describe garbage furnaces for cities, hotels and families and cremation furnaces for human bodies. He also manufactured antiseptic cuspidors. The Lancaster Crematorium and Funeral Reform Society published a monthly journal, The Modern Crematist, said to be the first of its kind in the nation. The 16-page

Society's first venture in original publications. The 1883 Ellis and Evans History of Lancaster County and the 1875 Everts and Stewart Atlas of Lancaster County have been reprinted by the Society. A. Hunter Rineer's magnum opus, Churches and Cemeteries of Lancaster County, Pa., published posthumously in

Seventy-Five Years of Publishing Lancaster County History by John Ward Willson Loose As the Journalof the Lancaster County Historical Society cele- brates its seventy-fifth anniversary, we are reminded it may be well to pause and to reflect on the history of that venerable publication. The

Evolution of the Government of Lancaster: Village, Borough, City By John W" W" Loose, F"L.C"H"S" For the first dozen years of its existence Lancaster did not have a governing body of its own. Lancaster County's original townships were defined by the magistrates and citizens 9 June 1729, and were

school history classes, and co- ordinating the functions of historical groups and places throughout the county. It is not the purpose of this survey, however, to consider the effectiveness of county historical societies in fulfilling their real objectives. Each society knows its reasons for existence

, The Triumph of Militant Republicanism, A Study of Pennsyl- vania Politics: 1860-1872 (Philadelphia, Pa.: The University of Pennsylvania Press, 1964), p. 206. 12. Frank W. Taussig, The Tariff History of the United States (New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1914), pp. 178-179. 13. The Columbia Spy, 29

A History of Sin and Vice: Lancaster—The Fallen Angel By John W. W. Loose, FLCHS in a community remarkable for its many churches and the reputed piety of its citizenry, the very thought of sin and vice is improbable. In this time of social disintegration and family dysfunction, it is not uncommon

. Vondersmith, associate judge of the Lancaster County Courts, delivered an essay on "Civilization and Its Effects Upon Mankind." About ten years later Judge Vondersmith fled from Lancaster civilization ahead of the United States marshal who held a warrant for his arrest. The civilized judge, it was alleged

, op. cit., p. 110. 16. Supra, pp. 62-67. 17. Convention of Iron Masters, Documents. . . , Appendix Tables. 18. J.P. Lesley, The Iron Manufacturer's Guide to the Furnaces, Forges and Rolling Mills of the United States (New York, N.Y.: John Wiley and Company, 1866), p. 238. 19. Burgess and Kennedy, op

northwest corner of what is now North Duke and East Walnut streets, Lan- caster, now the site of First United Methodist Church, no detailed description of the facility has been available until recently. Mr. Albert G. Overton, Florissant, Missouri, discovered a scaled plan of the barracks drawn in 1777 by