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service in the various ways for raising funds were : Mrs. Jeanne C. Carr, 

 Mrs. Dr. O. H. Conger, Mrs. Belle M. Jewett, Mrs. I,. C. Winston, Mrs. 

 Rosenbaum, Miss Anna Picher, Miss Alice Freeman. 



THE LIBRARY BUILDING. 



B. D. Wilson had donated the central five-acre school lot to the colony 

 for school purposes only. From these grounds the school trustees leased a 

 lot 100x306 feet in size to the Library Association for a term of twenty 

 years ; but in order to validate this lease it was necessary to get the Wilson 

 deed changed — and this change was granted by Mrs. J. De Barth Shorb 

 and the two younger daughters of Mr. Wilson, his surviving heirs, for 

 which favor the Association was very grateful. Then during 1883-84 a sub- 

 stantial frame building 22x40 and two stories high was erected on their lot, 

 next east of where the Masonic Temple block now stands and close to the 

 Santa Fe railroad line. The building cost about $2,300. Of this amount 

 the Independent Order of Good Templars and the Ancient Order of United 

 Workmen furnished $700, and owned the upper story, which they fitted up 

 for their Lodge meetings. The lower story was the Library part, and was 

 opened to the public by Mrs. Merritt on February 26, 1884, with 329 vol- 

 umes in place, besides magazines and newspapers on the reading-room 

 tables. The rooms were to be open daily except Sunday, from 10 to 12, 

 from 2 to 5, and from 7 to 9. From the opening day until August i there 

 had been 1,835 drawings of volumes, entirely free. But it was found 

 necessary to provide some source of income for necessary current expenses, 

 and after August i, 1884, a fee of twenty-five cents per month was charged 

 for loan of books, although the reading room remained free to all ; and 

 under this rule, up to February i, 1885, there had been 2,036 drawings of 

 books, and $124.03 received as Library fees. 



THE LIBRARY CITRUS PAIR. 



The next notable incident in the Library's history was the great Citrus 

 Fair held in the Roller Skating Rink (a large frame building which then 

 stood on the northwest corner of Fair Oaks Avenue and Dayton street), on 

 March 3, 4, 5 and 6, 1885. The special committee to work up and manage 

 this undertaking, the most extensive of anything yet attempted, was T. P. 

 Lukens, Dr. O. H. Conger and H. N. Rust. To advertise this Fair, and 

 advertise Pasadena at the same time, Mr. Rust and others got out a pamphlet 

 of 96 pages [2,000 copies of it], receiving enough advertisements from 

 business firms in Pasadena and Los Angeles to pay the cost of printing it. 

 Seventeen pages of this first " boom " pamphlet were devoted to a catalogue 

 of the Library, the first ever printed. The Fair proved a great success and 

 turned $531 into the Library treasury. [For some additional particulars, see 

 article entitled " Second Great Citrus Fair," in chapter 16]. 



In the spring of 1886, when the "'boom" tide was flushing its phe- 



