Picnic with Sickles and Bulwer Dinners Draw Crowd
In a bustling grand hall a Donnybrook of pies and noise greeted General Daniel E. Sickles and Miss Mary Sickles as boys hurled food and utensils. She rescued Bulwer. Sickles shared coins with supporters. The Salvation Army served nearly twenty thousand fortified dinners at Grand Central Palace next morning, feeding five per basket with turkey bread and pudding as police watched.
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Daniel E. Sickles
Mary Sickles
Miss Sickles
Bulwer
General Sickles
Pinkie
Booth-Tucker
Grand Central Palace
Salvation Army
Army
Graham
Glynn
Kane
Dr. Nice
Christmas Dinner for 700 Newsboys at Lyric Hall
Frank Tilford hosted one of the era’s largest Christmas dinners for nearly seven hundred newsboys at Lyric Hall. Police kept order as the crowd enjoyed a full turkey and cranberry feast, plus a band and Punch and Judy show. Dolls from a large Christmas tree were later given to the neighborhood’s “little mothers” at the West Side Lyceum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyric Hall
Frank Tilford
West Side Lyceum
West Fiftygeconast
Mr. Tilford
Tim Sullivan Hosts Large Bowery Dinner for the Needy
Thousands described as down on their luck and many panhamciers attended Congressmen Timothy D. Sullivan’s gathering at No 07 Bowery. About five thousand fed in shifts from 1 pm to after 4 pm with coffee dominating and beer scarce. Helpers included Alderman Timothy P. Sullivan Senator John F. Fitz Assemblyman Harry E. Oxford and Dr. B Feeney. Diners received socks and caps as they enjoyed orderly service with no disorder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sullivan
Timothy P. Sullivan
John F. Fitz
Chuck” Connors
Ickey Curran
Bill” van Sikelen
Bowery
Tommy
Bellevue Hospital
Dinners for Brooklyn Poor Bring Joy to Children
Several thousand poor children orphans and those with struggling parents were cheered in Brooklyn yesterday thanks to philanthropic donors and charities. Beyond clothing, many received substantial Christmas dinners. about three hundred families benefited from the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor while the Bureau of Charities provided dinners at nurseries and over a hundred additional families outside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Association For
Bureau of Charities
Gifts for Hospital Patients Brighten Christmas Across Institutions
Hospitals nationwide held Christmas celebrations for patients, with trees, gifts, and services. Governors Waldron P. Brown and William W. Hoppin helped at Hudson Street Hospital, gifting candy boxes, calendars, and cards to thirty-one patients while Hoppin provided greens and a tree. A Vanderbilt family benefactor supplied presents and three large trees for Bellevue’s operating room. St Luke’s, Harlem, Roosevelt, Fordham, St Vincent’s, and New York hospitals held trees, flowers, and children's events. Russell Minstrels performed in wards. an anonymous donor funded ICU patient gifts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hudson Street Hospital
Waldron P. Brown
Wiliam W. Hoppin
Brown
Hoppin
Anand
Vanderbilt
Lellevue
St. Luke’s Hospital
Harlem
Roosevelt Hospital
Santa Claus
Russell Minstrels
Fordham Hospital
Bellevue
Fordham
St. Vincent’s
New York
Christmas at Blackwell's Island Brightens Alms and Hospitals
On Blackwell's Island yesterday, inmates and attendants joined in a Christmas mood as Deputy Commissioner James E. Dougherty distributed pipes and tobacco to nearly a ton and several hundred pipes. The Flower Mission sent flowers, fruit, and jelly to the hospitals while Homer Folks and aides toured the facilities. Patients in the consumptives ward crafted trees and decorations from cotton and paper, and the almshouses served a large Christmas dinner to about twenty five hundred residents. The new dining arrangement features long tables facing each other, reducing the prisonlike feel. Afternoon services were held in the chapel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackwell's Island
James E. Dougherty
Mr. Dougherty
Flower Mission
Homer Folks
Christmas Observances In Brooklyn Prisons And Hospitals
Prisoners at Kings County Penitentiary and Raymond Street Jail enjoyed three hearty meals and an entertainment while county hospital and almshouse residents in Flatbush received special meals and well decorated Christmas trees. Borough wide observances marked the holiday in hospitals and jails alike.
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Kings County Penitentiary
Raymond Street
Brooklyn
Flatbush
Butt
Feasts for Tombs Court Prisoners on Christmas Day
Prisoners in city jails and courts enjoyed a Christmas uplift with Mass and gifts. At the Tombs Catholic Chapel mass and many presents were distributed through grated doors. Mrs. Floyd-Jones donated oranges. St. Vincent de Paul Society cigars. City Missionary Society apples and gifts. Yorkville Court held Mass in a corridor altar. prisoners shared a noon turkey dinner. House of Refuge on Randall's Island served a turkey lunch. 750 boys and 90 girls received gifts and a program followed. Jefferson Market freed 36 of 38 inmates as religious services were held. Essex Market inmates enjoyed turkey and cigars from Magistrate Crane. Ludlow Street Jail Warden Sullivan played Santa for 23 prisoners, gifting presents and dinner. first Christmas in years without a woman prisoner.
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G. Stanton Floyd-Jones
Association of Catholic Charities
St. Vincent de Paul Society
City Missionary Society
Yorkville Court
Albert Zotter
House of Refuge
Randall's Island
Jefferson Market Court
Deuel
Court Prison
Essex Market Court
Crane
Sullivan
Ludlow Street
Aristmas
General Moffitt's Christmas Generosity in Plattsburg
General Stephen Moffitt of Plattsburg distributed six hundred turkey dinners to locals at hotels on Christmas Day. Cash prizes from twenty-five cents to twenty dollars were given, baskets of provisions sent to the sick, transport provided for those unable to walk, and bags of candy nuts and oranges given to about twelve hundred public school pupils, each containing a small coin.
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Plattsburg
N. Y
Stephen Moffitt
Moffitt
Mrs Iselin Distributes Gifts In New Rochelle
In New Rochelle rich residents aided the poor with charity. Adrian Iselin and Mrs Delancey Astor Kane distributed gifts to workers of the New Rochelle Water Works and to one hundred needy families with turkeys and poultry. He sent a large hospital maintenance check and Mrs Kane funded patient meals. A $100 check went to the Organized Charities Society.
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New-Rochelle
Adrian Iselin
Delancey Astor Kane
New-Rochelle Water Works Company
Iselin
New Rochelle Hospital
Christmas Dinner Sparks Turkeys in Tompkins Square
Eighth street Tompkins Square Boys Lodging House held a lively Christmas dinner last evening. The gym was turned into a dining hall with long tables and a full house, a waiting list, and rapid consumption of turkeys and vegetables. After the feast, Christmas exercises filled the reception room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eighth-st
Tompkins Square
Remembered at Hempstead Christmas festival aids Nassau poor
The King's daughters of Hempstead held a Christmas festival for Nassau County Almshouse and poor. William K. Vanderbilt Jr donated gifts to about one hundred district school children near his Lakeville home. Each child received a large box of candy oranges and apples, with clothing for many poor children as well. The school principal received a ce itta. the Morgan family at Eatley hosted the ruract school for five years, bringing happiness to the little ones. Oranges candy and toys clothing also given to many.
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King’s Daughters
Hempstead
Nassau County
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Lakeville
Epg
Eatley
Edwin D. Morgan
Dedication of Grace Church chancel and Christmas services
Grace Church on Eleventh Street and Broadway dedicated its new chancel and altar with Bishop Potter preaching a Christmas sermon. At St Patrick’s Cathedral Archbishop Farley celebrated high mass with elaborate decorations and a crowded congregation. Snow disrupted city transit, delaying elevated trains and straining heat on cars, while snow ploughs and Broadway clearances proceeded under new contracts paying contractors per street length.
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Eleventh St
Broadway
Potter
Huntington
Manhattan
New York
Old Trinity
Grace
Archbishop Farley
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Thomas McCloskey
M. J. Lavelle
W. J. B. Daly
Thomas F. Murphy
James Honey
Albert W. Wilson
Alfred W. Griffin
Trinity
St. George’s Church
Rutherford Place
Sixteenth St
Rainsford
Sixth-ave
Second-ave
Third-ave
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Electric
Health Department
Troley
Jeromeave
Central Bridge
Bronx
Bouton
Vesey St
Battery
William Bradley
Bradley
Long Acre Square
Mr. Bradley
Weather Bureau
Chambers St
Christmas Golden Wedding of Hartungs Mark 70 Years
Mr and Mrs Charles Hartung celebrated their golden wedding at Turn Hall Sumpterst with about one hundred guests. Both born February 1 1831 in Germany they married Christmas Day 1852 and lived in Brooklyn where Hartung ran a drug store before retiring fifteen years ago. Their family includes Dr Emil F Hartung a Brooklyn coroner's physician.
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Charles Hartung
Emil F. Hartung
Brooklyn
Turn Hall
Sumpterst
Mr. Hartung
Mrs. Hartung
Destitute immigrant seeks shelter in Morrisania station
William Leusch, a homeless German émigré, walked from Fourth Street to Morrisania seeking a place to sleep. He claimed promising work failed, had not eaten since Monday noon, and admitted peeking at last year’s Christmas tree. Magistrate Barlow discharged him and arranged a Christmas dinner.
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Barlow
Morrisania
Magan
William Leusch
Leusch
Fourth-st
Germany
Boston Road
St Whiten
Philadelphia
Hearst Distributes Toys and Food to Destitute Families
William R Hearst distributed bags of toys and fifty pound groceries to several thousand families in the XIth Congress District yesterday. Each package contained flour coffee tea sugar beans and a loaf of bread. In cases facing eviction a month's rent was paid and shoes were provided for children already on the ground.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William R. Hearst
Xith Congress District
Christmas Snow Sends New York Elite to City Gleams
The storm kept rich New Yorkers from country houses in Westchester and limited parties. Evening sleighing grew popular as Ardsley Casino filled with city visitors for dinner. Miss Helen Gould did not visit Irvington estate. At Kirnside Roxbury her twenty crippled boys received a Christmas tree and gifts, with a Santa Claus distributing presents. The boys sent a handwoven basket of their lacework to Miss Gould.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westchester County
Ardsley Casino
Ielen M. Gould
Irvington-on-the-iduuson
Kirnside
Roxbury
Miss Gould
Christmas Giving By Ledyard For 200 Children
Mr and Mrs Lewis Cass Ledyard hosted a Christmas event at 271 Lexington Ave assisted by Mrs Romulus Colgate for two hundred children from the Forty fourth Street and Phelps schools of the Children's Aid Society. Each child received toys and gifts with ice cream and cake. The Phelps School at 314 East Thirty fifth Street enrolled 782 children last year with 44458 meals provided through Mrs Anson Phelps Stokes. The Forty fourth Street School at Forty fourth Street and Secolu Ave reports meals totaling 34003. The society runs schools for needy children offering manual training in basketry iron work cooking and sewing and more than 38000 children are instructed daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Cass Ledyard
Lexington Ave
Romulus R. Colgate
Forty-fourth Street
Phelps
Children's Aid Society
East Thirty-fifth-st
Society
Christmas Festival for Mulberry Bend Children
The Sunday Kindergarten at 71 Mulberry Street gave a Christmas festival to one hundred Mulberry Bend children yesterday afternoon with ice cream cake candies books and cut glass ornaments. A large Twelfth Night party is planned for these children on December 7 in Fraunces Tavern Washington Room with talks on patriotism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mulberry St
Mulberry Bend
Washington
Fraunces’ Tavern
How Energetically They Play in Gridiron Heat
Mrs Hojack watched a football game with her husband exclaiming how energetic the players were while he agreed the gridiron was hot. The scene captures a lively moment from Detroit Free Press game coverage reflecting local spectator enthusiasm.
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The
Detroit Free Press
Brooklyn Christmas Tree at Orpheum Theatre
The Brooklyn Christmas Tree Society led by Mrs. Frank Sittig hosted a large festival at the Orpheum Theatre. Percy G. Williams provided the venue and five hundred dolls. Tickets gatecrashed by many hopeful children while stage trees overflowed with gifts and performers entertain the crowd. A second tree society in the Eastern District lit up Payton's Theatre for about a thousand children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orpheum Theatre
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Christmas Tree Society
Frank Sittig
Percy G. Williams
Swanstrom
Harry Stevens
Creature
Christmas Tree Society
Payton
Twenty One Years Search Ends for Father in Chicago
Katrina Hartmansburger, long seeking her father Philip Hartmansburger, learned from Chicago officials that a man of the same name may be her father. The father confirmed paternity and said he had remarried and did not know of the daughter until police led him to the discovery.
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Katrina Hartmansburger
Europe
America
Herman Neukrantz
West One-hundred-and-twenty-ninth-st
Philip Hartmansburger
West Harrison St
Chicago
Germany
Neuhofen
Bavaria
Katrina
Hartmansburger
Toy snakes frighten Italians on incoming train
In New Orleans a newsboy entered an immigrant coach with toy snakes, triggering panic among Italian passengers. As the train neared Bay St. Louis bridge, a stampede ensued and many were bruised during a chaotic rush to exit and reboard.
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Chicago
Talannas
New Orleans
Long Bay St. Louis
Gulf
Chopped Out Of Elevated Platform
Richard A. Meredith faces a near fatal incident at the Ninth Avenue elevated station in Cortlandt Street after being ejected from a southbound train. He was wedged between car and platform and freed by an axe after the guard halted the train. He suffered only minor knee abrasions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard A. Meredith
Watts
Meredith
Hudson Street
Clox
West Shore Railroad Indicted for Crossing Neglect
Hackensack special report states the West Shore Railroad Company, now under New York Central control, was indicted by the Bergen County grand jury for neglect in guarding grade crossings at Bogota and Dumont. A boy died at Dumont three months ago and Louisa Clauson, twelve, died at Bogota last month. Four other students narrowly escaped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hackensack
West Shore Railroad Company
New York Central Company
Bergen County Grand Jury
Bogota
Dumont
Louisa Clauson
B. and P. railroad workers get 7 percent raise
Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad employees are granted a 7 percent wage increase effective December 1. About 1400 workers are employed, with most likely to benefit from the raise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg Railroad
Planning New Oriental Service to Mexico and Pacific Coast
San Francisco reports J. S. Vanburen, general manager of the China Commercial Steamship Company, plans a regular steamship link from Hong Kong to Japanese ports, Mazatlan, and Pacific Coast ports including San Francisco, aiming to start April 1, 1903. He eyes chartering four to five ships from London and may build its own vessels if successful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
J. S. Vanburen
China Commercial Steamship Company
Hong Kong
Mexico
Pacific Coast
London
Mazatlan
Restriction of Output in Unions Cited at National Civic Fed
In Cassier's Magazine January a report of union influence on output is described. Marcus M. Marks cites a clothing shop where workers held to a $4 daily wage on piecework, then new hires paid 2% less per piece and earned about $2. Thus the employer observed a decline in overall earnings. The scene contrasts with a later claim by the American Federation of Labor president that workers now toil too hard, provoking laughter from labor representatives.
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Cassier’s
Marcus M. Marks
National Association of Clothing Manufacturers of the
United States
National Civic Federation
New York
Marks
American Federation of Labor
Organized Labor
French academy to study reflective telephone discovery
Paris correspondent reports a new discovery of remarkable value submitted to the French Academy of Sciences. It claims a method to see the reflection of interlocutors through the telephone. The academy secretary cautions that the true value cannot yet be pronounced.
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Paris
London Express
French Academy of Sciences
Academy
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