654 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



San Pasqual Arroyo, which was the boundary between the old Bacon or 

 Marengo ranch and the Stoneman ranch. The school census of April, 

 1894, showed 183 children of school age, and 158 were enrolled in attend- 

 ance during the year. The census of April, 1895, showed 184 children, an 

 increase of only one child — but during the year the southeast corner of the 

 district had been set over into the Alhambra district, its school- house being 

 a mile nearer to these people. 



The school trustees in 1894-95 are Dr. F. A. Seymour, C. ly. Neibel 

 and J. B. Soper, the latter having been clerk of the board for three years 



P^^^' NEWSPAPERS. 



The South Pasadena Bell seems to have been started some time in Feb- 

 ruary, 1888, but I failed to find the exact date, as no file of it was preserved. 

 It was edited and published by John Sharp, who had the printing done at 

 L,os Angeles ; so there was no printing office in the town. I found all city 

 ordinances ordered to be published in this paper, up to December 24, 1888 ; 

 but after that it seems to have died, for its name does not occur again. 



The So7dh Pasadena Citizen was started July 30, 1889, with W. D. Bridges, 

 editor and publisher. Its typesetting was done in the Pasadena Standard 

 office, then the type forms were carried to the city council room in Opera 

 House block (Graham & Mohr's brick building) in South Pasadena, where 

 O. R. Dougherty, then a member of the council, had located a printing 

 press, and here the sheets were printed and published. This was done to 

 make a valid publication of the election notice for excluding certain territory 

 from the original city limits, as explained before in my sketch of the city in- 

 corporation. The publication of the paper was continued weekly until Sept. 

 24 — nine numbers in all — then discontinued. The heading said: "Published 

 every Tuesday. Office in Graham & Mohr block." The first page was 

 generally made up of matter from the Pasadena Standard already in type, 

 while the second, third and fourth pages were occupied with local items, 

 articles and advertisements pertaining to South Pasadena. 



The South Pasadenan was started June 8, 1893, b}^ Geo. W. Glover, Jr., 

 and now for the first time South Pasadena had a real printing office of its 

 own. An outfit of types, press, paper cutter, etc., was procured; and Mr. 

 Glover himself invented a successful label gumming machine ; so that in 

 1895 he is issuing an excellent local paper, weekly, and is also competing 

 with lyos Angeles and Pasadena in some lines of job printing. From June 

 12 to June 18, 1894, the paper was run as a daily, to make legal publication 

 for a railroad franchise through the city ; also again in January, 1895, for a 

 similar purpose. Capital in the plant, about $1,000. Number of employes, 

 three. Paper published every Thursday, in six-page form. 



PUBI^IC LIBRARY AND READING ROOM. 



This was opened in February, 1889, in the Graham & Mohr block. 



