The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1907-12-24
SANTA TO VISIT
ORPHANS AND
THE SICK
Good Dinners for All and
Christmas Trees for
Children Provided.

OfTlSIIl1dS QluI1eIS VIII De S1V6n LO'
morrow in the orphan asylums. homes
for the aged and the hospitals. and also
in city and county institutions. At the
City Hospital the 26O patients will have
turkey dinner, and in the cl1ildren's
ward there is tall Christmas tree
loaded with toys paid for by persons
who have been treated in the hospital
The inmates of the City Almshouse
viii have a chicken dinner.
The boys in the City Home at Vero.
ma will have turkey. "fixin's," fruit end
candies. The Boys Band will give q
concert in the afternoon.
The County Hospital for the Insane,
on South Orange avenue, is neatly dec
GRATED with ropes of greenery, lighted
by electricity, in the sixteen wards and
the big assembly room, where there ID
big tree filled with toys and candies
Rooms of private patients are deco
rated also. There were $500 feet OF
ropes of greenery used and 500 wreaths.
There is wreath in every window.
For tomorrow's dinner there are 1,20C
pounds of turkey in the big refrigara-
tor for the 7OS patients. There are also
mince pies and oranges and apples and
candies.
The 502 patients in the branch hos
pital at Overlook will have 700 pounds
of turkey to eat, and they will have a
Christmas tree. The rooms are prettily
decorated.
Last night the nurses in the Hospital
for the Insane at South Orange avenue
had dance. Tonight the patients will
dahce.
The prisoners in the county jail and
in Caldwell Penitentiary will be served
with good dinner tomorrow.
In the private charitable institutions
the children, the aged and the i'll will
be given Christmas dinners. Mrs.
Robert Ballantine will be Santa Claus
and furnish the dinner to the 104
orphans in the Protestant Foster Home
tomorrow. The children gave their
Christmas entertainment this after
noon. There were songs, recitations
and dialogues. The Rev. Charles l..
Mead presided and the Rev. DR.. Pleas
ant Hunter gave a Christmas talk. A
supper followed, and then Santa Claus
gave dolls and toys and candies to the
children from a big illuminated Christ
mas tree.
At the Newark Orphan Asylum in
High street the ninety-five children
gave their Christmas entertainment
yesterday afternoon. A supper fol-
lowed. Then members of the Young
Ladies' Guild distributed gifts from a
Santa Claus tree. There will be tur-
key dinner tomorrow, with mince pie,
fruit and candy.
At the Home for the Friendless the
orphans will have a Christmas dinner,
a Santa Claus and tree. and will get
Christmas toys and candy. At st. Bar
nabas's Hospital and the German Hos
pital friends of those institutions will
provide the turkey. cranberries and
fruit and the trees for the children.
The little inmates of the Home for Grip
pied Children were well treated by Santa
Claus, children In the form Of girls and
boys, who presented them with dolls made
by the girls and games bought by the boys
Mrs ]. H. B. Cougar and Mrs Frederick
Slayer took the Santa Claus people to the
home They were Louis Roux, Grace
Moffat, Mildred Van Ness, Margaret and
Katherine GUIDE. Elizabeth and Emma
Sloyer, Muriel Hays, Charles, John and
Dunham Conger, William Roux and Aird
Moffat
The inmates of Roman Catholic charit-
able institutions will fare well. Friends of
the Home for the Aged, at Eighth and
Warren streets, in charge Of the Little Sis
ters of the Poor, have furnished a large
quantity of turkey, chicken, cranberries,
fruits and candies. so the nearly 300 aged
men and women will have a great Christ
mas dinner, The inmates will go to mass
in the chapel, where there is a manger and
a crib" After the dinner there will be
music and dancing.
The orphans in the new ST. Peters s
Orphan Asylum in Lyons avenue, will
have a tall Christmas tree tonight, and
Santa Claus will distribute presents sent
to him by friends Of the Institution, who
will also furnish the turkey dinner and
fruit and candies for tomorrow. The chill
dren in the old asylum in Livingston street
will also have a Santa Claus tree, din
ner and boxes of candles. with apples and
oranges The orphans In both homes may
get articles of clothing. There are "cribs''
in the chapels.
There are more than $50 patients in St
Michael's Hospital, besides thirty children
Friends have sent to the sisters enough
turkey and cranberries, apples and or
anges and potatoes to give the patients
three meals tomorrow, with lot to spare
There Is a very tall tree in the children's
ward, with lots of toys and games donated
by friends. There will be three masse.
Christmas morning in the chapel, where
there is the largest representation of the
stable at Bethlehem ever seen In Newark
The ass and OK, and the figures are very
large, and the view Of Bethlehem is very
rOon