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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1890
Page
8
The Friendless Man and His Many Brothers gather in Faneuil Hall for a Christmas feast inviting the poor and hopeful. Community leaders organize meals, prayers, and songs to share the season’s spirit with attendees.
On Christmas afternoon at 3 o'clock the friendless man and many brothers filled seven tables at Faneuil Hall for a dinner with organ music and gospel hymns. George W. Parker and J G Woolley led the event with other speakers as Capt Dunn and Mr Savilow. The feast lasted until 6 pm, with 100 edgings announced for applicants last night.
A Trinity Church Sunday school choir of sixty to seventy visited Charles Street Jail and performed carols in the rotunda. Prisoners offered quiet appreciation as a new Dr Brooks song was sung. The Episcopal City Mission prepared hundreds of gift packs for prisoners and hospital patients, to be delivered on Christmas Day.
An festive Christmas evening at the Home for Little Wanderers showcased joyous anticipation as children, in bib and tucker, awaited Santa. A pine spruce stacked with toys, candy, books, and more lit up the hall while Scriptural selections drew quiet awe before the feast, prayer, and holiday cheer.
Mrs Miner presided as gifts from Rev Kimball and Mr Clarke were distributed to boys and girls seated on settees near the wall. Watches, rings, dolls, and jumping jacks emerged from sealed wrappings as youngsters opened reveals and eyed their new possessions.
About two hundred twenty five Sunday school members without homes were served at Tremont Temple for the third anniversary. Superintendent J W Cook presided. Speakers included L H Rhodes L W Hazen RB Dunn C J Spenseley J Rice C F Jeffrey and W E Wellock. Prof Dick of Byfield contrasted old days with modern advances. Later, children were feasted and an evening musical program followed with contributions from Mrs Alice J Osborne Mrs E K Tilton the Misses Ethel Reed Jennie Colson Grace Fall Maud Hamilton and Mr Edmund T Phelan.
Deer Island inmates enjoyed a freer morning with a large yard, then feasted on roast pork vegetables and plum pudding. Reformatory School and Alms house inmates had lemonade, cake and dancing, while State Prison wards held religious services a concert and a holiday dinner with turkey and plum pudding.
In Somerville Catholic and Episcopal churches Christmas services featured quartettes and choirs at St. Joseph's St Ann's and Emmanuel. St Joseph's had Mary Kelly Louise Fitzgerald R M Sharkey J D Tiffany and a twenty-voice chorus. St Ann's listed Nellie Ryan Mary Cain R Mooney P Hagwerty with fifteen singers. Emmanuel chapel presented a twenty one voice vested choir and St Thomas conducted morning services with a twenty five voice chorus. Evening events included Christmas tree festivals and a parish social at Bacon Hall.
In Cambridge yesterday Catholic and Episcopal churches hosted Christmas services. St Pauls Catholic Church featured high mass with Rev. Cran and Rev. Orr, soloists and a large choir. St Marys, the Sacred Heart, and St Peters also held masses with multiple priests, choirs, and soloists. The day included a Minstrel entertainment at East Cambridge Jail and a chicken dinner for inmates at Cambridge Almshouse. Children at Prospect Street Rink enjoyed a festive afternoon and gifts.
The Rev. Philips Brooks preached at Trinity Church on the birth of Christ, arguing that power and genius pale before character and love. He urged love embodied in duty as the true savior, contrasting David’s restlessness with Christ’s harmony and stressing universal, boundless reach of Christ beyond local origins.
An hour before the service the Immaculate Conception church is crowded as police guard the door. Inside, candles illuminate the star of Bethlehem and evergreen garlands frame the altar while the Symphony Orchestra accompanies Mozart’s mass sung by a 50-voice chorus including soloists Mrs. Charles Lewis Arisita Welsh Donovan W. H. Fessenden and Lon Brine.
The Rev. E E Hale preached against the pessimistic view of humanity citing Adams Smith and Paul. He urged Christmas as a gift era noting Christ’s teachings and social progress toward reforming crime and embracing shared human values. The sermon contrasted past and present social conditions stretching back 1300 years.
A reflective note recalls a man who gave life and gifts as a Christmas blessing. It speaks of leadership in captivity and ongoing acts of generosity, framing his kindness as enduring and symbolic.
Arlington Street Church hosted a decorated Christmas service with a large attendance. Rev. Brooke Herford preached on Romans twelve fifteen, stressing sympathy as essential to society, family life, and broader social care, contrasting heartfelt kindness with perfunctory condolence. A forty six-voice choir and organ provided festive music including Te Deum and pieces by Mozart and Thompson.
A solemn pontifical mass at 10 30 a m featured Archbishop Williams as celebrant and a large gathering including 100 seminarians from St Johns College Brighton. The service included Beethoven mass in C, Adeste Fideles, and a sermon by Rev Leo P Boland. Vespers followed with two choirs alternating psalms and selections by the church choir.
The Kingston church decor by green pine and spruce created a tranquil setting for Edward Slate's sermon. He urged members to reflect on spiritual parentage, Christlikeness, and the paradox of wealth amidst hardship, calling for living the life of God now and sharing beauty and unity beyond class lines.
Gladness and Christmas good will marked St Pauls Church as the choir sang glorious anthems. A short sermon by Mr Lindsay urged service to others and the moral power of giving, urging listeners to recognize quiet heroism and share their gifts this Christmas season.
Emmanuel Church was profusely draped with evergreen yesterday for Christmas Day. Eight pillars in the centre were wrapped with woven roves of green leaves and festoons adorned the Decalogue on the wall behind the altar.
Yesterday morning the Church of the Advent held a 10:30 o clock communion service with Father W B Frisby as celebrant assisted by Revs Spencer and Mills. A boy choir performance with a 20 piece Symphony Orchestra under Choir-master S B Whitney followed, featuring a Christmas Introit and a Handel offertory piece.
At St James Church Christmas services featured a solemn high mass by Rev Father Billings with assistants Rev Father O'Brien and Father Nilan. The sermon by Rev Father McQuaid offered hopeful reflections as candles lit the church. Beethoven Mass in C and Gounod Sanctus, under Signor Rotoli, captivated music lovers.
A Christmas morning service for children began at 9 o clock at the Church of St John the Evangelist on Bowdoin Street. An 11 o clock full choral service followed with an anthem and retrocessional. The sermon was delivered by the lay preacher G B Johnson.
KE Turner argues that restrictive immigration laws are undermined by generous state and federal inducements to aliens. He cites fourteen states allowing voting rights after short residence and notes naturalization rules, urging withdrawal of such inducements, reform of naturalization laws, and denial of political rights to non citizens. Cambridge, Dec. 1890.
A letter argues for restoring aldermen election by general ticket with a free list on an official ballot. It explains how to allocate twelve seats by party quotas, demonstrates with Boston results, and claims minorities receive proportional representation, with candidates ranked by party lists and independent chances preserved through nomination papers. The system promises fairness, simple math, and community-wide representation.
A man called on Miss Josie Ray of 12 Shawmut street on the 23d inst and claimed to represent the Standard Express Company. He said a package for her would be delivered upon paying 325 dollars. Miss Ray paid the money but received no package and the search to locate the company failed.
Two Italians, Joseph Gardella and Stephani Milnari, clashed on Fleet street last evening. Gardella stabbed Milnari in the left side. Milnari was taken to Station 1 and then City Hospital. Doctors say Milnari’s prospects are about even and Gardella was arrested.
An article notes the cryptoprocta ferox rare carnivore exhibited at the Zoological Gardens. Described as ferocious yet playful, the creature is half cat and genet to some naturalists and may be sole survivor of ancient creodonta. It hails from Madagascar where related species once thrived.
Two reader letters critique city practices and displayed wares. One questions the West End street railway dumping dirt, urging streets be swept if law permits. The other argues that an inlaid box marketed in a Washington street window is likely machine made, doubting Sawtell’s direct craftsmanship.
A letter questions the Chickatawbut tribe’s dining customs asking if guests were summoned to feasts and then placed in soup. Signed MuGwumMp, the writer seeks historical habits and practices.
Many cases of scrofula and other blood diseases are hereditary and hard to cure. We state positively that Hood's Sarsaparilla cures scrofula in every form. The most severe cases have yielded to this medicine when all others failed.
About a thousand boys crowded the Public Garden for ice pond activity amid holiday cheer. Hundreds watched from paths and the street as skaters and spectators filled the scene from morning till evening. Two Boston district messenger boy companies shared a turkey dinner at Crawford House. James Barry of Charlestown, 428 Main, fell from a Marion Street staging in Cambridge and suffered serious internal injuries, transported to Massachusetts General Hospital.
About 9 30 o'clock last evening electric car 325 ran into electric car 835 near Green street Jamaica Plain. John Mullen was getting off car 335 when struck. He injured about the body though not dangerously Mrs Weigle injured about the arms Hammond Mathews driver of car 225 bruised. A number of others shaken up but all went home. Cars were moving out front car had stopped on down grade to let passengers off rear car failed to stop under control.
The body found in the Paul building on Bristol street yesterday morning is identified as Frank McGovern thirty two. He has a sister in South Boston.
Daniel Mahoney assaulted his sister Mary with a cane at 62 Chapman Street last evening. Mary was taken to City Hospital for treatment. Mahoney was arrested by police.
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