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1894. In September the great searchlight was put in place, and commenced 

 its spookish peering into everybody's windows by night, for twenty or thirty 

 miles around ; and during the same month the temporary observatory was 

 completed and opened to visitors, in charge of Prof. Lewis Swift, the famous 

 comet discoverer from Rochester, N. Y. On November 24th occurred the 

 formal opening of the newly completed Echo Mountain Hotel, with a grand 

 banquet held there by the bankers of Southern California — a fraternity in 

 which Prof. lyowe himself stands well to the front. 



THE CORPORATE NAME. 



The "Pasadena and Mount Wilson Railway Company" was incor- 

 porated June 3, 1 891, with the following officers : 



President, T. S. C. Lowe, Prest. Los Angeles Safe Deposit and Trust Co. 

 Vice-President, Hon. P. M. Green, Prest. First National Bank, Pasadena. 

 Secretary, A. P. West, Cashier Columbia Savings Bank, Los Angeles. 

 Treasurer, T. W. Brotherton, Prest. Citizens Bank, Los Angeles. 



ADVISORY BOARD. 



Hon. H. H. Markham, Governor of California. 



Hon. Joseph Medill, editor Chicago Tribune. 



Hon. A. G. Throop, founder of Throop Polytechnic Institute, Pasadena. 



Andrew McNally, of the great Chicago map publishing house. 



T. D. Stimson, President Columbia Savings Bank, Los Angeles. 



G. G. Green, proprietor of Hotel Green, Pasadena. 



J. W. Hugus, President National Bank of Rawlins, Wyoming. 



C. W. Brown, Vice-President Pasadena National Bank. 



A. C. Armstrong, capitalist, Altadena. 



T. P. Lukens, President Pasadena National Bank. 

 Capital stock, 6,000 shares of $100 each, or $600,000. 

 As events developed, the corporate name soon became a misnomer — for, 

 as before explained, Mount Wilson dropped entirely out of the reckoning ; 

 and in Prof. James's pamphlet of 1893 it is, with full consent of the Com- 

 pany, called the " Pasadena Mountain Railway." But later it was re-incor- 

 porated as the " Mount Lowe Railway Co." — a more brief, convenient and 

 correctly descriptive title, and by this fitter name it goes down to history. 



PASADENA'S MOUNTAIN RAILROAD CELEBRATION. 



The first time the city council of Pasadena ever officially proclaimed 

 and set apart a public holiday of their very own, was August 23, 1893 — 

 and this was in honor of Prof. Lowe, and the opening to the public of his 

 great Electric Mountain Railroad resort. The city had held "railroad 

 opening" celebrations twice before, but none to compare in magnitude, 

 enthusiasm and splendor with this one. It was like 4th-of-July and 

 National Thanksgiving day and Tournament of Roses all happily fused into 

 one superlative demonstration. The streets were thronged to a jam with a 

 great public parade, in which the city with one unanimous impulse outdid 

 all its former effiDrts at festive jubilation. The arrangements were made by 

 the Board of Trade, and carried out jointly with the city authorities. 



