3l8 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



there — but it does mention a visit of Gen. Butler there the same year. After 

 I had got my story of "President Hayes Day " all written out, supposing it 

 to embody the bottom facts, I learned that the old soldier, Alex. Edwards, 

 who had been named to me as a "teamster" in Sherman's army, was still 

 living at San Jacinto ; and I wrote to him asking for some particulars of the 

 affair. From him I received the following letter : 



San Jacinto, Cal., October 19, 1894. 



Dear Comrade : — Gen. Sherman, Gov. Perkins, and President Hayes 

 and wife drove through Pasadena in the last week in October, 1880 (not in 

 1878, as you have it). Indiana was an October state then [for state election], 

 and President Hayes was congratulating Mr. A. O. Porter on the election of 

 his brother for Governor of Indiana. The president was anxious to get 

 home in time to vote for Garfield. 



I was in the war four years — three fights to one eat — and commanded 

 the company for three years. I also served two terms in the Mexican war. 

 I served under Sherman at Vicksburg ; and also knew him before the war, 

 while he lived in Louisiana.* Alex. Edwards. 



FIRST CITRUS FAIR DAY. 



The next historic day of special mark was March 24, 1880, when the 

 colony held its first Citrus Fair, in the central school building, and made 

 public exhibit of such fruit products as were already matured. It was a 

 marvellous success, was reported extensively in the newspapers, and gave 

 the colony a widespread fame. D. M. Graham, who died in 1893, wrote an 

 account of it for L,. M. Holt's agricultural paper then published at Riverside, 

 and from his report I gather, that papers were read at the Fair, on Pasa- 

 dena's past history and future prospects, and on various horticultural topics, 

 by Judge B. S. Eaton, Col. J. Banbury, Hon. J. F. Crank, Dr. O. H. Con- 

 ger, Mrs. Jeanne C. Carr, D. M. Berry and D. M. Graham. Mr. Graham 

 stated that Mrs. Locke had shipped to San Francisco some limes which 

 averaged 900 to the orange box, and sold for $8 per box. As to future 

 prospects he remarked : "Our 125 families must swell to 2,000." And he 

 lived to see the swell reach twice that number. From Mr. Graham's paper 

 I make the following extract, which gives some idea of how the colony 

 appeared at that time : 



"To a cluster of homes about eight miles northeast of Los Angeles, 

 the name Pasadena was given by earlier settlers. Its short history of six 

 years has made those homes beautiful beyond the most sanguine hopes of its 

 founders. The streets are clear of weeds ; the five to sixty acre lots are 

 enclosed by neat hedges of limes and Monterey cypress ; the tasteful houses 

 are generally set far back from the street and reached by a well-kept drive 

 through the orange orchard, whose soil is kept scrupulously clean and mel- 



*Gen. Sherman came to California in 1847, as a Lieut, in 3d U. S. Artillery ; came by ship around 

 Cape Horn, to San Diego. Gen. Stoiiemau came two or three months earlier, overland, as Lieut, iu First 

 U. S. dragoons, but acting quartermaster of the Mormon Battalion. Sherman served here until 1850, most 

 of the time as actiug Adjt. General under the military governors, and of course he and Stoneman were 

 army comrades then. In 1S59-60 he was superintendent of the State Military Academy at New Orleans, 

 Lousiana, where Mr. Kdwards first knew him ; and that is how it happened that he recognized Edwards 

 so familiarly, but did not know the old cavalryman, Enio Brenna. 



