Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895

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1856

pg 283       by that of another chapel as a monument to Mr. Phelan, and finally 
             a third chapel in the form of a choir, or rather completing the 
             cross of the original plan of the church.  Lastly, in the merely 
             material point of view, a new impulse given to the manufacture of 
             brick and lime on the Notre Dame grounds.  Besides, three or four 
             missions completing their churches and reaching that stage when 
             they will cease to be a burden to the community.  Assuredly there 
             are here many joyful considerations, (not to speak of the merry 
             chimes, whose harmonies, however, are reserved for 1857) 
             calculated to inspire the liveliest sentiments of gratitude to 
             God, from whose had come all the gifts received by man here below.
                  One the reverse side of this long series of favors appears 
             that deplorable misunderstanding of New York, which became a 
             scandal to the initiated, and which resuscitated at the three 
             angles of an ancient triangle, discussions and memories of a past 
             that ought never to have come to life again; next, a pecuniary 
             embarrassment amounting almost to a crisis; and lastly, a fire 
             that consumed the first buildings of Notre Dame du Lac and caused 
             a loss of about $3000.