Col. Timothy Matlack A Revolutionary Patriot In Lancaster By (MRS. D. B.) BERTHA COCHRAN LANDIS Col. Timothy Matlack, although a resident of Philadelphia, lived for a time in Lancaster. It was during the most trying period in the history of our country, and the activities of this remarkable man

that street. H. S. Tanner's book on Internal Improvements in the United States, in 1829, page 44, lists twelve navigation canals and rail- roads in Pennsylvania, either as completed or in progress. "No. 11, Conestoga Canal opens a navigable channel from the city of Lancaster to the Susquehanna ; length

single-story huts were built, without unusual effort at immediate clearance of trees. In other places the primi- �tive building plans occasioned great toil. These houses were first constructed of logs, with grass and mortar filling the spaces be- tween them. Then some buildings were set up from gathered

officer in the French and Indian War and the Revolution, were also mem- bers at that time. The membership was limited to forty men, and they were fined for non-attendance at the meetings or neglect of duty. �The new fire engine, which was purchased with money sub- scribed by the citizens of the borough

of his two-wheeled velocipedes (or bicycles). A Yankee named Carrol, saw its utility and between them a patent was obtained November 2, 1866. This was the first patent in the United States showing a two-wheeled velocipede with foot-cranks, the immediate predecessor of the bicycle here; in fact the

Pennsylvania and at different parts of the United States. I have not been an Indian grave digger, but have found a great deal of value in the recovery of stone and other tribal material, much of which unavoidably would have been lost or destroyed. Various stone cutting tools, knives, celts and serrated gouges

account of the various clubs formed for obtaining and exchanging popular literary and scientific magazines—about the period when first this Society launched forth to gather and publish its diversified and instructive sketches of history. In my contact, as a printer, with well-known men and women figures

the poor were then admitted to the schools, and various other matters relating to edu- cation, Hoffman observed, 'Why cannot we, in Pennsylvania, have a system of public schools as they have in Massachusetts and other Eastern states?' Gilbert replied, 'It is because the people are not prepared to