DIVISION TEN — MISCELI.ANEOUS. 663 



The first milk route was established in December, 1884, by ly. A. Carey. 



The first bank was opened January'12, 1885, ^s the Pasadena Bank, 

 the same that is now the First National Bank of Pasadena. 



The first express office (Wells-Fargo) was opened at Williams's store, 

 April I, 1885, with C. A. Sawtelle, agent. 



The first public observance of Memorial Day in Pasadena was held on 

 May 30, 1885, and was planned and gotten up by Mrs. S. E. Merritt, the 

 librarian. From the Union's report I quote a few points : 



" The business places of the town were generally closed, and the prin- 

 cipal buildings ornamented with the national colors. In the evening memo- 

 rial exercises were held at Williams' Hall under the auspices of the lyibrary 

 Association. * * * The Pasadena Band contributed several 

 selections, and a choir consisting of Messrs. A. F. Mills, F. B. Wetherby, 

 Geo. Monfort,Dr. R. K. Janes, A. F. Clarke, Miss Byram, Miss Werner and 

 Miss Clapp, with Mrs. Nimms as directress, rendered " Columbia, the Gem 

 of the Ocean," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the boys are marching," and 

 "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground." There was no decoration of graves 

 here, and we know of no soldiers buried here." 



The Union of September 18, 1885, says: "The first freight brought 

 over the San Gabriel Valley Railroad was a carload of seed barley to James 

 Clarke, September 15." But the same paper says in ajtiother place : " The 

 first freight delivered in Pasadena by our new railroad was a cargo of lumber 

 for the Pasadena Lumber Co. ' ' I think both of these shipments came by 

 same train — hence the confusion as to " first. ' ' 



The first regular railroad conductor of passenger train between Pasa- 

 dena and lyos Angeles was W. B. King, commencing about September 21, 

 1885. Morris Reeder was engineer and John D. Ripley was fireman on 

 this historic train. 



The first mention of mail arriving by cars is in the Union of September 

 25, 1885 — once a day. Mail closed at 9:24 a.m.; arrived at 6:36 p.m. 



The first Pullman palace car ever hauled into Pasadena was the 

 " Fitchburg," direct from Boston, 4,000 miles without change, via Los An- 

 geles, October 15, 1885 ; it had twenty-four passengers, headed by Alonzo 

 Tower, who afterward built the tourist home known as ' ' Marengo Hall. ' ' 

 Frank E. and Walter R. Ward were then a real estate firm here, and they 

 had arranged a reception banquet for this party at the Eos Angeles House, 

 with plates for forty persons. Several leading citizens took part, making 

 speeches, etc. Prof. George Conant came with this party, and still resides 

 here. 



The first gaslighting in Pasadena was of J. W. Wood's drug store, and 

 the Masonic hall then over it, in Williams's block, October 22, 1885. Mr. 

 Williams had put a private gas machine in a vault under ground at the rear 

 of the Williams Hall block, to ser^^e the entire building ; but when regular 

 city gas works were started, this private generator was taken out. 



