The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-05
be in the neighborhood of fifteen

be in the neighborhood of fifteen
hundred.
At the Rivington Stroct Mission,
the dinner consisted of turkey with
cranberry sauce, potatoes and tur-
nips, pies and q genuine English
plum pudding. It required nino.
teen big turkeys, weighing two
hundred and twerty pounds and
twenty assorted pies to satisfy the
cravings of the young ganeiats' hum
ger. In addition there was q box
of splendid oranges. About one
hundred and fifty sat down to
dinner ut half-past seven, and for
about three quarters Of an hour
they feasted themselves upon the
good things provided for them.
At the Five Points Mission, the
number of outdoor poor who were
fed was fully 1,100. Only 100 were
admitted to the dinning room at O.
time, and altogether they consumed
200 hundred turkeys and chickens,
four barrels of potatoes, four BAR
rels of tlrnips, 300 squashes, four
barrels of apples, half barrel of
lickels, 120 gallons Of tea, one bar
rel of beans, over 500 loaves of
bread and two pigs. .
The day at the st. Vinccnt's Homo
for Boys, in Warren street, was
ceiebruCod with even moro than the
usual eclat. After high mass and a
sermon, the dinner was served. 1t
included turkey, cranberry sauce,
vegetables, plum pudding, pie and
other delicacies, not fewor than
sixty turkeys, weighing in the az
gregate about five hundred pounds,
being devoured Between three
hundred and four hundred boys
were fed and provision made for
fully five hundred.
At st. Barnabas House constant
stre' m Of children and adults filed
in and out Of the Dining room to the
number of LOCO. Over 80 pounds
of turkey, 100 mince pies and so
pumpkin pies, besides an unlimitol
quantity Of bread, vegetables and
coffee were consumed. The guests
first served were the nursery chill
dren and their parents, after VIII ich
the Sunday school children, to the
number of 200, and those of tho
Sewing school, to the number of
Its, were regaled.
The Juvenile Guardian Society
fed four hundred and fifty children.
The New York Infant Asylum,
served thirty-nine turkeys md two
dozen chickens. The vulious boys
lodging house tables groaned with
turkeys aud pies while at the
Home of the Friendless, No. 80,
East Thirtieth street, 500 adults
and children were treated to
bountiful supply of turkey and
pumpkin pie
Nor were these bounties confined
to the Caucasian race. Three hun
dred pounds IF turkey, with all
appropriate "fixings," including
sweet potatoes, were served up ut
the Colored Orphan Asylum, on the
cornor Of West 143d street and
boulevard. 1t was q pound apiece
very nearly, for there were about
three hundred children to be fed.
1t is right to say that they did all
they could toward consuming the
whole, and if they failed it was not
for want of heroic effort. But if
the turkey was not all eaten there
was very little of the pudding left,
for there was real pudding with
real plums, and each of the young
sters had as many platefuls as he
wanted. In the afternoon there
were visitors and music by the little
ones, and the day was as happy as
it could be made for the children.
After reading this account, who
can deny that while New York has
its many vices it is ulso place Of
abounding charity.
COOLING OFF.