The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-24
CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR THE HOSPITALS
 AND LAKEvIEW TOTS
Kris Kringle Will Visit Children Tn All the Large
 Institutions Here

No one will be forgotten at St. Vim
 cents hospital tomorrow in the dis
 trhbution of Christmas cheer, the
 plans being calculated to include those
 attached to the. institution and pa ; tients. The observance will be both . religious and otherwise. The formal
 observance will begin at 5 o'clock
 when the first of three masses will be celebrated by Rev. Edward Walsh, c.
 M, of Springfield, Mass. He will eel ebrate the other. two. Special Christ
 mas carols and hymns will be sung
 by choir composed of sisters and
 nurses All patients desiring to and able will attend. Rev. T. J. Picker of
 St. PatrieIx's church will ofdciate at ] the benediction in the afternoon.
 AS has been the custom yearly the institution has been appropriately
 decorated with large Christmas tree
 in the children's ward. Promptly at the hospital with papers every Sun day morning, will arrive attired as Santa Claus with his delivery wagon
 loaded with toys a9d renembrances and the horse decorated with bells and other symbols of the occasion.
 His entrance will be through a win
 ow into the ward where the children
 will greet him. Each one will be re-
 membered. He will also visit all pa
 tients able to receive a visitor and
 distribute bags of candy and 6 small remembrance from Sister Alice, supe-
 ripr at the institution. The nurses and
 employees at the institution will be i appropriately remembered. The pri-
 mary object will be to bring Christ
 mas cheer to those having to pass the i day away from their homes and
 friends. Many. visitors are expected.
 There will be a special menu.
 Extensive plans for celebrating the d. Ia0 1T1 11anr 7eS7 Q port hospital. There are decorations throughout the building and there will
 be a special menu. There will be l Christmas tree tomorrow night for
 the children. As in years past, As 1 sistant Superintendent Ray Jones will be Santa. and personally meet all of :, the little ones.
 Dr. John J. Macdonald has made arrangements to have the Christmas rceIebration at Lakeview exceed all ] previous occasions of this kind. It i will really begin tonight when the 10 children at the institution and all in
 mates able to be out will be taken to
 see the opening of the municipal 1 Christmas tree. The party will be in i personal charge of pr. and Mrs. Mac Donald and Dr. R-D. Martin has vol
 unteered the use Of his veterinary
 hospital, Elm and Broad streets, for i the childen and others to keep warm The QSua1ly 8IOO444y Qde4AtS4S eS( t4tO institution have been p1entifudy dee- orated with Christmas greens and Iother decorations. For several daSs I the inmates have been busy making wreaths tied with red ribbons for all Of the windows. Several of the in mates have gathered the greens in 1 the woods nearby. It is planned to have a Christmas tree Friday, morn 1 ing. Plans are to have each inmate receive some little remembrance of
 the occasion. A special chicken din nerj will be served at noon with all l fixing under the personal supervision
 of Mrs. Mcdonald.
 1 Religious services will not be for gotten. Tn the little chapel, plenti- fully decorated, one of the priests from St Charles parish will celebrate mass Friday morning. In the after noon Rev. P. E. Matthias of the Kings
 Highway chapel will conduct a brief service. Dr. Macdonald is making arrangements to have brief enter tainment either Friday afternoon or l evening.