Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-24

There Will be Christmas cneer loT
everyone in Newark and vicinity this
year and no poor family need want,
either for a sumptuous Christmas din
ner or for presents for their little ones
as well.
II all the charitable institutions ar
arrangements are completed for turkey
dinners, Christmas trees, and in most
cases 10Th together, and the festivities
will extend ali the way from the Babies
Hospital to the Home for the Aged. 1t
is said hat never before have
ers gone into Christmas charities SO
literally as this year.
Most of the poor folk OF the city, OF
course, will receive their gifts from the
Salvation Army and Volunteers oil
America. Two thousand five hundred
dinner baskets, each containing turkey
or chicken, vegetables and fruit, will be
distributed at headquarters at Market
and Washington streets from 10 a. m
to Q D. m. The Volunteers, besides
giving away 600 baskets at their head
quarters, will have a Christmas r
for 500 children and will also give din
ners to seventy-five men at the Indus
trial Home.
Xmas Home for Aged.
It will be a genuine old-fashioned
Christmas that will taxi the 249 in
mates of the Home for the Aged back
in memory to their childhood days.
According to arrangements made by
the Little Sisters of the Poor, the old
folk will remain up for midnight mass,
which Father Louis busters, the chap
lain, will celebrate at midnight Satur-
day. Then they Will be RECALLED with a
light lunch. supplemented by wines ana
~brandies. the gifts of friends of the
home. At noon Sunday will come the
turkey dinner and the gift Of a present
to zach inmate by Mother Superior
Melaine.
One of the first Santa Clauses to
make his appearance in Newark came
to the Newark Orphan Asylum. in
High street. yesterday afternoon. He
gave each of the ninety-four boys and
girls there a present from a gigantic
Christmas tree, and then they will all
come in for a turkey dinner Monday
through the generosity of the parents
board.
But preparations upon an even
greater scale have been made for the
275 boys and girls at St. Mary's Roman
Catholic Orphan Asylum in South Or
ange avenue. For there will be four
Christmas trees. and besides a variety
of Individual presents each of the little
ones will receive a great horn literally
crammed with candies and fruit. The
prominent Catholic men and ONE of
Newark who contribute so generously
to ST. Marv's have been invited to at
tend the festivities.
Gifts for Orphans.
The 30 r~arentless children in St
Peters Orphan Asylum and in the other
~orphanages in Livingston street win be-
gin their celebration at the latter in
stitution tonight. The presents consist
largely of articles of clothing, but a
way was also found to provide a tree
so that each child might be remembered
in thai pretty custom also. Their the
children will give a musical entertain
ment and will be addressed by the
Revs. Alois Stecher. Thimmes and
Meckler.
At the Clinton place orphanage the
same services viii be held at 3 in the
afternoon and on Christmas morning
all the children will attend high mass
at st. Peters.
The mother superior of the House Of
the Good Shepherd will act the role of
Santa at that institution, Thirteenth
avenue and Ninth street, Christmas
morning after mass. The 800 inmates
will be gathered in the large lecture
room for tile distribution of presents
ranging everywhere from candies 70
dresses and shoes. Praise services, at
which the girls win sing, will be held
the rest of the day.
The sufferings of the inmates in the
various hospitals of the city and vicinity
will he lightened by appropriate fes-
tivities. Every patient in every insti-
tuition able to eat a turkey dinner may
have one on Sunday, and for those who
are not we'll enough other ~delicacies
will be found.
The $50 patients in the City Hospital
will awaken Christmas morning to find
their wards beautifully decorated In the
colors appropriate to the fete. The
dining-rooms have also been made to
bloom with flowers and greens. and In