Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-23
i17Y'S POOR GET
4 BASKETS OF FOOD
MANY Organizations Give Boun-
tifuI Supplies to Thousands
of Deserving
CHEER FOR YOUNG AND OLD

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examinations.
Baskets filed with choice morsels
..,,o handed out by the thousands in
.u sections of the city. Banqucts
.oro given to children. In fact. nearly
.verv one, from the tottering old men
A. seventy or more years to the infants
IN arms who really deserved charity,
received 1t.
Tho Union Benevolent Association,
-,G spruce street. gave out approxi-
mo,elv sixty baskets of food to widows
n.;,h dcnenients. the nged, and families
v.horo wm there was sickness. The Special
nn,;of Rureau Of the Emergency Aid,
- which Mrs. John Wanamaker, 3d.
90 chairman. provided baskets to ev-
nrv one of the sixty nine families on
,,s list, The Social Service Depart
mont S I Of the Diagnostic Hospital,
throurh the kindness of the gentlemen
A. Tho board. ladies' auxiliary. Mrs.
Frank r.. Decker. and the Charity
rmb Of Germantown furnished one
hundred and tifty-five diners for their
dispensary families.
The thirteen Boys Clubs within the
membership Of the Y. NJ. G. a. of
Germantown distributed baskets of good
things for tho Christmas table to needy
families in the ncighborhood. During
christmas week there will be special
events held for the schOolboys in the
gymnasium and swimming pool. also
hikes through the surrounding country
pnd educational trips. to large indus
trial establishments. The new addi-
tion of this institution will open for
inspection on January I. Part of the
New Years celebration will be the OPEN
Ing of the new equipment.
Red Men Give Dinners
Christmas dinners were sent to many
homes by tho Usage Tribe. Order of
Red Men. 1Gl South Broad street. y
party was also given to scores Of chill
,Iren in Usage Hall. John Carey was
chairman Of the Riddles Party Com
mittee which provided toys for all the
children.
able assistance Of Judge Howard a..
3. extended Christmas cheer this year
serving terms in Jail. Hundreds Of
today in Room 2S5. City Hall. to those
who presented cards given them by
the socicty's agents.
Each basket contained fine birl
and generous supply and variety Of
vegetables and other catnblcs ample to
satisfy all demands Of nt least n half
dozen healthy appctite2 and when the
family 10 be fed was known to be
large, there were extras for each such
case.
The Salvation Army lassics. with the
money given them on the streets of the
city. gave away 80 baskets. each con-
tanning Christmas dinner for eight or
nine persons.
The Volunteers of America distri-
buted GOO Christmas dinners. serving
about thrr" thousand persons. Reripi-
ents Of these Yuletide baskets, piled
high with nourishing foodstufls. in
cllde moro than two hundred destitute
widows with families of one to ten
children, families whose earning capa.
city has been blasted by sickness and
families where there has been unem-
plOyment
Miss Julia u. Robinson. an incurable
invalid who is patient at st. Joseph s
Hospital. raised most of the money to
purchase the food contained in the
seventy-iivc baskets distributed BY the
social Service Department of the hos
pltal Miss Robinson is a singer of
unusual ability and appeared at sew
cral rrcitals for this cause.
IN" Tenth and Lehigh Young, Mems
ShriSlian Association gave, out fifty
christmas baskets to needy families
In that section Of the city.
Children Get Goodies
Hundreds Of children were provided
win Christmas cheer in the shape Of
baskets Of food and goodies" by
friends Of the Advisory Council of the
department of Public Welfare. The
distribution were made under the
supervision of Mrs. Henry ID. Jump.
mead Of the council
:, NOR" than one hundred baskets were
distributed to poor families by the Ar.
Iisans Dining Club. The Christmas .
plans Of the Artisans also included an
entertainment for group of children
gathered together by the Protestant
Episcopal city Mission, Third street
The Visiting Nurse Soricty gave
away seventy five dinners to families
throughout the city where tho WACO
carnerS in the families were i'll or where
me ., mothers were widows.
Th" Lions Club of Philadelphia sen,
many Of its members in person TO the
poor sections Of the ciS and distri-
nn,cd baskets Of food and toys. Ar.
ransem"sls for the distributions were
unaer supervision Of n committee con.
nns,'ng Of Jean Paul Richter. the Rev,
I,oI"r' + m Alexander Mackie and Samuel
>, More than thousand children in
hm' NhrIonS boarding homes conducted
W. 'he 'hiIdrcn Aid Society were
rnoa oop'rnts or presents from the Christ
,rn ,naS committee of that organization.
%" gifts We're selected ACCORDING n
~" age Of the girls and bovs rcce;vin"
men, Specially selected presents
S, Srr" given to more than ono hundred
"u'r b"yS and eighty older girls. who
ate . hpont to graduate from the care of
port. ' VI sell sup
1900 Sailors Get Present.
G Every one of the troops of tha Girl
scouts OF Philadelphia did something
ior some one else this Christmas son
son; Most of the troops sent out large
nasKets to at least one family and 9th .
trs t fiIled big stockings" which were
"astrlbuted to needy ones by various
.h"ritablc agencies. Still other troops
made ,a their gifts through the Co.opera .
I'VE ,r club to the Philadelphia Hospital.
me Seaman's Church Institute, Sec
"hd and Walnut streets, in co.opera :
lion with other agencies, sent ren-
LLessnhtativcs aboard all ships in the
marnor and gave away presents to more
'man nan looo sailors, including substantial
,SH,n'ort ,Sn bags. At the headquarters OF
r .;t, institute, 200 residents received
tron' so,s o., OF tobacco, handkerchiefs. etc,
hent in the work of this organizatior
ere ar Mrs. Lincoln Ferguson, Mrs, G. q
Mnhnlzlnger and Mrs. Edward NJ. NJ
,,,Il9 each of the families of thirty
nhnd men who are cmployed in tb.