The Washington times., 1919-12-26
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GOOD
; FELLOWS .
800 Strong.
rCarry Joy of Xmas
2 Into the Homes of I
. Less Fortunate +.

Upward Of eight hundred Coco
Fellows today are asserting that yes.
terday was the merriest Christina;
Of their lives. They are the eight
hundred who yesterday saw to it that
Santa Claus bag, which. always con.
tains treasures unlimited for the
well-to-do little folk Of the Nation;
Capital, also had good cheer for the
poor, the sick, and the unfortunate
of the community.
They are the 800 who invaded tn,
mazes of courts and alleys, climbed
rickety stairways to garrets, went
down into Easements, hunted up shan.
ties, or went into places that were
clean and comfortable, but where the
battle for daily necessities left moth
ing over for the kids Christmas.
There were Good Fellows Of all
sorts and ages-Cabinet members
national legislators, busy business
men, but most of all just ordinary
men and women who work for theil
living as you and / do.
May Have Missed a Few.
Good Saint Nick may have missed
a few persons in the city yesterday
But if he did fail to climb down the
chimney of any family in Washing.
ton, it was some family whose name
the Good Fellows could not learn. fol
they tried to find every one of them
Good Fellows went to MANY places
where tact was required. But the
Christmas spirit of the Good Fellow
was recognized, and not one of the
bulging bags of the Good Fellows
was declined.
One of the best of all Good Eel
lows was little Miss Mary Butter
field, who lives in a pretty farm
home in Virginia, just outside OF
Washington. This little girl raises
chickens and ducks and is a regular
little business woman. She invested
the recent profits of her industry in
wonderful bags of goodies fol-
Washington's poor and made a
dozen families of children happy.
Visited Nineteen Families.
The Navy Allotment Office, with
Admiral T. j. Cowie as the chief
Good Fellow, took enough provisions
to each of nineteen families to make
them happy, not only on Christmas
but to keep them in food for two
weeks. Admiral Cowie felt so good
about the excellent work his band
of Good Fellows did that today he
issued the following official notice
of the campaign, under the caption
Attention, Navy Allotment Good
Fellows"
"The Navy Allotment Office, as
usual, pent over the top in the
GOOD Low CAMPAIGN
Each and every one who has taken
my part in this work will feel very
gratifed, l know, to read the fol
lowing:
"As a result of the large sum con.
tributed nineteen poor families en-.
joyed brighter Christmas. Food
clothing and toys for the kiddies
were purchased with the fine sum
received from the Navy Allotment
Good Fellows.
Besides clothing, which consists
OF the following: Sweaters, warm
underclothing, hosiery, warm gloves
handkerchiefs, each of the nineteen
families received a large basket con-
tanning the following: two cans to-
matoes, two cans peas, two cans
corn, two cans beans, one box oat-
meal. two pounds rice, two pounds
hominy, one box macaroni, one-half
peck potatoes, one shoulder, glass OF
jelly, one-half pound butter, bread
cake, oranges, apples, one large can
OF milk, one pound coffee, one-half
pound tea, can Of syrup, nuts, and
each child will receive a stocking
filled with toys, candy, nuts, an
orange, and An apple.
FINE WORK"
Distributes Is Baskets.
One of the happiest pilgramages
about the city was that made by
Mrs. Sophia R. Harris, of the Har-
ris store. After distributing seventy
five baskets, each containing a
chicken and the other things neces-
sary for Christmas dinner, Mrs.
Harris loaded a limousine with bas-
kets and, accompanied by Miss Flor
ence L. Chambers, of the Play
ground Department went to the
home OF every poor family whose
name she could get.
Girls from the Washington Steel
and Ordn nee Company carried bas-
kets to a dozen homes in the south
west and northeast sections of the
city.
And these were Just a few of the
Good Fellows. To mention them bv
name would require columns, but no