manufacture to the Alpine mountaineers of Switzer- land. The Swiss colony that settled at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1721, came from the Canton of Basle or Basel. They were all mechanics and most of them gunsmiths. Prior to their advent the only firearms known in America were smooth-bore muskets and fowling

in the borough and county of Lancaster, situated on Queen street, and the title to which was in the Commonwealth, of Pennsylvania. �George Washington, and that first of all "Colonial Dames" and "Daughters of the Revolution," his stately wife, the "Lady Washington," made their advent. Hiltzheimer was

A CENTENNIAL EVENT One of the oldest families and widest connections in Eastern Lan- caster county are the Slaymakers Their ancestors bought of and settled on the famous "London lands," along the old Strasburg and Gap roads, and they have illustrated the tenacity of the Lancaster county land-owner

thus he became a brother-in-law of that other famous native Lancaster countian, Rev. Dr. Samuel Stanhope Smith, of Pequea, who married Witherspoon's eldest daughter when he was President of Hampden-Sydney and before his call to Princeton. After the death of the first Mrs. Ramsay her bereaved husband

How the Pennsylvania Railroad Came Through Lancaster. The casual purchase of a basketful of old books at a recent public sale threw into my possession three small manuscript volumes of rare local in- terest. They relate to an incident in the history of Lancaster city and os the public works of the

LANCASTER IN 1777-1780. In the recently published paper by W. U. Hensel on Major John Andre's Residence in Lancaster, 1775-76, refer- ence was made to the social life in Lancaster during the period of the American Revolution, It was pretty plainly intimated, and easily to be in- ferred, that during

Major John Andre's Residence in Lancaster. In a notable passage of one of the finest outbursts of modern oratory, a great man, on a great occasion, stand- ing in a great place, suggested that while it reeked little what he and his colleagues said, where they then stood, the world could never forget