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MARYLAND
Montgomery police
investigate fatal crash
A driver died Thursday of
injuries from a Wednesday c rash
in Aspen Hill, the Montgomery
County police said Saturday.
Chad E.A. Richards, 31, of
Lanham collided on G eorgia
Avenue with a southbound
vehicle turning left, and the
impact sent his car into a utility
pole, police said.
— Fredrick Kunkk
THE DISTRICT
Car hits storefront
on Georgetown street
Luck may sometimes exist,
which may be inferred from a
Saturday incident in Georgetown.
A c ollision in the 1400 block of
Wisconsin Avenue sent a vehicle
across a sidewalk and i nto a
storefront, b ut no injuries were
reported, the D.C. fire department
said.
— Martin Weil
LOCAL DIGEST
There’s a
Pasadena in
Maryland and a
Pasadena in
California. Which
came first? Where
did the name
come from? What
does it mean?
We’ll answer
all those
questions today. Even better,
we’re going to meet a most
interesting character. She’s the
person responsible for naming
Maryland’s Pasadena. Her name
was Elizabeth F. Baldy — or
Mrs. L.F. Baldy, as she was often
referred to — and she was a
swindler.
Published histories of the
Anne Arundel County town
make no reference to Baldy’s
connection to Pasadena and its
name. Here’s what a writer for
the Baltimore Sun wrote in
1990: “The prevailing, though
undocumented, explanation is
that when the Southern Land
and Silk Association of
Baltimore bought a large tract of
land in 1888, the California-born
wife of one of the owners
persuaded her husband to name
the farm after her hometown.”
“California-born wife?” Oh,
that does not do Baldy justice.
She was as bold as any man.
She did indeed come from
that great land of reinvention:
California. News of her
Maryland business venture
started cropping up in East
Coast newspapers in April 1887.
“Money making for women!”
read an ad in the Sun. “Silk
culture pays from $300 to
$1,000 per acre. From $50 to
$250 will buy you a SILK
FARM.”
Silk doesn’t grow on trees, of
course. But mulberry leaves do.
And that’s what silkworms eat.
Baldy’s company — the
aforementioned Southern Land
and Silk Association —
purchased farmland between
Annapolis and Baltimore.
For $250, investors would
receive 10 acres of land, 100
mulberry trees and a starter kit
of silkworm eggs. The eggs
would hatch and — fortified by
fresh mulberry leaves — the
worms would start spinning
their cocoons. Before long you’d
have several hundred pounds of
silk threads, worth $5 per
pound.
And you could do that every
year, quickly recouping your
investment.
Wrote the Capital newspaper
of Annapolis: “The
establishment of a permanent
colony of silk growers in the
State seems to be almost
assured.”
If investors with the Southern
Land and Silk Association had
had access to a searchable
publications database, theywould have seen that in 1876,
Baldy was a freelance bookseller
in Los Angeles, peddling such
titles as “Wife No. 19,” an exposé
of Mormon polygamy written by
Ann Eliza Young.
A year later, Baldy was taking
orders for custom portraits as a
representative of the American
Copying and Portrait Painting
Company. In 1884, she was in
Salt Lake City, performing as an
“elocutionist.”
Baldy was a dues-paying
member of the Southern
California Horticultural Society,
but in L.A., not Pasadena.
There was already aPasadena, Calif., by this time.
That word supposedly means “of
the valley” in the Ojibwe
language. The name was chosen
in 1875 by the Indiana
businessman who had
developed the California town.
“Of the valley” may make
more sense in California than in
eastern Maryland, but there
were no Ojibwe in California —
or in Indiana. The developer
had asked a missionary friend to
translate the phrase. The
missionary apparently knew
only Ojibwe.
Answer Man suspects Baldy
chose “Pasadena” because of itsassociation with fertile
California. In 1888, her
Southern Land and Silk
Association subdivided its new
property into 300 plots. (Answer
Man saw the plot at the Ann
Arrundell County Historical
Society’s Kuethe Library in Glen
Burnie.) The grid of streets
included Pasadena Avenue, Los
Angeles Avenue and Baldy
Avenue.
Despite being hyped in
newspapers across the country
— from the Boston Herald to
New York’s Jewish Messenger —
only about eight houses were
ever built. It’s unlikely much silk
was produced.
In February 1891, the
Washington representative of
Baldy’s Baltimore-based
company — one Robert E.
Clarke, himself a former
elocutionist — suddenly
disappeared, leaving behind an
empty safe.
Baldy promised to get to the
bottom of things. Instead, she
skipped town.
In 1892, Baldy allegedly tried
a different con. She moved to
New York City and set up an
office that guaranteed jobs in
the new Grover Cleveland
administration. For $20,
applicants could pick any
position they wanted and skip
the civil service exam. This came
to the attention of authorities.
The Evening Star wrote: “It isreported that she was the
president... of a Maryland land
investment concern not a great
while ago which was going to
return untold wealth to the
investors, but which, it is hardly
necessary to state, did not.”
In 1893, Baldy was arrested
and jailed in New York City on a
charge of grand larceny. Two
men claimed they’d paid her for
government jobs they’d never
received. One newspaper
described her as “a sharp-
featured woman, about forty-
seven years old, with a sallow
complexion and black hair.”
On July 24, 1896, Baldy was
arrested again. She’d advertised
for secretaries, but applicants
complained that not only did
they not get jobs, they were
forced to pay $2 for a
subscription to a publication
called the Golden Era.
On Oct. 6, 1896, the New York
Journal ran a death notice for
Elizabeth F. Baldy, indicating
she had died on Oct. 13 at age- Included in the listing was
the line “Baltimore papers
please copy.”
Was she really dead or did
Baldy place the ad herself?
Answer Man isn’t sure. What’s
remarkable is that Pasadena,
Md., wasn’t named by “the
California-born wife” of a
developer, but by a con artist
who was very much her own
woman.
The amazing true story of the woman who gave Pasadena, Md., its name
John
Kelly's
Washington
JOHN KELLY/THE WASHINGTON POST
A swindler named Elizabeth F. Baldy gave Pasadena, Md., its name.
Pictured here is an intersection in the Anne Arundel County town.BY MARTIN WEIL
When skies grow gray and
brew up storms, more than mere
snow or rain may fall, as S aturday
showed in parts of our region.
And it’s not only sleet or hail. It
may be, as Saturday showed,
something called graupel.
Graupel is sometimes de-
scribed as pellets of snow or as
frost-covered snowflakes. This
mildly exotic atmospheric con-
coction showed up Saturday in
Arlington, and places farther off.
Nothing that fell Saturday
seemed too remote from possibil-
ity, given the day-long display
and interplay of cloud and sky.
Often at a single moment sun-
shine and blue sky coexisted with
dark and ominous clouds.
Clouds appeared as flat islands
of slate, or as the billowing
repositories of summertime
dreams.
On a breezy, almost raw day of
temperatures in the 40s and 50s,
a single cloud might seem
rimmed with orange sunshine at
its top, but freighted with dark
menace below.
It seemed in a way symbolic of
early springtime, with emphasis
on transformation and change.
Spring clearly had arrived, as
witnessed by the smiling sun that
sometimes could be seen despite
a 40-degree wind chill at 2 p.m.
But winter’s remnants seemed
to live in the gray tendrils that
stretched from clouds to ground,
and brought traces of snow to
some spots, while renewing for
many our acquaintance with
graupel.
THE DISTRICT
W inter’s
remnants
linger on
Saturday
The expansion would build
upon a $5 million pledge Bowser
made a year ago to upgrade the
city’s automated enforcement
equipment. The District Depart-
ment of Transportation said it is
procuring equipment to replace
128 of the existing 137 cameras
and add another 129 before the
end of this year. A large share of
the additional cameras will en-
force bus lane rules, the agency
said.
Bowser’s proposed budget, if
approved, would ensure cameras
are more widespread across the
city, with as many as 232 new
devices enforcing traffic rules on
major commuter routes and resi-
dential streets and aboard buses.
“Everyone who moves around
DC deserves safe roads,” Bowser
tweeted last week when she pro-
posed a $19 billion budget.
“We’re investing in safer roads &
sidewalks and doubling down on
enforcement.”
Bowser officials tout the traffic
cameras as an important tool in
the city’s strategy to improve
street safety. Her financial plan
includes $10 million for road
fixes that don’t require extensive
engineering, such as the addition
of speed bumps or re-striping of
crosswalks, and $9.4 million to
add 100 full-time crossing
guards. Bowser also wants to
spend $36 million over six years
to support the city’s commitment
to add 10 miles of protected bike
lanes annually.
In addition to speed cameras,
her plan would add 25 cameras
that target motorists who violate
no-passing rules for school bus-
es, 17 cameras looking for red-
light, stop-sign and overweight-
truck violations, and 20 that
would look for cars illegally us-
ing bus lanes and bike lanes.
Forty new full-time positions
would be added at DDOT to
oversee the increased volume of
tickets that would accompany
the expansion, according to
budget documents. The depart-
ment did not respond to ques-
tions about current staffing lev-
els in the program, which is
tasked with reviewing images
from the automated enforce-
ment devices and issuing tickets.CAMERAS FROM C1 The current program is ex-
pected to yield nearly $100 mil-
lion in revenue this fiscal year,
including $87.6 million from
speed cameras, according to the
city’s Office of the Chief Financial
Officer. No estimates were avail-
able about potential revenue
from additional cameras. Under
Bowser’s proposal, the number of
speed cameras would triple from
the 85 in place now.
The District traffic enforce-
ment program, launched more
than two decades ago, has earned
a reputation as a revenue genera-
tor, with critics blasting city
leaders as targeting commuters
and depending too much on
devices to enforce traffic laws.
But some residents and advo-
cates for safer streets support the
program amid calls from local
leaders for more enforcement.A Washington Post analysis
earlier this year of D.C. traffic-fa-
tality data found that 2020 and
2021 — when driving rates were
reduced during the pandemic —
saw the lowest number of report-
ed crashes but the highest rate of
fatalities. About 10 people were
killed for every 5,000 crashes,
which is double the rate of 2019.
Among those killed last year
were two children under age 6.
“We hear a lot from parents
who worry about walking their
kids around the neighborhood,
certainly from people who bike,
and just generally people who
are fed up with seeing aggressive
drivers on their streets,” saidTom Quinn, an advisory neigh-
borhood commissioner in Ward- “There’s concern about dan-
gerous driving, and the traffic
cameras are a tool for making
our streets safer.”
But Ragina Ali, a spokeswom-
an for AAA Mid-Atlantic, said
some motorists worry about the
city setting up speed traps for the
sake of generating revenue.
“While we are in favor of
measures to address high-crash
corridors and intersections, as
well as save the lives of pedestri-
ans, bicyclists and motorists, it is
difficult to convince anyone that
the District’s automated pro-
gram is about traffic safety and
not revenue generation, especial-
ly as fatalities increase,” Ali said
in a statement. “Quite frankly,
the placement of 170 additional
cameras without traffic studies
only creates additional concern
about the validity of the pro-
gram, and the ability to effective-
ly address the ongoing traffic
safety problem.”
City Administrator Kevin Don-
ahue last week told the D.C.
Council the District would seek
community feedback about the
camera expansion and DDOTwould place cameras “based on
the greatest impact they can have
in protecting pedestrians and
preventing traffic crashes.”
Supporters say they also hope
for measures to ensure motorists
pay fines, noting that thousands
of fines go unpaid each year. The
city, owed about $500 million in
unpaid parking and traffic fines,
has few mechanisms to ensure
offenders face consequences.
Bowser’s plan also calls for more
resources for the city’s towing
and booting program.
One of the city’s eight stop-
sign cameras has become a topic
of discussion on neighborhood
forums in the Friendship Heights
area.
Neighbors have complained
about receiving unwarranted
tickets from the device at Fessen-
den Street and 44th Street NW.
Some neighbors said they
stopped fully and have asked
about camera calibration. Others
have posted videos at the inter-
section that show vehicles treat-
ing the stop sign as a yield sign.
“They’re getting cited for not
stopping and they are shocked
because they’ve driven that way
their entire lives and now they’re
getting a citation for it,” said
Quinn, who represents the area.
The council is reviewing the
mayor’s proposed budget over
the next two weeks, with a review
of transportation spending
scheduled for April 4.Tra∞c camera program raises cash, critics’ ireMICHAEL BLACKSHIRE/THE WASHINGTON POST
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s proposed $19 billion budget would
include funding for 232 new cameras scattered across the District.“Everyone who movesaround DC deservessafe roads. We’reinvesting in safer roads& sidewalks anddoubling down onenforcement.”
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