Street was one contin- uous block, Lancaster Avenue being then unopened. The house in which I was born (437 West James Street, now the Phi Sigma Kappa Fraternity House) was built about 1875 or 1876. My sister Helen and my brother John were not born there, but I think my brother Charlie was. He was born

to receive had not been paid. I added that in any event she could not recover wages for more than six years. I knew Irving slightly. After the death of his parents he lived alone in the apartment which Mrs. Schalm cleaned. In Lancaster County parlance he was a "catbird." A "catbird," as we understand

A Lancaster City Boy of the Gay Nineties Part 2* by Abner McMichael Eyde with Miriam Eyde Bixler A boy really worked for his spending money in my day, none of this allowance business. You got a few pennies for Sunday School and church and mostly that was it, unless your older brothers and sisters