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pumps must have reminded them of the pump in St.
George Street, Bruges, the one with its splashing over-
flow that used to set their Father Superior complaining
to the Town Fathers about the damage being done to
the "Het Walletje" wall.
When they reached St. Patrick's and met Father Joyce,
the pastor, or whoever it was that escorted them to the
third and topmost floor, they were exhausted. They
had been on the road for almost fi.ve weeks, but at last
they were "home."
Louisville in 1854 had a population of about 50,000
Whites. The census did not take cognizance of-Negroes.
The Catholic population, mostly immigrant Germans
and Irish, had been drawn by the opportunity of finding
work on the roadbed of the railroad that was to connect
Cincinnati and Louisville. Until May, 1854, when St.
Patrick's Chapel had been opened, the Cathedral was
the only church in the city for English-speaking Catho-
lics. For those who understood German there were two
churches: St. Boniface and the Immaculate Conception.
In the week that intervened before the Brothers began
teaching they had much to do, not only in setting up
their living quarters but also in taking care of every-
thing in the two classrooms on the second floor. The
benches were there, but the teachers had to decide where
they wanted them and how they were to be arranged.
The classrooms at the Immaculate Conception School,
which had been in operation for several years, did not
need so much attention.
One situation did not yield to the obvious solution.
The Brothers decided that they should have a cook-
house built in the yard so that they could move the
stove down there and thus lessen the intense heat gen-
erated in their living quarters whenever Brother Philip
set about to prepare a meal. Brother Ryken relayed the