New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-25
SANTA CLAUS ARRIVES.
CHRISTMAS JOYS PROVIDED FOR RICH
AND POOR
DAY OF MATCHMAKING AND FEAsT1NG-
CLEAR AND COLDER WEATHER
PROMISED.

PROMISED.
The poor OF this city will by no means be for
gotten this Christmas. However hard II was
for the reindeer team to get here, with no snow
on the ground II is here and the pile OF bundles
aboard is about the biggest that st. Nicks
freight stevedores ever handled.
The Salvation Army has no small share OF this
consignment. In the Madison Square Garden
to-day the lads and lassies will give twenty
thousand dinners away for only the asking. Al
II o'clock sixteen thousand baskets are 10 be
distributed for those who want 10 gather ABOUT
the board at home. In each OF these baskets are
turkey. chicken, vegetables, pastry and SUCKS OF
candy At D. m tables will be spread for four
thousand more. Music will follow the feasting
and at o'clock an entertainment will be given.
Six hundred homeless men will find a home
at McAuey's water-st. mission. 1t matters
little IL they have had good or bad luck in the
past. The dinner Of turkey and mnce pie which
will be served will probably make them forget
all about previous hunger for the time at least
The prisoners on Biackwers Island and in the
Kings County Penitentiary will fare as well as
their wardens to-day. The Department OF Cor
rection has made out bill OF fare which Is an
attractive one.
Those who are III will not be forgotten. In
St Marks Hospital in Second-ave, gifts will
be distributed 10 the sick at p m. Those VINO
are 20 weak to eat a regular turkey dinner Win
cranberry sauce will have something extra
dainty from the diet kitchen. Flowers VIII De
placed on the tables beside their beds, and the
nurses will have pinks 10 wear in their mar;
The little crpples at the Orthopedic Hospital
Of rattles. blocks. balls and dolls will be dis
tributed among the children. The older IN
mates OF the hospital will receive their silIs III
the evening.
NEWsBOYs ALSO REMEMBERED
The annual Christmas dinner for newsboys
will be given with all its usual side dishes al
Brace Memorial Lodging House, No. Duane
st. at .. m. There Will be toasts delivered oy
Toe Bill" and Kid Blink" "Slimmy Jim VIII
respond to The Strike, When We Licked ana
other speakers Of more or less prominence Will
he heard from. The uptown newsboys VIII dine
at Lyric Hall, in Sxth-ave. This dinner is the
gift OF Frank Tilford. president OF the BANK OF
The friends Of Senator Timothy d. Sullivan
need only call around At his place OF business
M 0O7 Rowery, between the hours or IL ana =,
and they will find dinner all ready Tor them-
AT the Bowery Mission and Young Mems home:
No 81 Bowery, there will be distribution OF
gifts 10 men at a. m. The children OF tne
neigh God will have the privilege or plunder-
ing Christmas tree at o'clock In the AFTER
noon and at in the evening there VIII De
special meeting FOR men. ~ ~.
Office Will find that the new land when tney
have just reached is by no means an lhLosPIea tI
lie shore. Under the SUPERVISOR % oil hI No
Scawab a dinner will be distributed 10 all no
questions as TO age or place OF birth VIII
be asked The dinner is by no means small
and includes soup. turkey roast oeel' Eese'a
bles celery. plum pudding and pie
To the children in the neighborhood or NO.
1872 Second-ave. Mrs. Bella Cook, who has Deen
confined to her bed for the last torty-IouI Seaie,
will distribute presents from her bedside, Just
nc she has done for nearly the last hat century;
MANY Of the doctors who first were summoned romeo
to her when she was stricken nave uleu pe w
her. During her long illness the meadow thas
once ancompassed her home has peeh CoNtI1u
with tall tenement houses. Many or the en-!
dren who first came to her beaSlae on on NH mbo
mas morning have children Of their own VINO
visit Aunt Bella" al this time TO see wnat she
has got FOR them in the way Of jumping JACKS
and hobby horses.
CHINATOWN TO TAKE A HAND.
The dav will also be celebrated in Chinatown.
At one Of the restaurants, which in the eyes OF
the residents Of Mott-st. far outranks the wal
dorf-Astora there will be z special Dill OF rare
including not only the ordinary menu OF pird
nest soup and chop suey, but regular New Eng
land mnce pie. ,.,..., Ill, 49,. and
until Tomorrow night Among these VIII De the
sunday school children OF the Churcn oil one
Transnguration VINO VIII nay a ~. -.osi,+
tree in Scottish Rite Hall on tuesday eNellihe'
..rba Cricket on the Hearth" a stereoptlcon en-
tertainment. will be given on that evening LOT
the sunday school children OF the People METH
odlst Episcopsl Church: -. C,A-,..
Trio Tew-York Hospital will have Its christ
-,as entertainment tomorrow In the chlldren
ward AT S o. m. and in the adult ward at "'lo
p. m
N1-sIC IN THE CHURCHES TO-DAY.
CHRISTMAS PROGRAMMES ARRANGED FOR
VARIOUS CONGREGATIONS.
THE Tribune presents the following addiuonai
r,rnas Of music In various churches to-day
bavIng printed a much longer list in Yesterday
| issue. pApTrST
Madison Avenue II a. m:
organ piano and violin; andante ."ieniA"sk'
DoHology- -.,, 7 Prinr You Good Tidngs.". Bartlett
emu tyvun I 55O-chorus by chldrrn'
I Creeor.an Chant. No. o. -. .Ao,- Tails
Pecessional, no" D''s''' Bartlett