The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-12-26
ON EARTH,
GOOD WILL TO men
New York Filled With the
Christmas Spirit From the
Palace to the Hovel.
DARKENED LIVES CHEERED
MORE FORTUNATE ONES HAPPY
IN KIND DEEDS.

New York, Dec. 25.-There was no
spirit of depression in this city this
Christmas day. From the Bronx to
the Battery and over into Brooklyn to
the point where Coney island points its
nose into the sea, there was merry
making that must have satisfied the
joIliest soul, and those who had no
cheer of their own were bountifully
supplied by those who had enough and
to spare. Those in a position to know,
say that never before have good
things been distributed with so lavish
q hand or so many of the less fortunate
made happy with gratuities. The Sal
vationists, Volunteers, Young Mems
Christian association and a hundred
other public and private humanitarian
organizations, We'd with each other in
supplying to all who would ask, boun-
tiful repasts, surprise gifts of clothing
and toys, with music and bright lights
and we'll wishes thrown in.
Festivities Began Early.
In fact, the good cheer could not be
dispensed with in the traditional TWEEN
ty-four hours and, beginning at noon
yesterday, Christmas festivities were in
full swing Even at the stock exchange,
the scene of recent financial disaster
for many, the walls were hung with
holly and. mistletOe, and the brokers
proved they were not broke by making
a pool of s12,000 for the $50 exchange
employees. 1 Nearly every public school
had its Christmas program.
Sectarian differences did not appear,
and the "cutest" Santa on the east side,
it is said, was properly gotten up lit
tie Hebrew girl.
Happy, Joyous Throngs.
Christmas eve filled the restaurants
and cafes, as always, but IL also filled
every available hall in the city. where
the throngs were made happy. Band
concerts, chorus singing, Christmas
trees and vaudeville turns made up the
program. The opera houses and high
class theatres were crowded, as usual,
/ on a holiday, but a score of places
/ were given up to free entertainments
/ for the crippled children, the news
/ boys and thousands of others without
| the price" Christmas day, though
without snow was as beautiful as the
| sentiment it engendered. Clear, crisr
and cool, the weather filled the parks
and invited the ever-spectacular par
ade on Fifth avenue.
/ vi LillS lSlduu AfOUV llllIllSi ants III q
| babel of tongues thanked Miss Helen
Could for their first merry Christmas
| in America. There was a toy for every
child and a pink carnation for each
| adult.
Prisoners Not Forgotten.
The Christmas spirit invaded the
penal institutions where real home
dinners were served. 1t found it's way
into the TOmbs, where Harry ThaN
| furnished cigars for the keepers, hand
! kerchiefs for the matrons and smoke:
and chocolates for his fellow prisoners
1t blocked the streets at a hundred
points where leftover stocks of mil
linery and toys were given away, and
big policemen nearly lost their minds II
frantic efforts to keep the blissfully
Indifferent tots from getting beneath
the wheels of street cars and automo
biles The police were lenient, too, anC
the push-cart man with everything
from paper Christmas bells to Tedd!
bears for sale, pushed his wares witt
immunity even into the sacred pre-
cincts of Fifth avenue.