The evening world., 1893-11-30
Thanksgiving Appropriately Oh
served in Gotham.
Inmates Of Public Institutions Boun.
tifulIy Cared For.
Special Services tn tho Churcbes-
Sports and Amusemonts.


~ to working UP an appetite in The open
air for the feast OF the evening shadows
/ The skies were heckcd with it'll,
clouds, the air was braCing. and there
was enough crispncss tn the tempera.
! turkey complete.
The great metropolis arose lazily. II
INDUCED in the regulation late nap he.
/ iOre arising for breakfast. and
those who must labor to provide the in.
! gradients of the Thanksgiving dinner
for the million. who deliver the early
post, who leave the family supply of
milk. who prepare the family newspaper
who run the a. trains and the street
cars, had few companions on the streets
| when they moved tn their several sta
lions Of employment.
! downtown was as dead as the Conven-
, tional door nail The walls of the tail
granite piles where the broker. the mer-
! live gave back resounding echoes of the
/ football Of the stray pedestrian as he
trod the .nagstone sidewalks of that por-
! ton Of the city below Canal street in
place Of the round million OF people who
| throng the market on busy days.
| IN" exchanges. tn" Federal, State and
nothing was doing. The Stars and
stripes, the state and tho municipal flags
noatcd lazily. on the city Hall, the castle
O. Marty keese, for the hol-
Office. t,ustom-liouse, Suh-Treasury.
Army and Navy Building, the banks,
| newspaper offices and other buildings,
and the symbols of a holiday were
! A little later the streets ere the scene
of tho parade of forty target companies.
rangers. schmetzen corps and other organ
izations of light-hearted men who made
themselves fantastic by masquerades Of
| all sorts
The saloons. the restaurants and the
| Of business open, and they seemed to he
doing not only their own regular bust
ness. but taking in tho money that would
ordinarily be distributed among the deal
crs In more substantial things.
Broadway was the parade ground Of
| another style Of celebrant-young men
IN topc2,atd and young Women in holi-
| the orange and black of Princeton at
| each other
People OF religious inclination found
the churches, for there were special SER
vice in nearly all Of them.
Sunetts festival Cdntatta was sung by
the choir aud congregation of Rev. Dr.
Henry \. Stinson's broadway Taberna-
Gle in the morning. Dr. Macarthur gave
| some object lessons in Americas politics
| at Calvary Baptist church. and after
the service mountain of fruits and
vegetables that had rested on the plat
form was melted away in distribution
to the poor. Rev. Stephen S. Wise de-
Jewish Temple to, the congregation
Bnai Jeshurim. and there were special
services in nearly AL the other churches
and synagogues of the. city
| Perhaps the most Interesting Of the
church services today Is that Of the
congregation Of the Brick Church and
the Church Of tho covenant; For years
they have united in the Thanksgiving
service. To-day they met at the Brick
| Church. Fifth avenue and Thirty-seventh
| street. and the meeting was OF peculiar
Significance. AS tn" Church of the Gov
enant is going ont Of existence to merge
! with tn" Brick Church forever.
| pr. Van Dyke. Of the Brick Church.
and Rev. J. u; Mcllvaln"., of the Cove
nant. appeared together in the pulpit.
the former conducting the services, the
other delivering the sermon. 1t was in
I the old Brick Church which stood on the
triangle between Nassau and Beekman
streets and Park Row that were held
the Thanksgiving services ordered by
the authorities Of New York in 1888 after
the British soldiers had evacuated the
! This afternoons programme included
the first review at the Twelfth Regiment
Armory Of the Baptist Boys Brigade of
Princeton football game on Manhattan
Field, and a dozen other football games
in ~ vicinity.
There We're grand dinners provided for
their special charges at the Five Points
Mission. Hone for lie Friendless. s.
Rarnabas's Home the st. Andrews
Penny Coffee Stand Society, 207 East
Broadway; Brace Memorial Lodging
House, . Duane street; East Side Lodg
ing-House, 2S7 East Broadway; Elizabeth
Home for Girls, 800 East Twelfth street :
Tompkins Square Lodging House, 295
Eighth street. and the West Side I.odg-
ing House, POI West Thirty-second street
All corners were invited to the places
n W he al Al ny piN No
dinners occurring from noon to > o'clock
The Children's Aid Society prepared
for the entertainment Of 100 children
Industrial Schools, and 800 by the United
Hebrew Charities at the Industrial
school, IS St. Marks place.
the children at all thu catholic institu-
tons, and at the institutions of the
Department Of Public Charities. For
the inmates of the Tombs, the Black
wells Island Penitentiary. Workhouse
House of Refuge. asylums and hospitals
the Department of Charities provided
200" pounds of turkeys and chickens
forty-hve barrels of onions, seventy-One
barrels of red apples twenty-three bar
rels of pork, and potatoes, bread, coffee
tea and other things to match.
The Ionkers Home for tn" Aged and
service, and the Sailors Snug Harbor
Staten Island. for theatricals, a CON
cert and dinner.
was down for =. NJ al 20 East Fourth
street
There viii hc "Evcning World" free
lectures this evening in all the free lee
turc rooms as follows, tn" lectures be
ing at s o'clock.
Grammar School No. .. Grove and
Hudson streets, by George Donaldson
THE Garden Of Eden To-day" Gram
mar School No. Is. No. 72s Fifth street
by f.. b. Dunn, The Science of the
Weather" Grammar School No g. Nos
80 and 30 city Hall place, by DIR. Ar
mold E.llOart. The Chemistry of Com
hustion;" Grammar School No. y, 2oG
East FOrty-SrCOnd street, 10y Surgeon e.
| H. Herndon. l.. :. y, Life in the
| Navy" Grammar School No, 30, No. AS
! West twenty eighth street. by Charles
NJ. Skinner prairie, Mountain and
shore Grammar School No, ~. No j23
/ West Furty-tourth street, Miss Ida Ben
| fey, Adam Bed";' Grammar school No.
" SEVENTEEN street and First avenue
/ by \; H.; Fisk The Art Of Photo
! graphing" Grammar School NJ. 81
! Lexington avenue ana NinrtY-siNth
street. 10y Edward King, odd World So
! lutious Of New World prOblrmS;" Gram
mar school No 81, Seventy seventh
street and Amsterdam avenue. by T.. W
Soaring, why Every one should Know
Something Of History" The Institute,
| East Broa1way ana Jefferson street, by
| DR.. w. II. Tolman, THE History OF
Labor" Madison Hall. one Hundred and
| rwenty-hfth street and Madison avenue
| by james Bowie. "Ireland;" tn" MelrOse
| I,NCplln ItuDITpl