New-York tribune., 1918-12-25
Receptions to Soldiers and
Sailors Will Be Feature
of All G. e | e brations
Open House Everywhere
Theatres. Private Homes and
Canteens Will Try to Make
Boys ''Feel at Home"

more profound meaning for the ben
cdiction of peace on earth, good will
to men," dawned on the world to-day.
Santa Claus, who arrived at mid
! night or thcreabouts, was busy until
dawn filling stockings and making his
accustomed rounds. The Red Cross
and others who have enrolled as his
day until Yuletide cheer has been car
aids will continue his work during the
ried into every heart and home.
In addition to the entertainment to
be given returned soldiers and sailors
ir private homes and the gifts and din
ners arranged for the $4,000 wounded
men in hospitals in and around New
York, Christmas dinners will be sup
piled to uniformed men in many
places.
Where Troops Are Expected
Among the many announced are the
following:
1874 East Thirty-eighth Street and
the Cardinal Farley house on East
Twentieth Street by the League of
Catholic Women.
Hotel Astor at 10 a. mm.; the Rocky
Mountain Club will serve dinners to
1000 men.
One thousand men will dine at 257
Madison Avenue as guests of the Ma
tional League for Women's Service.
Mrs. Frederick Penfeld, at 16 East
Forty-third street. will be hostess to
sixty men.
The City Suffrage party women will
entertain 100 at 345 West Fourteenth
Street.
Two hundred turkey dinners will be
served IN each canteen operated by the
War Camp Community Service, located
at PSI Madison Avenue. Thirty-third
Street and Seventh Avenue, 70 Manhat-
tan Street. 9S Fourth Avenue and 1888
Seventh Avenue.
Sailors from the U. S. S. Recruit and
men employed on docks will be dined
at the Lavanberg Home 319 East Sew
enteenth Street, as the guests of Mrs.
Oscar Straus.
Dinner and entertainment will be
provided for 800 soldiers at the New
York Athletic Club, Central Park
South, at 1890 o'clock.
frlVate Homes Onened
Ten thousand invitations have been
issued through the War Camp Com
munity Service by private families
desiring to entertain uniformed men
at dinner.
Christmas entertainment will be free
to army and naval men in many clubs /
New York's theatres have supplied
10000 tickets for the use of the men
during the day, while at many play
houses uniform will be the only
tocket required.
Free vaudeville performances are an
nounced at the Pershing Theatre, Madi- !
son Avenue and Forty-fourth Street.
Negro soldiers and sailors will find |
entertainment at the Fifteenth Regi-
ment Armory.
Christmas Tree for Guards
Naval Coast Guards will enjoy q !
Christmas tree at the Municipal Ferry
House.
The Transportation Club will have
l25 soldiers as guests at the Colonial
Theatre, to be followed by a smoker
with dinner and dancing at the club
rooms.
The men of the 77th Division and
their children viii celebrate at the list
Regiment Armory. General j. Frank
lin Bell will attend.
All men in uniform have been in
vlted to participate in the celebration
at the Tree of Light in Madison Square
tonight at o'clock. This will be pre-
ceded by a parade starting at the Pub
lie Library.
One thousand orphans are to be the
guests to-day Of the sailors on the
tronsport Leviathan.
Cheer for Wounded Men
The Church of the Holy Communion,
at Sixth Avenue and Twentieth Street,
Will entertain wounded men.
The Yale Club will act as host to
100 men with wound stripes
The special effort put forth this wear
to make Christmas merry for returned
lighters will not lessen the usual en-
tertainment afforded the children and
the poor. The Salvation Army and the |
various settlements, and missions have
provided abundantly for communities
on the East Side and elsewhere in
greater New York
The annual dinner will be held at
theBowery Missions tonight. Five hun
dred Brooklyn orphans will be enter
tanned at the Bedford Y. M. C. A.
Christmas trees, supplied by the Red |
Cross, will be the ceAtre of Yuletide |
demonstrations of va sying character
in every ward of all the hospitals of
the city.
Elaborate musical programmes have |
been arranged in many churches for
this afternoon and evening
The Y. w. c. A. will open its new
Hostess House at Lexington Avenue
and Forty-first Street o-day. Men in
uniform and their women relatives and |
friends will be guests. The Central |
branch of the organization, at 610
Lexington Avenue, will keep open
house for soldiers and sailors.
Employees at Robin Dry Dock. Brook
lyn, will play Santa Claus to 1000
poor "kiddies" in that neighborhood.
Celebrations for Children.
Toys, candy, clothing and shoes will
be supplied through the contribution
by each worker to the fund of all over
time for December and 5 per cent of
their wages. Similar ceremonies have
been arranged by the employees at the
Iebo acht Base in Brooklyn, and at
the Teitjean and Lang plant at Ho-
boken.
The boys of the Brace Memorial
Newsboys' House, 244 William street.
VIII enjoy dinner tonight given bv
Thomas w. Lamont in memory OF
tvert Jansen Wendell.
Mrs Stowe Phelps, of 161 East Sew
eentycfourth street, will spread a feast
Tor nifty crippled children from Belle
vue. and Miss Yvonne Gourd, daughter
OF Henry Gourd, has turned the chill
drens roms at the hospital into a