New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-12-24

has sent Invitations for Christmas entertain
ment which will take place tonight. The tree
will he in the chidren's ward and will be lighted
81 o'clock. and In the adult wards the festival
will he observed from s:l5 to 9;45 o'clock.
One Of the most notable Christmas festivals will
be held this evening at o'clock at the rooms OF
the Hungarian Literary Society. No. 80 81. Marks
Place when the society will distribute clothes 10 300
poor and deserving children OF the tenement dis
tricts and will also permit the little pick
one article from the grand Christmas tree which
will be erected at the clubhouse and loaded with
all kinds Of good things All the children and their
parents or guardians viii be gathered in the large
reception-room Of the clubhouse and AZ 6 o'clock
the president Of the society. Counsellor Morris
Cukor Will address them A snort program me
consisting Of some appropriate music will follow,
chasing the clothes and INVESTIGATING the applica-
tons will make the distribution. This committee
r. Weiss and Messrs. sobe Eckstein and Teuman.
This is the fourth Christmas upon which such dis
on the nrst occasion the funds allowed them 70
give presents 10 only 100 children this year they
vii gad1e1 b t3e n Gompef 10 ous but also other
i3tt,e presents so dear to the hearts OF childhood.
A. 81 Stephens Church in East Twenty-eighth-
G, the first mass for Christmas Day will be cele-
brated at 42O o'clock tomorrow morning. The
church VIII be opened at O'Clock and frequent
services will be held during the day.
Mace will be said at 8 O'Clock tomorrow morn
ing at the Church of the Paulst Fathers Fifty
ninth-st and Columbus,ave Here to- many SER
vices will be held at different hours OF the day.
III. srrrsce railroads OF Brooklyn have sent out
.beir Christmas greeting the children. and OFFER
20 carr them free Of charge TO the Bijou Thea
ire between the hours Of a; m, an. ana P m.
Passes are issued which on presentation VIII en-
ttte the holder 10 these free rides
Tho Columbia University lecture on Some Cities
o. Northern Italy During the Fifteenth and SIX
teenh Centges vii he given as nsra tni,
Museum Of Art. Cenval Park
c-r-,s.ras tree FOR three hundred poor children
un, he readv AZ 10 O'Clock to-day at the Distri5u-
49,, p,reau of the Women's Patriotic Relief Asso-
clarion No. III Eghth-ave Mrs. Samuel Duncan
Miller who was active during the summer IN the
relief work and supplying o. 1y ne
up this Christmas tree
-r,. > =, insane on Wards Island the $40
80 .,an+s AT the Blackwelrs Island Institution the
o. -. ar,,s Island Hospital and the Loss al Central
a. are eli 10 have Christmas dinners OF poultry.
pie fruits and other good ihhks
-rha authorities Of the Department Of Charities
uI be greatly aided by private societies and indi-
viduals in providing for the orphans OF The Ran
dalrs Island asyums Many pretty ehts VIII De
distributed 10 the niue "He9'
,-Ao Consumers League work among the large de-
-,,ro,, stores has been criticised by factory en-
poves who complain that more attention should
,,.ar n the conditions existing in factories
The abatement is made that shopgiris IN large
Ine we better paid and in more congenial sur
stoi S,ngs than factory hands for the reason that
neope Who customers in nice stores "onid no,
Pe Yelling to enter place that was not Wen aio
pc nfcnrrtaHly appointed but that racto1y peo,Ie
aL in ugly ana unpleasant places ana are also
poorly PAID
,rho Woman's Health Protective Association OF
,;rooklvn has issued cards FOR an Al home iues
49,, afternoon January 3. from until O'CLOCK Al
DAY ra1aucb Mansion No so Clinton-aVe'' brooklyn
Tho children cared FOR by the New ORR n",'e,y
49, ,be Prevention Of Cruelty TO ChiIo'en VIII Hoo