
Chronicles of Notre Dame du Lac
Edward Sorin, CSC -- Translated by John M. Toohey, CSC, 1895
1856
pg 290 Furniture of New York sent to Philadelphia $100; to
Susquehanna $20; to St. Mary's $50; lift in the house $808.75;
subject to Mr. Devlin's estimate $60; in cash $130; in work $100,
from relatives of the children $50 equals $1318.75.
Paid travelling expenses of twenty-five persons going to the
Lake $382, FF. Granger and Shortis and M. Superior $100, ten
persons to Philadelphia $40, four persons to Susquehanna $25, St.
M. of Calvary to New Orleans $70, returned to pupils $60, paid
various accounts $175, to Mr. Devlin $513, second quarter of the
form [farm?] $425, different accounts at Mr. Devlin's $70, Empire
City $155, returned to postulants $48 + 200. Brought down $300 +
2388.31. In all $3632.56 advanced by Notre Dame du Lac or for
which it is responsible.
Such was the end of this establishment in which the Lake,
without having at all desired it, but merely in carrying out the
orders of Ste. Croix, was put to the expense of more than $800 and
Sorin's Chronicles