Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in States "in a state of rebellion." From 1817 to 1825 he was the Vice-President of the United States, under President James Monroe. While Mr. Tompkins was Governor of New York, he passed through Lancaster borough, according to an article that appeared in the

amusements that has ever been exhibited in this town will be presented," was satisfactory evidence that theatrical performances were known to the citizens of the staid old borough prior to the year 1800. Recently, while searching the files of an old German newspaper established in Lancaster more than one

paper, or papers, for each individual sufferer, to afford to each �contributor an opportunity of distributing his or her donation as he or she may think proper, an estimate being first incorporated. by said committee in each paper of the amount of the loss of each sufferer." In the Lancaster Journal of

been received for the sufferers and deposited in the Branch Bank of Pennsylvania. Collections for the Sufferers from Fire in Lancaster in 1823 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER ON Friday, July 25th, 1823, near midnight, the inhabitants of Lancaster were awakened by the cry of fire. It originated in the

better able to count the cost " Thomas Ashe in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the Library of Congress is an old and interesting book on travel in the I United States. The work, in three volumes, was printed in 1808, in Lon- don, for Richard Phillips, Bridge street, by John Abraham, Clement's

also the capital of Pennsylvania from the summer of 1799 until the autumn of 1812. Carefully preserved among the archives of the Lancaster County Historical Society is an interesting old handbill, published in 1809 by the then well- known printer of Lancaster, William Greer. It is headed, "A List of

character. During Mr. Muhlenberg's rectorate an evening service was instituted. It is quite probable that before his coming to Lancaster, services were held in Saint James's church on Sunday mornings only. Mr. Muhlenberg, being a young clergyman of progressive ideas, felt that an evening service was quite

fine charity has continued its noble ministry of service to the worthy poor of that city. Surely, this generous benefactor deserved a better fate than that which befell him! Music in Trinity Church Steeple By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER THE LANCASTER JOURNAL of Tuesday, August 1st, 1809, contained an

A Chimney-Sweep in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O NE hundred years ago and more it was the custom to employ a chimney- sweeper to remove the soot that had collected in the chimneys of the town. Wood was largely used as fuel. Anthracite coal had not been discovered. Cleaning chimneys became

Relief of the Poor in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O NE hundred and twenty-three years ago there was no "Welfare Federa- tion," or other organized agency, in Lancaster existing for the purpose of collecting funds to be systematically used in the relief of the desti- tute and suffering of