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vice, weighs 3,135 pounds. The hook-and-ladder truck carries one fifty- 

 foot and one thirty-foot extension ladder, besides fire-wall hook ladders, and 

 others. It also carries tour three-gallon Babcock chemical extinguishers. 

 Then there is the usual complement of hooks, chains, ropes, axes, etc., for 

 tearing down buildings to check the spread of a fire ; and a supply of 

 leather buckets. This truck and its outfit weigh 3,640 pounds, and eight 

 firemen are entitled to ride on it besides. 



CHAPTER XV. 



A Chapter of Three Bs. — The Banks. — The "Boom." — The Board of Trade. 

 Table of Incorporations. 



BANKS. 



The First National. — The first public mention of any bank project 

 in Pasadena occurred in the Valley Union of November 22, 1884, which 

 said : 



"Yesterda}^ an organization was effected by electing the following 

 gentlemen a board of directors : P. M. Green, Henry G. Bennett, George 

 H. Bonebrake, J. Banbury, John Allin, D. Galbraith, and B. F. Ball. The 

 following officers were also elected : President, P. M. Green ; vice-pres- 

 ident, B. F. Ball ; cashier, D. Galbraith." 



It was called simply the Pasadena Bank, and November 21, 1884, 



appears as the date of its in- 

 corporation under the state 

 laws. But on May lOth, 

 1886, it was chartered under 

 United States law as the 

 ' 'First National Bank of Pasa- 

 dena," its registry number 

 being 3,499. A few days 

 before this date the Union 

 contained the following as a 

 real estate item : 



' ' The Los Angeles House 

 property, corner Fair Oaks 

 Avenue and Colorado street, 

 was sold for $25,000 to a 

 syndicate of capitalists com- 

 posed of Geo. H. Bonebrake, 

 P. M. Green, H. W. Magee, 

 B. F. Ball, J. H. Painter, R. 

 FIRST NATIONAL BANK BLOCK, 1886. Williams, H. G Beuuctt and 



Architecture, Classic. Johu AUm. The property IS 



