The evening world. Newspaper, December 24, 1912, Page 10

x Growing Custom Noted With } Joy by Uncle Sam's Gray Santa Clauses. TAKE PLACE OF GIFTS. ‘The Tube System Also a Great * Boon to Hard-working Be Letter Carriers. TM te-the day defore Christmas and all the city on any street or avenue will find one of Uncle Sam's «ray ented Santa Clauses, plodding Grough the glistening snow, cheertly Sping Me whistle and ringing doorbells, le his cold fingers delve down deeply hie sagging bag to bring up to the @ep of the red ribboned and holly-cov- @red surface of presents some gift for Perhaps it te enly the sincere senti- @ent of an old, old, perhaps almost Gergotten friend, written briefly on a @mple Christmas card, but carrying With it a warm thought of love. Thousands of these Christmas cards, @ome piain and simple, embellished only fwith the tender sentiment of the sender, @thers elaborately engraved and decor- with gold, suggesting the dignity wealth, indicate by their volume to Gray. Santa Claus Morgan that Ge sending of postal cards and unique @n4 artistically engraved booklets has 90 Cirmly intrenched itself as « Christ- Mas custom that it ts usurping the old @abit of sending cheap and useless pres- ents. / The sending of Christmas cards itself 4s an old institution, but within the last few Christmas seasons the custom tas @pread and thie year has grown tremen- douriy. Christmas gifts are etill the vorue— Gray Santa Clauses wil) vouch ‘or it—-but they have observed the in- Greased number of cards and Yuletide @Bdities that are being sent through the malls. In every stationery or department you can find @ huadred or more t atyles' of cards, each with some * vig, Seay cere eentiment or thought. Santa Cleuscs believe the @ way responsible ¢or number of cards this =; say the public ds realising ‘each year that it is the sentiment @nd not the gift that really counts, © _ -@ENDING OF CARDS LIGHTENS POSTMAN’S BURDEN, than five thousand letter carriers Bre delivering letters, cards and presents this city. The rush began two days reached its height to-day. And last few days these mes- cheer have been work- to fourteen hours a day! wing custom of sending of gifte has greatly! light. Their toads are able to carry more trip. To-day when alarm clock and raised earts gladdened as we whitened streets, but most it made the work of the twice as hard and long. system that clroles the their hardship @ little le: Postmaster Thomas remarked to-day when com- on the Christmas mail, “Santa working underground.” suburban districts, particularly Brooklyn and the Post Office hes to contract for chiefly on account of the long carriers have in those dis- However, the long experien: ye i g FH g t i i $ Hy i e F 3 Kept cleared all the incom- FORTHE POSTE that rush, Then two da tits a, te Christmas Nursery Rhymes {== ING WORL D, TUESD AY, DECEMB ‘uplishing Oo. (The New ford) lit eat Sty, os Swe Sa A Bing a agng of eizpence, a pocket full of rye, four and twenty Christ mas toys bared in a pie; when the pie to make good children happy—do you think you stand a chance?—ELEAN OR SCHRORER, was opened they set out at a prance, this year phy to-day. of Christmas cardi than before,” said t can’t really tell Just what the Incr amounts to.” ‘The money order department of the post-office hae been busier this year than ever before. The rush tn Yhet depart- ment began on Dec. 8, when the drafts to be sent abroad began coming into the office. A fow days’ rest aftor that first rush and then the incoming ships brought in drafts to be cashed from abroad. To-day will the last of reat and the 000 Banta Clauses in the city w Reve'te teake themselves fit for the ex- pected and usual rush of New Year's cards, —_—_ BEDS FOR ALL XMAS EVE. Ne Destitute Person Need Go Un- sheltered Te-Night. No man, woman or child need be without @ bed and « roof to-night in New York City. Any one who {s homeless may obtain ehelter the night by applying to the Home of the Rescue jety, in the 014 Chinese Theatre at Nos. 6 and 7 Doyers street. The Rescue Society has deen working to this end for several weeks past and arrangements have been made with lodging houses along the Bowery and it» nejghborhood for the) accommodation of many Wundreds of destitute persons. “They can come as fart and as strong and as early and late as they want,” aid P. J, Noonan, Superintendent of the Rescue Societ We will take care of all of them. We can say thi one night, at least, in New York, w! no one need be without shelter.” — 15 INJURED IN TRAIN CRASH. Passengers § Vict ‘When Mountain Cars Jamp Tracks. @T, LOUIS, Dec. M.—Mitteen persons ‘were injured, none fatally, when @ pas- eenger train on the Iron Mountain Rall- road whs derailed near Hot Springs, according to reports recelved here at the headquarters of the road. The en- fine and five cars turned over. > INCOMING STBAMSHIPS. DUE TO-DAY, ‘Toronto, Hult, imerika, Sout Soteriy jentam. — Minneavolia, 8, Bristol City, Swansea, San Juan, Ban Aliance, Colon. ‘Heltig Olay Grenada, ‘Trinkded, b Hitslan.” Have, Lapland, Antwerp, Bt. Ratert, ie mm, Monten, Thaw « non, os Noonan turk Talend, San Uforsto, ; | News Oddities S. ‘4 Pt sleep. ’ @ Montclair pond rance of the young wife of . Disappea “Deim really look the part on New Year's Hive. - Because his wife tnvited ‘gerk in Denver committe ry > Bt bis nove. Surgeons grafted 1( there fi ‘here's an elopers’ trust in Cur Mates are trainmen, cabinen and A jury in Long Island City refuse tive, The Ge Mra. Goodwin, police 4, Plerpont Morgan made the first After three cheers had been af you.” Pittsburgh man claims he t« the ch. says his wife makes him cook the 1 A tur boa was the life line by which ainpion Nenpecked dust dobn D. just naturally won his wager and golf gume with @ choir singer. ‘There's sleighing in South Texas to-day for the firet time in twenty years. Paterson man who covered his head with the bedquilts was suffocated girl skater was reacued from the tcc a Verbank, N.Y, “vinegar king" made Presbyterian Hospital pation( will go through fe with its fuger perpetually | land, Md. tu which the monupelistic mag- minister : to believe that the elghty-two-year-old Botendent alienated the affections of u toirty-year-old wife, A emackless soul kiss, done with the eyes, wan degoribed by a fortune teller fortune teller wae promptly arrested, speech of hin career at the New England given for him he arose and said, “I nd of the world Heals and throws the disnes at him when in Buffalo dressed Uke Sante Claus and of @ farmbouse, He was mistaken for o burglar WOMAN SWALLOWS ACID IN ACROWDED “L” TRAIN. | “This Is My Christma Present!” She Cries, as She Drains Bottle of Poison A young woman rose th afternoon in ORDER AN INSPECTION OF ALL “L” STAIRWAYS. Island Railroad Results in Wide Inquiry. Following a hearing before the Pub: @ southbound Third avenue ¢ ‘Jie Service Commission to-day on th train, crowded with belated Christmas | collapse of the coment stairway lead- shoppers, and held above her head bottle half full of dark liquld “This is my Christmas!’ “See how il enjoy it!” She drained the vott fell, she but she struggled Blasts from the tra tle brought Pollcem: Kast #§fty-frst next stop, at Fifty-third street. away from An ambulance took the young woman to Flower Hompital, where she was re- vived. ‘The bottle had contained car- bolle acid, ut she had not swallowed | much of Ht and probably will recover, |‘) the doctors way. She sald she was Tile erted, | . #creamed and A dozen men passengers jumped forward and assisted the girl to her f them emergency whis- ‘Oppenheim of the street station to the 4) ing to the Nostrand avenue station of |the Long Island lailroad, an order was issued by the Commission requiring an inspection at once of all the statr- ways and stations of the elevated lines in this city, It has been reported to the menission that several] stations ayd stairways are under euspicio: a that many of these old structures will have to be overhauled and made ab- solutely safe. It waiy testified at to-day's hearing that the road's ofMctals had placed too much confidence in the cement. stair- wa,’ construction on the Atlantic ave- nue division, It was pointed out by neers that when the cement ‘* were butlt nuts were not stale screwed on the bolts which thelped Mowkowits and lived at No, 24 Kast! fasten the cement to the ‘castiron Qne Humired and Nineteenth atrect.| trames of the stairway, and that the There it was said sho had arrived in| vibration caused by passing trains New York from Philadetphia three! ioosened the bolts. Then the atructure | weeks ago, almost penniless. She had| gave way. It was in thie collapse that cared for by Mrs. Clara Schmuck-| David It, Cochran of Brookivn. ‘was ler while she was trying unsuccessfully to get work. | ‘ | Drow: station that Charles Kelly, covered the body, in Albany, | | From Albany Steamer, ‘The captain of the steamship Adiron- | dack. lying at the foot of Canal street reported to-day to the Leonard street @ fireman, had fallen overboard and that an all night search by the crew had ‘not re- Kelly's home was killed. ‘The ratlroad's officials told the Com- mission that they were ready to re- them with steel. OUTGOING a BY . Meant Prince, “Uruguay.” Moliawk, nia, vernal By Walkin, Friends at NEW YORK Cy 2 Fatal Collapse of One on Long} MRS. SANTA CLAUS ON CAR Kiddien, The City Nurse of Brooklyn, Ulrich, ud Agent B he © dren's Soctety, ‘ook <asiasky, eight years ald; ais Victoria three years old, and vaby drot cooma of she Society {n Brooklyn to-day home in Elmhurst. spent all the Christmas mon father had brought home Ia: er Sigis mund to the eat. was taken away to the Astoria station. On the about the children. asked him to see that the children had complete outfits of comfortable cloth. ing and a few toys before night. wauid not tell the agent her name. he e move the cement stircases and replace | oven under the auspices of the Organi« zation of the General Slocum Surviviors, , by Strest Car, ls Civintaes Tene he roe It is the voic a Dead to The Christmas festival je Cared For, for the or phans, half orphans and children of ali] Hekawa: OSE A . those connected with the burning of the | @#rrelled early to-day and engaged in xcursion steamer General Slocum, anq|* Pistol duel with such effect that both will be ‘held in Schuetzen Hall, No, 1 St. Mark's place, to-morrow evening. The Survivors’ organization has ar: ranged for gifts to all the children up to twelve years old, The musical pro gramme is arranged especially for th ‘ehildren. t. It is the ver the gift of friendliness is most appre- makes it possible for you to share your ho may have less. Just telephone—‘‘Merry Christmas’? ' TELEPHONE She Gives #25 to Three Neglected | Zhildren's | trom their! Their mother had oir | Pe but had not brought them anything to The neighbors complained and she street car a woman with @ heavy fur coat began asking questions Before she left the car she gave Bennett five $5 bills and She SLOCUM SURVIVORS'FESTIVAL Children of Excursion Steamer's you may visita Few 1, you may Greet them Ail. The Gift of Friendliness —“Merry Christmas” (y= the telephone comes a little good cheer. It surprises. It brighter and more significan Christmas time. | “Merry Christmas.” Tunes instead of ticklers and hyimnes in place of horns will make Broadway | Throughout the Christmas season, millions of these little gifts perhaps almost forgotten. ness of the day, Christmas time joyable. Of all Christmas gifts, ciated. The telephone happiness with those w! gift of friendliness and pleases. It makes the day e of our friend wishing: us a the telephone will carry to friends widely separated, and Each message will add to the happi- will strengthen friendships, and will make just a little more delightful—a little more en- WALDO FIRES SK MEN | WHO WERE RESTATED AFTER FIRST REMAAL | Sergt. McAuliffe Among Those Affected by Decision of City Counsel, Police Commissioner Waldo war com- lod to pass # left-handed Christmas nt to Sergeant John McAuliffe and five patrolmen to-day, and it was with reluctance that he acted. A communi- | cation was secelved trom James Creel. jman, President of the Muntelpal Civil Service Commission, which included the | opinion of Corporation Counsel Watson Johat an officer cannot be reinstated | | after having deen dismissed from the force. President Creelman sumgested that the men named be dropped from the payrcll. Sergeant McAuliffe was attached to the West Seventeenth street station and was ‘dismissed from the force’ April 12, 1912, Je was reinstated a few days later. Pa- trolman John J. Delany was dismissed from the Bast MPifty-first street station Aug. 1911, and reinstated Feb, 1, 1912. Charles J. Plunkitt, attached to the Oak street station, was dismissed Feb. ated March 20, Myrtle avenue station, | was dismissed | pre Brookiyn, and reinst land of th itty and reinstated 20, 1912, he foregoing w reinstated under Cc Patrolman dward J smissed April | May u, 1911, by eelman's te | Purcell also deen dropped He was dismissed Jan, ®, 1912 and ret | stated March % 1912, In the tnterim nas peen retired on a pendion and the courts have held that a pension cannot be affected. | At Police Headquarters It was said -| that the matter Con is merely t tssioner Waldo had chnical, followed the om of years in acting as he did. The » of Patrolman Helnatz {# a prece was d of dent ed, He aston was pri the same board, Tt ls the general missed by the iich = Theodore ent and reinstated Re by tmpresston that the men dropped to ill be again rein- stated. ‘The law gives the privilege of | applying to the Mayor for earing | within a year after dismissal, and the men will undoubte@y take advantage of the law. ———- -| TWO FIGHT TO THE DEATH IN DUEL WITH PISTOLS. Scranton Workmen Fall When One Receives Five Bullets and the Other Four. SCRANTON, Pa, Dec, 24.—Two in furiated workmen on the Delaware, ;{ Lackawanna and Western Railroad of them are dead. One of the men fell dead after receiving a fourth bullet in the breast and the other, with five wounds in his chest and back, died after being brought to a hospital in this city, The men were Stephen Rockso and -|Melie Bossar, The latter, who died in elthe hospital, declared he fired in seif- defense. POPE HAS NEW HOPE OF PEACE, AS QUTCOME OF BALKAN CONFERENCE Tells Cardinals So at Reception When Christmas Greetings Are Presented. ' ROME, Dec. U.—The Pope during his reception of the Cardinals to-day re- ferred to the peace conference, saying | Ge that all Christians should unite F Children Cry for F Prayer, that the outcome of the present counsels of the nations should be peace, for which he rejoiced to think.that there was new and reasonable hope. The Pope deplored the attempt yes- terday to assassinate the Viceroy of India at Dethi, He looked remarkably well in spite of the arduous task of receiving delegations who had come to bring Awe the greetings of the season, At the reception the members of the Sacred College brought thelr Christ mas greetings. The Pontift did not de« liver an address. The ceremony con- sisted of a simple exchange of felicita- tions, Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York, aid Cardinal O'Connell, Arch- bthop of Boston, both telegraphed ‘| their Christmas good wishes to the Pope, who expressed his high apprecia- tion, i PORT OF NEW York, ARRIVED, Pence etcher’s N The Kind You Havo Always Bought has borne the signa- ture of Chas. deceive you in this, heaith of Children— H. Fletcher, and has been made under his | ple] supervision for ree 30 years, Jou Just-ns-rood ” are but experi Allow no one nts, and endanger the Xperience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is @ harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare oric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. or Feveri pium, Morphine nor o stroys Worms and a uirty years it has be Consti: bles and Diarrh: a assimilates the Fi It regulates the Stomach and ‘ood, giving healthy a The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’ It contains neither Narcotic substance. It dee ess. 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