New-York tribune., 1918-12-23

the Tree of Light in Madison Square,
beginning at 5 p. m. There will be q
parade from the Public Library to the
tree. The marching soldiers will be
met by delegation of children with
an offering symbolic of peace. Good
music and some surprises are on the
programme.
Sailors on the American transport
Levlathan are preparing to give 1000
orphans the time of their lives Christ
mas Day. The children will be shown
over the ship, and, of course, there
viii be Christmas tree and something
to eat. Crews Of other ships are max
ing similar plans.
Wounded men of Debarkntion Hos
pital No. 8 who can walk to the Church
of the Holy Communion, at Sixth Ave
nue. and Twentieth Street. will find
there Christmas tree and entertain
ment The Yale. Club will entertain
another 100 wounded. The Patriotic
Penny Of the National Special Aid So
cicty will take gifts to men in a num-
Der of local hospitals, and the Larch-
mont branch will have trees in ten
wards Of the Pelham Bay Hospital and
Bronx branch.
Girls from the Y. w. c. A. training
course for industrial workers and from
the gas mask factory at Long Island
City who have no place to spend
Christmas will be welcomed at the
"Y" vocation house at Ardsley- on
Hudson.
Policemen To Be Santas
Santa Claus has not been so busy
planning for a soldiers Christmas that
New York policemen will impersonate
Santa for many hundreds Of young
sters who otherwise probably would
have no Christmas at all.
For two weeks policemen in twenty
six of the precincts have been busy
finding out in front of whose doors
the rcindeers might not stop. Money
for the gifts has been raised among
the police and the residents of the
precincts The Christmas trees will be
lighted to-day and tomorrow.
will have their tree this afternoon a.
the West Forty seventh Street Station.
Captain Mckinney will be disguised as
st. Nicholas. And at the West
152d Street Station tomorrow af-
ternoon when Lieutenant Daniel
Bost comes out attired in fur
coat and white whiskers he will
present to each of the 200 kiddies
there one pair of shoes, q sweater,
knitted cap, gloves and, in addition to
candy and things, a doll for each girl
and a popgun for each boy.
Brokers to Spread Joy
The children of "Wall Streets back
yard" will begin having their Christ
mas this afternoon. Bankers and
brokers of the street. members of the
Bowling Green Neigh borhood Associa-
ton; are the Santas, aided by the pa
tronesses. In all 5000 little folk of
New York's oldest district will have
their Christmas tree at As West Street
Mothers and babies will be there this
afternoon. The turn Of children from
five to ten years Of age will come to-
morrow. Older children must wait un-
til Christmas afternoon.
The New York T)ciety for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children will
give tree to $50 little. ones Christmas
Eve.
Nearly 200 children of widows who
are self-supporting will be the guests
Of the Amsterdam Democratic Club
Christmas Eve. There will be tree
and gifts for the children that night
and Christmas dinner baskets for the
mothers next day.
Brooklyn Orphans Remembered
Five hundred Brooklyn orphans will
meet Santa at the Bedford Y. NJ. c. A.
Branch Christmas afternoon The
Peoples Institute of Brooklyn and the
United Neighborhood Guild will hold :.
community Christmas celebration to-
night in the street in front of the
guild building, 176 Nassau Street.
The wives and children of striking
New York walters will have a Christ
mas party at the New Manhattan
Opera House this afternoon.
Tomorrow Christmas baskets will
be distributed to 1000 poor families
on the East Side, the gifts of Vincent
Astor. The annual Christmas dinner
for Bowery men will start at 1880
Christmas night at the Bowery Mission.