Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-11
new YORK IS
PREPARING FOR
CHRISTMAS Time
Thought This Season will be
Most Notable in History
Of Old Gotham
Special to The Tribune,


NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE Christ.
mas celebration two weeks from to-
day promises to be the most notable
in the history of little old New York.
From the Battery to the Bronx anu
from the East River to the North
River the people are now in the midst
of their preparations for the Yuletlde
festivities. The streets, the shops,
the cars, are thronged all day and un-
til late in The evening with persons
making their purchases. broadway
and the Bowery alike appear to nave
caught the atmospheric buoyancy OF
the holiday season
The hotels are making more elab.
crate 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 MS
isolation. Nowadays the Well-to-do
class, when they have completed their
own celebration in their homes, come
down to the Plaza, the Knickerbock-
err, the Ritz Carleton or another OF the
newer and larger hotels for which the
city is famous, to enjoy as keeniy the
shirt of Christmas times as did the
little group about an old fashioned
New England hearthstone or an ante
|bellum chimney corner.
Tut the good cheer Of the metropol'
Titan Chris tmas is not mopopollzed Dy
the rich. 1t is SO abundant that II
overflows into every nook and corner
Of the big city and fills the loWAest
tenement in 'Rivington Street as well
as the most palatial mansion on klv-
erside Drive If there is single man,
woman or child in the whole OF New
York who Is not gladdened the coming
| Christmas Day by a bounteous am
ner, a useful present or the enjoy
ment Of some sort OF free entertain
ment. it Will not be for lack OF EFFORT
on the part of the churches, the char
litable organizations and individual
philanthropists
The Salvation Army, the Volunteers
of America and kindred orders arc
preparing to distribute 10000 dinners
to the very ;loor of the metropolis
| this Christmas 5, each basket dinner
being sufficient for five people, max
| ing $4,000 fed. In addition to this,
the Salvation Army will give it's Gus.
tomary dinner to the homeless, al
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 to feed the thousands
For several weeks the floaters along
the Bowery have been asking one an
other If rBig Tins annual feast Is
likely to materialize this year. The
feast is the dinner which has been
given each Christmas for many years
by the Timothy D. Sullivan Associa
ton. Every d6relict has been welcom
ed at the festal board, providing only
that his appearance gave evidence
that he belonged to the BoWery. In
addition TO receiving his fill of turkey
and AL! the trimmings each guest
was given ticket for a little person
al present from big TIM Usually
the present was pair of shoes.
| big Tim has been taken away tc
| a sanitariuns, broken, down by do
Imestic sorrow and political reverses
| According to general belief it is not
| at all likely he will ever sec his be
loved Bowcry again. Eut the former
CONGRESSMAN and old Tammany lead
en- has not forgotten his former charg
es, even in his misfortune. Acting
under his instructions his relatives
will see that the deniZens of the Bow
cry are provided with big Tins
annual feast.
| Special dinners will be given or
Christmas Day for the newsboys, the
crippled children, the immigrants de
tanned at Ellis Island, the unfortun
ates confined in the Tombs and al