2o8 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



Chittenden and Mrs. Belle M. Jewett, and Russian tea served by Mrs. Jewett 

 in genuine Russian costume. 



5. Mexican Day. —With reception to Don Antonio F. Coronel of Los 

 Angeles, and exhibit of his rare collection of Mexican relics.* 



6. Spanish Day. — With reception to Senator Del Valle, and an ex- 

 hibit of relics from his hacienda of Camulos, the reputed home of "Ramona. " 



7. Oriental Day. 



8. California Day. — Mrs. Margaret Wilson, widow of Hon. B. D. 

 Wilson, former owner of the Rancho San Pasqual, will pour tea ; and Mrs. 

 J. De Barth Shorb, his daughter, loans a chair carved from wood of the 

 old San Gabriel Mission. 



9. Chinese Day, or "P'east of lyilies." — The Chinese candle-maker 

 will give a receipted bill in his own language. 



10. Carnival Day, or "Feast of Ivanterns." — Pageant conducted by 

 C. M. Stetson, the portrait painter, and Mr. Benchley of L,os Angeles. 



There were many other special exhibits, and persons engaged ; but the 

 above includes all that were of such distinctive historic quality as to call 

 for record here. The ten days' proceedings showed a vast resource of in- 

 genuity, enterprise, skill, working energy and steadfastness on the part of 

 the lady managers and their assistants ; yet the incidental expenses of so 

 large and varied and picturesque an undertaking ate up the proceeds and 

 left nothing for the Library fund. Therefore, on the last day, February 18, 

 1889, C. T. Hopkins, who had been president of the Library Association 

 when this new building was undertaken, and had himself given liberally 

 toward it,t made a strong appeal for aid in a public address, preceded by a 

 talk from Prof. Pickering of Harvard University. After setting forth 

 briefly the previous history, present condition and prospective outlook for 

 the Library interest, Mr. Hopkins said : 



"Pasadena has put $36,000 into this beautiful building, as its highest 

 expression of reverence for literature and art. Times are very hard with us, 

 and we can do no more. For want of $5,000 we stand in jeopardy of 

 losing the whole. Can there not now be found among you one liberal soul 

 who can and will advance that $5,000, and so save to the institution the 

 $36,000 now at stake ? If not one such, cannot two be found who will con- 

 tribute $2,500 each, or five of $1,000 each, or ten of $500 each ?" 



The ' ' liberal souls ' ' called for by President Hopkins failed to show up ; 

 and court judgments, mechanic's lien attachments, delinquent taxes, pro- 

 fessional fees, etc. , continued to accumulate against the new building until 

 it was finally sold at sheriff's sale, and Mr. Legge had to buy it in to save 

 himself. The whole property was now lawfully his own ; nevertheless, he 

 was still willing to donate the land for Public Library purposes, in accord- 



*This Don Antonio was the man who made the unsuccessful effort to carry to the city of Mexico a 

 flag captured from the American troops in their disastrous defeat at the battle of Domiuguez ranch, San 

 Pedro, Oct. 8, 1846. He was the special friend and helper of Mrs. H. H. Jackson in gathering material 

 for her famous story of " Ramona." 



tMr. Hopkins gave $1,000 in money, and 300 books. 



