' contacts with these whites were not limited to business and economic transactions. The black barbers also acted in concert with these whites to fight the Columbia and Lancaster Colonization Societies4; they smuggled Negro fugitives into Lancas- ter County from the South; and they supported each other in

the level of music performance in this country. In his final years, his objective was to build the world's leading concert band. The band he believed was more in keeping with our country's inherent energy and itching feet—virile, strong, and heroic. It is a tribute to the band musicians of Lancaster

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

" which urged the legislators to repeal the law: To the Senate and House of Representatives of Pennsylvania: The undersigned citizens of Lancaster City respectfully pray, that so much of 1the A:ct passed at the fast session of the Legislature, "to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors," as proMbits