New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-12-26
NEwsBoYs AND THEIR APPETTTEs.
HOW THEY PREPARE FOR THE ANNUAL DIENEf
,.tIprcTNAS TIME

HOW THEY PREPARE FOR THE ANNUAL Dim
AT CHRISTMAS TIME.
Christmas is the jolliest day OF all the year to
tho newsboys. For weeks and months they look
forward to the day with much JOY, ana as soon as
tho yuletie season approaches they begin to cult
vate a specal appetite They kno " that on Christ
mas they are TO the recipients Of regular
Christmas dinner. with plenty OF turkey CRANBERRY
ssuce hams and pies enough 10 MI goon-siHeo
bakery II is to show their appreciation OF the
dinner gwen to them by Their generous benefactor'
William NJ F!ess every year that they acquire an
abnormal appetite. These dinners have been held
q. the Charles Ioring Brace Memorial Lodging
HOUSE fo- Newsboys for the last Twenty-Five years
and there It was served last night
Nearly 1000 newsboys whose range from
five TO eighteen years, enjoyed the dinner with
Their friends All the boys came in their every
dav clothes ANY who would have Ventured
~ nresent himself In his hes; suit would have beer
regarded bv the lads as aspiring tor shine in Do
,,nnar crust" and he would have received a warm
reception for his nobbiness.
There are many queer and quaint customs among
the ncwsDoys which are strictly Kept on CHRIST
mas and which lend originality TO their doings at
their dinners They always begin to eat dinner
~, disnos;ng Of the pies the buildings and other
dseeort dishes first. Each lad gets away with
several largeslzed pies and seldom tastes of pud-
ding II there are any pies in SIGHT Then comes the
turkey and the crl MERRY sauce. After eating
,hrae ,la+es OF turkey and many dishes or sauce
tho soun is called for and when they have got
outside of one two bowls they stun their pocN-
o,s With candy. apples nuts. bananas and other
oood things and hasten TO the gymnasium. where
they exercise vigorously for hour and afterward
90 70 their homes and dream about Santa Claus
and the dinner
An ,hes. customs were kept strictly at the dinner
loo, nigh, II WAS amazing how much the
az o'c,ock the boys and their friends met in the
assembly room Of the lodging house, No Duane
g, and made an attack the hcaping trays or
edibles in the dinner room. Three hundred ATE al
a time. They all desired to he me mrs. al me uln-
tables for only 300 The last 800 boys had ne salts
faction of knowing that they were better able to do
had their appetites improved by waiting several
hours All the little guests ate as though they
half a and sc,ss
for the purpose OF sharpening their cravings Tor
nood but there were many who were hungry be
cause they had had no money 10 buy meal
Among the boys, present at the dinner were.
Peach Depew." Jersey Skeeter." Farmer" and
the aaP pas arc arc general favores Of the of
newsboys that sell papers near the Bridge entrance
in in cYty Hall Park, In Park Row and among the
Renew is "A bright winsome lad. witty talker and
is fond Of Initiating his namesake After the even
NAV in and about the Federal Building. When they
pra tired OF their games the Peach" Is called upon
T. 70 tell them all the interesting news and the good
n TO occasion and generally winds up by express
ing his views on what he has read. Peach" was
moi asked TO wax eloquent at the dinner last night
INF II he had been ne would probably have spurned
the honor he was too busily engaged In dispos-
ing o. nearly half a turkey two pies a bowl OF
soup several dishes OF potatoes, turnips and many
Among the visitors present were Mrs: William
and Rudolph Heigh. the superintendent of the
lodging house.