New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-18
SANTA CLAUS
WAR SUFFERER
Christmas Charity Here
Hampered by Demands
from Stricken Europe.
SMALL COINS GIVEN,
INSTEAD OF BILLS
Organizations Making Strenuous
Efforts to Provide Cheer, De-
spite Lighter Contributions.

Charity, groanng under seventeen
months Of war, is a bit deaf 10 the
pleadings Of Santa Claus this year.
Charity is not saying mo" to Santa,
but it is not going quite as deeply
into pockets as Christmas Spirit is
wont to do. The tnkle of Christmas
bells is still echoed by the jingle Of
coin; but this year it is more jingle
and less quiet futtering OF banknotes
and gold certificates into the Christ
mas pot.
Ten dollars and seventy-three cents
is the grand total so far tossed into
the scarcely lukewarm Salvation Army
! Christmas kettle at Wall and Broad
/ Streets. Pennies make up S6.l3 OF this;
81 is in nickels, and the largest coin
that any newsboy or multi-millionaire
has dropped into the kettle is dime.
"But they'll do better yet" said the
pretty collector with an optin', ~,
smile. Last year when they said thet
times we're much worse than now there
were many bills in the kettle before
u Christmas arrived We even had lew
$40 bills"
The Wall Street kettle, however, was
the emptiest Of all the 400 when are
distributed around New YORK. Inc
most IMPOVERISHED districts Of the East
! Side have all done better than wall
Street with its billions, it was said at
Salvation Army Headquarters last
night. but no district has done as well
as last year.
Desires to Feed $4,000.
The Salvation Army proposes 10 pro-
vide dinners for $4,000 destitute per-
sons in New York this year, but unless
a more generous response develops be
fore the remaining week before Chrlst-
mas ends, many ordinarily fed by the
Salvation Army will go hungry THIS
year. III.
The Volunteers of America have ike
wise trimmed on the financial stumbling
block this year in their effort to send
baskets to needy families on Christmas
Dsv. In an appeal for contributions
issued Yesterday General Darlington
Booth said; -,
could you read some of the hun
dreds of letters, investigated and found
worthy, bespeaking poverty, distress
and almost dispairinE circumstances,
you would, | am SURE, understand IN
fuller degree the necessity or our en-
deavor at this time. comparatively
small sum will provide basket
"please make checks payable to Cen
eral Balington Booth, "a west twenty
eighth Street, New York City
A new attraction announced yester-
dav for the International Child We'll
fare League festival, December 20, at
the Fillmore, will be the tableau
columbia" Mrs. Herbert S. Carpen-
ter, who led the suffrage parade this
wear. will pose as Columbia" the en-
tire tableau being under the direction
of Edwin Rowland Blashfeld.
The league calls this the Childrens
Magma Charta Christmas Tree. Adolph
Lewisohn has donated TO the festival a
part Of his prize winning plants and
flowers, and has promised a donation
of $4,000 if the league raises that sum
at the festival
To Aid tuberculosis Victims.
That tuberculosis sufferers may not
no forgotten at the Christmas time
the Red Cross Christmas Seal Fund
has made an appeal TO charity. Red
Cross stamps may be purchased at
hundreds Of booths and stands through
out the city.
Resides the local appeals for Christ
mas charity, the war has put IN Dig
order for Christmas presents. MISS
Anne Morgan, chairman OF the Faca-
ton War Relief Committee, reports
total of 81 ,02006 contributed IN the
week ended December 49,, wnlch, To-
gether with the Flotills Fund, makes
a grand total to date OF $751; 1912.
I Mrs Ethelbert Nevin, chairman OF the
American Fund for French Wounded
reports receipts last week a.-ountlng
10 s6,O9e.4l, making a total OF
sl4,S66.99.
The La Fayette Fund has forwarded
more than 100000 articles for the
comfort of soldiers fighting on the
battlefelds of France. General Johre
recently wrote TO Ambassador Jusse-
rand. who gave the message to Frances
Roche. secretary Of the Fund, that the
comfort kits" of the La Fayette Fund
we're making the chit" of the war, and
were in great demand among the sol
diers. A special appeal to raise funds
for 10000 comfort kits to be shipped
on Christmas Day has been sent out
by the La Fayette Fund.
Four Benefit Performances.
Four theatrical performances will be
given next week for the benefit OF the
| Santa Claus Association. The receipts
of 1.-THE Eternal Magdalene," at the
! Forty-eighth Street Theatre, Monday
night; OF "Under Fire." at the Hudson
Theatre, Tuesday night, and Of "Roh-
ING Stones" at the Harris Theatre,
| Wednesday afternoon and night, VIII
be turned over to the association.
Yorkville and Chelsea Village Will
both have Christmas trees. The York
Vile celebration will be in John Jay
PARK. and is in charge of Miss NJ. de
G. Trenholm. The Chelsea tree will
sparkle in Chelsea Park, and $4,000
! children have been invited TO join IN
the Yuletide merriment.
The Society for the Prevention OF
J Cruelty to Children will give its Christ
mas party at 297 Fourth Avenue on
Thursday evening, December %. Every
4 little boy and girl in town is invited
10 this Notification, and present Is
promised TO each.
santa Claus will make his tenth an
nuaI appearance on the floor OF the
Produce Exchange Friday afternoon,
December 81, 70 delight about 2,OOO
crippled and poor children OF lower
New York. Distribution of tickets VIII
be made through churches OF the dls-
trict south of Canal Street, the saliva,
ton Army, Volunteers Of America and
lie lat and I'd Precinct police stations.