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Show Boston Celebrates. BOSTON Dec. 24. Bands of singers trooped through the streets tonight singing sing-ing Peace on Earth, Good Will to Men. On Beacon hill and in the suburbs, in accordance with an old custom, the musicians musi-cians were greeted with the glow of innumerable in-numerable candles with which the residents resi-dents marked the arrival of Christmas eve. Thousands of men, women, and children chil-dren who followed the singers, joined In the more familiar hymns. On the Common, a great Christmas tree was brilliantly lighted while near by there was carol singing and a concert. Rarely before at the Christmas season have the city's poor fared so welL In some districts patrolmen took the names of the neediest families, and at each of these nouses a bag full of provisions was left through the generosity of a citizen whose identity is known only to the police department. de-partment. For some of the neediest cases coal in half-ton lots was delivered yesterday, yester-day, by order of the same unnamed benefactor. |