Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-11-26
LANCASTER.
TWO TOWNS IN THE OLD WORLD AND the
NEW.


notes the similarity of names and Gus
toms in many places with Pennsylva
MIA towns, and in this graphic anc
interesting manner compares the Ian
caster of the old country and the city
of that name in this State:
In this Lancaster from which
! write you can trace the family rela
tionship even TO minute detail. Their,
is here from old King street and 0
Queen street, and Little Duke street
and st. Mary's, James, High, Market
, Water. Ann, Church and Middle streets
+ i Onr prinoa stroot is horo Prince Regent
street. There is St. Peters Roman
Catholic Church and Phoenix Foun,
dry, which may, for aught know, be
the parent Of our Phenixvile Iron
Works.
England's Lancaster, like Pennsyl-
vania's, is G town OF something over
! 10000 people and the centre of Ian
caster county but in the two counties
there is no parallel. England's Ian
eashire county has nearly three mill
ions ofpopulation. 1t is relatively one
OF the largest counties of England,
having an acreage of l,208,000 acres,
During this century it has become the
} centre Of tho cotton trade. and cities
like Manchester and Liverpool, with
their hundreds of thousands of inhabi.
tants, have sprung up within its bor-
ders but little Lancaster town, with
its old church and castle and the
prestige Of Its Roman camp, is still the
historic county-town, the seat OF its
dignity and honor. England rather
looks down on new.made wealth un-
consecrated by religion, learning, blood
or tradition of arms.
Although place Of perhaps several
thousand inhabitants less than our
Pennsylvania town, this Lancaster
presents much more imposing ap-
pearance. 1t is built entirely of stone,
giving it very solid and substantial
air, while the tints OF the stone, grays
of every hue, produce much hand
somer effect than anything that could
be gotten from bricks. The central
view from old Main street, looking up
the rising slope OF the hill covered with
quaint gables and buttressed walls, and
finally eliminating in the castelated
masses of John Of Gaunt's great town,
is one of the finest pictures OF interior
England and architecturally quite
striking. 1t is an irregular town Of
narrow streets, rambling up and down
hills of even sleeper grade than those
Of our own Lancaster, and plunging
every now and then into dark and
diDgy hollows that are more pictur-
esque than reputable. II is, however,
very reasonably free, for England, from
beggary and want, and its approaches
to the country are generally TIN ough
pleasant lanes lined with comfortable
cottages or small houses festooned with
flowers, and each h With j its little 9 garden g
pleasing picture oil comfort and modest
refinement.
1t was on a market morning | came
to Lancaster and the look of things
was very familiar. King street was
lined with anhorsed wagons and carts
and vehicles Of all kinds iron the coun-
try. In the large, spacious courts or
interior yards of the inns were throngs
OF people surging out into the streets
and then back again. In the stalls
and ta, roon,o tho rnan xporo cot n ar.b
talking, and selling, and buying--in
the stores and shops of the women.
Further down into the town the scene
became more distinctly English and
provincial, the market shifting into n
kind of iair--noisy, cheap and rough.
Here all kinds of things were being
sold at vcndue, halt dozen rude auc-
tioneers standing almost with their
backs to each other, each with barrel
covered with a shcet.iron plato as his
stand or counter. All Of them cried
their wares at the top of their voices
and pounded with hammer on the
iron plates in order TO emphasize
their yelling. Nevertheless, through
all this din and disorderly noise the
transfer OF property, after fashion,
went pretty rapidly on. The things
sold were small wares, Of course, OF a
cheap kind-rough china, tin, ready.
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