526 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



March 12, 1890, at Cross railway celebration, Pasadena, with 54 men. 



May 30, 1890, at Memorial Day parade as escort to the G. A. R. in 

 both Pasadena and Los Angeles, with 48 men. 



July 4, 1890, at both Pasadena and lyOS Angeles, with 46 men. 



September 9, 1890, at 'Admission Day celebration, Pasadena, with 53 

 men. 



April 22, 1891, as escort to President Harrison, in Los Angeles, with 

 35 men. 



July 4, 189 1, in lyos Angeles, with 35 men. 



July 4, 1892, in Pasadena, with 45 men. 



October 21, 1892, at Columbian celebration in Pasadena, with 42 men. 



At the company's fifth anniversary only four of its original members 

 had been on the roll continuously from the first — to-wit : Ed. C. Clapp, C. 

 H. Cole, Frank L,. Heiss, and J. G. Rossiter. Two others, Collingwood 

 and Willis, had been out awhile, then returned. 



Pickwick Club. — This was designed for a social, literary, dramatic, 

 and other pastime assemblage of a select circle, its original projectors being 

 J. M. Shawhan, W. L. Vail, W. J. Craig, F. J. Policy, B. W. Bates, C. W. 

 Bell, and others. The first meetings were held in the "kitchen" room 

 connected with the three halls in Williams Hall block. But the club was 

 finally organized in the old Central School building, on Raymond Avenue, 

 in 1887, with about 100 first members. Its first officers were: Byron W. 

 Bates, president (he was then cashier of the S. G. V. Bank); J. M. Shaw- 

 han, secretary and treasurer. When the south half of Hotel Green was 

 first built (then called the "Webster"), a suite of rooms were specially 

 planned there for this club, including a large dance hall and assembly room, 

 with stage and dramatic fixtures, — all fitted and furnished in most elegant 

 style — a regular society "boom," in keeping with the real estate boom. 

 The club had its full share of ups and downs, ins and outs, trials and 

 tribulations, but still continues to exist, the officers in 1895 being: C. B. 

 Thomas, president ; Hon. C. M. Simpson, vice-president ; L. J. Huff, secre- 

 tary and treasurer. This club once entertained a son of Charles Dickens, 

 the great English novelist, from whose "Pickwick Papers" the club took 

 its name. They also entertained Thomas Nast, the famous cartoon artist oi 

 Harper's Weekly. These were, perhaps, the most notable historic incidents 

 in the club's record thus far. 



Pasadena Athletic Club, was organized in August, 1890, as an 

 offshoot from the Pickwick Club, its chief promoters being H. R. Hertel, 

 F. Martin Summers, C. W. Bell, F. J. Policy, and a few others. Mr. Sum- 

 mers was the first president ; and at the end of his first term [he was re- 

 elected] he reported the receipts as nearly $1,000 — all debts and expenses of 

 the club paid — and a balance of $65 in the treasury. The club had leased 

 and fitted up a gymnasium and social rooms in the old Central school build- 

 ing on Raymond Avenue. Then in November, 1891, they leased ground 



