The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1912-12-11
TO Give AWAY
10000 DINNERS
Salvation Army In New York to
Feed $4,000

| New York, Dec. LITE Christmas
celebration two weeks from. today
promises 10 be the most notable in
the history of little old New York
From the Battery 10 the Bronx ana
from the East River 10 the North
| River the people are now In the midst
OF their preparations for the Yuletide
festivities. The streets the shops. the
cars are thronged all day and until
late IN the evening with persons maxi
ing their purchases. Broadway and
the Bowery alike appear 10 have
caught the atmospheric buoyancy Of
the holiday season,
The hotels are making more elabor-
ate preparations for the Christmas
festivities this year than ever before.
A decade ago the travelling man whose
business held him in New York for
| Christmas day wandered through a
deserted hotel lobby musing on his
isolation. Nowadays the well to- do
class. when they have completed their
own celebration in their homes come
/
the Ritz Carlton or another al the
newer and larger hotels for which the
| city is famous, To enjoy as keenly the
| spirit OF Christmas times as did TIE
little group about an old New Enc
| land hearthstone or an ante belnun
chimney corner.
But the good-cheer Of the metro
/ To-
by the rish. IL is 50 abundant that
| II overf1ows into ever nook and corner
| OF the big city and fills the loWlest
| tenement in Rivinston street as well
| as the most palatial mansion on River
side Drive. II Their els "A single man,
woman or child i'm the whole of New
York who Is not gladdened the com
| ing Christmas day by bounteous din
ner, useful present or the enjoyment
OF some sort OF free entertainment,
| il will not be for lack of effort on the
part of the churches, the charitable
examinations and individual philan-
thropists.
The Salvation Army, the Volunteers
OF America and kindred orders are
preparing To distribute 10000 dinners
to the very poor of the metropolis this
Christmas. each basket dinner beinI
sufficient for five people making 3d. |
900 fed. In addition to this. the saliva
tion Army will give its customary din |
ner TO the homeless. at which never
less than 5000 sit down at the tables
The salvation Army street kettles are !
being well filled this year and from
them will be drawn the money 10 feed |
the thousands
Big Tins" Annual Feast
For several weeks the fioaters along |
| the Bowery have been asking one an
other IL big Tins" annual feast is |
likely 10 materalZe this year The |
feast IS the dinner which has been
given each Christmas for many years |
by the Timothy -. Sullivan Associa
ton. Every derelict has been welcomed |
at the festal board, providing only that |
mis- appearance gave evidence that he |
belonged To the Boweryl In addition |
to receiving his nh Of turkey and all |
the trimmings each guest was given
ticket for a little personal present |
from Big Tim" Usually the present |
was a pair of new shoes.
Big Tim" has been taken away 10 /,
sanitarium, broken down by domea
tic sorrow and political reVerses AS-
cordins 10 general belief u is no, |
at all likely he viii ever see his De
loved Bowery again. But the forme
congressman ana old Tammany leader
has not forgotten his former charges.
even in his misfortune. Acting under
his instructions his relatives will Sc,
that the den2ens of the BoWery al,
provided with Big Tins annua,
feast.
Special dinners will be given or
Christmas day for the newsboys, IN"
crippled children, the immigrants de
tanned at Ellis Island, the unfortunate
confined in the Tombs and at Black
wells and the inmates of the numeI
Gus hospitals and homes for orphans,
the aged and destitute throughout
New York. Then there will he thu
customary dinner for the "Littla
Mothers" as are known the hundred
of little girls whose days are nearl-'
all taken up with tending the babies
while the mothers are out at work.
Senator Theodore r.. Burton Of Ohio
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