New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-24
CHRISTMAS DAY PLANS.
FE4STS FOR THE NEEDY.
IndiJiduals and Charitable Organize
tons to ProUide Good Cheer.

bald The wind yesterday. just little south Of
west ate up the which had fallen in ana
around the city. but the snow hurres predicted TOT
tomorrow with what will be left of the last falls
will make small patches of white around New-York
Christmas viii last a long time this year-almost
three full days-to the joy of the small boy Most
OF the big financial and commercial houses VIII
close all or part of to-day with the exception, OF
course OF the big department and the small
er stores Tomorrow. Christmas itself. Will De
largely devoted to religious services and the inter-
change of Christmas remembrances among friends
while Monday will be n holiday, usual. when
Christmas falls Sunday and grown people,
well small. will minsle in the general merry
making. with regrets for too strenuous enjoyment
Of Yuletde pleasures on the day bsfore-
1t Will be poor and unfortunate being indeed
who viii be able to share this year IN some
Christmas cheer. The old and young the criminal
and the respectable poor. paupers and begEars nave
all been provided for by charitable and religious
societies and institutions
Chief among the Christmas charities Is the Brook
lyn Christmas tree which has been provided for
the poor children OF Brooklyn for thirteen years by
Mrs Frank Situg The tree this year. huge one
IS fully thirty feet high. surrounded by many
smaller ones presented by Michael J. hen-
nedy the Brooklyn Park Commissioner. who mas
also lent FIVE hundred Of the iron benches used
in the parks The Brooklyn Warehouse and the
Eagle Warehouse, through William H. Wayne ana
J. T. Cassidy, respectively. have offered TO supply
men and wagons take the benches to the 80
Regiment Arrnory, where the tree VIII be set up
The trees will be taken and set in the armory
by John WhoIIey his expense. The dis
trbution of gifts will take place on Monday morn
ing 10 o'clock
In the Sunday school room Of the Hope Baptist
Church One-huudred- and fourth-st. and Broadway
fifty little crippIes, the inmates of the Darrach
Home for Crippled Children and their guests Will
have their Christmas dinner and Christmas tree on
Saturday afternoon. December 81. The dinner VIII
be given by Charles Marshall, as has been MS
custom for several years, and the Christmas tree
and its burden Of gifts win be supplied by the
friends of the home, which is at No. - West one
hundred and fourth-st.
The Christmas tree and entertainment for the
children in the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled
Children will be held this afternoon at 4I5 o'clock.
There will be religious and musical programme.
followed by a one-act drama. The Night Before
Christmas in which many children will take part.
At the Free Industrial School for Crippled Chill
dren No. Al West Ffty-seventh-st-, Mrs Charles
H. billiard. of No. West seventyhrst-st. will
give the children a Christmas dinner at p. m.
On Sunday. p. m. the annual dinner given
for the uewsboys at the Brace Memorial Lodging
House by William NJ. Fleiss for the last thirty
five years viii be given in his memory by his
widow and SON
The several theatrical clubs will keep open house
on Christmas Day An Informal programme Of
sport and jolHty has been arranged for tomorrow
and Monday by the Green Room Club. at No. l39
West FOrtyseventh-st.
At the New-York Catholic Protectory there will
be rich choral service. The orchestra Will
der the Gregorian mass 'Mssa de Angels" and
two distinct choirs Will sing the IN different
parts of the chapel two cantors informing the prin-
cpaI parts Of the service. Gilsinu's ''Vente Ado
renus' will be rendered in four parts at the Offer
tory. Three hundred voices Will then sing Adams
prelude. 20 Holy Night and after will be
sung the familiar Christmas carol, The lay
on the ground" followed by q hymn There will
be the usual Christmas dinner. and the holidays
ms viii he I'm
sports. performances by the dramatic and musical
clubs and stereopticon lectures.
\ Christmas celebration VIII be held Monday
at St. Marks Hospital under the auspices OF the
executive committee
Frank Tuford will give his usual Christmas din
ner the Little Mothers at the Murray Hin
Lyceuln l .. m. on Monday In addition to the
and presents furnished by Mr. Tilford
The Salvation Army and The Volunteers Of Amer
chmneys filled with such good will that thousands
Of individuals hundreds of families will receive
a Christmas dinner and have full stomach for
once this year II never before ,.-,.o-,.,
people 10 their Christmas dinners. The feast win
be given this year IN The Crane Cen(raI Paiace
tending the distribution OF baskets to families in
the mammoth tables at which the dinners TO the
quired 5000 loayes Of bread o.V0 chickens, 800
cans Of soup, 1900 pounds OF TURKEY, 900 pounds
toes, 1000 pies a ton and half Of sugar and
coutless barrels Of fruit and yegeta oles -,
pense beer and turkey and make himself solid
with the voters by keeping open house at the
Rowery the day after Christmas 70 matter what
political lights the great unwashed have followed
for the last year. they welcome 10 eat turkey
at Big Tins" expense, well as to Il "briar'
Of matches and ticket 10 the Sullivan show at
the Sullivan clubhouse on February g. AS is his
usual Wont the senator Will not deal harshy with
any repealers. Among those who will grace the
occasion viii be Big, and Little Tim big
Florrie" and all the others Of the clan, the only
Moe" Levy. Barney Flynn, Little Joe Dunn,
Senator Jack" Fitzgerald.
Christmas Day viii be observed at the Metro
potau Temple. SeVenth-aVe. and Fourteenth St
with special sermons and Christmas music The
pastor, the Rev Robert Bagnel. viii preach in the
morning The Christ in the Funess Of Time
and in the evening on The Song of the Angels"
teCt for discussion Will be. Resolved. That the
present method of observing Christmas initiates
against the true Christmas spirit
on Tuesday night the Sunday school exercises
Will be held, which viii include views Of the paint
ings OF the bOyhOod of Jesus Christmas carols and
Christmas stories.
Mayor Andrus of Yonkers Will distribute 95l
Christmas dinners 10 the poor to-day. In former
years the Mayor has had the cooperation of ali
the churches and charitable institutions in the city
! but this year the NOmen'S Institute and several
pastors refused to cooperate 1t will twelve
trucks TO distribute these dinners which have cost
Mayor Audrus something like $500
Every policeman and fireman Couey Island has
received a Rhode Island bred turkey the Christmas
! gift OF Thompson q Dundy who Luna Park
! and are building the New-York Hippodrome AT
Sixth-ave and ythirdst In all 300 birds ha VI
! been distributed. weighing less than fifteen
pounds. Horace Nose, Of Westerly. r. l.. who an
! nually provides the fowl for the Presidents
the assurance that they were grasshopper fat
! tened and corn fed.
! TOO MANY PRISONERS FOR FRLANGEP