672 HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



COWS Up here?" Their dog " Grover " scented the tracks and went bark- 

 ing through the bushes where they led, but suddenly returned in skulking 

 terror. A crash in the bushes was heard, and a terrific roar that was like 

 an angry hog's grunt and an angry dog's growl mixed and enlarged. Gor- 

 don 5^elled, "A bear!" grasped his dinner pail and leaped down the steep 

 trail like seven-leagued boots. Mary didn't wait for trail track, but went 

 leaping and sailing over the grease-wood in a most wonderful manner, so 

 that those who saw her from below said she beat the aerial flights on a cir- 

 cus poster all out of sight, and reached the rear party in an incredibly 

 short time. Nancy got a few rods down the trail, but was so amused at 

 Mary's marvelous feats that she had to stop, brace her hands on her hips 

 and just laugh till she couldn't see. Meanwhile the bear, which was a 

 she one with two cubs, hurried her little family away in the opposite direc- 

 tion. Jason Brown had a hatchet and butcher knife with him, but no gun, 

 and he and his comrades pushed on to the summit ; but the Bakers had 

 seen enough, and took a rest. Jason identified the tracks of the mother 

 bear, who had been digging up the ground for some sort of roots, and the 

 tracks of two cubs; but they didn't get a sight of the animals. After return- 

 ing to camp the girls wrote some humorous poetry entitled "A Trip, by one 

 of the Triplets," in which this adventure was briefly related. All three of 

 those girls have since graduated from the State Normal School, and have 

 made a good record as teachers. 



On page 403 : " Henniger Flats." — In September the Toll Road Com- 

 pany bought this land from Mr. Allen, and will utilize it to raise vegetables, 

 fruits, flowers, poultry, honey, pork and dairy products for their mountain 

 camp hotels, besides its use as a wildwood park and rural retiracy for guests 

 who prefer it. [See page 365.] 



On page 408 : "West San Gabriel canyon." — In 1S91 or '92 two or 

 three hunters camped in the upper part of this canyon. One night a bear 

 was caught by the hind foot in a heavy steel trap which they had set. He 

 gnawed off his own leg and hobbled away on the bleeding stump, leaving 

 his foot in the trap. The hunters soon discovered this in the morning, and 

 following the bear's trail, shot him. They nailed the entrapped foot up on 

 a tree at their camp, and I saw it there about two years later. From this 

 incident that portion of the West San Gabriel has ever since been called 

 "Bear Canyon." But there is another place north of Mount Lowe, a large 

 branch of the Arroyo vSeco, which is called "Great Bear Canyon," though 

 for what reason I did not learn. 



On page 453: Mt. Lowe Railway. —September 30, 1895, Prof. Lowe 

 communicated his plans, aims and wishes to the city council, in regard to 

 an electric railroad franchise which he had petitioned for. His purpose was 

 to extend the Rubio trolley section of his mountain railroad direct to Pasa- 



