ALONG THE STREETS OF OLD LANCASTER Vast changes in customs, manner and mode of living among the people residing along these streets of this colonial inland city of Lancaster have occurred over the passing years. There was music in the air — not from phonograph or radio — but from the street organ

lottery, the proceeds of which were to finish a church steeple." Later, while walking along a street, he met a woman who had been a member of the Methodist Church in Germantown. Boehm wrote: "She told me there was a man by the name of Philip Benedict in Lancaster who had been awakened at a camp meeting

on the first floor of the municipal build- ing on North Duke Street. The tablet was unveiled by Miss Hildegarde Pil- gram, a great-great-great-great-granddaughter of Sebastian Graff, who was burgess in Lancaster Borough in 1742. This was a definite linking of the present to the days of old. In

Railroad and Bridge Builders of Lancaster By M. LUTHER HEISEY "They Builded Better Than They Knew" Transportation, ever a prime problem of the human race, received a mighty impetus in the second and third decades of the nineteenth century. It was then steam was introduced as a motive power, and

chance to see ourselves as others saw us. But let us take these observations with the proverbial grain of salt— especially the unfavorable ones. Much depended upon the observer's point of view and prejudices. Should one walk along Orange Street of present- day Lancaster he would say, "Here is a city of

May 21, 1738, advertised a list of unclaimed letters for people in Donegal, Pequea, Octoraro, Salisbury, etc. A longer list follows in the issue of November 2, 1738. About three years later, January 15, 1741, the paper continues to advertise unclaimed letters for Lancaster County folks, located at

, scattered about the city, could be * Historical Sketch of the Union Fire Company, No. 1, by Alfred San- derson, 1879, p._31. THE WATER SUPPLY OF LANCASTER 3 told. William Blickenderfer, a grocer, located at 310 North Queen Street, impelled by humane motives, was one who erected such a fountain in 1874. The

- tion, and after much serious admonition, is once more interested in her studies; but unfortunately Mrs. Hunter has offered to take Harriet with her to Lancaster, and having yr permission, she is preparing for a visit which will again interrupt, for a while at least, all idea of books, etc. . . . If

local photography or photographers in any histories of Lancaster County or in the writings of Robert B. Risk. �1845. One of them is a view of the south side of West King Street, from the present residence of Prof. Wm. B. Hall, to Centre Square. Some of the old buildings are to-day very much as they were

has lived in the house for a century. A pleasant feature of the program was the rendition of a num- ber of Moravian chorales, by the Trombone Choir of the Lititz Moravian Church, under the direction of John W. Keehn. Some of these hymns were written by Count Zinzendorf, and are in popular favor with