New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-01-02


River, take it from chap who en-
dured it for eighteen months and has
had enough of mist and fog to last him
the rest of his brisk Missouri days; and
there were Scotch toys piled high in
the reading room of the battleship New
York, dolls in quaint plaids and kiltics,
little books bound in bright plaid cloth
and tin soldiers in Highlanders' uni
forms, all bought last fall when the
"Christmas gobs" expected to celebrate
the holidays with the children Of the
tenements of Edinburgh; but there was
nothing Scotch about the feast that
these same "Christmas gobs" served
yesterday on the gun deck to one hun
dred and twenty Salvation Army chill
dren from New York's most Destitute
families
Such thick slices of TURKEY and
mountains of mashed potato and corn
asparagus and peas, with gravy poured
OUT by generous sailor waitors s,.,
oouDle portions of ice cream, and four
story layer cake, and cookies and On
pres and after dinner peppermint cand,,
canes foot lonp, N'''uS
Cheered on by the "Cobs~
mats it. matcy. Stow it AWAY,
''"u mat ol' turkey bird wboro 49,
cbor, we submarine" cried the iovjal
anil ,.at. ""' huns over the hatchwav
a eng, watched the small guests .a1,,
that dinner. 00''s tackle
;na "ss different with the "eobsy .o
is ds walters. Not since ~ ''iV-
~. .'e" 0rk bumped its submarins 10y - 'ne
49,: soDs stepped so lively as tb.u
oaa Yesterday. For in addition - t,,y
olnner. there were ali III e.. ."e
owes and pickles and cranhcrrr nains'
anu s'caming coffee, and il il -, ssuce
aggregation ~ to say that Mike 13o oS;
self. "' 'oss'ed OF 1t him
- Then there was the job Of cut,inr ,,o
vo ave 'r,s@ o,, Tor the littlest ones. When
soma on on'y llVe or six years old and
oo"e one sits YOU down in front as
a whole side roast Of tnri.o ,.onV OF
orun stick as big as ham. & ba,ns
T. T.; ~. 10 nave big sailor conc and MT
M. ~, arms over your shoulders and tsl.o
me khlfc and fork out of vour hands
si'u carve your dinner into eatablo s;1n
Tor you. "''olc SIZE
It's Fun for the Grew
Josh don't mind the work ,"
..ausned one sailor, wiping his brow b.
lmeeh courses. Say it does us feI-
i';J GOOD TO see a regular American
Last year We were at Rosvth =,
the Firth of Forth, that's the se ~, ~
Tor scarborough. and we had lids fro,,, =:
me Sums of Edinborourh for cbris
tmas dinner. o'''
Ut vas queer last year. Those Kids
cred Ike the deuce. They were kind
OF afraid of us, maybe. Say. IL took
Us half an hour to get those Kids ~
WORK on the turkey, but when thev did
on, boy! | bet they amt hungry vet "
me Poor Children's Christmas A.
soclation of the Y. S. S. New Yorl
vas IN charge Of the arrangements,
WITH Chief Quartermaster John J.
Mooney IN command and W. E. Mosher,
onlel electrician, chiefly guilty of
ordering the dreadnaught- nor
tons of turkey and ice cream
$500 Spent on 'kiddiesv
lt's the enlisted men who give this
W wnole party said "Christmas"
N,ooney. We raise the money during
the year by rafYles and entertainments
Ihis year We raised nearly $500
mat means we spent about $50 piece
on these kids. We gave them each =
SUIT OF clothes or dress and shoes
and stockings and cap and muffler
Then Then we give them nice presents. All
these were bought in Scotland by Ladv
beatty. You know Lady Beatty was an
American girl and she laid in whole
lot Of baseballs and bats"
The Christmas party lasted all the
afternoon, what with moving picture
shows and exploring parties taken up
on deck to admire the broken piece Of
propeller that sent one submarine
where it belonged and making friends
with eight ships mascots and watch
ing the sailor chefs and dish washers
and dancing before the victrola. with
the bravado born OF much turkey. and
movie" men taking pictures.