The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-23
How It Will Be Observed
This Year in Jersey
City.
SANTA CLAUS HAS BEEN ACTIVE
Hospitals, Orphan Asylums.
and Jails Will Have
Good Dinners.

SSy lily lnlS year WILL more tHdi tiS
usual amount of good cheer. Big dinners
have been provided at all the institutions
and in many instances gayly decorated
trees will be features of the celebration.
The churches have all arranged to send
Christmas dinners to poor families. The
banks will, of course, be closed all day
Christmas Day. The Court House, City
Hall and all public buildings viii be un-
tenanted. There will be but one mall
delivery, early in the morning. 1.-THE
News will not be published. The Free
Public Library will be closed all day
Monday. but the Reading Room will be
open from two until nine.
The following places Of business will
be closed all day Monday:-T- c. Brown
& Van Anglen, Furst Bros, Bernstein &
CO., P. H. Hanley, c. G. Rochat, Wolf
son Bros, O'Brien's Dry Goods House,
Mullins & Sons William N. Baron, p,
Wolf & Co, Walter 2. Holmes Piano
Co., Samplers and A. Wolf.
Sheriff Ruempler, Warden Sullivan and
Matron Rose Murray will see to it that the
prisoners at the County Jail get at least d
good Christmas dinner. The Sheriff was
much interested in the preparations for
the last Thanksgiving dinner Fer over
an hour he sat watching the preliminary
preparations and the boiling of the great
cauldron Of chicken frieasse and soup
Matron Rose Murray says she Is per-
fectly willing to devote several hours Of
her Christmas Day to she preparation of
the prisoners dinner. Il means the cut
ting up of $50 chickens, ten heaess of cab
bage, two bushels Of yellow tufnips, one
bushel Of red onions, half a box OF green
peas. Other ingredients are canned goods,
split yellow peas, barley. rice, time. sage
and green celery. Warden Sullivan will
don the gingham'' and assist in preEar-
ing the ingredients. and Deputy Warden
James Failon. Bookkeeper ambrose
Lynch ara First Head Keeper Edward
Conger viii ASSIST in dealing the contents
or the pot out to the prisoners Clifiotd
Brown and Roach, whose lawyers are
lighting FOR their existence, will, IN ae-
cordance with the usual custom, be Ted
from the matron's table.
Two big Christmas trees, laden with
toys and presents for AL, VIII gladdcn
the eyes and hearts of nearly two hun-
dred orphans III ST. Miehael's Orphan
Asylum on Christmas morning. One viii
zoe for la8 boys, the other Tor the sif-s.
ore will appear in the boys assembly
raa,, sya nc other in the Girls, asssna-
blv roam,
Around +ha frees win also be tables
lsgaa win nrasents MANY Of these nave
haan ,ur4,seaa with the cash Donations
Of Robert Davis, Thomas f. Carey, 5. G..
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On christmas pay the ehlloreh o q.
Joseph's Orphans Home on forK slrset
Will nave Their annual ceieor2tloh.
After breakfast they VIII attend mass a
81 Peters T. q Church, Grand ana van
Worst streets, Aftee tseear return tfoa
mass they wan pc ailo"ei 'net asua1 M
hours for play. Al d-nheT TIME uAey "HA