OCR Text |
Show NEW YORK'S CHRISTMAS PLANS Ten Thousand Poor families fam-ilies Will Be Given Their Dinners. NEW TORK. Dec 25. The participation partici-pation of charitable and religious organizations or-ganizations In the work of spreading Christmas cheer In this city today Is to be on a larger scale than ever before. About 2000 families. Including 10,000 persons, are to receive Christmas dinners din-ners or presents of clothing through the , relief department: of the Association for Improving the Condition 6t the Poor. Friends of the association have contributed contrib-uted to it about $15,000 to be spent In this work. The Salvation Army, will give free dinners today to 85,000 persons In the city and about 600.000 throughout the country. The Volunteers of America also will feed several thousand persons. Seven hundred detained Immigrants on Ellis island were made happy yesterday yes-terday by the missionaries of the various vari-ous religious denominations, who held Christmas services for the new arrivals. arri-vals. All the little children received dolls or other toys, the women boxes of candy and the men pipes and tobacco. 'Harry Bale, the keeper of the restaurant restau-rant on the Island, also gave to every one of the Immigrants a Christmas dln-Vier. dln-Vier. Addresses were made In eight different dif-ferent tongues by the missionaries. |