the first president of the United States, under the provision of Article II, of the then recently adopted Constitution, Lancaster County had already existed as a body politic and civil unit for sixty years, was one of the largest, and as before stated, among the most populous counties in the thirteen

close of the nineteenth century when the Lancaster Gas Light and Fuel Company was in control. We have now reached the period in the economic history of public utilities in Lancaster County where the same integration in business begins to take place as has marked the development of American business to a