Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-12-24
CLAUS WILL
MAKE NE WARK S POOR
HAPPY ON CHRISTMAS

the children's ward a tree has been set
up and will hold a present for each of
the thirty-f1ve juvenile patients when
they awake. Later will come the yaTi-
Gus dinners, an elaborate matter of
cooking here, for there must be SO
many different kinds. and later In the
day the adult patients will receive
small gifts. The nurses have planned a
Christmas tree and dinner of their own
a few days later.
Services at Hospitals.
Christmas services for the $50 patients
In St. Michaels Hospital will begin with
mass in the chapel from 5 to 5 q. m
Father De Persia, the chaplain, will be
celebrant, and the sisters choir will
be supplemented by several stringed
Instruments. Later will follow a tur-
key dinner and the presentation OF
gifts, along with tree festivities for
the children.
When each patient Of st. Barnabas's
awakens Christmas morning he will
find upon the coverlet a carleton stock
ing filed with useful gifts and candies
That will be the gift of the Sisters OF
the Order Of st. Margaret. But they
will do even more to make Christmas
brilliant by raising a Christmas tree
in zach ward. A still further treat for
the patients of st. Barnabas's will come
on Thursday following, when a Christ
mas tree party will be held there by the
st. Catharine's Guild. More presents
will be given forth at that time.
Some of the prettiest Christmas dec
orations Of the season have been placed
in the German Hospital, at Bank and
Newton streets, by the members Of the
Ladies Auxiliary. The ladies win pre-
sent the gifts when they make their
usual visit Sunday morning, and at
night there will be other services, at
which the effect of the decorations will
be greatly enhanced by a pretty scheme
of candle and electric liehting.
St. James's Hospitals observance
will begin at s o'clock Sunday morn.
ing. when Father Patrick Cody, the
rector, will celebrate high mass in the
chapel. After that there win be a
series of festivities, including turkey
dinner, winding up with the pres
entation of gifts to the adults in
the various wards. with a tree for the
sick children.
Next come the wee tots at the Babies
Hospital and they will have a Christ
mas tree, too. and a turkey dinner as
well as the grownups. Twenty small
children are now being cared for at this
institution.
Former Judge Gottfried Kruger.
founder of the Kruger Home, in Gin
ton street, has seen to it that his pro
teges in that famous institution receive
lust a little more ChrNtmas cheer this
year than ever before. There will be
the annual Christmas dinner. Of course,
but the gifts in clothing. books and
other useful things viii exceed e
the former generosity of the founder,
and to top off the celebration the New
ark Hofnong Singing Society will give
a concert for the inmates.
Even ConyictS Remembered.
The spirit of the season early per
meated the walls Of the Essex County
Penitentiary al Caldwell. where for
weeks the prisoners have been engaged
in fashioning Christmas bells, wreathes
and other decorations with which the
Jail is now frightened from warden's
office to the darkest cell. On Christ
mas the warden viii allow the prison.
ers the longest liberty" they have a
this year in token of the festal day.
But on the following Thursday will
come The real celebration when a min
strel show win be given by the pris-
oners themselves. Warden Martin de-
clares there is a wonderful quantity OF
talent in his institution. and he says
the men will give an exhibition to make
professionals sit up.
In the Essex county jail Warden Nc
Guinness viii preside over Christmas
dinner with turkey. cranberries and
other Injuries, In the morning Father
Kusters Will say prayers in the prison
square, after which the prisoners will
listen to a musical program rendered
by quartet and choir.
At the ~almshouse there will be reli-
gious services in, the morning and
afternoon, to be followed by a turkey
dinner and the presentation of gifts.
But it is doubtful If there win be a
tree, for there is now only one child
there. Miss Frances Hays, daughter OF
Postmaster Hays, who is a professional
story-teller, has consented to enter
tain the inmates Sunday with stories.
At the Foster Home a tree of tremen-
dous size has been set up for the 115