The evening world., 1891-12-19
The Evening Worlds" Gift to
It's Stanoh Young Friends,
No Finer Feast Will Be Served to
MiIlionaires.
The Bill of Fare Prepared by the
Everett Hotel Caterer.

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woRL' amt a-forgittcn none OF us fellers.
Wen dcy does anything dey do 1t right, see.
D'you lit one, striker"
"Ya-as; / got mine already, Golly. but
It's a reg'lar bang-up, John Jakey Astor In
vlte, too Folds up just like II French bill o
fare. Amt 1t snifty?"
"We-el! Gee! It'll give us time to go to
de EvENIN' WoRL' Christmas Tree aforehand,
won't it?'
Mr.. Striker Mccarthy agreed unanimously
with his frccklcd-nosed friend and co-worker
in the field OF metropolitan Journalism, Mr..
Kdsey Thompson, and both young news
paper merchants fell into n mute admiration
OF the bit OF folded cardboard that the older,
the red-headcd, tho unkempt Striker, had dis
closed from careful wrapping OF newspaper.
1t bore these words:
DEAR SIN:
TuE EVENING WORLD requests the pleas
nre of your company at dinner on Christmas
Day at the Everett Hotel lO2 lOi and lO6
Covers will be raised at II 80 O'Clock
The Invitations bid the holders to The
EVENING WORLDS Christmas dinner, Mt which
600 honest earnest, energetic newsboys Will
put their legs under the table " as guests
OF their tavorite evening paper.
Ii is not to be Il lunch--a ruSn-in-and-grab-
what-yOu-can afrair--but u iirSt-class Christi
mas dinner, with all the trimmings" that
are felt to be necessary to the holiday feast In
every well-regulated household In America.
There will be roast turkey, Drowned and
juicy and tender: there viii be cranberry
sauce for an appetizer and relish; there Will
be crisp white celery. fresh from the Long
Island trenches there Will be mashed pota-
| toes, highly seasoned dressing. and rich,
brown gravy: there will be other things,
and. to top of with, there viii be great big
piece OF thick, juicy, real old-!aShiOncd New
| England mince-pir with real meat In It; real
green apples In 1t; real raisins and genuine
curraEts I'm It.
The boys will not have to stand up.
crowded together, before a long, narrow ta-
BILE. They will be seated at small tables-four
at each-in the half-acre dining-room OF the
big Everett Hotel, which runs through from
Vesey to Barclay street.
Two hundred boys Will sit down at time
at the finy tables and there will filty lively,
attentive walters in black bobtaied coats
and white aprons, who VIII serve these
Christmas banqueters with just as much
ceremony and style as characteri2es the SER
| vice at Delmonico's.
Every newsboy will appear IN his very best
| suit OF clOI hes, and they viii all be gentle
men. as THE EVENING WORLD knows from a
/ long and pleasant experience with the little
chaps.
| This is THE EvENIHG WORLDS Christmas
! gify to the newsboys.
| 1t is not subscription affair. THE EVEN
! ING WORLD will foot the bill, as 1t has done
before, and all or the 800 newsboys OF this
| city will receive cards OF invitation like that
Transcribed above.
striker Mccarthy and Hidsey Thompson are
/ two lair samples OF the New York ncwsDOy.
| one lives In a Cherry street barracks, and
helps his widowed moi her to earn the living
for his three little brothers and sisters. The
other Is the only child or a h2lf-crippied
father and sickly mother, and lives In
l.Chrystic street. one Is thirteen, the other
only nine years old.
/ striker got his name as the vouble advo-
cate Of the newsboy strike OF three years ago.
kidsey's name implies only his almost baby
hood, his physical weakness, aud quiet,
mother S-bOy ways.
The pair, with the rest of the SIX hundred
newsboys, viii assemble Christmas morning
| in the warm play-room provided for them In
! the basement when the Pulitzer building was
designed by the architect. they viii have a
short parade, and viii descend upon the
Everett Hotel at ll.3O o'clock, headed by Il
band discoursins American patriotic airs.
/ Every boy VIII carry q Nag, and each VIII
toot a Tin horn, Just as n sort OF safety valve
Ior his cxuberance Of Christmas spirit, and 10
let the wclkln ring with the announcement
that he is on earth and enjoying himself.
The Evcretts doors viii be thrown open on
the Vcsey street side and the newsboyS VIII
enter the great dning-rOom after having
been divided into three platoOns The first
200 Will be seated at exactly ll.3O,
! The second platoon VIII file In al the VcsCy
| street entrance AS the iirst one cmergcs IRON
the Barclay street doors. The third Will take
the places OF the second when the latter have
eaten their MI, and the whole afIair Will he
over In coed time for the boys to sell the hrst
! edition Of THE EVENING WORLD.
The manager o. the Everett Iote! says
heartily:
, The EVENING WORLDS Christmas dinner
ito the ncwsbOys viii be the finest We can
serve. Everything viii be of the very best
that the market affords. II VIII be The best
dinner ever served to nGwsUoys under any
auspices.
"OI turkeys, trst-Class birds at IL cents a
pound have been ordered. We shall spread
ourselves on this dinner.
"lhe mince pies viii Dc madc by the best
mince-pio baker In New York, and the took
used viii b. freshly made uf green apples, the
best Of meats, fresh, rich raislnS aud currant
and Ill the ether customary ingredients.
Tie service will he by nIty MS class
waters, who viii serve the new sbuys witll
the same Gcullcmanly style that they would
treat bauqucting party oI FLth avenue
milliOnaifes.'
, STuuRS smy Iicoricr Pellet
unedGslisd for purity and rhcc.leace. Dguggists..