Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill . Animals, on Monday, resulted in the receipt of $433. The new building for the Germantown Electric Light Company, now beingerected, will contain power sufficient for 20,000 incandescent lights and 120arc lights of the Edison sj^stem. GERMANTOWN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY. The first concert of the season given by the Germantown Orchestral Societytook place last evening in Association Hall, Germantown, under the directionof Mr. Otto L. Kehrwieder. The audience was quite large, and a creditableperformance was given. The soloists were Mrs. Bell
Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill . Animals, on Monday, resulted in the receipt of $433. The new building for the Germantown Electric Light Company, now beingerected, will contain power sufficient for 20,000 incandescent lights and 120arc lights of the Edison sj^stem. GERMANTOWN ORCHESTRAL SOCIETY. The first concert of the season given by the Germantown Orchestral Societytook place last evening in Association Hall, Germantown, under the directionof Mr. Otto L. Kehrwieder. The audience was quite large, and a creditableperformance was given. The soloists were Mrs. Bell Dixon, soprano; Geiger, violinist; Mr. Harry J. Dahl, cornetist. Zither quartette:Messrs. C. and H. Faltermayer, E. Oswald and 0. Koch. John Dyson was theaccompanist. The second concert will be given next February. Philadelphia Inquirer, November 22d, 1889. In closing Ancient Germantown the reflection arises that every houseand individual is an interesting study; and if one hereafter writes of ModernGermantown, he may find much more of MOUNT AIRY. Mount Airy. Mount Airy is an indefinite name, and has, perhaps, in olden time extendedas far down into Germantown as Washington lane, as that was the northernborder of the old town; but it seems proper to refer it to the tract whichbegins at Carpenter street and Gorgas lane, which are on opposite sides ofGermantown road, and ends at Mermaid lane, and I shall so use it. Thiswas the limit of the new borough. Mermaid lane is the upper boundary ofMount Airy. The southern boundary of Ancient Germantown was a littlebelow Duys lane; the northern boundary was the road to Abington, nowWashington streec. This covered about IJ miles, for the length of the oldtown, which was divided into 52 pieces of land of about equal size. [Town-send Wards Germantown Road, Pa. Mag. of Hist, No. 4, Vol. V, p. 373.] The name is said to come from the airy position of the district, and theground rises as we leave Carpenter street. It is belie
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