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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1894
Page
6
The Parker Mission served a Christmas dinner to 700 homeless men at Faneuil Hall in Boston. Subscriptions from local business leaders funded the event held at 3 pm with orderly crowds, speeches by Parker and others, and musical interludes. Food shortages were avoided as 100 additional meals were admitted.
Over 100 boys and girls, aided by the Children's Health Fund, enjoyed a festive Christmas dinner at Commercial Hall, with ministers and community members in attendance. The Bennet Street Home followed with carols, gifts, and a complete holiday program for its boys, including shoes, clothing, and stockings. The Boston Industrial Home hosted a similar Christmas meal for about sixty needy residents, ending with prayers and songs.
At Deer, Long and Rainsford islands Christmas was observed with religious services, meals, and dances for inmates. Long Island held a solemn morning mass and a banquet for about 500 inmates who then danced. Rainsford Island featured Mass, a sermon, festive foods, and dancing by the inmates as an orchestra provided music.
Rev Father Anderson presided as Catholic chaplain at the House of Correction where inmates gathered for a morning concert by the Shipp brothers and M A Hamilton ending with a noon dinner. The day featured yard recreation and an afternoon program by Elliott and Shipp. At Perkins Institution most blind inmates spent Christmas at home with friends remembering those who stayed.
A concert by the Brookline district ladies friends of the Consump tives' Home in Dorchester shaded the afternoon yesterday. Inmates hung stockings on Christmas Eve, a tree and a manger were set up, and a visit to Josie the blind girl by her blind sister from Charlestown almshouse drew poignant scenes. Assistant Matron Miss May Carroll arranged a stay for their companionship until New Year.
Charlestown Navy Yard gates shut yesterday as most staff took holiday leave or were off duty. Guards remained on site while others were away for the holidays.
Sailors will be served a Christmas dinner at the chapel of the Boston Seamen's Friend Society located at 287 Hanover Street this evening at 7 30.
About forty Andover House kindergarten children visited No 6 Rollins Street for a brief musical program. A second Christmas tree delighted the youngsters as teachers guided the event. The facility schedules further entertainments through the week including a New Year festival by boys clubs and a Christmas Eve talk by Hezekiah Butterworth on Christmas Stories of Other Nations.
A Post reporter tours the grim South Cove, observing destitute families and neglected streets. He questions charity and Christmas merry-making as bells ring for others while the poor suffer, noting derelict courtyards, beggars, and exploited labor amid the season’s hollow traditions.
Mrs. Sarah Regan 27, of 142 Prince Street, was stabbed on a street corner around 9 15 last night by Dominico Cambane keeper of a lodging house at 99 North Margin Street. The stab wound to her left arm is not serious. Cambane was arrested and to be arraigned in Municipal Court today.
Benjamin Hall Currier a veteran lawyer and former clerk of the Supreme Court died at his Worcester street home aged 98 years two months He leaves a widow a son George O and three married daughters Funeral expected to be held Thursday at St Peters Episcopal Church Jamaica Plain.
Bald wind's windmill tower at Wells River Vermont, built by Smith and Winchester of Boston, was raised today. The tower with wheel reaches 198 feet, claimed to be the highest windmill tower in the world.
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