The herald., 1897-05-22
CABR1LLo BOULEVARD
A Euphonious Name Suggested for
the Pasadena Route

An original and appropriate name Is
wanted for the new boulevard to Pasa-
dena, and William H. Knight secretary
of the boulevard committee, and also Of
the Merchants and Manufacturers as
s'ociation, under whose auspices the
grand highway is being planned, comes
forward with suggestion fortified with
reasons as plenty as blackbefries" He
says:
Great intereet is now centered in the
construction of the proposed boulevard
to Pasadena. Although the word boule-
ward is French. it is pretty well
Americanized, and has come to mean, in
the public mind, a broad, elegant, sub
urban carriage way well paved or mac
adamized, and bordered with shade or
ornamental trees. To distinguish the
Pasadena boulevard now being planned
from other boulevards which may be
built to Pasadena, and to other localities,
it must have distinctive name. The
necessity for such a name has already
been felt by the boulevard committee,
and the subject has beer. canvassed to
some extent 1t is admitted that there
are several requisites for a good name
Among them are the following:
be abbreviated in common use.
2 1t should be easily pronounced, so
that it will not be mutilated by the
stranger.
3. 1t should be euphonious so that
1t will be pleasant to the ear.
4, 1t should not be pretentious or
grandiose in style
5. 1t should not be selected from
names used elsewhere.
| 6. 1t should have local flavor or a
historical significance.
In word, it should be brief, simple
original and SUBJECTIVE.
Such name exists and was suggested
to the chairman of the boulevard COM
mittee when it was first organized. Since
then San Francisco has named her new
boulevard-the one that Is being con.
structed by her army of unemploye
the Balboa boulevard. 1t has severa
requisites of a good name 1t Is short
easily pronounced, not copied from other
localities. and has a historical import
Balboa first saw the Pacific ocean abou
twenty years after the discovery Of
America by Columbus, but he never
sailed on it's waters, and never was
nearer California than the Isthmue' o1
Darien. The rame, however, has a
least one objection; it is double allt.
GRAFTON, which is offensive to good taste
and soon pals upon the ear. Besides
while historically significant. it has M
local flavor. I9 there name to which
these objections do not apply?
Half century after the voyage o.
Columbus Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, {
daring Spanish navigator (though O.
Portuguese BIRTH sailed from the por
of Natividad, in Mexico, to explore the
region beyond the peninsula of Califor
mia, which had been touched few years
earlier by Ulloa. Cabrillo was commits
stoned by Mendoza, viceroy of Mexico
and commanded two Spanish caravel!
named San Salvador and La Vittoria.
On the 2Sth of September, 1542, he en-
tered a harbor which he named Sar
Miguel, but which century later wa
changed to San Diego. Continuing hi,
explorations he successfully visited
other points in Southern California, nov
known as Santa Catalina island, Sal
Pedro, Santa Monica, San Buenaven
tura, Santa Barbara and the islands o
Santa Barbara channel.
Proceeding north, he sailed past Poin
Conception, described the ense,nada o
Monterey, missed the Golden Gate
sighted Bolinas bay and reached Cap
Mendocino, which he named for hi
viceroy in Mexico.
While on one of the islands off South
ern California, Cabrillo met with an &C
cident and broke his arm. 1t was no
skilfully cared for. and he suffered S