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pretty cottage now stands, and along with other goods kept liquors 

 for sale. This aroused such a storm of indignation and energetic protest 

 that he was soon compelled to give up the business ; and the building was 

 afterward used for a number of years as a Chinese wash house. That first 

 attempt to establish the liquor trade here brought forth the formal and of- 

 ficial action of the colonists, as reported in Hon. P. M. Green's sketch of 

 Pasadena history written for the Farnsworth pamphlet of 1883, from which 

 I quote : 



"The San Gabriel Orange Grove Association, at a meeting of the 

 stockholders held on the 17th day of February, 1876, by a unanimous vote 

 adopted the following resolution : 



' ' Resolved, That the members of this Association are opposed to the 

 sale of liquors upon the Association's grounds," 



thus placing the seal of its condemnation on the traffic, and doing all that 

 it could, in its corporate capacity, to mould public sentiment and give 

 character to the community on this subject." 



There was no further trouble on the saloon question until 1884. During 

 this year one Jerome Beebe, erected a two story "frame building on E. Colo- 

 rado street (now No. 47 and occupied by E. H. Lockwood and others), 

 professedly only for a billiard hall, with tobacco and cigar counter included. 

 But in a few weeks after opening up for business he put in a stock of 

 liquors also, in spite of the fact that T. P. Eukens had gotten up a respect- 

 ful request, and every business man in town had signed it, that he would 

 not start a liquor saloon in Pasadena. He said his business wouldn't pay 

 without a stock of liquors, and he had got a license and was going to do a 

 lawful business. The matter soon became notorious ; and the liquor interest 

 of Ivos Angeles for awhile took special pains to send their tourist friends out 

 this way, to patronize the Pasadena saloon and help Beebe to hold his grip 

 here, in spite of the strong local sentiment against it. This was the state of 

 affairs in October and November, when H. R. Case went to Los Angeles 

 and got some large handbills printed calling a mass meeting at Pasadena 

 on November 10, 1884, to consider what should be done or could be done to 

 get rid of the Hquor saloon recently started there. These bills were posted 

 up through Pasadena and vicinity ; and by the time the day arrived the 

 matter had warmed up so much that Beebe was pretty badly scared, and kept 

 himself armed with two loaded revolvers, swearing that he would shoot on 

 sight anybody who should attempt to interfere with his business. He also 

 procured a deputy sheriff to be sent up from Los Angeles for his special 

 protection on that mass meeting day ; and, to guard against a night raid of 

 those wicked temperance people to destroy his stock of liquors, he kept an 

 armed companion to sleep with him in his saloon building. At last the day 

 arrived and a large gathering of people took place, whose proceedings I 

 here quote from a report published in the Valley Unioji of November 15, 



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