New-York tribune., 1899-12-24
A PROSPERITY CHRISTMAS.
THE JOYFUL CELEBRATION BEGAN YES
TERDAY-ELABORATE PREPARATIONS
For TO-DAY AND 10 n1opp0u

TERDAY-ELABORATE PREPARATIONS
FOR TO-DAY AND TOMORROW
Notwithstanding the crash in Wall Street and in
e financial circles OF Boston. the vast majority Of
the people of this land are going to have as merry
CHRISTMAS as great industrial prosperity al
Vahchg wages for workmen brisk buying and sell
IIie ana bright outlook for 1900 produce The
fuietide celebration began yesterday for a few but
lot most 1t will begin with services to-day H. the
cnurChes. In another column will be found par
ucuIars OF the elaborate musical programmes which
nave oeen prepared for the occasion. especially in
'he Protestant Episcopal and Roman Catholic COM
ihuhons and OF the beautiful decorative effects
which have been produced with evergreen, holly
and other seasonable materials
christmas is peculiarly the children's festival
ana many are the preparations which have been
mace 10 give the little ones good time. One OF
the most charming OF the entertainments will be
that at Tammany Hall and Tony Pastors Theatre.
given to-day for the poor children of the stage and
lor children of poor actors. under the management
OF aunt Louisa" Edridge. II will include a
CHRISTMAS tree, with lots OF clothing and
toys; vaudeville show III the theatre at o'clock.
IN which only children will act and afterward a
Dig oinner in Tammany Hall. followed by dance.
Aunt Louisa" has collected 5000 this year for the
Joilncation and three hundred children ex-
pecteG.
FOR SUNDAY SCHOOL, CHILDREN.
More serious will be the manger service in Holy
Trinity Church. Harlem. at $50 o'clock this after
noon' when the Sunday school children will pass
IN procession around manger and place their
gifts for the poor therein. At the First Moravian
church. at p M. to each child will be presented
hghted wax candle. in accordance with an old
christmas custom of that denomination. At Grace
Reformed Church gifts will be distributed to the
children and Sunday school teachers after this even
ings service. At p. m. twelve hundred children
OF the West End Presbyterian Church will have q
BrOOme
nacle will keep their Christmas tree until Christmas
Church . Of the will have one Christ
day night. THE Cricket on the Hearth" stere-
opticon entertainment will be given on that even
Methodist Episcopal Church In Arthur Hall, No.
9Sl Lenox- the children OF the Church OF the
Redeemer Will be entertained on Tuesday night.
SANTA CLAUS IN THE HOSPITALS.
The New-York Hospital will have its Christmas
entertainment on Tuesday in the children's ward
at p. m. and in the adult ward at 9l5 p. A
Christmas celebration will be held at St. Mark
Hospital. under the auspices Of the House Commit
tee Tbt to1m9grGw JnSgn,v s at o,coGk &
season by lecture on The Worship Of Krisnna
Ha fnd hs 1S at oSSok The IN
Abhedanands, Of India, will deliver the lecture.
The childrens class will have Christmas festival
To;mOrrow, at $50 o'clock, Christmas tree cele-
Dispensary and Hospital The annual dinner given
by William NJ, Fliess to the newsboys will take
House, No. 8 Duane-st., tomorrow at o'clock.
Christmas carols will be sung by the children at
the Five Points House OF Industry this morning.
TO FEED HOMELESS MEN
The McAuey Water Street Mission will follow It's
usual custom OF providing Christmas dinner OF
turkey and mince pie for about six hundred home
less men.
Senator Timothy D. Sullivan will have a Christ
mas dinner for his friends from IL to p. m. at
No e 20 gsOTSsTy on Monday ., ~.
Station, has arranged to give the immigrants now
detained at Ellis Island and the Barge Office an
elaborate Christmas dinner It will consist Of soup,
turkey. roast beef. vegetables. celery and plum
duff
There entertainment for crippled chill
dren yesterday at the Sixty-thrd Street Industrial
School Of the Chidren's Aid Society. No. 224
West Sixty-third-st. There are forty children on
the rolls Of the school, but eight Of them at
present in hospital All Of the children who were
well enough to come out yesterday attended the
exercises being brought there in the society s
wagonette Mrs. Arthur Elliot Fish. president OF
the Woman's Auxiliary, had general charge OF the
affair. There exhibition OF the phonograph,
under the direction Of Miss Florence Guernsey,
and n general entertainment, arranged by the
Junior Auxiliary, of which Miss Catherine Halsted
is the president. There was also long stocking
for each member Of the school, filled with articles
appropriate the and age Of the pupils VINO
range all the way from four years TO nearly twenty
The stockings new, and were presented 70
the children, as well two sets OF fannes. the
latter the gift OF the Minerva Club.