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larger district from the corporation limits of Pasadena city, I have adopted 

 the term Pasadenaland, and used it throughout this volume.* 



Muscat. — As early as October, 1873, D. M. Berry had named the colony 

 tract ' ' Muscat, ' ' because raising muscat grapes was then expected to be the 

 chief industry of the colonists; and Mr. Croft's diary all through October, 

 November and December speaks of it by the name of "Muscat." But 

 when the name "Orange Grove Association " was adopted, that put oranges 

 ahead of grapes, and "Muscat" as a name for the settlement went out 

 entirely. 



MAJOR BONEBRAKE'S "GENESIS OF PASADENA." 



In 1885 a great Citrus Fair was held in the roller skating rink, for the 

 benefit of the public library, for an account of which see Chapter 16. Then 

 on March 23, 24, 25, 26, 1886, another similar Fair was held in Williams 

 hall for the same object ; and on the 25th Major Bonebrake of lyos Angeles, 

 just purely as a matter oi ftm, gave a learned discussion on the genesis of 

 Pasadena's location and name, which I myself reported for the Valley Union 

 of March 26, 1886, and from which I here quote : 



"Major Geo. H. Bonebrake, president of the lyOS Angeles Board of 

 Trade, next spoke. He showed from several points of argument that Pasa- 

 dena is the veritable site of the original garden of Eden. 



ist. Philological argument : Pasadena is a euphemistic modernizing 

 of the term Pas d'Eden, or Pass of Paradise of some ancient and lost 

 language. 



2nd. The geological argument : When our globe in its gasiform state 

 began to cool and solidify, it commenced at the poles and worked gradually 

 toward the equator ; hence vegetable and animal life commenced in the 

 lowest forms at the north pole and increased and improved as time advanced, 

 so that by the sixth day of creational progress the advance line had pro- 

 gressed as far south as Pasadena, or ancient " Pas d'Eden," and here man 

 was made. ' ' Adam ' ' means red earth, and plenty of this material was 

 found on the Painter & Ball hill. [Monks hill was also called "the red 

 hill."] 



3rd. The Bible argument : Sundry quotations from scripture were 

 given in confirmation of this view. 



4th. The aesthetic argument : Eden or Paradise was a place of all 

 perfection in beauty and loveliness, including women and flowers and all 

 manner of fruits — and here we have them all, in excellent completeness. 



5th. The argument by exclusion : Nobody can show or prove that 

 any other place on earth absolutely is the original Pas d'Eden ; hence no- 

 body can prove that this is not the place, and therefore our proofs stand, 

 that this must be the very spot. 



This fine piece of humor seems to have been taken in owlish earnest- 



*The first instance of the name Pasadena being used elsewhere is mentioned in the Star of Septem- 

 ber 2, 1891, which says : "A friend hands us a copy of the Stamford, Conn., //^>-a/rf, which contains an 

 advertisement of town lots for sale in Pasadena, New Jersey. It is a health resort near the sea shore. It 

 was so named, doubtless, because of the fame of our own Pasadena as a healthful city." 



In November, 1894, there was a new health-resort town in Florida named Pasadena. 



In July, 1894, a pamphlet was issued by Mrs. Cora Bacon Foster, advertising Pasadena, Texas, on 

 Cotton Patch creek, about eight miles from Houston. 



