The Jersey City News

YULE TIDE HERE.
Elaborate Christmas Day Observances Throughout Jersey City Tomorrow.

SERVICES IN THE CHURCHES
The Poor and the Unfortunate Will Not Be Forgotten-Entertainments by the Sunday Schools.

Christmas is here with its ills, pills and bills, and with it ideal old-fashioned wintry weather. Times have sadly changed since little maidens used to sing, trooping through the snow to the church:

"Yuletide is now at hand,
And we must go a-shriving."

Some regard it as a religious festival, but the greater part of humanity look on Christmas as a time of merry-making, rejoicing and feasting: and the children-well, there is no mistaking their views about Christmas. To them it means Santa Claus, toys, dollies, roast turkey, plum pudding and lots of candy.

Throughout the city tomorrow this sacred day of the year will be observed with becoming ceremonies, but of a widely different character. Some will attend the services in the churches, and others will take advantage of the glorious weather and skim over the frozen surface of the Boulevard in fast trotting sleighs. Many of the clubs will receive visitors, and the theatres and other places of amusement will be crowded.

Amid the general rejoicing the needy and the unfortunate will not be forgotten. The spirit of old Father Christmas will enter the homes of many where joy and happiness are rarely seen. The social outcasts, the prisoners in the jails, the poor at the county farm, the inmates of the asylums and the sick in the hospitals will all be remembered, and with turkey and mince pies and other good things the day will be at least to them, one of gladness.

At Snake Hill the Freeholders have prepared a feast for the inmates there. The children in the Alms House will be given toys and their little skins stuffed with all sorts of nice things. For the older people there will be tobacco and other creature comforts, and an unlimited supply of turkey and mince pies.

In the Penitentiary the prisoners will be regaled with turkey and mince pie, and their friends outside will see that they are supplied with tobacco. The same provision has been made in the Hudson County Jail.

In some of the churches very interesting exercises will take place conducted solely by the children of the Sunday schools. These exercises are set down for the evening and the arrangements and programmes are very complete. A small charge will be made and the proceeds will go towards shedding a little happiness among less fortunate people.

In Trinity M. E. Church the entertainment tomorrow evening is called "Santa Claus & Sons' Reception," and the programme will consist of sacred and secular music, garden frolic-whatever that means-march drill, calisthenic display, dairy festival and roundelay, and to wind up Santa Claus will drive up with his six in hand reindeers.

The Christmas exercises of the Hedding M. E. Church will be held tomorrow night. A stereopticon has been secured, and views of the life of Jesus will be shown, interspersed with choice exercises by the children.

The services at St. Peter's Church on Christmas Day will be unusually fine. The first mass will be a high mass, sung by the rector, the Rev. John Harpes. The music will be rendered by the members of the sodalities, assisted by the fife and drum corps. The other masses tomorrow will be the same as on Sundays. There will also be a mass for the children in the lower church at nine o'clock. The last mass at 10:30 o'clock will also be a solemn high mass. The choir will be assisted by an orchestra, directed by Mr. J. B. Ferry, organist of the church.

The programme is:-
Symphonie, No. 39. Mozart
Processional,
"Adeste Fideles"....Novello
Kyrie .Mozart
Gloria..
..Mozart
Interlude..
..Haydn
Veni Creator,
enor
sor
8.30
chorus.
..Milard
Credo
...Mozart
Offertorium,
flute solo.
Sanctus..
..Mozart
Benedictus
..Mozart
Agnus Dei
.Mozart
Recessional, Grand March...Ch. Gounod
Grand Benediction, 7:30 P. M.

At St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church the services will begin at an early hour. The Rev. Dr. E. L. Stoddard will officiate, and the order of service will be as follows:-
6.00 A M., Shortened form of Morning Prayer and Holy Communion.
7.30 A. M...
Holy Communion
10.45 A M., Holy Communion and Ser-
mo with the following service:
Processional..
Adeste Fideles
Kyrie Eleison..
J. Benton Tipton
Hym
"The Birthday
of a King"....
..Neidlinger
ory, the First Christmas..J. Barnby
(In four parts.)

Christmas festivals of the three Sunday Schools will take place as follows:-Lafayette Sunday School, on Friday evening, December 25, at 8 P. M., in the Chapel of the Lafayette Reformed Church; the Orient Hall Sunday School, on Sunday evening, December 27. at M., at Orient Hall. After the entertainment on Monday evening. December the children of the Fairview Avenue Sunday School will receive their Christmas gifts.

Down in Greenville the day promises be a very lively one. Most of the clubs and organizations have made great preparations for visiting friends. The members of the Columbia Club will meet in the Columbia Hall, and there will be lots of fun-making. The Greenville Rifle Club will be thronged all day and prizes for shooting will be given. So too at the Minkakwa and League Clubs, there will be a reunion of members and friends. The New Jersey Bowling Club, on Virginia avenue, will, of course, be patronized by a crowd. That exceedingly cosy house has all the elements of comfort within its four walls, and no one ever spends a dull hour there.

A Christmas entertainment will be held at the Emory M. E. Church tonight. English Lutheran. Service will be held in Y. M. C. A. Hall, on Wayne street, near Jersey avenue, at 10:45 A. M., subject, "The Saviour Is Born."

CHRISTMAS AT HASBROUCK'S.

The pupils of Hasbrouck Institute gave an interesting Christmas entertainment yesterday in Hasbrouck Hall. The entertainment comprised songs, recitations and drills by the pupils of the Academic Department, and also the Kindergarten and Primary School. Recitations and essays were given by Lillian Vail, Irving Smith, Anna Aipers, Hulda Mayer, Sydney Pocock, Charles Zoncada, Betsy Chamberlain, Alice Furst, Ella Heike, Martin Seibold, Wallace Crosby, Florence Johnson, Nellie Rowland, Jeanne Stimets, Jessie McLaughlin, Bruce Stimets, Clinton Fish, Henri Chaufour, Mildred Downs, Richard Gluck, Florence Long, George McIntyre, Jean Annett, Hilda Leige, Clarence Mills, May Long, Edna Annett, Hugh Hartshorne, Walter Brown, Edward Dixon, Elsie Wells, Alfred Norris, Otto Alpers, Grace Chamberlain and Arnold Furst.

The last number on the programme, a Christmas Bell drill by twelve girls was unusually pretty. The girls were all dressed in white Greek gowns. The motions were graceful and the drill was most effective.