The New York herald., 1922-12-25
ORGANIZED CHARITY
REACHES ALL NEEDY
Spirit Of Giving Takes Form
in Hundreds of Ways for
Christmas.
DINNERS ON HUGE SCALE
III and Unfortunate Of City
Objects Of Special Care
To-day.

For the first time IN a whole year
the city refused yesterday to get ex-
cited about internationalisnl. national
ism. budget legislation. ship subsidies,
European finances, Near East politics
and wars. Fascista movements, recosni-
ton OF non-existant governments and the
Ecoldings OF fur-lined radicals. Being
the day before Christmas New York de-
voted itself to preparing for the great
day In million different ways, most
of them characterized by tho desfre to do
something that would make somebody
else little happier.
In the churches, the hospitals. the
homes and asylums. the armorles and
halls and In other places folks gathered
to give and receive that to-day might
not be SO barren as personal circum-
stances threatened. To-day there will
be dinners served by the Salvation
Army, the He'd Cross, the Jewish chart
table societies. the Knights of Columbus.
the Y. IL. G. A. and by many less widely
known organizations whose purposes are
the same. There was not the last
minute furore of Christmas Eve because
1t was Sunday and the shops and stores
were closed.
But to-day Will be the same sort Of
Christmas as we always have. Just
to review briefly the scheduled events
as they appear on a. newspaper calendar
gives q meager idea OF what Is going
on to-day. There will be the annual
dinner to the newsboys at the Brace
Memorial Home for rewsboys. 244 Will
lam street. Seven hundred lads will get
presents and eat the turkey, ice cream
and rnince pie.
Cheer for Disabled Soldiers.
ut &C. 80 rzI,
presents and dinners to about 10000
disabled ex-service men who are In 300
Government hospitals to-day. Also the
, Knights will provide vaudeville enter
tainment for the veterans. The Saliva
tion Army purposes >disbursng $4,000
Christmas dinners and 10000 toys and
in the Settlement Home, % Cherry
street. the Booth Memorial Hospital In
East Fifteenth street, the Ridgewood
Settlement and Day Nursery, the Giyr-
don Hotel, and SO on, the Army will
have great Christmas trees aglow and
presents for those who como there.
The Christmas spirit, corralled by
George Crowley. the man who has de-
voted 80 much OF his time to making
children happy at this season, will be
dispensed at the Home for Hebrew In
fants, the American Female Guardian
Society, the Sevilla Home for Children,
st. Joseph's Institute for the Deaf and
Dumb, the Tarrytown Institute OF
Mercy, Seton Hospital. the Colored Or
phanage at Riverdale, the Catholic Pro-
tectory. the Catholic Institute for Blind
Orphans. the Montefiore Home for Grip
pied Children, the New York Children's
Hospital and st. Joseph's Hospital. The
famous Crowley dinners to the kids were
served yesterday.
A thousand children will be the guests
OF the eailors at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. On board the Arkansas, wyoming
and Maryland the kids will foreeather
this morning to receive presents, eat
turkey and listen to entertainments. The
gobs themselves have CT attributed moro
than 500 for this party. and the navy
chaplains have seen to II that the fund
grew large enough to accommodate all
the children.
Three hundred and fifty-ave ex-service
men In tho United States Veterans Bu-
Ireau Hospital No. 81. on Kingsbridge
road, The Bronx, will be entertained by
the Red Cross. Yesterday the men re-
ceived presents from trees and to-day
there will be music and dinner and dane
ing and movies.
Prisoners Not Forgotten.
1t will be pretty much the same all
over the city. Not hospital or institu-
tion where men. women and children are
suffering will be overlooked. Even the
prisoners In the city, county and State
jails will know something of the joyful
ness that pervades the world. Special
dinners will be served IN the Tornbs. in
Raymond street and Ludlow street jails,
on Blackwells Island. In Sing Sing,
Dannemora and all the rest OF them.
The spirit OF Big Tim Sullivan was
abroad on the Bowery. Time was when
Big Tim used to see to Il personally that
every foot was shod. every back clothed
and every stomach filed. But Big Tim
is dead and others had to do the work he
started. In all the lower East Side lodg-
Ing houses and missions tho less fortu-
nate Of mankind received food. shelter
and clothing.
Up In Washington Heights. where you
do not expect to find many OF the very
rich or the very poor. committees from
the washington Heights Chamber of
Commerce went out and found all the
families OF that section that had not en-
joyed prosperity. Dinners were dis
tributed IN baskets containing chickens.
vegetables. coffee, flour. sugar and fruit
For the children toys were tucked in.
More than $1,000 had been collected for
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