New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-25
NETWORK GAVE THANKS.
A DAY OF VARIED OBSERVANCE.


DRATION-GAMES AND FEASTS AND SERVICES.
TIC stranger who went ont yesterday morning aud
aoeing banners flying. people everywhere In holiday
attire. and urchins in fantastic etching footing horns
Rad begging pennies would have asked what it all
>eant. and getting fOr answer This Is the day
The Pilgrims made" would have wondered what kind
OF people those Pilgrims were. Thanksgiving has u
varied tone, yet il has q character Of It's OXn, and
however much its orignG, significance has been over
shadOwsd by the festivities Of different peoples SIN
a semblance Of its Old idea remains. II is not like
any other day. For one thing, II has no catcIwor1.
Your Puritan scli-cOntaned and sober lie
did not on his pecula: day give shouts of joyful
greeting, like Merry Christmas ana Happy New
Year" 1t never occurred to him in religious en-
thusasm to say like tie Russian peasant, Christ is
Iiscn,' ard look for the answer He is risen indeed
US though ii had never been said before. Instead OF
that, he solemniY went to church, and in that his
posterity, by blood or influence followed him.
The churches in New-Iork and BROOKLYN neatly
all open and almost every prominent clergyman
preached, the most notable exception being that OF the
Rev. Dr. John II. Paxton, who thought II useless 10
ask his people to desert the football game. In gen
eral, the churches We're well filed Everybodys face
showed that he had something TO rejoice over even II
IL only the humble thanfulness tat he perhaps
had not, like Hawthome's traveller. found the I'M
pardonable sin. Most people. though. had more ap-
parent cause for thankfuness, and hearty was the
chant from many voices: 20, give thanks unto the
Lord for lie is gracious and His mercy endureh for
ever"
The shone brightly from early morning and a
htsk breeze blowing cold enough for hints Of snow
made On ideal early winter day. The Earth herself
seemed to be IN thanksgiving mood. perhaps because
the had not crushed her. but only thrown at her
shooting Stars for Kisses as he rushed ON in Ms cratic
COURSE Then, too She had other cause for rejoicing
Another generation OF her sons, like their brother
Artacus, invincible While their feet were on Tie
ground, Ind gathered for trial OF strength. Their
battle Tags limiting OF the blue laws OF Old Con
necucut and of the origin Of Nassau Hall, were
seen on every SIDE COiegans swung them. they
Auttered 81 the hands OF maidens, and Shopkcepcrs
flung them forth. An incoming train on Wednesday
might brought girl whose first greeting from sister
was "Oh, we've got such yards OF blue rbboH' and
she was bit OF multitude. The trains brought
home boys WELL and in the streets yesterday were
seen many cadet uniforms and bright scbooboy faces
Mary had turned the other way for the family re-
unions In old country homes. but there were almost
nunberless genuine Thank giving dinners here. The
turkey. the chicken pie and the pumpkin pic held
their traditional sway. There is family OF New
England lineage record in whose laiders Thanks
giving found no pie for hungry mouths, but such
recreance 70 American ideas must have been In
deed. The stranger and wayfarer hud his Thanks
giving dinner for thc hotels made special efforts 10
cheer him UP, and even the French table d'hote made
conc es<ons to the gastronomic habits Of The day.
Over on the East side happiness regued. The
Children, whether they knew what the day meant
or not, knew 1t holiday and were lust brim-
full Of thankfulness. They thronged the streets
masked as beggars and they went In crowds 10 en-
10Y the good times provided In their schools and
missions. At the House Of Industry and the mission
ut Five Points fully 1000 children and large num-
Der OF grown people had their Thanksgiving dinner
and enjoyed music and Rotations. The Home for
the Friendess visited by crowds. Other .nstl-
c1ies that line the bay and numerous Charitable In
situations saw to II that all worthy families that they
could find had dinner worthy Of the DAY. Neiher
we're the inmates OF the public Institutions forgotten.
At the Tombs. In Ludlowst. and ~ ESseS Market the
prisoners had n feast. on Backwelrs. Wards and
Randals islands turkeys to be found In plenty,
md private Institutions too numerous to catalogue
and private citizens whose names are never known
went with horns of plenty among their pensioners
One institution, the Hebrew Shelteriag Guardian 50
ciety celebrated by opening It's new orphan asylum
There were other housewarmiDcs as well.
The Yale Princeton game was by no means the only
manifestation OF the athletic and sporting spirit which
Of late years has been so prominent In Thanksgiving
observance There trotng at Fleetwood PARK
and the Parkway Driving Club. Brooklyn shoouhs
nj the Country Club. crOss-connry runs by several
clubs bicycle runs by wheelmen. athletic games III
the Navy Yard and football games IN great number
The theatres. too were all open and strange to
s. Y.
,on traditions that they crowded nearly all the
borses for the matinee performances and also the
evening plays.
7. was Gay OF varied observance. and every taste
found Its fitting celebration 1t was crowded ini OF
good things. and when night came surely lew ,h'ie
were wherever found. whose hearts woald ho' i'''c
answered responsibility to the refrain OF The Bene-
d,c,,e y Praise Hin and magnify Him for ever
SERVICES IN TIE CHURCHES.
nd over
TIE dg annual fight OF pluck ana muscle" there seemed
-, no enough pcope IN the city who had not forgotten
tho original cests for which THANKSGIVING DAY "o
been appointed 10 partially fill the chuFch'S' where
the masters preached The usual sermons appropriate
a tho day some OF The orsanlsts and chorn'aS'e;'
had arranged special musical programmes bu' 'he'e
was n lack 0; enthusiasm about the singing ana 'he
sa-,a~.s rcrnrolly which has come 70 be the rule
with tnis almost periunctory thanksgiving.
=, rrrrtfv Church there WIS the usual ca1ofa'c
service with The fun choir. The programme iHcl''I
Dr. A. H. Mc~i,er's effective setting oil inc i''''
pain: stanforls spirited "Jubliatc' th' Hr't ~"
numbers ~ Covers "scrg Of thanksgiving ana
rovdn,s seventh Mass DR.. DIX. the rector. WIS "'e
1,,,,-on4 and preacher. in his sermon ne s'i1 'Ia'
nmoor the thlncs the Nation should De u'an"iui ~
WAS -le safe dcllvcrauce Of the country from 'ne pe
Of cholera: they should FIST give thahAs 10 "ol "''
th,n 10 the men who lad 50 succesSIuiP IC"oN' -
,-ca ,rbera WAS great cause f0r thankiui"rss th"'
,bn country had passed sadly through the P@'''
a,,,,, vt,cl, every four years shook ihc Business
Of the Nation 90 its foundations. IL woud pe '',i
bec-. he thought. II the Presidential e'cc''o" "'''
came every six or ten years
Union services held Yesterday "o'', w., a.
IL O'Clock in the Rev. Dr. Peter ouNher i'
fourth street Reformed Church 'hnr'n'' W ,nI
I'm the services were the Fourth PreNDY'''i"n '""'
an, ~, Th,r,,.th Street Chelsea Methodist Epsoopi
Church. The Rev DR.. Kerr, OF the Fourth r'"SDS
,ersa Church. offered PRAYER and the Kew D. ". =
Dodge. Of TIE Tlhriicth street Me'hoo'"' hp'7'op-
Church. made a brief address on the Temporal u ~
being enjoyed BY The world. wmi" Tue NJ
STRIKER ,p1kc Of the spi;i'u'l Die4si"sa' IN e,"oa,