Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . bol of salvationwas erected and the stone blessed. Bishop Carroll addressedthe audience in a touching and timely discourse, holding outthe hope that the building to be erected might bea source ofgrace to multitudes in time to come— et erit mons elevatussuper omnes colles, et fluent ad eam omnes gentes. To carry on the work of the Cathedral a body of trusteeshad been appointed, and according to the custom of thattime a lottery was resorted to, as a means of raising moneyto advance the great work. This was an
Life and times of the Most RevJohn Carroll, bishop and first archibishop of Baltimore . bol of salvationwas erected and the stone blessed. Bishop Carroll addressedthe audience in a touching and timely discourse, holding outthe hope that the building to be erected might bea source ofgrace to multitudes in time to come— et erit mons elevatussuper omnes colles, et fluent ad eam omnes gentes. To carry on the work of the Cathedral a body of trusteeshad been appointed, and according to the custom of thattime a lottery was resorted to, as a means of raising moneyto advance the great work. This was announced in 1803,the managers being Bishop Carroll, Bev. Francis Beeston,Messrs. David Williamson, Eobert Walsh, Charles Ghequiere, Memorials and Reply of Bishop Carroll in the Archives of the Arch-bishop of Baltimore ; Dilhet, Etat de IEglise Catholique ou du Diocesedes Etats Unis. THE BALTIMORE CATHEDRAL. 601 Patrick Bennet, Arnold Livers, Luke Tiernan, and FrancisJ. Mitchell. There were to be 21,000 tickets at ten dollarseach, fifteen per cent, of the amount to be applied to the. ST. PATRICKS CHURCH, FELLs POINT. PROM FIELDING LUCASPICTURE OF BALTIMORE. Cathedral, the rest distributed in prizes.^ The lottery wasdrawn in 1804, the Bishop obtaining the highest prize, whichhe at once transferred to the Cathedral, remaining, as he was, Scharf, History of Baltimore City and County, Philadelphia, 1881,pp. 526, etc. 26 602 LIFE OF ARCHBISHOP CARROLL. the poorest bishop in the world, without resources or building of the Cathedral was actively pushed for sev-eral years till the troubles of the times suspended the work. On the 18th of June the corner-stone of St. Marys chapel,connected with the college, had been blessed with due solem-nity, and the beautiful chapel rose, which was long regardedas one of the most elegant specimens of architecture in thecity, the pure design of the French architect having beenstrictly followed in all its details. On the 10th of July Bishop
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