walls of this dining room. The Lancaster was built in the days of "wooden ships and iron men," and served well her country for fifty-seven years. On February 10, 1948, the battleship Pennsylvania, of 33,000 tons, flagship of the U. S. fleet, dear to all hearts in this Commonwealth, was scuttled near

1807, before the use of steam, another Lancaster County inventive genius was working on the problem of better navigation. One Daniel Keller, of Hemp- field Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, took out a patent as early as 1795 for a design of boat, operating with paddle wheels, whose motive power

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of the white man. Following the wave of emigration, squatters seated themselves upon the vacant river islands, especially if the same were opposite to their holdings on the main land. Legal and uncontested rights were not gained until 1793, when the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania took over all islands

Office of Pennsylvania, October 3, 1801, to April 4, 1809. Trustee of Franklin College, Lancaster, Pa., June 17, 1813. A booklet, called the "Development of the United States Cap- itol," issued as House Document, No. 35, of the 71st Congress, 1st Session, 1929, completely ignores, except for the survey