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Show Rum, Very Good and Old, Helped To Build College One Ciallon 'oiisumed at I Corner Stone and Final Threo GalloBs at Roof Raising PROVIDENCE, R. I.. Jan 25 West India rum some of it "very good and old" played a largo part in the construction of Brown University, according to unlvorslty historians They have Just discovered among the early records a bill for liquors which Ktow rapidly as the first building rose. The last throe gallons were used to raise the roof. Tradition relates that at the laying of the cornerstone In 1770, John Brown, merchant, treated the crowd liberally to punch and the a --counts show that what began be-gan at the cornerstone continued through the entire time of construction. con-struction. The items attest the rapidity with which the structure rose. Th v follow . Juno 28. to one gall W I rum. when lfwlng th.- cornerstone, is, 6d. August S, to two galls W. I. rum. 7s 2 lbs sugar. Is, when laying the second floor August 6, to 4 galls W I rum i very good and old) when laying third floor, 15s. Sept. 1 4, to four galls W. I. rum 1 lb sugar, when raising fourth floor, lis, 7d, when laying fifth floor 1, 7s. 1-1 -I'd. October 9. to 3 gallons Wr. I. rum when raising roof 10s. 6d- |