520 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



1. To see that all deserving cases of destitution are properly relieved, 



2. To prevent indiscriminate almsgiving. 



3. To secure the community from imposture. 



4. To make employment the basis of relief. 



The necessity for this organization was forced upon a committee en- 

 gaged in soliciting aid for the sufferers by the terrible flood at Johnstown, 

 Pa., and great fire at Seattle, Washington, early in 1889. At the Williams 

 hall meeting, August 20, this committee reported nearly $1,200 collected; 

 f 500 of it had been sent to each of the stricken cities, and the balance was 

 turned over to this charity society. A published report of its transactions 

 in 1 89 1 showed a total of $618.21 received, and $359.35 paid out. Of the 

 amounts received from various sources there were : $33.50 from donations; 

 $62.91 from the President Harrison reception; $35 from Los Angeles 

 county ; $284.97 from the Chrysanthemum Fair. 



The main purpose of this society is to secure mutual co-operation and 

 oversight of all charity work in the city, so as to prevent imposture by pro- 

 fessional beggars, chronic tramps, vagrants, etc.; to avoid overlapping of 

 work : to aid promptly the worthy destitute who are not otherwise cared 

 for ; and to secure employment wherever possible for those in need. On 

 this basis, there were in March, 1891, twenty-three churches and other or- 

 ganizations reported as thus co-operating under this society. In 1894 there 

 were about fifty members, and the oificers were : Buchanan, president ; 

 F. H. Vallette, vice president ; Miss Bartlett, secretary ; A. H. Conger, 

 treasurer. Executive committee : President Buchanan, W. U. Masters, 

 Mr. Vallette, Rev. C. E. Harris, Rev. Conger, Mrs. Judge Hester, Mrs. 

 Glendora Kyle. 



Order of King's Daughters. — "Cheerful Workers" Circle No. i, 

 was organized June 9, 1888, by Miss Maude M. Marriner, with ten girls out 

 of her class in the Methodist Sunday school ; and this was the beginning of 

 the order in Pasadena. The first officers were : Miss Marriner, president ; 

 Nellie Austin, vice president; Helen Johnston, secretary; Jessie Buckius, 

 treasurer. Motto: "In His Name." Object: Every sort of work and 

 duty that will put the precepts of Christ into practice. Groups of "tens" 

 select some special thing as their special work. This Circle gave its first 

 public entertainment on September 25, 1888, in the M. E. church, and 

 cleared $65.80 for their treasury. Miss Marriner died in 1892, but her good 

 work abides. 



" The Whatsoever Circle," O. K. D., is connected with the First Pres- 

 byterian church ; and its officers in 1894-95 were : Miss Ella Webb, presi- 

 dent ; Miss Pearl Van Doren, secretary ; Miss Ethel Grey, treasurer. 



United Samaritan Society. — This was an outgrowth of the I^adies 

 Union Prayer Meeting, and was organized June 18, 1889, at the Presby- 

 terian church, there being 55 first members. The name itself indicates its 



