New-York tribune., 1908-10-11

The tIrs- or-erv t. illustrate The move
-le-.-s etc. # The solar sES-,-uI con-
e--uC-cd IN his country was ne wnrE. #
David Rl--e-hoss,. &. grandson # William
Rv--e-huizeu 4 paper mill fame, 4 sell
trained astronomer. who completed The
instrument Il 1855. L is nov owned by
The frs school # anatomy n America
Was .re1cd r. Philadelphia, November
-r.- --t1. D. William Sh.rrou, The virtual
founder. a--acla-lrg DR. ohm Morgan
with himself j. he lectures
Steam as d -uy-tE, power t.- l,r-d car
--a-.- Was -l--- suggested -u Philadelphia
elder statesmen IN I7-S ~ ''I.er
Evans The American Wat To-day
-.l Quaker CITY j. one # The foremost
.,.-.-e-s t.- manufacturing automobiles.
The 1r-, American Congress called
-cu--f-.e-l-aI ... assembled iu PHlad,L-
-.n1a September :. I77-, meeting 81 CAR
-le-..e-- Hail. just nr # Dht-rHat--'-
.uidwav between Third and Fourth be
DELEGATES. representing al the COLONIES
save Or. -gla continued their lelrtra-
-1.--- Tor seven weeks
The -l-s- daily newspaper II -hrle-.g-
was D G. CIayr..le.- PeHn-ElEstta
PacEe-.' ' which made rs appearance ln
philadelphia IL 1-7-. having grown out
4 q weekly sheet # -ae same name g.
-arIished there three years earlier ~
The m. .r-i-lare-y society was
formed that same year .il7+I oE f.t..-
del.la rLila-,hraris The PeHnsE--
va-.ia oocie,y fl Prom. r.rg the A"nht'en
# Slavery Benjamin Franklin Was lts
-l-s- president.
The Hrsr United States flag the Stars
and S-riresI was adopted aE Congress-
assembled il Philadelphia, Iuue "a. I'LL,
having been made under General Wash
ingrons supervision by PhiladclI Ihia
widow, Betsy Ross, ~ her tlnE home on
Arch-s-- near Second
The first Abolition Acc IL America,
providing that slavery be abolished il
PENNSYLVANIA, was passed by The Assem-
tlv H. philadelphia. March J, 1850
The first English Bible printed il Amer
iea came from Robert Aitken's Philadcl-
-.lla press IL 1852
The Protestant Episcopal Church il
Aruer5ca was organized - general con-
veutiou # The clergy Il The iajh IL
Philadelphia, September =, 1855.
The first steamboat model was cHnIt1tcd
before the American Philosophical So
gietv IN their rooms on Independence
Square II the same month hy John Fllch5
and on August p, 1851 fItch trSt
sidewhecl vessel, foTty-tIVc feet long ana
Twelve feet beam, lnancuFered success
FULLY on the Delaware, thus antedatlng
Fulton more noteworthy achievement Of
this sort by twenty years
The first American dispensary was
founded il Philadelphia IL l7So by DT-
BENJAMIN Rush, The Sydeuham of A1nerl-
ca. He was q signer # the Declaration
# Independence, one ot he founders oi
Dickinson College. and for fourteen years
treasurer # the federal mint
The first Greek book printed il thc ~
INT Republic was the " Dialogues If
Lucia1l. issued from The Philadelphia press
II Joseph lanes il 1880.
The frsc public canal ggo,mp4.n,y IN
Amcrica was chartered in PhiladclIhla.
April Io. 17oI. under he title If The
S5hurll.iII ( Susquehanna Canal Com
pany.
was o1cned for business IN Carpenter
Hal Philadelphia, in December .I7pI
with Thomas Willing as its president,
Is capital was ten million dollars and
lrauches were established II Boston,
New York. Baltimore. and Charleston