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happen that such positive and yet so different statements were made in 

 regard to the matter by different persons. 



COLUMBUS DAY. 



October 21, 1892, was elaborately celebrated as Discovery day, or Col- 

 umbus day, it being the four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of 

 America. The five different public schools of the city each had a program 

 of literary exercises, tableaux, etc., appropriate to the day. The Grand 

 Army of the Republic had detailed a squad of old soldiers for each school, to 

 visit it in the forenoon and join in the ceremony of raising the national 

 flag on the school building, then take some part with the children by short 

 addresses, etc., in their program. An exceptional incident worth recording 

 was this : In making a detail of old Union soldiers for the Wilson High 

 School building, the G. A. R. unanimously agreed to tender the post of 

 honor as flag-bearer to an ex-Confederate soldier, T. J. Martin, as a token 

 of peace and good will now between soldiers who wore the blue and those 

 who wore the gray in the great war of the rebellion. Mr. Martin accepted 

 the gallant courtesy and took his place in the line — but being in poor health 

 at the time, he found himself too feeble to carry the flag, and a comrade of 

 the G. A. R. walked by his side carrying it for him. (This was I. N. 

 Stevenson, of the rsth Pennsylvania infantry regiment.) 



During the afternoon a general grand parade of school children, civic 

 societies, and citizens generally, was indulged in. They marched to the 

 Tabernacle, which was packed to the last inch of space, and a short speech 

 was made by Mayor O. F. Weed, president of the day. Prof. C. H. Keyes, 

 president of Throop Polytechnic Institute, gave the principal address ; and 

 it was a learned and brilliant pictograph of great drift currents in the 

 world's history which took their initial flow or their historic trend from the 

 new-world discovery made by Columbus. Short speeches were also made 

 by Rev. E. Iv- Conger, D. D., Judge Waldo M. York, Rev. O. D. Crawford, 

 and W. U. Masters. The Pasadena Daily Star devoted seven columns to a 

 report of this day's doings in Pasadena. 



MOUNT LOWE ELKCTRIC RAILROAD DAY. 



August 23, 1893, w^as the first day ever formally and officially set apart 

 by the city council of Pasadena as a public holiday of their very own. And 

 the festivities indulged in were like Fourth of July, Thanksgiving day, and 

 Tournament ot Roses, all combined in one superlative ovation to Prof. T. S. 

 C. Lowe, as a commemorative testimonial on the completion of the Mount 

 lyOwe electric railway to its half-way halt at the top of the " great incline " 

 or cable section on Kcho Mountain. [See Chapter 23.] 



FATHER THROOP DAY. 



December 21, 1893, was made historic as "Father Throop Day," by a 

 great testimonial celebration in honor of the founder and the founding of 



