The Los Angeles Mirror, Sep 26, 1865
General Manager S.P. Jewett, of the L.A. & S.G.V. R.R., so brutally assaulted by J.V. york, Tuesday, lies in bed at his home in Pasadena. He is suffering a great deal, and the doctors are not prepared to say, for a day or two, how serious his injuries may prove.
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Stanley P. Jewett, a young engineer who had come here from the East to live here, is credited with launching the first railroad. In 1882 he broached the plan of a steam road between the two cities to several Pasadena friends including J.F. Crank, then vice-president of the First National Bank of Los Angeles and who lived on the Fair Oaks Ranch here. Others were induced to consider the matter and much time and money were spent in surveying the shortest possible route. Jewett and Crank were backed by Sherman Washburn, A. Brigden, W.R. Davis, W.P. Stanley and others who raised the money for the venture.
The road was incorporated on August )0, 188), and its name was to be the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley RR Co. with Mr. Crank as president and the capitalization, $450,000. Contract for the road was let in July, 1884, and work progressed vigorously for a time, but the contractor failed and Mr. Jewett took active charge. The first intention was for the right-of-way to extend from Los Angeles only as far as Raymond Hill, not entering Pasadena. But such a clamor was raised in Pasadena that the right-of-way was extended north as far as Colorado street.
The first train on the new line actually rolled into Pasadena on September 11, 1885, and it was a day of great excitement, with the engine’s whistle blowing and half of the town down to see it come in. Officials decided to hold a formal opening of the line on September 16, 1885, and that was even a greater day of celebration. There was a parade with bands and lots of distinguished visitors from the big city of Los Angeles, a fine luncheon served in a big pavilion on the Central School lot and there was speech-making galore.
But the railroad did not end at Colorado street. By November of that year it extended out to Lamanda Park. After a year's delay it was built out to Mud Springs (now San Dimas). After President Crank and his associates sold the road to the Santa Fe, the road was known for a time as the Southern California Railroad, for business reasons. Soon it was tied up with the great transcontinental system of the Santa Fe and as John W. Wood put it in his history, "The East had really at last discovered California."
T.M. Hotchkiss, April 18, 1983
Pasadena Star-News, August 17, 1947
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General Manager S.P. Jewett, of the L.A. & S.G.V. R.R., so brutally assaulted by J.V. york, Tuesday, lies in bed at his home in Pasadena. He is suffering a great deal, and the doctors are not prepared to say, for a day or two, how serious his injuries may prove.
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Stanley P. Jewett, a young engineer who had come here from the East to live here, is credited with launching the first railroad. In 1882 he broached the plan of a steam road between the two cities to several Pasadena friends including J.F. Crank, then vice-president of the First National Bank of Los Angeles and who lived on the Fair Oaks Ranch here. Others were induced to consider the matter and much time and money were spent in surveying the shortest possible route. Jewett and Crank were backed by Sherman Washburn, A. Brigden, W.R. Davis, W.P. Stanley and others who raised the money for the venture.
The road was incorporated on August )0, 188), and its name was to be the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley RR Co. with Mr. Crank as president and the capitalization, $450,000. Contract for the road was let in July, 1884, and work progressed vigorously for a time, but the contractor failed and Mr. Jewett took active charge. The first intention was for the right-of-way to extend from Los Angeles only as far as Raymond Hill, not entering Pasadena. But such a clamor was raised in Pasadena that the right-of-way was extended north as far as Colorado street.
The first train on the new line actually rolled into Pasadena on September 11, 1885, and it was a day of great excitement, with the engine’s whistle blowing and half of the town down to see it come in. Officials decided to hold a formal opening of the line on September 16, 1885, and that was even a greater day of celebration. There was a parade with bands and lots of distinguished visitors from the big city of Los Angeles, a fine luncheon served in a big pavilion on the Central School lot and there was speech-making galore.
But the railroad did not end at Colorado street. By November of that year it extended out to Lamanda Park. After a year's delay it was built out to Mud Springs (now San Dimas). After President Crank and his associates sold the road to the Santa Fe, the road was known for a time as the Southern California Railroad, for business reasons. Soon it was tied up with the great transcontinental system of the Santa Fe and as John W. Wood put it in his history, "The East had really at last discovered California."
T.M. Hotchkiss, April 18, 1983
Pasadena Star-News, August 17, 1947
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The Los Angeles Mirror, Sep 26, 1865
General Manager S.P. Jewett, of the L.A. & S.G.V. R.R., so brutally assaulted by J.V. york, Tuesday, lies in bed at his home in Pasadena. He is suffering a great deal, and the doctors are not prepared to say, for a day or two, how serious his injuries may prove.
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Stanley P. Jewett, a young engineer who had come here from the East to live here, is credited with launching the first railroad. In 1882 he broached the plan of a steam road between the two cities to several Pasadena friends including J.F. Crank, then vice-president of the First National Bank of Los Angeles and who lived on the Fair Oaks Ranch here. Others were induced to consider the matter and much time and money were spent in surveying the shortest possible route. Jewett and Crank were backed by Sherman Washburn, A. Brigden, W.R. Davis, W.P. Stanley and others who raised the money for the venture.
The road was incorporated on August )0, 188), and its name was to be the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley RR Co. with Mr. Crank as president and the capitalization, $450,000. Contract for the road was let in July, 1884, and work progressed vigorously for a time, but the contractor failed and Mr. Jewett took active charge. The first intention was for the right-of-way to extend from Los Angeles only as far as Raymond Hill, not entering Pasadena. But such a clamor was raised in Pasadena that the right-of-way was extended north as far as Colorado street.
The first train on the new line actually rolled into Pasadena on September 11, 1885, and it was a day of great excitement, with the engine’s whistle blowing and half of the town down to see it come in. Officials decided to hold a formal opening of the line on September 16, 1885, and that was even a greater day of celebration. There was a parade with bands and lots of distinguished visitors from the big city of Los Angeles, a fine luncheon served in a big pavilion on the Central School lot and there was speech-making galore.
But the railroad did not end at Colorado street. By November of that year it extended out to Lamanda Park. After a year's delay it was built out to Mud Springs (now San Dimas). After President Crank and his associates sold the road to the Santa Fe, the road was known for a time as the Southern California Railroad, for business reasons. Soon it was tied up with the great transcontinental system of the Santa Fe and as John W. Wood put it in his history, "The East had really at last discovered California."
T.M. Hotchkiss, April 18, 1983
Pasadena Star-News, August 17, 1947
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General Manager S.P. Jewett, of the L.A. & S.G.V. R.R., so brutally assaulted by J.V. york, Tuesday, lies in bed at his home in Pasadena. He is suffering a great deal, and the doctors are not prepared to say, for a day or two, how serious his injuries may prove.
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Stanley P. Jewett, a young engineer who had come here from the East to live here, is credited with launching the first railroad. In 1882 he broached the plan of a steam road between the two cities to several Pasadena friends including J.F. Crank, then vice-president of the First National Bank of Los Angeles and who lived on the Fair Oaks Ranch here. Others were induced to consider the matter and much time and money were spent in surveying the shortest possible route. Jewett and Crank were backed by Sherman Washburn, A. Brigden, W.R. Davis, W.P. Stanley and others who raised the money for the venture.
The road was incorporated on August )0, 188), and its name was to be the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Valley RR Co. with Mr. Crank as president and the capitalization, $450,000. Contract for the road was let in July, 1884, and work progressed vigorously for a time, but the contractor failed and Mr. Jewett took active charge. The first intention was for the right-of-way to extend from Los Angeles only as far as Raymond Hill, not entering Pasadena. But such a clamor was raised in Pasadena that the right-of-way was extended north as far as Colorado street.
The first train on the new line actually rolled into Pasadena on September 11, 1885, and it was a day of great excitement, with the engine’s whistle blowing and half of the town down to see it come in. Officials decided to hold a formal opening of the line on September 16, 1885, and that was even a greater day of celebration. There was a parade with bands and lots of distinguished visitors from the big city of Los Angeles, a fine luncheon served in a big pavilion on the Central School lot and there was speech-making galore.
But the railroad did not end at Colorado street. By November of that year it extended out to Lamanda Park. After a year's delay it was built out to Mud Springs (now San Dimas). After President Crank and his associates sold the road to the Santa Fe, the road was known for a time as the Southern California Railroad, for business reasons. Soon it was tied up with the great transcontinental system of the Santa Fe and as John W. Wood put it in his history, "The East had really at last discovered California."
T.M. Hotchkiss, April 18, 1983
Pasadena Star-News, August 17, 1947
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