1 88 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



district. The two boards worked together to keep all the schools going on 

 without any break or jar, the same as before ; and in a few months the legal 

 consolidation of the two districts was again effected, under the name of 

 "Pasadena City School District." Then Trustees Wright, Williams, Painter 

 and Holder resigned, leaving one vacancy for the consolidated district ; this 

 was filled by the appointment of E. E. Spalding ; so Buchanan, Kernaghan 

 and Spalding constituted the full board for the time.] 



1890-91. C. W. Buchanan, Hon. A. G. Throop, J. W. Wood. 



1891-92. Buchanan, Wood, W. U. Masters. 



1892-93. Buchanan, Masters, F. P. Boynton. 



1893-94. Masters, Boynton, Calvin Hartwell. 



1894 95. Hartwell, Boynton, Hon. Delos Arnold. 



1895-96. Hartwell, Arnold, E. A. Walker. 



During the school year 1894-95, the school attendance was so large 

 that it was found necessary to divide the primary schools into half-day sec- 

 tions, so that one section could be in school during the forenoon only, and 

 the other section during the afternoon — and even then the rooms were 

 crowded, especially at the lyincoln School. To provide for this difficulty 

 it was decided to erect two more school-houses, one in the northeast and one 

 in the northwest portion of the district. And accordingly on May 27, 1895, 

 $40,000 of school district bonds were voted for this purpose. The vote 

 stood : For the bonds, 302 ; against, 22. For the east school a lot 300x400 

 feet, at corner of I^ake Avenue and Walnut street, was bought for $4,000. 

 For the east school a lot 200x220 feet, at corner of Eincoln Avenue and 

 Peoria street was bought for $3,850. It is a historic incident that " bicycle 

 racks " are to be provided in these new school-houses — the first instance on 

 record. 



SIERRA MADRE COLLEGE. 



Although this College enterprise failed and at last went out entirely, 

 leaving no sign of its existence, yet it did during the few years of its struggle 

 for life cut quite a figure in Passadena history ; and hence it must be re- 

 ported. 



The first public or formal action in regard to it was at a convivial 

 gathering or banquet of about forty persons, held at the Sierra Madre Villa 

 Hotel on January 20, 1884, and reported in the Pasadena Chronicle of Janu- 

 ary 24. There a board of Trustees was appointed, as follows : Rev. J. W. 

 Ellis and Dr. Cochran of Eos Angeles ; Abbot Kinney of Kinneloa ; C. C. 

 Hastings of Sierra Madre ; Gov. Samuel Merrill of Des Moines, Iowa ; D. 

 H. Newton of Holyoke, Mass. ; Hon. P. M. Green, Judge B. S. Eaton, 

 Rev. Williel Thompson, and H. W. Magee, Esq., of Pasadena. 



A call was made for competing offers of land for a building site, and 

 other aid, to determine where the college should be located. Offers came 

 from Eos Angeles, from Sierra Madre, from Santa Anita, from citizens of 

 Pasadena, from Painter & Ball, and from South Pasadena school district. 



