New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-27
THE DAY OF THANKSGIVING.
HOW 1T WILL BE OBSERVED IN THIS OILY
SERVICES WILL BE HELD IN THE CHURCHES
VARIOUS CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS WILL
GIVE DINNERS, THE THEATRES WILL
PRESENT ATTRACTIVE BILLS
AND ATHLETES WILL COM
PETE FOR GLORY.

AND ATHLETES WILL COM
PETE FOR GLORY.
Thanksgiving Day, 1890, will be no eAcep..o" "a "A
those which have preceded IL III "'' IT, y, {ha
variety of its entertainments. The fine wea'he, Va INV
,as, tow DAYS has infused good spirits INTO u'e ma
,ori,v n, the citizens and has led them 10 ioo. TUT
ward with more than usual interest 10 '''o w .
tions and good dinners today "oo' INV" ~ ,
at al Gresides People of all classes i''Nc w.
during the last few days making prepir"''o"' ''' Wv
80, 1,s,ivtv The market places nave Dech
" ~. roonv q nroud and well-fed turkey was
,,aea sor ~ conntry,s good There the usual
exodus of people to NewEngland and the hes,'oolie
States and the trains leaving the V"iio"' ''''" "
the cty we're crowded last evening
SERVICES IN THE CHURCHES.
Tho psual services will be held in most OF the
churches in this city. Many oi them "aNo oo''
Socoo,ed IN honor of the day, and flowers and palms
almost obscure their pulpits union service oil 'e
alien Street Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church.
the Seventh Presbyterian Church. the Alien HuNe'
Memorial Presbyterian Church ana tue ForsI@ o"eo'
Methodist Episcopal Church viii be held at 10
o,c,ock in tbs Allen street Memorial Church. Ill living
,o,st between Ludlow and orchard SITS. In addition
10 the music addresses will be delivered by the Kew
Messrs F. V. D. Garretson, W. H. Lawrence 'ohh l.
Wall and NJ. F. Compton.
There will be union services also. of the Hope Chapel
tho OIvet Chapel. the De Wit Memorial Chnpei ana to
seventh Street Methodist Church. in the second street
Methodist Church, between AYES. c and d. this morn
ing at 10 o'cloch' -. -ona
st. and Secondave., the Rev. Dr. David IL WylI' "'ll
preach the Thanksgiving sermon Ills snpJeo' VIII
bo Facts and Principles of Christianity ~ Coec'oh
with Our National History" The services VIII DeEh
at IL O'clock AZ the Protestant EpiScoia C""It"
- the Heavenly Rest, there will be addresses by tho
Rev. Braddn Hamilton the rector. and the ke'' d.
D. Parker Morgan. Holy communion VIII be ocic
brated at g O'Clock a. IN. sermons VIII nc ueh'c'e'
in almost all Of the other churches OF the clty'
Preparations for the celebration of THANKSGIVING III
the various institutions under the charge of The COM
missioners of Charities and Correction nave pce"
made upon an elabOra.c scale. Every year hl' wy
pays about 80 900 for chickens, turkeys onions porh
and apples for the purpose OF giving It's PRISONERS
DOOR insane and manned and blind the pressure
~ Thanksgiving dinner. BY direction OF President
Porter there were delivered yesterday at all INC
public institutions several Thousand pounds OF turkeys
and chickens owing the large quantities in when
they were purchased, the prices for clhckehs "Gc
only cents pound and for turkeys IL IL cents
Interesting Thanksgiving services will he held III
the other hospitals and charitable institutions OF tho
city The fortieth annual Thanksgiving of the Five
Points Mission will be celebrated at No 63 PaFk-St
The exercises will begin with entertainment by tho
children in the chapel at 80 O'Clock. Dinner VIII
be served to several hundred children In the large
school room at O'Clock.
AT the Five Points House of Industry, No. 135
worths the usual dinner will be served to the children
at 1 O'Clock At O'Clock the annua! dinner 10 tho
"outside poor will be given. Interesting services
will take place in the chapel at O'Clock.
The 900 children at the COl0red orphan Asylum
Onehundred forty third ST. aud Tclhave, Will eat
their dinner at O'Clock.
The exercises AZ the Hebrew Orphan Asylum, one
hundred nd thirty -ei2hst aud TeAth2ve, VIII DC
of than ordinary interest. In addition TO the
drntr thee VII be ores, arad al 20 oc.oci p m
irhc Howard Mission ana Ilome for Little wan
derers No LOS Fifh-s Will give the annual dinner In
Annex Hail. No. Is Fourthavc., from II TO q O'Clock
p. IN.
Tie usual Thanksgiving services will take place at
ST. Barnabas House to-day. Under the auspices OF tho
House families will be supplied also with the gon
things OF life" al ST. Ambrose Mission, i'll the Eghii
Ward and al the Italian church, san salvador.
In Gods Providence Mission Sunday school, No.
o37 Broome-st Thanksgiving festival will b. held at
s o'cloc, I'm the evening. A large number OF people
will he fed as usual at the ST. Andrews onecent coffee
stands. Al the New-York Hospital and a the Roo'e-
welt Hospital the annual dinners VIII be served Ex'
ercses will be held and dinner served also at the
Home OF the Frendiess, No 20 East Twenty -nnt-st
The Hebrew shetering orphan Asylum, One-h1ndred'
andtwenty fifth st. and the Boulevard; juvenile ASy
un One-hundred- Grd-sevcnty sXthst and Tenth ave
the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, OnchundTcd and sixty
secondst and the Boulevard tie Berachah Orpnanage
Unc-hundGed ard sixty-hrst-st. AID the boulevard
Founding Asylum, sixty eighth ST and Thrdavc; tho
Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum the Wilson Industrial
school; st. JcsephS Night Refuge and at the LADIES
Auxiliary Society of the Peabody Home.
PLAYS AT THE THEATRES.
In a day OF general rejoicing the theatres usually
take an important part They Will DO so to-day, all
the leading play houses having special malilees
DAYS is always a favOrtc theatre on holidays, and
Who Last No.d ar {
two performances. MIR. Willard will play "The Mid
dleman' at Psmers Theatre, afternoon and evening
and a Pair OF spectaeIes" and after Thoughts
Will be seen at the Madison Square. The kehdal
will give "A Scrap Of Paper" at the Fifth Avenn'
Theatre in the afternoon, and The Ironmcster' ii
the evening. There will be special ma,inees OF " TIT
Idern at the Lyceum, Poor Jonathan" at the Casino
suasetr and DR.. Bill" at the Garden. " Men am
Women at Proctor's, and Shenandoah at the Crane
Opera House.
In the nciGhborhood Of Fourteenthst. there will b
matinees of The Old Homestead at the Academy o
Music The Crucinx Carver of Ammcrgaa" at TN
Amberg, The County FAIR at the Union Square
.Thc senator" at the STAR Tony Pastors company a
his own theatre and Blue Jeans" at the Fourteenth
street.
"A Texas steer will be given twice at the Biiou,
will .The Inspector at the New Park and "Pippins
n, the proadway "Claudus Nero and the lion
will be seen afternoon ard evening at Nino's Garden
There VIII be a special Thanksgiving Day programn'
nj tho Eden Niusee, and extra matinee at koste
Balls.
In Harlem Miss Margaret Mat1er and her compan
will appear twice at the Columbus Theatre and tn
Lillpatians in "The Pupil in Magic at the liareT
Opera House.
Tho,is apds Of school children were made happy at IN
close OF tner lessons yesterday by the announeemet
that they would have a vacation until Mondty morning
MANY Of the pupils and teachers left the city last ever
ing to spend today in the country.
SOME ENTERTAINMENTS OF TIE DAY.
The officers Of the American Museum Of Natur'
History expect to several thousand people at ii
Museum today. In order to give many people
possible All opportunity to view the Interesting co
Iections now In the building the trustees have decide
to keep the Museum open from O'Clock this mornir
until 10 O'Clock this evening AT O'Clock this afie
noon Professor Albert ,. BickmCgc VIII deliver an b
tereating lecture upon The Forests OF America al
Tncir CommelTiS, Products" free 10 all who ce>irc
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