New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-11-24
BREAKING OF A GLAD DAY.
THE HOMELESS AND FRIENDLESS ONES
OF THE CITY WILL HAVE
"THANKSGIVING.'

CHARITY WORKERS WILL FEED THE POOR AND
SICK. AND THE CIILpREN WILL EN-
JOY THE ANNUAL FEAST.
In spite OF their training in the public and sun
dav schools there will re many little maieralists
who Will gohble their turkey dinners to-day with
no more knowledge Of why there are so many good
things than certain Tommy Jones had last
tommy. You are thankful aren't you?" asked his
'Guess am. nom"
turkey. o. course"-,hs between mouthfuls.
"Oh Tommy. FOR nothing else
Yes. MON, for plum pudding
Thanksgiving made many places in this city busy
ones yesterday. Mrs. Laura Perry Swinburne gave
out supplies for Thanksgiving dinners to the fami-
les OF fifty soldiers whom she had been personally
interested in since the New England Nomens war
Commission ceased its active "ork she was h.p'
busy the greater part OF the day at her nome NO
iSa West Foriy-hfjh-st.
Mrs H i Miller and a corps OF workers from the
Womens Patriots Relief Association gave ma
terials for Thanksgiving dinner to every soldier
wife or mother who called yesterday at No. I'll
Eishth-avc
A, tho West Side Fruit and Flower Mission the
members were kept busy Yesterday from 10 a. m
20 p m distributing turkeys. bunches Of celery
end quarts of cranberry sauce 10 needy people
Special attention was paid 10 the sick in the tene
ments
Colonel Robert G Gardner OF the Volunteers Of
America had a busy day preparatory to the Thanks
giving feast 10 hc given to-day the poor. Sup
eerai cooks spcn tho dav in roasting turkeys that
gave forth Understanding SAVIOR"
The New-York Rescue Band will welcome every
homeless man or woman who applies at its mission
No Il Doyers-st. to-day. There viii be number OF
tables spread and they will be laden down With viz
coffee and cranberry sauce
Mrs CORTLAND do Peyster Field will give an IN
formal reception 20 working girls at her home NO
q Eas, Twenty-siXth-st. to-day at $3.50 O'Clock
There will be a simple gospel service followed by
music and singing and cake fruit ice cream ana
lemonade viii be served in abundance. livery work
ing girl will be- welcomed
Eieh, hundred happy. hungry children will get
even with the turk they themselves put II. at
the Five Points House Of Industry to-day at .
o'clock Before dinner they will give an entertain,
ment. which viii include music rotations ana
finale
Mrs Elliott F slcrard Will give dinner 10 hard
working mothers and the CITY Mission and Tract
Society VIII deliver fifteen hundred dinners at the
homes Of as many families Tho ChidIen's Aid So
cieiy will feed the six thousand itle waits In rs
an bootblacks happy At the Duane-st school where
there will be a large THANKSGIVING spread
The sixty-fourth Thanksgiving celebration Of the
Home for the Frendess. No. % East Twenty min tn
ST will ne happy event for the children. They
will dine at L. o'clock. and at o'clock wifi entertain
their guests with "a Joyous Thanks giving pro-
gramme and then the Rev Dr H. NJ Sanders will
give them talk
Az Bellevue Hospital l.l50 pounds % chicken and
Co. pounds Of turkey have been provided for the pa
TENTS Forty pounds Of turkey and eighty-hve
pounds Of chicken were sent TO Gouverneur Hos
pital yesterday. and about the same quantity TO
Inc FOrdham ana Harlem hospitals
But is not only the poor homeless that will
he glad for i'm tenement fiat and stately mansion
boys and girls will set up happy to-day because II
is Thanksgiving Some may pronounce X Thanks
giyin' and call the patron bid % the cay "tolkey'
but they Will all enjoy it equally well and If arsto-
cratic .'dressne'' and pic beian "stu:i0' " make
teachers wonder why Marion and Lizzie 90 not ap-
near st school tomorrow j. Will all he accepted as
The results Of the great American holiday and as
something that occurs annually