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income of the road never paid running expenses, 5'et it was heroically kept 

 in operation three or four years, but had to be given up at last ; and in 1892 

 its iron rails were sold to Prof. I,owe and used by him on the lower trolly 

 section of the Mount L,owe Electric Railway. 



ALHAMBRA AND PASADENA STRKET RAII^WAY. 



This line was built in January, February, 1887, by an Alhambra com- 

 pany, of which A. C. Weeks was president; F. O. Story, treasurer; C. T. 

 Adams, secretary. The road extended from the Southern Pacific depot at 

 Alhambra to the Raymond depot (Santa Fe route) in Pasadena, and was 

 thus operated for some months ; then trackage was secured on the Fair 

 Oaks avenue line up to Colorado street, and the Alhambra cars stopped at 

 and started from this central point for a period. But it was a losing enter- 

 prise from the first ; and in 1893 the company's own track was torn up and 

 sold, leaving no sign of its Pasadena history. 



PASADENA AND LOS ANGELES ELECTRIC RAILROAD. 



Incorporated in April, 1894. Its first members or directors were : 

 P. M. Green, L. P. Hansen, E. C. Webster, A. W. Roche, of Pasadena, 

 and E. P. Clark and Wm. I,acey of L,os Angeles. Its capital stock is 

 $500,000. 



During 1894 this electric company bought up the four remaining horse 

 car lines in Pasadena, and proceeded to reorganize their trackage, and run- 

 ning time, etc., into a consolidated sj'stem. They built an electric line in 



1894 95 which gave street car service direct, every twenty minutes, from 

 the Pasadena business center to the Eos Angeles business center as far south 

 as Fourth street. Also from Pasadena to Altadena for a direct connection 

 with the Mount Eowe Electric Railway. The company's officers in 1894-95 

 were : Webster, president ; Hansen, vice president ; M. E. Hammond, sec- 

 retary and treasurer ; E. P. Clark, general manager. 



THE FIRST ELECTRIC CAR 

 Ever run in Pasadena was a trial trip made in the night of February 19, 



1895 ; and the Eos Angeles Times correspondence of February 20, said : 

 " At 7:30 o'clock this morning the car, propelled by electricity from the Eos 

 Angeles power house, began making regular trips on Fair Oaks Avenue be- 

 tween Columbia street and the Throop Institute." But it was over two 

 months before the line was completed through between the two cities, and 

 meanwhile the " Pasadena loop " car connected with a 'bus running between 

 Columbia street and Garvanza, which met at the latter place the electric car 

 from Eos Angeles. Then in the night of April 20 the first electric car that 

 passed over the whole line from Eos Angeles to Pasadena was run through ; 

 and of this event the Star said : 



' ' Among citizens who had the privilege of making this first trip from 

 Eos Angeles were E. C. Webster, Hon. Jas. McEachlan, E. E. Jones and 



