The evening world., 1893-12-05
EDNA REILLY,
JENNIE JiIlSDN.
AVA nlt'Gl NJ,
liN ROSE,

A package containing so, made up OF
| Ills, silver. nickels and pennies, has
been received by the custodian OF 'The
Evening Worlds christmas-rree Fund.
This handsome sun WAS the result OF Il
fair held by eight sweet girls in Brook
lyn-Ava and Hrss Higgins, Edna ami
Amy Reilly, Jennie and clara Jillson,
Lena Schenck and Evelyn Rose.
1t was about the middle Of November
that the project was first considered by
this charming octet. Acting as Il Com
mittre OF the Whole, they called
upon Real Estate Agent John Pullman,
and asked II he would give them tn" use
Of II vacant nat, III which to hn!d Il
fair. Mr.; Pullman E~raciously offrrr,!
the first HAT Al 81 Garfield place. which
was an excellent location.
The dates selected for the fair wer"
Friday aud saturday, Dec. l II 1T
was decided to charge i've cents udmis
sion. a printer MIR. Moe, of sixth ave
nur-wis then called upon. When he
heard the object h" volunteered t. print
2oO admission tickets and not charge It
cent.
The question of lighting the fiat was
next considered. The committee went TO
the Metropolitan Gas tompany's otire
and inquired the cost of gas for a two
DAYS fair. II has been said tina corpo-
rLtionS are suullrsS. but these girls Will
no longer credit the statement, for they
We're informed that q meter would b."
put In md a recripted bill sent to them
for the gas used
The preliminary arrangements We're
now complete. Al Ven to work like
friends for IN" fair, one woman prom
is,.i to furnish u cake, another an ar
iicl' for tn" fancy table, and - ON until
quit" a stock 81 goods was IN sight,
with V"um IN" girls parents traded
were nls" given an opportunity to CON
tribute.
-Four days before IN" da,r nvrl for
III" fair the girls received thr neatly
printed tickets. lluH thry dill work
then to sell thos" 2u tickets, Each tried
to Guido the other. How could any one
resist when asked by SUCH modes; ana
prrtty girls to buy II ticket
When Thanksgiving lay arrived the
E,ris too'f npSI",s,on "t the ~, Al the
Srhruck and Brown, young women
friends Of the littl" workers, Volunteered
10 decorat" tn" rooms ana tables. ana
they converted that vacant Nat with its
bar" honrS ANA walls into II real bower
December never opened more toyously
FOR any one than II dil for thos" eight
ESlrlS, lmey Were up Nlth the Ia"n
busy arranging their stock, Then they
went to their homes to bedeck them
selves for the fair.
When the doors were opened at 9
O'Clock In the afternoon the children
and their chaprrOns who presented
tickets We're delighted. There were ID
fancy table and u floral table ami u
fish pond In the front room, In the rear
were the candy and cake and lcmoual,
tables. A big American nag was drap,.
owe the mantel, An arch trimmed with
pink cloth and honeysucklc vines over.
spread each table. while wrcaths am
Chinese lanterns here and there added
TO the pretty effect.
Demure Lena SChenck and sedate Jcn
| ME ,JilSOn presided over tho fannv tu11a
Bess Higgins. with roguish eyes, and hail
like q ravens wing, inVeigled anglers a
two cents an angle to the fish pond
trines. so wrapped that the angler dc
not know what had been caught uni
the paper was removed. Pretty littl,
Amy Reilly was the flower girl. and he
table wa loaded with beauty. Ava Hig