images "as through a glass darkly," by the medium of skillfully painted portraits by the old masters, by reflections in mirrors, placid streams or highly polished surfaces. Years before 1839, artists and chemists had been experiment- ing with methods to retain a permanent image or reflection of an object

Biography Paul Zantzinger By M. LUTHER HEISEY There came to the shores of America, on the ship Adventurer, Septem- ber 23, 1732,1 one Paul Songsinger (Hans Paulus Zantzinger), aged twenty years, whose family in years following became prominent in the affairs of Lancaster Borough; in fact, one son

the stage as a mail carrier. And now, in the lifetime of the writer, and with what seems like a touch of irony, the familiar blue and white buses — modern- ized and motorized — replace the trolleys as carriers of passengers and mail, covering much of the ground over which the old stages traveled

south, the Long Swamp to the north, and the Roaring Brook rushing along what is now called Water Street! New Lancaster was on a "detour." The Great Conestoga Road, or Long Lane, passed some miles to the south of it; Old Peter Bezallion's Road and the Paxton Pike passed it many miles to the north. Even

The Indian Treaty 0/ 1744 By M. LUTHER HEISEY Turn back the pages of history two hundred years, and we find here in this two-year old borough of eleven hundred souls a gathering fraught with importance and anxiety. To this inland town, rapidly growing in influence, gathered a notable group of

The Makers of Pottery in Lancaster County By M. LUTHER HEISEY "The wheel goes round and round, And where it stops nobody knows." S 0 RUNS a radio couplet, but the wheel of the old potter has stopped, and mechanized methods have stolen the romance from the mystic makings of forms in clay. The art of

Philip Benedict's ideas was the placing of wrought iron bands around the base of the old jail tower, when it showed signs of spreading or buckling under the weight of the super-imposed tower. These bands are still visible from East King Street and from the reservoir. After serving their purpose for about

wedges, which were loosened by the jolting of the cars.—Ellis and Evans' History of Lancaster County, p. 319. Last spring (1940), we saw two hundred of these sandstone blocks pulled out by a tractor from the original roadbed of the old Columbia and Philadelphia Railroad, on the farm of Daniel F. King

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