covering almost a century beginning with that of the operation of The Lancaster Gas Com- pany in 1848, and showing the merger of all former companies within recent years into the Pennsylvania Power and Light Com- pany which was organized June 4, 1920. As of December 31, 1930, the Pennsylvania Power and

board of trustees who permitted individual teachers of all and any subjects to teach in the col- lege building. This will come up later as we discuss the private adventure schools. PRIVATE ADVENTURE SCHOOLS During the last decade of the eighteenth century and the first two of the nineteenth, Lancaster

Libraries in Lancaster By ELIZABETH CLARKE KIEFFER In 1760, when Lancaster was one of the most thriving inland cities of the colonies, and a point of interest to travellers who wished to understand America, a group of leading citizens met to form the "Lancaster Library Company." 1 This first board