Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-09
GROWERS ANXIOUS
REGARDING WATER
PASADENANS SUSPICIOUS OF
CITY OWNERSHIP
Fruit Ranehers Not Yet Satisfied
That They VIII Have Suffl-
Client for Irrigatins
Purposes
BY Associated Press.

ious fruit growers are assured that the
city will, If the bonds carry for the
municipal ownership of water. observe
all obligations of the water companies
and will fulfill all agreements as to
irrigating water supplies. still the
ranchers are very uneasy, and feel that
these glittering generalities of promises
are not enough. The committee ap-
pointed by the ranchers to ask of the
city attorney, C. j. Wlllitt, what def
mite promise of help would be given by
the city returned from the interview
feeling that nothing had been gained
by the meeting, and so the members
reported at the meeting last evening.
On this committee were g. A. Day,
Thomas stone and Thomas Early. At
the meeting last night it was decided
to hold the temporary organization
subject TO the call of the chairman,
G. A. Day, and to continue the COM
mittee with the substitution of Judge
MCGEE in the place of Thomas Early.
This committee was delegated to watch
matters pertaining to the interests of
the water developments. Tomorrow at
the regular meeting of the North Pasa-
dena Land and Water company, the
whole question of selling to the city
will be thoroughly gone over, and
probably decided. The only compica-
ton with the stockholders in the North
Pasadena company seems to be the
fear of the ranchers that if the city
controls the plants they will have to
pay high rates for irrigating water.
Most of holders favor selling, but so
large a share of the stock is held by
fruit growers that their indecision may
complicate matters.
The Lake Vineyard company will
hold it's stockholders meeting on the
10th, and the Pasadena company on
the Goth.
illustrated Life of Christ
Rev. H. P. Case, the Sunday school
superintendent of the Congregational
church for Southern California and
Arizona, gave an interesting illustrated
stereopticon lecture before a crowded
house at the Lake Avenue Congrega-
tional church this evening upon "The
Life of Christ" AS the Sunday
school lessons for the next six months
are to be in the New Testament, and
upon the life of Christ, the pictures and
talk were of more than ordinary in
terest to the young people and children
of the audience, of whom there were |
many.
In connection with the strictly Bibi-
cal pictures, Mr.. Case also showed |
number of views taken on the recent |
trip to Jerusalem by the International |
Sunday School association, giving ac-
curate impressions of the scenes and |
people in Palestine today. Mr.. Cases
running comments upon the illustra-
tions were most interesting.
Y. w. C. A. May Be Formed
The leader among the philanthropic |
and fashionable women of the city,
Mrs. Francis b. Swan, has issued in
vitations for next Wednesday after
noon, when she will introduce to the
interested women of Pasadena Miss
Helen F. Barnes, the national secre-
tary of the Young Woman's Christian
association, who will tell of the re-
markable work along this line for the
young woman in the larger cities. Miss
Barnes comes to Pasadena at the re-
quest of the Y. w. C. A. association of
California.
Every arrangement has been made
for a pleasant, as well as profitable,
afternoon and a number of prominent
women of the city will assist Mrs.
Swan in receiving the guests, among
them being Mrs. Henry X. Macomber,
Mrs. Robert r. Meredith, Mrs. A. Moss
Merwin, Mrs Robert j. Burdette, Mrs.
A. M. Lamport, Mrs. Malcolm Mcleod,
Mrs. Gertrude Macy Mrs. William
Stanton, Mrs. u. d. Mathuss, Mrs. S. S.
Salisbury, Mrs. Carl johnson. There
will also be choice music during the
afternoon.
Noted Woman to Visit Here
Mrs. Bertha Kunz Baker, who has
the reputation of being the foremost
reader in the whole country. is to visit
Pasadena, coming on Tuesday to be for
a week or ten days, the guest of her
old-time friend, Mrs Dorothea Hoag-
lin Hayden, the we'll known local read
er. Mrs Baker has been besieged by
Los Angeles and Pasadena lovers of
high art reading and impersonation to
give one or more evenings for their
benefit. Accordingly. she is to appear
before the Los Angeles public on We'd
nesday evening at Cumnock hall,
where she will read, "If Were King"
she has also promised to meet Pasa-
dena people, reading for them some
evening in the early future.
Pasadena Notes
The Shakespeare club has arranged
for an exhibition of rare Spanish
dances by troupe of sixteen people,
to be given at the Lowe opera house,
January 10. A lecture by Burton
Holmes ia also arranged for the very