The evening world., 1890-01-09
TO CHRISTMAS DAY.
Distributing The Surplus Of the
ChFiStmaS.TFee Fund.
Thousands Of sbivering Little Forms
Clad in Warm Winter Garments.

kindly heart. beating in sympathy with
all about IL; Of sweet charity to fellow.
man.
The readers OF THI EvrNTNd woEIp
vho puNe OF their surplus or who spared
from their s~cantiness their mites TO ga
into and help 90 sv ell the great wholc
witch was known as THE EyESiNb WORLD
Christmns-Treo Fund. have read oi how
they helped 10 make tho great children's
holiday a day of hapi mess. How its
emptiness TO the children of poverty was
filled. and the babes who else had had
nothing were given os Santa Claus's goods
enough Il make them joyous that Christ.
mas Day had come at least once in their
little lives.
Readers of The EvENIxG WoRLD know
Row co. o little starved hearts wore fed
aud anxious eyes were glnddeDed with the
toys and other gifts which lad been pro-
vided for them on no tcss than seven pro.
liic Christmas trees in New York, Brook
Ign and jersey City. And II they will re-
call the accounts printed there WIS about
81. 900 left in the Christmas. Tree Fund
nftcr oil these little ones had been treated
to the substantial gifts purchased nj
prices 80 low that they would let The big
iobbing houses crazy. and would posi-
lively scare the small retailer out Of his
wits.
The generous givcrs were assured that
that 81. bOJ wOnld not lie wasted. u that,
while engaged IN distributing the lighter
quits among the little waits oil society. the
sweet, biH.hearted women who had charge
OF The several trees had discovered lust
now hat 81 500 could be invested III n
n TO bring O return of several hundred
per cent. profit IN the way III comfort and
Joy 10 the confortless and ~joyless little
ones.
This in the WY:
IHE EVENING WON'T buyer, who is n
caution Mt driving hard bargains. with
that ~. 500 In the INSIDE pucktt OF his
vest. went on and looked about u little.
He purchased n few things. suCh ms 1900
bright plnid shawls, .. lbO pairs OF warm
all.woollen stockings. 80 hoods, $50 pairs
OF 81 ont and seryicc1bic sLo s. $40 whole
suits Of cloihirg Tor boys from ELK to
thirteen years OF ugc, 90 Girln' card gan
Jackets, $50 sailor biOuses md kn,c
ttousers .or Lite Lord Faun,lcruys WI o
never saw q whole kmt q their own
before. and who wouldn't know what
dearest" meant. auu 4 hUst OF other
things. made TO keep gu the cold from
shlVeIin. little bou.es, OF. rather, names.
Mr.. Julia Hayes Percy I'M N,rID
was detained q au%peIiutend the
distribution OF these hIuls among me
half. clothed and LaIi-loved baIes OF III ;.
fortune.
The goods were ali delivered from thu
Mt Nilsson Hall. fast fliiernih
and The place, usually u scene -!
FlNHlEN lnnlFAI fAN a Hnap lNRnH. ltIn n
warehouse.
toug OF the Oldest aud least dGmare
able hacks in town were hunted ~ and
by Mrs. Percy, and then tho
warehouse was despoilrd 1T IT, goods,
CHI were dyIdcd about equal y 90
tween the four hack.
When the hacks hRd Icon flied 81 tina,
they looked ready to burst. .onr ladies'
squeezed themselves IN thu doogwhys.
were MIS-. Percy. Dr. julia II.
LA bard. Mrs. Brooks aud Dr. Charlotte
Woolley.
Mrs. Percy called TO the storm. beaten
Cnbby on the box her instructions, aud he
drove directly TO Capt. htilly's Ihirticth
stree police station. The curious hGcE
luad went W Fifth avenue, aud many a
lady Of fashion and wealth lsaIed out q,
OWE carriage window TO Naze wonder
into the hGck where there sat QUE
lady surio upded and almost buried under
q mountain Of shEwls hnu sclrfs, fasci.
aud shoes and sioclingsin seem NJ
stopping at Capt. Reilly's castle. Mrs.
asked for u policeman rs an escort.
and BIZ, brOad-shuuidGrcd. handsome
who Is admired by all the
Who pass him Mt Thirueth street
and Broadway, was detailed by the al
.suave, gallant and soit.hearted
Captain.
Brannisah snufsed q little, but fifteen
minutes later you should have saan him!
little bundles OF rags md dirt up
wEe.e their inched faces could be
seen by Mrs. Percy. or sorting over the
mixed assortment OF soois for a sui of
clothes for som hult-nRked little rolorcd
ov, or trying shoes on little dirty feet
hPa never before had n covering.
using the convenient Curbstoue far IA sell
tee and manly paleucs tor a shoe horn.
- Bfanuigau cane out very strong
when his sympathy was touched. and You
really must say SomeIhiug good of him"
Mrs. Percy, while roconnting her
experiences 10 an Evening WORLD re
Cadet Jard.ne. of the Salvation Army
Lig-eyed, round. Quaker.raced. rosy
checked. sof -compleXioned little woman
in a sedaie poke bonnet of pavy-bhe.
and never a fTli non a hUuuce nor a bow
10 hcr nRYy-llne gown, helped Mrs.
Percy. She lad done much house TO house
service Ia the heIps Kitchen" district
on the west side, from Twenty tirst 70
street, aud from q beginning
1t brlukbat fus llaues from the hoUseto 5
she lad advanced 10 "A intimate persona!
with tue y. yerty-strlckeu
mes who led miserable hives IN the be-
district.
Into "Helfs Kitchen. " then, the hack
driven, anu II stopped frs. IA front
o! "a o! those immense hives, Wheuce
emerge Ewarms % poorly clad and hat
human bees.
In a twink lug, and long before ANY,
body could hs7e hali Jack R~oLiusOn,"
there were a hundred children about the
back. Chlllren sprung up u If the
pavlnG-s;ones, apparently. ard clam
yrod MP on the wheels Of the hack.
cllnl led half ihtn the Windows, mounted
the horses, overwhelmed tho driver, who
was psraiyzed with aston shment, and
Hi! Hi! Here's THE EyFxIxa
WoELr lady with In gs fyr us" shouted
ne ard the cry Was taken Mp bv al.
Windows IN the tencM uis were IaiSel
female Leads IrTr thrust cut. ILen
nm every direction there came running
with their aprons thrown owe
heir heads IN ten OF hats, or shGNls
up 10 answer fer hoods. aud soon
he whole street was filed with women
md children. Here WAS WheT BTanni-