How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster. The casual purchase of a basketful of old books at a recent public sale threw into my possession three small manuscript volumes of rare local in- terest. They relate to an incident in the history of Lancaster city and os the public works of the

by many of them remaining residents and owners of real estate in that lo- cality ever since. Before the Phila- delphia turnpike—the oldest road of its kind in the country—was built, Jasper Yeates, one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, had large land ownings in common with the