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then with heavy ropes and pulleys hoist the car and its load bodily up the 

 steep declivity till a new stretch of trail was reached, where the trundle-car 

 could be rolled along again. Just think of a solid half-ton's weight of freight- 

 age being thus transported six miles in distance and 4,000 feet in elevation, 

 and you get some idea of what a job it was at that time (for, remember, this was 

 long before the toll road was built, but was really what led to it,) to get the 

 Harvard telescope into place for its historic and famous astronomical work 

 on Mount Wilson. 



For further particulars about this telescope, and the special scientific 

 work which it did here, see page 367 — "Harvard Telescope Point.' 

 (In 1894 Dr. Reid took pains to secure this historic trundle-car for preserva- 

 tion in the Throop Polytechnic collection of relics pertaining to Pasadena 

 history.) 



At a public meeting, April 2, 1889, for the purpose of raising $100,000 

 to aid in establishing a 40-inch telescope (biggest in the world) on Mt. 

 Wilson, Judge Eaton gave the following points on distances and altitudes: 



"Pasadena is just four miles south of Mt. Wilson, and four miles west. 

 The distance from the foot of the mountain to the top is 8.7 miles, and he 

 would make the grade not greater than one in ten. He estimated the alti- 

 tude of Mt. Wilson to be 5,560 feet. Plenty of granite is available near the 

 summit, and the Henniger flat (2,200 feet) afforded a splendid site for a 

 hotel. He thought Pasadena was big enough and able enough to build a 

 wagon road to the summit. 



"As to the transportation of the 23-inch telescope to the summit, the 

 Judge said, ' It is all there!' (applause). The work had been laborious, but 

 the people of Pasadena had redeemed their word, and put it on the moun- 

 tain, at a cost of a httle less than $1,000, the greater part of which had 

 been spent in improving the trail." 



The Star of April 3, 1889, said : " A big blaze on the summit of Mt. 

 Wilson last night announced that Judge Eaton had succeeded in placing all 

 the boxes containing the Harvard telescope on the spot where the observa- 

 tory is to be built." 



Star photographing was commenced here about May i, 1889, and con- 

 tinued some eighteen months, in charge of Prof. King. Hence the local 

 name thereof, "Harvard Telescope Point ;" but it had previously been known 

 as Signal Peak or point ; and the old telescope building has been converted 

 into a mountain-top hotel annex called "The Casino." See page 367. 



THE MOUNT WILSON TOLL ROAD. 



For nearly twenty years after Pasadena was settled, it was deemed a 

 great adventure to go up Wilson's trail and spend a night on the mountani ; 

 and this trip gradually became so popular that in 1885 and 1886, various 

 schemes were talked of for making some shorter, easier, safer and more 

 direct travel- way to the mountain tops. One plan set forth early in 1885, 

 was for a hack line from Pasadena up into Las Flores canyon, where it was 

 then expected a large sanitarium, or hotel, would soon be built ; and from 



