The herald., 1894-01-01
PASADENA AND ITS BEAUTY,
It May Well Be Called the
Happy Valley.
A Glimpse of Its Advantages and
Progress.
Some of Its Handsome Residences and
Fine Buildings Described-Ths
Throop Poiytechnic-The
Hotel Green.

places in Southern California. Its his
tory dates back for 20 years, when in
1873 party OF Indiana climate refugees
established a colony undor the title of
the San Gabriel Orange Grove associa-
ton, for the purpose of fruit raising.
Judge B. S. Eaton, still resident OF
the city, was the first president of the
association and D. M. Berry the first
secretary. The original incorporators
were E. J. Vswter, I. E. Lippencott,
Ney Strickland, A, o. Bristol, l. N.
Mundell. W. j. Borcus, ]. H. Baker. A.
w. Dana, Jessie Yarnell, @. A. Vawter,
u. B. Elliott, D. M. Berry, j. Banbury,
N. Il. Gibson. Thos. DraIt, W. L. Clapp,
ii. j. Holmes. H. q. Bennett, J. Nj.
Mathews, A. o. Porter, 2. NJ. Green,
Calvin Fletcher, Ward Levitt, A. w.
Hutton, L. i.ockhart and L j. Lockhart.
These gentlemen. many of whom are
residents OF the city. out little dreamed
OF what the future was to do for this
place so favored by God and man.
i'Asadeng's real history ss city, how
ever, commences at date not earlier
than eight years ago, while the principal
advance has been made during the past
i've years. In this short time she has
advanced from village OF very moder-
ate eze to fourishing, modern city of
5000 inhabitants, with a class of inhab-
itspts which for general intelligence
and pnsh, stand second to none.
The location and climate OF Pasadena
are unsurpassed by any locality in this
section; noted for its supremacy in
tnese qsaiities, situated at the eastern
end ii the 5 an Gabriel valley, world
wide noted Tor its beauty, amid the
orsage Trees and flowers. backed by the
ever-interesuug mountains, and with an
outlook to the sonth and west unsur-
passed, it would be bard indeed to find
:. more delightful place to spend either
tAe winter or sumne months; as both
are equally enjoyable. The city is built
on hlai, rolling land sloping southwark
tlom the Sierra Madre mountsins to the
eea, 20 miles away. Tne altitude is
about 800 feet above the sea level, rem
deting ihe climate uusuF passed Tor those
having mtAsinatic troubles.
he c.tv itself, vIeweu from one OF the
MANY points OF vantage whlch abound
in the vicinity, seems half buried i'll
mass OF trees and ioIHge. lhe streets
are almost without exception lined on
either side with masesys pepper and
cypress ,rees, white the pride OF each
properly ow oer seems to be- to nave his
gronndH surpasa those OF his neigh Dor in
point OF floral beauty.
The grchi ecture OF the residence por-
tinH ui tbs cl.v is one ct the peculiarly
attractive isatrfes OF the place. Beau
tiiul villas abound en- eveFy nand. while
eiegan, residences, ayeraging in cost
itoln $40 900 TO 500 900, are to be seen
on every s1ie.
Among them one Of the ret noted is
that oi California's present governor, II.
Ii. Markham, who has made his home
in this city for many years.
AT Altadena, northern suburb of
Pasadena, there is a vslua bile colony of
Chicago miili9nalies Who have chosen
ths- dsi'4i tial spot TO avuid the chill
winter oiants OF their northern homeg.
hlt itis upon her climate that Pasa-
Gene 9aDks the heaviest, and any one
y no tias paesed winter IN this spot
will cease 10 wonder that such is the
ease.
fU one who has never known any but
a n rthefn winter the weather here at
that season of the year il perfectly in
exp cable, and If they were dropped
down here soma tair, bright day in mid
winter with the myrids OF flowers and
golden frult all about them, an Italian
tgy apnve and MAY breezes rustling the
trees, they would indeed believe that a
fm II gunner Of paradise had accidently
b, ep rIumhed upon.
Here. II anywhere. is the home of
the regal rose, the lily and the Cali
fe-nia poppy, which in the early spring
cl ih-s the highland in garb oil brilliant
iafn'ne.
I'ef hume no happier description of the
ch m~ at this place can be quoted than
fr N Charles Dudley Warmers Our
ltuy, in which he says:
'':he United States has here, then, q
Iiqne corner of the earth without its
ike IN its yaet territory and unparalleled,
30 far as [ know. in the world Shut off
from sv mpathy with external conditions
by the giant mounteiu ranges and the
desert wastes, it has it's own climate, un-
affected by cosmic changes. Except a
tidal wave from Japan, nothing would
eeem to be able to affect or disturb it.
The whole of Italy feels, more or less,
the climatic variations of the rest of
Europe. All our Atlantic coast, all our
interior basin from Texas to Manitoba,
is in climatic sympathy. Here is a
region, larger than New England, which
MANUFACTURERS lLS OWN W6hbHef ana re-
fnses to import any other. With con-
siderable varieties of temperature, &C.
cording to elevation or protection from
the ocean breeze, it's climate is nearly,
on the whole, as agreeable as that of the
Hawaiian islands: though pitched in
lower key. and with greater variations
between day and night. The greatest
surprise OF the traveller is that q region
which is in perpetual bloom and fruit
age, where semi-tropical fruits mature
~, perfection, and the most delicate
flowers dazzle the eye with color the
winter through, should have on the
y hole low temperature, a climate
never enervating and one requiring a
diess of wo)len in every month.
Winter, as we understand it east OF
the Rockies, does not exist. / scarcely
know how to divide the seasons. There
ars at most but three. Spring may be
Fhld o begin with December and end in
Aprii; summer, with May (whose days,
however, are often cooler than those OF
Jsnuarv), and end with September;
whiie October and November are a mild
autumn, when nature takes a partial
rect aud the leaves OF the deciduous
tree are gone. But how shall we classify
climate in which the atraw berry (none
yet in nay experience equal to the east
s-n berry, may be eaten il. every month
il the year, aud ripe figs may be picked
rom July to March? Nature here, in
this protected and petted area. has the