bright spot to re- pair to — and that was the "public soup house," maintained by the city government in the Grant Street police station, where pails of hot soup were ladled out to the needy. The ordinary workingman of the earlier days received low wages and as a rule lived near his place of employment

, than Major Ellicott always appeared to me to be in the faithful execution of the public business committed to his charge." Andrew, son of Joseph Ellicott, was born in Bucks County, January 24, 1754, and became famous as a surveyor, astronomer, scientist and mathematician. While yet a young man, he and

here we have the germ of an idea, even as Fulton's, which was a forward step in transportation progress. With a seeming touch of pride, Daniel Keller usually gave his address as "of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," but this land- lubber, this builder of ships and arks, was quite a gadabout, traveling

, 76. 17 Lancaster Intelligencer, May 12, 19, 1829. �great portion of Chester county will now depend upon Lancaster for shingles, boards, scantling, staves and heading, hoop-poles, etc . . . ."18 This editor's prophecy pertaining to Chester County soon became a reality. 19 During a little over one

, 131-139. 103 Lancaster County Taxables, 1800. See Chapter II for other agricultural tool manufactures. 104 Lancaster Borough Assessment, 1814. 105 Lancaster Intelligencer, May 19, 1829. It is difsicult to picture a wooden jackscrew, and the possibility that this was an iron tool must be recognized

- ter. Lotteries, although freely employed for religious, educational, and internal improvement puposes, were practically never used to raise manufacturing capital in Lancaster County during the period of this study. Stiegel's flint glass lottery, the only lottery organized and authorized on behalf of a

acres.1 On the south the county is bounded by the State of Maryland, on the east by Chester County, on the northeast by Berks County, on the northwest by Lebanon and Dauphin counties, and on the southwest by York County from which it is separated by the Susquehanna River. The region enjoys a highly

times. No organizations or civic clubs and no adult managers took time to assist and train the teams. These were often consolidated and the most efficient players chosen for a select team to play a sectional, school or county nine. With seemingly disadvantages yet such playing fields could produce a Jim