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its charter authorizing it to run stages
between the Quaker City and Lancaster.
The pike was completed in three years, |
the funds for the work being raised through
a public lottery, and for more than half a
century the road was regarded as the
model one of the country.
The first vessel to demonstrate that
transportation was possible between the
Great Lakes and the Hudson River was
the White Fish, which ended her maiden
trip at Philadelphia, November 4, 1905. |
The first steam dredging machine was
installed at Philadelphia in 1904 by Oliver
Evans, having been constructed at one
Of the city factories.
The first commercial agency to sell
American manufactures in the United |
States was established in Philadelphia in
1905, Elijah Waring heading the enter
prise.
The first carbonated water manufac-
tured in the country was made by Joseph !
Hawkins of Philadelphia in 1907.
The first railway laid in America was
down for experimental purposes only by |
Thomas Leiper in the yard of the old
Bulls Head Tavern on Third-st., near
Callowhill Philadelphia, in 1909.
The African Methodist Episcopal
Church in the United States was organized |
in Philadelphia at the initial convention
of that faith, held in 1916.
The first normal school in the United |
States was The Model School" of Phila- |
delphia. which Joseph Lancaster started
in 1918.
The first Autograph executed in Amer
lea was made in Philadelphia, and APP
peared in the July issue, 1910, of the ven
cradle 'Analetic Magazine The original
stone is now owned by the American
Philosophical Society.
The first calico cylinders from which
the goods might be printed were engraved
in Philadelphia in 1922.
The Consolidation Act of 1854. under
the terms of which THE liberties and
boroughs adjacent to the city" of Phila-
delphia became part and parcel of it, the
coming identical, was the first instance
in the United States of the now common
custom of forming greater" cities.
The first international exposition held
in this country was the Centennial.
opened by President Hayes at Philadel
phia in 1876. The New York exhibi-
ton twenty years earlier had not been
international in scope.
The first commercial museums in
America, designed to foster our foreign
trade by maintaining closer and more
turers and their markets, by means of
consular representatives., We're organized
in Philadelphia in 1907.
Ground for Their Pride
FROM all of the foregoing there would
L appear much ground for the proven
bal Philadelphia pride" Agnes Rep
plier once described the metropolis of the
keystone State as Not pretty CITY, and
one very badly run, with a wretched
climate and mere travesty upon proper
trolley service; but the people are really
very pleasant, and the butter is delicious.
This seems more witty than thorough.
Surely something of example" or I'm
SEPARATION" might have been said; though,
perhaps, it would not have fitted we'll
with the essayist's clever summary. Pos
sibly, too, it was as we'll to leave it to the
city itself to do its own talking of that
during the last few days.
And the late Arthur McEwen, COM
menting on a modern municipal political
condition, wrote, Philadelphia has more
Revolutionary relics and less revolution
airy spirit than any other city in Amer
lea" He might well have added, And
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