lyo HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



The same year, August 8, 1876, Hon. B. D. Wilson donated five acres, 

 right across the street south from the store, to the San Pasqual School Dis- 

 trict for school purposes. The gift was accepted by the district ; and to con- 

 firm title and make the acceptance conclusive, the school-house on Orange 

 Grove Avenue was, after some natural friction between the two sections, 

 moved November 10, 1876, onto the five-acre lot; and during the school 

 year of 1877-78 Mr. Newell Matthews officiated as principal teacher, with 

 Miss Florence Royce as assistant ; they also held the same positions for 

 1878-79. During the summer vacation of 1878 P. G. Wooster taught a 

 private school in the public school-house. Among his pupils were Sherman 

 Washburn (nephew of S. Washburn, Esq.), Will H. Townsend, Olive 

 Eaton, Nellie Richards, Jennie and Jessie Banbury. 



Meanwhile the settlement had grown so rapidly that the old school- 

 house was entirely inadequate for its purpose; and on March 30, 1878, a 

 proposition to levy a special tax on the property of the district for $3,500 to 

 erect a new and larger school building was submitted to a popular vote, and 

 was carried almost unanimously, 44 for and only 3 against. Yet it was plain 

 that the tax levy would not provide enough funds to put up a building of size 

 and style and character of rooms suitable for a place that was growing so 

 rapidly in population, and also in outside repute as a place of superior 

 intelligence, culture and good taste. To meet this emergency, a subscrip- 

 tion paper was started for voluntary increase of resources at command of the 

 school board ; and here is a copy which I made from the original paper as 

 still preserved by S. Washburn : 



The undersigned hereby agree to pay to the Trustees of the San Pas- 

 qual School District, within sixty days after date, the sum set opposite our 

 names, for the purpose of building a more commodious school-house than 

 can be built by the tax levied. 



Dated Pasadena, California, June loth, 1878. 



S. Washburn Cash $100.00 



M. H. Weight Eabor 25.00 



J. F. Crank. ..Will raise tax to 100.00 



J. Smith... I will make my tax up to 100.00 



J. Banbury. ..In work $30, or cash 20.00 



H. T. Hollingsworth 25.00 



Charles Eegge... In work 25.00 



Mills Bros... Will raise tax to (Labor) 20.00 



David Townsend 25.00 



L. D. Hollingsworth i5-oo 



P. W. Hollingsworth Work i5-oo 



J. H. Baker 10.00 



T. Banbury... Raise tax to 20.00 



S. E. Eocke Work 20.00 



F. Eowe Eabor 20.00 



O. H. Conger... Will raise tax to 50.00 



P. G. Wooster Work 15.00 



