The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-11-27
ON THANKSGIVING DAY SCHOOLS CELEBRATE
FESTIVAL WILL BE GENERALLY
OBSERVED.
Churches Hold Special Services and
Stores Close-Newsbovs Will Enjoy a
Free Feast.


Stores Close-Newsbovs Will Enjoy a
Free Feast.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day, gem
orally observed here as on the mainland
as day of general cessation from labor
and practically a public holiday. Special
services will be held in the various
churches and the stores in general will
close their doors while employees and
masters alike keep the festival. The
newsboys who sell the Star will be
given turkey dinner followed by drive
to the football game and about the city
at the expense of the paper.
The Methodist Christian and Central
Union churches will unite in Thanks
giving service at IL o'clock. Rev. VIII
liam Morris Kincaid will preach the
sermon. The public is invited.
On Thanksgiving Day, Thursday,
at st. Andrews Cathedral there will be
a full choral celebration of the Holy
Communion at 7,o'clock in the morning
by the Cathedral congregation Special
music has been arranged for the full
choir and organ. There will be a short
sermon by the Bishop.
The service rendered will be Bryan's
in A, interspersed with Hymns of
Thanksgiving. Wray Taylor will pre-
side at the organ.
The Second Congregation will hold a
special Thanksgiving service at 10
o'clock. The following is the musical
program:
Prelude-Andante in F.......... Tobani
Organ and Orchestra.
Hymn-"Now Thank We All Our
Cod
Festival Responses" ..........T Tales
Venite-"O! Come Let Us Sings" 49,.
MISREPRESENTATION. Double Chant
Te Deum in G....................M Millard
Jublate Dec in F................G Garrett
Anthem-"While the Earth Remain
etm ;tve pio,sb tbe Fields MSonIer anI
Scatter"
Sermon-Rev. Alexander Macintosh
Hymn-"To Thee, o God, Our Hearts
We Raise"
Star spangled Banner"
All seats are free. and ushers will be
in attendance.
A special Thanksgiving Day service
for Hawaiians has been arranged at
Kawaiahao for eleven o'clock
A Thanksgiving service will be held
in st. Clements chapel, Punahou, on
Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, at half
past ten in the morning. The chapel
music will be of the first order. All
people will be welcome.
The prisoners at the Oahu Jail do not
enjoy any special fare for Thanks
giving tomorrow and have to be as
thankful as they can on the regulation
rations. Christmass is the only time
Wifen Offenders against the laws are
allowed to remember that they are still
in touch with the outside world and it's
festivals.
The inmates of the insane asylum are
eagerly looking forward to the noon
hour tomorrow even the most violent
having behaved themselves lately in
peaceful manner under the fear of not
getting their share of the Thanksgiving
turkey and other good things that have
been provided for them by the generos-
ity of certain citizens.
At the Kamehameha schools no spe-
cial bill of fare has been provided for
the delectation of the palates of the
pupils and there will be no cases of in
digestion from over indulgence in un-
usual luXuries. Their mental and spiri-
tual welfare will be looked after by a
visit of the boys in a body to the Cen
tral Union Church in the morning.
At Kawaiahao Seminary most of the
girls will go home to Thanksgiving
luaus and the Thanksgiving dinner at
the school will be held on Friday.
The incorrigibles at the RefOrma-
tory will feast to their hearts content
on all the regular accessories about halt
past four in the afternoon
Uncle Sans boys in blue are not
overlooked during the festival and the
camp, cooks are making elaborate pre-
partions for tomorrows rations. The
turkey and all the trimmings" will be
brought on at the noon mess. Gran
berry sauce and pumpkin pie will be in
evidence.
At the Queens and the Victoria Hos
pitals the patients will be regaled on
holiday fare according to the stage OF
their cOnvallescence and the propriety
of giving even the sickest a morsel of
the good things best suited to tenn
perature and digestion.
The hotels all have elaborate menus
for tomorrow evening.
The Star newsboys celebrate at the
papers expense with hearty dinner at
the noon hour followed by a drive and a
visit to the football game.
The japanese and Chinese Hospitals
have not yet reached sufficient intimacy
with American festivals to prepare spe-
cial dinners which would be at total va
rance with their regular food issues.
There will be a big practice game of
football at Makiki in the morning by
the Association men when two scratch
elevens will be picked from the men
on the field.
In the afternoon, the chief interest
centers at Punahou in the football
match between the heavy weight teams
of the Punahou and Honolulu Athletics
Iolani College being an English insti-
tuition will not participate in Thanks
giving fare neither will St Andrews
Priory.
There will be but little doing along
the water front. The stevedores will
make il a general holiday and only alb
solutely necessary work will be done,
The Inter-Island and Wilders steam
ship companies give their employees a
holiday on the Iroquois a turkey din
ner will be served at two bells while al
extra dinner will be served on the
Meade at noon. Shore leave is gen
eral and but few are expected at table
The Solace sails for Guam at ter
O'Clock.
Plum duff and an extra lot OF grog tC
all hands will be universally the ordel
of the day aboard the various merchant
| ships I'm the harbor. the preparations
varying according to the liberality OF