The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-01
TRULY A DAY OF
THANKSGIVING
Joy and Happiness Reigned SUI
preme Throughout the City
MANY TURKEYS DEV0URED
Football Game Was the Only Thing
Lacking to Have Made the Day
Complete-The Poor Gener-
ously Remembered.
MANY TURKEYS DEVOURED

The only thing lacking to have made Biz
minghams Thanksgiving celebration COM
plete was football game. Otherwise the
day was most appropriately spent, the
weather being especially ideal and delight
full.
A spirit of Observation-Disclosures was abroad;
the very air seemed to reverebrate with the
joys and thanksgivlngs of a happy, pros
porous people.
The cooks, those most important person.
ages on the all-important day, were abroad
early, prompted by the desire to roast the
turkey done and brown, and by sun up the
smoke from many thousand kitchen Chin
neys witnessed to the sacrifice of as many
fat gobblers..
During the morning services were held
at many of the churches, while at the
headquarters of the United Charities doors
were thrown open to receive the many do
nations which were sent by the generous
public and to dispense some to the poor
and needy.
At the Mercy Home committee of Ia
dies was on hand to receive visitors and
such contributions as were sent by friends,
and glorious day it proved to be for the
little inmates, who were graciously and
bounteousy remembered.
thanksgiving at the Jails
While Thanksgiving Day was being pleas
antly observed yesterday in hundreds of
happy homes where children and parents
gathered around the festive board in CRATE
full appreciation of the many blessings be-
slowed upon them during the past year,
feeling a sense of comfort and calm peace,
the prisoners in the city Jail were not for
gotten.
The friendless tramp tattered and torn,
who has known no home since his boyhood
DAYS; the old gray haired drunkard, STEPPED
in the fumes of liquor, who has long since
lost home. friends and everything dear to
the heart of man; the crap shooting mig
ger" with his checked trousers and his lack
of care; the young tough. that spends three
fourths of his time behind the bars or In
front Of Them the fallen woman, with limp
bedraggled skirts, blear-eyed and frignttui
to look upon and almost unsexed by her I'M
natural habits; these and others OF their
kind were not entirely forgotten yesterday,
though the public at large has ceased TO
take an interest in the Heterogeneous masses
of humanity that crowd our jails and peni-
tentaries
Yesterday the nma ties of the city prison
were pleasantly remembered by K. $. war
ner, tine confectionery man, who sent an
ample supply Of ice cream. To round mat
ters and make things complete, Day War
den r. L. Gourley suggested to Mayor
Drennen that he furnish cakes to go with
the cream, and to this request the mayor
cheerfully responded. ordering ten pounds
Of vanilla waters; thus giving pleasure to
those within the prison walls and missing
nothing by the kind deed
sFor the greatest of these Is charity.
The prisoners in the county Jail were also
remembered through the kindness of Sheriff
O'Brien, who served a splendid dinner,
much to the delight of his boarders.
Double Celebration
Last night at Temple Emanuel, corner
of Fifth avenue and Seventeenth street,
Thanksgiving services were held in con-
nection with the Feast of Hannukah, one
of the most joyous of the Jewish festivals.
The services were conducted by Raobi
both celebrations so closely akin.
The children of the Sunday school assist
ed in the celebration, which is also known
as the Feast of Lights.
There were many private dinners and
other celebrations, and altogether the day
was one of the most joyous spent in Biz
mingham In many year.