Morning journal and courier., 1888-11-28
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 The great New England festival comes to- morrow and evidences of it's near proximity are seen in the great activity in the markets. in the great increase of railroad passenger travel, in the activity among our organiza- tions whose mission 1t is, in part at least, to benefit the poor and lastly but not least in the spirit of good cheer and kindly feeling to which it gives new impetus. At the hospital, the jail, the orphan asylum and the almshouse special reminders of the day in the shape of tempting dinners will be served, and in the churches, through special efforts made,. the needy ones whose dinners would otherwise be meagre will be made to partake of the fat of the land to some extent. The St. John street church's public donation benefit for it's needy ones was a grati- flying affair and showed how generously people respond in cases of this deserving character. The Humphrey street Congrega- tional church had somewhat similar dona- ton affair last evening. The church looked like a wholesale produce store when all the donations had got in. Everywhere were to be seen good things in the shape of four, hams, sugar, coffee, turkeys, chickens, etc. i, materials for Thanksgiving dinner for the poor, and the generous spirit evinced seemed already to have amply repaid the happy do- nors. There will be unusual happiness at the Home for the FIiendless to morrow. The ladies of the Home for the Friendless wish to remind the friends of the institution that any donations of money or provisions will be gratefully received, and the latter can be left st the store of Messrs. F. J. Hart, 605 State street iJudson Brothers old stand), whence they will be forwarded to the Home.
 As will be seen by a notice in another sending materials for dinner send coals to many poor families to help make the home cheerful and bright.
 The hospital has received considerable in the way of responses to the appeal for dona- tions, and any further donations for the din- ner may be sent to Brosehart's or to Reeds on Church street or to the hospital.
 The markets are laden with good cheer. One firm, 0. E. Hart & Co.,, had twenty tons of turkeys alone come yesterday by cars and boat, besides five tons of chickens, duck and game. All about town the store and market windows speak eloguently to the inner man of what is provided so abundantly within for Thanksgiving dinners. Shops, factories and schools are closed tomorrow. The public schools close this noon for the week making Thanksgiving week an event of great pleasure for the scholars and of wel- come rest for the teachers from the nerve worry of their vocation. Hundreds of old familiar faces that have been for months or even years absent faces will be seen in our midst again to-mor- row, drawn hither by the home celebration of the grand old New England custom and the gladdening thoughts of renewing old friend ships and of greeting dear faces again at the old ireside. There will be union services in some of the churches and there will be vari- ous attractions in the way of entertainments for the day aA announced in another column.
 About twenty five extra passenger cars have been sent to New York to accommodat9 the heavy travel that is expected today and on Thanksgiving day.
 A number of the freight trains on the Con- solidated road will not be run on Thanksgiv- ing day and the station agents have been mo- ti6ed to receive no perishable freight for transportation on that day.
 The rooms of the Woman's Board of City Missions at English Hall, corner of Court and State streets, will be open until o'clock in the afternoon to receive supplies for Thanksgiving dinners. Poultry and other meats need not be cooked, but sent direct from the market. A Thanksgiving service will be held at the hall for the members of the meeting at 3 o'clock p. m., at the close of which the Thanksgiving packages will be distributed to the members present, all of whom are -hard-working women and mostly with large families. More than one hundred and fifty persons are included in these fami- lies and a generous response is hoped for in order that all may have comfortable Thanksgiving day.