The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-12-26

s,airway and up the stairs TO the long galleries
They were not nice TO look at. Their faces
were pinched and lined with hard treatment
and had hnbits and too little to cut They
eyed the bluecoats who pointed out the way 10
them with furtiyo sidcong gIaEccs. Many
were lame and de!ormed. Almost all wero
dirty. There was about one woman 10 every
ten men. ~
A man came up to Capt Price as he was
watching them ne past, DO you see any
crooks there. Captain" he asked. The Cap
thin turned on h m almost savagely.
II made up INV m,nh before l came over
here" he said. that | wouldn't see anything
but hungry iolSs who werJ In hard luck
dom, spc anything clse-I'm seeing most too
much of that for any one man TO stand
From tho gallery the guests looked out on
the Garden as brilliantly lighted as Tor tho
circus or the French bal. Across one END OF
the hall was Welcome in letters ten feet
bi,b A. the other was Praise God from
whom all blessings fiow." Signs equally large
on the sides OF the Garden proclaimed a
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
On the floor OF the Garden the long tables
wore stretched from one end to ih'
other There wore ten rows OF them wth
seats in all for 1900 diners. wooden
plate china cup and knife and FORK we're ~
each place 4 colonel with nifty men and gir
officers in uniform were stationed at each oil
five cross-sections OF the hall. OuS OF the
cellar iosc udois Of coffee and turkey and pun
pudding. In the bandstand Oh the north side
OF tn. Garden was big brass band. humping
out noisy marches and popular songs until the
iron girders rang
Those who look ed up from the floor and saw
the fringe of faces that looked down over the
gallery railing ut the tables VIII never forget
Il as long astheylive. bitterness, hatrsl miI-
pride despair. plain starvation aud stoild IN
difference were all there crowd.ns one
S %%S 81 ak, asm r HEN wS S9"o wa mp in
silence One well-dres-ed woman whose at
snton had been epsd MI h2rL0e into 6F ,6S
garden. burst into ,ars before her eye had
travelled net the Length Of the s sardTH o @nd
fused. led her to the door and took her away III
II had been calculated that the galleries held
Just Il bout as many AS there was room ior az
the tables. when the ga,!sries were hiIe h,cb L
the gusts mss entered was closed for short time!
Led by policemen and salvation iassieS the
men, women aud children IN the , galleries les
was no croH'ding and no hurrylnG. some
Whem member n"S o. a iataiIv tried to get seats
together. but Il was AL fairly good natpred;
was silent. Trumpet calls rang out from the
four corners Of the Garden. Commander
on char n the ho SSnaSt9 aRs
band struck IN and tho whole asssm6lage. rich
and poor hungry, and, well.illled. saints and
mighty " Constantly swelling chorus Even
the fat policemen lifted their helmets and
saaF D Gg his E long @s White Rair and his lam
ing scarlet coat. beat time with his visorei
II fe tSii the ssch an T:
great parti-coorcd prayer meeting umbrella.
waved 1t ale and shouted; ga
Hal. lao h.. pFr'
"HaeuIah" shouted hundreds OF VOICES all
over the hall. from the grout OF army Officers
'Thprc'll he a hot timo in the old town to-
night, beloved the band and the din ner was
started.
without bonnets chased one another in scuiry-
ing procession down the long aisles and back
again. EIuqiy active crews Of red shirtet
Of the waters we're Inscribed with printed
tcxis that came rather prominently before the
S Pra Sc the e" Lord. Oh Ny Soul" read one. and
Jesus is Mighty to Save" another. At long
armed with meat axes who increasingly dis.
mcmhrrcd turkeys and whaeked them into
pudding. There was no fear that, the iood
wided TO ali the tables three times. It had been
arranged that whatever was left over should
nesiS ones Of whom the Army Knows i '''A'' -
The people ate as though they we're afraid
tne IOou WOuIu nr taken from tnem before tIey
had enough, Where so many were TO be fed II
was inevitable that soma SHOULD be served
before others. and those ,,,y who received
They nee, need have have had d,oI no te9r An,
anything exccpt pudding. As q precautlor
against the tendency OF the small hoy to at
tempt to make him elt into plum puddiaG
trust, to the NEGLECT Of more nutritious food
the allowance - pudding was limited.
Half an hour after tho first 1000 were
seated they began to rise aud make their
way to the doors. Nearly all OF them insisted
on shaking hands with their walters before
going out. Many shook hands with all the
Salvation Army folk they could flnd, and som,
even approached the policemen in their graft
tude Meanwhile the galleries had heen filleC
up anew. and by the tine u clean knife anC
each chair the tables wers crowded again
The change was made. with perfect smoo,h
ness. A few stragglers came in ate
these, in turn, had gone. At eigh
o'clock the doors were closed But as late a.
O'Clock woc-begon". unShaven humu,
wrecks came To- III" doors and asked the polio
whether they were too late. The police sen
most OF them away, They had been told {
come at o'clock and II they weren
hungry enough to hn less than thre
hours late they deserved no dinners
The army PEOPLE sent ont scouts and gathere
in a few squads OF these shftl"ss among tn
shiftless, but at O'Clock I was announce
TINT the dinner won have to stop and II did
Of the Passion Play at Oberamm"rcau ard
Salvation Army concert after the Dime,
Commander Booth-TucSer made brief al
dress