Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-22
SANTA TO SPREAD CHRISTMAS
CHEER THROUGHOUT NEWARK
Turkey Cranberry Sauce and Holiday Decaoies to Laden Ia
Dies IN Homes Hospitals and observation-disclosures for Young
sters and Gifts for Old Folk

All Newark is getting ready to
hang up its stocking.
The plans for dispensing Christmas
cheer are on so elaborate a scale this
year that it seems almost impossible
that there will be any empty stock
angs, literally or metaphorlcally, on
Christmas Day.
Churches, charitable organizations,
public and private institutions, hos
pitfalls, orphanages and homes are
alike preparing to make Christmas -
day of universal gladness In ali
the city and county institutions there
will be Christmas entertainments ana
special turkey or chicken dinners.
Thousands of dinners will be given
by churches and societies TO poor
families. Christmas celebrations,
ranging from the week-long mu..iL.
ipal exercises to small family affairs,
will be held
The Salvation Army Volunteers of
America, Rescue Home and other
organizations will Systematically pro-
vide for the needy.
The Salvation Army will furnish
about 600 families with dinner bas-
kets on Wednesday afternoon, and
next Monday a Christmas tree party
will be held for the poor children.
The distributions will be made at 113
Halsey street under the direction of
Brigadier George S. easier. At the
children's entertainment in Turnbull
Auditorium two "Santas" will dis
tribute 1000 children's doll, boys toys,
wearing apparel and bags of candy,
nuts and fruit.
The Volunteers of America will also
distribute basket dinners and make
gifts to more than 1000 little folk.
The baskets will be given out at 307
Plane street on Wednesday after
noon, from to 5 o'clock. A Christmas
tree party for the children will take
place at 8 o'clock Christmas Eve in
Turnbull Auditorium. A cantata, en-
titled "A Search for Santa Claus"
will precede the distribution of gifts.
Christmas in County jail. g..
At the county Jail under Warden
John McGuinness the prisoners will
have a little more liberty than on
other days, being allowed to roam
about the buildings, visiting their
pals and cronies, instead of being kept
in their own parts of the buildings.
Special delicacies will be served at
the three meals during the day, in
Guiding the chicken dinner.
Qelg Will diSO NC NiSlbiiiS
day at the institution and many gifts
will be brought in by friends and
relatives of the inmates. Christmas
eve religious services will be held
under the auspices of the Y. M. c. A,
and on Christmas morning mass will
be celebrated in the chapel by Rev.
Louis Kusters, chaplain of the Home
for the Aged of the Little Sisters of
The Poor.
In the afternoon in the prison CEN
tire an entertainment will be given
at which all the prisoners will be
present and in which many OF them
will take part. Theatrical managers
will also furnish talent.
The inmates of the House of Deten-
ton, about forty boys and girls, will
make merry under the supervision of
Superintendent Daniel Delaney and
Mrs. Delaney. Christmas trees and
turkey dinner will be included in the
celebration. An entertainment by
those who take part in the one at the
jail will also be given.
The program of festivities at the
penitentiary will be practically the
same as at the jail, with ltheaexcep-