222 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



pages, as occasion required. Suspended about May i, 1895, for want of 

 support. Then the office was sold to Ralph W. Strong of Monrovia (form- 

 erly Chicago) who revived the paper, making his first issue of it on May 

 25, 1895. June 22, 1895, he changed the name to Cjirreyit Topics. 



Raymond Chit-Chat. — This paper seems to have been started in 

 1893, or perhaps earlier — but no particulars were furnished me. The Daily 

 Star oi December 30, 1894, said : 



"The first number for the season of Chit-Chat, the Raymond hotel 

 organ, is to appear next Sunday morning under Mr. Cooper's editorial 

 management. The little paper was a decided success last year." 



The Mount L,owe Echo. — On March 11, 1894, was issued the first 

 number of the Daily Mount Lowe Echo, with Prof. G. Wharton James as 

 editor. Its opening announcement said : 



" Let the birth-bells ring ! Another child is born to the family of 

 California newspapers. As its name implies, the Mount Lowe Echo will 

 be an echo of the doings on and about Mount L,owe." 



Its form is that of a wide 2-column folio, printed on heavy, calendered 

 book paper, in highest style of job printing art, and illustrated about twice 

 a week with full page and first-class photogravure plates. It is devoted to 

 the interests of the Echo Mountain and Mount Lowe region, with all its 

 connected enterprises, and people who visit or sojourn there. On March 17, 

 the first weekly edition was issued. Subscription price, $2.50 per year ; and 

 on sale at news stands at 10 cents per copy. The Mount Lowe R. R. Co. 

 has a complete printing office of its own in the Rubio pavilion, with 

 presses run by water power, and its printing is all done here. [See Chapter 

 23.] On April 27, 1895, the Echo suspended publication till January i, 

 1896, when the tourist season should be open again. 



The Daily Evening News. — Early in October, 1894, W. S. Gilmore, 

 who had served long as the Pasadena local reporter of the Los Angeles 

 Times, conceived the project of starting a new daily paper in Pasadena. 

 His scheme matured rapidly, so that the "News Publishing Company" 

 was incorporated October 12, by W. S. Gilmore, W. C. Stuart, Isabel Bates 

 Winslow, C. Ornbaum, L- P. Hansen, J. W. Wood. The first board of 

 directors consisted of Gilmore, Stuart, Hansen, Wood, and F. C. Bolt, and 

 its officers were — Gilmore, president ; Stuart, vice-president ; Mrs. I. B. 

 Winslow, secretary ; San Gabriel Valley Bank, treasurer. The amount of 

 capital was $15,000. A complete newspaper and job printing outfit was 

 purchased ; the entire first floor of the Hopkins block, formerly occupied 

 by city officers, corner Fair Oaks avenue and Union street, was leased ; and 

 the Pasadena Daily Evening News, 7-column quarto form, made its first 

 issue on November i, 1894. In politics, Republican. Number of em- 

 ployes, twelve. The day before Christmas it was issued as a special 



