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taking as they kept on talking about it ; and the lugubrious "lions in the 

 way " proved to be empty air bubbles whenever punched with a pointed 

 argument or a living purpose. I find special credit accorded to S. Wash- 

 burn for his public-spiritedness and attention in working up subscriptions 

 for the enterprise ; and to H. N. Rust, Dr. O. H. Conger, Dr. layman 

 Allen, T. P. Lukens, and E. F. Hurlbut for active assistance in the prelim- 

 inary work necessary to complete the organization. Mr. Kinney had 

 planned it to be a popular movement in which all could take part ; there 

 were to be 10,000 shares at $5 each; and on this basis it was incorporated 

 December 26, 1882, under the name of " Pasadena Library and Village Im- 

 provement Society." A circular was at once issued, setting forth its ob- 

 jects, and that $1,000 of the stock had already been subscribed and paid in; 

 that $700 had been pledged by the A. O. U. W. and I. O. G. T. fraternal 

 orders ; and soliciting further contributions of money, books, periodicals, 

 etc. This first document ever issued by the Association bears no date, but 

 is signed by the Board of Directors : Abbot Kinney, president ; Jeanne C. 

 Carr, corresponding secretary ; S. Washburn, A. R. Hanna, W. H. Wakeley, 

 H. N. Rust, E. F. Hurlbut, layman Allen. Up to February i, 1885, 

 there had been 348 shares of the stock subscribed and paid, which with 

 funds from other sources made a total of $2,374.04 received ; while the ex- 

 penditures had been $3,063.70. In reporting the sources of the Eibrary 

 funds a list is printed of 149 individual contributors, among whom Abbot 

 Kinney is credited with $300, H. D. Bacon $250, E F. Hurlbut $60 ; J. F, 

 Crank and H. H. Markham $50 each ; T. P. Lukens, James Craig and 

 James Smith $25 each ; H. H. Vischer, H. Ridgway, W. W. McGee, E. S. 

 Frost, $20 each ; Mrs. Gov. Stoneman, $15 ; and others in $10 and $5 sums. 

 The Art Loan Society is credited with $272.46 ; Entertainment at Hall, 

 $92.05 ; Cash from Concert $58 ; Col. Howard's lecture $30 ; H. N. Rust's 

 lecture $21.50 ; Horticultural Society $19 ; and so on. These will indicate 

 some of the methods used to raise money, outside of stock share subscrip- 

 tions. Public concerts were given on the evening of Memorial Day, 1884, 

 and on November i, 1884, under the management of Mrs. S. E. Merritt, 

 the librarian,* which netted $118, and the Trustees assigned this to her to 

 provide needful furnishings foi; the Library parlor and reading room. A 

 book social was held at Library Hall in January, 1884, each guest bringing 

 some sort ot a book suitable for the Library. And Mr. Kinney planned 

 an Art Loan Exhibition, in which H. N. Rust's large and rare collection of 

 stone implements and Indian relics was a prominent feature ; this Loan 

 Exhibition proved the most successful of anything, and brought $272.46 

 into the Library fund. Other persons who are specially credited with good 



*Mrs. Merritt was librarian from the first ; and on November 7, 1SS4, she was elected secretary, 

 vice W. W. Doyle, resigned, and held the office until 1SS9, when L. C. Winston was elected (after one 

 Otto Froelich had served a few months). The Decoration Day concert gotten [up by Mrs. Merritt in 

 Williams Hall this year was the first public obser^-ance of the day ever made in Pasadena. It cleared 

 $50 for the I,ibrary. 



