New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-25
SCHOOL XMAS FOR 5000.
ChiIdren'S Aid Society a Santa
TO Boys and Girls.
SONGS ON SAN JUAN HILL
Ritz. Carlton Manager Gives
125 Dinners to Big Fam
lilies on West Side.

There are twenty-four branches OF the
Children's Aid Society Industrial Schools
dotting Manhattan Island and into every
one Of them went Santa Claus yesterday
afternoon. Probably 5000 lower grade
tots had their Christmas dreams come
true Just because the kind old man didn't
overlook them in the midst Of all his an
cagements in more favored parts Of the
biz city.
The young folk had lots Of fun unwrap-
ping bundles and packages after they hao
recited pieces. sung songs and danced the
merry folk dances. The Undergraduates
were especially favored in having as
quests at the exercises their mammas'
who went over their shoe tops in sno"
drifts Just 10 look in on the good times.
The same favors were shown beyond
Tonpkins Square. where Sadie Minnow-
witch and Meyer Schlesinger. of Avenue
sang about the New Born King 10
the pale tubercular pupils who recite on
the open air roof garden Of the school az
s9d street and Eleventh avenue, ana III
addition l95 free dinners were distributed
among hollow eyed mothers OF DIG west
Side Irish families.
The dinners were the gift OF Manager
I-a,lo- ~ the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Com
pany. 10 the Childrens Aid Society. MISS
Kate Crommelin and her ten assistants
have made 1850 visits in the homes u
these needy West Siders during the Ias'
wear. and they know something ABOUT
deserving mothers. They took back the
,ickets they had distributed in the dis
each sad faced, shawl clad woman three
pounds Of beef, one-haf pound OF TEA
coffee and cocoa and three POUNDS %
sugar.
After each boy and girl had eaten
not dinner the youngsters filed INTO tie
assembly room, where real Santa Claus
handed out delightful things from t"o
mammoth trees. The pupils OF the SrdueS
I'D 10 "A were properly entertained D!
A magician. whose marvellous 1eats
brought mink 10 pale cheeks. After 1t was
all over they went downstairs and drank
hot chocolate with their bread ana Du'.ei'
This morning they will breakfast on not
cereal, milk and eggs.
Five hundred dusky boys and girls OF
the San Juan Hill section had a melooiouS
festival in the spacious hall OF Hennet'a
school No. ga West SD street They
sang "swanee River" I'm the EVen'he
sy the Moonlight" and many appropriate
Christmas carols for +. Delano WEEKS
and c. Loring Grace, trustees.
Miss NJ. L. Stewart. principal miro
duced DR.. Charles H. Roberts. negro
who is head Of the dental clinic OF the
school, who urged his hearers 10 str'e
to excel in all things, even II the tash
were an humble one like backing boots
After that the Rev. Victor Finn OF the
Noravian Church, made a speech anu
Miss King, the superintendent OF the
kindergarten department. supervised the
distribution Of the good things on Inc
Christmas tree
Hundreds OF the upper grade chiiuIe"
in the evening schools in the TompKihs
Square. East sSth street, East 7Sd street
and West SD street branches took part
last night in Christmas exercises 10 nlaIA
the beginning of the midwinter recess Vi
eight days. Several OF the East slae
schools, including the Mott street prah0h'
held their exercises last Friday.