The morning journal-courier., 1907-12-24
SUNSHINE SANTA
 ON TRIP TO-DAY About Two Hundred Children Will be Remembered as Result of Their Be
 lief in Him.
TWO AUTOS GOING OUT
Coreopsis Planning an Entertainment for Children to be Held With Miss Booth on Thursday
 Afternoon.

m hand the matter of the Santa Claus letters sent to the local postoffice, which was made for the first time in these pages, comes to-day to a con- elusion and an accomplishment which is creditable to all concerned.
 The last of the Santa Claus letters to be turned over to either of these societies were sent out from the post office yesterday morning. Those that arrived late yesterday and any that come in to-day will not be handled by them. Unless others step forward to take up the eleventh-hour work the last of the letters will be put among the dead letters and will be sent to Washington in due time, there to carry their tender appeals which come straight from the hearts of these chill dren who are imbued with their love for the good saint Santa.
 This being tho case. this paper is- sues to the public generally this morn- ing an appeal to do individual work with the letters. In this appeal can be added the wishes of similar nature held by Mrs. w. A. Granville, the chairman of the Sunshine society's committee in charge of the work and Arthur B. Smith, who, as the chair man of the Elks' house committee, has taken up their part of the work.
 To a representative of this paper last evening Mrs Granville said that her committee could not look out for any more of the letter writers than 1t was at present prepared for. She hoped sincerely that there would be found a number of spirited people in the city who would carry on the work. MT. Smith said that the Elks were ex- pecting to take care of 300 or mora children and that was all that they could arrange to take care of.
 The Santa Claus letters are in the hands of Assistant Postmaster w P. Futile. If there are any who wish to avail themselves of this last orportp- nifty to do some real Christmas chari- ty they can undoubtedly get as many of these letters from Major Futile that they wish by applying to him person ally at the postotliee building to-day.
 The Sunshine society has received in all 325 Santa Claus letters. Deducting from these the letters that gave no addresses. the one that asked for face tious gifts (such as one child that wrote to Santa Claus and asked for a divorce for her mother), and the chill dren whose parents are well-to-do and who have written purely because of their belief in Santa, there are about 200 children that will be remembered by the society. These will be divided among the different branches.
 The Elm City branch, which has about 100 members, will send out two large autos this afternoon at o'clock from the home of Mrs, Granville, 11S Howe street. The itinerary of the two machines will take them to every quarter of the city. As described in this paper yesterday morning, the plan will be to have two members of the society on each auto besides the chaffeur.i One of them will keep track of the stops to be made and the other will see the children and give them the gifts.
 The Mayhower branch will send out one auto from the home of Mrs George H. Simmons, 315 Orchard street This branch has about fifty members,
 The Coreopsis branch Is planning to hold an entertainment for the children at 2:3O on Thursday afternoon. The l work of this branch is under the di- l rection of Miss Eleanor Booth of 220 Orchard street. The branch has about fifty members At the entertainment it is expected that there will be thirty five or more present, including the mothers of some of the children,
 One of the letters which has been re- ceived by the sunshiners has touched them deeply. It comes from four l tile children named Collins. All they ask for from Santa is food, but they do not give any address. If anybody can tell where Margaret, Willie, Cathline and Julia Collins live and will let Mrs. w. A. Granville know of it, the little Collinses will be remembered. They are not known at the City Mission, at | lllt IiSdu4htu OuaIIlltsi UT Dy luG probation officer with ali of whom in quiries have been made
 One pathetic letter will be taken care of by the society. It is from little boy who writes that his mother Is sick and that he wants some good warm underwear for himself and his \ three little brothers and his sister, They all will get the asked for clothing and the sick mother will be sent a warm wrapper, The little girl will all so get a doll All of the children that asked for dolls will get them. Every l child will get box of candy, and an orange.
 With the Elks.
 The Elks will give an entertainment at their hall this afternoon at 2:30, At it Mayor Studley and Mayor-Elect Martin will speak. There will be some light form of entertainment, followed by the distribution of the gifts. Dr James H. Kelly, the veterinary sur I geon, will act the part of Santa Claus He will take his gifts from a monster tree which will be decorated with g myriad of electric lights. Besides this the Elks will also send out a great number of basket dinners on Christ. l mas day to needy widows.