New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-12-25
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL
MANY PLANS FOR THE HAPPY HOLIDAY.
SERVICES AND DECORATIONS IN cHURcHEs-oTHER
FEATURES OF THE DAY.

ice its blazing heal th-fres ana tinKnng heRn-"ehs,
seems to have faded completely tr's tie calendar and
vast OF untimely poetry and many pretty GUS
n the illustrated papers have thereby been spoiled.
Nothing could uuke tho sparkle and exhiara-
ton of traditional Christmas weather tnsn the murKy
nasiuess OF yesterdays thaw The sun bruke now ana
then through the clouds which hung over the muhcy,
steam ing city, but could scatter them for good and
Christmas Eve IT, wet and foggy with tie mercury
1t 400 aud the suggestion OF snowflake u me
dirty sush upon the sidewalks, or OF an ieco
In the dripping pent-roofs and oaky water pipes NOT
coud tho Signal offer much better "ca'hor
for to-day. Rain aud stationary temperature were SET
down for this morning with claDGy southern winds AT
first changing afterward colder nortbwestery oncs
There Is a chsuce that the SKY may sear this evening
and Sunday come Unjust TOO late, as dsual-cold ana
fair.
The wretohed weather yesterday haa noticesoie
effect ON the OF shoppers and sishtseers tus
have blocked Fourteenth, twenty third ana Srshu sS
for the last two weeks The out oi-town contingent
ada its last Thursday and only the Tag
cards pea. at hand who put Oh everything to the last
momeut because tits within such reach we're TO oe
seem rushing frantcay sOro TO store and street 10
street. Fourteenth St near -Macys wneie inc pre''s
moving panorama in the big windows aod the jam anu
crush of sightseers fail 10 draw whatever comes
into tho whlrl sea of bobbing heads and
sourming bodies Twenty thri-st ano Broadway were
black OF course with afternoon crowd OF shoppers
and aders, aud Grand-st was filed with pro-
oession OF splashed and muddy but eager ana happy
looking. men and women But everywhere the crowds
were a trife than Tnursdav. The sreet-cars
and the elevated trains had fewer pa sengers Many
people had left town already, and there was
well-dene1 movement out of tae city yesterday, not
only of PEOPLE in society of clerks ann unmarried
generally running into the country to spend Christ
mas with friends and relatives.
Elaborate preparations for this mornings services
have been made by many OF the churches All the
will he said usual In tue Protestant Episcopal
churches there Will be- communion sermons, aud singing
Many OF the Protestant churehes Will hold special
services Great pains taken each by most OF
the churches specially pleasing aud appropriate
music. The following churches have an nounced special
musical programmes for TINS morning: Ola Trinity,
Grace Church. 81. Georges. ST. AIMS, St Marks
Epiphany Christ Church, the Churcn Of the Heavenly
Rest St. Barthoome VS., Calvary, tine Church OF tue
Incarnation ST. Thomass, St. Ignatuss the Church OF
the TRANSPORTATION Zion Church. ST. Loos, the Church
the Sacred Heart the Church OF the Holy InDOcents
the Church OF the Beloved Disciple. St Clements, the
Church OF the Holy Trinity the Church Of the Holy
sepuishre, the Church OF the Holy Faith Grace Free
Church, St James's, St Michaers. the Church of ST.
Mary the Virgin, ST. Mlchaels protestant EpiscopsD,
ST. Michaers (Rousn Catholc), the South Church,
Twenty nrstst and Fifth-ave. anu the West Prosby
teran Church.
The Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix viii preach in Trinity
u.
Grace Church Some account Of the In these
two churches has already been given Following the
decorations In. q few other OF tho more prominent
churches: The Church OF the Heavenly Rest has the
windows and the pictures that hang against the
walls trimmed with laurel At the back OF the chance
is a large Star or Bethlehem. OF white flowers The
pulpit lecterniahd font trimmed Will pine and holly
Tho organ wreathed with laurel AMI the outer doors
with fir st. Bartholomew at Ma isOaave and Forty
fouI thst, is profusey dtcked with green The organ
loft begin WITH is draped in lurel with star OF
Jets In the middle. Tue gas Pillars are trimmed with
long needed Georgia pine. On the walls capefowor
weaths aud about the ratings Strings aud OF
autumn leaves The pulpit is trimmed with holly ana
the wall back OF the chancel hung with laurel In the
chancel itself juniper and bay aad Georgia pines
nfteen feet high The communion uape is hidden by
bank OF flowers. The Rev. Dr. Samuel Cooke will
preach at IL a. Amonx the singers will be Franz
Remmertz, Theodore Toedt and Miss Ella Earl.
The Vest Presbyterian Church is strixngly trimmed.
caught up win broad oli-gold ribbons laurel
trimmings run thenoe about Inc two pillars on each side
noly. and tic choir platform behind is mass OF ever
tree on either side o. the platform stands
Irees The Rev. Dr. John K. Paxton Will preach at IL
a IN.
iestoonng OF the eenng with wreaths OF laurel from
pillar pillar. making ienfy roof rs ono looks over
st. tue laurel Is run into "a number pretty Gothic
arches Little sttemu AT display has been made III any
To-day win be req letter in all tine city prisons.
asyums and hospit The Board of CHARITIES ana Cor
recton has ordered l3U9o pounds OF Quicken, 1850
pounds OF turkey 20 barrels OF pork, 40 barrels OF
ONIONS SO Of potatoes an, OF eran9srrss Tor Sni!
charge and they will have more than sixteen ounces OF
% ma s s or Uundr OF
many boxes OF toys. The Toombs of course aud all
public hospitals. IKE Bellevue and Chambers Street.
Tue Chiidrens Ald Society gave nine dinners and
ST. @os today ASoa 900 Scys and girls wi he fed
and entertained at the lodging houses, No 2s7 East
No. 700 East ElevenInsL. No. 400 sevontn-ave, and
No. ga East Thirty .9fth-st Tn. Hcwsrd MISSION; IN
ST. aud A7enae Al the Home for tue friendiess 40 80
hs N wss as avss A.yhm
Mo- - Nest @ ana hnxs onsr pr ss,
extensive Christmas celebrations.
Buffalo Bit 1t MAJ De addt I'd, 10 passing will give his
aud the Manhattan Athletic CLUB will have Christmas
night reception at the clubhouse No 524 FifthAve
schools of churcn of tho Incarnation held last
evening In the church ut Maaron.ave ana Thirty
good Things and brilliantly n.hted with wax candles
OF s We BY s @
Perkins, conducted the religious services and the
dressed tue school aud cablegrsn sendns Christmas
greetings TO the children was read for tho Rev. Arthur
hitting rel ly was called back TO Mr. Brooks AT the
close Of the services presents were distributed TO the
From 80 900 to 10000 messages OF kindness will be
found tins ming on rrakIast-f ates IN different ins
tutloos hospital pillows or Will DO taken TO persous
else here by bible readers or BY other means The
distribution about the same in amount a, last year
while England work of .he Christmas Letter Mis-
sion Increased thai 100000 lettcrs sent.
E.p FH% to
of London Tue mausgers for this country are James
secretary treasurer for tno Uusd States Miss H.
NJ. Coke Nowtown, Queens County, n. Y. central
age oto the amount spent for letters last having
been about $50 Tho distribution extends TO all parts