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

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1861

pg 423       obliged to tell him that they could not continue to teach the 
             school without a salary.  Inde ira.
                  Would it be believed?  He preferred to employ a married lady 
             at $450 a year rather than to leave his little girls under the 
             care of two Sisters against whom he had no complaint.  As to the 
             salary of the two Brothers, and of the other three whom he 
             employed at St. Patrick's, he paid in notes on time, some of which 
             were protested, and others have not been paid to this day.
                  The cathedral school was also given up, seeing that no 
             Brother had the courage to continue it in the state of total 
             abandonment in which it was left.  The three other Brothers of St. 
             Patrick's and of the old cathedral remained at their posts, but 
             till the present day they have not received the least part of 
             their salary.  Last Christmas, with the consent of the pastor, 
             they got up an exhibition at St. Patrick's for their own benefit.  
             It brought in $200, which His Reverence took for himself without 
             leaving them a cent.  And this is the gentleman who tells all that