| Show rut I n ME L 5 t FEAST FEASTING IN R RAGS fiS AND TAGS I II ewe I a t 5 2 ond na Vory Vary Celebration co on the tho oJ of 2 B D r rj u n y pompous portion tt tl ot of it known DB OR the tha city th the wealth wealthiest iest ht C III In the world lends 11 I s I lilt IC ton 1011 to ii st ceremony r e I f fIL every year It n would bo bu Intensely ely funny If It It WHO re not to eo dl and sit o kindly down In the tile re mile mil called Sic I the hc Illy mostly moan mean t to t Tho lord loid mayor II or WilD who ho li is I alto also nn oil alderman jets 1000 n II your and upends Jp UH w much again chiefly In giving and eating prodigious dinners Theother The Theother other aldermen and th tilt sheriffs like 1 t Who vito fulfill their chief b I bf banqueting ban on ovary avery occa b slon elon and ond the tho Ilse h I historic homo of oe the tho guys high highly highly ly ornamental und anti govern tl l ni IH is famous throughout Christen ChristenI y I tom m for tor tho the marvelous spreads spread that have provided d therein t ler ln tot kings premiers premier l and u tJ poten potentates I potent ten t fates tates I II I S e r 1 j In one ona way woy the tho to Is I true to 10 toi i ltd Its It traditions at nt Christmas but butIn butIn butt t In another It bee uw for far once thu city fathers fathera look on un others eat cat and the iliff guests Instead Instent of ot being the lime richest mightiest folk talk of ot this the day 10 ore are till the littlest sl poorest nod and moat inuit boll less lens that can be bo gathered In nil all the nail Had I y byways anti nn alloys of fit l This banquet In la no ha 11 ordinary affair for tor tho lily city hits Jm n 1 tremendous dig dignity dige e to maintain and an on unbroken rec reo record ord dating tinting from trait away back berk before I America wan Willi discovered cover of at doing noth nothing 4 lug ing common Ho the tho rugged urchins y from nil alt the den dens that ore sometimes sometime vii t r f grouped Under the thc general till Of or are lIro treated with tho the same w exact und and nt punctilious ceremony hut IH III het t h occasioned lol by n royal loyal visit VIlli The result rf z was thi most picturesque holiday en entertainment ent Ip t of ot Till The guests guestt lire ure G OO In own num owna number a bar ber carefully chosen by relief societies front from tho hungriest of at nil all the Ih hungry children In London You dont havo to bo ho good god to g get Iet t an on invitation you only to prove that a big Christmas dinner din nOr would come coma handler 1101 to you than thull to arty any ono one else olic Twelve hun bun hundred cd t dred of at thu tho children who are UIo more or orless orleas less leas aide able boiled bodied are tro gathered under the noble noille old raftered roof root of at the tho Guildhall and the tho other oilier who ore are cripples l l 1 or too tea III HI to come have ha their dinners sent around In hl hampers The fhe banquet begins this bits year oar ns nB aso u at fi r on an the afternoon of ot o C Dec Del 31 nut Hut there hero Is a queer little touch of ot at lit noun on the same day da days s At t to io of at 12 on Oil the last Jail day do ot of each year Alderman William Tre Treloar ei lour Jour who wino conceived C the tha III Idea IdI of 01 this thin it banquet mad who raises ml es most of ot the this to tu pay 1111 lor for It turns up with tho thu lord lurel mayor of ot that year nt at lima tho a Guildhall and Sir William hands to it the lord mayor ft a 1 IJ packet nf ot envelopes J ach or of these contains contain a u long list lilt of or names nines of ot the tho cripples C s vho viii are arc to 10 receive Itel U the I hI hampers of ot theta them In all for which I y t the lie delivery men are rp driving up the tho tholine I II line Tho Thu lord loru mayor hands to tu each man mann 1 n hits hiM list lint mind and soya officially und and formally ne i flOd speed lI eed to S ou O The spins same formula lic Is 19 I to 10 every oIt man The I of of might IIII h t taste lout us its II good If it thin title HP Wert omitted and it save I the th busy him 1111 y lord I mayor n II good deal of at l r bit of or sentiment nl Is 19 nf nev 1 to 0 cr er lost on Oil the pe pie who witness 11 It II IIII II As AI tile the W headquarters of ot the it tit best fed corporation In III he 11 world on one ire f t the features of the Is III its 1111 1 I i where ht 1 cooked for tor Rings kings und and premier I wince since time out of lit mind It 11 might ml hl be hI hIr beI jl r I maintained that the chief chef h f of ot the Guild I V I hall liall Kitchen Is s flit film and away the tho most mast ha 1111 Important member of o the Muni municipal Ill I men I the roke nt ot Wind Bor 1101 do a 11 baron of or offer I W tr fer beet beef to II such a l nicety a nH as Ihrl hire In th the Y Yel t thi these sc gia i it rl l 1 attend OH as seriously to III thin tho pu n nv W v t of ut mho for tor tho the l 1 army of ot time J I t unwashed as they hey tile did dill a 11 few feu weeps nooks Olio URO i lp If I preparing the feast t for King J t I yard amid Quern Queen Alexandra There ThereIn oR Rr l I In no nn turtle soup snug to tm bo ho sure hut but the tho q I t beef and 1111 th time the plum budding ir r c rr rte r enough to 10 make maleE a millionaires mouth water tenter hI v a I ls Is to be served rh ph in m Erg Ing hot hol when the HIP children are I 1 At that lint time lime the till graft hall hull where r PO co ill r many monarchs havo sat wt Is tB ore one tu I f mass of ot wriggling Immunity 1 Some of the children lia 1111 rave their fires washed In III honor of ot the occasion but so too to mn dh d ceremony la Is not nol dp III rigueur It ll ti It a woul appear that cv every ry one of the 1200 hind Imd h ul been foiling fasting or other otherwise olI othera r a 0 wise for fM a day dal d or two before The rho rh rhoan an sights anti and Hounds sounds when this thU army idle fulls III lis upon its itA food too are oro that tho the id ll Infant of lit no American slum sturn tO re ran gnu hope to tu compete With Sightseers 1 a art are almost ae as eager enger for tor of ot nd 1111 lt 11 i mission to the galleries whence n a aho ho I i may be tie unit had of ot thU thle wondrous oh cli i ns as the tho children themselves h 1 ore 11 for tor Invitations to the feast fealt Th Tile Ito Iro portions served lerN are roam beef potatoes Ilota cai huge hooge milk and andJa la Ja Christmas pudding to cope eop co tin sin gin 10 handed thin the appetite of ot an or ordinary child taut Kit Jul helpings ar are Custom kUsten with the mi guests win en and mUl attempts at al u It Vital round li I hove v t 1 i been known The total makes s 1000 tho ho pounds of moat matt and ov over our r TOO tIO pounds of ot 11 phlin pudding m rf Etiquette Etl H Ie calls for the tile lapse of It half halt an all allt anet et t hour ho r from tile the time the banquet ones comes I on In till tho the ceremonies begin but hll U If II t I minutes would do as ill Well nell ell At AI 5 1 tin tho lord mayor and his lady lad followed b hr n II m I gorgeous procession nf ot city ell IK tot t ta n a I a Kin gin n a solemn stately march ui Ut u and vi lon down between the tile Tong lone run rows of or tables I It Is 18 part of 01 tile the grans that his lili lord l nl 1 clip should bo ho In III full foil swill mil so in to speak Ills IliA crimson rotes lobes of state ale Mill 1111 I V enough n fur tur down the front for fur a II m him kings ransom Ida his huge i n nn no MM his chains of spice are III all in hi IIII avid n r The Tito Th lathy M likewise hies M in I be n dressed In her h r best beet The t II her herto I INI to i gilded mace l t tt nl I III ti r i h IBN t might I III borne atone abet behind the Ihl I IlL i lL an i pair pall followed by b th the sheriffs end ead lr i rn but not nol least the till benign Alderman AhI I Treloar In his robes of ot I I II Th eglons of the late hate unfed unI nov nos ho I stuffed well n ell nigh to bunting at H 1 as i A n nn n rule 1 t at t nr t by et AI i this thin but with lIh oni i ding they th are nic to rise rhe tl nn mini l lout Ill liI out nut God Have Sa the King Icing A Ac II th Ih the pro ro rot t 11 cession goes KOC M en on down Iown the Ihl It astey i i i 11 ilo lord mayor periodically chant chanta Hap Hai 5 py Iy y New CI Year to you OU rs and am lII alters to whirl Which th III the children hn 1 been Instructed lo to answer h rk Ik with duo due formality Time gam to you nil sP sPan at 1 r f i an and t your ladyship It lies nil now N is cone 1111 mi I pois pat p of ot tho ritual that these thes por S 1 shed alternate nl O whim Ith i Hurrah for tor our n le ig s j i i Sir William III t i The Th pr proton paces on tin nu n ny I n t j IS y Up and down the aisle 1111 In fi r i 1 1 minutes that the full tuU M id I I i M c II ton el moy m n 11 nt f most being befog of ot the s I sand 11 and ond perhaps to enable a II fe fer r more snore lusty ones by h dint t I cheering cM aid about to n l ni 1101 I d room for another mouthful i After the Children are dismiss s J II their Lie mothers molhem ar are d Into tb Lb the hull to f feast on In It t la is to t tell 1111 H which l nt I IM tIll tie tl more mote grievous von till the gaunt pinched afe of th any 11 relit am 3 to II H years y old Dill or the Ihl fagged Cs gd unit women ren ln n ny of or lr them hut huh onn making looking a u as If It ahi h he herself hud had aver v r lJ n u Ii child o 4 The rh final anal ceremony comes come when ether yi ye t n third series 0 of gueste Is B After tl th h have vf IJ up their h k tl of 0 fragments fragment ih the docH of o pl eon which jr l dab d II after day dB smut bout the tilt of ot th IM he arc down for tor th the crumbs have hav fallen from fion the Ki Cm t tI yards and VII the tho alone pave pavement ment lII nt it ha 1 III ht 1 1111 th bit blid UI Their float Is III tint the on annual iro grain r m with lh ilo doe daces e eH I H its fill year Sir Tm 1 who make nil all 1 this quaint entertainment possible I II n nil all mft 11 J its 1111 he the h ns lt I It takes IlIk n f flot lot tot of ot lm hustling fl jn after wagon season to raise the for the be fea tu t and nd It took a lot nf of In III the first drat its nine dace to 10 persuade the corporation c that It tl n could be hI Used need without lUll low of or for or guests at atthe 8 atthe the uttermost oe nl ill from those thIM usually entertained there th r without the the f raper preparation which the Si hool union unior snakes inn ken for peculiar feast even pOn Te loar and th tha i loni 1 1101 stud Cud tatty lady be tJ at al seam MIL Time The a union uMon In Is a 11 federation of or nearly n all the I hn societies through h seeks to aid nill pours poor rn Mist Milot of nr t I IhN those Societies queer lumen BIO are cant of or the tho mho poor There Th re In Is a u touch of ot the lime tome scone them ihm Ih that there Is Ill l In n the Ih of ot th lime difference c between hel th classes Classen Among these are the the club tho arid and length league and this thin name II a the huh of ut the till Poor Dravo nut lint London U ie I generous even If It Is le n little lit condescending and ho 11 School union which fluidly morly GO W years arll ago ngn hut hug really lIon door a II wonderful work In the th con con II It 1011 of e the tJ of tho tuna alums mind especially ea In helping along little hit tie grip crip Ides plen It Is I rending rooms work mind and hf helping poor loor women In the care ent of ot lr buttle and mud Is III lifting n a tremendous amount of or of Qt Ih lull hp what willi will the tile work of ot those and tho Rings kings R for or din dinners ners noes thero scarcely lly a family itu the poorest of ot poor this year ellI that did not nol get Iet geta a n generous helping of or mt pudding The Thc lute Lord agent most of ot his bla spore spare time lima in III tills this Bogged d School DRYDEN WARNS r i J I V ri J r iW no 0 y S M Mr Mis t is i i id iti J d r ti tir r tr trw w e 1 r r t Y t R Dryden I Ir president of ot The eual 1 ID i i y alai aid nI it bis lIs lIsIt It art n Important lam be b Jt 1 hi he h represents tn to the Ihl Senate New Jerm Jere p in which state most moot of o the tho great aid a ld Inlet have lieen IlIn mien Bartered Hi H b sterns warns wain nil all tide Ids III cal col leagues to go III slow alas lest In lit trying to remedy may Injure the tho ted lesel Ing mg if of the country soul and ant those dependant n them a as Invent invest firs era and an eri mar In be he In III turn Injured union a powerful fell and the fin 11 mindful the tho work although tits the th of time the union has pawed passed from froll their family to toh the h of ot Tribune |
