New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-23
TURKEY AND THANKSGIVING
SOME OF THE WAYS THE HOLIDAY WILL BE
SPENT.
FEAsTING IN HIGH AND LOW LIFE AND ATH-
LETIc spoRTs-rHE GREAT FOOTBALL GAME
- n.uU cpOrrNDS-TNEORr

on THE EASTERN PARK GRoUNDS-INBoR-
NATION FOR THE HoUsEKEEPER
Next comes the turkey and the plum pudding! Every
natriotic Americans earnest and undivided attention
from now until the morning OF November 20 VIII %
concentrated OH Thanksgiving Day. AS next Ihhisuay
draws near the signs multiply thai the coming hohuay
will eclipse anything OF Its kind ever seen hereaDou'S
The shipment Of turkeys chickens CHICKS, etc., 10 'is
cty within the past days has been unprecedented
and the great downtown markets, Washington anu
Fulton and all the streets in which the commIS
sion bouses abound have fairly hummed with the noise
Of the preparation for next Thursdays feasng Thou
sands OF barrels Of turkeys ready 10 De roasfo nave
crossed the North and Harlem rivers during the past
week and now liVe the warehouses downtown ana
overflow onto the sidewalks. Orders from the various
CITY institutions-the ayums. homes. reformatories
prisons and hospitals for turkeys, pies and potatoes
reaching IN the aggregate To great many thousands
If dollars have already been placed with the commits
sion merchants and if any man, even the most hard
cncd inmate of city prison. or the most forlorn out
cast and confirmed park tramp, goes hungry next
Thursday it will be his own fault
Uut the day will not be altogether given mp to
fea,ting and gormandzing. Special services are to
be held in all the churches, and rare music
will be heard for which the cholrs in most OF the
marshes have been practising assduousy for month
The themes Of the ministers in most cases will be
patriotic in character.
Then there is no day out Of the entire 365 Of me
calendar year that approaches THANKSGIVING in its
ation athletic sports with the possible exception OF
the ever-gorious Fourth Of July. Foremost in popular
interest this year last will be the great struggle for
the intercollegiate football championship between Yale
and Princeton the grounds Of Eastern Park, Brook
lyn. The enormous Interest excited In this game can
hardly be overstated Last year special came from
Pittsburg bringing interested group OF wealthy
people who were fully repaid by the sight Of the
memorable struggle Of the blue and orangeand
black colors in the miry black auvlum Of Berkeley
oval. This year people will come from a great many
places to this city, large number coming all the
way from Omaha. 1t Is safe to say that IfO such
throng Of college enthusiasts and their friends
been will pour across the Brooklyn Bridge
next Thursday afternoon. 1t is expected that Prince
ton and New-Haven will be literally depopulatcd on
Thanksgiving Day, while from the many colleges near
TO this city thousands Of students expect to be on hand
at Eastern Park the m0meptous afternoon and
81 root for their favorite colors.
Housekeepers who not wise enough to secure
Yesterdays Tribune with the useful and regular Sat
urday article showing Just what the prices In the
markets will be glad to know, doubtless that the
royal American bird, the turkey, be had at prices
that range from - to 20 cents pound. undrawn
and dry picked. They all prime SO the
poultry dealers declare, and never fatter or
better Tie best turkey for Thanksgiving table IS
Matched last spring winter and weighing about
twelve fifteen pounds. a gobbler OF this descrip-
ton will cost probably % cents a pound but the
purchaser will not regret the investment Then there
are ducks and chickens ranging between 10 and -
cents q pound. though the best roasting chickens
sell for % cents and spring chickens for 20 and GO
cents. 4 dozen plump little reed birds In q paste
board box cost ~ 10. Quail plentiful at 80 a
dozen; canvasback ducks are So pair; venison %
! cents pound wOodcOck, 81 % q pair; partridge.
~ 80 and grouse ~ - pair wild pigeons 81 and
English snipc 80 a dozen. Cranberries cost Il and
20 cents quart.
Oysters" said young Mr.. Blackford. son Of th,
well-kn0wn Fish Commissioner and president OF u,
Bedford Bank Of Brooklyn. yesterday well shoulC
smile They have never been plentiful or so IA
as this Thanksgiving week, and II Is secret tha
1 TIE price has not been advanced because OF the Ne
kinley BILL There are the famous Compo Mil ponds
for which Chicago restaurant keeper paid S32 q bar
rel. containing aboui 400 hasells, last year. Thes
VIII be sold In Fulton Market this year for the frs
time. They from the old Compo Mill pond, II
Connecticut, aud getting Just the night mixture O
fresh and salt water their favor is Incompatible The
sell for the following prices here Half Shells cen