290 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



Note. — After this chapter was ready for press, the city clerk's annual 

 report for 1894-95 was published in pamphlet form ; and from it I glean a 

 few additional points of historic interest. 



APPORTIONMENT OF TAXES FOR 1 894-5. 



General Fund $0.50 per $100 00 produced $32,312 88 



Sewer Fund 0.15 " 100 00 " 9,693 87 



Fire and Sewer Sinking Fund 0.24 " 100 00 " 15,510 18 



Library Sinking Fund 0125 " 100 00 " 807 82 



Library Fund 0975 " 100 00 " 6,301 01 



Total $ I 00 " $100 GO " $64,625 76 



For current expenses of the city, $23,484 31 of interest-bearing (8 per 

 cent) certificates were issued for claims which could not be paid on demand 

 because the treasury was empty : then when they were paid, (after the year's 

 taxes had been collected,) the interest on them amounted to $1,031 83. 

 Among the items of cash receipts by the city, these odd ones occur : Fines 

 collected by recorder [police judge], mostly from violations of restrictions in 

 the liquor permitting ordinance, $1,019.50. Dog licenses, $71. Sale of 

 street sweepings, $130.35. Sale of pumpkins and hay from sewer farm, 

 $1,288.71. Libra ry collections , $311.10. 



Some of the expense accounts in 1894-5, worthy of special note, were : 

 Fire department, $6,241.76 ; street work, repairing, sweeping, etc., $8,822.87 ; 

 street sprinkling, $8,969.18; street lighting, $7,803.01 ; total expense for 

 street interests, $25,595.06. Police department, $3,447.17; soup house de- 

 partment, $825.83; printing department, $1,768.87 ; sewer farm department, 

 $3,054.66; library department, $3,170.91. 



Some of the valuations of city property in 1895 are : Sewer department, 

 $235,668; fire department, $23,525 ; library department, $30,500. The total 

 value of all property belonging to the city corporation is given as 

 $293,969.80. 



The city's debts, March i, 1895, were : Fire and sewer bonds, $122,- 

 300, at 5 per cent interest ; library bonds, $6,375, at 7 per cent interest. 

 And at that date there was $4,966.77 cash in the city treasury. 



The street work done by the city in 1894, was 129,479 square feet of 

 paving; 61,218 square feet of sidewalk; 22,051 lineal feet of grading; 

 49,535 lineal feet of curbing ; 53,026 lineal feet of guttering ; 14,365 lineal 

 feet of sewer construction. 



THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 



The first effort ever made toward organizing a Fire Company in Pasa- 

 dena occurred in January, 1885. Meetings were held on the 15th, 21st and 

 27th of that month, and on February 5th and 12th, at all of which Dr. H. 

 A. Reid presided. Of the first meeting the Valley Union said : 



"At a public meeting held at the reading room of the Webster Hotel 



