Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-10
HELPEDBY MORTGAGE
Twenty-Five Laymen Loan $4,000
Each to Settle Ursula's Troubles.
HOW THE MATTER WAS ARRANGED
A Debt of $4,000 Now Hanging over the
Convent Building.
MOTHER ALPHOhsE TO SAIL ON THE 18th

A mortgage of $50, 900 was filed in the
Recorders Office yesterday, by Charles T.
McKenna, ESQ.,, and it will be the means o.
ending the troubles of Mother Alphonse
The mortgage is in favor of Rev. stephen
Wall, D. D., rector of st. Paurs Cathedral
and is the second mortgage on the property.
The $50, 900 has been subscribed and turned
over to Father Wall by 25 Catholic laymen
of this CITY. Mother Alphonse will be paid
off. and with Sister Emanuel, the other dis
contented nun who is still here, will sail
for France on the 18th instant They will
open a new school there and connect it
under the diocese of Paris.
The trouble between the Sisters has been
practically settled for some time past, and
the filing of the mortgage was the last detail
to be arranged. The money was raised at
several meetings of laymen connected with
different congregations in Pittsburg and
Allegheny.
BISHOP PHELAN SATISFIED.
One of the hardest workers in the scheme
and who is glad it is settled, is Rt. Rev.
Bishop Phelan. He was placed in a Pc
culiar position by the attitude of the dis
contented nuns, and made special request
of the Holy See that somebody else be ap-
pointed to settle the trouble. This is how
Archbishop Ryan got mixed up in the case.
but it is not at all likely there will be any
further need of his services.
The school property and grounds in Oak
land are valued at $500, 900. While the
building was in course of erection it was
found that the Sisters did not have enough
money to complete it. They applied to
William Thaw, who loaned them $50, 900 to
finish the building. This was afterward
found to be insufficient, and the dead
philanthropist loaned them 900 more,
and the mortgage was changed to S65, 900.
With the addition of the new mortgage
there will be debt of S115,0 altogether
OH the building and grounds.
For several months it had been rumored
that the Western Theological Seminary was
after the building, but this, it is said, was
untrue. 1t was stated yesterday that the
seminary rumor had nothing to do with the
matter Of hurrying up the second mortgage.
Who the subscribers are to the fund of S50,-
900 could not be learned yesterday, but it
was stated that 25 gentlemen put up 81, 900
apiece. They did this voluntarily to end the
scandal and restore peace and harmony in
the school.
THEY CANNOT COME BACK.
As stated before, Mother Alphonse and
Sister Emanuel will sail for France on the
18th. They will join the other three Sisters,
who have not been idle since leaving here,
and will establish new school. The three
nuns who left Pittsburg last fall have been
actively engaged, and have an option on
tract of land in the suburbs of Paris. With
the $50, 900 they will purchase the ground
and erect their school. Notwithstanding
the excitement they created, and their dis
obedience to Bishop Phelan and the Church,
they will be allowed to establish new COM
but, it is said, cannot come back to
this diocese.
Mother Alphonse did not object to Bishop
Phelan, but the latter did object to having
anything to do with the case. He did all
be could to bring about peace and harmony,
and it was mainly through his efforts that
The matter was settled. The school will
now probably regain the reputation it once
had of being one of the best educational in
in the State. Since the trouble
las been settled the enrolment of pupils has
increased.