Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-25
IN DISTRICT INSTITUTIONS.
Dinners, Services and Visits From
Friends Features.

Christmas was fttingly observed today
in the District Of Columbia's penal. char
table and correctional Institutions. Big
dinners, Christmas trees. religious serv-
ices and visits from relatives and friends
occupied the attention of the several
thousand wards of the District govern
ment. Prisoners at the workhouse and
Jail. pupils of the industrial and train
ing schools and patients in the hospitals
alike We're made to feel the joy of the
Yuletide.
At the workhouse at Occoquan, Va. the
day was declared holiday, and all work
was dispensed with Inmates of the Jail
were provided with an extra good dinner.
Individual gifts for the children of the
schools where Industrial training is taught
made Christmas day of good cheer in
those institutions.
Santa Claus was most in evidence where
the juvenile wards of the District are
quartered. At the Industrial Home School.
the Industrial Home School for Colored
Children. the National Training School
for Boys and the National Training School
for Girls Christmas festivities had been
provided on an elaborate scale.
The sick were not forgotten. Christmas
trees. brightly trimmed and bearing a gift
for each patient made Christmas real
ity for the 100 persons cared for in the Tu-
berculosis Hospital. The trees We're fur
School.
WorkhOuse prisoners were prepared to
celebrate Christmas, for the announce
ment previously had been made by Supt.
w. II. WHITAKER that all manual Ia
Dor on the Districts big penal farm
would cease on this day. Homegrown
pork. vegetables and other commodities
produced at the workhOuse were drawn
upon for the Christmas dinner. Religious
services conducted at 30 o'clock this
of Of J.a,,'
Servance.
Christmas dinner at the Home for the
Aged and Infrm. at Blue Plains, sur
passed the Thanksgiving day repast, and
was enjoyed thoroughly by the $50 men,
berS of the home. Instead of roast pork,
which graced the Thanksgiving day bill
of fare, homegrown roast duck featured
tOday's menu. Religious services were
conducted at the home during the morn
ing by a committee of the First Presby-
terrain Church. Visitors were received all
day.
The holiday season at the National
Training School for Boys began Sunday.
when Rev. Paul r. Hickok spoke to the
800 boys enrolled I'm the school. \ cantata
in the assembly hall, music by the boys
band. and other features. followed by the
lighting of an immense tree on which had
been placed a gift for each boy, consti-
tuted the Christmas eve festivities To-
day the Christmas celebration was con-
tluueu. Il Dig winch ample JUS
tice was done, being served.
Rendition of a Christmas carol in which
many of the seventy-siX girls cared for
at the National Training School for
Girls took part. announced Christmas
day at this institution. Christmas tree
was provided in each of the two dormi-
tories
AS at the National Training School for
Boys, cantata was given last night at
the Industrial Home School. This event
was followed by the lighting of Christ
mas tree in the assembly hall The Ma
tional Cathedral School for Girls, ST. AL
bans Church and Christ Child's Guild
saw to 1t that the tree was laden with
gifts, and not one of the fifty girls and
ninety-one boys enrolled in the school was
overlooked.
Christmas cheer was dispensed to sixty
three children enrolled in the Industrial
Home School for Colored Children. AS at
the other juvenile institutions, a Christ
mas tree was provided for these wards Of
the District government. A dinner, con-
sisting of pork, fresh vegetables and pie,
was served.
The spirit of the holiday was in evidence
at the Temporary Home for ex-Union
Soldiers and Sailors where a special din
ner was served. Flags loaned by the
g. A. r. were used for decorating the
home.
At the Florence Crittenton Hope and
Help Mission and other institutions spe-
cial Christmas dinners were served and
every effort put forth to make the day a
happy one for the inmates.
Following it's usual custom, the mu-
nicipal lodging house did not serve a
special Christmas dinner today. reserving
the feast for another day In the week
This is done so that there may not be a
greater number of visitors than the insti-
tuition will be able to accommodate. No
announcement will be made of the date of
the dinner. but persons who happen to
visit the municipal lodging house on the
day selected will be treated to a good
square meal