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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1908
Page
12
The Charities Association reports $800 in gold sent for fifty families, with a broad range of gifts from slippers to dolls and trees. They note improved relief needs due to better labor markets, with 740 cases under care this season versus 767 last year.
A charity note explains lace collars can uplift women who feel overlooked, promising aid through funds and fabric. The piece emphasizes practical help as a means to restore self worth, highlighting the role of small wardrobe items in social support.
Hotels along Fifth Avenue and Broadway face an avalanche of packages and mail as Santa Claus inspires a long Christmas Eve. The Waldorf Astoria Plaza St Regis and Gotham report full dining rooms. The Waldorf adds miniature chimney displays and per nest holiday trees with gifts and choristers to wake guests.
Volunteers of America announced that Commander Gen Ballington Booth will tour the city and Jersey to distribute family baskets feeding 15 000 people. Booth travels in a furnished auto with a staff and reporters, starting 7 40 A M from the Hudson tunnel Twenty third Street station. He is joined by his 15 year old daughter Miss Theodora Booth in her first public appearance.
In Paris on Christmas Eve the city hosted special church music and bustling boulevards. All-night cafés and restaurants were crowded with merry supper parties, including many American visitors enjoying the season.
Babylon residents mark the ninetieth birthday of twin brothers William and Samuel Muncy tomorrow. They are believed to be the oldest twins in the country and remain hale, hearty, and active outdoors daily, having refused offers to pose in museums.
In Flatbush Brooklyn two thousand Erasmus Hall High School alumni gathered for a reunion. Faculty staged a playful show with a Santa Erasmus figure and Latin department officials distributing mock “grinds.” Rev Clarence Skinner received an alarm clock to time sermons as graduates jokingly recalled former classes and friendships. The afternoon ended with a campus-style dance in the gym.
The Bourne Mills operators were paid a 2 percent profit sharing dividend based on wages earned in the last six months. The announcement also stated the plan would continue for another six months.
Notable art from Charles T. Yerkes appears in The Times Picture Section next Sunday with works by Troyon and Romney Countess of Warwick and Children. The Photo-Secessionists lens wonders and portraits including Taft portraits will be featured. The Magazine Section promises timeliness with opinions on 1908 events, Darwin centenary pieces, the Secret Service, Dauphin mystery, and other notable features.
London reports King George the Sixth Queen and the Prince and Princess of Wales celebrate Christmas at Sandringham. The King participates actively but avoids exposure to suddenly cold weather as Sandringham House decorates a giant Christmas tree with gifts. The King will preside at the noon family dinner tomorrow. Vienna notes Emperor Francis Joseph and royal family share Christmas in the great salon with a huge tree and gifts. the Emperor is in good health and follows traditional patriarchal customs.
Christmas observances spread across ships and canals with grog on some vessels and champagne on Cunard White Star and others. German lines boast decorated Christmas trees aboard Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse and galley watch for puddings. Ellis Island hosts a grand American Christmas with flags bunting nine trees and performances by a military band and the Met Opera chorus. The Rosie Lee carries turkey and plum pudding for sand hogs on the Yankee wreck and gifts of gramophones entertain the crew tonight.
Santa Claus distributed cash totaling 100000 to Stetson hat factory workers in Philadelphia. Married men received 1900 turkeys and 1,500 hats. women got 1000 gloves and 1000 candy boxes. 65 gold watches and 61 gold chains were awarded to long-serving staff. A block of Stetson stock went to deserving hands, with top cash at 197.12 and women’s top at 89.75. Average gift valued at 60.32.
Andrew Grady, janitor at a Broome Street public school, and his sister Rose were overcome by gas in their Avenue B tenement. Grady survived after being revived. Rose died. Police found a ruptured gas hose with a cock valve misadjusted, causing the leak. John Rogers, who visited, aided Grady.
Police seek an old man with long white hair and beard seen as suspect after Stelzl Brothers butcher shop on Eighth Avenue near 145th Street was robbed. A wooden panel under the show window was sawed out and seventy five turkeys four sides of beef and pork shoulders were stolen. Police noted the theft could feed 800 Christmas dinners.
Wall Street records a year of stock price strength with 20 to 40 point gains and several issues doubling or nearly doubling in value since Christmas 1908. Call loans dropped to 3 1/2 percent while six months money hovered around 3 3/4 percent. Bank surplus rose to over 10 million, contrasting with a prior deficit of more than 31 million.
A committee of twenty five Good Government Club students led by President Mc Eneny toured Police Headquarters Rogues Gallery Civil Service Commission offices 229 Broadway Blackwell Island prisons and other city offices. Deputy Commissioner Woods and President Purdy spoke on practical reform work and tax department management.
The final hearing before referee Gen. Benjamin F. Tracy adjourned with briefs due within a week. Tracy promised a report to the Supreme Court within a week after briefs, as four major questions hang over the debt limit case including treatment of revenue bonds and assessment bonds, land valuation methods, and timing of contract liability charges.
Peter Brady 64 a long time Edison plant employee from West Orange N J collapsed from heart disease while reading an evening paper and died a few hours later He was native of Ireland survived by a widow two sons and three daughters His funeral is set for Saturday at St Johns Catholic Church.
Irving Lehman elected on the Democratic ticket was sworn in before Presiding Justice Patterson of the Appellate Division. He is Nathan Straus’s son in law and will sit for the first time at the County Court House on the first Monday in January as Justice of Trial Term Part X.
A jumble of city lot and property listings shows multiple addresses in Manhattan with associated names and monetary amounts. Entries include August prey at 1:35-4,029 3d Ave. Sonia at 2:06-1,237 Franklin Ave. Pa at 122 E W 127th St. E 112th St and Canal St cross streets. additional sums of 21 700 at 127th St E 112th. small payments like 50 or 10 at various streets including 20th St, Park Row, South St, and Attorney St. The fragment ends with 928.
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