The herald., 1897-06-03
PASADENA

HASAOEN a
PASADENA, June 2.-(Regular Cor
respondence) There is considerable ac-
tivity among the fruit growers of Pas
adena and vicinity, especially the grow
crs of deciduous fruits, who are get
ting ready for the marketing of their
crops and making arrangements for
drying fruit. A meeting of the decidu-
Gus fruit growers was held last evening
at the office of Wood & Church, with c.
c. Thompson in the chair, and quite a
number Of growers present. Mr.. Cham
bin, the organizer of the first citrus
fruit exchange in Southern California.
and Mr.. Jones of Chicago, an officer of
the American Fruit union, were present
and gave the growers the benefit Of
their experience in the business. The
chief business transacted was the ap-
pointment of committee to look up q
location for warehouse that will ac-
commodate both the growers of decid-
uous and citrus fruits, convenient to
ede-tracks of one of the railways, and
otherwise we'll located for the business.
The Pasadena Lemon Growers associa-
tion is at present located in the stone
building of the Pasadena Milling COM
pany, at California street and Santa
Fe track. The place is well adapted to
the purpose of the association, but is
not large enough for the two associa-
tions The association has been doing
business for little over a month, and
has now shipped it's second car of lem
ems, with a third yearly ready. From
five to ten packers are employed at
present but it is expected that this
force will be increased before long. The
association now has about sixty mem
bers and the work is being carried on
under the direct supervision of the man
ager, Mr.. Ashby, who is a practical
man at the business. The officers of the
association are: c. H. Rhodes, presi-
dent; Jessie Knight, vice president; I.
j. Ashby, secretary and business mana
ger; A. w Armstrong, James McAdam,
d. H. Ettein, H. J. Cone, directors; First
National bank, treasurer; S. Mosgrove,
lemon expert.
THEY. NEED MONEY
The Y. NJ c. A. of Pasadena seems
to be in sore straits for cash to settle
up it's Indebtedness, as well as for the
running expenses of the association, and
the board of directors has issued an
appeal to the public. accompanied by
their resigations from the board. The
directors are: c.. c. Reynolds, presi-
dent; A. l.. Hamilton, secretary; "A. l.
Cannon, George s. Hull. c. A. Briggs,
H. G.. Reynolds. The appeal, which is
signed by these directors, concludes as
follows:
1.-The present board of directors feel
that they are. in defense of their person.
al honor, compelled to see that no cred
itor of the association who may have
trusted it because of their official re-
sponsibility shall lose anything because
of such trust, and they therefore feel
bound themselves to pay this indebted
ness if the community fails to lift it
from their shoulders, but from this Sd
day of June on, other persons will have
to be looked to as representing the as
sociation, for the undersigned, who have
prior to this date been serving on the
board of dire recognize this refusal
CT financial support as a most effective
vote of non-approval of their methods,
and therefore peremptorily resign their
trusts"
A call is issued for a special meeting
Of all members of the association, to be
held in the Y. NJ. C. A. parlors on June
Sd at 4:30 p. M, to take such action as
the present emergency necesstates.
They give a statement of the financial
affalls. which shows a balance of S766o0
due TO creditors, while the amount
raised at the recent public meeting at
the tabernacle called for the purpose of
llquidating the debt was only S29S. so.
1t would seem that in a city of churches,
ouch as Pasadena is, there ought not to
be the slightest difficulty in raising suf-
ficient funds to keep the Y. NJ. C. A.
in f1ourishing condition. The board
of directors appears to have given it up
as bad job, however, and unless some
body comes to the rescue the Y. M. C. A.
will have hard row to hoe to continue
in existence.
BREVITIES
Col. c. w. Smith of Chicago late re-
ceiver of the Atlantic and Pacific rail-
way, is announced to assume the pres
iGency of the Pasadena and Los Ange
les Electric railway on the 18th of June
he having been persuaded to accept the
position at the earnest solicitation of
the reorganization committee, in place
of p. NJ Green, who did not desire il.
and only accepted until the right man
could be found to take it. The promise
is now made that tracklaying will be
commenced on the new extension very
soon, carload of ties being now on the
way. Col. Smith has just finished his
work in connection with the Atlantic
and Pacific, and Col Green had a tele
gram from d. B. Dewey yesterday even
Ing to say that Mr.. Smith would &C.
cept.
The final arrangement with regard tc