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$6,000. Pasadena, Cai,., Oct. 31, 1888. 



Two years after date, without grace, for value received, we, or either ot 

 us promise to pay to the order of "The Pasadena Public Library and Village 

 Improvement Society," at the First National Bank of Pasadena, the sum of 

 Six Thousand Dollars — with interest at the rate of ten (10) per cent, per 

 annum. Interest payable semi-annually. 



W. Aug. Ray, J. Banbury. R. Williams, 



James Smith, Wm. T. Clapp, J. B. Corson, 



M. Rosenbaum, Joseph Wallace, C E. Langford, 



J. M. Radebaugh, B. Talmadge, H. H. Markham, 



Thos. F. Croft, J. B. Young, C. H. Rhodes, 



S. Washburn, O. S. Richer, T. P. Lukens, 



W. T. Vore, CM. Skillen. 



This syndicate appointed Col. W. A. Ray, who was then President of 

 the San Gabriel Valley Bank, as its Trustee, with J. B. Corson, J. B. Young 

 and Thos. F. Croft, as an Advisory Committee; and the next day, Novem- 

 ber I , the Library Society deeded their property on Dayton street in trust to 

 the makers of the note. Its managers then went on with their building 

 work and other matters until the $6,000 was all used up — and now, instead 

 of having the building completed and all clear of incumbrance, they were 

 still about $3,000 behind yet, and debts still accumulating, because so many 

 of the boom-time pledges to their building fund utterly failed to be paid, 

 besides increased cost of building and other matters. 



To aid the struggling Society in raising funds. Miss Anna Richer and 

 a few others worked up an Art Loan Exhibition, to be held for ten days in 

 the unfinished new Library building. This was the most ambitious and 

 elaborate Art Loan show that had yet been attempted on the Pacific coast ; 

 and having been in some sort repeated yearly ever since, it became an his- 

 toric event which has won fame to Pasadena in literary and art circles both 

 East and West, through illustrated periodicals and descriptive pens, and 

 therefore calls for some account here. The Exhibition commenced February 

 9, 1889,* with the following daily order of events as announced : 



' ' Senor Arturo Bandini will daily conduct a Spanish conversazione upon 

 suggested subjects of interest to strangers." 



1. Opening Day. — W. U. Masters, master of ceremonies. Formal 

 opening of the Exhibition, by Hon. J. DeBarth Shorb. 



2. Forestry Day.-— Under the patronage of Mrs. Eliza A. Otis of the 

 Los Angeles Times. Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, special guest of the Asso- 

 ciation on this day ; and an address by Hon. Abbot Kinney, State Forestry 

 Commissioner. 



3. Children's Day. 



4. Russian Day.^ — With exhibits from Alaska by T. P. Lukens, Capt. 



* On Jan. 8, 1889, occured the sixth annual election of the Library Society, and out of a total ot 1763 

 shares, 1303 were voted. The trustees than elected were H. N. Rust, L. C Winston, Dr. W. F. Channing, 

 S. Washburn, Prof C. F. Holder, J. W. Vandevort, B. M. Wotkyns. And the officers chosen by this 

 board were Rust, President ; Channing, Vice-President ; Otto Froelich, Secretary and Treasurer ; Mrs. 

 Merritt, Librarian. So these were the people put forward to wrestle with the "busted boom " of the un- 

 finished new Library building. 



