The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-25
THE TURKEY HASTHE FIELD
THANKSGIVING WILL BE DESERTED
 IN TRUE NEW ENGLAND STYLE.

Buyers Yesterday-Fine Weather for the occssion-Sports Which Will Entertain To-day-Religiou Services to be Held in Various Churches.
 Once more Thanksgiving is here. once more friends and relations gather about the festive board to express their thank fitness in feats of epicurean skill, once l more is the proud and strutting gobbler torn ruthlessly from his native barn. yard to grace, amid the garnishments of | the season, the board of the thankful. And what weather for the occasion. Even Old Probabilities himself seems in touch with the sentiment of the sea- son, and as indicated by last nights | clear sky and a genuine old-fashioned crispy cold, Thanksgiving air The streets yesterday afternoon and last evening were filled with turkey buyers, and every store where the fowls were offered for sale was filled with picking, pricing patrons. Many a family man l could be seen vending his way along the streets with huge package under his arm, the protruding pedal appen- dages proclaiming another conquest of | King Turkey.
 In the general Thanksgiving of the prosperous the poor have not been for gotten, and arrangements have been made by the various charitable organi- zations about the city so that the gifts, together with private benefactions, will probably provide large proportion of | the needy and destitute families in the \ city with a dinner appropriate to the occasion. At Welcome Hall ninety l baskets of provisions were given out yesterday. In each basket was placed | ample provision for a family dinner, each basket containing besides vegeta- bles and trimmings either turkey or a chicken. These baskets were given out { at a mothers meeting, at which devo- ! tional services were held. To-day about a dozen children will be dined at the Hall. They are children to whose fam | flies it was not thought advisable to send baskets of provisions.
 POOR TO BE PROVIDED FOR.
 From the Organized Charities yester- 1 day afternoon 150 families were provid- ed for. Loads of provisions, donated by the children of the various city schools, were gathered up. Each child | contributed package of vegetables or provisions of some kind, and at the 1 Charities building the packages contain ing the same kinds of articles were l emptied into barrels; then from these | barrels flour sacks were filled. One of these sacksful was given to each appli- cant who brought a ticket from Vel come Hall, English Hall or other mis- sions. The distribution will continue un- | til 12 o'clock this forenoon.
 Three teams were kept busy yester-
 day gathering up the articles donated, and from Roger Sherman school alone two loads were obtained this being the
 largest donation given by any school in the city. In all about fifteen wagon
 loads were collected from the schools. Class No. of Hillhouse high school has given to MT. Preston $10 collected from members of the class. This money
 the pupils desired to be expended in buying provisions for dinners for poor families
 At Calvary Industrial home on Chapel
 street turkey dinner with all the fix ings will be served to the thirty-one in-
 mates. In the evening special Thanks
 giving services will be held
 ADJUSTMENTS OF THE DAY.
 As business will be very generally suspended throughout the city to-day,
 most of the clubs have arranged for
 some special entertainment in sports or l otherwise The New Haven Gun club
 will hold fox hunt in Orange. The
 club will leave the Union depot at
 o'clock this morning and will spend
 the day in hunting Renard on Turkey and Grassy Hill. It is expected that the party will consist of fifteen hunters. A pack of ten hounds will be taken along.
 l At Yale field this morning football enthusiasts will have an opportunity to see good game. The strong Hillhouse high school eleven and the Franklin Athletic club team will be the contest ants. Hillhouse will play the same team that won the interscholastic championship from New Britain. On
 the Franklin team will be some former
 Yale substitutes, and the game prom ises to be full of interest. It will begin at 10:30 o'clock.
 The Empires, a local football team, l will play the Branfords in Branford, ! and a number of New Haveners will go l over to TOOL TOT lIle INSW L16INcIl ISetiii.
 SERVICES IN THE CHURCHES. l Special Thanksgiving services will be 1 held in many of the churches. The Congregational churches of the city will hold a union service at Center church
 at il o'clock this morning. Rev. Dr.
 SInyth will preach the sermon.
 The Olivet Baptist and Taylor Con-
 gregational churches will unite in a Thanksgiving service in the former
 church this morning. at 10:30 Rev. A.
 M Hall and Rev. Allyn K. Foster will
 make short addresses.
 A union Thanksgiving service will be
 held at the First Methodist church at 1 Il o'clock. Rev Levi Gilbert, D. D., | will preach the sermon.
 A union Thanksgiving service of Bap- | tist churches will be held at the Cal vary Baptist church at Il o'clock a. m. Rev. Addison Moore will preach the ser 1 mon.