DIVISION FIVE — NAMES. 357 



Glenarm Street. — Named by Thomas Banbury, from his wife's child- 

 hood home place in Ontario, Canada. 



Glendale Street. — In 1885 M. W. McGee from Kansas City, Mo., 

 bought the well-improved colony home of W. O. Swan, Sr. The orchard 

 extended through from Fair Oaks to Marengo Avenue, with the family 

 mansion about midway, and a private drive passing through from one 

 avenue to another in front of the vine-trellised house and amply shaded front 

 yard, where flowers, shrubbery, and a fountain added to the rural 

 beauty of the place. Mr. McGee named it Glendale, and placed a sign 

 bearing this name over the driveway entrance on each avenue. In 1887 he 

 sold to a real estate syndicate that portion of his land lying between Fair 

 Oaks Avenue and the railroad track, and they made his private driveway 

 into a street, naming it Glendale. Then he extended it on up to Marengo 

 Avenue. 



Glorieta Street. — This name used to be laughed at as rather fantastical, 

 for it was supposed to be a bit of superlative boom gush, meaning only 

 " glorious," or something of that sort. But there is a Glorieta postoffice in 

 Santa Fe county, New Mexico ; and there is a large tract called Glorieta 

 Heights away up northwest above I^a Canyada ; and the Santa Fe railroad 

 crosses the Glorieta mountains in New Mexico at an altitude of 7,453 feet. 



Gordon Terrace. — Opened by James Smith, in 1885. He had a son 

 named James Gordon Smith ; and about this time the English army in 

 India, under Gen. Gordon, was cooped up in Khartoum b}^ the rebellious 

 natives, and the General was killed before re-inforcements could reach him. 

 This was an event of world-wide celebrity at the time, and really decided 

 the naming of this street. 



Grand Avenue. — One day some time in 1885, Thomas Nelmesand Mrs. 

 R. E. Burnham chanced to make a social call at I. M. Hill's residence on 

 the same evening. The great real estate boom was then rising to its flush- 

 tide, and, of course, became the topic of conversation. They all owned 

 land reaching from Orange Grove Avenue to the bluff declivity. The idea 

 was broached that a wide street with trees on both sides and in the middle 

 might be opened, following the meander line of the bluff, with one tier of 

 lots having the Arroyo view. Mrs. Hill exclaimed, " O, wouldn't that be 

 grand!" Mr. Nelines responded, "And that shall be its name — Grand 

 Avenue !" Thus the project was started ; however, some owners would not 

 give land enough for the wideness desired ; and so the grandness was some- 

 what deplumed ; but the name stuck. 



Graiit Street.- — Opened by Dr. Thomas Rigg and W. O. Swan, Sr., in 

 October, 1885, and named, of course, in honor of Gen. Grant. 



Green Street. — See Kansas street. 



Henrietta Court. — Opened by A. Cruickshank, and named for his wife. 



Howard Street. — Opened by Dr. O. H. Conger, and named after his 

 only son, Howard Conger. 



