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empty oil cans were pounded on, fishhorns blown, and every other device 

 used to make a hideous racket. A mob of men and boys thus equipped, 

 and variously estimated at 40 to 70 in numbers, went to the residence of Rev. 

 Dr. Bresee, pastor of the M. E. church ; went into the archway between the 

 church and parsonage, and got close up to doors and windows, yelling like 

 savages bent on a cannibal feast ; hooting, howling, groaning ; making 

 mock prayers ; banging their pans and tooting their fishhorns. Next they 

 went to the residence of A. F. M. Strong, president of the Young Men's 

 Christian Association, on Herkimer street, and performed the same drunken 

 and riotous antics there, although Mrs. Strong was lying very sick at the 

 time. The same mob, or another just like it, went to the residence of Dr. 

 Reid, on Mary street, with the same sort of demonstrations ; crowded into 

 the front yard and along the walk to the back door, and added to their tin 

 can and horn noises some banging or pounding against the house. The resi- 

 dence of Rev. D. D. Hill, pastor of the First Congregational church, was 

 also visited, with similar drunken mob performances. 



NEWSPAPER SUSPENSION AND OTHER CHANGES. 



The space of a few months along about this period was a general break- 

 ing up time — a sort of cyclonish and earthquake tumbling of Pasadena 

 newspaper enterprises. Some weeks before this election the Daily Union 

 had suspended publication. A company of printers leased the material and 

 started the Pasadena Weekly Journal — continued it nineteen weeks and then 

 stopped. Within a day or two of this election the Daily Star printing 

 establishment [being swamped with debts] passed into the hands of a joint 

 stock company whose board of directors were Hon. P. M. Green, B. F. Ball, 

 T. P. Lukens, Geo. F. Kernaghan and Prof T. S. C. Lowe ; and Mr. Ker- 

 naghan was put in charge as general manager. Messrs. Kernaghan, Ball 

 and Green had each given their notes for $100 toward the Enforcement 

 Fund,* and of course the former vicious position of the paper on this and 

 connected matters was at once changed to fairness and decency. On May 3, 

 three weeks after the election, the Pasadena Standard suspended publication; 

 and a few months later the Los Angeles Tribune went down. Then on May 

 5, 1890, the following historic document was issued to the signers of the 

 Enforcement Fund notes : 



REASONS FOR DISBANDMENT. 



By the Pasadena ^Enforcement Committee, appointed August 6, 1888, 



at mass meeting in the Tabernacle — 



Resolved, ist, That the objects and purposes of our appointment have 



been accomplished, in particulars as follows, towit : 



I — In the re-enactment on September 15, 1888, of the prohibitory ordinance 

 by the City Trustees, upon our representation that its original enact- 

 ment had not been signed, published and certified in manner required 

 by the State law. 



* Mr. Lukeus had signed a $ioo note for the enactment fund, in 1S87, but was away from the city 

 when the enforcement movement was inaugarated. 



