N. Farey, who searched the records for me, . I am able to present here a complete alphabetical list of all associations which have ever been incorporated with Pasadena as their recorded place of business, up to July 1, 1895. However, the original colony, or "San Gabriel Orange Grove Association," was incorporated before there was any Pasadena, and it named Los Angeles as its place of business. And the Mutual Orchard Company, whose plant was here, named Oakland as its place of business, its members mostly residing there. Our two National Banks do not appear on the county records, their registry being in the national archives at Washington.
TITLE OF ASSOCIATION.
Almondale Company
DATE WHEN INCORPORATED. January 28, 1892
All Saints Church ..
June 21, 1886
Arroyo Seco Water Company
February 18, 1887
Brown Mountain Mining Company
March 28, 1887
California Commercial Company
November 18, 1888
California Olive Company.
May 15, 1885
California Universalist Convention.
February 4, 1889
Calvary Presbyterian Church of Pasadena
November 9, 1888.
Carlton Block Company.
March 9, 1893
Champion Mining and Milling Company
May 22, 1885
Christian Church of Pasadena
May 17, 1886.
City of Pasadena [as a city of the sixth class]
June 14, 1886
City Railway Company of Pasadena
November 17, 1886
City of South Pasadena [as a city of the sixth class]
February ... 1888
Colorado Street Railroad Company.
March 20, 1886
Consumers Gas and Electric Company
March 25, 1893
Cottonwood Canyon Water Company.
October 29, 1892
Crown Steam Laundry
August 15, 1893
Davis Dental Manufacturing Company December 31, 1894
Emanuel Methodist Episcopal Church
December 23, 1886
Exchange Block Company [Carlton Hotel]
June 2, 1886
Fairmont Land and Water Company
March 12, 1888
First African Methodist Church August 24, 1892
First Baptist Church of Pasadena
March 24, 1886
First Congregational Church of Pasadena December 10, 1885
First Free Methodist Church of Pasadena September 6, 1888
First German Baptist Church of Pasadena
December 27, 1877
First Methodist Episcopal Church of Pasadena
December 31, 1883
First National Bank of Pasadena, No. 3,499. [Successot
to Pasadena Bank.] National charter dated
May 10, 1886
First Universalist Parish of Pasadena. January 22, 1887
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Hermosa Land and Water Company January 7, 1882
Highland Railroad Company .. March 2, 1888
Holland Manufacturing Company
April 27, 1888
Hotel Green Company March 26, 1891
Kansas Street Improvement Company.
March 18, 1888
La Canyada Land and Water Company
November 9, 1887
Lake Vineyard Land and Water Association
May 7, 1876
Lake View Land Company
May 13, 1894
Las Flores Water Company
June 10, 1885
Linda Vista Improvement Company.
November 25, 1887
Lordsburg Land Company
March 3, 1889
Loris Gold Mining Company .June 9, 1894
Los Angeles and Pasadena Tulare Improvement Co September 10, 1887
Mechanics' Association of Pasadena. July 23, 1887
December 20, 1890
Millard Canyon Water Company
April 14, 1887
Montclair Children's Home.
December 20, 1893
Mountain View Water Company
November 1, 1887
Munger & Griffith Company.
January 3, 1895.
Mutual Building and Loan Association of Pasadena
July 18, 1892
Mutual Orchard Company [Office at Oakland, Cal.]
June 15, 1877
News Publishing Company .. October 6, 1894
North Congregational Church of Pasadena July 23, 1889
North Pasadena Land and Water Company.
January 15, 1885
North Pasadena Methodist Episcopal Church
June 17, 1891
Occidental Mutual Aid Association.
December 15, 1888
Park Nursery Company. Pasadena Bank [afterward First National]
April 18, 1887
Pasadena Board of Trade
March 22, 1888
Pasadena Building and Loan Association
.June 8, 1886
Pasadena Cemetery Association.
December 13, 1882
Pasadena Contracting and Building Company
September 29, 1893
Pasadena Electric Light and Power Company. .January 31, 1888
Pasadena Fruit and Crystalizing Company
November 13, 1886
Pasadena Fruit Growers Association.
December 6, 1893 March 26, 1886
Pasadena Gas Company.
May 8, 1886
Pasadena Gardening Company.
January 16, 1890
Pasadena Gold Mining Company.
November 23, 1888
Pasadena Grand Opera House Company
March 21, 1887
Pasadena Highland Fruit Association
May 12, 1894
Pasadena Highland Water Company
November 1, 1890
Pasadena Improvement Company February 9, 1887 Pasadena Investment Association August 3, 1887
Pasadena and Kern County Land and Water Company .. December 12, 1887 Pasadena Lake Vineyard Land and Water Company ...... January 29, 1884 Pasadena Land and Water Company [successor to the
original colony or "San Gabriel Orange Grove Ass'n"] .. March 18, 1882 Pasadena Library and Village Improvement Society ...... December 26, 1882 Pasadena Lodge 173, Independent Order Good Templars .. November 21, 1881 Pasadena, Los Angeles & Long Beach Railroad Co. September 12, 1887 Pasadena & Los Angeles Railway Company January 21, 1888
Pasadena Gas and Electric Company.
November 21, 1884
Memorial Baptist Church of South Pasadena
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Pasadena Lumber Company ..
December 20, 1883
Pasadena Manufacturing Company .. December 10, 1886
Pasadena Mining and Developing Company. August 7, 1888
Pasadena Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
February 5, 1887
Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway Company June 3, 1891
Pasadena and Mount Wilson Toll Road Company June 22, 1889
Pasadena Mutual Burial Association.
October 12, 1892
Pasadena National Bank, No. 3,568-National charter ... October 11, 1886 Pasadena Packing Company May 7, 1891
Pasadena Park Tract Land and Water Company.
July 7, 1887
Pasadena Patent Improvement Company.
July 23, 1890
Pasadena Presbyterian Church.
November 20, 1876
Pasadena Quarterly Meeting Society of Friends [Whittier], May 16, 1891 Pasadena Railway Company.
Pasadena, Ramona & Long Beach Railway Company.
March 21, 1887
Pasadena Real Estate Exchange.
May 17, 1887
Pasadena Rincon Land and Water Company.
August 16, 1887
Pasadena Savings Bank.
May 18, 1887
Pasadena Security Investment Company.
February 9, 1895
Pasadena Steam Laundry
February 9, 1887
Pasadena Street Railroad Company .
February 18, 1886
Pasadena & Wilson Peak Railroad Company
June 11, 1887
Raynor Springs Water Company ...
June 21, 1893
Rubio Canyon Land and Water Company.
February 24, 1886
San Gabriel Orange Grove Association [the original colony of Pasadena]. November 13, 1873
San Gabriel Valley Bank of Pasadena
February 6, 1886
San Gabriel Valley Fruit Company. April 27, 1893
San Rafael Water Company February 15, 1887
Sierra Madre College ..
April 1, 1884
Southern Oil Company. March 23, 1895
South Pasadena 'Bus and Transfer Company
March 21, 1888
South Pasadena Hotel Company April 24, 1888
South Pasadena Methodist Episcopal Church. April 25, 1887
Star Publishing Company
April 22, 1890
Throop University.
September 12, 1891
Union Club of Pasadena
July 8, 1887
Union Publishing Company
June 16, 1887
Union Savings Bank.
.January 30, 1895
November 23, 1892
Valley Hunt Club Waukena, Tulare and Mammoth Forest R. R. Company, January 23, 1888. West Pasadena Railroad Company . January 14, 1888.
William R. Staats Company.
October 4, 1894.
Willamette Lumber Company. August 25, 1894.
Wilson Peak Mining Company. August 16, 1887.
Young Men's Christian Association. October 20, 1886.
Of the incorporations above noted there were :
Religious organizations. 25 Municipal incorporations. 2
Land and Water Companies 19
Mining companies 6
Water companies 8
Miscellaneous bodies 53
Railroad companies. .. 12
Total I25
November 27, 1886
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The following table of the number of incorporations formed in succes- sive years makes a curious exhibit of the culmination and decline of Pasa- dena's great historic " boom,'' 1886 to 1888 :
In 1873-I In 1882-4
In 1886-20
In 1890-5
In 1894-6 -
1876-2 1883-2
1887-24
1891-6 1895-4
1877-I
1884-3
1888-18 1892-6
1881-I
1885-5
1889- 4
1893-8
CHAPTER XVI.
PASADENA'S CHIEF HISTORIC DAYS .- Orange Grove Colony Day .- President Hayes Day .- Citrus Fair Days .- Railroad Opening Days .- National G. A. R. Day .- Presi- dent Harrison Day .- Prof. Lowe Day .- Father Throop Day ; and sundry others.
HISTORIC DAYS.
This chapter is devoted chiefly to a record of such days as form dis- tinctive waymarks in the progress of Pasadena's wonderful growth. It also includes some days on which occurred events of more than ordinary historic interest or association. But it would require a whole volume by itself to attempt an account of all the tournaments, fairs, Fourth of Julys, memorial day parades, torchlight processions, ratification meetings, jollifications, state conventions, notable excursion visits, distinguished guest receptions, and other such exceptional public affairs as have flooded Pasadena with ex- citement for a day, at frequent intervals all through the passing years. They are so numerous as to have become quite commonplace ; yet a few of them stand out with features of prominence as public events that do call for historic recognition.
ORANGE GROVE COLONY DAY.
Pasadena's first distinctively historic day was January 27, 1874, when the twenty-seven original shareholders of the colony lands made selection and took formal possession of their several plats of ground. [See pages 108 and 125.]
FIRST RE-UNION PICNIC DAY.
On January 27, 1876, the colonists held their first general re-union picnic, in their fine grove of native oaks, now known as Lincoln Park. This was the colony's anniversary day, and they had for speakers Hon. Coker F. Clarkson of Iowa, Col. John F. Godfrey of Los Angeles, and others. [See page III.]
PRESIDENT HAYES DAY.
In October, 1880, president Rutherford B. Hayes and wife visited Los Angeles and were made the guests of the Southern California Horticultural Society, which was then holding its annual Fair in the great pavilion erected in 1878 on Temple street, where a grand public reception was given
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them. One of the original colonists of Pasadena was J. M. Matthews, brother of Hon. Stanley Matthews, U. S. Senator from Ohio, and maternal half-brother to Mrs. Hayes. Mr. Matthews' colony tract was 60 acres, ex- tending from Fair Oaks Avenue to Arroyo drive, and included the ground now occupied by the fine residences of E. F. Hurlbut, Prof. T. S. C. Lowe and Mrs. Col. Baker. He built a house on the hill where Mrs. Baker's elegant mansion now stands (1895) and he and Thomas F. Croft " kept bach " there together. Mr. Matthews was a man of superior talent, but was wrecked by strong drink. He had been a prominent editor at Indianapolis ; and in order to get him away from drinking influences his friends had in- duced him to join the Pasadena colony, hoping that by these better associa- tions and surroundings he might be improved. This hope proved vain, for he continued to drink here, and had fits of delirium tremens, from which Dr. O. H. Conger twice saved his life; and most of the colony families were kind to him, for he was an excellent man apart from his drink habit. When Hayes received the nomination for president in 1875, Matthews was possessed to go back and take part in the campaign ; and he determined to sell his place and go. Mrs. Hayes had kept up a sisterly interest in and care for this inebriate brother-in fact seemed to have a special oversight of his affairs, and had been in correspondence with Mr. Croft for some months about the matter. Mr. Croft finally bought Matthews' place, upon an un- derstanding with Mrs. Hayes and other friends ; but instead of letting him take part in the campaign for his brother-in-law's election to the presidency, they sent him to an inebriate asylum. Mrs. Hayes had a strong desire to see the place where her poor wreck of a brother had lived, and the people who had been so kind to him ; and this desire of hers was the real ground and incentive of the presidential visit to Pasadena.
The families of Messrs. A. O. Porter and P. M. Green had only a few hours notice that the president was coming, and they sent word around as well as they could to their colony neighbors within reach, a number of whom came to assist them in making preparations for the great occa- sion. They talked of putting up a floral arch across the driveway leading from Sylvan Avenue up to Mr. Green's house, but the time was too short for this. And all they could do was to send a mounted escort to meet the party, besides having some little girls ready to present them with Pasadena flowers and fruits, and give the guests a warm greeting, for they were expected any minute for two hours before they did finally arrive.
J. DeBarth Shorb, being president of the Agricultural Society that year, had the president and wife in charge as guests of the society, and brought them out to Pasadena in his carriage, heading the procession. In the next carriage was Gen. Geo. Stoneman and Gov. Geo. C. Perkins, accompanied by Gen. W. T. Sherman and his daughter Rachel ; and there were several other carriages following, but by whom occupied I could not learn. They
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were all engaged to take dinner at General Stoneman's house on his Los Robles ranch, and get back to Los Angeles by nightfall. Mrs. Stoneman was at home keeping the victuals hot ; and the general was full of anxiety and hurry to shorten all ceremonies and hasten movements. The galloping instincts of a cavalry officer were still strong upon him. The visitors were met on Mission street in South Pasadena by Masters Whit. Elliott, Morton Banbury and Will. Clapp, all on horseback to escort them up to Columbia street. But when the dust of the carriages signaled their approach Mr. Green ran down his picturesque private driveway to Sylvan Avenue, and there meeting the president's carriage, which was much in advance of the others, he led them up to the lawn at the north front of his house. Here they were met and welcomed in a very brief speech by A. O. Porter, who was president of the colony association that year. Three little girls, Lulu Porter, Agnes Elliott and Winnie Farnsworth, dressed in white and bearing baskets of fresh flowers and fruits, were lifted up to the carriage to present their tokens of welcome, and were kissed by President and Mrs. Hayes, the latter being especially cordial and pleasant to the children. The president was then introduced to each of the gentlemen, and Mrs. Hayes to the ladies present. Of the colony people there, I have only been able to ascertain cer- tainly the names of A. O. Porter and wife ; P. M. Green and wife; Maj. Erie Locke and wife; Thomas F. Croft ; Mrs. Dr. Elliott; Mrs. Rosen- baum; James Cambell, with his two sons, Samuel St. John and James H .; and Charles H. Watts.
Meanwhile the rest of the party, with Gen. Stoneman, Gov. Perkins,* and Gen. Sherman and daughter in first carriage, instead of turning up Mr. Green's driveway continued on Sylvan Avenue up to Columbia street near Mr. Porter's house, where two old soldiers of Sherman's army saluted him, one of whom the general recognized, calling him familiarly by name, and stopped to have a little talk. This was Alexander Edwards, who had been a company officer under Sherman, but at this time resided on his 12-acre lot at corner of Columbia street and Fair Oaks Avenue- now the Rev. Dr. Miller estate. The other man, Enio Brenna, Gen. Sherman did not remem- ber by face or name (although he had served as a cavalryman in the famous "marching through Georgia"), but of course greeted him cordially as an old soldier. Mr. Brenna was then living in a shanty at J. F. Barcus's place. [See footnote, page 151.]
While Gens. Sherman and Stoneman were engaged with this little episode, the President's carriage had driven rapidly up Orange Grove Avenue to about where Bellefontaine Avenue now crosses it, so that Mrs. Hayes might see the place where her brother had lived -a frame house then owned by Thos. F. Croft, where Mrs. Col. Baker's elegant residence on the hill now stands; and here Mr. Croft had a brief talk with Mrs.
*Geo. C. Perkins was governor of California from 1880 to 1883, then succeeded by Stoneman.
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Hayes about her brother's affairs, he having been Mr. Matthews's agent in the original selection of the place, lived with him there, and finally took it off his hands when he was determined to go back east during Hayes' can- didacy. Meanwhile Gen. Sherman suddenly missed the president's car- riage-it was nowhere in sight, and he showed considerable excitement, almost alarm, for a few moments, about the president's sudden and mys- terious disappearance, for he knew nothing of Mrs. Hayes' special interest in persons and places here, and supposed their carriage was close by. The General, however, soon learned where they had gone, and drove up the avenue to join them. Mr. Cambell's home was then on the south part of the same hill, or what is now the McGregory place, next south of Prof. T. S. C. Lowe's magnificent dwelling, and he hastened home to tell his wife about the visiting party, as she had not been able to go to the reception ; so they stood out on their veranda fronting Orange Grove Avenue and saluted the whole party as they returned down the avenue under Gen. Stoneman's lead, making haste to that waiting dinner at his ranch house.
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