third parties extended their operations until Lancaster became known as a "wide-open" town. 4 According to a 1934 report, underworld characters said that those who had money to spend on prostitution merely went out of town to such places as Columbia and Eden, Pennsylvania, after conditions became

mines closed. Then he was employed in a Philadelphia brewery until 1853 when he came to Lancaster to work for John A. Sprenger with whom he formed a three-year partnership. He also formed a lifetime partnership with Sprenger's widowed daughter, Catharine. Knapp established a saloon and brewery in the

, after which Father Greaton devoted all of his time to the Philadelphia locality. LANCASTER AND THE 1730's It was within the walls of the Mission of St. Francis Xavier, at Bohemia, Maryland, that most of the Jesuit missionary efforts in Pennsylvania during the infant days of the colony were conceived