Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-23
CHRISTMAS DAY
! WILL Be GALAONE
At INSTITUTIONS
Plans Made for Dinners and
Celebrations to Mark
Holiday.

Christmas will he n merry ono ina al
tba county institutions. for In every
instance the officials in charge have
planued n gaia day for tho inmates
rhe LARGEST celebration under county
nnspiees will take place at the Essex
County Hospital ut Cedar Grove
where Warden Benjamin r. Bailey
md Medical superintendent Gny
Payne have planned the largest
christmas celebration over hold il
the institution.
just to give AL idea of what fhe
Christmas eelebuition VIII be. the
f.renarations for the dinner is a fair
sample. FIRST of all a ton and a
Inerter Of turkey will he cooked and
aprYed to the inmates. Besides TINS
more viii be five barrels OF cranber-
res used for cranberry sauce, nitN
.Iazen bnnehea Of celery, hfteen BUSH
sla Of turnlps thirtyrhve bushels oil
Dotatoes. 400 largo miuce pies. 'oV
iaaves of bread and ten barrels OF eat
ng apples. IN,
In addition Co this there will be l,0oe
Mounds of candy. 9.000 oranges ana
fs. 900 ginger cakes distributed during
ne Chrislmas tree celebration IN the
iAg amusement hail .,..
And this Christmas tree ceiebratlon
ao the afternoon ana evening
.srisfnns paw viii be q feature it.
saif chairman Ernest f. Ryman. Of
fha hospital committee. more gentF-
allv known around tho hospital "a the
sAiavpr Of OverhroolC,' took personal
hhr4a nf tho Christmas tree par-
.,base and has furnished a. tree thirty
siN feet in heighth.
The free fs in the centre or the
amusement hall and Will be lighted
sxlfh la0n incandescent bulbs, white,
niue. green and red In color. while
wealth of other holiday decorations
will wreathe the tree.
In the space reserved Tor rehBloos
services in the amusement hall there
viii be eight columns covered Win
white satin and draped with hoily
fsvreathes. each column being connect
"a with the other hy streamers of
rreenery. The walls are also covered
With greenprv. while 500 poinsetttas
n festoons add ia the effect.
on Christmas morning Rev 1hom@s
Judge Will offer mass, while i'm the
afternoon Protestant services under
Khe direction of Rev. George $. Nc
g'uieek viii take place. At both ser
vices special music by the hospital
choir and orchestra will be rendered,
as will instrumental and vocal solos
and duets by volunteer talent.
The numerous wards ~ the hos
atal buildings have been decorated
With red and green crepe paper, holly
and Rreenery, and the entire insutu-
ion Is tn holiday attire.
Chicken Dinner for Prisoners.
At the county Jail Sheriff Ralph Is.
Schmidt and Warden Richard Me-
Guinness have mnde arrangements for
= chicken dinner for the prisoners
while a concert with talent gathered
antireiy from the inmates viii be
given in tho assembly hall during the
afternoon. II win also he visiting
day.
At the county penitentiary Warden
Ferdinand !. Hosp will provide a
chicken dinner for the inmates, but
the real Christmas celebration at that
institution will he rather tizzle nm
less Thomas Richardson and Frank
Morrison. negroes, who escaped yes
tsrday are recaptured before tomor-
row night.
The annual Christmas concert given
each year by the prisoners was 20
take place tomorrow night, hut with
Richardson and Morrison missing it
IS expected to he rather Il dismal az
fair as that pair were the chief sing
ers and comedians Of the affair
At the Isolation Hospital AT Soho
the different wards have been deco
rated IN greenery and holiday trim
aain9s and a turkey dinner will be
provided for such inmates as are able
to psrtake OF IL. In the children's
ward where sixty children are now
caniined there viii be "a large Christ
. of F1r
each child. while on Christmas Eve
sixty little stockings win be hung,
one from the foot Of each cot await
u. IL. =. II ~ Snr.fa a-inrra