Show CHRISTMAS CHEER FOR POOR Ten Thousand New Yorkers Receive Donations and Dinners New York Thia city celebrated Christmas of 1908 In n wav that not only lived up to the best of Its traditions tra-ditions but set a new standard Favored Fa-vored with tho abundance which tho year brought forth thc rich well to do and moderately circumstanced had placed att tho disposal of tho active workers In philanthropy ample funds with which to go about the work of making tire day one long to be remembered re-membered Tho unfortunate In the Jails the HI In tle hospitals the poor In their homes and tho destitute and helpless In Institutions were all icmembored That not far from 10000 persons were assisted by means of donations of dinners and tho llto Is conservatively estimated |