Rt. Rev. Wm. Quarter jj 



They were Sister Eugene, Sister Servant; Sister 

 Mary, and Sister Pelagia. 



On the arrival of the Sisters, a school was im- 

 mediately opened. The more respectable Catholics 

 of this and other portions of the city encouraged it 

 by sending their daughters. In addition to the 

 small salary thus afforded, the Sisters were allowed 

 to receive a few scholars, boarders, whose pensions 

 would enable them to defray current expenses. 

 Many difficulties (as was anticipated) presented 

 themselves, and it required all the skill and manage- 

 ment of Mr. Quarter to be exerted, ere his under- 

 taking ceased to be a serious burden upon him; still 

 that burden was cheerfully borne, until at last his 

 perseverance triumphed. 



He then directed the Sisters to throw the school 

 under the church open to all ; making it free for the 

 poorest children of his little flock, and to establish a 

 select school in their own house. This plan suc- 

 ceeded admirably. The free schools were frequented 

 by a large number of pupils; there came daily at first 

 about one hundred pupils, which number was soon 

 increased to about five hundred. The number of 

 the pupils in the select school averaged from seventy 

 to eighty, and sometimes it reached one hundred. 

 He had thus, in a comparatively brief space of time, 

 the gratification of witnessing success crown his 

 efforts. 



"What an appearance did these schools now 

 present! How different from what they were a few 

 months before the Sisters of Charity arrived ! Then 



