Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-08
CONVENTION HALL
SCHEME MAY FAIL
PASADENA CIVIC CAMP SAID
TO BE DIVIDED
Many Reasons Assigned for Seem-
inn Lack of Support for West
End Site for Hall and
Casino
Pasadena Agency,
IeM East Colorado Street.
Telephone Main 152.


PASADENA, July 1T looks as
though Pasadena's proposed Conven-
tion hall and Casino is in imminent
danger of falling through in spite of all
the months of enthusiastic support the
project has had.
1T is reported on good authority that
after week of hard work the cam
vassing committee which has been en-
deavoring to raise the money for the
purchase of the Carmelita site on West
Colorado street has barely $4,000 on
it's list.
When the bid was first made for this
desirable property the encouraging
sum of $4,000 was on the subscription
list but now that the project has been
resusctated after the years delay in
the courts much of this money is no
longer in sight.
Many Of those who subscribed liberal
ly a year ago have moved from the
city or have disposed of their realty
holdings on the west side, or seem to
have cold feet" on the whole PROPOSE
ton.
Others, while willing to give, do not
care to give as much.
The committee, it is said, believes
that 1t will take $60,000 to secure the
desired site now and there are those
who insist that the amount is too high;
that the property is not worth the
money.
Due July IL
Again the committee says that the
entire amount must be in sight by
Friday, July IL, when the probate court
is called TO pass upon the Crawford
bid for the same property, or it will
be too late.
So the matter stands thus: with most
,f tIa lace thu
half of the required $6O,OOO has been
raised can the remainder, $4,000, be
secured during the remaining five days?
The committee itself and the old time
leaders in the movement say that it
can, in fact that it must, and the next
week will see something doing all along
the line.
AS noted in The Herald this morning
the matter of location as concerns the
east end or the west end may have
considerable to do with the support the
proposition is now receiving.
1t may be fairly said that practically
every public spirited man is strong in
his support of the project to build a
great convention hall in Pasadena
only on the question of location is there
any division.
Question of Site i
One prominent citizen remarked this
afternoon that in his opinion West
Colorado street will certainly lose the
convention hall for the simple reason
that the building when constructed
should be nearer the actual center of
the city and that as soon as the Car
melita site is abandoned as a location
for this building the money will be
promptly forthcoming for its conStruc
tion.
A little inquiry this afternoon con-
vinces many that the people of the west
end are doing absolutely nothing 10
insure the retention of the local post
office at or even near its present loca-
tion.
Uncle Sam pays the Ward estate, in
whose building the office is located, a
few doors to the west of Fair Oaks ave-
nue. on West Colorado street, a hun-
dred dollars a month rental.
At one time business men in that
vicinity did the right and proper thing
to keep the office there.
Now it is said that the owners of the
building do not care whether the Of
flee goes or stays and the other in
terests Of that section seem to be as
careless.
With the postoffice gone from It's
present location and the Convention
hall slowly slipping away it would look
as though the west enderS are badly
in need of a Moses to bring them pack
to their own.
On North Raymond
One possible site for the postotfice
about which there has been as yet no
talk, but for which the lines are being
carefully laid, is on North Raymond
avenue.
Within a few weeks work will be
begun on the erection of a business
block for Prof. G. C. Bragdon on Ray
mond avenue, between the Home Tele-
phone building and the Ivy block, just
south of Holly street.
The B. o. Kendall company, it is
understood, represents Mr.. Bragdon in
this building and it is practically as
sured that proposition will be made
to the postoffice department within
the next ten days to locate the Office
here.
AS the ground is not yet broken for
the block the postoffiCe department
could be allowed to plan for itself the
portion to be occupied by the post
office.
OF course there will be other PROPOSE
tions made at the proper time, but it
looks now as though the office will Join
moderately, of course, in the gradual
movement eastward now being made
by Pasadena's business section.
Coronado Tent City now open.