The New York herald., 1873-11-27
THANKSGIVING DAY.
Devotion in the Churches, Charity at the
Various Institutions and Provis-
ions at the Markets.


the United States for the general annual Thanks
giving: there win be services in all the churches
throughout the city. In the public and private
Institutions the charities and PRISONS there will
be rejoicing and festivity, for dinners have been
prepared for the inmates and everything that
can conduce to make the day pleasant has been
done by the managing committees. The charira-
BILE have come well to the 'front.' in this season OF
penury and prvation, and, therefore, but few even
OF the poorest will nnd themselves minus SUBJ
stantial dinner on the day OF praise and general
rejoicing. The weather Is clear. bright and appe-
tizing, so that there is every prospect OF the COM
munity at large enjoying themselves thoroughly,
All the theatres in the city will be open; there Win
be matinees in the afternoon and the usuai pro-
grammes at night.
THE CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.
At the Sailors Snug Harbor. Staten Island; at
the Bellevue st. Lukes and other hospitals at the
institutions upon Wards Randall's, Hart's and
Blackwell's ISLANDS there will be good cheer pro-
v1ded for all Relief for the widows and orphans Of
the war will be extended by the Ladies' Union
Relief Association, at the Twentysecond Regiment
Armory, In Fourteenth street. At the Five Points
House OF Industry there will be free dinner to all
who come at two p NJ and also at st. vincent's
Home for Friendless Boys, No. So Warren street.
The children have not been forgotten. dinner
Will be given to them at the st. Barnabas House,
No. 304 Mulberry street, at the Home OF the Friend
less No. 80 East Thirteth street. at the Shelterng
Arms, Tenth avenue and 10th street; at the Prot
estant Half Orphan Asylum, No. 65 West Tenth
street; at the Colored Orphan Asylum. l43d street
and Tenth avenue; at the Church OF the Holy Com
munlon, No. $50 Sixth avenue, and at
the Home for Little Wanderers, No. 40
New Bowery. The newsboys will be ieasted in the
evening at No. 40 Park place. Dinners to aged
people will be given at ST. Joseph's Home for the
Aged. No. 2O7 West Fifteenth street. and at the
Home for the Aged, No. $50 sixth avenue. The
girls WILL be regaled at No. ~ ST. MarK's place, at
the Home for Training Young Girls, seventh ave-
nue. and Thirteenth street, and at the Wilson
while the girls Of the Midnight Mission will be well
cared for by those interested In their welfare at
The markets yesterday presented the animation
customary on the eve OF thanksgiving. Almost be-
fore the usual business hour had arrived the cars
were laden to their utmost capacity with shrewd
housekeepers, who thought the carly bird principle
inculcated during their youthful days good one to
swarms and besieged the stalls OF the pouterers
and the butter men and the vegetarians, swapping
up the best Of every kind or
pRovENDER THAT THEY DEEMED
necessary adjuncts to Thanksgiving dinner
table. They imagined tney got the best; but sales
to keep some choice viands out OF sight until we'll
known regular customers entered an appearance.
time for ladies who attend to their own cuisine to
make purchases, but the real rush OF business did
not Degln In earnest until the lamps were lgnlcu
THE HEAVY CRUSH
and rush. that can only be found in New YORK
market on the eve OF some great festival OF food
1t was scene worthy OF the pencil OF Hogarth or
his modern prototype, Gustave Dore. The gas jets
nared and nickered over the OF fowls OF every
description that hung on the hooks above the
stalls, the sharp ring OF the butchers steel as
srdcS he ear n ns Strange
to the busy hum of voices that were
fpn Tha a
way for the sturdy wife Of the mechanic and the
buxom spouse OF the laboring man, while the
boarding house mistress was visible here, there
were the reasons for the iabosing classes doing
their marketing at late nour; 4pe
BUT MERE SORDIDny
| was what induced the andlades to defer making
unhappy boarders mattered little to them. Ii tur-
key were not on their tables to-day they knew there
would be mutlny In their dOmciles, and fowl would
not be cheap enough until close upon closing time.
So they seemed to take savage delight In buying
| less thinking that the bones and thews and
| sinsws left would make capital potpie on Friday.
The
DISPLAY OF POULTRY
| In the markets was generally extensive, but the
| birds were very poor. The majority OF the turkeys
and fowls were miserably small poor and scraggy;
indeed most OF them looked as If they had been SUI
fering from pip, aggravated by bad attack OF the
! mango. For the meanest OF these Scl0nS OF the
| turkey-gobbler proper
| TWENTY CENTS PER POUND
was asked for the finest birds, ana they were ''no
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| manded. Chickens, which looked as II they had been
| raised IN Shreveport and had only just recovered
from the late epidemic, quoted at rom % to %
| cents per pound, and ducks that could never have
seen pond larger than pavement puddle brought
! IL cents pound. The game, OF which there was q
| goodly exhibit, was much finer in quality. Plump
partridges cost 81 10 per pair and quail 81 75 per
dozen. For squirrels and small birds there was
| not very great demand. The butchers stalls
were noticeable for very fine show OF flesh meat,
| the beef looking Juicy, succulent and ruddy,
| THE MUTTON SWEET
and the pork dainty. Sucking pigs looked tempt,
ing and cost Is cents per pound or the hsh and
! vegetables there Is but little to be said except
that the celery was so green that 1t was evident II
| had been taken too early from its little bed.
| The marketmen themselves said that they had
never seen poorer lot OF poultry come into mar
| ket on the eve OF thanksgiving, though the prices
were so high. However, all good Americans must
eat turkey to-day or they would consider them
selves IN danger Of being ostracized; therefore,
! pouterers reaped rich harvests, and have doubt
! less played unc0nsc0usly into the hands of the
medical profession. Thanksgiving Is an institu-
ton, nevertheless; and therefore, II is to be hoped
that all good citizens will heartily enjoy their din
ners even though the turkey does turn out tough
| and the young chickens deluson and snare.