240 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



The mounted carriers of this office travel upwards of 9,400 miles each 

 per year, while the foot carriers each cover a distance of about 4,000 miles 

 in the same time. 



In January, 1895, the Los Angeles Times published a tabular exhibit 

 of the business of the lyos Angeles postoffice for the years 1890-91-92-93- 

 94, showing the steady annual increase. Mr. Kernaghan made a corres- 

 ponding exhibit of the Pasadena postal business for the same years, and the 

 result vShowed our annual increase to be 17 4-5 per cent, greater than theirs. 

 From some private memoranda in the office I gleaned the following statis- 

 tics worth preserving : 



Stamps sold in December, 1892 $1,716 40 



Stamps sold in December, 1893 2,032 87 



Stamps sold in December, 1894 2,747 09 



Total number pieces registered in 1892 2,365 



Total number pieces registered in 1893 3- 300 



Total number pieces registered in 1894 4,39i 



As an illustration of how the registered package business inundates the 

 postal service for a week or two before the Christmas holidays each year, 

 Mr. Kernaghan gave me a footing of this business during six working days, 

 from December 16 to 22 inclusive, for three successive years, as follows : 



Pieces registered from December 16 to 22, in 1892 290 



Pieces registered from December 16 to 22, in 1893 5^2 



Pieces registered from December 16 to 22, in 1894 835 



August 15, 1894, a branch office called Station A was established at 

 North Pasadena, with David McLeod as chief clerk in charge. 



The Pasadena postoffice service in 1895, Geo. F. Kernaghan being still 

 postmaster, has 744 lock boxes and thirty-six drawers. There are five 

 carriers, two afoot and three mounted ; and four inside clerks. The foot 

 carriers traverse from fifteen to eighteen miles per day, and the mounted 

 ones about thirty miles. The total allowance for salaries is now $3,000 per 

 annum. 



CHAPTER XII. 



The Temperance Question — First Saloon in the colonj-. — The historic anti-saloon 

 agreement. — The city's prohibitory ordinance. 



THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION. 

 The original colony settlers of Pasadena were mostly of a class who 

 wished to establish the moralities and decencies of a Christian civilization 

 as the dominant sentiment and practice in their community ; and they con- 

 sidered a saloon or any place for the beverage sale of liquors, as wholly in- 

 consistent with and contrarj^ to that purpose. But in spite of this senti- 

 ment, some time in 1875, M. Rosenbaum, a native of Hamburg, Germany, 

 started a little store on Orange Grove Avenue, about where J. W. Wood's 



