CONESTOGA By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN Vol. XI, No. 3, pp. 75-113, of the Proceedings of The Lan- Lancaster County Historical Society, appears an article entitled, "How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster." In that paper the author, the late William Uhler Hensel, Esq., de- scribed, in minute

bill to incorporate the Widow and Orphan Assurance Society of the City and County of Lancaster, had passed the Senate of Pennsylvania. Three years later, a notice appeared in the Lancaster Journal of Friday, April 22nd, 1825, which was as follows : "A special election for a director of the Widow and

conceive the plan of passing the runaways from one post to another to secure their lib- erty. This system became · known as the "Underground Railroad," and was a term given in the United States, before the abolition of slavery, to a secret arrangement for h elping slaves to escape. by helping them from one

information of them. RIDING ON THE COLUMBIA AND PHILA- DELPHIA RAILROAD By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER IN the Library of Congress, Washington, D. C., is a small volume con of 148 pages, published, in 1836, by Grigg and Elliott, 9 North Fourth street, Philadelphia, Pa. The book is entitled, "A pleasant

The references to the organization in the local papers are few, and little information concerning its activities can be obtained. The Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 3rd, 1815, contained an announcement that the trustees of the "Juvenile Library Society" were requested to meet at the house of

reside in this city of the means of a living, but, in a great degree, lessens the importance and dignity of the city. For this reason, it has been deemed expedient that the mechanics should meet and con- sult upon some plan of remedying an evil that is still growing." On motion, it was agreed, "That a

Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in States "in a state of rebellion." From 1817 to 1825 he was the Vice-President of the United States, under President James Monroe. While Mr. Tompkins was Governor of New York, he passed through Lancaster borough, according to an article that appeared in the

Citizens of Lancaster Petition Legislature for a City Charter in 1798 By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Lancaster Intelligencer and Journal of Tuesday, June 15th, 1841, announced that an old document—a petition for a char- ter to change Lancaster's form of government from that of a borough into a