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HOLINESS CHURCH .- In 1884 the people of this order built a little church in the vicinity of North Moline Avenue and Ashtabula street, in O. K. Hines's subdivision. At that time that location was "away out in the country." Among its principal members were Isaac McCollum and family; Mrs. Eliza Jacobson and her daughter Carrie, and a few others. In 1888 they held a camp meeting on Dr. Reid's lots at corner of Pasadena Avenue and Kansas street ; and then they rented the frame building next south of the Wooster block on Fair Oaks Avenue, occupying it as their church and parsonage. Rev. J. H. Clark, pastor till 1893, when he and his wife joined the Salvation Army aud went into its missionary work. In 1893 the society established their church on North Fair Oaks Avenue, near Peoria street.
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
The first religious services of this order ever held in Pasadena was in an unfinished upper room called Wakeley's hall, on Colorado street, on Sunday, May 10, 1885. Rev. J. H. Warren, D. D., of San Francisco, state superintendent of Home Missions, had come here to view the field. That was the only room he could get. It
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had no seats, and he borrowed about two dozen chairs from the roller skating rink to serve his purpose. The only names I found of persons present at that first meeting were : Mrs. R. E. Burnham, Miss Etta Burn- ham, Dr. Rachel F. Reid, F. R. Harris, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Painter, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Steen, Mrs. C. P. Brown; though there were some others. There was some talk about organizing a church ; some favored it, and some did not; and no definite steps were taken. In July arrangements were made for Rev. J. T. Ford, the Home Missionary of Southern California, to come, which he did, and preached on August 2, in the same room. At this meeting a few were ready (some ten or twelve at least) to organize and form a nucleus of a Congregational church. But now it was strongly urged that the Presbyterian church was struggling with difficulties, trying to secure and sustain a pastor ; that many of its members were old-time Congrega- tionalists ; and if this new church were started it would tend to disintegrate, cripple and embarrass that one. Upon this view of the case it was finally "Resolved, That as a matter of Christian courtesy and good will toward the
Presbyterian church, we defer the matter of oganization for the present." This was adopted, and no further action taken on that line. Then in Oc- tober following occurred the split in the Presbyterian church over the ques- tion of removal [see page 476]. and many of its members withdrew. A conference was then held at Wm. T. Clapp's residence, and a committee consisting of Mrs. Dr. Reid, Mrs. R. E. Burnham, Mrs. I. M. Hill, Miss Annie Clapp, Miss Olive Eaton, Mrs. E. A. Nims, and Mrs. H. J. Holmes was appointed to ascertain who in the community would unite to organize a Congregational church. Another meeting was held at Mr. Clapp's house on November 7, to hear the report of this committee, and they brought in forty-two names asking for such an organization. Rev. Dr. Warren was present by invitation and for counsel, and the following business committees were then appointed : .
I. To procure a suitable place for holding church services tempor- arily-James Cambell, I. M. Hill, H. J. Holmes, M. D. Painter. 2. To procure site for a church edifice-Wm. T. Clapp, Thomas Green, I. B. Clapp, M. D. Painter, J. F. Steen. 3. To prepare a form of creed and covenant-Rev. J. B. Ford, Dr. H. A. Reid, Mrs. I. B. Clapp .. 4. On music-Miss Annie Clapp and Mrs. E. A. Nims.
The ensuing Sunday, Nov. 8, 1885, services were held in the college building on Columbia hill [now Mr. Daggett's residence] by Dr. Warren and Rev. J. B. Ford. After the service a congregational meeting was held, The report of committee on creed was read and adopted. Then Rev. Ford. Dr. Reid, W. T. Clapp, John Ross, J. F. Steen, were appointed to issue letters missive inviting the other Congregational churches to send delegates to a council here, to examine the creed adopted, and other steps taken ; and if approved, to give this new church their formal fellowship. At later
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business meetings the first officers of the church were elected, thus : Deacons-for four years, W. T. Clapp ; for three years, John Ross ; for two years, A. A. Burrows ; for one year, Geo. A. Green. Church clerk, I. B. Clapp ; church treasurer, Dr. H. A. Reid. Superintendent of Sunday school, Geo. A. Green ; S. S. secretary and treasurer, James A. Gates. The council and installation services occurred on December 1 and 2, 1885 ; and the Valley Union of December 4, said in its report :
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"Then came the ceremony of instituting the church, by the members all rising and giving their assent to the creed which they had themselves publicly prepared and adopted, not as a cast-iron jacket which all inust wear alike, but for "substance of doctrine," as held in common, and with all reasonable christian liberty of conscience ; then the solemn and affecting mutual covenant with each other in their new church brotherhood ; then the ordination of four deacons previously chosen by the church ; then the warm, genial, and inspiring presentation of the fellowship, sympathy, and prayerful "God speed ye," of the sister churches ; all concluding with the memorial service, or Sacrament of the Lord's supper."
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The list of first members was 42 by letter and 3 on profession of faith.
Preaching was maintained by "supply " for some weeks ; then Rev. Arthur Smith, a returned missionary from China was engaged, and con- tinued to fill the pulpit until March 28, 1886-when he was recalled to his missionary work. The services were held in the old college building. Meanwhile the committee on building site was at work. Several eligible points were found ; and on June 21, 1886, final choice was made of the lot 160x275 feet, price $2,500, where the church now stands, corner Pasadena Avenue and California street. In December, 1886, Rev. D. D. Hill was engaged as pastor. The erection of a church building was pushed vigorously ; and it was occupied as soon as built ; but being considerably in debt, it was not dedicated until October 29, 1891, when the debt had been cleared off, and a pipe organ had been furnished the church by Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Scoville. The building and grounds cost $35,000.
October 1, 1894, pastor Hill resigned ; and March 31, 1895, Rev. H. W. Lathe was called to the pastorate, and commenced his labors the first Sunday in May. Membership, 317.
Besides its Sunday school, this church has auxiliary organizations as follows : Ladies Aid Society .- Womans Missionary Society .- Y. P. S. C. E .; and Junior Y. P. S. C. E .- Chinese Mission ; and Chinese Sunday school .- Children's Missionary Society.
NORTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH .- On December 18, 1887, Rev. E. Bickford, a Congregational home missionary, preached in a barn west of the Painter hotel ; and the next Sunday, December 25, a Sunday school was or- ganized there, with Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Painter as the leading workers. It soon outgrew the barn, and Dr. G. Roscoe Thomas's hall was secured for its sessions. Mr. Bickford continued to preach for these people until July 15, 1888, when Rev. H. T. Staats took up the work. And on May 3, 1889, a Congregational church was organized, with seventeen members. They bought from the Universalist parish the same building which had been the first Methodist church of Pasadena-first erected on lower Orange Grove Avenue ; then moved to Colorado street ; then moved to Chestnut street, and now moved up Raymond Avenue to Jefferson street. In December, 1891, this little church was demolished by a wind storm. [See page 165.] The society next bought the original Episcopal chapel on East Colorado street and moved it to their own lot and built some additions to it, making a much prettier and more commodious house of worship than they had before. Its total cost, besides some back debt, was $2,034 ; and on March 27, 1892, it was dedicated - all clear of debt. Its membership in April, 1895, is about seventy. The auxiliary societies are - Ladies Missionary and Aid Society ; and Young People's Christian Endeavor.
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CATHOLIC CHURCH.
The first Catholic religious services ever held in Pasadena was on Sun- day, January 9, 1886, when mass was celebrated in the Los Angeles house, by courtesy of Mr. Banta. After mass a business meeting was held to talk up the matter of building a church. The next meeting was at the residence of G. T. Stamm, on South Marengo Avenue, Sunday May 23, 1886. In November and December, 1887, their church was built, at the corner of Pasadena Avenue and Bellefontaine Avenue, and mass was celebrated there for the first time on December 18, 1887, by Rev. Father Hartnett. The Pasadena Star of March 30, 1892, said: "Jas. T. Smith, president of the Young Men's Catholic Institute, and Geo. Stanley, secretary, attended a meeting of the Institute in Knights of Pythias hall last night, and ten new members were received. J. A. MacIntyre is president of the society."
Rev. Cornelius Scannell became pastor in 1893, and continues yet, 1895.
FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.
The first preaching services of the Universalist persuasion ever held in Pasadena was in Williams hall, April 18 and 25, and May 1 and 7, 1886, by Rev. Miss Florence E. Kollock, then pastor of the Inglewood church at Chicago, and a graduate of the St. Lawrence Divinity School, New York. Arrangement for these meetings was made by Hon. A. G. Throop, "Father Throop" of honored memory. On May 7, after Miss Kollock's sermon, James A. Gates reported progress in the matter of securing names to organ- ize a Universalist church. Father Throop submitted the Universalist creed, and the form of constitution in use at Riverside and other points ; and they were adopted. Then Mr. Gates, Mrs. S. E. Merritt, and Byron O. Clark were appointed to canvass for members. The Star of June 4 reported thus : "The Universalists completed their parish organization last Sunday, and elected as board of directors : Hon. A. G. Throop, moderator; Mrs. S. E. Merritt, secretary ; Mrs. H. J. Vail, treasurer ; J. A. Gates, Mrs. Filey Ar- nold, Prof. J. D. Yocum, J. D. Ripley. Mr. Gates, chorister. Williams hall was leased for holding regular preaching services."
Meetings were sustained and members added, under this parish organiza- tion, until April 21, 1889, when a church organization was formed with 97 members, who elected Prof. Yocum moderator ; Elisha Millard, treasurer ; E. E. Spaulding, clerk. For deacons : Hon. A. G. Throop, M. W. Stim- son, N. M. Johnson, J. B. Corson, Mrs. E. C. Bradley, Mrs. H. M. Conger. Meanwhile they had purchased the old colony church building of the Methodist people and moved it from Colorado street up to the corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Chestnut street, where Machinery Hall of the Throop Institute now stands ; and here was where the "parish" was advanced to a "church " organization on that Easter Sunday.
In 1888-89 they built their present church edifice, on corner of Ray- mond Avenue and Chestnut street. March 19, 1889, it was first opened to
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a public audience, when Mrs. Mary A. Livermore, of world-wide fame, delivered there her brilliant lecture entitled, "A Dream of To-morrow." At the annual meeting in May, 1889, the building committee reported that the new church property had cost $56,000, and was $20,000 in debt. This debt was, within two years later, all removed, chiefly by the munificence of "Father Throop," who once told me himself that he had $40,000 in it, although it was against his judgment, he said, to undertake so large and a costly structure.
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FIRST UNIVERSALIST CHURCH. Photo. 1895. Romanesque Architecture. West-by-north view.
A report in November, 1894, gave $65,000 as total cost of the grounds, church building and furnishings. And since that time a $5,000 organ has been added. The library contained 300 volumes in 1894; and the roll of membership was 256. The successive pastors have been : Rev. - Briggs, in 1886-87; Rev. E. L. Conger, D. D., 1888 to 1893; Rev. Florence E. Kollock, A. M., associate pastor in 1892-93, and sole pastor in 1893-94-95. In May, 1895, Miss Kollock resigned ; and in June Rev. W. M. Jones was elected to the pastorate, to commence September 1, 1895. Its auxiliary societies are : Woman's League; Young People's Christian Union; Fort- nightly Club.
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
This church was organized in June, 1888, in a tent on Villa street, near Reservoir No. 2, by Elder E. A. Briggs. The first members were : J. T.
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Butler and wife; L. H. Buchanan and wife; L. D. Franklin and wife; L. H. Orr; Mrs. Dora Fisher; Miss Mary Larson; Miss Myrtle Griswold; Mrs. - Crosby, and others. In November and December of same year they built a small church on Waverly Drive. Then in 1893 they built a new and larger church at corner of Raymond Avenue and Mountain street - the lot and building costing about $1,500. It was dedicated in September, 1893. Auxiliaries within the church, besides Bible study class, are : Mothers Meeting Society; Missionary Society. Trustees in 1895: L. D. Benton, J. T. Butler, - Scanlan. Number of members, 35. Elder George Bremner in charge.
FIRST-DAY ADVENT CHRISTIAN CHURCH .- In October, 1894, Elder L. A. Wilkerson commenced preaching in a tent on North Fair Oaks Avenue ; then he occupied G. A. R. Hall for some months, under name of "Church of the Blessed Hope"; but in April, 1895, re-established their tent on Fair Oaks Avenue, opposite the end of Mary street. The church was formally organized April 19, 1895, the first members being Elder A. E. Vesper and wife ; A. E. Pinkham and wife; Smith James and wife; E. F. Knox and wife; Jas. Mushrush and wife; B. T. Knight and wife; Misses Edith and Bertha Tipple ; Daniel Kinkaid, Geo. Moore, and others.
GERMAN LUTHERAN ST. PAULUS CHURCH.
First meeting, to consider the matter of organization, was held in Opera House Block, hall No. 11, November 10, 1893. Those present were C. Klein, A. Frank, A. Golderer, E. R. Strabendorf, A. Wolf, H. Ahrens, A. Lindner, A. Lau. The church was organized November 17, 1883, in the Opera House Block. The first members were same as above, besides G. Borman, W. Tenhaef, W. Fachan, F. Weik, J. Schaufle, F. Mertz, -Bonowald. The first officers were : Frank, president ; Wolf, treasurer : Klein, secretary ; these, with F. Weik and E. R. Strabendorf constituting the board of trustees. Pastor, Rev. Geo. Saager. A church was built in 1893-94 on the corner of Vernon Avenue and Walnut street, costing $1,500, Number of members in May, 1894, were twenty-five. A Sunday school is also maintained.
SWEDENBORGIAN.
In 1892-93 Rev. Mr. Bartlett, a minister of the Swedenborgian or "New Jerusalem " denomination preached a few months at the Grand Opera House ; but no church was organized, and the meetings ceased.
APPLIED CHRISTIANITY.
In August, 1894, about 100 persons united in inviting Rev. R. M. Webster, a Congregationalist clergyman, to give a series of twelve dis- courses in Pasadena during the vacation weeks of the regular churches ; and G. A. R. hall was secured as their place of meeting. Judge A. J. Utley, Prof. D. M. Harrison and Mrs. Katie M. Keese were the executive
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committee of this movement, and W. I. Keese, treasurer. After the twelve- Sundays engagement had been fulfilled, he was re-engaged for six months. Then in July, 1895, a more formal organization was effected. [Data not furnished.]
WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.
In the spring of 1883 Miss Frances E. Willard, president of the National W. C. T. U., visited California, and organized a union at Los An- geles, among other places. At this time she visited Pasadena and gave a lecture in Williams hall. Later in the season Mrs. Mary Clement Leavitt, starting on her famous around-the-world-missionary tour, which took her seven years to accomplish, visited Pasadena and organized the W. C. T. U. here September 8, 1883. Ten women were present at the organization, but others joined soon, and up to January, 1884, the list of members were : Mrs. L. A. Fisk, whose husband was then pastor of the Baptist church ; Mrs. James Smith, Mrs. T. T. Rood, Mrs. George Bancroft, Mrs. E. R. Sheldon, wife of Dr. F. K. Sheldon, who started the first drug store here ; Mrs. A. C. Townsend, Mrs. Mary E. Case, Mrs. S. Washburn, Mrs. Benj. Rice, Mrs. O. S. Barber, Mrs. Dr. Lord, Miss Ella Bryant, Mrs. A. O. Por- ter, Mrs. L. D. Hollingsworth, Mrs. M. Mullins, whose husband first opened Kansas street and laid out the first recorded village plat in Pasadena; Mrs. P. M. Green, Mrs. Louisa M. Woodin, M. D. The officers at this time were: Mrs. Rev. Fisk, president; Mrs. Dr. Sheldon, secretary and treas- urer ; Mrs. O. S. Barber, financial secretary. Of these first members, some have died, some have moved away, some have dropped out of the work, but Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Barber and Mrs. Lord are still working members of this Union - 1895.
In April, 1884, the famous Mrs. J. Ellen Foster of Iowa, visited this Union, and under its auspices gave a lecture in Williams hall, which resulted in the organization of the first Prohibition Club in Pasadena, April 14. [See page 229.] According to a report in the Valley Union newspaper of April 26, 1884, Mrs. Foster and her husband were given free entertainment by Mrs. Banta at the Los Angeles House ; and the rival stage companies then running (Vore's and Kilgore's) both offered them free transportation from and to Los Angeles. They were the "lions " of the hour.
In April, 1886, this W. C. T. U. was visited by Mrs. Letitia Youmans, president of the Dominion W. C. T. U. of Canada, and leader of the tem- perance work in that province. During her stay in Pasadena Mrs. Youmans was the guest of Dr. Rachel F. Reid, and preached twice for the First Con- gregational church. She was a notably large woman - weighed 250 pounds-and the Union newspaper of April 23 said : "She has a gospel power in proportion to her avoirdupois." The same paper of November 13, 1886, contained this historic item :
"At the last meeting of the W. C. T. U. of Pasadena, a little episode
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occurred which is worth printing. The name of Mrs. Ruth Thompson, daughter of 'Old John Brown -Ossawatomie Brown,' was proposed for membership, with the remark that she was a worthy daughter of the famous anti-slavery martyr. Instead of voting by the usual sign of uplifted hand, the members in this case all arose to their feet and sung with great unction and fervor the rousing song -
" 'John Brown's body lies mouldering in the grave, But his soul goes marching on.'
"And so Mrs. Thompson was unanimously elected, with a 'hallelujah ' thrown in."
The Union newspaper of January 29, 1887, published a furnished re- port, from which I quote these historic points :
" Mrs. Margaret Parker, from England, [Scotland] first president of the world's W. C. T. U., was present, and strengthened our hearts with her words of cheer. Mrs. S. V. Maxfield, one of Iowa's leading workers, told how much better prohibition succeeds there than some of the newspapers would have us think. Mrs. Gordon, missionary to Japan, gave us a most pleasing account of our temperance around-the-world missionary, Mrs. Leavitt, who organized our Pasadena union ; and Mrs. Ruth Brown Thomp- son, whom we have all learned to love for her own as well as her father's sake, told us how John Brown smashed the whisky barrel."
Mrs. Parker was then a guest of Thomas Nelmes, a fellow countryman. In the autumn of 1887, the Pasadena W. C. T. U. was visited by Mary T. Lathrop, the woman orator of Michigan, whose fame spans the continent, and who was also a member of the National Prohibition committee. She was entertained at the Carlton hotel, and gave a public lecture in the M. E. church to a large audience. In May, 1889, this Union was visited by Mrs. Henrietta G. Moore of Ohio, a lecturer and organizer for the National W. C. T. U .; and while here she was the guest of Mrs. Dr. O. H. Conger. A report in the Pasadena Standard of September 21, 1889, gave a list of vice- presidents who represented the W. C. T. U. in the different churches of the city, thus : Baptist church, Mrs. Addie Camper ; Presbyterian, Mrs. C. D. Case ; Episcopal, Mrs. James Smith ; Friends, Mrs. G. M. Keese ; Methodist, Mrs. E. Griffith ; Universalist, Mrs. J. C. Hance; First Congregational, Mrs. H. N. Farey ; North Congregational, Mrs. H. K. W. Bent; Christian, Mrs. Dr. Allen. Dr. Rachel F. Reid was then president.
A YOUNG WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION Was maintained about two years and then expired.
A LOYAL TEMPERANCE LEGION has been maintained abont four years as a juvenile auxiliary order - practically the W. C. T. U. Sunday school. Mrs. Mary C. Glass, superintendent, 1894-95.
LADIES' UNION PRAYER MEETING.
In June, 1886, Mrs. F. H. Burdick and Mrs. M. Proudfit visited all the pastors of the city and secured their approval for a weekly prayer meeting to be held on Tuesday afternoons, for Bible study and prayer, by devout
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women from all the different churches. The first meeting was held in the Presbyterian chapel on Worcester Avenue; and I am informed that during the entire nine years of its career, this "Union Prayer Meeting " has not once failed to hold its hour of devotion on the appointed day. There are no officers, but a Leader is appointed for each meeting in advance. The attend- ance is usually about twenty, but often many more; and the meetings have been held alternately by seasons in the Presbyterian and Methodist churches. The "United Samaritan" organization was an outgrowth from this Prayer Meeting, in 1889, and the "Woman's Indian Association " in 1891. It also has an auxiliary band called "Lovers of Zion," whose special bond of fellow- ship is a pledge to give one cent a day and make daily prayer for conversion of the Jews. Mrs. C. H. Durant is secretary of this praying band.
PASADENA BRANCH OF NATIONAL WOMAN'S INDIAN ASSOCIATION.
July 16, 1891, the Pasadena W. C. T. U. held its usual bi-monthly meeting in the Baptist church. Mrs. Amelia S. Quinton of Philadelphia, president of the National Woman's Indian Association, was present and was granted a hearing on her specialty of missionary effort. Then at the close of the W. C. T. U. meeting an Indian Association was organized, with Mrs. Elizabeth R. Townsend, president; Dr. Rachel F. Reid, vice-president ; Mrs. Hannah E. Taylor, secretary ; Mrs. Mary C. Glass, treasurer. Its object is to promote school education among the Indian peoples of our country ; but also therewith to instruct them in civilized cooking, sewing, housekeeping, and home making, besides agriculture, horticulture, and useful trades, to prepare them for self-sustaining citizenship. In 1895 this local society had about fifteen members ; Mrs. S. V. Maxfield, president ; Mrs. Dr. G. Roscoe Thomas, secretary ; Mrs. - Stetson, treasurer. In October, 1892, the California State branch of this Indian Association was organized at a meeting in the Baptist church of Pasadena, Mrs. Hewitt of Riverside being elected State president, and Mrs. A. B. Giddings of Pasa- dena State corresponding secretary. The State society meets at different places by appointment.
PASADENA WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
Organized November 10, 1894, at the M. E. church. The first officers were : Mrs. S. V. Maxfield, president ; Mrs. Sarah J. Allen, secretary ; Mrs. Addie Camper, treasurer ; and the following vice-presidents for the different churches represented in the organization : Mrs. R. E. Burnham, First Con- gregational; Mrs. H. K. W. Bent, North Congregational; Mrs. C. M. Parker, First Methodist Episcopal; Mrs. A. B. Giddings, North M. E .; Mrs. - Ingalls, Free Methodist; Mrs. - McClellan, Baptist; Mrs. Rev. N. H. G. Fife, First Presbyterian ; Miss Annie Wilson, Friends church; Mrs. G. W. Pearl, Christian church. Thus nine churches of the city were united to co-operate in both home and foreign missionary work. At an all-
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day meeting April 25, 1895, this society was addressed by Mrs. Amelia S. Quinton of Philadelphia, president of the National Woman's Indian Asso- ciation.
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The first meeting of this church militant Order ever held in Pasadena was at Williams hall on Friday evening, April 25, 1884, led by J. S. Ledford, gospel singer. It was announced by small handbills on the street and also in the Valley Union, that the meetings would be continued regularly, with a street service every evening. But this was not done; there was a drop for awhile ; and just when the Army work was resumed here I could not learn. However, the city records show that in 1889-90 a strong effort was made to put a stop to the drumming of the Army on the streets, because of the danger from frightened horses ; and I here collate from the city police judge's reports as follows :
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