The San Francisco call., 1898-01-09

cial board and seven directors Herman R. Hertel president; Edwin Stearns, Vice-president; Frank P. Boynton, secre- tary; P. M. Green, treasurer; directors James H. Adams, Walter A. Edwards, Horace M. Dobbins. Warren J. Richard son, Collin Stewart, Edwin Stearns and H. R. Hertel.
 Pasadena is not a manufacturing city nor are it's business interests extensive; it is essentially city of homes. It is, however, fruit-growing locality, with extensive canning and drying houses, and has several establishments within it's limits which give employment to many men, such as mills for making woodwork, lumber yards and brick manufactorieS. All retail branches of business are represented, and the city's financial business is transacted by four banks, First National, San Gabriel Val ley, Pasadena National and Union Saw ings Bank, with an aggregate capital of $350 900.
 Pasadena has also ample railroad fa- cilitieS, having three steam railroads (the Santa Fe, the Southern Pacific and the TerminaD and the Pasadena and Los Angeles Electric road connecting the city with Los Angeles and other points. These competing lines afford the lowest rates for freight and passengers.
 What has been found to be one of the greatest factors in Pasadena's growth and prosperity and in influencing people of refinement to make their homes with in her gates is the fact that Pasadena has not (and never has had) a saloon. Neither has she a city jail worthy of the name, the local bastile being merely a lodging place for the vagrant or the perpetrator of some minor misdemeanor; nothing more imposing having up to this time been needed.
 The fame of the winter climate of po ha cd a several years, but it is yet to become generally recognized that PaSadena'S summer climate Is even more charming. The initiated are coming to appreciate this undeniable fact, as is being evil denced annually by the greater number of visitors who remain all the year, the fewer residents who fit East formerly and the vast majority of her residents who, aside from flying trips to mountain or sea, remain comfortably the whole twelve months in their cool and com modious homes.
 Pasadena's hotel and boarding house accommodations are extensive, and yet they are being continually added to. The principal hotel and more pretentious boarding houses are Hotel Green, Carl ton, La Pintoresca, Mitchell, Casa Grande, Spalding, Crown Villa, Pasadena Villa, Mckinley Villa, Arroyo Vista, La Solana, St. Nicholas and Los Angeles House.
 During the winter season thousands of visitors make Pasadena their headquar- ters, and many remain to call it their home. Its close proximity to Los An geles-nine miles-gives it all the advan- tages of suburban place of residence, with the added conveniences of a great metropolis.
 Among other noteworthy buildings is the Pasadena Opera house, which is equal to any in Southern California in point of beauty, stage and seating &C., commodations and scenery, not except ing Los Angeles, and to the attractions of her environments may well be added the magnificent Raymond Park, once the site of that famous hostelry of world wide fame, .'The Raymond Hotel,'' which burned April If, 1895, this causing one of the heaviest losses Pasadena has ever sustained. This park, covering thirty acres of ground, is a marvel of landscape gardening, and contains besides all the choicer varieties of flowers grown here, many rare and exceptionally beautiful shrubs and tropical plants and trees, gathered with great discrimination and arranged with unusual artistic taste. The park is laid out with wide, cleanly swept and 1ower-bordered drives, and from its eminence the view is extended over Pasadena, the foothills and noun tains, over the arroyo, canyons and un- dulating hills, and even a glimpse of Los Angeles may be caught in the distance.
 One of the great institutions of the city which is deserving of more extended mention that space admits here is the local Young Mems Christian Association, which was established in 1886, and whose moral influence is distinctly felt. This organization, headed by faithful, con scientious men, deserves highest encom- iums for the good work it is doing in up- building the town and eleVating the character of its young men.