A SANTA CLAUS SHIP
■-"..: o . T-- ■■.'•■ ,■: 1200 TONS .OF CHRISTMAS GIFTS. With more 'than 1200 tons of Christmas gifts from the people of America, a . Santa Claus ship,, the naval collier Jason, sailed.from' Now X or k for Europ.o on. November 14. A message of God-; speed from' President Wilson. was received by Lieutenant Commander C F. Courtney,/TJ.S.N.; shortly 'before eailing time..-The .docks as the ship sailed were'black with thousands of school children. : . ■ The gifts the ship carried were gathered from) every 'State of the Union. 'They include!everything from toys and dolls to clothing and tood. So heavy was the Tain of presents that a force of ninety soldiers and sixty sailors : from tho navy yard .was required to classify and repack ;tliem so that art equal distribution might be made in the several countries for , which they were intended. •, .••■-., The ship will call first at Falmouth, whore the gifts intended for England, France, ~Hna Belgium will be discharged;, then ehe will proceed to Rotterdam, where gifts for Holland and Germany will. be discharged. At a later date another consignment will go forward for the people of Russia and Poland. ' '' i
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2335, 17 December 1914, Page 6
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191A SANTA CLAUS SHIP Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2335, 17 December 1914, Page 6
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