New-York tribune., 1889-12-25
A MERRY CHRISTMAS.
HOW THE DAY WILL BE CELEBRATED.
BIG DINNERS AT THE CHARITABLE INsTITus
TIoNs-sERvIcEs AND ELABORATE MUsI-
CAL PROGRAMMES AT MANY OF THE
CHURCHES ATTRACTIONS
AT THE THEATRES.


In addition TO the many Thousand informal celds
bratons Of Christmas in the homes Of the city. the
day will be observed by big dinners and entertain
ments at nearly all the charitable institutions and
special services in many Of the churches. The
musical programmes at the Catholic. Episcopal
and other churches will be elaborate and
beautiful Many Sunday-schools will also have
their Christmas exercises tonight, at which the
pupils will nceive bags Of nuts and candy and
other presents At the theatres there will be two
performances, and big crowds at both.
A big Christmas dinner will be given to the
members of the Young Mems Institute. No. 222
Bowery, at 2 p m. Friends Of the organization
have contributed an abundance Of good things to
eat.
The children of the Messiah Hsme for Children,
No. Rutherford Place. will have a feast at noon
to-day and general merrymaking in the afternoon.
They will not strip their Christmas tree OF its
treasures however, until tomorrow night.
The children and old women at the Home for
the Friendless, No 80 East Thirtieth-st.. will
receive presents to-day, and will also enjoy an
oppiopri'te dinner.
After the hundred inmates Of the West-Side
Bows Lodging House, at Thirty-second-st. and
Seventh-ava have enjoyed all the turkey they can
eat at 80 D. m. to-day they will be treated to an
entertainment arranged by Miss Henrietta Mark
stein. the piano-player
The Wetmore Home for Friendess Girls, No. ~
Washington Square, will be decorated with ever
greens to-day The forty-six girl inmates will sit
down to a fine dinner at 3 o'clock this afternoon.
and will then give an entertainment for the amuse-
ment of their friends The programme Will con-
sist of songs recitations tableaus and instru-
mental music.
The ST. ChrstOphers House, One-hundred-and-
twelfth-st and Riverside-ave., will have turkey
dinner this afternoon and tree loaded with
presents tonight.
One Christmas tree would not be enough for the
little folk in the New-York Juvenile Asylum.
observation-disclosures eventy-sixth-st and Tenth
ave-, so they will have three all well filed with
toys and useful presents. There will be concert
at night, and of course, big turkey dinner in
the day.
There will also be Christmas dinners and enter
tainments at the Ladies' Deborah Nursery, No. 95
Boys, No. 2s7 East Broadway the Temporary
Home for Girls, at No % ST. Marks Place; the
Wilson Industrial School, No. 125 st. Marks
Place; the Wayside Day Nursery, No. 216 East
Twentieth-st: st. AIMS Home for Children. Nine.
teth-st. and Avenue A: and. in Short about ali
the charitable institutions Of the city.
The inmates Of the various city charitable and
penal institutions will not he forgotten, TOT
Ia, sac pounds of chicken, 4.055 pounds OF turkey
and other edibIes in proportion have been bought
to provide for them dinner worthy OF the day.
The NJ. Brown Volunteer Aid Society will give
an entertainment tonight for the beneht OF
needy family in the New-iork Maennerchor
Hall Fifty-siXth-st. and Third-ave.
At the Sunday y-school of the Old John Street
Methodist Episcopal Church the day will be OBJ
served by an entertainment at which the pupils
Of the school will sing and give recitations. The
rewards Of merit and presents will also be dis
trbuted