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Show rI..Elt PABTV A New Aork. IMper Treat. 110V Xew Bay. Xfcv Yomr, Dec. Si. One of the biggest dinner parties tliat ever took place in Xew York was that which the New York Jlcruhi save toilay to the newsboys in .Lyric Hall. There were three, room-i, each seating nearly 200, and these weio filleu three time. Thiro wire 1501 children, not counting ''Little Annie Itooney," who mado hir appearance later. More than SOU visitors were present. There was a crowd of waiters There was au orchestra auJ Marshal I. Wilder, and turkey, chicken, cranberry, celery, potatoes pleo aud other things too numerous to mention. Before the triumph finale Oiey had decio'islic-d 200 tweuty-two pound turkeys, 100J pounds of thicken, four barrels of tctatcc, three barrels of cranberries three barrels of celery, 3000 loaves of bread, -100 pies and other delicacies In like proportion, pro-portion, b-it thfo was not all. The Herald had still mure, aud each small boy was presented with a ticket which entitled him, after Jauuary 2nJ, toa uajacket, which is te bo made to tit him by Ilearu Bros. For the most imrt, the toys were clean and bright and wholesome, whole-some, though lute aud there was a pathetic example of parental neglect. |