The sun., 1903-12-26
AefeafwHys kt;a man know that he's well
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| Bowery.
Long before II o'clock yesterday morn.
! ing the line of guests extended north to
NHvington !H street and half a block around
the corner To the south they stretched
well down past Spring street. There were
! over 5000 of them.
! There were three long tai bles, each set wit h
seventy plates and heaped with turkey ,vege-
!!aples and pie. The diners were admitted
III ,eays OF 2lO, and as soon as they were
seated election district captains, acting as
! waters, were sent down the line with
pitchers OF foaming beer and piping hot
cpnee. string orchestra at the head of
'h1 ~ room furnished enlivening music.
| me work of clearing and resetting the
! tables between relays was revelat ion
Some idea of the speed with which this
was done can be had when it is known
ina, the guests were fed at the rate of 900
an hour. Pretty quick eating, but for all
of that each relay found time between
| mouthfuls to cheer all the Sullivans and TO
listen to short speech of greeting de-
! Tim.
| AT the start of the feast Senator John C.
| Fitzgerald went up and down the lines
plcklng out the first relay from the blind,
| crippled and those who seemed least fitted
tobe left standing in the drizzng rain
Even II some OF the others did get their
feet wet it didn't matter much, for as each
, guest left he received pair of good warm
SOCKS a brler pipe and a bag of tobacco
with the Congressman's best wishes for
y q merry Christmas and a happy New Year
Nnerin,e elect Mitchell l.. Erlanger looked
afler this end of the entertainment.
1t has been said that there were 21O diners
TO each relay, but this isn't absolutely
correct. One relay had only 200 An old
man with a patriarchal beard who wore
a battered silk hat and frock coat of ancient
cl,t was still industriously munching turkey
to.
Give the old gentleman lime" the
walters were instructed. His teeth amt
good"
SO one man was held over from the next
batch Before the old fellow left Treas
,'rer William B: Calvert, who had been
busy looking. after Big Tins old friends.
went up and shook hands with him. A
tive-dollar bill changed hands during the
operation.
That man has seen better davs. When
Tim was a newsboy he did Tim kindness,
explained one of the district captains.
And the Congressman never forgets.'
Mayor-elect Mcclellan sent letter e1-
pressing his regrets at not being able to
be present and wishing all merry
Christ mas.
ToMBs PRIs oNERs NOT FORGOTTEN.
Christmas in the Tombs began at 7:3o
celebrated in the Catholic chapel by Father
James Smith. The Rev. John j. Munro,
the Presbyt eran chaplain. preached at
o O'Clock and distributed Christmas cards
through the prison. The Rev. W. W. Gillis,
the Episcopal chaplain, held services at
1890, after which he gave an orange to
each of the forty-seven women and fifty
seven boys and cigar to each of the 273
men prisoners, going from cell to cell to
distribute his gifts.
Christmas cards at the prison door. Each
was in an envelope tied with red silk
ribbon, bound to which was sprig of
evergreen. The giver had ritten Bible
text on each card.
The Christmas dinner at the Tombs
included $50 pounds OF turkey, 600 pounds
OF chicken and 100 pounds of pork, made
into a stew so that the flavor of turkey
pervaded the whole. To this we're added
plenty of sweet potatoes, 1000 oranges
and 800 mince pies.
The employees Of the prison were not
of them a silk neckte. and the St. Vincent
de Paul Society gave each Of them a box
Of cigars.
DAY OFF FOR LITTLE MOTHERS
Fully a hundred more little mothers
attended the annual Christmas dinner given
by Frank Tilford yesterday than were
present last year. But Mrs. A. T. Harms
Of the enter ainment committee of the
Aid Association let Mr.. Tilford provide
only half as much plum pudding as usual.
The little mothers regard plum pudding
with suspicion.
what is it? It's so black" demanded
one tenement reared tot at last years
feast dissecting plateful critically. There
was whole lot of pudding left over from
the 1902 dinner.
Yesterdays dinner was held at the West
Side Lyceum, Broadway and Fifty second
street. The big second floor ballroom was
hardly large enough to hold the 100 diners.
Three hundred of the girls came from
Pleasant Place, the associations West
street headquarters. The rest came from
Happy Day House, in Second avenue,
MIR. 1'ilford paid all the carfare.
The children listened to banjo player,
and the little mothers cooking class sang
a song about n cook who'd forgotten the
salt" What amused the audience most,
though, was when negro waiter climbed
up very long ladder and burned his fingers
trying to regulate a gas jet.
Tomato soup, turkey, relshes, ice cream
bill of fare. Before each child was sent
home She got bag, which cont aimed a
pair of stockings, a lot of candy, book
and doll. There were not bags enough
to 60 around, and the ornaments from
two Christmas trees had to be pressed
into service.
1T took lis three days TO pack the bags"
said Mrs. Harms. AT our Easter festival
at Webster Hall We'll give each girl pot
Of flowers. The main object of our asso-
the children away from the tcnemenl-,
where they have 10 care for younger chill
dren day in and day out But it s good
thing to let them take something away
to brighten them up in their own homes,
too
DINNER FOR THE SEwsBoYs.
Fight hundred newsboys celebrated
Christ mas with feast at the Newsboys'
Home in New Chambers street last night.
Among the honored guests were such
notabilities as "Smokest ack" Robinson,
slippery Dick" Greenberg, "Siatsr Sulli-
van, starvation" Barney, kid Dewey
kid Misery" and a young person known
as Physical Culture" because, il was
explained, he's de kid wot knows it all"
They dined in relays and those who
were forced to wait kept up constant
catter outside. Some of the boys tried
to get away with uneaten celery and cake,
but they were caught. Turkey, ham, pie,
cake, tea and other delicacies were served
in abundance.
The home, which has been closed for
six months for repairs and alterations,
was opened last Saturday. The sonss,
q feature of the Christmas dinner,
we're omitted because Of the limited time
for rehearsals.
Supt. Heig couldn't get outside help
so he was assisted by three nieces, who
supplied the boys wants, which some