The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-25
Great Metropolis Furnishs.
Striking Contrasts Amons
Shoppers Buying Gifts.
MRS. BELMONT FEEDS POOR
CHILDREN AT THE LEAerrv
Suffrage Leader Gives Feast for
Little Ones, Homeless
or Needy.
Haaed Wire TO The Tribnns

NEW YORK Dec. 24.-tsGo..;
ready for Christmas" was the s.;s:s
that filled the air when the th,o.
began to move in the streets this morn.
ing, and father Kniclserbocker toot :.
the air of the three days. celebrat;.,
that had then virtually begun.
Ine exchanges in the business al
financial district were closed. N u.
sound OF the ticker was hushca ,,s
thousands Joined the great crowds !.
the shopping, theater and hots, Al.
tricts, where the multitude flowed .l.r,
the avenues and flooded into tha o..
to gather from the treasures tSsps o'ss ~
make glad hearts for the childys5 ~ ~
happy flresides for the homes an tIa
of Peace. - ' lince
The celebration of Christmas Nil,
continue through Monday. In all tta
churches there will be special Cb,.a ;u'
mas services, the theaters are nntt;nr
on special bills, the hoteIs and cafss
special Christmas dinners and enfsrs
talnments. the clubs and societies Ers.
cial Christmas gayeiies.
The heavy rain which began esrIy
~ 'pN "ioi u'ue swept tne Streets clean
but the white Christmas has not
been heraIded before, as the wea,Ss,
is still damp and dreary.
Buying Christmas Trees.
Down on West street today loads AZ
little Christmas trees have been scruti,
nized and bought, Every customer
looked like forester as be hurried
Jerseyward. The treelets were banked
up high. yellow wood butts 10 the sids-
walk. go any prospective Santa Claus
could quickly choose one of fitting
size.
On Fesev street nearby. was the ira
ditional mart of tinsel bedizeuines for
the trees. Here the horse carts strung
along with wTeaths, boxes of palms aad
heaps of holly.
There are other hooks of Christmas'
in lower Manhattan. Trinity and st.
Paul's are havens Of sessonable cels-
bration amidst the skyscraper district
| Christmas carols were sung at st.
| Paul's.
where Christmas dinners will be served.
Among them are the home in Broad
street, and at the New York Society'
for the Relief of the Crippled in Forty,
second street
In Fifth avenue shops and Broadwas|
department stores and in East Side posi-.
carts, the whole world seemed to be
engaged in happy commerce today.
| What is rot so we'll known was The
shopping of the poor,
Toys will be provided hv the Saliva
tion Army at Grand Central palace %
Monday morning. Baskets to feed aS.-
900 will be distributed and a mammoth
tree will be harvested Of toys. The
Trh,1lr,, 'e rA5 t0.
take care of 10000 applicants, and The
Volunteers about as many.
Tim Sullivan s bowery dinner will
tighten the belts of at least 5000, The'
u. D. NJ boys will eat turkey, thaAkb
to Tammany leaders.
Mrs. Belmont's Charity.
Last night 5000 children gathered a
the Suffrage league. where a Christina
tree was given under the direction OF
Mrs. o. Fl. P. Belmont.
All the exchanges will be clnseo
Monday and but one afternoon papeF
will issue. But there will be no holz@
day for the postman or e1pressmRu
In no year has the great press q
Christmas mail been 80 gigantic as
has been this year, for up to today ep
proximately 100000 pieces of mst
have been handled at the general poss
Oture. vi CnlS UUnDeT VI piOSro
least ten million were Christmas CARD
To handle this food Of mail 1t has
been necessary to employ 2Is3 regule[
and subcarriers, 2l00 permanent snn
temporary clerks, several hundred dfly~'
ers and assistants, and hundreds c1
other mail handlers. NJ
The foreign mail this year has broke
all records for bulk and value. the les
three steamers bringing in fifty tnnu1
sand pieces Of registered mail TwerfX
thousand pieces of domestic mail hev
been registered daily at the geno51
postoffice. where generally the regl
tered mail is seldom above 1sOp
pieces, foreign and domestic toRetne
each day, The Mauretania, the Ter
tonic, the George Washington, the y
Louis and the Lusitania brought.
more than 81 800 sacks of mail. walen
had a total weight of appro1imstsiy
l,952,100 pounds. Fl
The st. Louis broke all records 70
a single mail shipment. bringing aof
cackS