New-York tribune., 1907-12-26
CITY MAKES NEW
CHRISTMAS RECORD
POOR And UNEMPLOYED
FIND WHOLESALE JOY.
T'h,9rsaads Of Hungry Ones 4re
Fcd-I'oys Skoscered on
.frmy of Infants.


s-nt his last dime for ''shakedown' in Bowery
1yi,,e- lo,,-' or even TO him furnished with fodg-
j.- f,v the county state all founo enough to
eat enough 10 drink anG even enough to wear
for once i'm the year. "SchnorTer' and working
man alike ate with Tim Sullivan the Saliva
zion Army the Volunteers the Young Mems
christian Association, or were clothed by one or
all of them.
Abe" Humlnei and 'Danny the Dip" had
special Christmas dinner the island and
Harry Thaw and the last Sican with over
worked knife drew extra rations in the Tomba.
The highest priced gypsy" band in a Broadway
lobster pa lace and Casey the piano player IN
yenhok hangout.'' alike were overworked 1t
Was Christmas, that's al-the time, as the
Rcmany folk say, tv 'cut ben Whids, Whlch
means to say good wo'E-
All Christmas talk and feeling CryStall-
lied into deeds yesterday. Hard times may have
inflicted The middle the giving. class last faE,
lut enough dimes and nickels and quarters feii
INTO the Santa Claus guarded kettles OF the Sal
vatiul. Army buy dinners for four thousahu
families The chirnneys of the Volunteers Oh
America gathered enough TO feed fifteen hunoreG
more families Every prison, Home with
,-snital HD hospital and mission had some sort
of celebration in which the national turkey
played a large part.
Big Tim Sullivans guests got away WIN
,w,o toms and more of turkey. and WenS away
with a ticket for pair of shoes and gloves anu
other needed clothes William Fleiss IL gave
the usual dinner to the newsboys at Brace
Memorial Hall, and Harry Rosenstein gave
away toys to the children as usual at No. III
Park Row Then, for those who were suffering
from lonesomeness and ''hefnlweh rather thah
from actual poverty. the Young Mems Christian
Association had dinners, in which the boarding
house coldness was obviated. For those VINO
dwell in the Mills hotels there were also pro-
xided special dinners In all pretty nearly i'o'-
sDo persons ate the bread of charity on the one
dsv of the wear in which most of its bitterness IS
lacking.
OUTGOING TRAINS CROWDED
Apparently all those who could leave New
York to spend the day elsewhere did so on Ines-
day. The outgoing trains carried heavy carsoes
of parcel laden and women fleeing from
boarding house and hotel life to the old homes
in the country, and there was noticeable alb
sence of any dear old Broadway" talk among
ihem. Every train going out of the city in
erased the number of its sleeping cars. but no
l,erths were left on any of them after o'clock.
and many mad to make long alI-nisht trips as
best they could in the day coaches
Enough were unlucky enough to have to stay
behind and for these every hotel and res
taurant had specially designed christmas
dinners 10 tempt their appetites They sold
lpl OF Cnem, 100, Dut lew lne diners W
respond with real enthusiasm TO a merry
Christmas greeting from a friend The usual
response Let's have drink. an invitation
seldom refused
One of the first OF the dinners at which the
Down and Out could gorge itselt, was at
the Jerry McAuley Mission. in Water street.
When the big doors opened moro than 200 men
we're IN line. Nearly all Of these were distinctly
rot Of the loafing class the water front was
-zyar
who are out -s work and wh> for months have
been struggling along the narrow edge of
poverty whitfield We'll down. The saddest
part Of this" said John II. Wyburn in the iE-
tervals between se>sns that every one was get
ting proper slle.s OF turkey. is that the num-
Der of decent hard working men who have los.
their jobs will increase every day this winter.
The Mission is doing its best to LOOK after them.
but we can't do it a. What is the big city OF
New York going to do?
OF the Christmas celebrations In which the
children were looked after. the annual distrfbu-
tion of toys by Mr. Rosensteta was about tho
most popular. When the rush began him he
had ready thirty-fve hundred bags each con-
tanning a doll mechanical toy and book OF
fairy tales. An hour later Mr., Rosenstein war
making inroads his stock to care for the
children who had been able TO squeeze in
on the first raid. Next year the number OF
bags will be about doubled.
CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR CHILDREN
The boys ano girls in the capital H homes
had as much Christmas cheer possible The
Catholic Protectory, In The Bronx. gave a
Christmas dinner to $50 boys and 800 girls, and
various charitable and church societies saw that
each received e present of some sort. After
the dinner the Protectory Band gave concert
Miss Helen Gould was in a way responsible for
the dinner provided for the two hundred boys
snd girls in the Home for the Friendless. in
161st street, for she is the founder and chief
fatroness OF the institution. The Home for
Homeless Boys at No. 113 East 10th street,
gave Christmas dinner 10 twenty boys. all OF
The home has mission at No. 2l0 East 122d
street. and FIVE hundred more boys were fed
there.
The Home lost one OF its expected guests
Tuesday night. One boy came there three weeks
ego in a pitiable plight. He had been expelled
from the freshman class at Harvard, and then
drifted TO New York 1t not until Monday
shat his vhoe story was learned and his family
tn Chelsea. Mass, told OF his plight. On Christ
mas Eve his Eis:er took him home. and he had
his Christmas dinner yesterday with his family.
The inmates Of the Home and school attached
10 the Florence Crttenden Mission for Women.
ia Bleecker street. and nearly one hundred
women besides the regular inmates had dinner
AT the immigrant mission houses in State street
the day passed quietly. There were fifteen girls
at the Immigrant Gi-le' Home. at No. State
from the natron in charge. There was one boy
there "Jack" Low. who is detained with his
mother while his sister gets over the measles
down IN E.llfs Is1and. There not girl or