A VISIT TO HISTORICAL SCENES* (Describing a visit to Lancaster, Pa., in July, 1926) By HARRY PRINGLE FORD It was a rare privilege recently to visit the attractive city of Lancaster, Pa., sixty-eight miles west of Philadelphia, with its wealth of historical asso- ciations and its many evidences of

by a one-way passage, even with increasing travel, over the Lincoln Highway. The Pennsylvania railroad has occupied a prominent position, with its bridge structures across the Big Conestoga north-east of Lancaster. In 1830 the first bridge was erected above ten piers and two abutments. (See Vol. XXXV

, the work of Charles Grafly, sculptor, and a gift to the city of Lancaster by the late Dulon F. Buchmiller. The next stop was at Franklin and Marshall College. Here the visitors gathered in Hensel Hall and listened to an able address on the history of the college by the Rev. Dr. Henry Harbaugh Apple