New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-24
THE DAY BEFORE CHRISTMAS
STOCKINGS READY FOR OLD SANTA CLA' D.
PEAJACKETs FOR NEwsDoYs AND GOOD DINNER"
FOR NEARLY EVERYBODY.

PEAJACKETS FOR NEWSBOiS AND GOOD DlN''
FOR NEARLY EVERYBODY.
Little stockings and big ones are on upoc' gum
ready for Santa Claus. who spreads himself over al
ChriStendOm tonight. the one night IN '"' tha' u"
nice old gentleman may call his own. In the homes ~
the south he will have TO climb over the yule logs III 'o
fireplace in the North he will wresc with the mlsie
toe but Somehow ne will get to the stockings al"
very early morning the little pitchers WIN
long will scramble ont of bed to call him DIes''"
Merry Christmas! II Is a time when all the seven
age, Of man are rolled into time when mo'hc''
and fathers back to childhood to enter into bohue
willing slaves TO the autocrat of the cradle u Ho
when the cold heart Of the misanthropc thaws ana h7
purscstrings escape from their eoriian knot, time
when the cry>tazed celibate magineS that aficr
all he is part Of the living, moving multitude OF his
felow-m and 10 prove II adopts for day manu-
fl Of waits TO make glad their Crumplcd little hearts
a timc when men are - good their obituarieS ana
women good men think they are N'rIN
Christmas II comes but wear. Whcl II
comes 365 times then shall Zee the millennium
Now is the winter Of our discomfort made glorious
Christmas by the charity Of the world. At all the
public institutions in Me Department of Charities ana
Correction Merry Christmas Will take INT" llNrf the
shape Of feast and TO the hearts of The inmates
10y the least circlOus route. All over the cy terc
will be public and private dinners for the rcl "a wen
a, for the poor. The Hcrald's7 santa Claus has
Hall. where 800 of them will be required Ia get
inside Of tlst number Of peajskct> and outside Of
the best dinner set before king. While the
boys eat. of santa CIaus's angels. Marshall T.
Wilder. will sing them song, written especially
for the occasion by John f. Fanchor. who wouldn't
be a ncwsbUy under The lcralds7 wing The
Morning Journal begins it's celebration to-day at the
Madison square Garden. where 10000 poor. ragged
and sparscly fed children with poverty written all
over them and ground in. but with expectancy and
Joy in their fvcs. will every receive handsome
toy and bag Of wholesome candy. II yon want to
what happiness /, like. 80 to " The Morning
Journals doll and toy matinee
The annual dinner to the ncwsboyS, given by
william VI. Fless Will disappear At the Ncwsbcy,'
Home, Duane and New Chambers SIS, 10 morrow
at p.
Another Christmas dinner viii be given 10 the mem
the Nouns Men, Institute, at 50. 80 Bowcry.
at = o'clock
The Christmas season does not find Wall street
especially hilarious and the frolics the IN
changes are laey to lack the spirit born OF booming
markets and fit commissions. The usual coc' tionS
VIII be taken up for the benefit Of tho employs, and the
houses which make regular practice Of distributing
rclncnbIanccs OF the season will not omit o.. Tie
brokers Of the Consolidated Stock and Petlolcum f.
change resolved however not 10 let the day before
Christmas lie neglected and G. H. Greene has prepared
| A programme that i, witticr paper than It VII
the t,ranccrs' dedicated to the Western freight
agents while Of the fictitious Christmas gift t.
nr made is one io " Addison C--k. stuffed bear
hlled with chcstuutS free shots are hr'd Al the
stock Exchange and tho well known members ~ ttc
little board for good glaiured hits
The Cuuaricr Scrvla arrived hec Yesterday with
,O4O bags OF mail. the largest number ever bronsti
10 I'M, port by she Brought $4,000 letter"
and GOOOD parcel, and newspapers for iAs 'fi ann
IC3OpO lctter, and $1,000 parcels and ncw-paP"s,
for tie re-, Of the country. about 10000 piece n
all The large mcrei~, due the sending II Christ
ma, ciI, ana letter, to this country.
The school, which form the uoblc>t monument -
the late Charles l.. Brace az having their festivals
tins week. Al the Phelps school Yesterday the cmi
drrn were addl,--ed hy Dr. l.. T.. ThNluE. ~ Br'pN
I'm: Professor Cro> we'll and the Rev. Or Mo'"i, -
| the Church Of the Holy Communion. Abundant Si'a
then Distributed.
The d play IT Christmas trees make lower \'~c! H.
look Ike A nook m q Maine i1rr-t or the thiShlI7
Inc rang. II pri,o suit All buyers being from 10 cents
~ II 80 seventy five cents t. ~ 80 buys = >hhP'N
10 Ia IS feet cutting. ~alcaWpW"n arr bd~N phtuHs
| put the customary Recommendations, and ~ fiNli%
proper INSTITUTIONS To- purchasers a. t. Iuahuir7
necdcd. Evergreen rpTlug >"Ns at Z cont tri.
wreath. ~ - cents 10 - cents dozen -'r' 81 u =,
crosses ~ t. - 80 anchor. - - q" = - h"Is
hunclc, 10 rents each. glossy laurel leaves. j"
cont, - 30 cent? bunch. Th'rr f. sT"At run upon
uit.iIet -. TWcnty. lV" cent Is asked for small
bunchc, and handsome fulil"rroi ones gu" up {" 81