Morning journal and courier., 1880-12-25
Christmas.

What Was Done in the City-NOtes
 About Town = Celebrations = Memo
 rial Windows = Presentations = Other
 Events.
 To-day comes Christmas with all the bright associations which cluster around the day in the recollection. The joyful spirit of Christmas time. imported by the Pilgrims exercises an influence now over fifty millions in this lAnd-the number which General Walker is expected to give us. No one raises | single objection to the Christmas influence. Plymouth Rock was appropriately called to mind before the country in the Forefathers' day annual celebration on Monday night in New York, at which President Hayes, ex- President Grant, Henry Ward Beecher, Noah Porter, of Yale, and others made speeches. Charles Dickens wrote some of the finest incidental tributes to Christmas in English literature. In a window on Chapel street yesterday there met the gaze of passers-by an array of English plum buildings adorned with sprigs of holly leaves and berries (grown | in our own southern chmes), and who has ever imagined Christmas day in Merrie England devoid of these? In England on | Christmas eve come the Christmas carols, and what city or town in Albion but has the vocal | accompaniment The spirit of Christmas was conspicuously abroad yesterday, evident | in the throngs who swarmed in the stores where Santa Claus reigns-in the teams hur- rying about the city delivering Christmas poultry, meats and other components of 8 Christmas dinner. Everywhere activity was 1 apparent. In the windows of some of the restaurants were to be seen many turkey of heavy weight and noble proportions. People went out to the site of the new park after laurels, and returned not empty handed. The public schools emptied out merry throngs at l o'clock, school tasks being over for the day I and for the weeks Christmas vacation, and | many teacher went forth from school ser- vice bearing little remembrances of regard | from pupils, and leaving behind many an il- luminated card or other Christmas token for ! their pupils. Itwas quarterly payday at the schools yesterday, and well-flled portmon- | naies were numerous.
 Decorations at St. PauPs. The trimmings in this church are quite elaborate In front of the chancel are four columns the upper portion forming an arch | | At the highest extreme point of the arch is 8 | cross, and underneath, in circle, the letters I. H. s. Underneath this is 8 gilt star, repre- | senting the star that directed the shepherds | on the plains of Bethlehem to the place | where the Saviour was born. Below the star | is suspended basket of natural flowers. At l each side of the radiant star are festoons of evergreens, with anchors of the same mate rial pendant from the points, where the fes- toons are looped. The front of the gallery is tastefully draped with evergreens, and wreaths are placed at convenient distances along the entire gallery front. In front of the choir gallery is placed harp of ever greens, while large boughs of pine are fixed in each corner of the gallery. Handsome festoons of evergreens are also displayed around the pulpit and lectern
 l The committee having the decorations in charge, consisting of Ward Nichols, H. w. Mansfield, MT. Grant and others have per- formed the work assigned to them in most
 acceptable manner. The same music as sung
 by the choir to-day will be rendered on
 Sunday
 Christmas on Saturday.
 An old-time weather prophet is responsible
 for the following lugubrious business: If Christmas the Saturday fall
 That winter is to be dredded ale; | It shall be so full of great tempeste That it shal slay both man and beste; 1 Fruit and corne shall fayle great one, | And old folke dyen many one
 Happy Affair nt SeIectman HugO's.
 Last evening the family of Mir. Philip
 Hugo, the popular Grand street merchant,
 were the recipients of many elegant presents
 arranged on very handsomely illuminated
 Christmas tree. Among other attractions
 was a beautiful Christmas March, ar
 ranged for the piano with drum, metallaphone and triangle accompaniment, which was very
 finely executed by the children of MT. and
 Mrs. Hugo, and was complete surprise to l them as it was the first time they had 1 heard it. Railroad Men-CORee and Buns. The railroad men celebrate Christmas day
 by offering to all railroad employees coffee
 and buns at their reading room, opened re-
 gently on the corner of Meadow and Colum-
 bus streets.
 All railroad men, especially those on the
 Canal Air Line and Derby roads, are cor
 dially invited between the hours of 9 &. m.
 and 10 p. m.
 Christmas Decorations at St. Thomas Two Memorial Windows.
 St. Thomas church, though not elaborate | ly, is very tastefully decorated and the hem locks and Norway pines present a good ap- pearance. Only few wreaths are seen, and these are in and about the chancel, and the
 columns are less adorned than usual. But the architecture of the church is such that while it will bear a great deal of dressing little | shows to much advantage.
 Two memorial windows have been placed in the church during the week, small one
 over the vestry room by Mir. George D. Cow
 CT to the memory of a child, and the other 8
 long one by MT. Harry Prescott to the mem- ory of his wife, who died last May. They
 are both handsomely executed and add to the
 beauty of the church as well as to the credit of the glass stainer, MT. Alphonse Frederick,
 of Brooklyn, N. Y. | Presentation at the Clock shop.
 Mir. Augustus D, Hendrick, the contractor at the clock establishment, came back to his department yesterday afternoon to find his men all assembled and looking at something Apprehensive that some serious mishap had occurred he inquired with some alarm to that effect. The occasion he soon found was of a far more pleasant description. The hands were assembled about beautiful silver tea set, which they presented to him as a | Christmas token and mark of their esteem and regard, with very suitable accompanying remarks from one of their number. The set was from MT. George L. Streeter's and beau tifully engraved at his establishment with suitable words of presentation. The occa- 1 sion was much enjoyed.
 At Washington School. Yesterday morning MT. George R. Burton, principal of Washington school found on his table the noted Shakesperian Rogers group, 'Is it so nominated in the bond ?" The gift speaks loudly of the good feeling existing be- I tween Mir. Burton and the teachers of Wash ington district.
 AtDemarest's Carriage Factory.
 Yesterday afternoon at about o'clock, Mr. c. B. Demarest, the carriage manufacturer, returned to his office to find all his workmen, I