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Pasadena, after a long delay by litigation with certain landowners as to the 

 amount of their damages, and built a " rapid transit " line from Los Angeles 

 via Garvanza to Raymond station. Here he leased the Altadena railroad 

 for three years and thus reached Pasadena's business center by running a 

 switch down from the present Terminal depot site to a point between De 

 Lacy street and Fair Oaks Avenue, and fronting on Colorado street. On 

 March 11, 1890, the road was formally opened to the public, and Pasadena 

 celebrated the event in great style. [See page 327.] 



Within a year Capt. Cross sold out to the Los Angeles Terminal Rail- 

 road Company, T. B. Burnett, manager. And the Pasadena Star of August 

 26, 1 891, said : 



' ' The Terminal Railway Company has filed in Los Angeles a trust deep 

 to the St. Louis Trust Company in the sum of $1,500,000 to secure payment 

 of bonds to this amount. The Terminal is expending money in a courageous 

 way, showing that its owners have full faith in the future of Southern Cali- 

 fornia." 



When the three-year lease of the Altadena line expired, the Terminal 

 bought that road and made it an integral part of their system ; and they did 

 the same thing with the narrow-gauge line from Los Angeles to Glendale. 

 Also during 1891 they built from Los Angeles to Long Beach, and to an 

 ocean connection via Rattlesnake Island at East San Pedro ; and the formal 

 opening of this line was celebrated by an excursion under the management of 

 the Pasadena Board of Trade, November 14, 1891. 



THE PASADENA STREET RAILWAY CO. 



The first man who ever received a franchise for a street railroad in Pasa- 

 dena was Stephen Townsend, on Saturday, October 10, 1885. This was be- 

 fore there was any city incorporation, and the grant was made by the county 

 board of supervisors. The Valley Unio?i of October 16, 1885, said: 



"To Stephen Townsend was granted his franchise, the route being as 

 follows : Commencing at a point on Fair Oaks Avenue, in San Gabriel 

 township, opposite the center of the street leading to the Raymond station 

 of the L. A. & S. G. V. R. R., and running thence in a northerly direction 

 along the center of said Fair Oaks Avenue, to a point about 300 feet south 

 of Walnut street." 



The enterprise seems to have made little progress for some months, and 

 I find nothing more about it until February 15, 1886, when a meeting was 

 held in Williams Hall on the subject. Townsend 's franchise had been 

 granted on condition that the work of building the road should be com- 

 menced within three months, but this had not been done, so of course it 

 had become void. At this meeting in Williams Hall C. C. Brown was 

 chosen chairman, and Frank M. Ward, secretary ; and S. Townsend ex- 

 plained the object of the meeting to be, to further the interests of Pasadena 

 by the building of a street railroad. As a result of this meeting, the fol- 

 lowing document was put forth : 



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