the Radicals and their industrialist allies for their inadvertent contribution to the evolutionary process—from the old Southern feudal system and toward a future Marxian society. Allen regarded Stevens and Sum- ner as revolutionary bourgeois leaders who made proposals that the poor be provided with

law enforcement officer, High Constable Alexander Gibony.1 As progenitor of the Lancaster City Police Department which was not formally organized until May 1867, Gibony was required to uphold the laws of the newly created borough. Prior to this date law and order in the com- munity had been the

still frequently given. In the beginning hostesses were members who volunteered at previous meetings, but later hostesses were assigned in alphabetical order, this plan continuing today. The social activities of the first year included a picnic at Long Park, with bathing at Brookside, games, contests