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Mayor's Christmas Party

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Party for over 200 of New York's underprivileged children, brought to City Hall by buses for "Christmas merry-making" from 5 area hospitals, one from each borough. Each received a boxed lunch, stocking, and Christmas hats, candy, and noisemakers. There is also a stack of "mysterious" Christmas packages. Music by Department of Sanitation Band. Unidentified reporter acknowledges the work of Colonel Edward Rickett. The children await the arrival of Santa while the reporter describes the decorations and entertainment. Mayor Impellitteri gives a speech, thanks the organizers and performers, and introduces Santa, who talks to the children and leads them in a Christmas song set to the tune of "Happy Birthday." A doctor talks briefly and the children sings the same Christmas song to Mrs. Impellitteri. Then the children are told to line up for presents. They ask questions about the reindeer. The reporter describes the chaotic scene.

Audio courtesy of the NYC Municipal Archives WNYC Collection

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And you know nothing has been spared to make this a big occasion for our young friends after arriving at city hall they were treated to find box lunches a big thing in the life of little tots and each young man each young lady has been given a large red stocking we think the stockings but we haven't discovered just what's inside because we didn't get any Christmas hats and Christmas candy and Christmas noisemakers I'm sure you can hear those have been given out with no lack of generosity and there's still a large mysterious pile of Christmas packages which haven't been touched as yet we're waiting to see what's inside there would tell you more about what's going on here in the council chambers in just a moment but right now here is music by the Department of Sanitation back. For the for the. The. The our. Own our own. Whoa whoa. Whoa whoa whoa. Whoa whoa whoa. Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. Whoa. Whoa. Whoa whoa. Whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa. 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We might take just a moment before the appearance of Santa Claus and of course that's the big event that's what all these young people are sitting here rattling away these noisemakers waiting the Avodah Santa Claus they've seen a great big pile of presents and a kind of wondering what's inside the council chambers is very very tastefully and artfully decorated for the occasion festooned with Gollum from Christmas greens and points the edges as a wonderful Christmas tree under which earth it is safe and microphones are pretty much set up with about a thirty five or forty foot free beautifully decorated by the park department and people in those various branches of the city Department. Of. While we've been sitting here for the past half hour with all we've notice that the children of given a steady program of entertainment not only have they heard from the popping sound of patients by on but they please please call the fire department glee club it's been on hand there than individual performers magicians and a couple of very healthy clowns roaming around here now to render thumb solos before the appearance of St Nick will be the members of the fire department glee club. The I know the. The. The. The. The America the. The. The. The. Equipment. Like. The the clothes the. The. The. The. Oh oh oh. Oh. Oh oh. Oh oh. Oh the. Oh whoa. The. Who. Know they. Say the. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh the show. The. The. The the. The Oh no. Oh oh oh. Oh. Oh oh. Oh. Oh. Oh the. The. The the the. The they know they say oh oh oh dear what. 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Sight of about ten minutes ago. Out of. All your living back here at home and a man. Running there I would I swear him right. Ladies and gentlemen the children were born here. Iraq. And other places of our wonderful. Birth but secular later. That ran through bringing out of a wonderful. A wonderful nurse. The nurses and the problem how you work or. Work or things. Are now at home with their family in. Their own receiving care and. Buying. From the home outpacing. Year after year but first. When the running for president on the ballot even after. They still run. For years after the drought. Shortly before first live. They get sick of American medicine. As America. Loves the consumer of one of the cars. I want to particularly find they come as a part of soccer mom called own parents and when to move. But suddenly. The old what's become of her living in the pride of the way it is. And the man where. The American. Got the call the left when he ran the man. You're. Good. Ladies and gentlemen for those of you are less than a man rather close. The right. Man. And. Before turning this pounding on the band. One of the boys. I know. All the members of America many. Brothers. I'm on a high ranking member of the. League. I want to. Believe or here. That members of the police. Here wrongly want. That to make every. Year and. I will play it out. And. Over that I managed to really monitor. Your brain. Thank you thank thank you Mr Mayor I've heard a breath but you know it was like down to Miami and back in two hours it's still a lot of growing and I know one of the little fellows out there before I got in to talk to you one of the little fellows volatile know where they all reindeer are now that I use that jet plane to get around well the reindeer have a jet plane around and they follow me around now where's me all day for years to go ahead of me but that tune lovelies Donner and pleasant and dancer and all they want to come along and children I wish three parts we get a chance to turn all of the gifts Tauriel that we want small things to your beloved math a Merry Christmas again and let the Celebrate I'd love to hear it once because I understand it then rivulet got here. MARY. MARY. MARY. I now because I gotta get back to the North Pole before the lights go out up there and it gets dark I want to ask Dr KOGO if he won't come and say a word through you and then we begin to pass on the present time you want a pretty breathless still with the Santa Claus and children list the mayor on behalf of these children here I want to thank you for making this grandpa day possible and I want to thank the social workers and the volunteers and the members of the Visiting Nurses Association of Staten Island for a company and these children here thank you all and a Merry Christmas festival people are really beginning to give up the present I wonder if we put an end to all of us plays a very very Christmas to listen to the pilots Erik Solheim film must be up in your face post that by the water and waste the happiest of the season and we would now may be saying to her all of the actually thing very Christmas to Mrs impellor Terry yes. Book whose. Point Blair Factbook but rarely heard book. Thanks. And. Well as you can see Santa Claus is having kind of a tough time the mere mention of the word presence brought a deluge of all two hundred of our young boys and girls up to the center of the room where the public address on radio microphones are set up and Santa Claus was overwhelmed he didn't quite know that was going to happen but if you knew how long these young folks had been sitting here waiting for these presents I guess you wouldn't be very surprised they've now been lined up in a pretty orderly fashion put on one side and girls on the other eagerly eyeing those white packages of presidents are piled up now just a minute I think maybe ten of us want to talk to the folks here again. Well I guess not because it's a little bit too much going on around the center of the room there and we're going to tell you that for the last twenty five minutes you've been listening for the ceremonies on the merry making going on in the council chamber that City Hall where the mayor of the city of New York the honorable Vincent are empowered Terry has been followed for this Christmas party given to almost two hundred of the underprivileged and handicapped children for what one time or another were patients in the city hospital. We mentioned earlier the fact that to everything possible has been done to give the children the best time and you can you want to sure that that has been the case just about concluded the portion of the air broadcast from the council chambers at city hall and return you now to our studios in the municipal building this is the municipal Broadcasting System.

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