. The story of Lancaster: old and new; being a narrative history of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, form 1730 to the centennial year 1918 . y the automobile, the greatest champion for goodroads the world has ever seen since the dawn ofhistory. Their only disadvantages are the habit ofstirring up the dust, and turning turtle occasionallyafter striking a trolley pole. WTiether poles wereplanted to be struck, we have no means of they are struck, all drivers of cars well seem to have a peculiar fascination for strikingpoles in turning out in giving up the middle of theroad to some
. The story of Lancaster: old and new; being a narrative history of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, form 1730 to the centennial year 1918 . y the automobile, the greatest champion for goodroads the world has ever seen since the dawn ofhistory. Their only disadvantages are the habit ofstirring up the dust, and turning turtle occasionallyafter striking a trolley pole. WTiether poles wereplanted to be struck, we have no means of they are struck, all drivers of cars well seem to have a peculiar fascination for strikingpoles in turning out in giving up the middle of theroad to some obstreperous farmer in his dear-born. At times an automobile has been known togo tearing through a gate, and all for the saving,not the toll, but to see how far they can go with theleast consumption of gasohne! It used to be said that the man who rode in asulky was always in danger of the axle breaking inthe center, causing the two wheels to grasp thelone rider back of the ears. Again, even in yeolden times a stage coach was Hable to overturn, THE N£V^ YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR, LENOX TILDEN FCUKDATIONS T-^ •? -iriTv—la. LLlOUJ OO < cc LANCASTER JOCKEY CLUB 253 spilKng its passengers into a ditch. So, things havenever been so bad but that they might not beworse! No! nothing can be worse than to be scaredout of ones wits by the blowing of the abominableauto-horn! It is at times pleasing to note how the proceedingsof Councils have always something old yet new tosuggest. And now, ye young students of Frankhnand Marshall, give eye to what is to follow. It wason the 25th of July, 1854, that the Select and Com-mon Councils met by invitation to join in pro-cession with the Trustees and patrons of the collegeto their new home in the Northwestern part of thecity. The old brick college from which the processionstarted stood on Lime Street opposite where stoodthe Schroeder mansion. At the time, more thansixty years ago, people wondered what had everpossessed the management to loca
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