The times., 1897-12-26
POOR HAVE TURKEY, TOO
Charity Gives Five Thousand Their
Christmas Dinner.
Unfortunate People, Big and Little,
Feast Royalty in Public and
Private Institutions.

1t is estimated that fully five thousand
people young and old, Were recipients of
Christmas dinners Yesterday at the private
and beiieS olent institutions of this city
Christmas is the day which is looked for
ward to with the tappiest anticipation by
the inmates of these Institutions, and es-
pecially by the aged and decrepit in the
aIms-hause and by the prisoners at the jail.
Among the many places here the work
of making the thousand happy was well
and creerfully done we've the Central
Union Mission the Associated Cha st.
AIMS AsyIum. the Children's Hospital
the Prophetic Alarm House. the Municipal
Lodging House the salvation Army, the
poorflouse. the jail, and 81. EliZab s
Asylum.
The Central Union Mission does it's for
mai and great charitable work on Chri Il
mas nay but MI. Bailey, chairman 3f tie
directors: Al. McMichael, the supcnntend-
ent, and Ms. McMichaeI, who is known 20
all of tho poor of the cltvior hergOod works
do not forget the in mates and the 'ransientS
Oh Christmas Day. They We're all given a
good brea kfaSt Yesterday morning and
last night from TO . o'clock there was
a dinner OF n crit
II was surleth hing quite new AMI depends
for its origin On The capacity OF Wear$
WagcleS aId all The Old Hoses TO saw
wood vigorously, say nothing and wait on
devclonmeuts. The dinner was to be
something recuerche, as they say on the
road. TO all thos- who have come TO W ash
ingtun with aad without shoes from nar,
and especiaEy those who have for some
days been ewing the Land of Promise
from the tfptop OF the mountains on the
cast shore of the Potomac. II was a large
crowd that crossed the Potomac Thursday
and EIida y.
They all complained of the length of
Long Bridge. but as a matter Of fact some
of them looked az If they had come IA
through the Lydecker tunnel. They sawed
wood Il, man up to Friday night, and
last night they ate celery and polished
turkey bones after the regular dinner.
Ordinarily, even at the philanth:opic
Central Union Mi SSion. such a Iinler
would cost Dives or LuculluS % ceatS,
hut last night the vica arious bird and his
funercal trimmings cost the mere song of
) cents per head and eSuphagus. They
were all in a beautiful humor, singing
paeans of pra ise and blessing the oppor
tunity which comes to some such men
only one in a lifetime OF eating the stuff
ing out of turkey slaughtered for such
holidays.
The lcIadiatorial theology OF these knights
of the Cross-cut saw and woodpile Mas
a good thing To observe working overtime.
There was something blissful nd heatific
in the atmosphere Of the Central Union
Mission. II wss scented with the Turkish
aroma oG roasting meats, but that is what
they wcie i'll the business for.
Another interesting place was the Pro
phetic Alarm Soup House. An even hun
dred, centurion detachment, dined there
sumptJ uusly at p. m. They were given
soup. bread, potatoes, coffee and turkey.
This is not the order OF viands on the carl,
but the things disappeared in that order.
Mr.. Cuddy has done all this without any
assistance except the invaluable aid of his
wife.
They went abroad. asking in aid Of the
poor, and the responses We're fairly good,
showing their enterprise is being appre-
ciated. Ever such a good, Jealous and
pious work has its humors Prophetic
alarm soup is good thing. 1t is as honest
as the rattlesnake that always springs
his rattle before he strikes or bates. Now
there are soups which are irsinuating
and give no alarm, prophetic or other y:se;
andthr Y don too a thing toyGu on Christmas
night owing TO the concealed denominations
In the concoctions-
They arc in point OF dilution like the
waters OF Gchenna, not to mention
Marah, aid tlier lay you out with their
unknown triple extracts Of canned beasts,