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and not engage in the saloon business again, for the sum of $7,000. It was 

 voted that the meeting did not want to buy saloons at any price. It was 

 voted that a committee be appointed to wait upon Mr. Stamm and Mr. Nay 

 and request them to discontinue the sale of wines, beer and liquors, as the 

 people of Pasadena were opposed to their sale in any form. It was voted 

 that the people organize for mutual protection. Mr. B. F. Ball was elected 

 president of such organization. Dr. Rachel F. Reid vice-president, and Mrs. 

 Russell Case secretary." [Mrs. Case is better known as Miss Florence 

 Royce, who was for seven years a favorite teacher in the Central school of 

 Pasadena. — Ed.] 



The Mutual Protection Association mentioned in the above report ap- 

 pointed an executive council of thirty business men, with a committee from 

 the Woman's Christian Temperance Union as co-laborers. For several 

 months meetings were held twice a month in the Library Hall, to confer on 

 ways and means. Committees were appointed from time to time to ascertain 

 from lawyers in lyos Angeles what possible legal process could be taken to 

 rid Pasadena of its saloon pest. C. B. Ripley, Geo. A. Swartwout, C. W. 

 Abbott, Dr. H. A. Reid, Martin Mullins, and Dr. Lyman Allen served in 

 this special work at different times. And Mr. Swartwout especially procured 

 citations of law enough to make a book of themselves ; but there was 

 nothing found in California law to help Pasadena a particle in her desired 

 riddance until she should become an incorporated city. After making all 

 these efforts, and finding no resource at law, a document was prepared in 

 March, eventually signed by 272 voters and taxpayers, [ten more names 

 were added later] sixty-three of them being business men or firms of the 

 village, and published with all the names attached, both in the Valley 

 Unioii and in a circular, June 12, 1885, reading as follows : 



AGREEMENT. 



" We, the undersigned, citizens of Pasadena, realizing that the indis- 

 criminate sale of intoxicating liquors in our midst depreciates the value of 

 our homes, retards immigration, injures our business interests, endangers 

 our lives and property, leads our young men and boys into habits of vice 

 and crime, and lowers the moral tone of our society. 



"Therefore, We declare ourselves opposed to this traffic in our midst, 

 and in favor of using all lawfid vieans for its suppression ; and to this end 



" We agree that we will not patronize or in any way give support to any 

 person who is engaged in the indiscriminate sale of liquors in Pasadena, 

 and that we will not, knowingly, employ, or retain in our employ, or in any 

 manfier le?id sicpport to any person who patronizes such traffic in our midst." 



Copies of the agreement were circulated by a committee consisting of 

 Mrs. Mary Case, Mrs. S. Townsend, Dr. Rachel F. Reid, Mrs. M. C. Lord, 

 Dr. Lyman Allen, Amos Wright and C. M. Skillen. Copies of it were also 

 kept for signature at the Valley Union office, at the Pasadena Bank, [now 

 First National], and at the Free Library. While the work of procuring 

 signatures was going on, the Valley Union of March 27th published the fol- 

 lowing statement with regard to it ; 



