The evening times., 1895-11-27
EVENTS FOR TOMORROW
Doinss, Dinners and Other Mat
tiers Of Public Interest.
SERVICES IN THE CHURCHES
President Cleveland and Hts Wife VIII
Hear DR.. Taima2e's Sermon-The-
aters VIII Give Special Matinees
and There Will be Football Games
Galore.

Tie American eagle gives way tomor
row to the turkey and the crow.
The one will tR the dish OF the people and
the other will be food for the politicians
who went under during the recent land
slide.
Tomorrow the glories of patriotism will
give way to the pangs Of indigestion, but
nobody will on that account forego their as
saults on the juicy barnyard fowl.
1t has been decreed by the head Of the ma
ton, the chief of the commonwealth and di-
rector OF mumcipal affairs, that on Thurs
day, November 20, tue people Of the land
are to look back on all the good that had
come their way during the year and observe
the day as one OF universal Thanksgiving.
1t requires but little urging on the part
Of any one to induce the men OF the present
to take holiday, especially when such an
occasion has been made q national insti-
tuition, and is looked forward to with ex-
pectancy.
1t being a legal holiday, the national and
municipal departments will suspend opera
tions for the day, and the officials be given
an opportunity to ruminate.
WHAT THEY WILL DO.
President Cleveland and his family will
spend the day at home according to their
present programme. The Chief Executive
and his family will attend the First Pres
byteriau Church where Rev. T. Dewitt
Talmage will preach the Thanksgiving SER
mon. This will be the first morning sermon
DR.. Talmage has preached since he was in
stalled as cO'pastor of the church.
The Secretary of State and Mrs. Olney
aud will probably have few friends with
them.
Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle Will also have
a few friends TO dinner with them.
Secretary and Mrs. Hoke Smith will have
an old-time Southern Thanksgiving at their
home.
Secretary and Mrs. Lamont will dine at
home.
Secretary aud Miss Morton will dine with
some friends.
Postmaster General and Mrs. Wilson and
Attorney General and Mrs. Harmon viii
spend the day quietly.
Secretary Herbert viii also dine at home.
Whether they will have turkey dinner
Thanksgiving Day or not is a question
that is now agitating the minds of the
heads of many uf the poorer classes in this
city.
From the preparations now being made
it would seem that the charitable institu-
tions uf the city are trying TO see that every
pour family that does not have the price
of the turkey will get one.
At the Central Union Missiun IL has been
the custom Fur years to send 1000 families,
who were unable Ia buy IL, Thanksgiving
dinner.
The families are not given the dinner al
ready prepared, but are furnished basket
containing the raw material for one Of
the Old-rashinaed dinners. The dinner
given this class OF peuple consists OF
chicken or turkey, accurIing to the size
of the family, a half peck III potatoes. one
pound uf butter, one d1zep apples. two loayes
of bread, one pound OF sugar, one pint OF
beans, a quarter pound III tea, half pound OF
coffee, and one pound OF rice.
The names and addresses of the needy
families are furnished by the agents of the
union, who are usually on the lookout for
cases where the Thanksgiving basket will
come in handy for some little time before
the day arrives. AS these agents Of the
mission are at work all the year round, and
associate mostly with the poor and in IN
stances, destitute, IL is not at all hard to
discover a thousand families in n city with
the population this has, to whom a real
Thanksgiving dinner is indeed a luxury.
These gifts of dinners are not confined TO
the pauper class. but are sometimes given
to families who are too poor to afford a
turkey, even once year. The work of dis
tribution is all done free OF charge.
A FREE DINNER.
The mission has also prepared to furnish
free dinner to 500 people at the mission
building on Louisiana avenue northwest.
There will be 500 tickets distributed, and
in order that the poor Of the city are not
Gro wded out, 400 tickets will be given to
the local poor. One hundred of the cards
of admission will be retained at the mission
and given to the people who drift in during
the feast.
Warden Leonard's boarders at the East
ern Branch Hotel, or, as it is better known.
the jail, will also have a change from their
regular fare of ''P otomac robins" The
menu for tomorrow will include turkey.
or course, the men who remain the guests
of the warden, simply because they cannot
get away, Will not be permitted to choose
white or dark meat, as they wish.
1t Will simply be a case of take what you
get. The addition of the Thanksgiving bird
to the bill of fare at the Jail will undoubt-
a delicacy that seldom figures on the list
as a steady diet at the jail.
The prisoners at the workhouse will also
have dinn er given them. marked change
no weyer, will be observed the dress suit is
at this Substitution. and it is expected
that Mr.. StantenDerg SSueStS Willail appear
in a dress of white cloth, with heavy blue
stripes running around the figure.
The workhouse diners will also have to
dispense with visitors, and no outsiders
will be allo wed at the dinner. 1t is n we'll
known fact, however, that the people con-
fined there are all exclusive, and for thirty,
sixty and ninety days seldom mix with
the outside world.
At the 'Vag Hotel'' the inmates have to
I.z.- fs T..
that any of the star" boarders will object
to the age or previous condition of servitude
Of the turkeys prepared for them, although
there are any number of fine judges of the
bird at the >place.
Some of them went there for rest. because
it had been such laborious work selecting
nice fat gobblcrs out Of their neighbors'
coops during the dark of the moon.
DAINTIES FOR THE POOR.
The young people of the Fourth Presby-
erian Church will furnish load of Thanks
giving dainties to the inmates of the District
Doorhouse.
A turkey dinner will be served at the
Young Women's Christian Home. on c street
northwest. The people in the home will en-
10y ali old-fashioned Thanksgiving dinner,
and one of the features of 1t will be hoecakes
baked in the ashes.
The inmates of allthe orphan asylums and
hospitals will also have cause to give thanks,
as great preparations are being made TO
give them all an excellent dinner.
On Thanksgiving evening there will be a