Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-12-12
GOTHAM SHAPING
FOR MERRY YULE
Christmas Celebration
Promises to Prove Most
Notable

New York. Dec 1.-The Christ
mas celebration two weeks from TO-
day promises 70 DO the most notable
In the. history Of little Old NeN YORK
From the Battery 10 the Bronx and
from the East River 20 the North RI
yer the people are now 10 The midst
OF their preparations FOR the Yul''.ae
festivities The streets no shop,
the cars are 'hronFod all dag and up-
~ late .u tho evening with persons
MAKING their purchases Broadway
and To- BoVory alike appear 10 have
caught thc atmospheric buagary OF
the holiday season
Tho hotels are making more olaho-
rate preparations for tho Christina
festivities ibis year than ever before
A decade ag1 the travelling man
whose business held him iu New York
for Christmas day wandered through
deAorted hotel lobby musing on his
isolotlon Nowadays the well-to-do
class. when they have completed their
own celebration in their homes. come
down 10 tho Plaza. the knicketbock-
or. the RITZ Carlton or another OF the
newer and larger hotels ior which the
city IA famous 10 enjoy as kceniy
the spirit OF Christmas times az ala
the little group about an Old New
England hcarthstono or an nnto-bel-
INN chimney corner.
But the good-cheer OF the metro
politan Christmas rs not monopoliz-
I'd ~ the rich n Ia so abundant that
IL ovcr'lows into every nook and cor
nor 0f the big city and ILLS the low
Hest tenement in IRWIN ton street %
well a. the most palatial mansion Oh
Nltcr..l Drive n there is sin-
gle man. woman or china, BOO tha
whole 0f Sow York who s not glad
dcuod tho coming Christmas day Dos
4 ho1ntcous dinner, a useful pres
ont or the enjoyment OF some sort oI
entertainment. n will not be for laot
Of effort on the part OF the ChurchcI
The charitable ORGANIZATIONS and iu
dNldual phllanthropists.
Tho Salvation Army. tho Volunteer
of America and kindred orders are
preparing 10 distribute 10000 ain
aers 20 the very poor OF the m"iropo
Il o.
uer being sufficient for five people
making $4,000 fod In addition u
this. the salvation Army viii give Ili
customary dinner 10 the homeless, Al
which never less than 1000 sit dow
at tho tables. The salvation ARM
street kettles are being well file.
'hls year and from them viii b.
drawn tho money 20 feed the thous
anda
For several weeks the iloator
ilons the Eowcry have been askin'
one another n Big Tins auuuo
feast is likely 20 matoriall1e thH
year Tho feast is the dinner which
has been gwen each Christmas fo
many years by the Timothy u SullI
van Association Every dorolict ha0
becn welcomed AZ the festal board
providing only that his appearance
gave evidence that ne belonged 10 The
Bosory In addition 10 receiving hi
fill 90 turkey ana all tho trimming
zach guest" vas given "a ticket fo
A ll''le personal present from Bl
Tim Uusually the present was
pair OF new shoes
"Hi- Tim" has been taken ava,
60 sluitarium, broken down hy do
nestle sorrow and political reyerses
According 10 general belief Il is no
Al ail likely no will ever see his be
loved U1wpry AGAIN. But the forme
Cong assman and old Tammany lead
~ has not forgotten his former char
yes. oven 900 his misfortune Actin
under his instructions his relative
will 500 that the donizons ot tho Bow
cry are provided with big Tins an
nusl feast
Special dinners will be given o
Christmas day for the newsboys. IN
crippled children. the immigrants A.
tained A. ELLA Island the unfortd
nate< confined 10 the Tombs and "A
Blaok.e ellis and the inmates OF th
numerous hospitals and hopes for ~
phans the aged and destitu,
thronr Uou' Scw York Then Their
Vill b. the customary dinner for m
Lntl. Mothers" as are known IN
hundreds of little girls whose day
are nearly all taken MP With tendin
Tho babies while the mothers are on
No work