unanimously approved. It was signed by John Light and the other one hundred and forty-nine officers : "TO JOHN ADAMS, ESQ., PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES : "At a period so momentous as the present, when it but too plainly appears that we must either submit to be dictated to by a �foreign power or resort to

address was as follows: TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE ADDRESS OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE COUNTY OF LANCASTER, PA. At this alarming crisis in our political existence, we approach you, Sir, to express our cordial approbation of the measures adopted by the Executive for the preservation of the

It was not until 1850 that Millard Fillmore, then President of the United States, had the first bathtub installed in the White House. It was made in Philadelphia, of thin cast iron. It is interesting to note that nine years before Adam Thomp- son introduced the first bathtub into this country

, "Jacob Albright, Esq., "Mayor of Lancaster, Pa." STANDARD PRESENTED TO WASHING- TON GRAYS By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER T HE Lancaster Journal of Friday, February 26th, 1830, con- tained the following : "The anniversary of the birth of our illustrious Washington, was celebrated [Monday, February 22nd] in

Alexander von Humboldt in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER O N March 7th, 1804, Alexander von Humboldt, who had been traveling in the New World, left Vera Cruz, Mexico, for Havana, on board a royal frigate, to secure collections left there by him for safe keeping in the year 1800. After a stay

of their losses. "Resolved, That to this end we invoke the united and hearty cooperation of those in the different towns and townships of Lancaster county, who are blessed in their basket and their store, not knowing in what hour a similar catastrophe may befall them, appealing to the public

Lancaster, where so many useful manufacturing establishments are in opera- tion, the citizens will not be backward in giving countenance to the exertions of their brethren in other sections of the United States." In response to this appeal, a number of persons friendly to domestic manufactures, met at Col

West- cott's History of Philadelphia, Vol. 2, p. 864.) So far as I am, at pres- ent, able to discover, it was seventy years later before a representative of this "king of beasts" was seen in Lancaster. We know that in 1797 an African lion was placed on exhibition here, although this may not have been

Andrew Jackson in Lancaster By WILLIAM FREDERIC WORNER INVol.1,page742,oftheadmirablehistoryofYorkCounty,Pa., prepared by the late George R. Prowell, and published in 1907, appears the following : "On Saturday morning, February 13th, 1819, General Andrew Jackson, then the head of the American army

adopted : "In pursuance of the call published in our newspapers by friends of General Jackson, of the city and county of Lancaster, we assemble for the purpose of appointing a committee to be charged with the pleasing duty of inviting the President of the United States to visit us whenever his high duties