Evening journal., 1900-11-28
Day Second in Importance to
Christmas
TURKEY A SALIENT FEATURE
Markets ThrODged To-day With Pur-
chaSerS Of Good Things for The
American Festival

Inhabitants Of a prosperous country
will meet in church and in home to-
morrow to return thanks to the Giver
of all good gifts for the measure of
bounty which has been showered upon
them as individuals and people dur
ing the year. 1t will be an old-time
observance Of that day which had it's
inception when the Pilgrim Quakers
established a new home ON Plymouth
Rock two hundred and seventy years
ago.
The observance in the home will, Of
course, be the most elaborate, for on
Thanksgiving Day there are home
gatherings which, with their feasts or
turkey and cranberry sauce and trim
mings, give a holiday appearance, sur
passed in its welcome by the Christ
mas holidays only.
Markets of the city to-day give an
insight to what will grace those dinnerI
tables. Turkeys. Of course, are the
feature. Racks are full Of them, and
there are so many more in barrels that
it seems impossible that even the peo-
pie Of the city could eat them all in
tiOn Of the special provision for cele-
brating the old Puritan holiday. For
the home-raised birds dealers are get
ting from II to 20 cents a pound, and
for the Western fowls, IA to 16 cents
per pound is being asked.
But, except for traditions sake, Cle
does not need TO buy turkey. Sucking
pigs for $3.50 each, fat capOns at 25
cents a pOunl, geese and ducks at 16
cents pound and all the great variety
of regular meats and fowl are ready at
hand for purchasers.
With "fixings" the markets are we'll
supplied. Cranberries are selling at 70
cents a quart, celery from to IS
cents bunch egg plants at 10 to IS
cents for fine ones, lettuce for 10 to 12
cents for choice heads, and Winter
vegetables Of all sorts at reasonable
prices. Apples, which are of the finest
quality this year, are abundant I'm the
markets, while for greater variety Of
dessert there are fine Jamaica oranges
at u to 25 cents, and big oranges from
Florida at 80 cents a dozen
Dealer sail over the city declare that
the Thanksgiving trade is very salts
factory
THE CHURCH CELEBRATION.
The celebration in the churches Of
the city will be a fitting one. Methodists
will meet in St Paul's Church in the
morning to hear a sermC1 by the Rev
John p Otis. Presbyterians will as
semble in Hanover Church to hear the
Rev. w. f. ID. Lewis preach. and Bap-
fists will meet in Delaware Avenue
Church to hear a sermon by the Rev.
r. B. Cook.
Services will be held in st. Stephens,
Trinity, Harvesters' Mission and the
Catholic churches also
The choir of Madeley NJ. e. Church
will give a Thanksgiving supper. The
proceeds will be devoted to the church
expenses.
The Christian EndeavOr will hold a
sunrise prayer meeting in st. Pauls M.
e. Church at 730 o'clock. The Rev.
John Shape, pastor Of Delaware Avenue
Baptist Church, will have charge of
the service.
In Harrison Street Church in the
evening an entertainment will be given
for the benefit of the church mortgage
fund. Helen Marr Wilson will recite,
and the New-Century ladies quartet, Of
Philadelphia, viii sing.
IT is A LEGAL HOLIDAY.
Being a legal holiday all the mu-
nicipal and city offices, courts and
banks will be closed. There will be nc
edition Of the Evening Journal.
The pOstoffice will close at 8 o'clock
There will be one delivery of mail, in
the early morning, however, and two
collections, one at a. m and the
other at $50 in the evening.
The school board has ordered the
schools closed until Monday morning.
The Institute Free Library will b,
CLOSED.
AT THE THEATRES.
For those in search of amusement
there will be matinees at the three the
aires, and many football games. Hen
messy Leaoyle. in "Other Peoples
Money" will be the attraction at thu
Grand Opera House; Sapho Burlesquer,
at the Academy of Music, and an excel
lent bill of specialties at Dockstader's s
In the morning the Wilmington High
School will meet the University of Phil
adelphia in a football game, and in tn,
afternoon the Wilmington X-Hlgn
School will meet the strong Villa Nov;
College team on the Union stree
grounds.
On the campus in Newark, the Della
ware College eleven will play its las
game Of the season. Il opponent WI
be the Hahnemann College eleven o
Philadelphia, which is the strongest il