the Bankers' and Merchants', and the Western Union ab- sorbed the American Rapids Telegraph Company in 1885. THE TELEPHONE The first telephone "conversation" was brought to Lancaster in 1879, by David H. Potts, manager of the Western Union, who had been endeavoring for some time to interest Lancaster

- sibility of success. War time bombing came into dreaded reality during the period from 1914 to 1918 and then on a grander scale than Mr. Wise ever dreamed, but it was proof that he was far ahead of his time. Before mentioning some of his actual deeds, I would like to say that Mr. Wise, some years after his

Stiegel, was dedicated in the graveyard of the Zion Evangelical Lutheran church, Manheim, Pennsylvania, the erection of which attracted an unusual amount of interest, due, no doubt, to the traditions and sentiinents which have gathered about the name of "Baron" Stiegel. It is highly fitting that The

London, and rang down through the years in deeds of violence, plots and coun- ter-plots, terror and just plain villainy. Those shots were fired by two servants of Edmund Cartlidge, English trader, who with his brother once spent several months in the jail at Philadel- phia while the authorities debated