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Mary Zurko interviewed by Denis Mercier --4-- 8/21/72 Tape 12-1

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MZ: Oh, yes, they...

DM: Do you remember their names? I think I know them, but I...

MZ: Father [handwritten, illegible] was here, Father Brettany.

DM: Breckney?

MZ: Brettany.

DM: Brettany.

MZ: Brettany. I guess you'd call it Brettany. Yeah, he was here. Well, he was
the older pastor, you know. Oh yes, that house was heated by steam. You know,
they had the, see the colliery up here, the colliery, the colliery, that's not
the original breaker.

DM: I know.

MZ: You see, the breaker was back farther. And they had a steam line, you know,
because see they had it runnin' out into Number Ten, and from Number Ten it
went into Number Six, and they had an engine house at Number Ten, they had an
engine house at Number Six. Well, that steam line carried the heat all the
way to them homes. And then it carried the heat to the pastors' house up
here.

DM: In the rectory, is it still steam-heated, or did they have to convert it back to
coal?

MZ: Oh, no, see they, I don't know if you would remember these steam lines, they
were away up high...

DM: I've heard about them, other people have said things about them...

MZ: Yeah. Well, then that's just, then the pipelines went into the homes. They
even had a what-do-you-call-it there, a hothouse, you know, with flowers.

DM: Right. What other homes besides the rectory got steam heat?

MZ: Oh, I don't think any others. I think they all, I don't know about down there
where Father, where Father, where Reverend Arland was. Reverend Arland was
down in the house where [handwritten, illegible] live. I heard Mother talk about that.
Because he was the pastor for the Presbyterian or, whether it was the Presbyterian
or Episcopalian. But he was a resident there, Father, or Reverend
Arland. My mother I just heard talk about it, you know.

DM: I know the heating system of the church is an old stove, with a big register
above it. At least that's the last one they had in there. Do you remember
that, in the basement of the church? Right under...

MZ: Oh, yeah! They have a register...

DM: Right where the altar is...

MZ: Well Jimmy has that in his hallway yet, unless they took it out.

DM: No, there's still one in the church.

MZ: Oh, there's one in the church, too, but there's one in his hallway, in his
home.

DM: Oh, I haven't seen that, I haven't been...

MZ: See, but John put hot water heat in. You see, John Gaffney. John put that
in, the radiators ran around in there, now.

DM: No, but I mean in the church itself, there's only one stove. It's a rather
modern one, by coal stove standards, but it's a, it's one of these, it's got
a radiator on top, and it's got a great big, huge, real, what do you call it,
register, above, and it comes out right where you would open the sanctuary
gates, the communion rail with the two gates that swing open? Well, right
where they would swing open, that's where the thing is. Remember that?

MZ: Well, see, you could come, you could come right through the yard from the
rectory, right into the basement, you know, instead of coming around, you
know. It's still there.

DM: I know that.

MZ: Yeah, and then there were seats down there, you know, and they used to...