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is a ready seller, and she never takes a
chance on a prospective customer es-
Gaping her clutches. Ornaments, vege-
tables, dusty sweets and withered
fruits, secondhand wearing apparel
and new and half-worn household
utensils are piled high in a conglomer-
ate heap, and to the shoppers who
throng rast this stand 1t is a case of
take their pick. hand over their coin,
move on and make room for the next
in line.
While every doorstep is converted
into a temporary shop, the gutter is
equally advantageous for the vendor
and street arab. Here pushcarts line
the curbstone for blocks, while the
centre of the street is just as crowded,
and this open-air bazaar Is in full blast
from dawn until midnight, and the
squad of policemen there doing duty
are frequently compelled to freely swing
their clubs to keep traffic open and UNI
interrupted. Elizabeth street and Rem
ington place nearby are the scenes of
similar bazars. Extended all the way
to Baxter street Is to be found the
real Ghetto. In the surrounding tene-
ment houses are herded thousands of
families, a family of ten, more often
than not, eating, sleeping and working
in two small, badly ventilated and
scarcely lighted rooms. This they call
home, and acre their joys and sor-
! rows end. Day in and day out they
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lum, Beatrice Metz, Katherine Lautar-
wasser, Violet and Harland Lexa. Elnora
Hill, Herbert Smith, Frederick Simpson,
Walter Veshlage, Madaline Frey, Ruth
Masker, Harry Johnson, Elsie Erhard,
Ethel Shipley, Daisy Croote, Warren Gray,
Mark Van Syckle, Helen Bedfors, Ida
Pullen, George Pilkington and Florence
Welt.
ment in the Colt street School was a long
one. The following young folks partici-
pated. Madeline Jackson, Winifred Smith,
Lulu Stern, Frederick kopp, Gertrude Lee,
Egbert, Howard Connor, Hattie Smith,
Lucy Hinchhauser, Leroy Noll,. ada
Theuerner, Waller Rothfus, Toward Con-
nor, Watson Dougher, Gussie E1singeIr,
Clyde MacFarland, Albert Lacombe, Ed
ward Heyden, Theodore Smith. Henry
Kloproth, Lulu Stern, Louis Hussman,
Clyde Goode, Emma Sharlach, Lucille Lals-
ant. Gertrude Kautzmann, Chester Lance.
Florence Duttweiler, John Anderson,
Ethel Hoffman, Frederick Bevenace, Flor
ence .Thran, Charles Weisenbach, Lydie
Casselman, Charles Banner, Louisa Hoff-
man and Lillian Nixon.
In the primary department entertain
men those who entertained their elders
were: Viola Schleckser, Idabelle Berger,
Helena Klingleberg, Louise Derra, L6ulse
Schmidt Robert Bennett, Calvin Clawson,
Walter Frable, Lionel Fairthorne, Harold
Fredericks, George Baer. Chester BoehTi,
James Conner, Katherine Bank, Gertrude
Drummer. Ida Reim, Margaret Locknerr,
Elsa ReinIg. Marie Meyer, Cora Howell,
Marjorie Nosher, May Mills, Paul Hass,
Pauline Malik, Tessie Kritzmacher,
Theresa Felber, Clarence Boerger, Eleanor
Van Bruen, Mamie Hartkopf, Edna Banks,
Nelson Hcrdrick, Wilson Bell, Clarence
Rothfuss, Marie Sieb, Esther Brown,
Davey MacFarlane, Louisa Krattiser,
Florence Leist. Melville Mitchell, Emma
Froeble. Frank Common, Dewey Howell.
Herman Fritzehe, Minnie Gerdes, Ethel
Clark. Harold Wlldman, George and Fred
Fatzler, Frederick Councilman, Lillian Rice
and Clarence Drummer.
The Florence Avenue School pupils gave
an interesting entertainment. Those to
take part were Grace Fehon, Harry
Mailer, Viola Morse, Edward Maser, Clara
Jones, Elizabeth Scherub, Herman Man
der, Burton Stewart, Marion Mayield,
Dowie, Marguerite Hyatt, Lenore Brass.
Mildred Purcell, Anna Ellis, Rose French
and Grace Fehon.
The Grove Street School Is still upset,
owing to the building operations going on,
but a good program was rendered In an
take part We're May Vanderhoof, Emma
Luke, Elsie Krock, Sadie Bornstein. Mar
garet Wagner, Elsie Samonsky, Alfred
Fischer, Jack Wriggens, Lewis Peto, Ed
ward Fraeble, Sherman Dallas, Reinhold
Kniep, Elsie Colpke. Harry Tegehoff,
Tingley. Rose Stark, Philip Goetz and
Frank Stefanik.
The children in the Lyon Avenue Kin
dergarten School had II Christmas tree,
and the following children took Fart in
the entertainment: Joseph Dertei, David
Brown, John MeCallom. Eleanor Ander-
son, Lulu Wahlers, una Felber, Josephine
Qertel, George Martinkn and Charles Am
bruster.
In the Hilton School the young folks
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are gorgeous outdoor shrines, and the
Christ Child's health is drunk in every
wine known to sunny Italy.
Continuing down Mott street the
bright colors of Italy give way to the
softer ones of the Orient, for now we
come to Chinatown. Thousands upon
thousands of the slant-eyed Mongo-
llans dwell above and beneath ground
here. A trip to Chinatown is still an
event in the lives of New Workers. and
their guests, although many of the
scenes there enacted when Americas
great and only, the inimitable, Chuck
Connors ruled there with ~undisputed
sway, exist now only in memory. Since
the deadly feuds, or Tong wars, were
so desperately waged In Chinatown the
police have CLEANED up" this district
and the revelry of olden times is not
to be found. The bazars, with their
pretty Chinese wares. the joss houses,
the opium dens and the Chinese theatre
are still points Of interest, but with a
policeman stationed at each doorway a
damper has been thrown upon the spir-
its Of its inhabitants and roistering
gambling and debauchery have given
way to peace, quiet and sobriety, The
lower East Side, with Its Russians.
Poles, Bohemians and the like, and its
uninterrupted flow of Yiddish, gives
way at the foot of Madison street To q
little Greek colony. The approach oil
Christmas is most manifest here and
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HATING FIRM p1sso1vEs.

The hat factory in Commerce street, or
ange, conducted up to the present time
by President Sylvanus j. Shaw of the Or
ange Common council and James Kerr,
under the firm name of Shaw & Kerr, has
gone out of existence as a Matchmaking
establishment, and today MIR. Shaw COM
pleted the transaction of disposlng of the
shop machinery to the Orange Machine
ing mentioned. The factory gave employ
ment to a large number of men, but the
falling off in business due to financial con-
ditions had effected the place, and the
as a result the factory was closed on Sat
urday, and today the machinery owned by
the firm was disposed of and the men quit.
Mr.. Shaw stated he would start the
first of the year in a new enterprise. The
firm has been In existence for seven years,
and was first located In Kelsey place. in
the Second Ward, Orange. The firm four
years ago moved the plant to the present
location.
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slave until far into the night. 1t is
stitch. stitch, stitch in these miserable
soul whitening sweatshops, and here
it is that strong men and rosy-cheeked
young women, buoyant with youth,
health and hope take up their lives
upon leaving the steerages of the big
steamships, only to emerge in a few
months bent and old, scared and pow
erty crazed, for life here Is not that
OF the Sweet Land Of Liberty they
had pictured in youths golden dream.
OF course. Christmas has no relig-
ious significance here, but 1t is never
theless joyfully hailed, for sweatshop
slaves get more work from the fac
tories, and then, too, Christmas orders
are invariably rush orders, which in
sure a small premium If the task set
is rushed to an early completion.
Leaving the squalor and heart-break-
ing scenes of the Ghetto, it is but a
step to Elizabeth, Mott and Mulberry
streets. Here 1t is that the Italian
holds forth with the same happy-go-
lucky abandon as Is found in sunny
Italy. IL 1t is at night you will be
enchanted with the Nominations of the
streets. Red, white and green lights
innumerable are designed into success
sive arches as far as the eye can
reach. The flag Of Italy is on every
hand. A band comes marching down
the street. and music suggestive of
Christmas ever greets the ear. There
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Hungarian district. Here, too, tho
Christmas spirit is all-pervading and
all is hustle. hustle and activity. Drear-
mess and squalor that once prevailed
has given way to freshly-painted fronts
and a general tidying up has followed
the Hungarian quarter since Dame
Fashion decreed that an occasional
visit to the quaint and thoroughly Boz
hemian restaurants that here abound,
was eminently good form. This has
meant everything for the East Side
Hungarian and his Christmas is filled
with all the good things that are
crowded into the lives of his more
ia fashionable patrons. Then, too, "Littlel
Hungary" is prone to look down upon
its near n~eighbors, for less thar q year
ago President Roosevelt honored this
section with his august presence and
ever since the Stars and Stripes are
Haunted side by side with the gay bunt-
Ing of Hungary Little Hungary Is
made up for the most part Of a race
of bonvivants and raconteurs whose
Christmas extends a period Ct a.
fortnight at least, every spare moment
of which is spent In one of h many
unique n fascinating cellar cafes,
where the Hungarian red wine runs as
WI
freely as the tongues of those who sip
1t. Children swarm the street. gaily
clad, and Christmas trees, laden with
tinselled ornaments, sweets and toys.
are displayed in every window.
1t is but a step from the Hungarianl
quarter to the Bowery, but the Bowery
of today is hardly worth the mention.
True. 1t is lined with saloons. dance
halls. pawn shops and stores of every
description, but such well known land
marks as Suicide Hall" Steve Brodie's
Hole In the Wall" and the "House of
All Nations no longer exist, and the
Bowery without Steve Brodie Is as for
lorn as a rudderless ship at sea.
Christmas on the East Side this year
is even more desolate than in the past.
Thousands of its toilers are out of work
and sven those who are so fortunate 10
to retain their employment appreciates
the hard times that the winter promises.
and every sacrifice and self-deniaI
known to man they are now practising
in order to avoid the winter spent in
daily trips to one of the many soup
houses there established, for. be it rsrA
membered, an East Slider" must not
! beg.
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SCHOOLS CLOSE
BOOKS AND PAPERS BAN.
ISHED FOR EIGHT DAYS.
Franklin School Cantata Repeated-Jers
Cobb Entertains Chestnut Street
acknowledgement Speak.
20. no, the holidays are here,

20. no, the holidays are here,
Ira, Ia. ira, Ia, ira, la,
Wen welcome them with right good cheer.
Ira, Ia, ira, la, ira, Ia.
And soon Wen sing in glad refrain
A welcome back TO school again,
O., no, the holidays are here,
Ira, la, ira, la, ira, Ia"
Every public school child's face was like
a sunbeam today. The combination Of
Christmas exercises. lighted trees, gifts,
and prospects of eight long days of free
dom and fun, made lessons and the daily
grind fade into insigniflcance. For the
past week or two preparations have been
made for the exercises, and the occupation
Of chains, stars, coruucopihs and various
other ornaments, as well as little gifts,
such ms whisk broom holders, pin cushions
pencil cases, calendars, blotters and PEN
wipers to be presented to proud parents.
Most Of the kindergarten exercises were
held yesterday, consisting chiefly of games,
songs and recitations, all pertaining TO the
season and to the trees, which occupied
places OF honor in every room. The gram
mar and primary entertainments were car
ried out this morning, with more elaborate
programs. In many of the institutions
there were speakers from among the clergy
OF the city. In the Chestnut Street School
the pupils were entertained by Jere Cobb,
the humorist. with a number Of new
monologues. after which a general pro-
gram was carried out. The Rev. Charles
p. Condit. OF Trinity Reformed Church.,
addressed the pupils Of the Hawkins
Street School. and in the Belmont Avenue
School a talk was given by Assistant
Superintendent David b. Corson. The can
tsta. 'Santa's P~erplexity,'' given by 200
children Of the Franklin School, in the
assembly room last night, for the benefit
of the school fund, was a great success,
a large audience greeting the players. The
cantata was repeated twice this morning,
before the primary and the kindergarten
departments. Santa Claus appeared in the
majority Of the institutions and distributed
little gifts among the youngsters,
a program Of Christmas songs, solos and
choruses was rendered in the High School
this noon. under the direction of Professor
Charles Stafford.
Many OF the teachers are planning to
spend the holidays at Atlantic City, where
the annual State teachers convention will
take place Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Among the Newark educators who Will
talk are Assistant Superintendent David
h. Corson. Randall D.. Warden, director of
physical training, Miss Elizabeth Cara
brant. Of the High School; Miss Grace NJ.
Duffy. of TIE Morton Street School: ELI
Pickwick. supervisor Of manual training,
and Miss Carrie v. Stephens, supervisor
of eewfng.
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XMAS EXERCISES
HELD TODAY IN IRVINGTON
AND HILTON.
Many Public School Pupils Join in En-
tertaining Companions and
Parents.

Christmas exercises were held in the
Irvington and Hilton public schools today.
In Alumni Hall, in Central School, the
High School and the higher grades of the
grammar school had an extend program.
Those who took part were: Miss Lottie
Bratlof. Miss Elsie Beach. Miss Pearl
Kent, Miss Edna Gundacker, Miss Sadie
Hill, Walter GRAF, Miss Eliza Pushke,
Miss Annie Bauer. Miss Hazel Longfield,
Miss Norma Simpson, Miss Abb Chris
tian. Miss Ethel johnson, Miss Marion
Longfield. Miss Gladys Gardner and Sey-
Dlour Alexander.
The following took part in the exercises
of the fourth and fifth grades: Harold
Frake, Marguerite Harris, james Allcroft,
Herbert Maier, Irene King, Ruth Helwig,
Edward Helm, May Hayow, Hazel Bau-
mer, Janet Denbigh, Irene Helwig, Lettie
Higgins, Gertrude Norton, Alva Tocker,
Florence Temple, Margaret Beyerle, Bessie
Reid, Emily Hugg, Robert Crockett and
May Quinn.
In third A and third B grades the chill
dren to participate were; Elsie Fidlger,
Hiidu Bischoff. Elsie Bartolicius, William
Groeclel, George Oson, Philip Marshall,
Erwin Bond. Kenneth Johnson, Harold
Hecht, Myrtle Blickendorfer, Ellen Bon
nett. william Bartolicius, Clara Buschor.
MiIfred Weber, Emma Williams, Dorothy
Wolf, Bstelle Boeiger, Estelle Smith, Fred
Wissman, Horace Kay, Mildred Frieburger,
George Wissel, Ellen Kelley, Hugo Meyer,
Stanley Baldwin, Emma Swazey, Emily
Fairchild, Hilda Kreutzer, Nelson Krauter
and William Hegeman.
The second year pupils to assist In that
grades entertainment were: Robert
Blickensdoerfer, Walter Rademacher, Rosa
Rank, Vance Meyer, Helen Adams, Clar-
ence Allegyer. Grace Farmhouse, Edna
Mueller, Esther Landen. Hazel Mercer,
Lillian Meisenzahl, Harold Reinfelder,
Benice Gray, Ruth Lillee, Helen Allgar,
Fannie james. Wood Gauss, Viola Els
man. Frank Busbaum, Marion Pfeiffer,
Dollie Elliot, Howard Parker, Robert Mott,
Charles Pancoast, Annie Waterfield, NAH
, Ion Simpson, Lyle Allen, Charles Pan
coast, Leslie Grifhths, Gertrude Burk-
hardt, George buddy, Arthur Otto and
Max Alexander.
The first grade children to take part in
that grades exercises were William
Bailey. Evelyn Terrill, Melvin MacCal-
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WEST NEWARK KINDERGARTEN.

The West Newark Kindergarten had n
like welcome for the old gentleman with
the long white beard last night. 1t had
been arranged by Mrs. Matthew PAUL,
the principal OF the school, and the scene
was Kurz's Colosseum. Charles Spaeth
was the generous Santa Claus, and he was
accompanied by Miss Ella Schneider. as
his guardian angel. Nearly two score
children took part In the various tableaux,
the operetta "Bo-Peep'' the recitations
and the other forms of seasonable enter
tainment dear to parents and pupils. or
course there was a present for everybody,
and the boys and girls went home happy.
Much of the success OF the event is due
TO a committee made up of George Herr
mann, Fritz Grub, George Hoerig, William
st. George, Nicholas Giese, Louis Arnold.
George Rossbach George Ding, August
Bruder, Christian Kurz, Mrs. Peter Kreis,
Mrs, Frederick Hermann. Miss Gertrude
Grub.
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TO AID RUSSIAN POLITICAL
PRISONERS AND FAMILIES.
Society Formed Here with That Purpose
in View-Mrs. Personnel
President.

In order to render financial assistance
to the political prisoners in Russia and
their families, q branch of The Russian
Relief Society, OF New York. was organ.
lied lest night AT the Public Library.
While the object is TO assist those who
have been cent to Siberia and their. fam
ties, 1t Will also assist those who may
escape 10 this country.
While the attendance was not large,
there was plenty OF enthusiasm among
those present.
Professor William Milowitzky was elect
ed temporary chairman, and after ex-
planning the objects of the organization,
it was decided to enroll all present.
Permanent officers, with the exception OF
the ehalrmen. were then elected. They
arei Mrs. Victor Personnel, wife of DIR.
Parsonnet. secretary, and Mrs. George
Rubinow, financial secretary and treas
urer.
The members Of the executive commit
tee are Mrs. Parsonnet. Mrs. Rubinow,
Mrs. Charles Boni, Joseph G. Krascow
and George Rubinow. They will issue an
appeal for members and will also arrange
to have a prominent member of the New
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POLICE SAY "KEYMAN"
SUSPECT HAS RECORD.
Get Measurements and Photo of Henry
Tomlinson-Trying to Connect Him
with Philadelphia Job.

Although the alleged 'koyman." who
gave his name as Henry Tomllnson, when
arrested last Thursday by Detective Ser.
geant Ryan. Of police headquarters. and
Policeman Mcdonald, OF the First Precinct
station, still maintains silence about his
past. the police believe that his picture Is
in the rogues' gallery in Baltimore, Chi
cago and Boston.
Captain Carroll, OF the detective bureau.
received today a photograph and Ber-
tillon measurement of II man vino gave his
name as Thomas Warren, aud who was
arrested in Philadelphia during the Elks's
celebration as a pickpocket. The picture is
said by the police to be that of the man
who is under arrest here. although there
is a discrepancy in the height Of ToInlinson
and the measurement sent from Philadel-
phia.
Unless bail is produced for Tomlinson to-
day, he will be taken to the county Jail TO
await action by the Grand Jury.
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decorations are both elaborate and fam
tastic. All the places are labeled either
"Xenodocheion" (hotel) or "Kaph-
pheneion" coffee house,. Some OF the
names are diverting. There is the
Safety Hotel. or House OF Security,
whichever way you please to name IL;
The Byzantine Coffee House, the Coffee
House of Alexander the Great and
many others. In the coffee houses or
restaurants the sons of Hellae gather
to cat, talk and gamble necessarily.
Drifting into Albany, Carlisle and the
neighboring cross streets and along the
foot of West street the tourist comes TO
the Syrian quarter. This Is a queer
region, the shops, houses and all other
places are old and dilapidated, and poy-
erty is denoted on every hand. despite
the thrift for which these people are
noted. There is about the Syrian quar-
ter none of the fairy atmosphere, or
tinge of a that delights the Wis
itor to Mulberry Bend or Chinatown.
The neighborhood Is hemmed in on
every side by skyscrapers, and the hum
of business roars In the ears, yet it Is
easy to imagine that the sun beating
down on the mean streets with their
poverty, In midsummer must some-
times remind the Inhabitants OF the
hot deserts and blazing plains Of their
native land.
Retracing ones steps, a trip over Ia
| Second avenue brings him into the
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TUITE OBTAINS VACATION.
Predecessor Will Work for the Court
House Attache.

Because Of ill-hsalth. William E. Tnite.
who Is vice-president of the Board Of Edu-
cation and secretary OF the committee Oh
roads and assessments of the Board OF
Freeholders. readily secured from the com
mittee Mt its session late yesterday after
noon two months leave Of absence. He
will go to Denver and Its environs Satur-
day to recuperate. .
At the same time the secretary stated
u1at William e. Christian, who was the
secretary Of the committee under the Re-
publican administration, would take charge
of the office. and this was also agreed to.
Supervisor John F., Otterbein remarked
that the eounty's business. under this ar
r%angcmcnt, would not suffer, especially MS
1t Is usually light during the winter
months, and then Mr.. Tuite bade all
good-by.
Cyrus b. Crane, OF the West Caldwell
Council, appeared before the committee
and complained about the Westville road
In that place. He said that It needed paw
Ing and that unless something was done
soon the road would be impossible. The
committee consoled the complainant with
Inc statement chat that section OF the
county would be inspected on the second
day OF the new year.
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GRANDNIR1XZ

~HRlSTMAS on New York's East
Side never varies; In fact, as far
back as memory takes us an East
SIDE Christmas, for the most part,
means want and suffering, cold and
hunger, a little more work.. a little less
recreation. To the average visitor to
New York the East Side is a revela-
ton, a source of n~ever-ceasing Won
de- for no other city in the United
states can boast of a district covering
SO small al area into which is crowded
50 heterogeneous a mass of human
beings where poverty and squalor are
ever manifest.
Few visitors TO New York neglect to
join a Summing party and make a
pilgrimage to the East Side, AND the
trip is well worth their pains and time,
FOR 1t is an education in itself. The
average New Yorker is too much .oc-
crpied with his own affairs to take
these trips. but once in a while one
kindly disposed will spend an after
noon in exploring the crooked, narrow,
foul-smelling and congested streets, in
which stunted and dwarfed children
are continually crawling under ones
feet. The scenes he there encounters
cannot fail to impress him, and. per-
haps, so clutch his heartstrings as to
impel him to increase the size of the
check he annually mate to his pet
charity organization. This done, he
teels that his debt towards suffering
humanity has been paid, and no sooner
does he enter the portals Of his home
or club than he disinisses all thoughts
Of the tragic faces he met in the course
Of the afternoon, and the East Sid is
left TO struggle on as best it car until
such time as one of the many minis
tering angels finds her way hithep and
momentarily sheds her radiance.
IN no city in the world are there so
many n~ationalIties crowded into 50
small a space as are to be here found.
Russian Jews predominant, yet,
strange to say, Christmas means just
as much to them as it does to their
next-door neighbor-the Italian, the
Syrian, the Hun, the Greek or the Bo-
hemian. All live, or exist. ilerded in
their begrimed, dark and forbidding
tenements, only ts toll ceaselessly for
= waRe sufsszicnt to Keep soul. and body
It is only the barest of ne
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WHO HIT HIM?
With Two Friends He Is Fined
Ten Dollars.

Micklo Him q years old of 666 Market
street; Andrew Gotauskl 81 years old. Of
52S Market street, and Adam Zeik, q
years old, same address. were arraigned
before Acting Judge Yuill IN the Third
Precinct Police Court this morning. charged
with disorderly conduct. They were fined
$40 apiece.
Patrolman Fftzsimmons, who made the
arrest. stated that while passing a saloon
In Jackson street last night Him, with
his face cut, lunged from the doorway and
fell. Fitzsimmons Investigated and found
that there had been a fight inside between
the three.