New-York tribune., 1920-12-24
Father knicl&
Spreads Xnnas
Cheer To-day
Thousands of Dinners To Re
Given by Many Charitable
Organizations; Tenement
Districts TO Fare Well
Toys for All Children
Special Entertainments Are
Provided for Orphans
ana Wounded Veterans

Advance agents for Santa Claus sped
through the city yesterday, bringing
tidings of great doings in the hospi-
tails, settlements and churches. where
the citys poor will be invited to
Christmas feasts and revels.
Not since the war have there been
so many Christmas celebrations. From
the great gatherings of the Red Cross
for wounded soldiers and the dinners
Of the big charitable organizations,
each OF whom boasts the biggest Christ
mas tree and the most appetizing feasts
ever, down to the forlorn sickbay of
an immigrant ship, where smallpox
has prevented the landing OF 1857
steerage passengers--no section of the
city is too poor or too remote for an
invitation from Santa Claus this sea-
son. Turkey and red stockings and
golden-haired dolls will be lavished
upon all.
Seventeen Christmas parties are
planned for the people of the tenc-
ments by the Association for Improv-
Ing the Condition Of the Poor. Christ
mas stockings filed with clothing and
toys will be distributed to 5000 chill
dren by nurses of the association. The
stockings have been filled by public
school girls ana mem bers Of clubs, in
accordance with suggestions made by
the nurses for each child. Girl Scout
and other volunteers Will assist in the
distribution.
Christmas Eve will see the tubercu,ar
patients in the Victoria Apartments
gathered on the roof for Christmas
tree and distri button OF gifts, and par
ties for ether wards OF the association
will fiji the days until New Years.
Salvation Army 20 Issue Baskets
The Salvation Army will begin its
distribution of Christmas baskets to
needy persons at four stations in Man
haitian and Brooklyn this afternoon.
Free Christmas dinners for all who
apply will pc furnished at / o'clock
York Philanthropic Society at it's
kitchen, 81 City Hall Place.
Although the old Bowery midnight
bread line has not been in operation
since 1915, unemploy y.Aent on the East
Side has increased TO sucn an extent
THAT The missicr viii distribute 400
Christmas dinners and is considering
the possibility of restoring the bread
line at New Years.
The biggest appetites and the most
hilarious feasters are always found al
the Christmas dinner OF the Brace
Memoir Newsboys' Home. This year
the banquet Will be spread on Christ
mas afternoon at o'clock for 400 boys
with turkey and ham and cake and ice
cream and al the fiX;n's. Afterward
those who can move will tramp up
stairs for q Christmas tree and enter
.ainmeNt. with magiclars and stunts by
home taient
The New York Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Children will
have party in the Inwood Shelter, at
Oath Street and Bolton Road, this af
ternoon. Two hundred children whose
own homes viii not be visited by
Santa Claus will be given the toys
which they asked for in their letters
20 the Christmas saint written two
weeks ago, and filed by friends of the
association.
Children's Aid Society Busy
The Children's Aid Society has list
O. 10000 children WHO are in need Of
help from the organization if their
Christmas IS to measure up TO their
anticipatons. A gift, box Of candy
and q Christmas dinner will be sup
Piled TO every one al t"enty-three CEN
ters in public schools and settlements.
Tiny TN" will be the guest Of
honor at the celebration of tie Good
hue Home for Conyalescont Children
al New Brighton, Staten Island. Little
Annie T., who fas paralysis Of the
limbs, VIII take tne part Of Tiny Iim,"
and other crippled children VIII take
part in the Christmas piaylet. Miss
Margaret Widdeme- Will read q new
poem and Carolyn Wells. Edwin Mark
ham and Arthur Guicerman will help
out in the hilarfty. There will De stock
lngs filed with toys and dinner on
Christmas morning.
The Charity Organization Society,
which has $500 families on its list, an
rounced last night that IL was still
short $500 os the amount needed to
provide Christmas cheer for its wards
tn.ess the money Is forthcoming some
tenement children Will nave TO 20 with
cut ,ne red cambric stocking filed
T!,h TOYS and basket of Christmas din
uer which they have been promised It.
IL not TOO laSe 10 send donations to tae
society headquarters, 105 last Twenty
sscond Street
The Downtown Republican Club VIII
girs party on Christmas afternoon al
Public School 2, Hudson and Grove
streets. Jc,er iah Wood, Henry {. Cur
ran, Nathan d. Perlman. Ogden /. Mills
ard Clarence taye arc among the az
sistant Santa Clause.
Orphans To Be Entertained
Five hundred orphans viii be en-
tsrtalnec on Christmas afternoon by
sAs becforl nraach cf the +, H. 6.
g. a. 90. Areare end Monroe
Street, Brooklyn. 1aere viii BE- tree
with candy and giftr followed by a
Hts!oo picture show The children
w'll +" brought in auto1nobiles .yom
s-7o1sgn ophsaagcs.
The children Ia the crippled ward
os Bellevue Hospital viii laye the
Visual hospital tree ana gIfts o. Christ
MAJ roorn.nY. WITH n special entertain
gtnt this year planned by Miss Mary
Lv11ss, and rer brother Jimmy
ao1dert, child actors from the juvenile
,Forocora" company Mlss Mary,
iaY.ng reached The mature age Of
wsiye, has decided 10 renourcc dolls,
,hc aag dressed her erstWn lie faYorires
~ brand new clotncs for the Hc!lcyue
s9Aotsn. Other mcmbers If the cast
h@'f attributed dolls enough 10 ~
Iound ~ cvery bed In the children y
"sfo. Inc ehsid actora viii provide
sh sntNrta inrneut of dancing and song,