New-York tribune., 1921-12-22
City All Set
For Merriest of
Chris tmases
Children and Parents Out
of Luck Will Be Cared
for by Numerous Organ
izations and Individuals
Cheer for Immigrants
Even Four-Footed Dwell.
ers Within Metropolitan
Borders Are Remembered

Flans for making this the nerriest
OF Merry Christmases are under wav
in every section of the city Children
OF the poor will be the benefciaries in
most instances, though fathers and
mothers are not being overlooked.
The sixteenth annual Christmas
party of the New York Produce Ex-
change, feature annually greeted
with gratitude by the poor children
south of Canal Street, will be held on
Saturday afternoon, December 81, on
the main floor of the exchange. There
Will be presents for all who attend and
an entertainment calculated to Law low
any Yuletide gloom that may be about.
Christmas cheer for immigrants on
Ellis Island will be provided by the
Presbyterian Woman's Board of Home
Missions. More than 400 crates Of
gifts, sent to the headquarters of the
board at 1855 Fifth Avenue, are being
prepared for distribution on the island.
One box was prepared by the girls in
the Marina Neighborhood House, Maya
guez, Porto Rico.
And Theater Party
Fifteen hundred children will be the
guests of the Tammany Central Asso-
citation of the 18th Assembly District
at Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theater,
where special Christmas performance
will be held Saturday morning. In the
afternoon Christmas baskets will be
distributed from the clubhouse, 226
East Thirty Street.
One hundred and fifty families living
on Barren Island will celebrate Christ
mas as result of the industry of In
spector James W. Hallock, of the police
marine division. = He will go to the
island Saturday morning with Christ
mas bags and boxes, some contributed
by members of the Produce Exchange.
others by the Downtown Neighborhoo bod
Association. The trip will be made on
the police boat John F. Hylan.
The upper East Side will hear Christ
mas Eve carols sung by boys and girls
enlisted by the Harlem Health Center
recently opened by. the Red Cross.
and italian, but the singers will stop
only beneath windows in which u
Christmas candle is lighted. Prior to
the singing 500 children will be enter
tained at a party in the health center,
345 East 116th Street.
Gobs to Play Santa
Besides a Christmas tree for the
children of the neighborhood the Bide-
a-Wee Home Association will have q
Christmas dinner for homeless cats
and dogs at It's home, 410 East Thirty
eighth Street, next Monday. Stray ami
mails will be welcome.
The officers and men Of the United
States ship Wyoming have raised
$1,000, with which they will entertain
500 children at the navy yard in Brook
lyn at noon on Christmas Day. Each
child will get a pair of gloves, pair
candy. In addition there will be a
sumptuous dinner aboard the battle
ship.
Carol singers from the Greenwich
House will sing in Sheridan Square,
Washington Square, Hudson Park,
Jones Street and Barrow Street on
Christmas Eve, beginning at 6 o'clock.
On Christmas Day they will visit the
children's ward Of ST. Vincent's Hosp
tai Greenwich House will supply
Christmas dinners TO the needy of the
neighborhood
John Drew. William H. Edwards and
MOTIFS dIlQult VIII pay odhIts NldAS
for the children of the unemployed at
a celebration tomorrow at the School
of the Builders, 1876 West Seventy-sec
ond Street. a thousand children each
will receive pair of roller skates and
other presents. Mrs. Hugo w. Behrend
is sponsor for the celebration, which
will continue from a to p. III.
casey" on the JOB
Cb,-;stno.s baskets for noor Families
will be distributed by the Knights OF
Columbus from four council houses
Christmas Eve-60 Morton Street,
16Cth Street and Amsterdam Avenue,
143d Street and Third Avenue. 156th
Street and Cortlandt Avenue and from
the house of Vera Cruz Council, in
East Twenty third Street. Distribu-
tions also will be made from chapter
headquarters, 242 West Fifty-first
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