Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-28
IT'S A DEAR OLD DAY
That Has Rolled Around Once More
For Celebration.
HOW PITTsBURGERs WILL ENJOY 1T
Those Who Won't Stay Home Must Peel
Their Weather Eye.
THOSE WHO 60 OUT OF TOWN TO-DAY

In the window of an art store on WooC
street there is an odd picture, called 18Th,
Thanksgiving Requiem" A sheet Of musi
rests upon stand, and before it appear thu
heads of dozen doleful turkeys singing tn,
sad strain, "Ah, world, now must leavt
thee; the parting deep doth grieye me.
The big beaks are open, while from the hal
closed eyes tear drops trickle down the rec
cheeks. Many people paused to look at the
picture yesterday, and felt compassion
stirring them for a few minutes, at the con
temptation of the slaughter which was
thereby implied.
The market has been well stocked with
fowls and game. All along Liberty street,
where the produce dealers are, the gobble oil
the turkey could be heard yesterday. Big
crates of the Thanksgiving bird were piled
up on the sidewalk beside smaller crates
containing chickens and ducks. There were
many big piles of dead game, quails, grouse,
rabbits and squirrels, and an abundant
supply of dressed poultry. Dressed turkeys
sold in the morning at IL and 10 cents a
pound, but late in the afternoon had come
down to 10 and IL cents. The stock was
large and the. buying slow. Dealers
lamented the wet weather, and said that If
it were only cold, and snow were upon the
ground, there would not be bird left in the
market
INCoNGRUoUs SURROUNDINGS.
Good people like, when they sit down to
their Thanksgiving meal, to look out upon
a white landscape. Snow without makes it
seem cozier within. If the air is full of big
falling fakes, the turkey on the table tastes
much better. Everybody has been lament
ing the miserable, sloppy weather which
has brooded over Pittsburg for the past fort
night. If the indications sent out by Gen
eral Greeley's bureau be trustworthy, there
will be snow enough and to spare before
Thanksgiving Day passes away. A terrific
storm is reported to be, at the hour of writ
ing, swooping down upon Western Penn
sylvania from the Allegheny Mountains.
1t is to knock things in general into a
cooked hat, particularly telegraph lines and
railways.
The day being a national holiday, busi-
ness houses will nearly all be closed. Banks
will not open at all. city and federal offices
will be closed, and no evening papers will
be published. The postotice employees will
be given an opportunity to eat their turkey
at leisure. The Pittsburg letter carriers
will make one delivery in the morning after
the arrival of the Eastern mail and make
regular Sunday collections. The carriers
window will be open from $50 A. NJ. till
noon. The general delivery will be open
from to 1870 A. NJ. The stamp window
will be open from A. M. to 1890 P. NJ.
The money order and registry departments
will be closed all day. The Allegheny
postofice will be open for business this
morning from to 10 o'clock. Two deliv-
cries and one collection will be mades
WILL OPEN DOORS.
The central idea theoretically pertaining
to Thanksgiving Day is the church service
In nearly every church in the city special
praise meetings will be held. There will
be fine music, new bonnets and chrysanthe-
NUNS.
Rev. DR.. C. E. FELTON, will preach a fore
noon sermon in Christ M. E. Church, on
Penn avenue. Rev. L. Mcguire will preach
in the Fifth Avenue NJ. E. Church at 1870
A. M. At the same hour services will be
held in the Smithfeld Street NJ. E. Church,
and Rev. G. e. Locke will preach. Rev
Mr.. Butler, of the South Hiland Avenue
Christian Church, will preach in the Emory
NJ. E. Church, in East Liberty, and music
will be rendered. by a union choir. A
feature of the occasion in the German NJ.
E. Church, on Ohio street, Allegheny, will
be the presentation of scenes from the
history of the United States by a stere-
opticon.
In the Eighth o. P. Church, on Van
Braam street, lay service will be held at
the forenoon hour. Members of the church
will deliver short addresses on various
blessings. The First, Second, Third and
Fifth q. P. Churches will unite in, service
at the Third Church, on Diamond street.
Rev. j. W. Harshs, of the Fifth Church,
will preach.
The Walton NJ. E., Southside Presby-
terian, Ninth U. P, Union Baptist and
Eighteenth Street NJ. P. Churches will hold
q union service in the Southside PRESBYTERIAN
Church. Rev. B. R. Wilbur, of the Wal
ton Church. will preach.
The Methodist Episcopal, Christian and
Presbyterian Churches of Hazelwood, will
unite in the Presbyterian Church, and will
listen to sermon by Rev. Mr.. Pendleton,
Of the Christian Church.
SERVICES IN THE SUBURBS.
In the Mt. Washington Baptist Church
services will be held BY the Presbyterian,
Baptist Methodist Episcopal and United
Presbyterian congregations of that elevated
section of the city. Rev. M. J. Smalley,
tho q. P. minister, will preach.
At Bellevue union service will be held
Dy the Protestant churches in the Methodist |
Episcopal edifce. The sermon will be de- |
ivered by Rev. Newton Donaldson, of the |
Presbyterian church.
Rev. 81. H. Stiles will preach at the reg |
1lar morning hour in the Forty-third Street |
Presbyterian Church.
A union service will be held in the North |
Avenue NJ. E. Church.
In the Protestant Episcopal churches the |
services will be elaborate, and there espe-
,ially fine music will be the feature of the
occasion. At Trinity Church, the rector,
Rev. Samuel Maxwell, will deliver the SER
non, and the vested choir will sing one of /
he showiest of musical services. Barn.
Iby's so Lord, How Manifold' will be the
'fertory. In the Catholic churches there
will be an early morning mass appropriate
o the day.
The evening will be given up to bazaars,
oncerts, dances and social parties of all pos
ible sorts. There will be many weddings
Turing the day. Over 40 marriage licenses
we're issued yesterday. The license clerk
vas given scarce time to eat his midday
unch.
The East Liberty branch Of the Y. NJ. G.
will this evening give an entertainment
a the Shady Avenue Baptist Church.
here are to be piano, guitar and vocal Sc
ections and recitations There will be a
estival in the Butler Street NJ. E. Church,
n art bazaar by the School of Design, a
upper in the Ames NJ. E. Church at Hazel
rood, banquet and ball IN Salisbury Hall
y the George w. Childs Commandery of
be A. o. q. W., afternoon and evening
ances in Imperial Hall on New Grant
treet, an afternoon and evening reception
a Lawrence Turn Hall by the John j.
)avis Commandery, Knights of the Mystic
lhain; masquerade ball in the Southside
urn Hall by the Forest Stream Club, and
balls and receptions in all
arts Of the city. Every hall in the city