century will never be clearly understood until a definitive biography of this significant figure has been written. As Mr, Tolles says, James Logan was "one of the three or four most considerable men in colonial America." The wonder is that so little has heretofore been heard about this extraordinary

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

images "as through a glass darkly," by the medium of skillfully painted portraits by the old masters, by reflections in mirrors, placid streams or highly polished surfaces. Years before 1839, artists and chemists had been experiment- ing with methods to retain a permanent image or reflection of an object

unstinted helpfulness of the librarian, Major W. P. Zantzinger, who is a great-great-grandson of Paul Zantzinger, of local Revolutionary fame. Note. The plate on the opposite page shows postmarks of Chickies post office, now discontinued; Hempfield, now known as Rohrerstown; Cordelia (Ironville), disc

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

. In an entry for June 27, 1744, we read of informal festivities, wherein is noted that a young Indian danced a jig with Andrew Hamilton, town clerk of Philadelphia, in a most surprising manner. "The younger persons raised their jollity by dancing in the Indian dress, and after their manner." James

to Mr. Ranck's attention by his uncle, the late John R. Bricker, of Lititz. To have listened to the Rev. Dr. Paul de Schweinitz, himself a �lineal descendant of the Count (for his great grandmother was Zinzendorf's grand-daughter), giving the principal address of the occasion, was to know the

- stances and the limitations of the paper to confine myself to the original township of Little Britain, which now includes Fulton township, originally a portion of the same. Within its limits and boundaries live the descendants of the people who have probably done �more in the making of history for