Los Angeles herald., 1906-03-14
MERCHANTS PLAN
TO BRING TRADE
PASADENA DESIRES CLOSER
RELATIONS
VIII Petition for Through Electric
Cars From Sierra Madre and
Arrange Open Meeting
for April
Pasadena Agency.
ii North Raymond Avenue
Telephone Main 1l47.

PASADENA, March 1S-The reg
ular monthly meeting Of the directors
of the Pasadena Merchants assocla-
ton was held late this afternoon III
the board of trade rooms. Inc cnieI
topic for discussion was the posslplllIy
of bringing to Pasadena the trade or
such OUTLYING towns as Sierra Madre
and Iamanda Park. A recent canvass
of these two places showed lao house
holders in Sierra Madre and 422 in
Lamanda Park. The names OF these
householders will be printed and the
list supplied to every member of the
association. President Sargent ap-
pointed a committee consisting of IL.
r. Hertel, d. G. Andrews and George
Brainard to consult with the manage
ment of the Pacific Electric as to
through car service from each of the
two places named above. 1t was also
decided to hold an open meeting OF
the association on the evening OF
Thursday, April 5, at which time prom
inent citizens of Sierra Madre, La
manda Park and La Canyada Will ad-
dress the merchants on the best means
of concentrating the trade of those
localities in Pasadena. 1t is consid-
cred that this trade rightly belongs TO
the Crown City and the Merchants as
sociation intends making every effort
to secure and hold it. AT the present
time Sierra Madre people must change
cars at Lamanda Park in order to come
to Pasadena, the direct through cars
going to Los Angeles instead.
Cruelty Case Not Ended
The cruelty to animals case against
Marcus A. Hall, treasurer of the Will
liam r. Stats company, which is
handling the Huntington interests in
the Oak Knoll tract south of the city,
occupied the entire day in Justice
Northrup's court at Alhambra. II was
a Pasadena case pure and simple and
the participants and audience came
from the Crown City, the judge and
jury alone hailing from Alhambra.
Deputy District Attorney Mccormick,
who aided in the prosecution of the
first of these Oak Knoll cruelty cases,
did not appear today and the prosecu-
ton was handled by Attorney Elmer
l. Moody, representing the Simons
brothers, at whose instance the suits
were begun. Judge Rossiter, the reg
ular attorney for the Pasadena HUI
name society, had charge of the de-
fense. The forenoon was devoted to
the choosing of a jury, a rather diff
cult matter all but three of the reg
ular panel being called before the jury
was complete. The following witnesses
for the prosecution were examined:
Foreman Switzer, who made the COM
plant; Reporters Hall and Short,
Walter and Joseph Simons and their
chauffeur at the time of the visit of
inspection to the grading camp at Oak
Knoll. The prosecution will continue
tomorrow morning and the case is like
ly to last all day.
Echoes of the Storm
The total amount of rainfall during
the storm of yesterday and the day
before as registered by the Throop
Institute rain gauge is 4.65 inches
and the seasons total 5.02 inches.
Reports continue to tell of extensive
damage in all parts of the city. Dur
ing the heaviest part of the storm last
night great holes were dug in the
streets, boulders swept down from the
foothills and dropped along the paved
districts, fences were washed out, trees
and flowers uprooted and cellars filled
with water. The business part of the
city resembled one great lake and for
a time downtown business men were
penned in their places of business by
the flood of running water in the paved
streets. This morning the pavements
were found covered many inches deep
WITH sand and dirt, which the city
street cleaning department has been
engaged all day in removing. All tele-
phonic communication with the hotels
and camps in the mountains is cut off.
1t is known, however, that what was
heavy rain in the valley was a fierce
snowstorm with much wind in the
mountains. Today there has been rain
in the mountains again and the noun
tain streams are still torrents. mol
word has been received from the sum- |
init hotels today, but it is believed that
all is safe there. Persons who have |
ventured a part of the way up the |
Santa Anita canyon trail today say
that they found a number of bad wash |
outs and much water from the melting
snow and today's rain. The telephone |
companies promise to have their lines |
10 the summit repaired by tomorrow |
noon.
Propose Novel Features
The Northwest Improvement associa-
tion held its regular meeting tonight at
the annex to the Lincoln school build |
ing. Many matters of purely local |
were discussed. The projected |
municipal electric lighting plant re-
ceived the unqualified support of the |
gentlemen present. 1t is proposed at
some future date to give a public de-
bate upon this important question. with |
formal speeches in support of and in |
opposition to the plan, in order to
arouse public interest The association |
also expressed itself informally as de- |
cidedly in favor of the proposed Arroyo |
Seco park, which from its natural loca-
tion belongs to the territory embraced |
in the Northwest association. In about |
three weeks another meeting of the |
association will he held. at which time
certain new features decided tonight !
will be introduced. A special program
of vocal and instrumental music, with .
speeches and other literary exercises
and an Informal social gathering to
which the families of the members are
invited will Trapada tho rao,,I,,. I,,,.;