522 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



1894. The same plan and objects was continued as before, with Dr. Town- 

 send and wife as managers. Mrs. Townsend was also State superintendent 

 for that department of work in the W. C. T. U. A report made to the 

 State W. C. T. U. in May, 1894, showed the parentage of children cared 

 for at this home up to that date, thus : French, i ; Danish, i ; Spanish, i ; 

 Swede, i ; German, i ; Negro, 3 ; white American, 49. There had been 

 returned to friends, 4 children ; placed in homes, 23 ; secured legal adoption, 

 3. A quarterly paper to represent this work was commenced in June, 1894. 



Freewii^l Children's Home. — In August, 1893, ' Miss Olive L,. 

 Cleveland bought a property that had been built and fixed up for a saloon 

 and beer garden in South Pasadena, and had been so used until the city 

 authorities there drove out that nefarious business. She made suitable 

 changes in the place, and opened it as a Home for destitute children, and 

 for half-orphans, and for those needing temporary care till other provision 

 can be made for them by parents or relatives. Those who can pay in whole 

 or in part for cost of board, do so ; but many children have to be kept 

 purely as charity cases. In 1895 the Universalist parish of Pasadena took 

 a special interest in aiding this orphanage. Miss Cleveland was 70 years 

 old April 4, 1895, and had then 10 children in care. 



Pasadena Humane Society, for prevention of cruelty to animals 

 and children. Organized October 18, 1894, auxiliary to the Los Angeles 

 Humane society, and under sanction of the State law as re-enacted by the 

 legislature of 1873-74. ^"^^ charter members were: Dr. F. F. Rowland 

 and wife, the meeting being at his office ; Dr. Ward B. Rowland, Dr. G. 

 Roscoe Thomas and wife, Mrs. Wm. Stanton, Dr. J. R. Townsend and wife, 

 B. W. Hahn, Esq., Dr. Kate S. Black, Mrs. M. Dreer, E. E. Jones and 

 wife. First officers were : Dr. F. Rowland, president ; Wm. Stanton, vice- 

 president ; Dr. Townsend, secretary ; Dr. Thomas, treasurer ; W. B. Row- 

 land, V, S., consulting veterinary surgeon; B. W. Hahn, attorney; Mrs. 

 Wm. Stanton, Mrs. E. T. Howe, additional directors. August i, 1895, officers 

 were the same ; and there was an enrollment of 57 members. Mis. E. R. 

 Townsend and Miss Olive Cleveland stand as honorary members, in recog- 

 nition of their faithful and devoted labors for orphan children. 



NATIVITY associations. 



The New England Society. — Its formation was suggested by the 

 incident of Geo. A. Durrell meeting Mrs. S. E. Merritt at the Pasadena 

 Library rooms on Dayton street, both being from Massachusetts. Mrs. 

 Merritt suggested the forming of a society of Massachusetts residents. Mr. 

 Durrell amended this suggestion with another, the forming of a New Eng- 

 land society ; whereupon it was agreed to call a meeting of the sons and 

 daughters of New England. Mr. Durrell hired the kitchen room of Williams 

 hall, and advertised a meeting for March 16, 1887. There were present at 



