The evening times., 1899-11-29
FEW 4HANKSGIVINGFE7ES
Official Mourning Will Result in a
Qniet Celebration.
No Entertainments to BE Given at
the White House or in the Homes
of High OEcials-The Day to BE
Devoted to Church Services and
Feasting-Departme to Close.


dent Hobart and the official mourning con-
cial and diplomatic Washington will be
celebrated in very quiet manner.
President Mckinley will attend divine
service in the forenoon and thereafter re-
turn to the White House to eat his turkey.
surrounded by the members of his imme-
diate family. There are no invited guests.
and no arrangements have been made for
entertainments OF any kind.
The members of the Presidents Cabinet.
as well as the Justices of the Supreme
Court have dessted from making any
| elaborate preparations or issuing invita-
iions fer Thanksgiving parties. They Will
attend church in the morning and return
home and quietly spend their Thanksgiving
in the immediate circle OF their families.
The representatives of the foreign pow
ers will also abstain from their usual bril-
liant Thanksgiving Day parties and observe
official mourning on account of the Vice
Presidents demise.
Admiral Dewey received his turkey from
the same Rhode Island admirer that fur
nished the President with the ThanksglV-
ing bird. A box of cranberries has been
sent him by a Boston firm. The Admiral
and Mrs Dewey have not issued any invita-
tiuns. but will spend the day in quiet
way.
Day OF Rest and Prayer.
| Nearly all toll not absolutely needed to
keep the great engine Of industrial life in
motion will be suspended in Washington
tomorrow. Men will lay down their tools
and take up their prayer books. The rush
of traffic in the streets will be stiiled. and
chimes will ring in many steeples. Thanks
giving will be devoutly observed.
Just as the Pilgrims did 27S years ago,
so will the people of Washington give
thanks to the Author OF All Good. And the
observance of the day will not be con-
| fined to Washington nor to the United
| States, but wherever the American flag
| flies The proclamation of the President is
| to be given application in Cuba, Porto
Rico. Hawaii. Guam, and the Philippines.
| Prayers will be offered up from every ship
| of the American Government. no matter
| in what sea or in what port she may be.
! The day in Washington has always had
deep religious significance. and tomorrow
services will be held in practically every
| church in the city. Catholic and Protes-
! tant will kneel and present their supplica-
! tions to the same throne. The Theosophist
and nearly all the other cults will hold
meetings. The executive departments will
be closed and only such public business
as is essential to the public good will be
I transacted. Many of the stores Will close,
/ though some of them will keep open during
part of the day.
The municipal employees may spend the
| day at their homes instead OF at their Of
| fees. Only the fremen and policemen will
remain at their posts.
| Special Services.
| Mass will be celebrated at St Matthew'S
! Catholic Church at o'clock and a prayer
1 for the civil authorities, which was dedi-
Gated by Archbishop Carroll. the first Cath
| olic bishop in America will be offered.
! At Wesley NJ. E. Chapel the Rev. DR.. L.
| B. Wilson will preach on the good that
came to the human family during the
year.
| The Rev Frank Sewali. pastor of the
| New Church. will preach at II oclocl, on
THE Good Thanksgiving.
The military mass, which was 10 have
! been celebrated at st. Aloysius Church,
has been postponed: That church is un-
| dergoing repairs and Thanksgiving mass
/ may not be said. Nearly every other
church in the city will hold services.
In a number of the churches food is be-
| ing taken to the Sunday school rooms.
whence 1t will be distributed tomorrow
! among the poor. Busy scenes of the na-
ture indicated were being enacted at the
Fourth Presbyterian Church on Columbia
! Heights today. The pastor, the Rev Dr.
/ Kelly issuel a call on Sunday for dona-
tions for the poor, and the Sunday school
| room today bore some resemblance to a
| market. Baskets, each containing 4
| Thanksgivi dinner. were being prepared
| by a committee of ladies.
| Where Charity ReiEns.
Thanksgiving will be observed as usual
in all the eleemosynary institutions in the
District and the inmates of the various or
phan asylums and homes for old and in
digent people will have flccks of stuffed
turkeys, red seas of cranberry sauce, and
forests Of celery.
Special preparations for the fitting OBJ
servance of the day at the Epiphany
Church Home for Aged Women, 1919 H
Street; German Orphan Asylum. Good Hope
Road; Government Hospital for the In
sane, Home fer the Aged, in H Street
northeast; House of the Good Shepherd, at
Thirty-sixth and T Streets; Lentahll Home
for Widows, Louise Home Methodist Home
for Aged WCmen, National Lutheran Home
for the Aged. the Reform School, Reform
School for Girls, st. AIMS Infant Orphan
Asylum, st. Joseph's Orphan Asylum, St.
Roses Industrial School, Washington City
Orphan Asylum, Washington Hospital for
Foundlings, WCmen's Christian Association
Home, and many other similar institutions.
The prisoners at the jail and the work
house will be served with a dinner of un-
usual excellence and religious services will
be held.