3IO HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



the effort to secure a better cemetery site for the city ; the distribution in 

 the east of photographic views of this city ; the suppression of damaging 

 rumors as to the prevalence of typhoid fever in this city ; the tender of aid to 

 the suffering poor of Dakota ; entertainment of the Editorial Association of 

 Southern California ; the efforts to secure the establishment of an astro- 

 nomical observatory on Mt. Wilson ; co-operation in the effort to obtain 

 relief of debtors under real estate contracts ; memorial to the Legislature 

 for the better protection of fruits ; placing the Harvard telescope on 

 the summit of Mt. Wilson ; work of committee on our agricultural 

 resources who state that $150,000 goes out of Pasadena yearly for fruits, 

 vegetables, etc.; calling upon the ciiy fathers for a financial statement of the 

 city ; the recent work of the board in aid of the construction of a boulevard 

 to lyos Angeles ; petition to the city council for rapid transit ; recommenda- 

 tions for a city park, and for a cannery ; action in giving the cantata ; in 

 observing arbor day, and inauguration centennial." 



It must be kept in mind that. 1888 was a "boom" year, in order to better 

 understand the many grand business projects above mentioned which never 

 existed except in talk or on paper. 



The Pasadena Staridard of January 12, 1889, gave a few additional 

 points, thus : 



"The president of the Board of Trade reports that out of 154 who 

 originally signed for membership, only fifty have become members. The 

 board sent photograph views to fifteen eastern cities to be put up in frames 

 and publicly exhibited. The views selected were : The public library, 

 Wilson grammar school, Monks Hill school, Universalist church, E. F. 

 Hurlbut's residence, Colorado street (looking west), Colorado street (looking 

 east), Richardson villa, Pickwick club rooms, Y. M. C. A. building, H. H. 

 Markham's residence, Marengo avenue, Raymond Hotel, Sierra Madre 

 mountains, Devil's Gate, Painter Hotel, Cascade in Millard canyon." 



May 15, 1889, United States Senators Hoar of Massachusetts, Pugli of 

 Alabama, Allison of Iowa, and Dolph of Oregon, visited Pasadena, and 

 were driven about the city, under auspices of Board of Trade. And in all 

 public interests of this nature, or any matter coming properly within its 

 purview, the Board of Trade continued to be active, energetic, prompt and 

 useful. 



In 1892 the board again issued a 40-page pamphlet with close print on 

 large sized page, and many photogravure illustrations. The text was 

 written by Theodore Coleman, city editor of the Daily Star. At this time 

 the ofiBcers were: W. U. Masters, president; J. A. Buchanan, vice-presi- 

 dent ; M, E. Wood, treasurer ; Webster Wotkyns, secretary. And standing 

 committees of five members each were maintained on manufactures, on edu- 

 cation and publications, on public meetings, on railroads and transportation, 

 on streets and parks, on health and sanitation, on advertising and fairs, on 

 receptions. This will show what a field of volunteer endeavor for the public 

 welfare this organization aimed to fill. In this 1892 pamphlet was a list of 

 its members — 148 in all. 



