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dimples how merry!
wi lement C. Moore.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
HEN recent press dispatches
carried the news that a New
York woman, Mrs. Tillie
Hart, who for four months
had withstood the siege of
a wrecking crew seeking to
tear down her home to make
way for a $25,000,000 apart-
ment house, had at last
capitulated and allowed the house to
be demolished, there was one good
reason why the story was more than
merely a local New York news item.
For the disputed building has right.
fully been called “the birthplace of
Santa Clans” because in it more
than a hundred years ago Dr, Clement
C. Moore wrote a famous Christmas
poem in which for the first time the
American Santa Claus was described,
his mode of traveling was pictured
and the lavishness of his giving was
made known. That poem was “The
Night Before Christmas,” which every
American has recited or heard recited
at some tithe or another, And for that
reason the news that “the birthplace
of Santa Claus” was to be wiped out
of existence had nation-wide interest.
Quite aside fiom his fame as the
author of “The Night Before Christ-
mas,” Doctor Moore was a notable
man. His father, Bishop Benjamin
Moore, the second Protestant Episcopal
bishop of New York and the third
president of Columbia university, as
sisted at the Inauguration of Washing-
ton and administered the last rites to
the dying Alexander Hamilton after
the fatal duel with Aaron Burr.
Clement C. Moure was graduated from
Columbia university in 1798 and was a
professor of Hebrew and Greek in the
General Theological seminary from
1821 to 1850. He was a prolific writer,
one of his literary productions bearing
the Imposing title of “Observations
Upon Certain Passages in Mr, Jeffer-
Christmas Always One
FIRISTMAS in many places comes
with a flurry of snow and ice.
Part of its joy lies in the sound of
carols upon the frosty alr; the peal
of glad bells across the snow: the
warm and welcome glow of bright
fires upon the hearth,
Christmas In other places comes
with soft, caressing winds; it Is greet.
ed by blooming flower and tree; by a
warm, fragrant atmosphere and smil-
son's Notes on the State of Virginia
Which Appear to Have a Tendency to
Subvert leligion and Establish a
False Philosophy.” However, his moat
important work. the one at least upon
which he believed his fame as 8
scholar wonld be secure, was “A Com
pendius Lexicon of the Hebrew Lan
guage.” He little realized that future
generations of Americans would re
member him better as the author of
what he was accustomed to call “a
silly poem.” the authorship of which
he refused to acknowledge for a long
time.
Yet such was the ense, for a short
time before Christmas in 1822, Doctor
Moore wrote for his children a Christ
mas poem and they were delighted
with the rollocking tale, as other chil
dren, not only in this country bat in
many other lands, lave been ever
since. A daughter of Rev. Dr, David
Butler, rector of 8t. Paul's church at
Troy, N. Y., who was a niece of
Doctor Moore. was a Christmas guest
in the Moore home and made a copy
of the poem In her album. The next
year she sent a copy of It to the Troy
Sentinel and It appeared in that pa:
per, prefaced by a cote from the ed
itor saying he did not know who had
sent it. By the next year it had ap
peared in many other newspapers and
magazines and within a few years It
had found its way into the school
books. By this time dnquiries were
beginning to be made ns to its author
ship and eventually Doctor Moore.
none too well pleased that his “silly
poem” was so well-known wherens his
scholarly “Compendius Lexicon” at.
tracted little attention, except from
other scholars, admitted its authorship
and gave the autographed original
manuscript of the poem to the New
York Historical soclety.
In its original form the poem dif
fers slightly from the present version,
ing blue skies and ‘bright sunshine
But wherever and under what con.
ditions Christmas comes it Is a wel
come day ; a time of gladness and good
cheer; of true and sincere friendl)
néas and good will, Under its influ
ené® hearts thrill with happiness and
content. To the young It brings new
Joy, to the old happy memories. Cli
mate or country has nothing to do
with it; it is the spirit and joy of the
time that makes a merry Christmas,
So, whether one lives in the north.
land or the southland, Christmes is a
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WAS WRITTEN?
particularily In the names of the rein
deer. “Viscen" of the original ins be
come “Vixen' and “Donder” has been
changed to “Durder.” The title which
Doctor Moore give to his verses wns
*A Visit From St. Nicholas” but the
muwlern version, taken from the first
line, Is “The Night Before Christmas,
Its popularity, however, has been nn.
throughout 3
has heen transinted Into many foreign
tongues and it has delighted the chil
dren of many nations,
Doctor Moore died In 1503 at
summer home in Newport, IL L
was taken to York, which
was then in the of the draft
riots, and was placed temporarily in
a voult at St. Luke's church In Hud
son sree! Later It was removed to
the Chapel of the
{Trinity
rests
changed the sears, It
his
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throes
and
of
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there It
parish)
teeing in H] pole
ground holds the
of and thelr three children
In fact, this plot more of n
Christmas shr
which nine
his wife
has been
than
near Chelsen Square
ne has the house
where the poem
wins written and a very prefiy Christ
was ceremony of Doctor
Moore place ti eve Set
Rev. Dr. Milo H
chapel! at Broadway and One Hundred
and Fifty fifth street, has long been an
inh menory
takes ere rs
(ates, vicar of the
admirer of the poem and its scholarly
author. In*1011 he held the first sery
fee in Doctor Moore's memory. About
aK children gathered with him at the
grave at the foot of the hill overshad
awed by the high wall which is topped
by Riverside drive.
number has grown to more than 21XX)
The ceremony begins at four o'clock
on Christmas eve with the
lights in the church. Then
dren gather in the cloister
funfare of trumpets from the bell tow
er heralds the procession to the come
tery. Led by the trumpeters they
move along One Hundred and Fifty
fifth street, carrying banners, lighted
Since then
feonst
the hil
while a
huge Christmas tree in the corner of
the churchyard.
All Broadway traffic Is halted as
they cross, the swell of their music
rising above the noise of the street
and falling away again as they pass
From the steps of the cemetery and
the road that winds around from shide
to side down the hill, the voices may
still be heard on the busy street sing
ing “Little Town of Bethlehem”
“Silent Night, Holy Night.” “We Three
Kings of Orient Are,” “God lest Ye
Merry, Gentlemen,” and many other
favorite Christmas hymns and earols
Except for the lights In the chil
dren's hands, it is quite dark by the
time they reach the stone marked
“Clement Clarke Moore, born in New
York July 15, 1779; died in Newport,
R. L, July 10, 1863." A final carol i=
sung as a wreath Is aid against the
stone and, before disbanding, the pro
cession moves on to a grave nearby
to honor the memory of Alfred Tenny-
son Dickens, eldest sm of Charles
Dickens, author of another Christnus
classic, “A Christmas Carol”
Episcopal church on Twentieth street,
A tablet is erected to his memory
there because he was the first warden
of that church and also gave the land
upon which it stands, as well as the
land upon which was built the Gen
eral Theological seminary with which
It has a close connection. »
happy, merry day only In that meas
ure that we have allowed its beautiful
#pirit to enter our hearts.—Katherine
Edelman.
(6, 1929, Western Newspaper Unlon.)
RD Par ie
Have Christmas All Year
Christmas is a time of forgetting
small enmitles: If we determine tc
forget them all the year, ‘we shall
be having Christmas throughout
year, Ya
( ommuni
Building
v7
i
Traffic Arteries Must
Be Planned With Care
Teavhing a community how to grow
| 18 ovne of the businesses that haw
| evolved from this machine age, and
Dtovns amd cities are no longer as self
contained %is they were, thelr pros
perity and development depending to
a lurge degree on the prosperity of
an entire areca.
This hus brought about
{ spread application of city
i and its big brother, regional
| ning. Governmental
| ized or qualified to do the
| a city nnd its environs rarely
the wide
plan
work for
exist
| come through the activities of the
citizens themselves, who can he most
| effective through the medium of
| city or regional planning body.
Of all the problems that the
| the automobile and its attendant de
| mands is of most concern,
| fluidity of the car has enused the sub
urh nnd. outlying districts to hlogsom
| and certainly there must be some di
recting agency see that they
| built where there Is the most need,
In days and
grew without
| Streets for the
| fined to that
Without proper
communities will find
laying out the same old narrow routes
nhout the
to
gone hy cities
intelligent
most part
npeold four ro
guidance
i
were
widtl
which became Inndeqgunte
time blacksmiths began giving up the
anvil for automobile tools,
| Tree-Shaded Highways
ft Is thie to consider systemntic tree
beautification of our highw
ure unsightly
IVE,
of which
delight
the American
wonderful
New York
at Syracuse
highways nre
particulurly to whe
thinse free linec
rogls the
of foresiry
pmryels at
snys state cul
lege univer
sity
Except
places where
for a few memorials and
civie organizations have
| planted trees, and where the privale
tnken n
his property
our modern
owner hins pride
of
planting
has been done N
pearance
ized on ®1°
roads
vent
nee the ad
of gmiomobile highways romdeids
| planting seems to i ¢ heen forgotter
at a the it is most needed,
No state nt present
avenues of frees on
mwenlern highways might very ape
is setting mm
its highway
ately he embellished bry
in some
is known ns the
The expense af this
thie
elhins or muples and
by what
ng 8
uld
ereased
group
Rien,
wi be partially offset by
of
esthetic
abutting prog
values
ov ners, hy improvements
nnd
automobile
mainten:
of
tes pavement
deterioration
oquipment,
nee
slower
Makes Town's Opportunity
in the this coun.
| try has your town had the opportuni
that it has today. Big
looking to the ! city as Hf
never | or cits
that prepares itself for big things wil
i profit, and ndividan
| citizen will but the
be ready. The way to
be nt {building
ngEressiveness, custon
ahility
Never history of
ties business
Iw
“8 before
greatly every
be benefitted
hoe
ng
"
ol
cnn
| town
ready
the morale,
attitude and salesmanship §
the “clerks” of the
munity), not hy erection of mono
ments or idle talk on “town boosting’
~htit hy constructive thinking to
something, get something, achiev
something—to climb out of the rut
{ to have a city that is the best In the
land in which te live, work, play and
make money-to have a city which
has eliminuted the “oppressive uglh
ness” of dormant, Inactive civic
pride.~ Anderson (Ind.) Herald.
mgt
is
to work
~eitizens-
Tro:e Wantonly Injured
With 464%) trees along ite boule
varce, 100000 along streets not cnda
| control of the park board and many
| thousands more in yards and in parks
| Kansas City truly is a “city of trees.’
according to J. W. Biachly, foresien
{ for the park department,
In a report, Mr, Blachly points ont
{ 90 per cent of the trees killed along
| the houlevard syntem each year are
fost because of carelessness of motor
ite. He estimates between 300 and
400 irees euch year are killed beenusg
of being injured by motor cars on
trucks,
Mr. Blachly points out ‘when a tree
Ig killed it must be replaced by nn sim
flor Kind as near the same size as pos
sible, Replacing a tree costs row
three to fifty times os much as ths
original planting,
Color Scheme for Roof
In these days of dawning multi-col
ored buildings whea the newest color
ecard for roofs Includes such a multl
plicity of shades as antique brown
gray green, dusk bilge, wenthered
brown, heather purple. tile red, Jade
green and black pearl, opal and multi
crome, an authoritative color harmony
chart is as necessary in the building
world as In the dressmaking world.
A HA SAIS
Rehabilitation Profitable
Rehabilitation of the old home pre
serves both its use value and materia)
value. ’
iailors in Small Boat
Menaced by Albatross
Haunted by an albatross, a bird of
11 omen, and In danger of having their
wats sinnshed by a huge whale, were
umong the experiences of the crew of
he Siltonhall, a British steamer that
aught fire recently hundreds of miles
rom land In the South Indian ocean,
Soon ufter the cargo of coal enught
fre the decks became red hot and the
itches were in flames, © The crew
ook to two small boats and for 44
yours were adrift in a gale. It was
furing this time thant the albatross
constantly swooped down menncingly.
This story hears a remarkable simi
arity to the Incident “in Coleridge's
oem, “The Ancient Mariner” in
vhich the albatross, an ominous bird,
‘jaunts a stricken ship.
Pulpit Jokes
Dr. John
Greenwood In
The late Roach Stration,
mbending at ke, told a
eporter a number of pulpit jokes.
“Then there was a very nervous
sreacher,” Doctor Stratton sald, “who
gave out as his text one Sabbath,
Heaviness may endure for a joy, but
in morning.’
preacher had to preach
wefore a convention of medicos, He
| vas a Joker, that man, and no mis
ight cometh the
“Another
ake, Hig text ‘A certaln wom-
{ in had suffered many things of many
Wis,
nothing better, but
grew worse,’
terrible BReoteh
notorious
md, and was
| ‘ather
MA
i ited
preacher offi
funeral.
[his isn't a joke, though, The Scotch:
nan took for the text of his funeral
wermon, ‘And the beggar died." ™
ut a miser's
Not at All Typical
John J. Roskobh said at the Savan
sah Golf club on his way to Biloxi:
“The South impresses me with its
mergy and enterprise, The South
advertise itself more, A
Northerners think that it
i ught to
| good many
s typified in the grocery yat
| “A man, the runs, went into
1 Southern grocery to buy a ham, He
five-doliar bill on the
n.
yarn
anked down a
and sald:
ten pound
win
wounter
“Gimme a
“But
vith his
sitting
barrel,
the wns
cracker
yo
feet
im,
serve
rocer
’
on A
nterrupted h
- ul ean't
‘Ye'll hus
I'm w-standin’ up.”
sah.’
some
se Just now,
we said ive to call round
when
{ yuy
ine
Hot Doss Via Slot Machine
“hot dog”
If vou wish a
fact drop 4 coin In a mad
jumps the sausage and roll. The Lt
frankfurter vending machine
I.
seen introduced equivalent
cents the device automatically
wich ahd 1
wf two
felivers the sand usiard
ion
Indian Vegetable Ii
earl St. N. Y. Adv,
ry Th
ah
Beauty and Interest
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and buildings
your n Journey 7
hesitation Mr
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resdd You as most
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along
Without
sponded :
otor
Chuggins re
gasfilling stations
iz extremely hard to be original
stating great truths; they
been stated so often,
It
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