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New-York tribune., 1921-12-25

had given out 1000 more tickets than
he had obtained provision Tor, and he
was hoping some additional Santa
Claus with a populous henroost would
lay the foundations for two or three
thousand more baskets.
Throughout the musical program
that continued until Santa Claus ap-
peared ard made his way through the
whistles and gurgles OF Tony and
Marie and Prasnysz and Masha, the
audience kept as still as possible
Commander Booth, who went to the
party from a sickbed was introduced.
In addition to the band, there were
selections on the cornet. ocarina and
the marimbaphone, as well as solo and
chorus singing.
After the confusion and squirm ing
attending Salvation Santa's arrival had
subsidized the red, green, white and
golden lights in the synthetic tree were
turned on and the distribution began
Some OF the youngsters had to be
glued TO their seats before things could
proceed with order, but in a few min
utes the guests understood that they
would get their chickens, toys ard pop
corn by their mum bered groups, and
Group stepped forward, Indian file
Commander Booth left early but Mrs.
Shepard remained until the distribution
was well under way 1t was several
hours before the last remembrance was
$500 whose hands could not be filled
Five thousand baskets in all had been
provided, but a thousand of them were
sent to Brooklyn Funds for more
will be welcome al 122 West Fourteenth
Street
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
q. 5. Fighting Men Get
Christmas Greetings
Weeks. DENLY and Lejeune Send
Yuletide Messages to All
Service Men

WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.-Holiday
greetings to members of the various
branches of the American Military
Establishment were extended tonight
by Secretaries Weeks and DENLY and
Major General Lejeune, commandant Of
the Marine Corps
Secretary Weeks's message said in
part:
This year has been critical and i'm
portant The foundation of our ma
tional defense has been laid in accord
ance with d definite military policy
the first in the history of our govern
ment. The new year promises much
constructive work in the development
of the army of the United States"
Secretary Denby's message, which
was flashed to all ships and stations,
said in part:
Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year. | have complete confidence that
you will ever keep the navy an organ
ization in which We may take a just
pride and which will command the re-
spect of our fellow countrymen. Garry
ON
General Lejeune's message said:
Every one stationed at headquarters
has my heartfelt good wishes for the
holiday season.
81 desire also to express my appre-
citation of the faithful, loyal service
you have given to corps and country
during 1921, and hope that the New
Year may bring you success and happi-
ness"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
I,3OO Children Guests
At Proctor's Theater

Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theater.
Broadway and Twenty-eighth Street,
was crowded yesterday morning with
1900 children gathered from the neigh
borhood, who were entertained for two
and half hours by Proctor vaudeville
"headliners" and by Babe" Ruth.
When the Babe" appeared the chill
dren went wild, and it was with great
dlfflcuity that they were quieted so
that the baseball star could tell them
how glad he was to be with them. A
similar reception was accorded to AL
fred Goullet, winher of the six dav
bicycle race, before he was allowed to
display his mastery of the wheel.
Health Commissioner Royal S. Cone
land made brief speech Harry Breen.
the vaudeville nut" was attired as a
clown for the first time in his stage
career and entertained the youngsters
immensely, and Joe Cook acted as the
announcer. When the show was over
each child was given box of candy.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Cudgel That Foiled Bear
Hangs ON Christmas Tree
Oil Worker Thus to Celebrate
His Beating of Belligerent
Animal in Forest

OLEAN, N. Y, Dec 24.-Daniel sher-
win, an oil worker in the wilderness
south of this city, will hang piece of
iron pipe among the ornaments of the
family Christmas tree, he said to-day
in relating how the metal had helped
him beat off an attack by black bear
in Tram Hollow. near the Pennsylvania
state line, yesterday.
Sherwin, on the way to his pumping
station came face to face with Bruin
on the trail. The bear opened the at
tack with a stroke of its forepaw
which tore away Sherwin's coat sleeve
and scratched the flesh of his arm.
Sherwin brought the piece of iron pipe
down on the bears nose and turned
and ran toward boiler house, some
hundred feet away.
Once during the race the bear got
close enough to Sherwin to bring its
claws down his back, but another blow
from the iron pipe saved him, and the
bear ran for the bush as Sherwin fell
exhausted at the boiler house door.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Santa Brings $3.50, 400 Boat
Staten Island Gets New Ferry
From the CITY

Staten Islands Christmas present
from the City of New York was a new
ferryboat costing S736,400 The Presi-
dent Roosevelt had its official trial trip
yesterd went through it's PAGES sat-
isfactorily and was delivered by the
Staten Island Shipbuilding Company to
Commissioner Grover A. Whalen OF the
Department of Plant and Structures at
the st. George terminal of the Staten
Island municipal ferry.
The new boat will be put in com
mission Tuesday in the service between
Manhattan and Staten Island. On that
day. at noon, the Lieutenant Quentin
Roosevelt Post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars. and the Barbara Frietchie Post,
American Legion will escort Mayor
Hylan to the whitehall Street terminal,
raise the American and city flags on
the new ferryboat and make the trip
to Staten Island and return to White
hall Street, after which the President
Roosevelt will take it's place in the
regular service
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Horses Get Their Oats
From Boston Santa Claus
Carrying Out of Old Custom In
dicates Equine Power Still
Does Its Share of Work

BOSTON, Dec. 24.-There is a Santa
Claus ses horses, and he made Post
office Square his headquarters here for
the day. Following his annual custom
ne was on hand early to gladden. the
hearts of his equine friends with guam
titles Of good oats, apples and carrots
Each animal was entitled to four quarts
of the grain with the garnishes, and a
few Jumps of sugar thrown in at the
end.
In other years d thousand or more
horses have found their way into the
square to the big Christmas tree set
up for them, from the lower branches of
which the pals of good things were
suspended. The extent to which horse
drawn vehicles turned to the square
to-day showed the horse still is doing
his part of the worlds work.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, which established
Santa Claus in his horse headquarters,
also had bite to eat for the drivers
who brought their charges to the fenst.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Liner on Christmas Trip
Takes a Gift Tree Along
scythia's Cabin Passengers to
Have celebration, and Steer
age Will Be Remembered

Inc Cunard liner Scytha left mort
yesterday for Liverpool with fairly
large passenger complement made up
chiefly of persons who had been called
abroad on business and will be Obliged
to spend Christmas at sea.
Z. G. Moore, the ships purser who
VIII have charge of the holiday fes-
tivities at sea, had large tree erected
IN the dining saloon upon which will
be hung gift for every one aboard.
including the skipper, his officers and
crew. Fifty dolls which were dressed
by passengers on the westbound trim
Will be given to children of the steer
age and second cabin
Among the saloon passengers was
Delos W. Cooke, of the Cunard Line.
who is making the round "trip on the
Scythia. His wife and sob, he said
we're travelling in India and he thought
1T was too lonesome to spend Christmas
in New York alone
Among the passengers who arrived
yesterday from Hamburg was the
Baroness Won Thermann. wife of the
German Charge d'Affaires in Washing
ton. She said she was pleased to be
IN America and that Christmas in the
United States would be the first happy
holiday she had known since 1914. She
expressed a friendly feeling for the
United States, remarking that it was
American food that saved the life of
her husband while he was prisoner
in Russia.
Among others on board were DR..
Erich Kraske, the newly appointed Ger
man Consul General in New York, and
Frau Maria Ivogun-Erbc, a German
singer; DR.. c. O. Mailloux, who has
been featuring at the Sorbonne, and
the Marquise de Molinari.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
BY Michael Collins
Leader Of the irish Republican .A,7nn

Leader Of the irish Republican A A,7ny
Special Gable Dispatch to The Tribune
This time last year we were being
hunted and we were hunting. This
year we are neither hunted nor hunt
ing. This is typical of the change from
last year to this.
AT almost this very hour on Christ
mas Eve last year five of us, all wanted
men, were having something to eat
after hard day, when party of aux
iliary police dashed into a room and
told US to put up our hands while they
searched US. One of them ran his
hands through my hair. They searched
US head and foot and then went away.
They thought we were ordinary hotel
guests.
I purpose to spend Christmas at my
ancestral home in County Cork, which
was set on fire last summer by the
British forces as an official reprisal.
[ have not been home since Christmas
Eve OF 1915, when | was released from
the Frongoch internment camp in
Wales.
We are facing the future with high
hopes and the greatest confidence that
the inherent strength of the Irish ma
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
1000 Youngsters Hail Salvation
Army's Biggest Christmas Party
Happy lhrong Jams 9th Regiment Armory Where
Santa Claus Distributes Dinner Baskets,
Toys Candy and Popcorn

With three or four thousand young
sters off the sidewalks of New York
whistling shrilly through their teeth
in the approved American fashion, Sal
vation Santa pranced the length of the
9th Regiment Armory yesterday after
noon and took his place beneath a
forty foot composite Christmas tree.
causing about 200 urchins to fall off
their chairs with JOY.
1t was the Salvation Army's annual
and greatest Christmas party for the
poor Not less than 5000 women and
children were sitting and standing in
side the armory on the big drill floor,
with a patiently waiting line of 500
more outside.
tvangeline Booth, commander of the
Salvation Army, and Mrs. Finley i.
Shepard and her three adopted chill
ern end of the floor in front of the
giant tree. 1t took about thirty
smaller trees to build up the big one,
but if the tree was a synthetic product
the enthusiasm of the wriggling audi
ence was genuine.
On both sides of the platform were
piled baskets of uncooked dinners, each
with chicken; pink packages of toys,
and bags of the standard Christmas
confections of popcorn and brittle
candy. There were 1000 baskets, $500
toys, and several thousand bags of
popcorn and candy.
With all this seeming plenty, Com
missioner Thomas Estill said that he
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Hylan's Christmas
Message an Appeal
For Civic Good Will
Citizens Should Cultivate
Spirit of Real Charity
While Nations Scrap Ar
maments, Mayor Declares

Mayor Hylan issued the following
Christmas greeting to the people of
the city yesterday:
"CHRISTMAS GREETINCS,"
TO the People Of the City of New
York: This Christmas America is at
peace with all the world. The perma-
nence of this peace can be promoted
by international good will and amity
10 achieve this happy end the great
nations of the earth are scrapping un-
necessary armament. AS citizens we
can aid by driving out of our hearts
all grudges and hates, remembering
tnat the greatest achievements of our
country lie in the paths of peace.
In the vast City of New York it is
mighty important that the spirit of
good will and charity should prevail.
Racial1y. this is the largest Jewish,
Italian, Irish and negro city, as we'll as
the third largest German city, in the
world. But we are all brothers.; we
are all children of the same God. Con
cord and harmony will best be ad-
vanced by respect and federation for
each other and the welding of all racial
groups by the everlasting bond of love.
A@c1 uS AcWtIHUeE CuaC rove was the
greatest thing in the life of Him who
sought to create q real brotherhood of
man on His wearisome pilgrimage from
Bethlehem to Calvary
'ln the highways and byways of our
busy city the bleak and chill of winter
days will find many a cheerless fireside
where cold and want will be the only
companions of the poor. In these
dreary homes little children must an
peal in vain for creature comforts and
the gifts of Christmastide to impov-
erished fathers and mothers who would
give life Itself and think naught of the
sacrifice 20 bring happiness to their
loved ones
Those who have been blessed with
this worlds goods should cast ray of
sunshine and gadness into the dark
and dismal corners of these forgotten
homes. Give to the little children of
the poor and bring the smiles back to
the wistful faces. Then there will
come the warmth and glow of real hap
piness-that happiness that comes from
service to others.
Let this spirit of charity kindled at
Christmas be kept afame throughout
the coming year and the years that lie
ahead, that we may speed the fruitage
of the seeds OF love and kindness which
He scattered on the stony hills of
Judea almost twenty centuries ago"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Policewomen PLAY
Santa Claus to 600
Children of Poor
Shivering Youngsters Are
Given Presents at Tree
i'm Mrs. Lofts Precinct
House; Mayor l. Present

Women police Of the city. under
Special Deputy Police Commissioner
Mrs. George W. Loft, assisted By
Mayor Eylan, played the role of Santa
Claus TO 500 poor children at the police
womens station house. 434 West Thir-
ty-seventh Street. yesterday afternoon
Long before the doors Of the station
house were thrown open the line OF i'll
clothed. shivering but happily ex-
pectant youngsters formed in the
street. When the doors opened at ?
o'clock they stormed inside. In the
center of the room a gayly decorated
Christmas tree stood loaded with gilt
tering ornaments and lighted with tin7
lamps.
Acting Captain John c. Anon, Mrs.
Loft and Mayor Hylan played a triple
role of Santa Claus. At the foot of the
tree were hundreds OF dolls and boxes
of candy. As Santa Claus began to
hand out the presents TO the little
ones they gave three cheers. Each OF
the little girls received box Of candy.
ceived the same. with the exception
that they were given d game instead OF
a doll.
AS soon as they mad received Their
gifts the children trooped into another
room, where each one was fitted with
new pair of shoes The Mayor and
Mrs. Loft helped in passing out the
gifts.
The children were chosen from those
attending schools in the neigh nborh ood
as those most needing assistance
They were recommended by the school
teachers and principals as being un-
able 10 attend school after Christmas
unless they obtained shoes and stock
ings.
Mrs. Loft announced that in the
cases of those children whose parents
were extremely poor, the rent would
be paid by the precinct.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
q olice Receive
Promotion as a
Christmas Gift
Two Lieutenants Made Cap
tains and Seven Ser
geants and Ninetee
Patrolmen Are Raised

Christmas presents in the form of
promotions and transfers were yester-
day announced by Richard e. Enright,
Police Commissioner, to two lieu
tenants, seven sergeants and nineteen
patrolmen.
Those made captains were Lieutenant
Lawrence E. Patterson, of Fifth Ave
nue. station, Brooklyn, and Lieutenant
Peter I. Tighe, of Morrisania station.
the Bronx
Promoted to lieutenants were Ser
geants John W. Lagavenne, of Browns
vile station. Brooklyn; Oscar C.
Reimer, of Glendale station, Queens;
James j. Gegan, head of the bomb
squad; John j. Hennessy, of Beach
Street station, Manhattan; Joseph n.
Gassman, Of Ralph Avenue station,
Brooklyn; Brooks Gulager, of High
Bridge station, the Bronx, and John J.
Seary, of the Health Department.
The patrolmen prom oted to be SER
geants We're: Robert Tatnell and Viii
liam r. Doyle, of Bathgate Avenue sta
ton. the Bronx; Francis j. Hedden,
Frederic j. McKenna and George A.
Maud, Of the Health Department;
Thomas NJ. Griffith, 18th Inspection Dis
trict; John A. Hoard. Herbert Street
station, Brooklyn; Thomas Connors,
Greenpoint Avenue station, Brooklyn;
Harry Kent, Mercer Street station;
Thomas j. Egan, Traffic Squad F,
Bronx; Burton l.. Royce, Traffic a /;
jeremiah O'Connor and Michael Tier
ney, of Traffic B; Thomas F. j. Kerri-
gan, Sixth Avenue station, Brooklyn;
Charles Strasser, Morrisania station,
the Bronx; Joseph a. Donelon and Max
Lowe detective division: John ! I.vnch
of the East Twenty Street sta
ton, and Thomas j. Ryan, of East 126th
Street station.
Captain Patterson, it was announced,
will have charge of the Fifth Avenue
station, Brooklyn, and Captain Tighe
will have charge of the West New
Brighton station, Staten Island.
Commissioners Enright also an
nounced the transfer of two captains
to serve as assistants to inspectors,
post newly created. Captain James +.
Shaw leaves the Mercer Street station
to assist Inspector Thomas r. Ryan in
the I'd Inspection District and Captain
James Troy leaves the Fifth Avenue
station, Brooklyn, to become assistant
to Inspector James Bolan IN the Sd
Inspection District.
The transfer of several captains to
other stations, effective at 1901 a. M
this morning, also was announced. Cap-
tain John j. Lantry leaves the West New
Brighton station on Staten Island to
take command Of the Webster Avenue
station in the Bronx; Captain James A.
Brady leaves Webster Avenue to take
charge of the Morrisania station, and
Captain Theodore d. Miller leaves the
Morrisania station TO take charge of
the Mercer Street station
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Mail Them Early
Slogan Saves Z. S.
Usual Postal Clut
Biggest Christmas Volume
in History Handled With
Celebrity; Better Business
Conditions Are Reflected

WASHINGTON, Dec. "a BY The AS
sociated Press Officials of the Post
office Department left their desks to-
night convinced that the American peo-
pie had begun to practice mail early
for Christmas.'
While the nearly third million
persons in the postal service staggered
under load which appears, when
viewed as statistics, to be the largest
volume of Christmas mail in history
reports from several thousand divi-
sional and minor Offices showed plainly,
it was declared, that the mails had
been moved smoothly and with dis
patch and above ali, without the usual
peak"
DR.. Hubert Work, First Assistant
Postmaster General, declared this was
due to the fine cooperation of the
people and the splendid, efficient serv-
ice of the employees" The response
to Postmaster General Hays's appeal
for an early mailing of Christmas pack
have hoped" DR.. Work said.
The indication of a great increase in
the Christmas mail was viewed as slg1
nificant by many government officials,
who declared it showed betterment
in the nations economic condition. 1t
reflected, it was said, better markets,
buster factories, fewer unemployed.
They also believed it revealed a closer
knit American nation, for transconti-
mental as we'll as local mail was
heavier. Mention was made in the re-
ports of postmasters and railway mail
service heads of the higher percentage
of registered and insured packages and
the tremendous volume of parcel post
matter as indicative of the rising tide
of business.
AS shown by the Postofice Depart
ment charts, mails that could accu-
rately be charged to the Christmas pc
riod began TO increase in volume about
December TO- In the next ten days the
flow of greetings and packages con-
tinued steadily and, although increas-
ing gradually, it got beyond the capac-
ity of few important postofhces to dis
patch or deliver with ceierity. Even
stormy weather in some sections did
not cause what has hitherto been an
annual jam in the mails, the reports
showed
Great cities like New York and Chi
cago, important gateways as at mid
continent rail division points, and the
hundreds of lesser relay stations for
the mails met the food tide and turned
it into it's proper channels promptly,
delayed only to the extent that railway
service was impaired by it's burden of
homeward bound travellers, according
to DR.. Work. He said iii this connec-
tion that, as far as records show, never
in recent years has less mai1 reached
division points "unworked" or unsorted
for it's prompt transfer.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
BY Friedrich Ebert
President of Ge,.moo,,
"
{ 6u The 4 SSunsafcd PreSsl

'nb me associated PreSS)
fuletide and New Years throuphout
history have been for man and ma
tlons ahke the occasion for seIf-com-
munlon and spiritual retrospection-
a period when each is wont to make
pause and strike a balance between the
measure of human aspirations and the
voiumcS of their achievements. The
last year has witnessed the noble en-
deavors, especially on the part of the
people of the United States and their
PRESIDENT, to once again bring d world
which is out of joint into harmony with
the spirit of Christmas.
In the present hour of their strug-
gle for national existence the German
people warmly welcome every gain
recorded in the progress toward world
betterment. and on this Christmas
morning they permit themselves to ex-
press to the American people and their
distinguished Executive their heartfelt
wishes for a successful consummation
of their noble endeavors in behalf Of
peace on earth and reconciliation among
nations
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
'inger Company Gives $3.50
Each to SOY ear EmnIoxees

p Ina:lzABETH, N. j.. Dec. 24.-Walter
iav o,1son, general superintendent here
nan, sne Singer Manufacturing Com
bssss, called to his Office to-day Just
sme,a ..e the closing hour twenty-three
ias iasoyees who have oeen in the serv-
ss.. VI the company more than fifty
ch.;ss each. Each of them received q
cornsas present of $3.50 from the
eicbpp any, Mr.. Dixon said there were
eOma. others who had been with the
r.esissIV forty-nine years who would
''csive gifts also
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
hain Puts Off Carols

VI. ~ ~, tree of Light in Mad son Square
gr,r Illuminated last night, but the pro-
cam cam Of music was postponed on ac-
bsy;n ot lnclement weather. 1t will
81 rs e. noon to-day with the singing
rbcrs christmas carols. A wireless
viii wigts'aph concert will follow There
D. ~ De another wireless concert at
ana community singing at p. m
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
Christmas Mail at Boston
A Third Larger This Year

BOSTON. Dec. "a = This wears
Christmas mail through the Boston
postofice was fully 80 per cent heavier
than in 1920, officials of the Railway
Mail Service said tonight.
Nearly four million pieces O. parcel
post were handled in the postal district.
On Friday 100000 postcards were sent
out from the central postoffice.
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
BY Sir James Craig
Premier Of Northern Ireland
(Ry 7he ANsoriutrd prnsal

fsD The SSoriutcd Prcs9J
on behalf of Great Britain's young
est offspring | gladly express listers
complete confidence in Mr.. Balfour
mead of the British delegation ut the
washington conference and his col
leagues IN their endeavors to secure
permanent good will among the ma
tlohs. rms effort in the United States
to promote universal trust and free-
dom from war sancti6es the American
soil and emphasizes the greatness Of
her people
:, Ulster will rejoice with the world if
tnere radiate from Washington this
Christmas season the tidings of inter
natlonal peace, which will in the hearts
OF all OF us add yet another star to the
folds of "Old GLORY"
New-York tribune., 1921-12-25
B. Altman & Co. Pass Out
S35O.OOO Christmas Checks

Employees Of the firm of 3. Altman
& Co. had Christmas surprise yester-
day in the form of substantial checks
added to their weekly salaries. Be-
tween $350,000 and S40O 900 was dis
tributed to 1000 employees through
the Altman Foundation. Of which Colo
mel Michael Friedsam is president.
The money was shared by the boys
and girls acting as messengers and
clerks. as we'll as by those in impor-
tant nosts