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But meanwhile some change of organization was found necessary ; for the 

 same paper of December 4 made this report : 



"The Pasadena Gas and Electric Light Co. was organized Thursday, 

 December 2, with the following officers : O. H. Conger, president ; E. C. 

 Webster, vice president ; P. M. Green, treasurer; Otto Froelich, secretary. 

 Emmons Raymond and C. S. Martin were added to the board of directors." 



This is the company which was finally bought out by Prof. lyOwe, and 

 is now operated by him, with A. W. Roche as secretary and treasurer. No 

 statistics furnished. The gas is made from crude petroleum instead of coal. 



Electric Light and Power Co. — In March, 1888, the Pasadena 

 Electric Light and Power Co. was organized by C. W. Abbott, J. M. Glass, 

 A. R. Metcalfe, D. Galbraith, J. H. Fleming, and C. M. Skillen. But the 

 articles of incorporation for this company were filed for record at Los An- 

 geles January 31, 1888. There were now two companies in the field, one, 

 "Gas and Electric"; the other, "Electric Light and Power." December 9, 

 1890, this company voted to increase its bonded indebtedness from $20,000 

 to $25,000. • The power-house is located on Broadway below California 

 street, and comprises, in 1894, three boilers and two engines, with gener- 

 ators, of II o-arc light capacity, and 1,200 incandescent capacity also. The 

 company has a contract for three years from January i, 1894, to supply the 

 city with sixty-eight arc lights ; and it has thirty miles of wires throughout 

 the city for its arc and incandescent light service. The power-house gives 

 employment to five men ; the number of line men employed varies from 

 time to time. The company's capital stock is $50,000. Its officers in 1894- 

 95 were : L. C. Torrance, president and manager ; L- P. Hansen, vice presi- 

 dent ; J. S. Torrance, secretary ; San Gabriel Valley Bank, treasurer. 



The Siaroi May 29, 1895, reported an addition 40x50 feet to the power- 

 house, with a new engine of 250-horse power, and a new dynamo of 1,200- 

 light power, to increase the service. 



The Grand Opera House. — In regard to this most ambitious under- 

 taking of the "boom " period I found great difficulty in getting particulars. 

 It seems to have been projected by E- C. Webster, with Frank M. Ward, 

 Ben E. Ward, L. J. Rose, Dr. G. Roscoe Thomas, and others engaged in 

 booming real estate on Raymond Avenue ; and the ' ' Pasadena Grand Opera 

 House Co." was incorporated March 21, 1887. The Board of Trade 

 pamphlet of 1888 said : "Among the new buildings that attract attention 

 is an opera house, which, now nearly completed, will cost $125,000." And 

 the Pasadena Standard oi February 16, 1889, said : 



"The Grand Opera House was duly opened Wednesday evening [Feb- 

 ruary 13, 1889] with a great crowd in attendance. It is the finest and most 

 complete mechanico-symposium of stage devices on the Pacific coast, outside 

 of San Francisco. Mr. Wyatt, the lessee, says there is nothing equal to it 

 in any other town of the same size in the United States. Cost $100,000." 



The company became bankrupt; and in May, 1891, Prof. Lowe bought 



