Pennsylvania Railroad commenced similar operations. The new railroad then withdrew, and concentrated on completion of that portion extending from Chickies Station near Marietta to a junction with the Reading and Columbia Railroad near Landisville. This, too, soon ceased, and the Hanover Junction and

10,653 tons in addition to 145 tons of bars rolled round; the following year only 7,347 tons of rails were produced.18 The Pennsylvania Railroad Company contracted with Reeves, Abbot and Company for 15,000 tons of rails at $60.50 per ton, or approximately $10 per ton less than the market price on the

, sometimes a half day, waiting for "his man" to arrive on the train. Wittick was instrumental in solving the attempted murder of Mrs. Frank Thomson, wife of the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad. A criminal named Purnell and his three associates, "Doc" Sawyer, Willjam Dickson, and Tom Johnson, broke

for its beauty and the purity of �1662 Co. Poor & House L EMPLOYMENT House of _ - Electrotune Pa. Phila. Map taken from "Survey and Plot" for Commissioners of Lancaster County, December 1877. �of its waters. The City of Lancaster being on the line of the Pennsylvania Rail- road, and of the Columbia

Installation of The Hon. Thaddeus Stevens In the Pennsylvania Hall of Fame An address by John Ward Willson Loose 16 November 1974 at Founders Hall, Girard College, Philadelphia Ladies and gentlemen, officers, judges, and guests of the Penn- sylvania Hall of Fame's Third Annual Banquet: I am pleased

The Lancaster Crematorium: First in the USA By John W. W. Loose in the spring of 1884 a group of Lancastrians met at the Intelligencer newspaper office to discuss the feasibility of organizing an association for the reform of funerals. On 27 May 1884 the Lancaster Cremation and Funeral Reform

ap- parently were not built for permanence. On 16 August 1784, a year after the end of the Revolution, the last barracks master, John Schreiber, wrote to Presi- dent John Dickinson, reporting one of the gable ends collapsed during the fall of a chimney, and that if a new roof is not put on the entire