The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-26
CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR ALL
BoUyT1FUL DINNERS PROVIDED FoR
OLD AND YOUNG.

II. Fe-st At The Ho-,e OF TIE Little Sisters
OF ths Poor-Tresa for the Chldreu
st Heiievue-Serviees In The Churehes.
Christmas IL the great day Of the year with
the aged inmates Of the Home OF the Little
Sisters Of the Poor. in East Seventeen street.
between Second and Third avenues. OF which
Sister Joseph Adele Is the acting Superior.
For many years John d. Crimmins has fur
nished the feast whichNs prepared for the
nearly 800 old and feeble mon and women who
are sheltered there. while Joseph J. oDonohue
sends presents OF pipes and tobacco. enough
to last a twelvemonth. together with other
good things.
There are 200 inmates OF the home at pres
ent, OF whom 16O are women. = The baby Of
tho house Is lusty appearing man OF 60. and
the eldest is a little woman OF 104 years. Din
ner began promptly at 1890 o'clock. All the
tables were decorated with Christmas trees
and the walls we're hung with eyergreens.
few minutes after 1880 o'clock Mr.; Crimmins
and his eleven children, from a college youth
down to tot Of five. entered the rooms and
we're received with hsndSlsRning and cheers
her sisters donned their aprons and set them
selves TO wait upon the old people in one room
proper order. and then came a drop" which
IN The midst e 4 II Nj: bo9Ohus csPc In n;
cost a farm. In the old women's room was
one who has buried seven husbands Mr..
ODonohue told her she looked young enough
to try another. The woman who boasts Of 1O4
years, n Mrs. OBrien. has been in the house
only three years. and is spry enough to asso-
ciate with the youngest OF the women.
Among the men in the institution are many
spok esman was Michael McDermott nearly
blind and nalsied but with a voice that could
fill the Madison Square Garden. Before Mr..
Crlmmina and Mr.. O'Donoh hue said good by. he
Things about their benefactors" that they
blushed. while the speaker toasted the ladies'
and the Sisters with becoming gnllantry.
The Bible and Fruit Mission gave dinner
70 more than three hundred men at its house.
were deaf mutes. blind men. aud cripples,
many OF whom had to be helped to the tables
by the police officers stationed at the door.
More than two hundred women and children
trial Home. 2l3 West Twenty fourth street
The cooks at ST. Barnahas' House. 3O4 Null
berry street wero up at daylight. and they got
no rest until dark. II took flve hours TO dine
cepted the management's general Invitation.
Candy and fruit were distributed to 80 chill
dren. At the East Side Lodging House. 2S7
Fast Broadway, 200 homeless boys were
William NJ. Fliess, as has been his custom
for twenty eight years, entertained the news
boys at the Brace Memorial Lodging House. %
Duane street. Eight hundred hoys from Ave
years up and OF many nationalities accepted
Mr.. Fliess's hospitality About $50 men sat
down to the dinner provided at ST. Rartholo-
news Mission. 2O5 East Forty-second street
The usual Christmas dinner was served to
the inmates OF Ludlow street Iail. the Tombs.
bellevue Hospita al. and tho various district
which are devoted to children was a Christmas
tree loaded with small presents.