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astronomers of the world. Other adjuncts of this historic hotel are Rubio 

 Glen, with its half mile of stairways leading around or over nine mountain 

 gorge waterfalls. The menagerie of native animals, and its playful bear 

 which bit Jason Brown through the hand. The electric power house and 

 cable machinery for operating the "great incline." The electric spray 

 fountain. The electric trolly railroad to the summit of Mount L,owe, 6, loo 

 feet above sea level. About thirty miles of bridle roads and paths, leading 

 to countless points of rarest mountain surprises, or grandeur of view, or 

 deep historic interest. This hotel was formally opened to the public on 

 November 26, 1894, the occasion being signalized by a banquet held there 

 by the bankers of Southern California. Connected with this hotel's busi- 

 ness is the Mount Lowe Echo, a daily newspaper. [See page 222.] The 

 Pasadena Star stated that the receipts of the Echo Mountain House during 

 one day in July, 1895, amounted to $1,840. 



DIVISION SEVEN— SOCIETARY. 



CHAPTER XXV. 



Religion. — Brief historic sketches of every Church, or Religious or Missionary Society 



ever organized in Pasadena. 



Note. — Instead of alphabetically they are given in chronological order, with the exception that 

 those of one denominational name are grouped together as adjuncts after the first one of the kind in its 

 proper date-place. Pictures of churches are only given as plates vcere furnished by their own people. 



FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. 



The first public assemblage for religious services ever held in Pasadena 

 was a prayer meeting called and led by Rev. W. C. Mosher, a Presbyterian 

 clergyman, on August 30, 1874, in Charles H. Watts's bachelor shanty, on 

 what is now I^ive Oaks Avenue, in the Park Place tract. The people present 

 were : Mr. Mosher and wife, August Blix and wife, Moritz Rosenbaum and 

 wife, Wm. T. Clapp and his daughter Jennie [now Mrs. Rev. F. J. Culver]. 

 About a month later, or as soon as Mr. Mosher could get his own house 

 into usable condition, near Fair Oaks Avenue on Walnut street, these meet- 

 ings were changed from Watts's to the Mosher house ; and to the prayer- 

 meetings was added a Sunday school, under the lead of Wm. T. Clapp and 

 Daniel H. Pike, Mr. Clapp being a Congregationalist and Mr. Pike a 

 Methodist. Then as soon as the first colony schoolhouse was ready for use, on 

 Orange Grove Avenue below California street, the meetings were held there. 



