New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-12-01
THANKSGIVING DINNERS.
THOUSANDS OF THE NEEDY WERE MADE
TO FEEL HAPPY.
CHARITY GAVE WITH UNsTlNTED HAND
AND JUSTICE SHOWED MERCY
TO THE PRISONER.

Seldom
iightful autumn weather as that OF yesterday lof
the endowment OF Thanksgiving Day. 1t is true
that such weather is not essential Tor the ENJOY
nent of a holiday devoted by the majority 10 nome
rest recreation and bountful dinners. Ihere are
many, indeed who think that frosty air ana oius.
tering wind are needed TO give the right KIM OF
annette for an old fashioned Thanksgiving onner'
hut ~ anvbodv in the city yesterday disap-
polrted because the air balmy and the SKY
was clear he not taking the trouble 10 COM
plain Most people declared that the day was per-
feet.
The observance Of the holiday in the city was
general There almost an entire suspension Oh
business and people went TO church in the morn
Ing in large numbers. Many were out enjoying
walks and drives and bicycles were seen In all the
streets The city almost as quiet as on a
Sunday although the parades Of ragamufins were
as noticeable usual on the holiday. Thousanos
Of city people had gone places In the country 10
attend reunions in old homesteads. TO play golf or
TO enjoy brief outings 1t said at the railroad
Offices that the Thanksgiving heera was larger
this year In the same proportion that the Depart
ures last year were larger than the year precedihs
The greatest amount OF travel was 10 the ->e"
England States
Housekeepers were thankful because poultry was
cheaper than usual at Thanksgiving time on ae-
count OF the continued mild weather of the last
few weeks The dealers prefer to sell goods cheap
rather than go to the expense OF refrigeration
CHARITY FED
In the greater city Thanksgiving Day was OBJ
served by the public institutions and charitable or
ganizations and the poor and helpless were re-
membered with the usual generosity and beneh-
cence which have characterized the people OF this
city At the Five Points House of Industry No
l55 Worth-st. $50 children had keen enjoyment OF 4
regular turkey dinner and fxings. In the after
noon after the feast they had exercises IN the
chapel. while the dining rooms were thrown open
and 800 needy men and women were fed. Right
across the way at the Five Points Mission there
was a dinner for 800 children and adults ms
was the forty-ninth annual dinner OF the klnd. Al
No 800 Broome-st. the New-York Protestant Epis-
copal Mission Society gave nearly one thousand
dinners. Cleanliness and sobriety were the only
requisites for admission.
One of the prettiest scenes in the city was al
The Florence CrittenJon Mission, No % BleeeKer-
ST. Thirty girls at dinner there. the mis-
sion gives thousands of meals yearly to homeless
and friendless women The United Hepre" Onai.
tiles gave a4ne dinner to children In its rooms az
Second-ave and Twenty -frst-st The Young men i :
Christian Association in the evening gave f a log
tbrd-st house. Five barrels of apples were
eaten The West Side branch gave for the I
provement Of thu Condition OF the POOR taxes caIe
of $50 families the year round and fed that NUMBER
ana MoIe eoi than two thousand boys and girls were
fed on a5uI by Schools ie There
tainments in some Of these schools YESTERDAY aIter
al
inSging houses for homeless boys and girls were
fed on elaborate turkey dinner.
SOME OF THE GENEROUS GIVERS
This was through the kindness Of W. w. Astor.
W Bayard Cutting D. Willis James the Dodge
family James r. Oracle and w. Emlen Roosevelt
There were 900 newsboys at the Brace Memorial
Boys Lodging House, at No Duane-st.' and 200
at the East Side Boys Lodging House. NO. :"
East Broadway. g..
ton made provisions for feeding ali the prisoners
in his department In all the lails in ms CITY N
ands at the Tombs and elsewhere. there were
turkey dinners for those who were IN 1elehIluil5
Evening O. IN In several institutions music and other
CHARITIES John W. Keller made similar provision
for ali the hospitals. the almshouse the asylums
ana ot the Home Of the FrIendes m children
down to regular New,Engan ct a anG cSd
ish exercises in the chapel The Little M9thers
d Sd fed W %any RSOT Fifty little
crippled children got Thanksgiving dinner IN me
sssG9 for f FopP Children par
took of Thanksgiving dinner given BY me lndus
trial School Of the United Hebrew Chariues' at
No. 80 St Marks Place.
PRISONERS EAT TURKEY.
The Tombs census is SS6 male and "a female pris-
oners The Thanksgiving Day supply ordered 10
the Tombs by Warden Hagan was $50 pounds OF
chicken 80 pounds OF turkey. 200 pounds OF roast
pork $50 mince pies and two barrels OF apes
The prisoners. Deputy Warden Flynn SAID were
all served with their Thanksgiving Day dinner IN
their respective cells.
II was the usual big day in Bellevue Hospital,
and all The patients felt better than they did the
day before and perhaps than they Will to-day
Turkey was the feature Of the dinner, but there
was chicken and there we're fruits and vegetables
and ice cream and many other dehcacies Ihere
were about six hundred and fifty patients IN the
hospital.
In the twelve Industrial schools Of the American
Female Guardian Society Thanksgiving cheer was
given hundreds of poor children ana tnere r %ere
were many other dinners given by charity or
CARNATIONS and ndivdusls as Wen 1, as thaT
given by St Andrews Society TO TWO thousand
poor persons at No. 40 Grove-st
OTHER FORMS OF CELEBRATING.
The day had other observances. The north hail
Of the Museum Of Natural History was opened
with a large collection of Indian relics. The UNI
yelling of the memorial window TO Lewis May at
Temple Emanuel. F1fth-ave. and Forty-thrd-st,
took place at II a. m.
Major General Wesley Merritt. L. S. A.. re-
viewed the cadets of the Hebrew orphan Asylum
on the grounds Of the asylum. Amsterdam-ave. and
Northumberland thirty -eighth-st., In the after
noon After the review General Merritt. Lieu,
at an elaborate luncheon by Judge Newburger and
The Seamen's Church Association No. 800 West
ST celebrated its Thanksgiving with a gospel ser
vice and dinner last night for 200 men, stafford
Wright conducted the service. band from the
United States transport crook played during the
dinner
Al the Rescue Mission. at No II Doyers,st, prep
arations were made to feed seven hundred persons
and they were taxed TO the limit
At the Union League Club dinner was served
in the theatre hall to all members who called in
the afternoon from to o'clock. 49,
The Fogg Industrial School. No. go West Fifty
tbird.st gave dinners for one hundred little girls
OF the neighborhood.
WESTMINSTER COUNTY WAS GAY.
rr,.,.rpc ur.NrING AND COLE MADE THE DAY