Putnam patriot., 1930-05-01
LEAVES IMPRINT OF
 TEETH ON MANS HAND
TO DEDICATE NEW ADDITION TO PROVINCIAL HOUSE JUNE iG
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contrast There is nothing somber or depressing about the chapel. It is 80 located as to get the soft light of the morning sun as the worshippers are attending the mass.
 The Third Floor
 i On the north end of the third floor | is another large assembly room eauip- ped with oak lockers. From this floor one also steps into the balcony of the chapel There are number of other rooms to be utilized for various pur- poses. As on the two lower floors the finish is stained hard pine with birch floors. The building is lighted with an indirect lighting system of plain white globes.
 The new wing makes the Provincial House complete. It would appear that 1t would meet the growing needs of the institution for many years 10 come. 1t was made necessary through the addition O. a high school. This was started in September 1928. At the present time there are approxi- mately thirty-hve pupils enrolled. Not all of these pupils are boarders at the institution as ten CT twelve pupils are Putnam children who attend daily going to their homes at night.
 Cost About sl7o.000
 The erection of the building was started a little more than year ago 1t is modern and substantially built. ! 1t Is estimated to have cost approxi- mately Sl70,000. This figure is not authentic as Mother Louis, who gra- ciously received a Patriot representa- tive. was loath to give out any figures as to the amount of money expended. Another building recently added to the Provincial House is a rectory. This is two story brick structure on the east side of Church street direct ! ly across from the entrance to the Provincial House. Here Father Ja- gou, who became the chaplain at the institution a year ago, makes his ] home.
 Workmen are busy outside of the building in the rear grading and lay ing concrete. The grounds in front, with their beautiful shade trees, and 1 spacious lawns are well kept and very attractive. The fine institution is a l credit to the Order of the Sisters Of the Holy Ghost and to the city.
 Silver Jubilee in 1927 Thursday, December S, 1927, there was a fitting observance at the Tro- viucial House in Putnam. the central house of the order in the United i States. of the Silver Jubilee oi the arrival of the first sisters of the Holy Ghost in this country. It also marked a quarter of century of the growth and expansion of the order in Amer ica. At that time there were some ] twenty members of the order in l Putnam under the direction and su- pervision of Mother Louis, together with some thirty postulates and juvenisters.
 In December 1902 six sisters of the order reached America from France. They were invited to Hartford by Rt. Rev. Bishop Tierney, then bishop of the Hartford diocese. For year these sisters. augmented from time to time by new arrivals, labored in Hart ford in conjunction with the Sisters of Mercy. A little later they were assigned as teachers in the parochial schools.
 In 1905 a Provincial House was established for them in Hartford, the first central house of the sisterhood in the United States. In 1916 the estate of the late George NJ. Morse on Church street was purchased and in ! 1917 the Provincial House was re- moved to this city. The new home was blessed on November l7th of that year at three o'clock in the afternoon by Rt. Rev Bishop John J. Milan.
 First Addition
 August i1th, 1916, ground was broken for the first addition to the original home of the former owner This was erected on the south side a finely constructed three story build ing, and was completed in October 1917. Like the present new addi- ton it was of brick with white east stone trimmings. Ii is 130 feet long by 4s feet wide. The new addition is built along the same lines and matches the south or original wing. It was anticipated at this time that the Provincial House was large enough to admit of growth and ex- pansion for many years. The aadi- ton of the new high school and the anticipated further growth of the order made it necessary to add the new. corresponding wing on the north end of the original main house.
 Since the establishment of the Mother House twenty-five or more ! homes with schools. academies and homes for working girls have been 1 established. These are located in Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont and New York state with $40 sisters now laboring in the field.
 The Mother House is in France. The total membership of the whole order is approaching 2,500. The order functions in France and Belgium as we'll as in this country and juvenisters go to France from this country for | their canonieal year. to take their vows and to get professed. This old and ever expanding order was found ed by two sisters in 1707 in the vil- | lage of LeGue, France. The white habits of the native women was adopted in the conception of the ! m MF