New-York tribune., 1907-12-26
4 CHRISTMAS RECORD.
Consfuued from first psse-


-, =. No q State street. ard In the evening
.he,s was dinner for the missionaries and othe-
e-onloves There was special celecTauoh at
.ha c,errnan Lutheran Home. although there VIII
,a o dinner there to-day for 40 men who are
being cared for by the employment bureau
The rnnils of the Horace Mann School ana
their parents provided free dinners for the poor
In the neighborhood of the school Ihere were
ooo Immigrants on Ellis Island, and their first
Christmas in this country was celebrated py d
special dinner although the big celebration was
nei5 on Tuesday. The missionaries held ser
vices and the employees received time OH tfal
they might eat home.
About two hundred and fifty men took ad-
vantage of the dinner opportunities offered Dy
the West Side Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton After the dinner there was music, includ-
.ng selections by the St Ambrose trio. The din
ner, in its efforts to give the young men some
relief from boarding house life was a success.
AT the White Rose Home for Working Girls, at
No. 217 East Seth street, which is for negroes.
dinner served to about a hundred girls and
children The children received toys
William p. Yorke, superintendent Of the Mu-
nicipal Lodging House, at 23d street and First
avenue. gave turkey and all the usual accom-
paniments 10 LOO homeless men, If any one
failed TO get all that he could hold the first
round he was welcome to come again Among
his guests were fifteen women with children.
whose husbands and fathers the island.
The natron, Mrs Grsffen, had Christmas tree
for these unfortunates-
The man in New York yesterday who had
big Christmas appetite and only small, ordi-
nary weekday pocketbook had only to visit the
new Mills Hotel. at Seventh avenue and 36th
street, where for small sum he was able to
get dinner to satisfy him for a price that
would not make it necessary for him to pawn his
overcoat to buy meals for the rest Of the week.
Sitting Gown at the table he had his choice of
two savory soups and might follow it with an
entree Of either boiled salmon, with lobster
sauce; roast turkey, with cranberry sauce; wild
rabbit saute. chicken patties, roast beef or boiled
tongue with spinach or veal outlet. With
any of the above orders went choice Of two
well cooked vegetable dishes. For dessert he
could have English plum pudding, with either
hard or brandy sauce, apple pie, oranges, pump
kin pie nlince pie or Malaga grapes, and either
tea, coffee or milk.
This attractive menu appealed to large
number of diners, who crowded the dining
room from $50 to o'clock last night
HOSPITAL CELEBRATIONS.
Not patient in any hospital failed to get
something to make him forget his pain and
gain little cheer for the day. Turkey there
was in abundance at all the institutions and
only those unlucky enough 10 be nom
turkey diet failed TO get their share
The big celebration at Bellevue. with its thou
sand and more patients. was in Ward 81 where
there were forty babies. These had their own
Christmas tree-one of imposing buk-and there
was a thing a babies Christmas
tree that was not that one. and the nurses
in the ward sat up half night to trim II prop
erly bit of mistletoe right over the tree
explained why about every inferno in the hos
pital had volunteered to help. In the nine other
wards in which children suffering there were
Christmas trees, but none quite pretentious
as the ba bies tree. The wards, even the alco-
holic were decorated with red and green crepe
paper with sprigs of green here and there.
All those who could eat turkey and chicken at
Roosevelt Hospital got it, and edible delicacies
added to the dinners Of the unlucky ones
The children's ward had gaiy decorated tree
bearing a full crop Of presents.
The Christmas tree at the Harlem Hospital
robbed Of its fruit Tuesday night. but there
extra good dinner for the patients yes
terday. The thirty patients at the Washington
Heights Hospital got extra rations too The
tree at St Luke's was also stripped on Christ
mas eve, but there were special services in the
chapel for the convalescents, and the Rev.
George f. Clover administered communion to
those who wished it and were unable TO leave
their beds.
4 big dinner and presents for all the children
marked the day ar Lebanon Hospital All the
staff from head nurse TO scrub women Of St
Marks Hospital, barring the internes, received
presents from the hospital. distributed by the
members OF the Ladies' Auxiliary. St. Marks
IS essentially German in its staff and patients
and real German celebration was held. The
doors of the wards were all left open that the
patients might listen to the string band in the
big room, where the directors and staff were
drinking toasts and making speeches.
INSANE PATIENTS CELEBRATE.
Even the 4.49e insane patients on Wards ISL
and had their Christmas jolIity. They ate < 200
pounds of turkey and chicken, and then about
seven hundred Of them We're allowed to have a
dance in the evening. There were religious SER
vices at St Nincents Hospital, and gifts were
distributed among the children there by the Sis
tiers. The same held true of every other hos
pital in and around New York
A blue haze hung over the Western shore Of
Staten Island all day. This was caused by the
conversion OF the tobacco given TO all the old
master mariners in Sailors Snug IEarbo,, into
smoke in the new pipes which all got. The
board of trustees every Christmas gives q
bountiful supply Of tobacco to the sailor folk
and a turkey dinner to boot. The dinner is an
preclated by all. but absolute happiness is moi,
displayed until the tobacco is distributed and
yarns that reek of every wind in the seven seas
told for the hundredth time.
At the other Staten Island institutions tbe dar,
was observed in various ways. Religious exer-
cises candy and toys made the day pleasant for
the two thousand young persons in the Mount
Lcretto Home, at Pleasant Plains. Turkey
formed the bulk OF the dinner at the Farm Col
ony, II did the dinners Of those who could
eat # in all the hospitals there
Tom Foley could not get around to the din
ner of the boys-ffteen OF them-who prefer