The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1902, Page 10

ATHOUSAND OINN FOR CHRISTMAS POOE ' The Evening World Sends Fifteen Van- - loads of Provender Needy Families Throughout the City. tho THE EVENING WORLD'S . CHRISTMAS DINNER FOR NEW YORK POOR. ia One Thousand of Which Are Being % Delivered Free Potatoes. White Onions. In Baskets To-Da Soup. Chickens, String Beans. Bread. Plum Pudding. Cak Tea Crackers. Candies. Coffee. eee Each Dinner Is Sufficient For a Family a of Six. | The Evening World distributed in on New York to-day one thousand Christ- Mas dinners that aro to bring Yuletide Joy to the hearts of six thousand of "New York's deserving poor to-morrow. From the day this paper first appeared it has yearly striven to give the very poor something worth rejoicing over on Otristmas Day. Yor the last three » years The Evehing World has provided . &hearty foast for thousands of worthy fol who otherwiso might have gone hungry on this day of days. All day yesterday twenty men em- Ployed by the Slegel-Cooper Company + worked steadily in preparing these sep- @rato one thousand dinners for the | baskets in which they will be distrib- uted throughout New York, When their ‘worl: was finished they had simply suc- eeeded in placing on forty individual tables the various articles of food which one hundred men worked far into last night in placing tn bright wicker baskets ready ¢>r distribution. A}! Teady except the plump five-poun of chickens and ves of waked bread that were added early hour this morning. the fresh at an At Forty Tables. Shortly after 7 Manager Henry Taylor § BEl-Cooper grocery department took per of re. Sonal charge of the i! ing World's one thous series of tables that stretcl: thie entire breadth of the store was first Placed in readiness, piled high wita the wicker baskets. At comfortable in tervals ‘along this great table were the forty tables. on which during tho all sorts of things had been arranged ‘im readiness for the packers, When Mr. Taylor ». nls even! work he bad a man placed these tables and at every an Y Mnspector or watcher to see that each barket received its prc complement ©0f food. When the men finally did g: to work, though, thelr arms fairly Maashed’ {a thelr ‘efforts to fill these Sfmyriad baskets. ‘The hands on the clock moved around until five hours had jp mheen recorded before the last basket / was ready for the morning's addition et the big extra loat of fresh baked ‘bread and the chickens, which wera allowed to leave thelr cold storage re- “ftigerators util the distributs Se Were reardy to start on their tour of 5) “the city. Hes Wong before 6 o'clock this morning the n Transfer Company had ten Syana lined up in front of the Big Store, Sally to take on the tons of Christmas Miers, which ‘they distributed about York's five boroughs, . Evening World had placed ths bution of these dinners in the of Mrs. L. F. Ford, of the Oharliy tion Society, as reception int, Gnd she had arranged that the padyn Bureau of Charities was to i $f the dinnors, the Association pving the Condition of the Poor, ulist Fathers, 50, and the re- were to be distributed upon ee of the Charity Organizatton ich in the last two weeks ty agents throughout the city from thousahds of tamil! rity to récelve the Chriat. Pheae families that were hernia ved Away when pnousend, Joares. mt ext , from oO oo! HOW THE DINNERS ARE DISTRIBUTED, Charity: Organization © -lety.325 second street. other they would tower fifteen above the Park Row Bulldi \imes as high as the Pulltzer Building, As cach basket when filled welgied tiirty pounds, the twenty. va away on Duet 8 of Ch od things. ur Nite Noboken to Long In In each bask: nd City. tok there were two if these kens were to start out jto fly dn a atraight line, beak to. ta’ over York the leader would b Hoboken while the last of the line could drop her tail feathers Long Island City. Bach basket ined a can of ondensed soup, when all these na of souj had been properly Were turned out in a huge ba y would make a pond on which hu ds of children would have ample room to skate. Bach basket al: taine age and in each kage there were three long sticks of Peppermint. If these sticky of candy ere laid ¢ Ina Stratght line ¢ Would reach three ‘miles, but if the po tatoes take from all the baskets were jald out in a@ stratent line they a ) from the Eattervy to the Brohx Each of the 1,000 dinners was made up follows Two chi na, weighing five pounds, can of sou extra loaf of bread. morning, One pound of cakes. One quart of potatoes, One plum pudding, Cote One package of candy. One can of string beans One quart of white onions Ackage tea crackers h basket, addressed to the Int Jenty, bore a tag on Which was the wing ‘Ins >ription; ES From The NEW YORK EVENING WORLD, Wishing You and Your Family A MERRY CHRISTMAS and HAPPY NEW YEAR, baked this Ten Towering Pyramid. Tho grocery Pr store nt b o'clock work of adding to th dy bulg baskets the chickena and loaves o bread wis begun by a force of twenty tive expert handiers. The chickens w: brought out. of the huge. ref In crates a hundred each nd thi baskets which had been filled with th other articles which will complete th. course of The Evening World's Christ department of the Sleg was astir with tile morn mas dinners and than plied in ten to ering pyramids of one hundred. es were piiced on @ table fifty feet long| family of some hart. to the men at the|denly stricken and passed along chicken crates who rolled the. Towls up in neat parcels of glazed 3 carrled in Baskets to If piled up one upon tho stories threo ended neeeaaenaaemaamaaamaaananamaeet) h plump gline widow left to feed a half dozen rowt |mouths b: Pitue. chickens had all” been stowed THe SVORLD: WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1902, el WITH THE 1,000 CHRISTMAS DINNERS PROVIDED BY THE EVENING WORLD FOR THE POOR.,. | PILING UP THE BASKETS. To the Editor of The Evening World: many families who receive them. Dho second van to pull out carried 111 baskets t families Hytng tn the + tenem betive Twenty-third and Sixty-third streets, east Third aven ‘The tht r iM baskets to distribute bet n Tenth street and the Battery on west ot the elty ie fourth van bore ty-tive baskets to be dell 1 bet ninth atreet and One Mund 1 street, W of Elghth aver tlons of ¢ min very the Brooklyn, and the ninth distributed eighty and tively In the middle sections of In and wester The 1 he Protests J in. the ies who » made by askets In the lower « Mulberry stre he whom Into th the van which ast ved the dinners. — oo OTHER DINNERS Broome. ter and four 1 Supporta by working lat t 0 hud Around an Services will be held In all Protestant stove wh scant: warmt Episcopal and Roman Catholle churches, ae bar nt But when : pontifical mass {n St, Patrick's saw ule which will mak With E rent , sewn alagl be morrow Yay ‘of plenty, Cathedra eg dren clapped nila wi hes of other de- nd nothers, fac j susag ei se He atm the eyes he an who was Colllng. &w d evening in the lighted up with the Fifth Ave- ws she exclaimed Beckman iN leas v > will indeed have | Methodist Church, Fitth Avenue Presby- a merry Chr The nex “morrow. t Methoulst nly of five. SIAN Wotan y-two thousand hundred Pea Ot OBER of unvooked dinners will be & clothe iven away by the tion Army at & 5 wateh on thr 2 nt 10 o'¢) in tn his day'n. Work weit clock tables will be papers. raised het beaming basket she r head and apted the set in the large Five thousand by the Departm at the y politan HH s Shaw ler Jones 1 of clothin 3 will t of F Al other low have ¢ stitutions. hundred dinners will be ntative T. D, Sullivan very. en Hundred dinners and as many dolls will be given to_poor little giris by Was the destitute} Frank Tilford at the West Side Lyceum. orking man sid-{ Fifteen thousand dollars in gold will a Strug-|be given for Christmas boxes by the Stock, Consolidated and Cotton ex- unceasing dally effort; othera| change: {families the heads of which had been} John D. Rockefeller will make gener- fering from long Hinesses until what-]ous gifts to the poor of Tarrytown. ver had been laid by for a rainy day| Miss Helen Gould has arranged to % comple| iy sanaueted, until prob." male Uberal gifts to Ee for the t time in thelr itves @ Irvington andyicinity and also i ¢ wis igh wed - . P be give Charities rouse, Metro~ plac Mes, and Mra, Cad- Hbuted | $10,000 families 8 ng World's Christmas t orthy pespie, and that their pov-| mates of city erty was due not/at all to the lazy or] ‘Twenty-live yiclous hablia of any member of the| gt family but to the compelling citeum- atances of fate over which they had no control. In some cases it down = o GOT XMAS DINNER FREE. When Mr. Newberry's LOADING DINNERS INTO VANS. THE DINNERS BROUGHT GREAT CHEER TO MANY FAMILIES. The Evening World’s Christmas Dinners, I am sure, will be gladly welcomed and bring great cheer, comfort and good will to the (MRS.) L. F. FORD, Reception Agent, Charity Organization Society, No. 105 East Twenty-Second street, New York City. One Ww red and twenty-tw Were filed in the fifth van wh 1 1 through tt str Richard Croker sent to his friends in) ‘They were dazed “Moat House, \' friend, and walle some 1 lowe sk xt y ho city heauti¢ul Chete card nBe, ( ergs ip. ‘Ths'| Overloo a int Toe y pales the elty beautiful Christmas cards. In tag nd were neatly gotten pero oked te phe Paul. Soctety cael one © y was a bit of holly an time of malling was so oxqet Wat th owing thi Valine With, northern part just b the re It was a errived and reeslyod Just, ts) British stamp about town to: Harlem River. English t wishing a ft though ae fo New ori | “Anyhow nid a Pam) ne se ath vk tt sand 4g ht New Year’ to) had sent them by Al me eer, | y stood on the Wig the Prullat’ Fathers and ‘s the reciptents. It js sald that Cro gets a lt was nice of Cr baskets to the Charity Ori S0- —— ee sere ee te . lety, who will, pla with worthy Tammilicn thoy ected. 2) Christ A them, in the | skets to the Bureau , ind soon t ul the distress hitdren of New York. rhilt, Jn. Wil be Tuligen” at Hyde “will give $10,000 to Soclety, the! scores of tions will dia- Car-Load of man, as rm steps today, UAE CHILDREN HAPPY Mrs. Taylor Couldn’t Bear to Turkeys Caught Fire, See Christmas Go By Without poor people In the ne rhood of . vin avenue and furs touren| Remembering Them and Was Doutta, hrearéast “ing, moraine |, APtested for Shoplifting. a small fire almost consumed a frelght car loaded with the edibles in ti New Yorke Centrat yards at that NOW SHE IS MOST PENITENT. he ear was consigned to H verry oo : “e . Se eer eae raae Mrs. Gertrude Taylor, after being ar- had A small stove put Ih the car te kee, {Tested yesterday for shoplifting in a tho poatoos from freeing, In som | Broadway department store because she bat sy alt some | had other way to get presents for her manner the stove was overturned and | iad no other way to get p the car took fi tn. q ne ht the seen pwds back, but M all pe could wreok Appreciate Fire. ab but before the Pi the car i, Kood th the y The nisston, ck Up ¢ was entirety cle: children, or thought so, Ana morning penitent. mM wae turned partment ar- enurely de- was almost Jefferson 3 gullty with her mother would not be separated. Mrs. to were scattered tracks, *to the great de- of people, who flocked to poll mpted to keep New) ry Rave have nnyu.tig thes nort while th; to and ina lyn, owned by Herbert broker in Wall street. K is home thia With her at the time was one ter, Helen, who, when arraigned in the ket Police Court, pleaded 80 Taylor, whose family was once wealthy, {8 the manager of a boarding- house at No, 902 President street, Brook When Jaugh- that they ingalls, a ie fu nished the.3200 bord required for mothe and daughter when they were held for twial in the Court of Special Sessions he Fire Commissioner Sturgis to-day re-|said he had known the family many erlved from Lehmaler, Schwarta & Co,, of No, 27 East Twenty-second street, a check for $100, to be of the Department firm states th; appreciation rendered the Placed to the credit | ior ension Fund. ‘Tne the amount is sent in] eq,” the efficient. services | daugi ‘tment at the fire}and. ding, opposite thelr said; hi the she ears and that Mrs. Taylor's connections hts the South were of the very highest. ncerning her predicament Mrs, Tay- “For weeks I have been heavy heart- "L love my two he? Foy ie THE DINNERS AND WHAT WAS DONE TO PREPARE THEM, One thousand Christmas dinners given by The Evening World. Fifteen tons of food. A One thousand overflowing baskets, which, if placed tn line, would extend one-third of a mile; if piled one on another would be over t is high as the Pulitzer Building. ‘Twenty men required twelve hours to collect and put up the food for packing. Ferty expert packers worked three hours putting the food in the baskets. Ten big vans are kept busy distributing the baskets to-day. One thousand poor families made happy. Six thousand persons will sit down to The Evening World's Christmas dinners, HEA TRY TD DE. BUYERS HUSTLE, Highways and Byways of Trade Thronged with a Busy but Good-Natured Crowd of Holi-! day Shoppers. With No Money or Gifts for Little Ones, Her Husband ill and Out of Work, Mrs. Paff Took Carbolic Acid. j | FLORISTS REAP BIG HARVEST] HER LIFE MAY BE SAVED. . no pres-} The last mad whirl of the Christmag’ -old son | Shopper was on In full force from eartyt her hus-| morning to-day, In the streets of the With no money in the hous ents in sight for her four-y or her six-month-old daughter band out of work and in ill-health her-|retall shopping district men, women ana! St. Vincent de Paul Soclety...325 J) Sessa =a SL PSE OD pera ae elf, the Christmas pr shidren pushed, tugged, _ bustled, A lation for Improving th | palling for Mrs. Lillan Paff, crushed, hustled and crowded each! ssociatio: proving e the bountifully filled baskets with the CHRISTMAS CARD SENT BY CROKER Fast One Hundred and Fifty-fourth|other in the struggle to get to the, Condigion of the|Poor--.-.--B00 J) urend iseves, whanithey were ‘ewitly street, that she atempted to avold {t]#hopping counters, but everybody was Brooklyn Bureau of Charities-100 9 ind run down to the groat vans wf the | R by taking carbolle acid to-day. She good-natured, The spirit of Christmas Paulist Fathers "50 | Unlon ‘Tranefer Company. FROM WANTAGE TO HIS FRIENDS HERE, ie irtictanon Stonitacv ana’ tne| was in the, aie at cctatee tae a if 1 Hdlonuthec Geakere nn Not * | doctors think they can save her Iife. bruised ribs and Jarred elbows could bef at a of mldesen mprelee ane. Hig Stores onte The story of the Paff family Is one of | Not rume. i PONG feoee eee gtOn fOr to-mor- | Hioveen ausiated them, ao that betore 7 suffering and misery such as is as cer-| The 1 will toward men” idea ta Pp eee lad Lae ) K they were ready and started on tan to crop up on the day before| the salvation of the Christmas shopper, ae van Is capable of stowing away | thelr, way, to the four corners of the Chiistmas in this city as the day s|in a New York holiday throng, else no 1 [ta thousanda of cublo inches of | Greater City, neriaint;o arr rr ote: th could withstand space tho furniture of a good-sized| The first van to leave was loaded certain to arr jarring notes in the a Hs iu ues orian bps oipeholasesuer ben 4 down with elghty-nine baske chorus of Joy and good will, A pathetic} gift-buying neighbors. The tired, over= ehold, but before they started out | {74 foees (uravon teas oa in the fact that| Worked salespeople, the downtrodién this morning an extraordinary effort had 'nvarlably they are associated with mis-| Street-car conductor and the street oe made to shut in the bulging| ' lcortunetronilt Wanoenliaren fakir, who needs a few feet of space Cr ls | e iaband oft on the sidewalk to display his war suld these baskets be Inid along |tloors of crowded ten ts the work at ave the @nly backsliders, but they have Broadway tn a straight line they would j distelbutian will consume the greater thoinaliaplorsing xcuses and nobody minds them, stretch from Wall street to Canal atreet, | 9rt of the day. Tee Bixtilavanue presented (ta teuAel ine or from Twenty-third street to Forty- Van After Van Departs, a before Chris Rita wih tmas" aspect—the walks, _ what part of them was not occupied = to and fro fa the room, he sud- ; gravbed the same b: by holld. wares, were so overcrowded 1 that bis wi Iran by ppers that half the throng was pravexs) i tays: “it|forced to take to the street to meke | it all kU] my. | headway. [pan " 18 and trucks made low | a long tlme he han been ont ef the moving crowds ployment. He his av stom treuble out tomrd the car whlch he belleves will cause his death © of carts along the Wepaneeain OS o day In the year the po- nade no attempt to keep these out- serchants moying, They couldn’g tried. eddlers of fruit and flowers and and eve finger he Ina fit last he at of the nt of his sore gx He acd ey week befor to drink kthe cc In the tre bottle, but was prevented fr concelvable form noe ASHE SON Nig MOLNAR IW OME Pa de day truck enjoyed the boom and did | ine 1 but tod Mis, | thriving trade. And they were a help, Patt who: it. wa td too, for many of the stores were so Patt went :o Mount Vernon to-d. packed that it was an effort to get in to look for work, During his abs or oUt of them, Mant, pot outof bed and secured ce] TWenty-third” street, between Fitth I bottie, which contained two ounces, |and Sixth avenues, was a epectacle and the stuffff and then|a mena he swallowed crawled back into bed to die, wrt heard her groans and et, Where she n » who gent an ambulanc Reiss, broad walks were pers moving slowly in currents, Streams of people forced off the walks moved recklessly amid the lines of cabs along the curb. Tae ‘hrisimas” shopping ® happy-go-lucky lot, unex- acting, easy to piiase, reckless with Its It has a lot'of things to buy, ime to do it in, and it plunges ly. And for ‘reasons that are to any one who has done holl- ‘ ping It carries its own bundles nom: ‘There was a little more breat room on Fifth avenue and Broadwi sidewalks, LUE tho streets were @ jaa vate carriages and cabs, ere the picturesque side of the sho} scene could be observed, for there prettier signt than the well-draws Christmas — shoppe eyes sparkling, cheeks glowing, ail eagerness on her Ission of making gladness for some loved one, or better, perhaps, for somo unfortunate, who must look to this ngel of merey for Christmas cheer, White the dry-goods shops, Jewallanse the toymakers and the milllners have had Weeks of hollday prosperity, the before Christmas brings the holiday, shekels to the florist, the confectionery the candy stores, thé green grocers, of 8 compell puld administer ald to, WOMAN ae ot et me die," she cats for’ me or my children and I don't want to live to see it." ff got back from Mount Vernon just his wife had been taken to the tal. He had secured a promise of joyment —$——— HANGED- HERSELF IN CELL. Woman Arrested on the Street Ends Life tn Pollce St Charged with acting disorderly in front of No, 229 Thompson street Kittle Clare, thirty-flve, of No, 159 West Hous- ton street, was locked up In the Mercer street station last night. After she was pushe cell she became ve o'clock Matron Stacy uli “There is no appurer day sobbing Into a quiet. About 11 looked {nto the e market stalls and all thi cell and found the woman had made ao ai torne, tanee wae oie rope by tearing her skirt Into. strips nue florists were doing @ an hed hangea herself to the door of ineas.and fabwous prieer her coll. The mytron called the door-|were paid for roses and violets, orehids , who cut tie bodw down. MGhe ‘died shortly after. the arrival from St. Vincent's Hospital of Dr. Gar d the flowers that are used for table Roses were setling at halt n, and a prominent florist is authority for the statement that half a milion of them Were rushed to t from. the. greenhouses this, morning for the Christmas trade. Manhattan spent pretty close to a million with the florists § part of its Christmas generosity, How much more went to the poule. terors with turkey selling at 3 and 26 cents a pound mukes more mat {Interesting speculation, Signs, In ail the, ble downtown stores an: lige what I was doing,| nounced -that’ business wou! 3 or did } Fen eee there. was, ns | promptly. wt 6 o'gock this ow tof sin In my heart.. [| saw ond|Atter that the tida of shopping fa! ina dream.” an a dolla mas a happy Mle to tninw that I could em nothing. we er orld. thought pounded my brain day and night. It was torturing ‘ne as I went out among the shops Mon- dey Mand when Lt saw ® chance to take ‘ne pretty thing 1 snatched It quickly Pit ia my fens. aw! move up Harlem way on the @ Mercer street station | west. sive, the Yuletide oe the drome. auraher| WUl be, taand ‘eoger at 4 \ 12a \,