military career, I approached the pleasant task which I had as- signed myself, with considerable interest and curiosity. Surely in more than 3000 hand-written pages made up into ten bound volumes I would find pertinent personal reflections as a result of his association with cele- brated personalities and

for the manner in which he took care of the Lancaster delegation on the jaunt to Chicago. The cane bore the inscription "Presented to Gen. B. A. Shaeffer by his Lancaster friends, St. Louis May 22nd 1860." Bartram S. Shaeffer was a native Lancaster Countian, influential Republican leader and a member

sketch to tell of the co-labors of these two men as well as something of their journeys together and of their numer- ous meetings in the Boehm home and in the justly renowned Boehm Meeting House close by in the township of Pequea, Lan- caster County. Some of the facts here presented have appeared in

Eichholtz, Lancaster's most famous artist of all time. Recently I visited the National Gallery and saw these three Eichholtz portraits: "James F. Smith," Mellon Collection; "The Ragan Sisters," presented by Mrs. Cooper Drewry; "William Clark Frazer," Mellon Col- lection. After I returned home, I wrote to

annual Festival of the Red Rose. Their names follow. George F. Baer President, Reading Railroad Company Dr. Marion Learned University of Pennsylvania George M. Steinman Lancaster County Historical Society Dr. J. H. Dubbs Franklin and Marshall College Dr. M. G. Brumbaugh .. Supt. of Schools, Philadelphia