The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-12-24
YULE TIDE HERE.
Elaborate Christmas Day
0bservances Through
out Jersey City
Tomorrow.
SERVICES IN THE CHURCHES
The Poor and the Unfortunate
Will Not Be Forgotten-Enter-
tainments by the Sun
day Schools.
SERVICES IN THE CHURCHES


Christmas is here with its ills. pills
and bills, and with it ideal old-fashioned
wintry weather. Times have sadly
Changed since little maidens used to sing,
trooping through the snow to the church:
.'Yuletide is now at hand,
And we must go a-shriving.
Some regard 1t as religious festival
but the greater part of humanity look
on Christmas as a time of merry-mak-
ing, rejoicing and feasting: and the chill
dren-well, there is no mistaking their
views about Christmas. To them it means
santa Claus, toys, dollies. roast turkey,
plumpudding and lots of candy.
Throughout the city tomorrow this
sacred day of the year will be observed
with becoming ceremonies, but of
widely different character. Some will
attend the services in the churches, and
others will take advantage of the gio-
rious weather and skim over the frozen
surface of the Boulevard in fast trot-
ting sleighs. Many of the clubs will re-
ceive visitors, and the theatres and other
places of amusement will be crowded.
Amid the general rejoicing the needy
and the unfortunate will not be forgotten
The spirit of old Father Christmas will
enter the homes of many where joy and
happiness are rarely seen The social
outeasts, the prisoners in the jails, the
poor at the county farm, the inmates of
the asylums and the sick in the hospitals
will all be remembered, and with turkey
and mince pies and other good things
the day will be at least to them, one of
gladness.
AT Snake Hill the Freeholders have
prepared feast for the inmates there.
The children in the Aims House viii be
given toys and their little skins stuffed
with all sorts of nice things. For the
older people there VIII be tobacco and
other creature comforts. and an unlim-
tied supply of turkey and mince pies.
In the Penitentiary the prisoners Will be
regaled with turkey and mince pie, and
their friends outside VIII see that they
are supplied with tobacco. The same
provision has been made in the Hudson
County jail.
In some of the churches very interesting
exercises will take place conducted sole
" by the children of the Sunday schools.
These exercises are set down for the
evening and the arrangements and pro-
grammes are very complete. A small
charge will be made and the proceeds
will go towards shedding little happ.-
ness among less fortunate people,
In Trinity M. E. Church the entertain
ment tomorrow evening is called Santa
Claus & Sons Reception" and the pro-
gramme VII consist of sacred and secu-
lar music. garden frolic-whateyer that
means-march drill, calisthen.c display,
dairy festival and roundelay, and to wind
up Santa Claus will drive up with his six
in hand RENDERS
The Christmas exercises of the Hedding
M. E. Church VIII be held tomorrow
night. A stereopticon has been secured
and views of the life Of Jesus will be
shown, interspersed with choice exer-
csses by the children.
The Services at st. Peters Church on
christmas Day Will be unusually fine
The first mass will be a high mass. sung
by the rector. the Rev. John Harpes
bers of the sodalities, assisted by the
fife and drum corps. The other masses
tomorrow will be the same as on Sun
DAYS There win also be mass for the
children in the lower church at nine
clock The last mass, at 1890 o'clock.
VIII also be a solemn high mass The
choir will be assisted by an orchestra. di-
rected by Mr.. J. B. Ferry, organist of
the church. The programme Isl
Symphonic, No. &c. Mozart
Professional "Adeste Fideles" . .Novello
Kyrie ;. Nozart
I,orrh,; fnsari,;aa Mozart
veni Creator, tenor solo and chorus. So '''
credo :. Hal,ssa,q Mnzari
offertorium. flute solo. ''''''ONai :
Sdnctus.- :. =. .. :. :. Mozart
Agnus Del. >. Mozart
Recessionai, Grand March. .ch. Gounod 5ie9nsi
Grand Benediction, 7:3O P. NJ
At ST. Johns Protestant Episcopal
Church the services viii begin at an
early hourI The Rev. DIR. E. L. Stoddard
will offjofate, and the order of service
will bqf as follows:-
Prayer and Holy Communion.
ioa5 Al NJ. Holy commu1ion ols n0mmusaon and sern
mo4 With the following service:
FrocessYnai -...-Adeste Fideles
hyrle {sleison. ....J. Benton Upton
Hym THE Birthday Of a King.
q q5ry, the First Christmas j. Barnby
Gin four parts)
k6 Christmas festivals of tbe three
Sunday Schools will take place as fol-
ows:-Lafayette Sunday School, on Fri
day evening, December Is, at P. NJ. IN
the Chapel of the Lafayette Reformed
Church; the Orient Hall Sunday School.
on Sunday evening, December 27. at 8
M, at Orient Hall. After the enter
inment on Monday evening. December
the children of the Fairview Avenue
lnday School will receive their Christ
as gifts
Down in Greenville the day promises
be very lively one. Most of the
lubs and organizations have made great
Preparations for visiting friends The
members of the Columbia Club will meet
n the Columbia Hall, and there will be
OTIS of fun-making. The Greenviile Rifle
Club will be thronged all day and prizes
for shooting will be given. So too al
The Minkakwa and League Clubs, there
will be a reunion OF members and friends
The New Jersey Bowling Club, on Vir-
ginia avenue, WILL of course, be patron
lied by a crowd. That exceedingly
cosy house has all the elements of COM
fort within its four walls. and no one
over spends dull hour there
A Christmas entertainment will be held
1t the Emory NJ Z. Church tonight.
English Lutheran. Service will be held
IN Y. M. c. A. Han. on Wayne street
bear Jersey avenue at 10:45 A. NJ. sub
ect, THE Saviour Is Born
CHRISTMAS AT HAEBR0UOK'S.
The pupils Of Haebrouck institute gave
hn interesting Christmas entertainments
yesterday in Hasbrouck Hail. The en-
Eertainment comprised songs, reciaat:ons
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