Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-23

have been issued-and each ticket is good
for a family dinner.
BY experience the Salvation Army has
found that the greatest good to the great
est number can be done by sending Christ
mas dinners directly into the homes, for
then the children as well as the grown per-
sons will have opportunity to enjoy the
food furnished. This year between four
and five hundred baskets will be issued. and
in preparing each one consideration will
be given to the family to be served-the
general object being to give as many poor
families possible at least one substantial
meal on Christmas day.
Unfortunately for this phase of their
Christmas work the Salvation Army has
been much handicapped this year because
the local authorities decided against per-
hitting them to maintain the familiar ket-
ties on street corners in the center of the
city. Keep the pot boiling We the
CHEEKY salutation of the Army workers
standing beside their kettles in former
years, and the kettles drew such liberal
contributions from the hurrying public that
they formed the principal portion of the
cash fund toward the purchase of potatoes,
onions, turnips, chickens, celery and other
substantials disbursed for Christmas for the
poor. The house-to-house collections this
year and subsequent purchases for the day
have been under the personal direction OF
Mai NJ E. Barter and Adjt. William S.
Quirk The baskets will be given out the
day before Christmas. beginning at o'clock
in the afternoon so that ample opportunity
will be afforded for the cooking on Christ
mas day, the distribution being entirely
made from Salvation Army Hall at $50
Pennsylvania avenue northwest.
Another phase of the same generous CIV
ing will be witnessed at the American Sal
walton Army Hall, 131 Pennsylvania avenue
northwest, beginning at noon on Christmas
day, when sumptuous Christmas dinner
will be spread and hundreds of poor fam
their need proved, will be brought in and
fed. The whole second floor of this army
barracks will be given over to special
tables spread for the occasion.
No special arrangements have been made
for the occasion by the Central Union Mis-
sion. except that special services will be
held in the chapel. AS usual however,
any one who asks for a dinner will not
sion officers said yesterday that they have
made practically the only provision in the
city for making Thanksgiving a day of
plentitude for the poor, and according to es-
tablished custom in that regard the pro-
viding for Christmas is turned over to the
Salvation Army and the mission forwards
any special. reports which may come in
from the field to the army headquarters for
investigation and supply.
The Gospel Mission announcement is as
follows:
1.-The nightly services at the Gospel Mis-
sion, 1880 Pennsylvania avenue, continue to
be largely attended and fruitful in results.
Dr. E. D. Bailey Of Brooklyn, N. Y, for
mery resident of this city and prominent
pei Mission last Sunday night to a large
and attentive audience that filled the hall.
christmas will be observed by a praise
service at II o'clock in the morning, dur
ing which gifts will be presented to all who
attend. Also at 7:3O pm. the service will
be one of special Christmas interest. Sister
Phoebe Hall is to. speak next Sunday even
ing 1t O'Clock The public is invited to
all these services.
In their publication 1.-THE Evangelist" the
Peoples Mission have issued Merry
To- Vnov ftocv
Next Sunday evenings service will be con-
Quoted by the women Of the Peoples Mis-
sion. There will be open house New Years
day. and the mission will also hold watch
night service.
Among the penal institutions in the Dis
trict probably none have made more elab-
crate preparations for Christmas than have
the Boys Reform School and the Girls Re-
form School. Affairs at the Boys Reform
School will take on a special tinge at the
services today, which will be conducted by
Chaplain H. A. Brown of Fort Myer On
Christmas eve there will be entertain
ment emblematic of Christmas, the ar
rangement made by Superintendent Darnall
being to have the little stage decorated to
stead. Two "old people," made up as man
and wife, will command the center of in
terest, and the elimination Will be rep
resentation of Santa Claus coming down
the chimney. The representation will be SO
nearly real, however, that Santa will dis
tribute presents to each of the boys and
to the teachers and officials OF the school.
A regular rouser of a Christmas dinner will
be served at noon Tuesday-and 1t may
readily be understood that the dinner must
be something more than ordinary because
it must fill to repletion exactly two hundred
and sixty boys, each one provided with an
appetite equal to one whole turkey.
At the Girls Reform School the two prin-'
cipal buildings will be handsomely deco
rated with greens for the occasion, and
each will have its giant Christmas tree,
loaded with presents Christmas day will
open with prayer service at o'clock for
the Catholic girl inmates, and the regular
school service will be held three hours
! later. Turkey dinnAr win be served at