f" 869 ■P31 S4 Copy 2 -Od Old ../l!^ .It [•:f. The Story of SOUTH PASADENA From a tiainting feji Stetson. THE FIRST LADY CmARGARET COLLIER J 1/ GRAHAM'S name was the first with the post- office address, South Pasadena, after it, to appear in "Who's. Who in America." Her first book,"Stories of the Foothills," which won her recognition East and West, came from the press of Houghton-Mifflin Co. in 1895. It was based largely on the life in the San Gabriel Valley. Mrs. Graham was the wife of Donald M.- Graham, South Pasadena's first Mayor and builder with Dr. J. H. Mohr of the first business block here. ^ As a subdividcr of his large acreage, he was one of the community's founders. ' 'Wynyate," the Graham homestead, was one of the first pretentious houses in South Pasadena. Situated as it is, with the sweep of the whole San Gabriel Valley below, it is still one of the charming; homes of this city of homes. No wonder Margaret Collier Graham wrote inspiringly with such a view spread before her. At "Wynyate" were penned: "The Wizard's Daughter," "Gifts and Givers," "Do They Really Re- spect Us and Other Essays," and "Stories of the Foothills." Mrs. Graham's sister. Miss Jane E. Collier, was the first President of the Women's Improvement Association of South Pasadena and Mrs. Graham, herself, was the first President of the Friday Morning Club of Los Angeles. She passed away January 17, 1910 at "Wynyate." I Oil Old Rancho 1 San Pascual \ THE STORY OF SOUTH PASADENA Written by the Publicity Department SOUTH PASADENA BRANCH SECURITY TRUST l^ SAVINGS BANK' Published by the South Pasadena Branch of the Security Trust &. Savings Bank of Los Angeles and dedicated to the continuinK growth of South Pasadena, the Community Copyright 1922 ^^-.- a '"( 1^1 s. "By Easter South Pasadena had opened a Red Cross room." EASTER DAY AND THE WAR 1 ASTER Sunday, 1917, found America in the Great War. There was a solemnity to the day such as no Easter had known since Lincoln's time. Southern California felt it along with the rest of the nation. President Wilson had signed the declaration of war but two days before. Night wires announcing the fact had been flashed to every army and national guard com- mander in the country. Colonel Charles F. Hutchins, Commander of the old Seventh California, had received the message at three A.M. at his South Pasadena home and had w^ithout loss of a minute communicated with his captains all over Southern California. By Easter he had mobilized his men. By Easter South Pasadena had opened a Red Cross room with over one hundred active women workers. Two days after Easter a company of home guards with 107 members had been organized. The Sunday after Easter found the countryside blessed with a bounteous rain which soon brought South Pasa- dena's 500 war gardens smiling through the damp earth. Easter Sunday two years later found Colonel Hutchins coming up his front walk arm-in-arm with his family. He and his men had been to France and back again. The war was over! The years between those tw^o Easters were the bright- est in South Pasadena's history. They saw every appeal for aid ansv^fered without a moment's delay. Every drive was oversubscribed. There were 190 stars on the city's service flag, the first of any municipality to be thrown to the breeze in Southern California. Two thousand peo- ©C1A691574 c^:i '^ ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL pie were at the City Hall to see the flag unfurled. Four stars were of gold. Three stars were for boys who had been decorated, three for boys who had been wounded. Fifty-six boys enlisted before the draft. G. Harold Powell left his South Pasadena home to become Chief of the Division of Perishable Foods of the National Food Admin- istration. Thousands went to Alhambra to join in San Gabriel Valley's farewell to its soldier boys. A group of pacifists were escorted to the city limits. The High .School seniors gave up their banquets to conserve food. The Record gave up its daily issue to conserve paper. The Liberty Loan quota was twice oversubscribed. Thou- sands joined in the official welcome home to the boys on June 14, 1919, with sports, a feast, speaking and street dancing. A glorious and happy close to two wonderful years of local and national history! THE EASTER DAY RANCH 1/1 N URN back to Easter morning six years before the signing of the Declaration of Indepen- dence. The Spanish are exploring California. There on the east bank of the Arroyo Seco un- der the great Cathedral Oak may be seen Don Caspar de Portola and his consecrated group of sol- diers and monks, kneeling in prayer before a rude cross carved in the bark of the tree. Father Crespi is saying the first mass in the San Gabriel Valley. The footsore and wreary band is journeying north on its second expe- dition to discover Monterey Bay. The whole countryside is ablaze with yellow poppies. The poetic Latins, struck by the beauty of the land, have named it "La Sabi- nalla de San Pas- cual," the Grand Altar Cloth of Holy Easter. Chief Ha- hamovic of the Ha- hamogna Indians living in the neigh- borhood greets them in a friendly manner and smokes with them the pipe of peace. Later the chief is christened "Pascual el Capi- tan," and the tribe, the "Pascual" In- dians. A year later his- toric San Gabriel Mission was estab- lished. In 1801, there came to the ^he Cathedral Oak. Mission with her Judge G. W. Glover in foreground. ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL The old Cathedral Oak showing Porlola's Cross. soldier husband, Dona Eulalia Perez de Guillon, a remark- able woman who had been born in Lower California in i 736. At the age of 65 she began a career at the Mission which ended 78 years later, for she lived to the ripe old age of 143.* She so ingratiated herself with the appre- ciative padres through her noble work as nurse, mid- wife and teacher to the Indians that Fray Zalvidea on Easter Day, 182 7, deeded her 14,000 acres comprising the northeast corner of the Mission Lands, and because of the day named the land "'Rancho San Pascual," or the Easter Day Ranch. Dona Eulalia was in her ninety- *Dr. J. P. Widney in "California of the South." f'Ojic 154. says: "lit 1878 [June 8] Eulalia Perez de Guillon died here \_San Gabriel \lission'\ aged 143 years, she ha-'ing been born at Loreto in Lower California, in I7}5. The age of Senora de Guillen has been estab- lished bcxond a doubt." ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL second year when she received this gift of land compris- ing the present cities of Pasadena and South Pasadena. Unfortunately for her, however, she was too poor to carry out certain provisions of the grant which required her to stock the rancho with cattle, so that later she lost it. She died in San Gabriel on June 8, 1878, loved and hon- ored by the hundreds she had befriended, and lies buried in the little cemetery there beside her first husband. RANCHO PASCUAL A WEDDING CI FT ATER Rancho San Pascual was deeded, on November 28, 1843, as a wedding gift to Lieut. Colonel Manuel Garfias, a poor but gallant and handsome officer of the staff of Governor Micheltorena, who needed an estate in order to win the hand of Senorita Louisa Abila, a reigning belle of the Pueblo de Los Angeles and of a high-caste Spanish family. The Colonel, once in possession of this baronial estate, straightway went into politics, the management of the huge rancho going into the hands of his mother-in- law. Dona Abila. The foreman of the rancho was housed in Adobe Flores at the foot of Raymond Hill. This his- toric house, still standing, had been built by Jose Perez in 1839. Colonel Garfias kept his home in the Pueblo, but when the Americans invaded the land, he along with the rest of the Mexican army had retreated after the Battle of the Mesa, and was encamped on his rancho among the sycamores at the foot of Raymond Hill. Sentinel horsemen were kept posted on the peak of that hill and on the hills to the south. As a member of General Flores' •The foreman of the rancho was housed in Adobe Flores at the foot of Raymond Hill." ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL a<-^^?^^U.J«k.^ Raymond Hill as it looked to the first American settlers. staff Colonel Garfias made his headquarters with the General in Adobe Flores, where a hastily-called midnight council on January I I, 1847, finally agreed on the terms on which an offer of surrender would be made to General Fremont in Cahuenga Pass in Hollywood. The surrender was made January 13, 1847, and although under it Col- onel Garfias would have been permitted to remain in peace on his great estate, rather than submit to Gringo rule he departed for Mexico the following day. He thought better of the Americans a little later, however, for before the year was out he was back again, and as an American citizen was elected a councilman of Los Angeles. He finally built a home, the Adobe Garfias, on his rancho in I 852. THE PASSING OF THE DONS Ur with the improvidence characteristic of the California dons, Colonel Garfias was unable to maintain himself as a country gentleman under American rule. Adobe Garfias and the great Rancho San Pascual of 14,000 acres came into possession of Dr. John S. Griffin of Los An- geles, on a foreclosure, five years before the outbreak of the Civil War, and passed forever from Spanish hands. Dr. Griffin turned the huge ranch over to the manage- ment of his friend, Benjamin S. Eaton, engineer, news- paper man, and later a superior judge of Los Angeles County, and father of ex-Mayor Fred Eaton of Los An- geles. A portion of the rancho came into the possession of Dr. Griffin's sister, Mrs. Albert Sidney Johnston, wife of the famous Confederate general. She named her ranch at the mouth of Eaton Canyon "Fair Oaks," for her home in Virginia. Judge Eaton managed her land also and with his wife lived on it until 1877. ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL "Buffaloes were killed for meat on the way." THE FIRST AMERICAN SETTLERS IJ UDGE and Mrs. Eaton were known as the fa- ther and mother of Pasadena and South Pasa- dena. They were the first Americans to build a house on Rancho San Pascual. Judge Eaton had come across the plains with ox teams in 1850. Buffaloes were killed for meat on the way. He was the first man to raise grapes in California without irrigation. He was among the first to plant eucalyptus trees. He made original experiments in irrigation and was one of the valued advisers of the "Indiana Colony" when these settlers came in 1874 and purchased the Rancho San Pascual. In 1877, he and Mrs. Eaton re- moved to South Pasadena and built on the hill on the present site of the home of Mrs. Albert Sherman Hoyt, 9 I 7 Buena Vista street. In building the home they used some of the heavy timbers of the Adobe Garfias. Writ- ing of the historic old adobe, Judge Eaton said: "The Garfias hacienda was at that time one of the finest country establish- ments in Southern Califor- nia. It was a one-and-a- half-story adobe building all nicely plastered inside and out, and had an ample corridor extending all around. It had board floors and green blinds a rare thing in those days. This structure cost $5,000 — in fact cost Garfias the San Pascual Rancho. When interest on the borrowed money amounted to $1,000 and he saw^ no way to re- pay it, he went to Dr. Judge B. -S. Eaton, ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL The Adobe Garfias as the Glovers found it in 1882. Retouched from an old faded photograph. Griffin and told him if he would give him $2,000 more he would make him a deed for the ranch. Griffin did not want the place and he would never have foreclosed the mortgage, but to oblige Garfias the $2,000 additional was paid over for the 14,000 acre estate. When the Glover family came to South Pasadena in 1882 and bought on the Arroyo, the Adobe Garfias was on their property. it was a mass of ruins, however, and was removed when streets were cut through. Ex-Mayor Spence of Los Angeles, in speaking at the Pasadena Citrus Fair in I 885, said he would not have paid 25 cents an acre for Rancho San Pascual. In 1874, when B. D. Wilson offered I 400 acres where Altadena now stands to the Indiana Colony free of charge, the col- ony men felt that they could not afford to accept the gift, but on learning "that the taxes were all paid they ventured to risk its acceptance." To make the legality of their title to the Rancho San Pascual beyond any question, those who acquired it from Colonel Garfias had the United States government issue a patent for it to Garfias even after he lost it. This pat- ent, signed by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, stands back of the title to every city lot in Pasadena and South Pasadena. 'Mission Si net jmrl (Ir.iiiye Grove Avenue of South Pasadena were laid out among the groves and vineyards in 1874." ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL The first house in South Pasadena. 'INDIANA COLONY" DAYS in >j yards HE Indiana colony paid $30 an acre for the Rancho San Pascual and set it out mostly to citrus fruits and grapes. Mission Street and Orange Grove Avenue of South Pasadena were laid out among the groves and vine- 1874. A. O. Porter. P. M. Green, W. J. Barcus and Calvin Fletcher were original colonists who bought acreage in South Pasadena. They had over 300 acres altogether. Mrs. A. O. Porter today is the only sur- viving member of the colony living in this community. The colonists found only one white settler in all South Pasadena. He was David M. Raab, who had come in 1870 and bought a 30- acre ranch. His son, Carl, was the first American child born here. Life in the colony was rather primitive. Bear and deer were continually raid- ing i:he vineyards. Coyotes snooped around the stores and postoffice. Dogs chased wildcats down Colo- rado street. Tiburcio Vas- quez, the bandit, made occasional raids. lAn Uncle Tom's Cabin company after a two nights' stand got caught in a storm and w^as stranded a week. Han- cock Banning played in the brass band that was Mrs. A. O. Porter, only organized in 1883. By that living member of colony liv- the ^..U^;/.^ ,.,^o '"g here. time population was 10 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL "In 1885 the San Gabriel Valley Railroad supplanted the stage line that ran out from Los Angeles." 1 000. President Rutherford B. Hayes and General W. T. Sherman had to be driven out in carriages from Los Angeles during their western tour. Mr. Porter and Mr. Green received the noted guests in their South Pasadena homes. RAIL TRANSPORTATION AND THE BOOM N I 885, the San Gabriel Valley Railroad sup- planted the stage line that ran out from Los Angeles. The Santa Fe took it over. The historic boom of the eighties was on. Popu- lation increased 600 percent in two years. Fourteen thousand lots were sold and resold. By I 889 the boom was flat. The colony's population dropped from 1 2,000 to 5,000. Millionaires, overnight, went back to plowing fields and driving horsecars. But before the boom collapsed, however, O. R. Dougherty, who came in 1877, had subdivided a 20-acre ranch he 1 F. H. Smith Pioneer Realtors John H, Jacobs ON OLD RANCHO SAN F^XSCUAL ill- hotel that burned down before it was named. owned. Smith and Jacobs Co. put on three tracts south of Monterey Road. They built a large tourist hotel on Lyndon Street between Fair Oaks and Fremont, which was opened with a great reception. The hotel burned down before it was named. D. M. Graham and Dr. J. H. Mohr built the three-story South Pasadena Opera House Block. George Lightfoot built the South Pasadena Hotel. In 1887 more than one hundred buildings were built in South Pasadena. Several stores, a telegraph office, three lawyers and one physician came. So did a beer garden. The old Mohr and Graham "Opera House" Building. 12 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 'At the very height of the boom the Raymond opened. THE RAYMOND OF THE EIGHTIES T the very height of the boom, November I 7, I 886, the magnificent 400-room Hotel Ray- mond v/as formally opened. The reception was a brilliant social event attended by over 1500 guests drawn from all over the state. The hotel was a huge frame structure costing $400,000, construction on which had been started in I 884. It was 'That year Edwin II. Cawston brought over a shipload of ostriches from South Africa and started the Cawston Ostrich Farm." ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL "On Easter Sunday, 1895, there was a great fire on Rancho San Pascual." conceived by Walter Raymond to accommodate his ex- cursion guests on the Raymond-Whitcomb tours. The land for it was donated by H. D. Bacon. That year Edwin H. Cawston brought over a shipload of ostriches from South Africa and started the Cawston Ostrich Farm. This farm and the Raymond Hotel have spread South Pasadena's name as have no other agencies. On Easter Sunday, 1895, there was a great fire on Rancho San Pascual. The great hotel, built on the Rancho's most sightly eminence and overlooking its own hospitable and historic Adobe Flores, was in flames. The Nothiiiti was left standing but the chimney.' ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL "The Raymond was not South Pasadena's first tourist hotel, however." alarm booming out over the valley below brought thou- sands to watch helplessly the Raymond burn. Nothing was left standing but the chimney. The Raymond was not South Pasadena's first tourist hotel, however. One getting off the Southern Pacific train in Los Angeles in I 882 noted a fine span of horses hitched to a handsome bus bearing the name "Hermosa Vista." A drive in this bus took one out through the smiling San Gabriel Valley to Columbia Hill, South Pasa- dena, where the I 4-room Hermosa Vista stood overlook- ing the valley below. It was run by George W. Glover, Sr., and was the only hotel pictured in Farnsworth's his- tory of San Gabriel Valley published in 1883, a history contributed to by John Muir. South Pasadena took its name from this hotel in those days. The postoffice v^fas located in it. Hermosa, California, was the postoffice address then. SOUTH PASADENA BECOMES A CITY OU I H Pasadena would not incorporate with l';itadena as a city, but when all of Pasadena's .•■ii loons moved to South Pasadena following the former's incorporation June 14, 1886, South Pa.'adena started incorporation proceed- ings- herself. In order to become a city of the sixth class a community had to have 1 00 voters. In order to get the 100 voters South Pasadena's city limits were extended to the then East Lake Park, Los Angeles. Mass meetings were held in Mohr and Graham's Opera House Block. The election was held and carried. The first meeting of the city trustees was held in the Smith and Jacobs realty ON OLD RANCllO SAN PASCUAL :^^ office March 8, 1888, and the first ordinance passed after fixing the time and place for future meetings was the "dry" ordinance. It was an exact copy of Pasadena's famous prohi- bition ordinance drawn up by City Attorney, now Judge N. P. Conrey. Pasa- dena was California's first bone-dry city. South Pasadena was the second. The members of the first board were D. M. Graham, Mayor; George W. Wilson, A. A. Burrows, D. R. Ris- ley and W. P. Hammond. The city marshal was A. B. Cobb. W. S. Knott was p j^ Graham, first Mayor. city attorney, F. H. Smith, recorder and police judge, and J. H. Jacobs, treasurer. The saloons, of course, were driven out of the present South Pasadena, but it was simply impossible to control the territory bordering on East Lake Park, Los Angeles. It was thick with dram shops. South Pasadena, exas- perated, at a special election, September 28, 1889, ex- cluded the "incorrigible territory " from its limits. That part of town was evidently happy to be let out for the vote in favor of exclusion there stood 25 to 0. The vote in South Pasadena proper was 59 to 7. The members of the election board in the excluded territory were Dan- iel Kevane, Barton Injaneck, Herman Schackow, L. W. Kevane and Domingo Batz. -a ■I ■LaU-r, lour luuni scliuol wui built un Luluiubia 1 liU, buL sold shortly after to Sierra Madre College." 16 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL The old El Centro School in the nineties. In those days there was but one church in town, a coinmunity church to which most all belonged. It was held in the one-room school house on the present site of the El Centro School. Later the Methodists built a church of their own, then the Baptists, then the Presby- terians, until South Pasadena today has eight churches. In 1878, a small school, used alike by Pasadena and South Pasadena, stood near the corner of West Columbia and Hermosa. Later a four-room school was built on Columbia Hill, but was sold shortly after to Sierra Madre College, a denominational institution which was opened with a banquet where 32 toasts were given. It had 25 pupils. Its curriculum included Greek, Moral Philosophy, Mathematics and Civil Engineering. It was short-lived, however, and the building was incorporated in the home of C. D. Daggett. G. W. Wilson was the teacher of the one-room El Centro school. He resigned and went into the real estate business during the boom. After the boom broke, like everyone else, he returned to his former vocation. It was necessary to hire a second teacher then. Today South Pasadena has four large grammar schools and a high school. THE ''LEAN NINETIES" ITH the boom flat, al! Southern California went into a decline, which, combined with several years of national business depression and the lack of rain locally, made conditions throughout the Southland hard and discourag- ing. The "lean nineties" were as lean in South Pasa- dena as in the other communities. Most of the stores left. The South Pasadena Hotel was vacated. It was offered al $200 a year rental in the Mid-Winter Number of the ON OLD RANCHO SAN I'ASCUAL TIMES, 1893, with no takers. The South Pasadena BELL and the South Pasadena CITIZEN went out of existence and the town was without a newspaper until George W. Glover, Jr., started the SOUTH PASA- DENAN on June 8, 1893, and by dint of hard work kept it going throughout the years when one had to go to Los Angeles to get a haircut. The Public Library, which was opened in February, 1 889, in the Mohr and Graham Block, was only kept alive through free rent and volunteer help. Members of the Lyceum for six years took turns in keeping it open on certain afternoons and evenings. A rotating committee trimmed the wicks and cleaned the lamp chimneys. The Boyle Heights Lodge No. 204, of the Independent Order of Good Templars, came over on July 7, 1893, and put on a benefit in the Opera House to buy new books. The Lyceum put on frequent benefits itself. The total school enrollment of 1896 was 133. Editor Glover, later Judge Glover, for he acted as Justice of Peace for 12 years with court in the Opera House Block, fought to keep up the spirits of the people. In an editorial he wrote, "In nine cases out of ten busi- ness owes its depression to the depressed thoughts of depressed men, who imagine they are depressed because they think they are depressed." In another column of the same issue we read, "THE SOUTH PASADENAN has lost two unpaid subscribers on the strength of its editorial demanding that people keep their chickens penned up. but it can't be helped. Nor will this paper by this or any other means be deterred from standing up for the right." At another time a local doctor stop- ped his subscription because of an editorial on "Quacks. When work was scarce the town turned out at the Editor's urging and planted 1 000 shade trees practically donated by E. H. Rust and kept them irrigated until they got a good growth. The Woman's Improvement Asso- 'When work was scarce the town turned out al the Edili.r's urging and planted 1000 shade trees." 18 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL elation was then formed to clean up the unsightly neighborhood around the Santa Fe depot. The wo- men with iheir own hands planted trees and made a park. Park making was a community picnic. Men, who helped, got their din- ner for I 5 cents. Those who did not, were charged a dollar. The club was or- ganized at the home of Mrs. Leo Longley. Its first president was Miss Jane E. Collier. Then in December, 1893, Wood and Moody opened a market. The Editor said there was a good opening for a blacksmith shop. Pasadena kept up its spirits by starting the Tournament of Roses and South Pasadena entered floats. The Hotel Raymond float was the hit of the first Los Angeles La Fiesta in 1 894. A big crowd of South Pasadenans bicycled to Santa Monica Canyon on July 4th that year and held family picnics. A fran- chise was granted for an elevated cycle-way all the way from Pasadena to Los Angeles, even after the electric cars came in 1893. The Editor upbraided the "road hogs" who drove their rigs regardless of the people on bicycles. The recent bond issue to acquire 1 00 acres of the Arroyo Seco for a municipal park was first agitated in I 894 by the Editor. Nine years later, Theodore Roose- velt, overlooking the Arroyo, said it would make one of the world's greatest parks. President Roosevelt's visit was a big event in local history. Miss Jane I-'.. Colli, i. liis; president. Woman's Inipiovc- ment Association. m 'A big crowd of South Pasadenans bicycled to banta Monica Canyon on July 4th and enjoyed family picnics." ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL "President Roosevelt's visit was a big event in local history." A CITY THAT FORGOT ITS TROUBLES HERE were many other things then that kept folks' minds off their troubles. Everyone chuckled over the dinner to President Benja- min Harrison at the Green when the colored waiters, imbibing too freely of the champagne, served the dessert instead of the fish course. General Lew Wallace came and lectured on Ben Hur. Henry Watterson lectured soon after. Haverley's Minstrels drew a crowded house at the Pasadena Opera House. Everyone went to the Glover golden wedding. Jud Rush, the Populist orator, and Will A. Harris, the Gold Democrat, debated on "Would Women Be Benefited by the Adoption of the Free Silver Policy?" before the Woman's Suffrage Campaign Club at the Baptist Church. ■..J!^ ■<&. The Park Roosevelt Admired. 20 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL ,. ^ r r F* ff> ^^^rj^i^mmmfmM*^^:', — , mnnmmmnfi r- imnmimmn 'rmr miiiii "The Raymond was full of tourists through all the lean years." President Eliot of Harvard arriving in 1892. The Editor v^^arned that "Bryan cannot be defeated by tailing him the 'Boy Orator'." The Raymond was full of tourists through all the lean years. This helped. The Editor writes, "Every four- horse rig in town is engaged until the middle of May. The merry echoes of the coach horns ring in our ears from morn until night. Who says the San Gabriel Valley is not a paradise on earth?" The guests were entertained nightly with Bradley and Campe's Edison Concert Phonograph. There was a lot of excitement when the returns of the Corbett-Mitchell fight were wired in by rounds. Henry M. Stanley told of his African explorations. Mrs. Leland Stanford was honored with a dinner. The winter of •94-'95. ON OLD RANCI lO SAN PASCUAL 21 President Eliot of Harvard University and parly on Mt. Wilson in 1892. The employees of the Raymond then, as now, were well treated and happy. A whist tournament in 1 894 for them had as first, second and third prizes, respectively, "Familiar Quotations," "Gems of the Poets" and a tam- bourine inscribed "After the Ball." That year found much new driving equipage there including a new Scotch brake costing $1750 and a new English coach harness costing $500. The Editor speaks of "several pretty phaetons, buggies and surreys beside a tw^o-wheel cart.' Through those years South Pasadena kept itself free from debt. In 1 893 one of the first meetings of i:he orchardists who later formed the California Fruit Growers' Exchange, was held in South Pasadena. The Methodist Church burned the mortgage on its edifice. A ninth grade was organized at the El Centro School. Electric street lighting was agitated. The boys formed a military com- pany under Frank McReynolds and drilled in the vacant hotel. The Orphans' Home was established where the old beer garden had been. Over 200 of the 224 reg- istered voters voted in the national election of 1896. Mrs. M. V. Longley got the first plank in any party plat- form for woman suffrage at the Populist State Convention. When streets were surveyed in the nineties it was provided that the live oak trees therein should be left standing. Perhaps nothing lends more to the charm of South Pasadena today. By 1895 the city was able to pay a librarian a small salary. Mrs. Nellie E. Keith, in the first of the 2 7 annual reports she has signed as Librarian, reported 720 volumes and 34 periodicals on the shelves, with a budget of $987. 22 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL i "The costs, including the new Hotel Raymond . . and other improvements, brought the total to $1,000,000." A NEW CENTURY DAWNS N 1900 the government census gave South Pasadena a population of 1001. Here as else- where throughout the Southland, "things were picking up a bit." After an absence of a dec- ade, Tom Reed, the barber, set up shop again. I he telegraph company came back in 1902 and sent out the first wire under a South Pasadena date line since the boom broke. There was enough building that year to warrant R. H. Seay starting a lumber yard. 1 he town for the first time in its life went in debt. The school bonds carried four to one. The total school enrollment was 346 in 1902. The old hotel was reopened by the College of Osteopathy, which rented out the upper rooms, ran a public dining room and established the first drug store since boom days. Gas mains were laid. The streets were oiled. By the end of 1902 South Pasadena had broken all improvement records for a town of its size on the Coast. The costs, including the new Hotel Raymond, the new Raymond Park tract, ex- tensions through town of the Pacific Electric, and other improvements brought the total to Baby Ostrich. $1,000,000. The Ostrich ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL Residents of South Pasadena since 1886. Farm boomed. In one month over 60,000 catalogs were mailed out. Edwin Cawston w^as reputed to receive more mail than any other one man in California. The opening years of the nevsr century brought copious and long-awaited rains. The country needed them. Peo- ple began to take an interest in the rain gauges and charts again. The Editor thanks the Security Trust and Savings Bank for its rain chart. "This chart goes back to I 880 and is very valuable. It is sent by the Security Bank at the request of any one." The Editor then was a notary public in addition duties. In 1903 Home was othe Feather plucking at tl Ostricli Farin. the Orphans' greatly en- larged. Famous Hunt- ington Drive was complet- ed. A city health officer was appointed. In 1904 the Woman's Improvement Association built the public drinking fountain. The town organized a baseball team that won its first game with Alhambra. The Pacific Electric extended its line from Meridien to Palermo (Fair Oaks Ave- nue). Post office receipts increased 34 percent in one year. The Chamber of Commerce issued an at- tractive advertising book- let. Realty values increased. :x>^}\:'^j^. Student boil\- ..ml l,,i ul South Pasi South Pasadena, 1922. The f High School, 1921. '*®*''^*t!^^j^^^3^^^'' na in 1907. :ii. l.i.-i th.U ihe whole valley is now fillecUvilh homt 26 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL WhL-re the Bank started in rMi4. LARGE ENOUGH FOR A BANK Y 1904 business was so good in South Pasa- dena as to necessitate the organization of a bank. On Thursday, March 17, 1904, the South Pasadena Bank opened for business in its own new building at El Centro and Dia- mond. The Editor says that the room was beauti- fully decorated with roses and smilax, that speeches were made by the bank president, G. W. E. Griffith, and by Mrs. Ada J. Long- ley, president of the Wo- man's Improvement Asso- ciation, and that people examined the vault and the safe with interest. The officers and directors, aside from President Griffith, who also acted as cashier, were: Edwin Cawston, vice-president; John A. Goodrich, John H. Jacobs, W. C. Patterson, William H. Kilborn, G. W. Lawyer, \V. E. Griffith. S. W. Ferguson and E. E. ['sidcnt of ihc Bank. Barden. ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 27 f'^^l it I I Home of the bank, I9()8-I<)18. This is the same bank which, as the South Pasadena Branch of the Security Trust and Savings Bank, opens its ne\v home at the northeast corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Mission Street today. A comparison of its deposits, its home and the size of its personnel, with that of the original bank, is eloquent of the growth and progress of South Pasadena in the last I 8 years. At the end of the first year of its existence its deposits were about $75,000. At the end of its eighteenth year its deposits were over $1,250,000. Its personnel in 1904 was one in number. Its personnel this year is 12 in number. Of its original directors, John H. Jacobs still remains to advise the officers in the conduct of its affairs. The present officers are: C. M. Church, vice-president; W. W. Cottle, as- Interior and personnel of Bank, 1908. 28 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL Leased quarters of the Bank in the Ong Building from 10 12 until 1922. sistant vice-president, and J. O. Bishop, assistant cashier. The advisory board of directors, made up entirely of South Pasadena people, is composed of: E. T. Grua, E. H. Rust, William Henry Smith, John H. Jacobs, W. M. Eason, C. M. Church, W. C. Springer, W. W. Cottle, W. J. Filley. The officers and directors of the South Pasadena Bank organized the South Pasadena Savings Bank in 190 7 and conducted it in the same banking room. The same year, the South Pasadena Bank became the First National Bank, it and the Savings Bank removed to their own new build- ing at the corner of Mis.sion and Diamond Streets, March 19, 1908, and the opening, like that in 1904, was a com- munity event. Both banks were then under the presi- The Rank's own new building, 1922. ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 29 Advisory directors, officers and employees of the South Pasa- dena Branch of the Security Trust and Savings Bank. dency of Jonathan S. Dodge, now State Superintendent of Banks. In 1912 the South Pasadena Savings Bank removed to the Ong Building at the southwest corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Mission Street, th<> First National Bank re- Advisory Board of Directors of the South Pasadena Branch of the Security Trust and Savings Bank. 30 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL New South Pasadena home of C. M. Church. Vice-President, Security Trust and Savings Bank. maining at Mission and Diamond Streets. In 1918, under the presidency of C. M. Church, the latter institution was removed to and shared the quarters of the South Pasadena Savings Bank, where they both remained until their merger with the Security Bank as the South Pasa- ^'1^ The way South Pasadena looked from Raymond Hill the year the Bank started. ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 31 aiiiiiiairiffij-. "Bonds were voted for the central building of the present High School group in l'>06."' dena Branch of the Security Trust and Savings Bank. The successive presidents of the banks up to the time of this merger were G. W. E. Griffith, G. W. Lawyer, Jona- than S. Dodge, E. T . Grua, George V. Kirkwood and C. M. AND THEN CAME THE HIGH SCHOOL HE same year that brought the organization of the bank, brought the organization of a High School under the principalship of Noble Har- ter. Sessions were started in 1905 in the As- sembly Hall of the El Centro School, with an enrollment of 32 and a faculty of three. Bonds were IT] ^1 "The school was completed and occupied on April 8, 190 7, with a student body of 65 and a faculty of seven." 32 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL The High School Group. voted for the central building of the present High School group in 1906. The school was completed and occu- pied on April 8, 1907, with a student body of 65 and a faculty of seven. Mr. Harter had passed away in the meantime and George C. Bush, vice-principal, was ap- pointed supervising principal. Later Mr. Bush was made "Andrew Carnegie donated $I().()UU tor a public library building." ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 33 ^^«^'riif?V?K:-.«??f'.. Picnic of Nt Englanders in the eighties present Library Park. superintendent of schools and holds that office today. The High School now occupies five large buildings, has a student body of 538 and a faculty of 25. Before the High School was built a Masonic Lodge was organized. Andrew Carnegie donated $10,000 for -a public library building. The Progressive Club, backer of civic improvements, was established. Community picnics, which took practically everyone in town to the beaches in special trains, were started. The first one in 1906 at Redondo drew over 1 000. Hotel Capitola succeeded the Osteopathic College. In 1907 came the free delivery of mail and South Pasadena's first undertaking parlor. Pioneering in aeronautics on Raymond Hill in 1907. 34 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL "liveryone was feeling so good by 1909 that the Chanibi-r of Commmerce proposed a great community celebration of Washington's Birthday." The Editor commented: "It is no longer necessary to go to Pasadena when you die." Everyone was feeling so good by 1909 that the Cham- ber of Commerce proposed a great community celebration of Washington's Birthday. It was one of the greatest A typical South Pasadena home. The oaks sliown were used as a flag station by the Santa Fe in the eighties before the building of its depot. ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 35 Airplane view of new South Pasadena business district. days in South Pasadena's history. The streets were Rally decorated with flags. Overhanging the streets were pic- tures of the great Presidents. A long parade headed by Sheriff "Billie" Hammel and a brass band, with every school and civic organization represented with a decorated A Soutli Pasadena Church. 36 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL Home of the late Mrs. James A. Garfieid. float, wended its way through the streets. When it reached the home of Mrs. James A. Garfield it halted while the band played national airs in honor of the widow of the martyred President. South Pasadena's new motor- ized volunteer fire department was a feature of the parade. There were athletic events at the high school. Mr. Cawston's annual outing to the Orphans' Home was a particularly happy one in 1910. The same year the orphans enjoyed a free program at South Pasadena's first motion picture theater. The government census of 1910 showed that 4,549 people lived in South Pasadena at that time, an increase of 364 percent in ten years. Only two other cities in the state had shown a greater percentage of growth. The new decade was started off right with the paving ol the main business thoroughfare. Mission Street. In 1912 the beautiful concrete bridge over the Arroyo Seco was constructed. The school grounds were opened for super- vised play during the summer months. The whole town joined in the picnic at Garfield Park on the Fourth of July, when there was a chorus of 200 voices, patriotic speeches, band music, athletic events and a free barbecue. It rivaled Washington's Birthday, I 909. The same park was the scene a short time later of a beautiful open-air presentation of "As You Like It," for the benefit of the proposed Woman's Clubhouse. The new Masonic Tem- ple was dedicated, and a Y. M. C. A. was organized. Eight hundred street lights were installed. Library Park was acquired and the present American Legion Park was planted to trees. ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 37 "The Woman's Improv-ement Association - • - started i fine new clubhouse - - - with a membership of 222." r A IVOMAN'S CLUBHOUSE INETEEN-THIRTEEN will always be remem- bered for the laying of the cornerstone of the Woman's Clubhouse. The Woman's Improvement Association that had been started away back in the "lean nineties" by 3 I devoted women under the presidency of Miss Jane E. Collier, to give the city a clean front yard, started its fine new clubhouse on June 13, 1913, with a membership of 222. Its membership today is over 400. Mrs. Leo Longley read the Association's history. It was a forward-looking story. If another history were read today it would be another such story. It would tell of the successful labors for more and better parks, uniform planting of street trees, community "clean-up day," dairy inspection, rest rooms at the Library, observance of Arbor Day, garden contests for school children, social service work at the County Hospital, the Juvenile Hall and the County Farm; regular sewing, mending and fruit canning for the Boys and Girls Aid Society which conducts the Orphans' Home; decent salaries for night-school teachers and home teachers of Americanization work; and Liberty Bond, Red Cross and other war drives. If Mrs. Longley should read another story it would be the essential record of the last decade, which culminates in South Pasadena's voting to acquire I 00 acres in the 38 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL The American Legion Building. Arroyo Seco for one of the world's most beautiful natural parks, and to own its own water supply. It would be a story of how^ the city bonded itself and built a beautiful hall and clubroom for the American Legion, perhaps the first city in America to so show^ its appreciation to the soldiers of the Great War. It would tell how the greatest soldier of modern times, Marshal Foch, laid the corner- stone of the building. It would include this city's proud .Marshal loch placing the cornerstone of the Anriricin Legion building. ON OLD RANCIIO SAN PASCUAL 39 Garfield Park. part in the work of the war as narrated at the beginning of this booklet. The acquiring of lovely Garfield Park from the Southern Pacific and its improvement, the res- toration and preservation to posterity of historic old Adobe Flores on Raymond Hill by Clara Eliot Noyes, th.= El Adobe Flores as restored by Clara Eliot Noyes. 40 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL A South Pasadena Home. holding of delightful Old Settlers' Picnics under the Glover and Longley oaks, the doubling of the size of the Library all these are part of a story of which any com- munity of 10,000 population in America would be proud. Sanitary problems have been solved so satisfactorily in Old Settlers" picnic at "Wynyate," 1900. ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 4 I The City Hall with fire department. conjunction with other sister cities of the San Gabriel Valley that health conditions are unsurpassed. A fine City Hall, housing the fire department as well, has been built. The city manager plan of municipal government has been adopted. Three papers are required to chron- icle the news which Judge Glover used to tell so well and so optimistically in the old SOUTH PASADENAN. Judge G. W Glover, the Editor. 42 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL ,ij> r> A South Pasadena Grammar School. There are three other Grammar Schools larger than this. Slogans to the number of 232 were handed in to the Chamber of Commerce when it announced that it wanted to adopt a slogan for the city. Tens of thousands of booklets and cards have been sent broadcast by the Chamber advertising the city. Schools have been built to house I 800 pupils. Over half the graduates of the High School have gone to college. Annual exhibits of the school handicraft have drawn thousands. The league football championship was won by the ' I 4 and ' I 7 High A South Pasadena back yard. ON OLD RANCUO SAN PASCUAL 43 County League Champions. 19 14. School teams. A large number of local boys served with Major Hutchins on the Mexican border in 1916. Tournament of Roses prizes have been won annually. The Rendezvous Club made life happy for the returned soldier boys. Pollyanna with Mary Pickford was filmed The Dougherty family laid out the first tract. One of the last tracts opened has homes on it like that shown opposite. 44 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL Possibly old Father Raymond got more comfort from South Pasadena's great trees back in 1883 than we do today- here, under Paul Powell's direction. Armistice Day, 1920, was celebrated with parade, speaking, entertain- ment and the decoration of three wounded members of the Legion and four Gold Star mothers. Community Day brought out a large crowd to Glover's Woods in the Arroyo Seco with John Steven McGroarty as speaker. A SouUi I'asadt-na Home. ON OLD RANCIIO SAN PASCUAL 45 Looking down on the present site of the lovely homes shown on these pages, as it appeared in 1883. Henry W. Wright was elected speaker of the State Assembly and Jonathan S. Dodge, former president of the First National Bank and the South Pasadena Savings Bank, now the South Pasadena Branch of the Security Trust and Savings Bank, was appointed State Superin- tendent of Banks. Building permits in I 92 I totaled over a million dollars. The Chamber of Commerce was reorganized with over 300 members. The Parent- Teacher Association enrolled over 500 members. South Pasadena home and estate. 46 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL ;^.-- Pasadena and South Pasadena started right. Columbia Avenue, 1886. A SELECT COMMUNITY r^. ITIES in the neighborhood of 10,000 population J have claimed some of America's choicest people. With none of the disadvantages either ' of small villages or large cities and with the advantages of both, such communities have a great appeal to home-loving people, who at the same time are known beyond their own borders for their con- geniality, their public spirit and their rare talents. Such people are social beings in the best sense of the word. Thus, William Allen White has never outgro^vn Em- poria, nor Thomas A. Edison, West Orange. Irvin S. Cobb still prefers Ossining to New York. Mary Antin continues to make her home at Winchester, Massachu- setts. Frances E. Willard pioneered the suffrage and temperance movements from Evanston when it was a city of 10,000 souls. Thus we understand why South Pasadena rather than some large city, has attracted people of the character exemplified by the history made in this community. Here, where the principle of cooperative marketing of farm products had its genesis, lived in later years, G. Harold Powell, the genius who showed the world that such marketing is feasible. Here, where the woman's suffrage movement in California had its beginning in the work of Mrs. M. V. Longley, lives today Mrs. Seward A. Simons, president of the Equal Suffrage Association in 1910 when the vote for women was won in this state. Moreover, here lives Mrs. Florence Collins Porter, the first woman in American history to cast a vote as a Presi- dential Elector. Here has lived Mrs. James A. Garfield, widow of the martyred President; Margaret Collier Graham, novelist, essayist and first president of the Fri- day Morning Club, and Mary Stewart Daggett, author and ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL 47 playwright. The latter's talented daughter, Ruth Daggett, the sculptor, is yet a resident. South Pasadena claims a large number of other choic- residents of the past and present, including such nation- ally known physicians as Dr. Lasher Hart and Dr. Willard J. Stone, and such eminent engineers as Ralph Arnold and Algernon Del Mar. Here live or have lived, Frederick Norton Finney, author and railroad president; Christian B. Hoffman, capitalist and sociologist; J. Robert O'Connor, United States District Attorney; Major H. N. Rust, author. United States Commissioner of Immigration and Indian Agent; Dr. Murray Bartlett, first president of the University of the Philippines; Dr. William Evans, theologian; Dr. George E. Hale, astronomer; Mrs. Harry R. P. Forbes, author; Elias Longley, pioneer of phonog- raphy and phonotypy in America; George M. Millard, bibliophile; Dr. Robert G. Cleland, historian; Dr. Edward Elliott, dean of Princeton University; Dr. George Watson Cole, bibliographer; Karl Yenz, artist whose oils are in the Congressional Library; William F. Cogswell, portrait painter to Lincoln, Grant and McKinley, and A. B. Cass, capitalist, philanthropist and the father of seven South Pasadena boys who served in the Great War. Choice people indeed and but natural that they should come to old Rancho San Pascual, the Easter Day Ranch, to make their homes. What hopes were resur- rected here only they will knowf. Here the homes of their dreams came into being surely. They, with their neigh- bors, felt that the old padre at Mission San Gabriel had not misnamed this region, nor had the soldiers of Portola. And as the warm California sun of Easter Morn of the Year of Our Lord, 1922, came up over the mountains and lighted up the countryside, the Grand Altar Cloth of Golden Poppies was as radiant against the hillsides as it was that Easter Morn over a century and a half ago when the first mass in the Valley of San Gabriel was said out under the Cathedral Oak near Glover's Wood. And as the Old Editor went out that Easter Morn from his house near by and placed his hand on the faint out- line of Portola's cross hewrn in the trunk of the ancient tree and looked up at the sunbeams playing among the fresh young leaves at the top, he knew all was well on his beloved Rancho San Pascual. 48 ON OLD RANCHO SAN PASCUAL A WORD IN APPRECIATION From the South Pasadena Branch of the SECURITY TRUST AND SAVINGS BANK r \ HE South Pasadena Branch of the Security Trust and Savings Bank has published "On Old Rancho Lan Pascual," knowing that the history of South Pasadena, once in type, would Ije in itself the best possible advertisement the community could have. If you feel that we have told the story well enough for you to mail it to your Eastern Iricnds and relatives we shall be pleased indeed. We are greatly indebted to the "Old-Timers" who have made this history possib.e by telling us of days- gone-by and generously loaning us treasured pictures. Our gratitude goes especially to Mrs. Nellie E. Keith and Mrs. Mildred Stiles of the Public Library; to the South Pasadena Record and Courier for opening their old files to us; to Judge G. W. Glover, the editor of the old South Pasadenan; to Dr. Earl E. Moody, Los Angeles physician, who was raised in South Pasadena; to Charles J. Prudhomme, native of the Pueblo de Los Angeles, who, as a lad, hunted over Rancho San Pascual in the sixties; to Mrs. Leo Longley, Mrs. Anna Sharp, Mr. John H. Jacobs, Walter Raymond, E. H. Rust, Mrs. J. H. Mohr, Mrs. Alice Keith and Mrs. Clara Eliot Noyes. The studies of Adobe Flores are by Hiller and Mott; chose of South Pasadena homes are by E. T. Estabrook; the airplane views are by the Photomap Co.; the re- markable picture of the buffalo herd, taken thirty years ago, and many old-tiine views are by H. J. Kenny. Source books consulted were Reid, "History of Pasa- dena"; Wood, "Pasadena Historical and Personal"; Farnsworth, "A Southern California Paradise," and Widney, "California of the South." The South Pasadena Branch of the Security Trust and Savings Bank offers this booklet as an evidence of its continuing desire to serve this community, just as it, as the First National Bank and the South Pasadena Savings Bank, has always endeavored to promote South Pasa- dena's best interests. It is glad that, occupying as it now does, one of the best equipped banking rooms in the San Gabriel Valley and being a part of the largest bank in one community west of Chicago, it is able io more completely .serve local needs than before. The capital and surplus of the Security Trust and Savings Bank are now $10,3 50,000.00. The resources total over $160,000,000.00. It has well established bond, trust, escrow and research departments which are now directly available to the Sovith Pasadena public. The South Pasadena Branch of the Security Trust and Savings Bank, through its officers and its advisory directors, which remain the same in personnel as have guided the destinies of the Bank for some years past, welcomes South Pasadena to its new banking home. ADOBE FLORES! Here, where lived the major domo of old Rancho San Pas- cual; — here, where guarded the dusky soldiers after the Battle of the Mesa — now come cabinet members, painters, poets, multi-million- aires, cinema stars and composers to rest un- der your friendly tiles and bask in the warmth ot your sun- patio. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 017 186 519