banner announcing the afternoon game at Rossmere: Lancaster versus Trenton! Baer's Almanac goes on forever, but it is not the same since the original salesman, Baker Young, has passed for all time. Changing modes of transportation have all but cancelled out the glorious old- time church picnics to such

Surveyor of the Capital of Our Nation By M. LUTHER HEISEY Surveyor of the Capital, Washington, D. C., February, 1791 to July, 1793, A resident of Lancaster, Pa., from October, 1801 to November, 1813. "To this place [Lancaster] I feel more attached than to any other."—A. E. Secretary of the Land

behooves us to encourage what is emphatically native talent." 3 Dr. William Baker Fahnestock was born in Lancaster, Octo- ber 13, 1804, and exactly twenty-five years later was married in St. James' Episcopal Church to Maria, daughter of Henry M. and 3 From the Lancaster Intelligencer and Journalof Tuesday

time had come for organizing a Lutheran congregation. Being well acquainted 1 Journals of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Tappert and Doberstein, Phila., 1942, p. 492. 2 Ibid, p. 532. Memorial Volume, Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, 1861, p. 44. 4 Diary of the Rev. F. A. C. Muhlenberg, from the Lutheran

of Paul Zantzinger are C. C. Zantzinger, architect of Philadelphia, Pa., and a great-great-grandson - Major William Paul Zantzinger, librarian in the Post Office Departmental Building, Wash- ington, D. C. * Baptismal record found in Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, Pa. �

in 1704, of Huguenot descent, and in 1727 married Catharina Brecht. He was an elder of First Reformed Church, but later joined the Moravian congregation, in whose cemetery he was buried in 1751. �50 LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY His remains were reinterred in the Greenwood Cemetery, by the side

— the airplane. So Lancaster, in marking the twentieth anniversary of the first air-mail flight in the United States, celebrated the event on Thursday, May 19, 1938, by dispatching by plane the first air mail ever flown from a Lan- caster airport. At 3:14 P. M., five planes, bearing as many pouches of

A CENTURY OF PROGRESS ALONG LIME STREET, LANCASTER, PA. By M. LUTHER HEISEY The logical starting point of our sketch of Lime street, from its begin- nings, and of some of those who at one time had, or now have, their homes on this thoroughfare, is East King street. There, on the northwest corner

Cotillions of the Lancaster Assembly M. Luther Heisey Long before the Cotillions of the Lancaster Assembly became famous the art of dancing is mentioned in the early archives of Lancaster County. When Witham Marche attended the Commissioers Treaty gathering in Lancaster he kept an interesting diary