Lititz Record

              An Independent Family Newspaper, Devoted to Literature, Agriculture, Local and General Intelligence.
VOL. XXXV LITITZ, PA THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8,1912. NO. 21
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HAPPENINGS ABOUT THE
VICINITY.
fOWN AND
Short and Snappy Paragraphs of Inter-est
to Every Reader.
Roy Meiskey went to Garfield, N. J.,
to work in a paper mill.
A boy's glove awaits the loser at
Kreider's hardware store.
John F. Longenecker sold a Penn
"30" touring car to Amos Longenecker
of Akron on Saturday.
The members of the Moravian church
choir enjoyed a sleigh ride to Ephrata
and return on Saturday evening.
Next Monday is Lincoln's birthday
anniversary. It is a legal holiday in
this state, consequently the banks will
be closed.
St. Valentine's day comes on Wednes-day,
February 14. Of course the young
folks know this without being reminded
•of the fact.
Miss Vera Habecker is now a regular
employee in the post office. She had
.been serving as a substitute the past
several years..
E. C. Ritchie found a pin bearing the
initials S. A. H. S. '06,in his restaurant
on Tuesday, which he will gladly re-turn
to the owner.
One of F. B. Buch's young Amherst
pheasants escaped from the pen on Sun-day.
Reward will be paid for any infor-mation
leading to its recovery.
The stork paid a visit to the homes of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pfautz and Mr.
and Mrs. Paris Nissley ihis week, and
a baby girl now resides in each home.
The annual Shrove Tuesday spelling
match will be held at Linden Hall sem-inary
and the prizes this year will be
Dickens' works because of the Dickens
centenary.
Isaac Lorah shipped seven fine horses
from the Warwick House stables to
John D. Bear at Blue B all on Wednes-day.
It was rather a cold ride for the
man hi -uarge. ,,
There was a large attendance of the
members of Garfield Castle No. 76 K.
G. E. at Tuesday evening's meeting,
when a revision of the by-laws of the
order was adopted.
Charles A. Brobst will serve a ban-quet
to a number of Franklin and
Marshall college students at the Springs
hotel this evening. The same party
was here about a year ago.
The Lititz High school literary so-ciety
will hold its regular meeting this
Friday evening at 7.30. It will in re-ality
be a patriotic meeting, when exer-cises
and talks on Abraham Lincoln and
George Washington will be given.
Everybody is invited.
The bretzel bakeries of town are en-joying
a big rush of orders at the pres-ent
time and the capacity of the various
concerns is taxed to the utmost to com-ply
with the demands for the salted
crisps. Several' of the bakeries are
clamoring for rriore employees.
The RECORD received a beautiful
souvenir post card this week from Mr.
Harry H. McCloud, of Philadelphia,
from Port Antonio, Jamaica. Mr. Mc-
Cloud spent several days there among
the banana plantations, which are of
more than ordinary interest to him, as
he is a wholesale dealer in this fruit.
The annual invoice of garden seeds
from our Congressman W. W. Griest,
arrived at the local postoffice from
Washington, D. C., this week. There
were hundreds of envelopes of them
and we are sure the majority of per-sons
of Lititz and vicinity were sup-plied,
whether supporters of the G. 0.
P. or not.
—The other day one of my customers
said he needed a suit to bridge him over
for the winter. He was suited and
pleased and these are the words he said :
•'I expected to pay more for a suit of
this quality." Now, we have a lot of
suits and hats which we are going to
dispose of at very low figures during the
next ten days. If you want a genuine
bargain come early at the Broad street
store of W . H. BUCH.
With the first of April fast approach-ing,
there are at least a score of fami-lies
in town who must vacate their
their present abodes by that time, but
owing to- the scarcity of houses, they
are at a loss to know where to move.
Real sstate agents are harassed con-tinually
by persons who are in quest of
homes. It is reported that the con-struction
of many new houses will be
begun in the spring.
A VERY BIG PUBLIC SALE
Seekers of Antiques Buy Articles at Fab-ulous
Prices.
The public sale of the personal prop-erty
of the late Peter E. Burkholder,
held at his late home, a mile southwest
of town, on Tuesday afternoon, attract-ed
a very large crowd of people from
near and far. The sale started at 1
| o'clock and darkness was fast approach-ing
when Auctioneer H. H. Snavely
put the last article under the hammer.
Owing to the many antiques offered,
there were many antiquarians on hand,
and they bid at a rapid rate. A wealth
of homespun linen was sold and it re-quired
almost two hours to dispose of it.
Prices ran high and $4.00 was paid for a
pretty decorated linen towel a yard in
length. The sale of the old linen in
itself amounted to $300. Several old
chairs realized as much as $7.50 each.
A glass cream mug brought $10, and
was purchased by an antique collector
who came all the way from Pottsville to
attend the sale. A four-wheeled baby
coach, over a 100 years old, sold for $13.
It was built much on the order of an
old-time stage coach, with iron-rimmed
wheels containing spokes as heavy as a
modern carriage. Steel springs which
made it possible to have a rocking
motion were used and it had a top sup-ported
by four posts. It attracted a
great deal of attention. The coach will
be shipped by the purchaser to Califor-nia,
where it will be placed in a museum.
It is claimed to be the only one of its
kind in existence. Many old dishes,
among them being some of the Steigel
ware, were sold, a cup and saucer
bringing $4.00. The entire proceeds of
the sale amounted to
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THOSE WHO RECEIVED
SUMMONS.
THEIR LAST
Real Estate Market.
Hershey & Gibbel, real estate agents,
transacted the following real estate
deals this week:
For Mrs. Katie Sonon, a two-story
brick dwelling on South Broad street,
south of the borough limits, to John
Boyd on private terms.
For Mrs. Lydia A/Doster, two 2-story
frame houses on South Broad street,
this borough, to Dr. D. Alonzo Long,
on private terms.
For Allen B. Keller, a two-story frame
house and lot, on New street, Warwick,
to Wilson G. Oberlin, for $1250.
Third Death in One House Within Nine
Months.
Mrs. Elizabeth Gibble, wife of Rev.
Hiram Gibble, of the Church of the
Brethren, died on Tuesday morning, at
the home of her late sister, Mrs. Maria
Pfautz, on South Broad street, this
borough, from a complication of diseases
after an illness of three weeks, aged 70
years, 10 months and 1 day. Deceased's
maiden name was Minnich, and she was
born on the old Minnich homestead,
about two miles west of Lititz. She
was married twice, her first husband
being Aaron Swarr, of East Hempfield
township. After her second marriage
to Rev. Hiram Gibble, she had resided
at different times at White Oak and
Manheim, where her husband served as
pastor. The last four months Rev.
Gibble and wife had made their home at
the residence of the latter's twin sister,
Mrs. Maria Pfautz, on South Broad
street, to whom the'deceased ministered
in her last illness. Isaac Pfautz died
last May, and the widow, Mrs Pfautz,
died about four weeks ago, and the
death of her sister followed closely
thereafter. The following children sur-vive:
Amanda, wife of S. N. Rutt, of
Landisville; Harry, of East Hempfield;
Elizabeth, wife of P. W. Baker, of
Landisville; Hiram, of Philadelphia,
and John, of Landisville. Four sisters
also survive, as follows: Mrs. Emma
Miller, and Mrs. George Shreiner, of
Lititz; Mrs. Sarah Swarr, of East
Petersburg; Mrs. Henry Sonon, of
Mechanicsville. The funeral was held
on Monday morning, with services and
interment at Longenecker's.
MORAVIAN PIPE ORGAN TO BE REBUILT
Turnpike Viewers Appointed.
The court appointed A. W. Snader, of
New Holland; Wm. B. Bishop, of Stras-burg,
and Joseph Miller, of Marietta,
viewers in the Lititz and Rothsville
turnpike matter and fixed February 15
as the time for the first meeting. Some
time ago a petition was presented to
the court to have this pike condemned.
Would be a Paying Investment.
At the present time, when the tobacco
growers in this section are delivering
their crops to the railroad siding, where
it is loaded in cars and shipped elsewhere
one wonders why it could not be kept in
our own town just as well. Tobacco
packing yields the large dealers a very
snug income. Why not erect a large
warehouse in Lititz and organize a cor-poration
to purchase the weed here-abouts
and prepare it for the market of
the larger cities? There is no reason
why it would not be a good investment
and pay the investors a fair profit. Of
course, there are a number of small
packers in town, but the majority of
the crop is sent away for others to profit
thereby.
New Restaurant Opened.
Harry H. Snavely formally opened a
new restaurant this morning in the
building recently vacated by Wm. M.
Mumma on E. Main street. The grand
opening will be held on Saturday. It
will be a full course restaurant with the
best of everything. He receives his
oysters direct from the beds and guar-antees
strictly fresh goods. Marrow's
ice cream will be sold. Mr. Snavely is
a son of Mrs. Laura Snavely of this
place and recently moved here from
Philadelphia. He is no novice in the
art of satisfying the wants of the inner
man, having had charge of Anderson's
famous cafe in the Quaker city for sev-eral
years. We bespeak for him suc-cess.
California Cars are Here.
The two exhibit cars from the North
of Bay Counties, California, arrived
here from Ephrata this morning, and
are located on the siding near the rail-road
station, where they will be open to
the public all day and evening, until
Friday night. The exterior of the cars
are very attractive, the first car, which
exhibits the products of that section of
California, has many exhibits in cases
with glass fronts, which can be seen
without entering the car. The cost of
this car alone is $25,000.
Car No. 2 is the Museum car and con-tains
a number of wonders from the
deep sea, the feature being the mon-ster
elephant shark, which is 36 feet
long, weighs 10,383 pounds, aged 460
and has a throat two feet in diameter.
All who attend the exhibition receive
souvenirs. The cars have their own
electric light plant. The price of ad-mission
is 25 cents for adults and 15
cents for children. It is very reason-able
indeed when what is seen is taken
into consideration
Death of a Child.
ilosie K. Felker died at the home of
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Fellier, corner of Broad and Orange
streets, Warwick, on Tuesday evening
at 7 o'clock, after an illness of five days
with tonsilitis. Her age was 10 years
and 11 days. The mother, Mary Felker,
survives. The funeral will be held on
Friday morning with services at the
house at 9 o'clock, and at the Middle
Creek meeting house at about 10.30.
Interment will be made in the adjoining
cemetery. Revs. J. E. Keene and I.
W. Taylor will officiate.
Death of an Infant.
Charles Elwood, infant son of Harry
and Lizzie A'dams, residing on New
street, Warwick, died on Wednesday
noon from inward convulsious. His age
was 1 month and 16 days. Funeral will
be held Saturday at 1.30 P. M. at the
house, at 2 at the U. B. church. Inter-ment
will be made in Machpelah ceme-tery.
Rev. J. E. Keene will haye
charge.
Mrs. Alice R. Fell.
Mrs. Alice Rebecca Fell, widow of
Charles Fell, died last Sunday morning
at the Zion Church Home near Lititz.
Deceased was a resident of Lancaster
for many years and she was in her 76th
year. She had been an invalid for a
long time and had been at the home for
a year. Mrs. Fell was a native of Ches-ter
county. Her husband had a tannery
at Kirk's Mills, Little Britain, for some
years. The surviving children are
Arthur S., of Imperial, Cal.; William
D., of ¡Little Britain; Francis G., of
Reading; Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Roberts,
of Kirk's Mills. The funeral was held
on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Undertaker Groff took the body to Lan-caster
of Sunday. Services were held
in Olivet Baptist church interment in
Greenwood cemetery.
Other Improvements to be Made to the
Interior of the Church.
At an adjourned meeting of the Mo-ravian
church council, held last Monday
evening, a number of important propo-sitions
were considered for the improve-ment
of the edifice, among them the
extension of the building on the south
side. This, however, by a large major-ity
was not considered adviseable and
was voted down.
The most important item was the
adoption of a resolution to have the
organ given a general overhauling and
moved a foot or more toward the
rear, thus giving that much more space
for the organist and the choir. Follow-ing
this it was also agreed to have the
interior of the church repainted and
decorated and the floors recarpeted.
The entire cost will run up to between
four and five thousand dollars. Instead
of taking money out of the church treas-ury
for the purpose it was agreed to
have a committee of ten appointed to
secure subscriptions from members.
This committee will be appointed by
Rev. Hagen, the president of the coun-cil,
who will name the committee later
on.
When the question of extending the
gallery came up it was voted down, be-cause
the majority believed it would
not look well and would more or less
spoil the appearance of the church.
The organ as it stands today was
built by Messrs. Hook & Hastings, of
Boston, Mass., at a cost of $2,450, al-though
the same organ, were it to be
built today, would cost twice the amount.
It has 924 pipes, 2 manuals and 83 reg-isters.
The exterior is from the de-sign
of the late Prof. Theodore Wolle,
of Bethlehem. The first public trial
and dedication of the instrument was
held on Sunday, July 13, 1879, Prof.
H. A. Brickenstein performing the ded-icatory
services. The organ it re-placed
had been in use almost 100 years
and is still preserved in the church attic.
Mrs. Lavinia Townley.
Mrs. Lavinia Townley, widow of Har-vey
Townley, died last Friday at her
home in East Petersburg. Her death
was caused by a trouble of the kidneys
and she had been in failing health for
a number of years. She was a daugh-ter
of the late John and Susan Bare
and was born at Oregon, where she
lived for a number of years after her
marriage and later moved to East
Petersburg. She was in her 76th year
and her children who survive are Misses
Linda, Clara and Ella, all at home.
The funeral took place on Monday after-noon
with interment at the Reformed
cemetery, at East Petersburg.
Death at Manheim.
Walter C. Stauffer died at his home
at Manheim on Thursday night, after a
long illness from consumption. De-ceased
was thirty years of age. He
was a painter. He is suryived by his
wife and four children. The funeral
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We All Want the Trolley Line.
To the Editor of THE RECORD.
Nothing in your issue of Feb. 1 in-terested
and delighted me more than to
read in the proceedings of your Borough
Council that "A new ordinance relating
to the proposed Lititz and Rothsville
Electric Railway was introduced and
passed on first reading." Let every
citizen, both in Rothsville and Lititz,
put their shoulder to the wheel and help
the project. This road is bound to be
built. It will be of great importance
to our citizens. Then why delay until
the present generation is dead? I, for
one, expect to go to Rothsville by trol-ley,
but then my days are numbered!
I have just been reading an essay by a
gentleman on not putting off till to-morrow
what you can do to-day.
Eventually this line will be built to
Ephrata and open up a country that has
thus far been cut off from twentieth
century facilities. They are consider-ed
a necessity by all wide-awake people.
Then why should Lititz remain dormant
in the onward march of civilization ?
Why postpone indefinitely, into the un-certain
future, the most important pro-ject
of the towns above mentioned ?
Now I hope some body, that is every
body, will get up on his feet and see to
it that Lititz and Rothsville are con-nected
by trolley this summer, not five
years hence. Do your intelligent read-ers
grasp my urgency? Will they act?
ARTHUR.
LOCAL RESIDENTS GOING
PLACES.
TO OTHER
Making Improvements.
The Edison Electric Company of Lan-caster,
which furnishes the electric light
and power for this place, has a force of
men at work making improvements at
the sub-station along the railroad. The
boiler house has been torn down and the
generators have been supplanted by two
large transformers, which change has
increased the voltage of the primary
current from 1100 to 2200. This change,
which only effects the street lights, will
decrease the fluctuation of the lamps
and hence mean better light.
F. E. Schn erer's Paper Feature of Meet
ing of County Historians.
The monthly meeting of the Lancas-ter
County Historical Society was held
in the A. Herr Smith free library build-ing
at Lancaster on last Friday evening.
The association now has 236 members
and a very good attendance was present
on Friday. The feature of the evening
was the reading of a paper by our
townsman F. E. Schnerer, on "The
Elser Hemp and Saw Mill in Clay Town-ship,"
which he had compiled for the
occasion. It proved most entertaining,
and Mr. Schnerer was congratulated
upon the excellent chapter he contribut-ed
to the society's fund of historical
matter. The contents of the, paper will
be published in the columns of the REC-ORD
in the near future.
The Cold Winter Months Apparently
Do Not Prevent People from Coming
and Going
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Oehme visited her
parents at Manheim on Sunday.
Miss Bertha Sesseman is visiting her
uncle Mr; Hiram Sesseman at Altoona.
Mrs. David Shenk visited her aunt,
Mrs. Lizzie Pehlman, at Millersville on
Tuesday.
Mr. John Hacker of Lansdale was
here Saturday last attending the funeral
of his mother.
Mr. Hiram McCalla, of Steelton, spent
Tuesday and Wednesday in town. He
formerly resided here.
Mr. Samuel Martin, of Elizabeth, N.
J., spent from Saturday to Tuesday
with relatives in town.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Roding of Lancas-ter
were the guests of Emanuel Baker
and family last Sunday.
Mrs. Charles Clewell, of Nazareth,
spent several days in town with her
mother, Mrs. D, A. Cohick.
Mr. Howard Hollinger, employed at
Honeybrook, Chester county, spent Sat-urday
and Sunday with his parents.
Dr. H. A. Cuppy, president of the
Ideal Chocolate factory, and Mr. R. O.
Melzer, are in New York this week.
Elder A. S. Hottenstein, of East
Petersburg, was a pleasant and welcome
caller at the RECORD office on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Lenhart of
Reading spent several days with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Martin Lenhart,
at Warwick.
Norman Carpenter, who worked in
the trap factory, went to Baltimore on
Monday to visit his aunt and expects to
secure employment there.
Mr. H. E. Eby left on Wednesday
afternoon for Chicago, 111., on a flying
business trip, as he expects to be back
in Lititz late Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Dissinger and
Miss Justina Dissinger, of Campbell-town,
Lebanon county, spent several
days with Mrs. Dissinger's parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. C. Ritchie.
Mrs. John Uhler and Mrs. Harry
Miller, of Lebanon, spent Saturday and
Sunday with J. B. Leib and family.
They also attended the funeral of Mrs.
Eli Hacker on Saturday.
Miss Elsie Lenher of Mechanicsburg,
Cumberland county, is the guest of
Mrs. Sarah Beckler and Miss M. J.
Derr. Miss Irene Kline, of Meyerstown
also spent several days here as Miss
Derr's guest, the two ladies having
come together from the latter place.
Fell and Broke Her Leg.
Miss Florence Doster, daughter of
Mrs. Lydia A. Doster, slipped and fell
on the icv sidewalk in front of her home
on South Broad street, on Monday
morning, and her right leg was broken
near the ankle as a result. Dr. Eliza-beth
Bricker attends. Several years
ago Miss Doster had her left leg broken
by a fall and has been lame ever since.
Big Shipment of Tobacco.
Tuesday was the banner tobacco ship-ping
day at this place, thus far this sea-son.
W. M. Pfautz, buyer for Root &
Baker, Landisville, received 5J carloads
of the weed from the farmers here-abouts,
and forwarded it to Landisville.
It aggregated 160,000 pounds, and many
farmers received checks for their crops
which will help keep the wolf from the
door.
A Moving Chautauqua—Lititz Booked.
Mr. J. B. Virden, of Swarthmore, Pa.,
called at the RECORD office yesterday to
get advertising terms for the Chautau-qua
Association of that place, which ex-pects
to move from town to town in this
state, remaining at each place one week.
Most probably they will be here in June.
It will offer lectures, concerts and en-tertainments.
There will be twelve
lectures and twelve concerts. There
will be motion picture entertainments,
which will be clean and wholesome,
amusing and instructive. There will be
illustrated lectures, with beautifully-colored
views, and interesting and de-scriptive
descriptions.
There will be the indescribable Chau-tauqna
spirit, which, for six days, will
transform life by introducing new
thoughts, new impulses, new interests.
The program will begin at 2 o'clock
each afternoon and again at seven-thirty
each evening. Such is the universal ex-perience
in the thousand or more towns
that have Chautauquas, and so universal
is the experience that the result of a
Chautauqua in our town is not a matter
of doubt. There is absolutely no suf-ficient
reason why our town may not
have the inspiration and pleasure and
profit which the Chautauqua invariably
affords,—unless it be our indifference.
GROUND HOG SAW HIS SHADOW.
As a Consequence, According to an Old
Belief, There Will be Six More Weeks
of Winter—Zero Weather This Week.
The ground hog was up bright and
early on Friday morning and after tak-ing
several hours to stretch his squat
figure, ventured forth to learn what he
could see. Alas, his shadow was thrown
somewhat uncertainly on the landscape,
and he scurried back to hibernate for
six more weeks. Hence, according to
tradition we will have six more weeks
of winter.
The ground hog had not returned to
his hole more than a day, when his pre-diction
became a reality, and a cold
wave, accompanied by high winds,
which made it all the more intense, ar-rived
from the west. About two inches
of snow fell during Saturday night and
it was drifted considerably during Sun-day,
causing trolley cars considerable
trouble and some of the highways were
badly drifted, in some instances teams
were obliged to pass through fields. On
Monday morning the thermometers re
gistered zero at exposed places.
There have been few nights since Jan.
1 that the mercury did not reach the
freezing point. It has been the severest
winter thus far experienced in this sec-tion
for years. Many of the small
streams are said to be frozen almost
solid. The ice on the Susquehanna river
is over 20 inches thick.
Among The Sick.
Mrs. Allan Ditzler, who was taken
seriously ill while visiting her parents
at Lebanon six weeks ago, is still in a
precarious condition at that place. Gall
stones are the cause of her ailment.
Frank Hacker, son of our townsman
Eli K. Hacker, who was taken critically
ill at his home at Talmage with periton-itis,
two weeks ago, was operated upon
in the Lancaster General Hospital on
Saturday.
Mrs. Elizabeth Huber and Christian
May, of Brickerville, are suffering with
attacks of pneumonia. The former is
the mother of our townsman, Wm. H.
Huber.
In Honor of Dickens.
Wednesday was the centenary of the
birth of Charles Dickens, the novelist
who attained world-wide fame by his
works. In honor of the event an enter-tainment
Was given on Wednesday even-ing
in the Linden Hall gymnasium by a
number of the faculty and scholars of
the seminary, assisted by several young
men. It proved a most enjoyable event
to the good-sized audience present. As
Principal C. D. Kreider read several of
the great novelists's works, tableaux
were formed by the faculty and others.
Did Any Body Invest?
David W. Rothensies, financier and
promoter, whose arrest at Reading on
Saturday caused a sensation, is said to
have been trying to sell stocks in Lititz
last fall, having called on several of the
town's prominent business men for that
purpose. He offered stock for sale of
the Universal Smoke Separating Co.,
which proposed to make paint out of
soft coal smoke. Whether or not any
local citizens went into the gtt-rich-quick
scheme has not as yet been ascer-tained.
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The Turkeys Escaped.
Four large turkeys which Chas. H.
Brobst, proprietor of the Springs hotel,
purchased on Monday and placed in his
chicken yard, escaped on Monday even-ing
by severing the netting enclosing
the yard. They were discovered roost-ing
on a tree in the hotel yard, but when
an effort was made to capture them,
they took to their wings and alighted on
nearby house tops. A number of men
gave chase and finally two of the gob-blers
were captured, and the other two
shot by A. H. Werner, who conducts
the shooting gallery.
Annual Family Gathering-
Justice of the Peace A. B. Reidenbach,
an almost life-long resident of Lititz,
had his annual family gathering and
birthday dinner last Sunday in honor of
his seventy-sixth birthday. On account
of being unable to get the children to-gether
during weekdays, the Sunday
nearest the 7th of February, which is
the day of his birth, is chosen. All were
present with the exception of Rev. O.
E. Reidenbach, of Lake Mills, Wis.
Those here were Mrs. T. A. Milchsach,
of Bethlehem, accompanied by her
daughter Mildred; Mrs. Gideon Kahl, of
Lancaster, with her two daughters Bes-sie
and Helen; Elmer, of Philadelphia;
Ira, of Pittsburgh; Harry and Mary, of
this place. The home coming of the
children was of course enjoyed by Mr.
and Mrs, Reidenbach, who are never
happier than when surrounded by their
children; the dinner was also enjoyed
by all, and all- together it was a happy
occasion an/fl one which the children all
surely wish may be repeated many
more timres.
—Home-made top buggies at a bargain
at Grosh's carriage works.