236 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



found it impossible to learn the exact date or any particulars of this first 

 delivery. Mr. Graham died in 1893; ^^^ ^^- Hollingsworth in 1895, is 

 keeping a large jewelry store in Los Angeles 



The postoffice being finally established at the Colorado and Fair Oaks 

 corner instead of the California and Orange Grove corner, was a grievance 

 to the original colony people in the latter vicinage.* Then in November of 

 the same year [1876] the original colony school-house on lower Orange 

 Grove Avenue was moved up to the new five-acre school lot given by B. D. 

 Wilson just across the street from the Hollingsworth store. And this was 

 another grievance to the Orange Grove people. [For fuller particulars, see 

 chapter 9 : " Annals of the schools ".] 



S. Washburn afterward owned the Hollingsworth store for awhile but 

 was not postmaster. Romayne Williams clerked for Washburn, and became 

 postmaster April 7, 1880 ; then he bought out the store business himself and 

 put up a new building of his own — since known as the Williams Hall block, 

 and itself a pantheon of historic associations. On February 27, 1883, he 

 moved the store into his new building, and of course the postoffice went with 

 it. In the old place there were only 27 postoffice boxes ; in the new place 

 there were 360 boxes. Pasadena had grown so rapidly as to justify this 

 large increase ; and Mr. Williams was alwaj^s a man to keep full up to the 

 front line of the procession — in fact generally a little ahead. In August, 

 1882, this had been made a money order office, while yet in the old building. 



When Cleveland became president, in 1S85, of course it was "innings" 

 for the democrats. Pasadena had always had a republican postmaster ; but 

 now the time for a change had come, and A. O. Bristol, one of the only five 

 democrats in the original colony Association, was commissioned postmaster 

 July 31, and took possession of the office September i, 1885. During 1886 

 the business increased so much that it was found necessary to seek larger 

 and better quarters for it. The Union of March 5, 1886, said : 



"The Pasadena postoffice is doing a big business. Its money orders are 

 over $60,000 a year ; its supplies for this quarter amount to $1,000 ; about 

 1,000 letters daily are received ; registry business last quarter, 234 packages 

 sent and 258 received. The fine new quarters provided last Fall are already 

 too small for the public, though large enough inside for the postal work ; and 

 the 420 boxes (253 "call " and 167 lock) are insufficient for the demand." 



March 15, 1886, the San Gabriel Valley Railroad first contracted to 

 carry the mail between lyos Angeles and Pasadena, this service having be- 

 fore been done by W. T. Vore's hack line, after D. M. Graham gave it up. 



The estimates and allowances for postal service are made annually one 

 year in advance ; and hence there is no provision at Washington for such 

 mail-bag booms in local postoffices as Pasadena experienced early in 1886. 

 The allowance for clerk hire at Pasadena proved utterly inadequate to meet 



* A new 'postoffice called " Herniosa " was established at corner of Columbia street and Sylvan 

 Drive, Jan. 3, 1S83, but afterward had the name changed to South Pasadena. [See Chap. 35.] 



