MT. ST. MARY’S

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 98, 19 January 1933, Page 7 (Supplement)

Greenmeadows Mission

modation, twenty-five bedrooms ami extensive lavatory appointments. The piers had been shattered just under the first floor nad near the ground; the two higher floors were intact and were swinging on the reinforcement rods, snapping now one and now another, and gradually crunching a downward path. Sleepers were obtained from the Public Works Department, and at no small risk a “pig-sty” was built under the lowest part, and the building made stationery. How the great mass of eight hundred and fifty tons was lifted back through, four and a half feet to its original position and there firmly cradled in ferro-concrete buttresses hase already been described in “The Dominion” and other publications. The big wooden main building has been drawn together again and solidly fixed on its foundations. ’ The cottage for the domestic, staff has been rebuilt in wood round its floors and interior walls, which had remained intact. The two houses where the lay-brothers live are now stronger and better than ever. The vines have continued to bear their abundant fruit and new cellars in ferro-concrete with asbestos roofing have been built to house the vintage till it reaches matur-j ity- The great oaken tuns —each of! them with a capacity of over a thou-l sand gallons, have come from the cooper’s hands as good as new, and are soi firmly fixed to their bases that it is liojxul they will never again rock from! them to spill their precious contents.