Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-22

ton of the entertainment, which will
not be given until the Monday eve
ming following. More than a score of
prisoners will take part in a minstrel
show, for which they have been re-
hearsing for several weeks. On
Christmas Day the feature will be the
singing of choir of the Westside
Park Presbyterian Chapel, of this
city, under the direction of Rev. C. N.
Thomas, the pastor.
$500 Pounds of Turkey
Two thousand five hundred pounds
of turkey, fifty dozen punches of
celery, five barrels OF cranberries, 800
large mince pies, five barrels of
apples, twelve boxes each of oranges
and lemons, 1000 pounds of candies
and five barrels of popcorn have been
ordered for the Christmas celebration
at the Overlook Hospital for the In
sane. Religious services will be held
in the chapel in the morning. Enter
tinment will be provided in the
afternoon. The hospital buildings will
be appropriately decorated.
At the almshouSe superintendent
Patrick J. White has arranged for a
chicken dinner Music will be pro-
vided by some of the inmates. Mass
for the Catholics will be celebrated in
the morning by Rev. Father Peter, O..
S. B., of st. Mary's Abbey Church,
and in the afternoon religious SER
vices will be conducted by the Won1-
ans Christian Temperance Union.
The usual Christmas dinner of tur-
key, sweetmeats, vegetables, fruits,
nuts and candies will be served at
noontime in the City Hospital to
about 400 patients. The corridors,
wards and dining-rooms will be dec
Grated with evergreens and there will
be a large tree in the children's ward.
The thirty-five children in the hos
pital who are awaiting the visit OF
Santa Claus will be well taken care
of. Toys, fruits and candies Will be
distributed. The tree will be trimmed
by the nurses on Christmas eve, and
the gifts to the children will be made
on Christmas morning. The nurses
will have their celebration later in the
week in the nurses home and will be
attended by practically all the young
women of the Nurses Training
School.
At st. Barnabas Hospital, at 6
o'clock Christmas morning, there will
be religious services conducted by
Rev. Charles Henry Wells. The din
ing=rooms and wards will be deco
rated with Christmas greens, and
there will be a tree in every ward.
AS a gift of the hospital every patient
will find hanging at the head of his
cot a tarletan stocking, containing
useful gifts, candies and other deli
cacies. The patients will receive a
turkey dinner A Christmas tree
party will be given by st. GATHERINGS
Guild, composed of ladies of local
Episcopal churches at the hospital
next Saturday. The guild will pre-
sent a gift to every patient, and also
to the sisters and nurses.
AT st. James's Hospital where
there are about sixty patients, RI.
Rev Monsignor Cody, rector of st.
James's Roman Catholic Church, will
celebrate high mass in the hospital
chapel at, o'clock Christmas morn
ing. The services will be attended
by the sisters in charge of the insti-
tuition, the nurses and those patients
of the Catholic faith who are well
enough to leave their rooms. A tur-
key dinner will be served at the regu-
lar dinner hour, and during the after
noon there will be a distribution of
fruits and candies and other gifts.
Although. mere are only a few chill