New-York tribune., 1907-12-25
SULLIVAN LARGESS.
TRIBUNES INVITE ALL.
Free Christmas on the BozCery and
Elsezchere for Citys Poor.

rhosa nersone of Irish cosnomen, the Sullivans,
whose names have appeared and do appear So
frequently in the daily prints in connection WIN WIN
doings that done at the City Han or aHece tiial
centre of the municipality like the tribunes OF
the people in ancen. Rome. will do tneir pest OF
their worst. just you look at IT, to-day 10 iahe
their name glorious in the annals of the hrst CITY
of the Western World The sympathetic portion OF
New Yorks population will be ranged on their size.
Just forget their past mute inslorious career
you makers accessories of Christmas Inc sui
livans will loom big to-day, when they entertain
some two thousand more persons with SUD-
stantiaI repast that means meal to the Soou
and hungry" Nowadays. they say, 1t is no longer
the old Bowery, but charity organization ana ques
tions asked before you eat have not yet STRUCK
that section where abide ye rulers or ye laihhiaiie
societie and ys real men who preside over We
Bowery Mission. So there will be beer and-out
who cares for English skittles when there is Amer
can turkey and cranberry sauce-and plenty OF IL
TO be had at several places along the wide way?
Certainly there will be plenty of both at the rooms
of the Timothy D. Sullivan Association and at the
Rowery Mission And If the Bowery is well fed
and content. will not the sefappointed advertisers
of New York's sociological conditions have assured
the country at large that New York is getting
along very we'll and able to take care of itself?
The lame and the halt, the blind and the deaf ana
those who are neither the the other or any
of the four will get their fill on the Bowery, with
no more test than that required by simple good
natured layman who knows what Christmas IN
Almost equal in Importance and pretentiousness'
IL not so ancient its observance, is the merry
making and good cheer which will have as its guid-
Ing spirit an Englishwoman. Eva Balington Booth,
the daughter of General William Booth, command
er of the Salvation Army. 1t is needless to record
what the head of this American branch of the
spiritual corps will accomplish to-day, beyond say
ing that at least twenty-five thousand persons VIII
be made happy by the benefactions OF herseH ahc
her subordinates.
he INN enumerate the special
Christmas benefactions which have been prepared
for the day. Among the most notapIe VIII De 'he
dinner given to the newsboys at the Brace
Memorial Lodging House. William NJ Flless found
special pleasure year after year during his lie IN
looking after these hard working waits His son.
William NJ Fliess jr. has taken up the good work.
and will give tonight his annual festival IN heih
ory of his father. Nor will those who haWk the
news of Harlem and The Bronx be forgotten IN the
general rejoicing for Mrs Kathryn Conyhtoh VIII
look after the newsboys those districts. Follow
ing Mr. Fliess's example. she has provided vauoe-
willie entertainment for the "kiddies Whlle they
are eating, the two Aloysii and Devfne ana fiorl-
man. who are making special tour of the United
States will lead bill that Is likely TO keep the
Youngsters alive to the important fact that there
is always something doing.
At the various branches Of the Young Mems
Christian Association there will be special oir-
ners and Christmas entert rtainments. and charitaoy
inclined persons will cut their own ratiohs Oh
turkey and plum pudding short to be present
where the poor and the friendless VIII gather
to eat Mrs Frank sntig will preside at the
distribution of gifts at the brooklyn thrist-
mas Tree" All over the five boroughs of New
York snecial efforts will he made by various char
table societies to see that those who are not able
to buy a dinner for themselves have no reason TO
mark off the Christmas of 1907 for special denun-
citation.
fu,,v eoualled Yesterday and it thoroughly
fatigued and sleep ridden assortment of clerks VINO
wended their ways homeward this morning after
one of the busiest tri-weekly sessions that has
ever been experienced in the shops of New York
..Impassabe," a mild adjective to describe
the condition of the aises in the department stores
all day yesterday and all last night
The tired employees all town, well as all
the holiday makers. were not at all spurred on
ward by the weather mans unfeelng prediction
that the skies would be somewhat clouded to-day.
Fresh west winds. however. was the tablet handed
out and If they bamy were yesterdays,
nobody except the worst Bostonese brand OF pes
siuist will have kick coming.
Among the events scheduled for the day are the
Christmas Day carol service in the old First Pres
byterian Church. at Fifth avenue and Eth street
The pastor the Rev DIR. Howard Duftield, Will con-
duct the service and will read a Christmas story
Arrangements have been made for dinner Tor
three hundred persons at the Home for the Aged,
IN East 10th street conducted by the Little Sisters
of the
thirty little patients in the children's ward of
the New York Hospital celebrated Christmas last
night as though they at home and well They
sat IN chairs around brilliantly lighted and dec
grated tree in one end of the room. Those VINO
were unable to leave their cots had them drawn
I'D about the tree by kind nurses George B. Luz
lam superntendent of the hospital, and Dr. r.
Stuart dressed as Santa Clauses, distributed toys
and other good things the little sufferers. while
a choir of nurses, under the guidance OF Dr.
GoehIe who acted as organist, sang the hymns OF
Christmas.
headouarters of the Hungarian Literary Society, at
No 224 East 10th street. There Morris Cukor
a friend of President Roosevelt, played the part
of Santa Claus in distributing, with the aid or
twelve pretty Hungarian women. massive piles OK
all kinds of clothing suits, overcoats, gloves, nit
tens shoes stockings warm underwear and caps
and hats to all who came Nine thousand dollars
was subscribed by members of the society and their
Hungarian friends to make the poor of the neigh
borhood happy.
Newspaper men, policemen, street railway en-
ployes and other night workers gathered this
morning In St Andrews Church. Duane street
and City Hall Place where Father Evers celebrated
high mass The feature of the service was the
special musical programme arranged by the men,
tion composed entirely of men. contributes small
amount each week in the year toward fund for
Christmas music Bernard O'Donnell was tho
ganist.