manage- ment of the famous actor Douglass, called itself American Company. It slowly became a stabilized institution and we shall meet its members in Lancaster many times. Demand for group entertainment had become so urgent that legal restrictions did not hamper its evolution. In the very primitive begin

prospect and convenience. 3. North and South lines, intersected by others running due East and West, make the distribution of the City into Streets, Squares, &c., and these lines have been so combined as to meet at certain given points with those diver- gent Avenues, so as to form on the Spaces "first

announces to the ladies of Lancaster that she will make habits, caps, chapeau, &c., aster all sorts of sashions. He lived at the widow Newman's. Lancaster must have had some reputation as a literary center even at that early period, and earlier still. In the Maryland Journal, of August 20, 1773, published