650 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



DIVISION NINE— SOUTH pasadena. 



CHAPTER XXXIIi: 



South Pasadena. — Its incorporation ; and historic events of the municipality. — Its 

 Schools, Newspapers, Library, Literary Societies, Post Office, Churches, Hotel, 

 Opera House Block, Manufactures, etc., etc. 



THE CITY OF SOUTH PASADENA. 



The land comprised in this corporation was part of the original Rancho 

 San Pasqual. See chapters i, 2, 3, 4, for important historic events which 

 transpired within this city's boundaries, during the Indian, the Spani.sh, 

 and the Mexican occupancies of the country. 



The beginning of a town here was in the spring of 1885, when O. R. 

 Dougherty laid out ten acres of his land into town lots, and put up a neat 

 little building marked "South Pasadena I^and Office," at the junction of 

 Sylvan Drive and Mission street, which was then on the daily stage route 

 between Los Angeles and Pasadena. At the same time, or very soon after, 

 subdivisions were made by Geo. Lightfoot and others in rapid succession, 

 and the town of South Pasadena thus began to have a name and a place in 

 the world of tangible things. 



When the matter of incorporating the city of Pasadena was being 

 agitated in 1885 and 1886, an effiart was made to have this settlement join 

 in the movement, but they declined. However, these people were strongly 

 opposed to having liquor saloons in their midst ; and within a few months 

 it was found that they must either incorporate so as to have police control 

 over their territory, or else be blotched and cursed at every eligible corner 

 by the diabolical traffic. And thus they were compelled by sheer necessity 

 for self-protection to incur the expense and trouble of forming a city corpor- 

 ation. 



The city of South Pasadena was incorporated in February, 1888. The 

 first meeting of city trustees, who had been named in the articles of incor- 

 poration, took place in the office of Smith & Jacobs, March 8, 1888; they 

 were D. M. Graham, Geo. W. Wilson, A. A. Burrows, D. R. Risley, and 

 W. P. Hammond. Graham was chosen president. C. C. Miles had been 

 named for clerk, but was absent, and Mr. Wilson served as clerk pro 

 tern. Three ordinances were passed — No i, fixing time of trustee meet- 

 ings at 9 a. m. every Monday ; No. 2, place of meeting ; No. j, bonds o^ 

 city clerk, treasurer, and marshal. And all were ordered to "be published 

 once in the SoiilA Pasadena Bell, a newspaper published weekly in the city 

 of South Pasadena." 



The second meeting of the city trustees or council was on March 12. 

 At this meeting Captain D. R. Risley introduced and moved the adoption of 



